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Tesla is almost 25% of the sales in Norway. Counting Tesla's on the road has started to become a bit silly.

Just walking up to my local grocery story in Oslo, I may see 6-7 Tesla's on that short walk. I only realize how abnormal that is when it is when I travel abroad. Spent several days in London and didn't see a single Tesla.

Spent a week in Spain and didn't even see an electric car at all. In Norway there are Leafs, BMW i3, e-Golf, Teslas, Ionic, you name it going around all the time.

What is interesting to observe is how it just accelerates. The more normal it gets to drive electric the more people jump onboard. A lot of people are reluctant to try something entirely different. But then they drive in their friends electric car or sit in an electric cab etc and it all starts to look really normal.
I'm trying to draw analogy to maybe something less inflammatory.

Most of us here are programmers, a lot of us professionals.

Music is the output of musicians, as perhaps code is the output of programmers.

But music comes in all kinds of flavours: classical vs jazz vs pop

Performance vs composition

Recital vs improvisation

And then choice of instrument within any of those areas.

I feel a lot of people misplace their aversion to Haskell because they fail to recognize how different Haskell is.

It's a bit like when English speakers think Chinese is a "hard" language. It's not, linguistically it's actually a pretty simple language (whether the script is easy/hard is up for grabs...)

Actually Chinese is just different to English so you have few anchors and familiar friends to base things off so it feels hard cos you're starting afresh, like a child. And yet children of a china manage quite fine learning chinese....

Meanwhile, ask a Spanish speaker about their experiences learning Portuguese...
Just a thought: making cars comfortable and safe for the drivers also makes them weigh A LOT. Which makes for huge emissions. If we were to consider ecology, taking a 70kg individual somewhere shouldn't be by a 2000kg vehicle.

As a pedestrian/cyclist/driver I'd love to see cars that are basically motorized tents weighing something like 100kg. That would make me feel much safer when outside the car, and much more considerate of others while inside.
My old VP Engr quit and opened a falafel shop. Still going strong after 20 years.
Thanks, I've been interested in aphantasia because it kind of resonated with me while being clearly more extreme than my personal experience. What you describe sounds very much like what I feel and it's quite pleasant to read such a clear description of that in-between situation.
To look at it another way, it makes the road safer for everyone regardless of the attentiveness and skill of any particular driver. Surely, that's a reasonable trade off in areas with a lot of vulnerable pedestrians.
Validation Webhook for Kubernetes Based on LIVR Rules
> Haskell is actually pretty easy to learn and teach

What are you basing this on?
Mercedes-Benz offers subsidies to retrofit older diesel cars in Germany
I don't think the juicero was about solving a problem people actually had. It's real purpose was to add DRM to fruit.
> Facebook came to my university...

I stopped reading from that sentence and realised the source of skills and the so called 'tech talent' that Facebook is really looking for. It is the same old elite Oxbridge + London universities in the 'golden triangle' that get all the opportunities running to them and no where else. Even after the internship ends, you are networked with the employees and already have an instant offer to work there.

It is no wonder in 2019, Facebook would more likely go to those universities in person and give you a referral + internship than else where else and that is the true reality for direct applicants.

Thank you for sharing your internship story, however, students from non Ivy League and non Russell Group universities need not apply.
I'm pretty sure your undersnding is wrong. This was backported to all the applicable stable kernel versions almost two years ago. The problem is that it never made its way from those into the vendor-specific kernels that were actually shipping on mamy people's devices, because vendors are terrible.
Alienating? Possibly

More alienating and expensive than some crap by SAP or IBM? Probably not.

> a developer / designer / PM / etc have to kick off board level meetings to pay for this product, you already lost.

