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> we're no where near the point in which it's the main obstacle to further adoption

Sure. I'm talking about universal adoption because the article is ("take over the world")

> We don't drive especially far in a typical week

This is a good point, EV range is already long enough that many urban drivers will not need to charge every day.

> For some subset of street parkers, enough of that parking time will be spent at facilities with public chargers to meet their weekly charging needs. This subset will grow as electric charging infrastructure expands to more places.

My point exactly: to reach close to 100% EV market penetration, so will the infrastructure need to grow to 100%. Tricks like going to that one Whole Foods store that has the fast chargers won't work when a significant % of cars are EVs, there simply will need to be a lot more public chargers (or, charging time will need to decrease).
How is a call or a letter better than an email?
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I really really really do not share that nostalgia. I live in a city center and the only amount significant source of noise is from cars/buses. Sure you will have sirens or people shouting every now and again, but there is a constant buzzing sound from motors that goes on throughout the day and most of the night. I moved from a relatively quiet neighbourhood to where i am a few years ago, and the sound of motors ( and the smell. Lets not forget that cars smell ) is the only thing i about living here. This would be a great place to live if it wasn't for the constant sound and smell of motors.
> Hahaha.

The EU is shifting. Not everyone loves todays German-ruled course of things (I'm German). This is especially true for the corridor between Baltic Sea and say Austria. These countries - Estonia as a very small one, in particular - have still to take care in how they express themselves in regard to sensible topics. Don't confuse this with non-dedication.
I feel like your comment was trying to make a point and ended up stating some trivial facts. Could you elaborate on what your point is?
I don't think number of lonely people increases, they just become much more visible. Social networks and other changes in modern society make loneliness acceptable and people stop hiding it.
I'm guessing close to everyone here has something to do with programming, no?
Am I seeing things right or just dreaming – Paris is cheaper than N. Virginia?
EU = German empire
Telegrams are SMS of pre-mobile era.
> Launching a crypto to compete against Euro sounds bizarre

When did they specifically say Estcoin was to be used as a currency? An ICO just requires you to issue a token[1].

[1] https://theethereum.wiki/w/index.php/ERC20_Token_Standard
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The authors don’t, but the previous post (apparently) implicitly assumes it (or fails to understand what maintaining quantum coherence entails, or both).
Why not? Everything you can do with complex numbers, you can also do without them - they just make things easier.
Why do you peel it? All the "good stuff" is in the skin.
It doesn't sound like this guy really has the permission of his country to do what he's proposing to do.

He appears to be struggling to fit an ICO into his current role. It's simply a bad idea IMHO.

A blockchain is not a good fit for an organisation that is cleary centralized.

An ICO is a way to raise funding, why does a government department need to do that.
If you like this and Chris' other posts, don't forget to check out https://distill.pub/ which he co-founded. Such high quality explanations.
Algebraic closure of a field. See the fundamental theorem of algebra.
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All those references are very old, and none of them were made in an attempt to market anything. They aren't ads. They're minor tokens of genuine appreciation people added to the tools they wrote.
As noted in that discussion, there are different types of sand – (ironically?) the growing desert is not usable as a construction material; the individual grains are too small and spherical, in construction sand the grains are coarser and larger. Why is why we have the situation where Gulf states import some of the sand for their construction boom even though a huge proportion of their land is desert (that is to say – sand).

edit: so no synergies unfortunately!
I did some work [1] on constrained Delaunay triangulations similar to this where visually important, and constrained, edges were automatically determined by Laplace-like filters.

[1] https://femtondev.wordpress.com/
If that is acting badly then how would you describe how the UK and the US have been acting in the same period? We've overthrown governments, started numerous wars in foreign lands and have the blood of millions of innocent people on our hands.

North Korea may have been acting badly, but we can't exactly claim the moral high ground. "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
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Ah, you're quite right. I was under the impression it was FOSS - I used it a while ago, preferred Tower and so went back to that.
At the same time, social networks create an illusion for lonely people so they feel accompanied. It’s not all that bad.
what are the parts that HN was not happy with?
> But performance cars are already using electronic sound generation in gas cars.

Not one I'd buy :-)
galliumos.org better than crouton IMO
by the way, tired to avoid space bar to destroy developer mode and linux os, I stay with Chrome OS with lot of SSH to develop in servers, not in local.
Not miraculous at all. The motivation for complex numbers came out of trying to solve cubic polynomials (Tartaglia, Cardano).
Let’s leave politics aside please.
Half the range is really a non-starter. And is that range a "best case" range with ideal weather and new batteries and all down hill, or is that a worst case when its 20 below and the batteries are 5 years old? What's the minimum guaranteed range?

