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That exists, but also is unreliable. I've seen chargers that believe they are operational but the card reader is broken for example, so there is no way to authenticate.

There is a DC fast-charger at a walgreens not far from where I live that is broken 90% of the time (*not scientific) and always reports available online.
I'm mostly indifferent, but would like point out that MS has managed their dev products decently well. (At least the ones I use)
PG&E has two EV-specific rate plans: EV-A and EV-B. EV-B requires a dedicated meter so you can add it to your account and be billed for however much you use.

The problem is it costs $500 for the meter plus labor (add another $1k for the charger and labor to hook the charger to the meter).

So, we can discuss who is best incentivized to cover the fixed installation costs, but the "free gas" argument is irrelevant -- you just add the dedicated meter to your account.
There are 11,502,870 in California. That's $67 per household. That's a night out for the wife and I. I guess it depends on how many chargers we get for this price. I suspect they will be clustered around political hotspots and I'm out in the 'burbs, so I'll never see one unless I drive into the city.

Man, I'm shocked by how ambivalent I am to this. There must be some political backstory I'm missing. Somebody's nephew 7 years ago started working on something, that guy has since moved out of state, and it's surely tied up with his tax attorney representing someone involved in a secondary suit related to Vinod Khosla's gate across the path to Martin's Beach.
One takeaway I saw from another article was that of the ~31M cars on the road in CA, 390,000 of them are EVs (slightly higher number than the one cited in this article). Either way, I'm fairly impressed that 1% of all cars in CA are already electric.
Your apartment doesn't provide you with free electricity either, and nothing in my comment implied the electricity should be free.

Your apartment does provide you with a minimum standard of infrastructure to run electrical appliances however, and it's not ridiculous or unbelievable for you to expect it.

I think what you're missing is EVs have turned the automobile into another consumer electronics appliance. It's an oversized smartphone on wheels, surveillance features and all.
The secret to innovation is saying no 1000 times.

But in Goog’s case it’s not so much innovating and failing as it’s poor product design and sticktoitiveness with +, Wave, a hundred chat apps
I read the article, thanks. How is this any different?
Does the government subsidize the installation of Gas station at every corner on tax-money?

The point I'm making is that I would like to see EVs succeeding without the need for the governement to step in. With the governement stepping in, they are essentially giving free money to people that don't need it in the first place.
HOT TAKE: The things that drove Skype to change from the Golden Age Of Skype were largely market-driven things like the rise of the smartphone that killed pretty much every other popular communications platform at the time (AIM is dead now, too) and there is no evidence that an independent Skype would have weathered the market shift any better than a Microsoft-owned Skype did.
The number one thing you worry about with a launch vehicle is not ISP, it's the tyranny of the rocket equation. We have tech with VERY high ISP (ion drives, for example), but we can't use them until our vehicles hit space because of the extremely low maximum thrust.

Meanwhile the high thrust options we have are all very heavy, which means we have to carry more fuel, which means we need a bigger rocket, which means have to carry more fuel, and so on. The sum of this infinite series is finite, but it is still large.

If this tech lowers the weight of the first stage, it might actually RAISE the ISP of the rocket overall, even if it lowers the ISP of the engine itself.
Maybe marshmallow candy doesn't have the draw that it once did in the 60's and 70's.
The 'burbs are pretty much the reason charging infrastructure has to exist, isn't it? It's not like you're living on a farm.
So we lose another valuable project of the Web. I wonder why I feel so lost - that when I was young, the Internet was barely born... and now I'm watching it die.
You suck at what you do. The idea of about:config flags is ridiculous. You do nearly nothing to improve users privacy and browsers defenses against fingerprinting.

You do not even have the basics (effective cookie control, user agent control, referrer control), which means your priorities are wrong and thus you will never achieve anything.

Step aside.
I wish more prisons would spend more time developing programs to give people skills to help when they get out.
Holmes will never be able to start a company ever again and has basically been black listed out of the medical industry. The whole industry hates her.
Companies usually don't need best for job.
You make a good point on this. And this is why in a lot of countries Gas and taxes on car are way higher than in the US, to account for the invisible cost of global pollution.
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> Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper

Git was not developed as a clone of BitKeeper, it has a very different design (snapshot-based content-addressed filesystem, versus the SCCS "weave"). If anything, git was a (much faster) clone of Monotone, minus the heavy cryptography focus which made Monotone so slow.
Not necessarily under the mattress but it is smart to diversify your liquid assets location
I'm using cloudflare first, and google as secondary in my router. For a while I was running my own, but it became less necessary when I stopped doing as much dev at home.
I've been hoping there would be a feature added to FB that would be simply "do not show any posts with links" or "do not show any posts sharing posts from another account." The number of things people post linking politics, news, random crap, memes, etc. is enough to almost drive me up a wall. I've tried putting lots of effort into curating by "hide things like this", etc, but inevitably more like it ends up in the feed. I really, really do not like the inability to disable that kind of content from the news feed showing up.
> It is easier to replace power plants, than to replace hundreds of millions of cars.