Don't worry, you don't have to do it. Their sales team will do the job once you're at professional level.
As a developer who prefers to use MIT/BSD-licensed codebases, my preference is because I want to license the code I’m writing as MIT/BSD, and I don’t want to expend mental effort figuring out if I’m using GPL dependencies, includes, etc in a way that impacts my ability to MIT/BSD my own code.
A Look at the Dark Side of Hardware Reverse Engineering – A Case Study
ICE engines are around 20% efficiency I think, while e.g. a gas turbine in a power plant is around 60%. Very little efficiency is lost in transmission cables and in the electric motor, so it is definitely a lot more efficient to use electric cars as a way of burning fossil fuels.

Not to mention that coal plants and gas power plants can be changed to burn biomass or do gasification of biomass. That allows us to avoid fossil fuels entirely. You cannot easily run an internal combustion engine on biomass.

Sure you can produce ethanol or biodiesel from plants, but that is not as attractive as gasifying wood pellet. In particular because the latter does not compete with agricultural land.
Normally I'm the first to blame suburban sprawl for unsafe roads - an environment where you have to drive everywhere all the time breeds complacency...

however,

The fact that we're talking about decidedly non-suburban Europe, and that 2010 is identified as the local minimum, pretty strongly implies that the rise of smartphones and other touchscreen-based devices is the culprit.
The Development of the Erma Banking System [pdf]
Tens of thousands of goats munch Greek island into crisis
Joel Spolsky says anything more than 1k is too much and require approval. Has this amount now changed?
It's cheaper. I don't care about the ethics. Steal away!
This argument comes up often:

"tool X doesn't cause Y, people do"

However people _act differently_ when they are using tool X. When we are driving a vehicle, we _become_ the vehicle. When we hold a tool, the tool becomes part of our body. Our brains fuse clothing and tools with the body via the senses. To the brain, the car is part of our body so that we feel the road through the suspension and tires. You can't make a conveniently neat separation.
Because that is where I live and have data on? Because I think I should not make statements about the rest of the continent when I can not be sure that what I say actually is correct?
If you outgrow PostGIS, you may want to look into GeoMesa, which allows you to set up spatio-temporal indexing on top of NoSQL column stores including HBase and Cassandra: https://github.com/locationtech/geomesa
People thinking they can view movies or don't view movies in their mind seams a bit strange to me.

The mind works like the mind works. You can describe it in different ways. If you describe your memories like they are movies often enough you will start to think of them as movies. But that is not cause they are like movies that is simply cause you believe they are like movies.

A movie is a movie, a memory is a memory, a picture is a picture, visualisations in the mind are just that visualisations in the mind noting more nothing less. You can describe things more or less accurately with metaphors, but that does not make the thing in to the metaphor you use to describe it.
Monads Are Burritos?
So pedestrians have to stay on guard and avoid all distractions when they venture outside of their home, just because other people cannot move around without their petrol engine and one ton of steal?
"Lawyers" everywhere.
There isn't a way to do that on Android either. You have to use the confused deputy to install the app.
Let me clarify, because you are talking about something else. One of Tor's weaknesses is that you always need exit nodes, and running an exit node comes with certain risks. Now, what I'm saying is that if Tor was an integral part of the internet, then everybody would effectively be running exit nodes. The exit node and the destination node would be same thing. Government agencies wouldn't be able to take down exit nodes because that would mean they would have to take down the entire internet.
Fair dues, that was dumb.
I would like to challenge this article on several points

> a stark distinction existed between enterprise software (targeting Fortune 2000 companies) and the rest of business software (targeting mid-market and SMB).

Not true. SMBs often use ERP systems which have all of the features mentioned next

> Enterprise software was generally bought by CTOs, CIOs, and CEOs. They’d make a choice largely based on what the analyst firms told them, and were incentivized to make the safest possible choice, not the best choice.

It didn’t matter much if their employees liked or hated the software, because they had no other choice. It didn’t matter if the software got less-than-ideal results, because the decision-maker was shielded by consensus.

> First came the cloud, then came SaaS. SaaS—with its monthly billing cycles and lightweight implementation processes

Maybe the implementation process for Capiche is simple, but it looks like a reallly narrowly focussed CRM tool. But a Saas ERP is still a huge undertaking for a business. In fact whether to have it hosted on or off site is quite frankly a very small part of the complication.