Having to have the car tied up to a charging station for long periods of time just to do normal kinds of around-the-town kinds of trips - also a non-starter.

Can you imagine a hurricane evac with primarily electric cars? Well, kids, we only made it 50 miles because daddy didn't have hours to charge the car after he got back from work...

Currently gas powered cars have a common fuel and storage that does not "wear out" or become obsolete (a tank). Battery powered cars are not quite that way. Kind of in the same way that battery powered tools all have different, incompatible batteries. Those battery powered tools become obsolete all the time when you can no longer find the batteries, or if you can, its cheaper to buy a new tool. So, until they get interchangeable batteries with compatible interfaces, there's significant risk of premature obsolescence, which could significantly inflate the cost. What are you going to do with a 5 year old car in this situation? That same situation is highly unlikely with gas powered cars.
I've heard some variant of this idea a thousand times and it doesn't work.

Also, slightly ironic/depressing to react to an article about systemic loneliness in the tech age with "maybe we can make an app for that".
I just purchased a wpad.$TLD to see how much traffic it will get, i'll post back when dns updates.
As someone who had programming in the 8th grade (Basic/turbo), the knowledge I received was a short-term one. Anything complex like calculators, games did not work for me/my peers. 8th grade math/logical thinking is not at the level you'd need as the concepts are way too abstract.

However, my second semester as a freshman high school (technical school) we did programming theory followed by quick labs (coding exercises in C, same "no-magic" principle) and then it all made sense. However, we first had like a month without any code where we were taught different data structures, functions, differences between declaring/defining, etc. That knowledge is still in use today.
Several of those already exist. Somehow, it seems intrinsically impossible to solve this problem with another app.
Much of the point of having states experiment isn't to get everything right, though, it's to prove that the sky doesn't fall when a new social policy is enacted. Usually whenever any new social contract is proposed, there's an immediate chorus of "this will lead to chaos and anarchy!", and it's only when a policy has been in place for a couple years can people judge whether it really did lead to chaos and anarchy.

For both gay marriage and marijuana legalization, for example, certain states tried it against a chorus of voices that said "This will lead to the destruction of marriage as we know it" or "crime will go through the roof". And then that didn't happen, and so other states tried it, and eventually it filters up to the federal level.

There have been other cases where policies have been tried that did lead to widespread chaos and negative consequences, like Nebraska's safe-haven law that defined a child as anyone under 18 and led to mother's abandoning their teenagers because they didn't want to deal with them, or California's Prop 8 that was supposed to keep senior citizens in their homes but had the unintended consequence of restricting the supply of housing and driving housing prices through the roof. In these cases, the laws have not been duplicated in other states, at least not without changing the problematic details.

There's talk in a few states of introducing both universal health care and net neutrality as state laws. This will be an interesting experiment, and will let us see whether the sky does in fact fall before rolling it out nationwide.
We have a bunch of projects that are stored in a mercurial repo so I've been using Sourcetree for that as I've found MacHG pretty unusable. I think it's pretty good, not as good in my opinion (the UI, mainly) as Tower for Mac which I use for Git, but makes Mercurial easy to use for this (somewhat) hardened Git user.
Never tell your employer about your side projects.

Even if you launch it does not guarantee any level of success so telling them first could turn out to be pointless.
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I missed that! I didn't read the whole thing, it was too long and the article ends with things that do not work and somehow I presumed there's nothing that works, then.
Nice stuff.

You might want to look at ordering things left to right with

rankdir=LR;

You can also force particular groups to be on the same row/column (rank).

Also subgraphs to group certain sections if you want: http://graphs.grevian.org/example

This may also be useful to see the building up of a bit more complex graph http://larsbarkman.com/2015/08/26/alignmentmaps-with-graphvi...
> in order to pay for fewer words, he'd strung multiple words together

I remember reading [1] that nineteenth century telegraph users could buy popular code books that allowed them to save money by substituting single words for common phrases. Obviously both parties needed to use the same code book, and unsurprisingly the telegraph companies tried to ban the practice.

[1] I think this was in The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. A very interesting read btw.
Is it not that Chef B doesn't have a frying pan (i.e. decent generics) so has to do a lot of tricks?
Decreasing charging time might not be as helpful as you think. Lets say a car can be fully charged in 30 minutes: So the driver shows up somewhere and parks in one of the EV charging spaces and plugs in his or her car. They are not going to hang around for 30 minutes so they connect the car and go about their business. When they get back 3 hours later...