Then why not use this money to replace them. If it's so easy then the effects will be felt sooner and will be enjoyed by everyone not just people looking to buy a new car.
It’s true that nuts existed before but social media can have an amplifying effect when it helps them find fellow travelers and convince themselves that their views are common and normal.

Anyone building platforms needs to take that problem seriously since it leads to both serious real-world negatives (e.g. antivax) and driving more reasonable people away.
They are the best power company. Very reliable, cheap, and you can opt to pay more for green power. They are owned by the city of Santa Clara.
There is evolutionary pressure towards a non-zero but limited proportion of cheaters in any system.

The 'reward' for cheating goes up as the proportion of cheaters goes down, and goes down as the proportion of cheaters goes up. There is an optimum somewhere in the middle.

It takes energy to detect cheaters and that amount of energy dictates how many there are.
Notice the language options in the lower-right corner of the footer. They have English options for the UK and India, but not the US.
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A few years ago my European Visa debit card wouldn't work in the US unless they ran it as credit.

It always worked fine at US ATMs, other than the first time I informed the bank I was going overseas, which apparently they interpreted as 'please disable my card'
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You're much more likely to die by buying an old car. You can't just take all advice at face value.

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1 Do you think China will send drones and attack US citizens?

2 Google was claiming they were doing open source work, so China would have access to it anyway

3 If there are enough money in this there will be people going to work on the project, so I am sure the US will have good droning software

4 US brought this on itself with the way they used the drones , like you have the verb "droning"
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Also get on the tor-relays@lists.torproject.org mail list.

But the sad truth is that there aren't that many hosting providers that allow Tor relays. Especially exit relays, because of abuse complaints.

Also, as you might expect, Tor relays can use lots of bandwidth. It's more common to get flat-rate bandwidth for 100 Mbps uplinks, and metered bandwidth for 1 Gbps uplinks. Digital Ocean, for example, just switched to metered bandwidth, and that has killed some relays.

However, all this could arguably change, if Tor became mainstream, as part of Firefox.
> Michael Mugmon, a lawyer for Theranos, said the company was pleased with the ruling “as it brings the company a step closer to resolving its outstanding legal issues.”

Either that, or one step closer to a clusterf--- of individual lawsuits. The fact that the class was not approved doesn't mean there are fewer lawsuits left — it probably means there will be more lawsuits, not fewer.
For charging at home, yes. (But that's complemented by wind, which often blows strongest at night.)

If you install workplace chargers, though, you can charge at peak solar production.
The DC fast-chargers are pretty good for me. I drive an 3y old Leaf with 85mi range, so I get an 80% charge in about 20 minutes though, which is hardly a big deal. It'll take me 5-10 to gas up as is, and usually the chargers are somewhere I can grab a coffee or whatnot while it's going.
Well since companies are people, more like skin cells. They all get replaced every whatever days but you're still you!
The cynic in me wonders whether this is just a way for Google to "mine the consciousness". They will use the findings from this to feed into another product (Search, Maps, Assistant, etc.) and drop the service in a few years.
See, I probably would have reached for whois before dig. Partially because reverse DNS seems less likely to be populated with useful info, in my limited experience.
I use a mix of macOS and windows machines myself, and am doubtful that you're giving windows a fair assessment.

macOS is a unix, but it's not a linux. You probably will end up running in containers anyway, because it's just too different from your servers (e.g. provisioning scripts will not run correctly), and windows supports those containers just fine.

Even if you're not running in containers, you'll probably still be fine. I've been doing web dev for a while on windows and mac (node, php, java, ...) and haven't had major issues getting my workflows to carry over. The only thing that can cause problems are windows file path issues (or rather web app code assuming *nix paths), and for that there is WSL.

Another possible thing you may like about macOS is the unix command line, which is a fair argument, but between msys, wsl and powershell (which is equally powerful yet different) I don't miss anything myself. Again, the command line tools on the mac are subtly different from those on linux, so your shell scripts don't automatically carry over to the server. YMMV.