> First, and perhaps most significantly, he days of central IT making the buying decision for every person in a company started to fade away.

It started with a trend called BYOA (Bring Your Own App)

Yes I see teams using Slack, Trello and Basecamp themselves. But these are nothing like the scale of an Enterprise application. It is equivalent to suggesting that since the marketing team managed to sign up to facebook themselves, why not let them do a Netsuite or SAP installation.

> Today, all it takes is a few people in an organization to abandon WebEx for Zoom in a few clicks.

> Twilio pioneered the concept of “developer evangelism.” They hired engineers for the sole purpose of travelling the world and meeting developers at hackathons and meetups

Sure, in a technology company this can happen. In the rest of the world you need support. When Zoom doesn't work with the conference room hardware noone calls Zoom, they call IT. When a client wont install on a PC because of the software execution policy they call IT.

> It also means that the days of “set it and forget it” enterprise contracts are gone. After a vendor closes an enterprise customer, they no longer can count on years upon years of lock-in.

Again, only with small add on tools like Slack, not with CRM or ERP. When you move to an ERP you are expecting to pay out a load of money for a 10+ year project. With Saas there is slightly less upfront, and a lot more on-going cost.

I'm afraid the writer either has no understanding of what enterprise wide software does, or is just twisting the facts to get a blog out of it.
Some enterprises justify the astronomical increase in spend because of the overhead required to consummate the commercial relationship.
u/cagenut's theory reminds me of Marshall McLuhan's potentially complementary "autoamputation" thesis. His attempt to example how a car (for example) feels like an extension of ourselves.

IIRC: Overstimulation of some senses simultaneously shuts down those senses (autoamputation) and makes us hyper aware of other senses.
I can save ya even more time and you can just call business software: software.

It’s 2019, software is the business. There’s no need for the redundant “business” prepended to it.
Thanks for this :) A couple of months away from releasing a product that will need to handle high-scale customer pricing. To clarify, when you say "scaleable" are you referring to scaling the price using some internal usage meter (e.g., $10 for every 10 users)?
The kinetic energy of a moving object is proportional to its velocity squared. A collision at 30mph is vastly more survivable than at 45mph.

Even if someone jumps out in front of you with no warning (which is uncommon), as long as you're paying enough attention to apply the brakes, whatever amount of braking you can do is much better than nothing. Trying to prevent accidents isn't mutually exclusive with minimizing the impact of accidents that do occur.
The Lasting Legacy of Bob Ross
I don't understand why we would need to synthesize proteins. My understanding is that the body breaks proteins down into amino acids and then builds them into the proteins it needs. So could we just ingest amino acids? Would they be simpler to synthesize than proteins?
It's not only the price, it's the time and certainty, resources often more scarce than money.

A fixed price item is yours once you have paid for it. The amount you have paid is also known and fixed.

In an auction, there can be no certainty for days.

An auction may make sense (to me) for very expensive items, where a 10% difference can affect my ability to pay, but I am not in a hurry. Then the uncertainty can be worth it. Something like a car maybe.

For daily items, it absolutely does not apply. Paying 50¢ less for a tube of toothpaste? Nice, but doesn't beat not having toothpaste in the morning because I lost my bid and the next auction ends in 2 days.
In Portugal a law was passed to solve most of these cases. It says that if you own the apartment all you have to do is notify about the installation in your parking spot. The building management can then opt to do an installation themselves but usually doesn't.

The install itself isn't too hard usually. There is an opportunity to set up a business to do cooperative charging where the chargers limit themselves to a total max power. Otherwise garages will need large upgrades in total peak power capability. None of these issues are all that hard to surpass though. The power grid is pretty good already and most needed charging is only in the <10kW range which most places can manage easily.
Another example: on Ebay, one bit of bog standard anti-fraud advice is prohibiting international bids. This is because the overwhelming majority of bidders living in certain countries are fraudsters. The tiny slice of legitimate traffic attempting to make international purchases is not worth the massive increase in exposure to fraud risk.
You can reduce CO2 emissions from an internal combustion by making it more efficient, but there is not way you can ever bring it down to zero.