This is still a problem if you can charge in 5 minutes.
I find the ads to be better targeted than any others that I have seen. It's actually the thing that impresses me the most about Facebook. I thought Google would be the ones to accurately target me, but they are often advertising JetBrains IDEA which I've been using for years.

Facebook often has local events, and small businesses advertising to me. That is more like the advertising that I want and I have actually clicked through and purchased from them.
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out.
I think this is fine, but then I'm comfortable with what a force-push is (a remote reset) and I know that the commits still exist even when the ref is moved, and how to inspect the history of a bare repo to move the ref back.

I don't understand the business requirement for a non-lossy repo. In my experience, we need to be able to link a release to a specific commit, and we need to show that the changes were reviewed & tested before they were deployed. We use tags for this.

I also think the entire purpose of source control is to be able to answer question like "who changed this? when was it changed? why?".

> Now productivity is halted dead

Because of a bad push to a single repo? I really like the distributed nature of git, which lets me stay productive even when other repos and branches elsewhere are having issues. I would avoid treating git as 'SVN but newer'.
Oh you mean along the lines of

World = US empire
The only people who long for a large family are the ones that aren't in one.

Look at how much constant violence and bullying there is between any siblings when an adult isn't around to stop it.
Depends on what you mean. End-to-end encryption is an optional feature in Telegram and is disabled by default! Client-to-server encryption is not worth mentioning.
"Oil" is a kind of summary but not the over-simplification that we often make it sound like. Iraq has the 5th oil reserves in the world and posed no threats to US and was not financing terrorism. If anything it kept Iran busy which would be in US' interest.

The true motivations of the different actors are diverse and as the president and his team is effectively above the law since Obama said he would not open an investigation for war crimes, we will have only speculations.

Bush may have had the willingness to continue his father's job or just simple religious beliefs: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/a...

Dick Cheney is the salient case for oil. He had enormous conflicts of interest, having led Halliburton, who reaped enormous war contracts in Iraq. John Kerry called for an investigation in 2004 about that: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/us/a-closer-look-at-cheney... We also know that hundreds of millions of dollars were erroneously/fraudulently charged to the US: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/...

Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are core believer of the "Project for the New American Century" thinktank that sees the war against terrorism as WW4 (Cold War being WW3) and sees seizing oil resources as primordial. Yes, this is a really simplistic vision, but remember that these people are just slightly more intellectual than Trump's team...
e-coin was probably already taken
Thanks, I may include these in a deeper dive.
That’s a bit conspiracy-theorist-ish but unfortunately in the present climate and given that has transpired from the Snowden leaks not at all implausible.

Either they have made a breakthrough in number theory that allows factorisation over finite fields, or they have a quantum computer already, or they are banking on having one soon. In any case, storage is so cheap that it makes sense to just record the traffic (which is useful for sigint anyway) and refer back to it “if and when”.

Of course, much of what we consider “public-key encrypted” traffic is actually encrypted with a symmetric cipher whose encryption is impervious to Shor’s Algorithm… it is the key-exchange process that really uses the textbook public-key encryption algorithms. So much of the traffic is technically impervious to whatever advances they have made, but of course once you have captured the key-exchange “handshake” that sets up the session and exchanges the symmetric cipher keys, you’re all set to retrieve the plaintext from the intercept.

There are public-key algorithms (particularly those based on lattices) that we currently hold to be secure against attack by quantum computers. I am surprised these are not seeing more adoption amongst the “enlightened paranoid cypherpunk elite”. Here is a primer on such “post-quantum cryptography” approaches, courtesy of the good folks at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
I am not sure why, but it reminded me of something that happened to another small European country a while back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania
2 comments here really matched my opinion.

> a lot of new entrepreneurs took Product Hunt to be gospel .

This is true. I've been in the PH community for 2-3 years, posted a bunch of products, some frontpaging some not. Problem is that now if you post a product that you found and think is cool you might see founders being angry at you because "they were planning for a PH launch and you ruined it!". I've had moments like that where they'd message me asking to delete their product or telling me I shouldn't have posted their product because they were planning for it. Such bullshit.

and

>PH suffers from the fact there are only 1-2 actual useful online products released per week.

True. Lately products have been in 4 categories: "Collection of links to X", "Guide to Y", "Clone of Z" and "New product by a popular company".

Also, the community became kinda shit.

A lot of people won't say anything bad about a product. I saw a product that was made by a "meta-influencer" (eg someone who made a bunch of kinda useless products but that was the reason he was popular in the community) and it was terrible - the UI sucked, the privacy settings were terrible and it broke all the rules of making a quality mobile app. I commented on this stuff and nobody really cared, while comments praising him were at the top saying the app was amazing (it was not. it was basic, terrible and broken in many places). There are a lot of products like that that are shitty or useless, but people still praise them because what was once a "positive but critical community" turned into a "toxic positivity community" that is afraid to call out people on their shit.
- React app from scratch

To manage technical debt you need to pick tools at the start that enable easier and safer refactorings at a later date. JS is not a good fit for this.

