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Amazon hates Children with Cancer.
Recently, Amazon permanently suspended my 10 yr old account. The reason was "duplicate account". Never had one. My brother, a cop (i'm army) recently had his suspended for falling below standards. He went to an Oncology summer camp for children with terminal cancer for a week and forgot to put his amazon account in vacation status. Now, a month after his permanent suspension, my account has been permanently suspended. This is my livelihood getting out of the army. Without it, I'm a homeless vet. My brother and I have no contact with each other, no contact between his and my account. All my performance numbers are at 100% in the green. As far as I can tell, my crime was being a deployed soldier who shares the same last name of a police officer who cares about terminally ill children with cancer and lives 500 miles away. I provided them through email and the appeal tab with all my contact info to prove who I am, including ssn, CC, various addresses over the last 10 years, bank account info, credit report info as I recently had a check done by them in order to get the amazon chase card, and drivers license number.
All I recieved in response from Amazon was that same boiler plate email from them saying "they have evidence". It's sent almost immediatly after I try to contact them. No one is reading my appeals. An automated system is just sending an automated reply.
The seller performance team has no contact phone number. The appeal isn't even being read by a human being. It just triggers an automatic email.

I need help fixing this.
How many FB engineers are billionaires?
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Err, not necessarily... at that point, it's decoupled, and can come from any source, which can be changed at any time. And your whole argument was about convenience, but now you seem to be darting to a tangential argument.

Once the car fleet is fuel-agnostic, it becomes much easier to shift into whatever clean power source ends up working well, or whatever mix of clean and dirty works well. In terms of dirtiness, it's not hard to make the average impact of a car on the environment better... I think even pure coal might be cleaner with these things due to efficiency gains. In any case, I don't particularly care if their solar proposal ends up panning out overall - it's more or less irrelevant to the feasibility of the plan, other than for PR and making the people who implement them look good.
If we're really talking about the most economic option, perhaps living near your work and walk/bike could put your commute gas at zero and yearly down significantly.

At some point, comparing a luxury car with an cheap base brand is an apples to oranges comparison. If I didn't buy my Prius I sure as hell wouldn't have bought a Civic or Corolla... more likely a luxury vehicle.
I think I can provide a strong argument for it. Will that be OK?

First, can we agree that creationism is a religious doctrine, and thus it's OK to frame this roughly as a debate over the role of religion in science? Because, within that frame, Greta Christina has already made a more articulate argument against religion than I could [1]. The short of her argument is that because religion requires belief in improvable things, that makes it "uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self- correction".

And what are some of the most basic principles of science? Criticism, questioning, and self-correction.

If the man on the street were to believe, say, that relativity was wrong, that the world was flat, and that it was actually supported on the back of a giant tortoise, what would that imply about their ability to reason on other topics? Is it wrong to conclude that, for example, they would believe similar fairy tales in fields like economics, politics, social justice, and environmentalism?

The one thing that all of those fields have in common, which makes them more vulnerable to religious principles than other fields of science, is that their support is controlled almost entirely by a democratic population.

So, if you have a large population which believes in creationism -- and therefore can easily ignore all of the overwhelming evidence for evolution in a field of concrete scientific study -- then you likely also will have a large population which believes that the country should close its borders and wage wars against people of other faiths.

The default response to such policies is to try to overwhelm it with facts. You say, "these economic policies haven't worked in X, Y, or Z countries in time periods A, B, or C" ... but the problem is that you're dealing with people who place no stock in things like facts.

(If you're jumping to argue that I'm wrong to draw this correlation, you should be prepared to handle the example of Romney and one of the most fact-challenged campaigns in the history of U.S. politics.)

I think there are lots of other good arguments too, like the fact that it's hard to attract the world's top scientific and engineering talent to a country full of crazy people, which means that you can probably kiss your industrial leadership goodbye. But, honestly, that's not my argument.

For me, widespread belief in creationism is bad for society because it's a gateway belief system to lots of other really bad things.

(Aside: it looks like I get to take up the mantle of Science Evangelist this evening on HN; how much the poorer HN is for it.)

[1]: http://www.alternet.org/print/story/143912/the_top_one_reaso... -- by the way, I am not at all a militant atheist. In fact, I don't even describe myself as an atheist any more due to the current religious-like fervor of New Atheism. I have no problem with people who hold religious beliefs. However, she makes a compelling point that is appropriate as a reference here.
How long do you think that Apple should support a device for? I agree that two years is pretty short, but some of the technical limitations make it hard to place too much blame on Apple.
BTW I just discovered that there is a project called cppyy, as part of PyPy: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cppyy.html
It looks pretty cool. When it's possible to directly use C/C++ libraries, the raison d'etre for a lot of the third-party bindings that use the C-API disappears.
It's also only for 85KWh Model S owners. The ones with 60KWh batteries don't get free charges.
>I like to see things from the benefit to the consumer. Microsoft stagnated the computing world for 10 years by failing to innovate.

Microsoft accelerated computing by 30 years by making computer hardware a commodity in the 80s and bringing it to the masses.
"I think we can tackle more than one problem at once."