Thus if you want to ever get to zero, you need to electrify the transport.

We can produce synthetic fuel, but it will be very hard to reach the kind of volumes we have for fossil fuels, hence synthetic fuels should only be used for long range trucks, airplanes etc.

All transport that can be electric should be electric. Transportation make up the bulk of CO2 emissions, so if you don't turn most of it electric, there is no way to get down to zero CO2 emissions.
> Twilio pioneered the concept of “developer evangelism.” They hired engineers for the sole purpose of travelling the world and meeting developers at hackathons and meetups. Their goal wasn’t to sell Twilio’s products—it was to help developers with whatever they were building, give away swag, and spread love in the developer community. Instead of shmoozing executives and analysts, they celebrated developers and the things they were building.

I don't think this person met any Twilio developer evangelists. The goal was to sell Twilio’s products - they'd give a talk at JSconf eg showing off that you could send SMS reminders or validate phone numbers with Twilio. Yes this would help developers with whatever they were building, and yes Twilio is awesome, but the goal was clearly commercially motivated 'be awesome using our stuff' rather than just 'be awesome'.
Well, of course, there are exceptions - medical or financial reasons. But this is a minority, and I doubt these are spreading this brain plague.
To interested readers: the title references a few paragraphs in the beginning and end of the article. The article mostly concerns itself with a history of NYC and streets, which I personally found irrelevant and boring.

I work a few blocks from 14th St and, man, the place was eerie this week. I really liked it and support the concept of banning cars, even as I own one because I live in the far reaches of an outer borough.
I though the giant blindspot columns were airbags?
Just curious, do you feel the same way when Apple "Sherlocks" developers in the iTunes and Mac app stores?
> We know that Huawei and Xionomi are thieves.

You mean Xiaomi?

Sorry, but you're going to have to provide us a little more evidence when making these kinds of allegations. Don't all successful companies copy and steal? Nothing is really original nowadays, and hasn't been for hundreds of years. Shoulders of giants and all.
Given Holland and that the site is for clean technology, I'm curious its fraction of total vehicle sales, including bicycles.
Personally, I have terrible autobiographical memory. I have no concept of the sequence of events as I recall them. For example, I know my father flew in to meet my fiance at the time, but I'm not sure what season it was, and for that matter I'm not even sure what year it was. I have to be constantly reminded by my wife about my important life events. I never thought I had a poor "memory" until my wife started to bring it up.

Curiously, this (self perceived) ailment has not hindered my ability to do well in academia and work. Once I learn a fact, I'll remember it forever - random details from senior chemistry class are still fresh in my mind. I believe it has something to do with my inability to record the sequence of memories, rather than my ability to recall them.

Edit: Hopefully SDAM gets further investigation. If people are wondering what I've learned to do to cope with this deficiency, I've got some recommendations

- Learn to build habits - it's difficult to remember promises that you make to yourself and to others; but habits will stick forever.

- Keep a calendar - for everything.

- Take physical pictures of excursions and life events, and date them
Rear windows have shrank to almost nothing with the rise of backup cameras, but backup cameras are probably one of the few inventions that actually increase pedestrian safety over driving safety.
That’s no surprise, since Norwegian government heavily penalizes ICE vehicles, and advantages the electric cars. No VAT, no CO2 tax, and lots of other incentives are involved.

If your goal is to upgrade your country’s vehicle fleet to electric, then Norway is a good example that with enough government spending it can happen. Don’t mistake it for “normal people jumping onboard electric train”, though, they are jumping onboard tax incentives train.
Did social media cause the distrust, or did the distrust already exist and social media simply validated those concerns when they saw many others shared the same concerns?