The problem you have is the time spent maintaing a JS project can eat up the time you could have used to refactor it.
For me, Mozilla needed to answer three questions:

* Do you know you fucked up?

* How did this happen?

* What will you do to ensure this doesn't happen again?

They've only answered the first one (admittedly with the "right" answer) so I have to assume marketing have the reins and won't be relinquishing them.
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The Indie Web movement is a very interesting one, I personally support some of their goals, however, the protocols they design seem a bit... too uncomplicated at times (Microformats2 is impossible to properly parse in JSON form and you need that for their Micropub protocol. And Micropub has a few stinks of it's own)
a great gui editor for similar tree-node structures is freemind

a lot quicker than code dsl -> git -> graphviz

and freemind also has search, edit, history, links, export as HTML

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots
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Not profitable yet and spends the lion’s share of its 15% take from sales on advertising. Rapid growth the key but given the prices mentioned I am not surprised that they have such growth. The real question is repeat customers or customer satisfaction with the Chinese made goods. Other apps have had rapid growth selling Chinese goods but attrition rates were staggering.
Lessons from a YC company, after 3 years of trying to build it.
This is an awesome family xmas project. I don't have an old pc around to run YOLO / YOLO Tiny constantly though; can anyone recommend a cheap, suitable server provider for this? AWS EC2?
I wouldn’t exactly call 140k „lightweight“ ;-)
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First world city streets already have electricity supply (for the street light and for the buildings). Setting up charging ports is already rather cheap and once cities realize that they can

- drastically reduce air pollution

- make more money selling electricity than just charging for parking

they will quickly start installing plugs everywhere.

Battery range is already at around 500 km for Tesla model S and X and the long range version of model 3, and close to 1,000 km for the new roadster. With the current incremental improvements, in 4-5 years battery range for ordinary medium priced EVs will go beyond 7-800 km on a single charge, super chargers and other chargers will be abundant, and charging will become a non-issue. Within 8-10 years, even the lowest priced EVs will have a range beyond that of combustion engine cars (6-800 km), unless innovation mysteriously were to end.
Do you have hummingbirds in your area? You could setup a high fps camera pointed at hummingbird feeder. Hummingbirds aren't afraid to approach a feeder placed just outside the window of a house.
Why? Policies affect happiness very much, if we include 'not being miserable and destitute' as an option in the happiness spectrum.
Hi,

Thanks - that makes a lot of sense. (Maybe the operator at the sending end had problems deciphering the handwriting on the form?

Or were you instructed to write in block letters, perhaps even with a single character in each box, to ensure maximum readability? Presumably there was a standard form used by all members of the ITU or something? Call it a common interface, if you like?)

I've always assumed that the slightly garbled text was an attempt at shaving a little off the fee; I almost feel a little sad to hear that may not have been the case at all. :)
I’ve seen work electric vehicles advertised that let you plug your electric tools in. No battery powered tools required and no generator. However not all tools are better when attached by a cord - my lithium ion drill is incredible.
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I'm talking about the full-node mode, not the fast-sync mode that doesn't fully verify the blockchain.
Yes, for hybrid and electric vehicles the batteries are now considered part of the powertrain, although the fuel tank was as far as I know never considered part of the power train for an ICE vehicle.
It's probably considered closer to a real life interaction, which has more meaning than an email.

To make a comparison, imagine a close friend wishing you Happy Birthday through email instead of calling you.
"Harassing someone whose existence is necessary for you all to eat tomorrow or to avoid getting eaten by wild animals is going to be quite a different situation."

Then again, harassing someone who depends on you is entirely different.

Then again, bullying someone so that you ensure pecking order and he does what you want and is beneficial for you a bit more in situation with scarcity is different too.

Suburban middle schools kids did not invented cruelty nor mockery nor ostracization nor beating other kids up. My grand parents remembered such stories. Old books contains such stories. If anything, this get worst with bad situations - hunger or war. There is no reason to think primitive people were somehow magically honorable and noble.
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My 2 cents to everyone here: nowhere in the discussion did I hear of setting hourly rate based on the value you're bringing to the company. It's all about how much the other company was paying you and how much more you're worth now. It's good to be ambitious, but as a freelancing consultant - think about the value you're bringing for the client. Set your rates based on that. You bring X value, company gets 10X benefit.