Finally we get to the UI. If you're hooked on mac-only software, ok fine. There are good alternatives though. For example, I switched from textmate to visual studio code so I could bounce between OS's. Otherwise I find it to be an even mix. Windows task view is similar to mission control. Windows does window docking better than the mac. The mac does system updates better than windows. Windows does gaming support better than the mac. The mac does consistent UI design better than windows. Windows has touch screens, the mac has better trackpads. It all balances out.

I like living on both sides of the fence. It makes me feel like I'm not locked into a platform.
> Are you referring to third-party login services and comment systems (such as disqus and similar)?

See the full list of bugs of breakage when privacy.firstparty.isolate is enabled: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/FirstPartyIsolation#First_...
> I stopped fully and gave it about 2 seconds to start moving since it had right-of-way. It made a one or two false starts, then I just gave up and went through the intersection because it was clearly having issues. Looking back in the rear view I saw it did the same thing with the next car. Maybe it didn't think it was a 4-way stop or something?

> A few minutes later, I was on Bryant just past 7th outside the Hall of Justice in dense traffic that was moving quickly (as people do on that street). A Cruise Automation car (I think?) was in one of the right lanes next to me and, for whatever reason, decided it wanted to get over to the left quickly. When it didn't get a good opening after a couple seconds, it more or less stopped in the middle of the road to wait for an opening. Unsafe and almost caused an accident with the cars behind it.

If you asked me ten years ago what a future with self-driving cars would look like, it would be exactly this. I wouldn't have believed that we'd have the hubris to put them in situations in which someone could be hurt or injured, however.
Out in the 'burbs people have their own garage where they can install a charger--problem solved.

Meanwhile, an electric car is still laughably impractical for anyone living in an apartment.
A googol is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it.

1.0 x 10^100
How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge.

I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail.

On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps its flawed nature is meant to remind us all of our own deep imperfections.

God I hate iTunes.
> what entity at Microsoft will subvert his leadership?

I agree, it seems that both Gates and Ballmer have found new callings in life, which has left Nadella with pretty much control of the company. I remember almost feeling sorry for the guy when he took over, what freedom could he possibly have between those two? A lot, it seems in retrospect.
Playing against skilled players is not how money in poker is made.

If you're playing against 9 other skilled players, money will mostly move around the table, and the only winner will end up being the casino due to rake.

The easiest way to increase profitability in poker is to play against people significantly worse than you are. Not unlike life, where the biggest factor of success is being born in the right country to the right parents.
> The painful truth is that it is morally repugnant to donate. I hate saying this, by the way.

I hate that you said it without explaining what you meant. :P

Seriously, when you say "it is morally repugnant to donate" and "it is much better to donate to X" in the same paragraph, I am not sure what to think about it. Do you think that donating to X is still morally repugnant, although a bit less than donating to other causes? Or that donating can either be wrong or right depending on who you donate to (i.e. how the money is going to be used)? Because the latter seems like something that Effective Altruists would totally agree with.
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Are you looking for graduates at all by any chance?
This is a false dichotomy. One's own vehicle is far from one's only mode of transportation.
HN doesn't :)
> Genetics are over-rated

Intelligence (all g-factors, not just IQ but reaction time, etc) are roughly 40-55% heritable, depending on which study you choose to run with. Similar numbers are found for behavior, political leanings, conscientiousness, etc.

The blank slate hypothesis has been widely discredited. After work, the best contribution the high-IQ, high-conscientiousness people on this site can make to society is propagation of their genetic material.

> You can choose to have a family when you want

Fertility specialists would tend to disagree with your total disregard of reality, here.
Why should we expect an online forum to be free of racism if oral forum of speech isn't.

As another poster pointed out in a way the fact that racism is obvious in these platforms is an improvement over it hiding in plain sight.
Buy a proper setup, keep the boxes and re-ship to every destination. The purchase costs and the shipping costs would be a legit business expense.
That is what Gogoro does (successfully, I think) in Taiwan with its electric scooters.
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This is really cool. I've already got a build machine running hydra, but haven't yet used it as a binary cache. I might give this a go.

Ultimately I'd like to see Nix integrate with distributed, content-addressable systems like IPFS (e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296 ), especially for inputs like tarballs, git repos, etc. It's all well and good having reproducibles builds with the whole OS pinned and checksums on all the inputs, but if the tarball URLs disappear we're still screwed :(
> Remove old junk like the Dashboard and DVD Player apps.

Should just include those the app store as well.

Not mentioned are the many years old bugs with multi displays and networking.

I just want Apple to take a year and really fix all the core problems they've introduced. No more new features until the existing stuff works!
I don't think you would even necessarily need stages if you don't have any empty fuel tanks to discard. The engines might not be as optimized for operating both in and out of atmosphere, but that seems like a fair tradeoff.