It is easy to blame this on Facebook or Twitter, it feels neat and concise. The reality is the concerns already existed outside social media, and the medical community and companies were not addressing these concerns adequately.

Hence, we are where we are at now.
Good idea, especially for parsing program output. It's also not uncommon to find yourself accessing a server through some terminal that doesn't support ANSI colours properly and it ends up breaking.
You mean Apple/IBM/Lenovo never copy good ideas? It's also not like these Chinese companies are pushing the companies you call original and innovative to slash their prices by stealing their customer base: Apple fans still buy and defend Apple no matter how bad some of their hardware "innovations" backfire.
Some people will just buy a second phone just for their car.
Show HN: Bangyourbuck, Amazon price per unit engine
Yes. I think we wrote a guessing game and a miniature parser etc. The concept of "web service" wasn't invented, sadly.
I'm glad that Android exists
Arrests for Low-Level Crimes Are Plummeting, and the Experts Are Flummoxed
My dad doesn't own a smartphone. He has a flip phone that he takes out when he goes on trips but where he lives (rural Maine) there is no cell reception so he doesn't see a point in having anything fancier (also, having watched him attempt to operate a smartphone, it's probably for the best). Does someone want to pay him $100k for that?
I first learned of mkultra in the novel Charlie, in 1990.
I'm pretty much in the same boat.

I have an experiment for you. If you listen to podcasts regularly while doing other stuff, pull one up that you've listened to in the past 3-5 days and listen to it again. When I do this, I will periodically get a stream of vivid movies of what I was doing when I listened to it the first time. I'm talking an intrusive replay of the sensory experience I was having previously.

My next step is to fire up a dash cam and listen to podcasts while I'm driving, then re-listen a few days later and record myself describing what I see as I'm listening. Then sync the two videos and see how close my description is describing what I saw the first time.
I almost didn't click on this link but I'm glad I did. It was a clever and thoughtful approach to fixing an adoption problem.
The Huawei certainly looks like a MacBook, but If you wanted that form factor to run Linux it would make sense to buy it and overwrite your windows with Linux than buy a Mac and overwrite that.

I always thought the “apple tax” was paying for a better experience with macOS. If you aren’t gointg to use macOS and use Linux instead it would make sense to buy the machine less expensive os (windows). Ideally you’d buy a machine without an os, but that’s not really an option on notebooks. If you wanted to revert to windows that windows based machine is also a better starting point.

I ended up buying a notebook with Linux pre installed. It’s been great and I’m surprised there weren’t more options for that route.
Apart from ML, this could be very useful for creating dashboards in the healthcare setting. Dashboards are surprisingly had to make, deploy, and maintain in the hospital. I've created many one-off webapps for different research groups and have been dreaming of a tool that consolidates all the front end work allowing me to concentrate how to process the data. Streamlit looks incredible for this!
Distracted walking is bad, but I'm guessing some people might think you are victim-blaming since this article is about cars driving into humans.
SAP write some really good and very complicated software to do compicated things. It is not 'crap'. Their ERP offering is really solid. The anecodtes about SAP going wrong are imho due to implementation issues. There is nothing I have seen from the SAAS space that is close to doing what the fullblown SAP ERP products can do for a multinational, multicurrency manufacturer
Clearly it's not based in science, no one in this thread has claimed that.

As for the list of negative traits you mention, none of those are incompatible with distrust of a corrupt system. So I'm not sure what your point is.

I can only assume that you think every anti-vaxxer would still be an anti-vaxxer even if the medical community had a 100% sterling record on everything and education was perfect. While that might certainly be true for some of them (Christian scientists and such), I have a hard time generalizing that to the movement as a whole.
What exactly was cloned? The look of it? They still had to mill the thing from aluminum, design the components to fit and operate well, and everything else that comes with developing a laptop. It's not like they even took Apple's frame and copied that verbatim.

In fact, they went a step further by including some features that a Macbook doesn't have. Apple doesn't have exclusive rights on aluminum frames or the color silver. Or black keys... so what exactly did they clone, really?