Our track record on education, which basically shows that we're capable of tackling zero problems at once, suggests otherwise.

Again, my argument isn't that we shouldn't put any effort into defending the teaching of evolution. I'm just pointing out that empirically there is a lot more effort being put into this than is being put into other areas that are demonstrably more important.
It's funny because it's technically a violation of an NDA.
It's just fear of screwing up a winning formula. Craigslist is making money hand over fist; they could hire some front end guys if they wanted to.
Solar will hardly be efficient enough, unless you'd have a whole solar farm beside each station...

Also add maintenance of all those batteries and I bet you'd have a really hard time to motivate solar for economical reasons.
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Tack on to that the increased capacity electric vehicles are going to have to have, as well as the increased electricity prices I am expecting when ten million Americans are charging their cars.
Maybe they should have called the 'original' supercharger a "mechanical air compressor" instead of supercharger since the connection between the term and the definition is pretty weak, while Tesla's supercharger is an actual charger that charges more quickly than your average charger... making it 'super.'
I've got a nine-week old. Loved your comment and I'm passing it on to my wife. So true.
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Definitely! When I still lived in NYC, I would make an effort to spend time working at the Rose Reading Room at the New York Public Library whenever I could.

[another larg-ish image, likewise you need to see for yourself] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/NYC_Publi...
I got peeved with Corning the other day when I found out they let another company produce Pyrex-brand glass under license which is not borosilicate glass. The whole point of Pyrex was resistance to heat, which you don't get with the cheaper soda-lime glass. At least I learned how to tell them apart (soda-lime has a blueish color, and borosilicate is clear).
Browse the fonts listed in the select box:
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Here is an idea: don't dig up people's old forgotten posts shared to the smaller past FB network and repost them publicly to new members without explicit opt-in. That's paparazzi tabloid behavior.
A couple of responses:

- I too dislike the lack of a ternary operator. Python has this problem too (you can create boolean expressions to sorta mimic it but it doesn't tend to be considered "Pythonic"). And brevity is my reason too. I'm sure it's easier to parse without it but it can't be that hard.

- On the "damnable use requirement", I see his point. If anything, it means that Go will be better used with IDEs than text editors that'll do this for you automatically;

- On the "thread safe set", yeah he's Doing It Wrong [tm] (which I think he knows). You use channels to share state in Go rather than creating shared state directly.

- Unbuffered channels seem to be idomatic. Race conditions and deadlocks seem to often be the result of using buffered channels;

- On his channel reads issue ("violating time and space") I disagree: it's good to have blocking and non-blocking channel reads.

I basically agree with his conclusions, particularly in Go feeling like a "modern C", something I desperately hope succeeds.
It is not black and white, despite your assertion. It should be tested in court.
But the number of people needing to fill up at this station and others just off of major freeways wont change. The people filling up/charging at these stations are in the middle of a trip and probably did charge while they were at home.

Furthermore, the range on even the Tesla Model S is half that of your typical car, so fillups are even more frequent. This could mean that highway stops have twice as many people needing to recharge.
Hydropower is clean and renewable. Dams are already built, etc. Everything has its tradeoffs, though. Remote solar and wind take up lost of room and are eyesores. Grid connects require large-scale duplication/new assets. But, I think we need less sprawl generally, so I find it hard to support, in particular, urban development where better use could be made of the land.
In regards to #4:

1) Tesla isn't making money right now, so what's a little more money they don't have?

2) If Tesla goes bankrupt, what do they care about promises about free charging? If they don't go bankrupt, they will make it big, so what will they care about a few free charges? Practically zero-risk.
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The problem with every dating method is:

A) You have to assume a constant decay rate.

B) You have to assume an initial quantity of whatever the "stuff" is you are measuring.

C) You have to assume there wasn't anything that occurred to alter the decay rate.

You can also think of it like "using an hourglass. You can use the hourglass to tell time if you know several things: the amount of sand in the top of the hourglass when it started flowing, the rate that the sand flows through the hole in the middle, and that the quantity of sand in each chamber has not been tampered with. If any of these three conditions is not accurately known, the hourglass will give an inaccurate measure of time."

(That last part in quotes taken from Ken Ham's website here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee2/dating-methods )
I understand your frustration, but I think "supercharged" and "turbo" have entered the popular lexicon.
Right, I guess I should have said, replacing a mid-long-haul gas station (like the kettleman city one) would be a substantial effort.

If this type of electric car becomes a mass-market thing, there would be less of a need for gas stations near home (as you say). But the number of cars needing fill-ups on long haul routes would be just as large, so the gas stations on those routes would have to be much larger if the occupancy time at them is that much higher.
The latest-trend-kids will always be doing their thing. Python will never be as hot to them as when it was new. It isn't really a problem. It is possible that NodeJS, Golang never reach the popularity that Python gained in the first place, because the cool kids will jump the bandwagon again and again for something hotter and newer. It's not where the real work is happening, they're just the loudest.

I see more people around me learning Python every day, because it is a useful language to get stuff done, has excellent bindings for almost every other library, and is pretty stable (ie, the language has been about the same for a long time).
Science has practically been a branch of Christianity for the last 1,000 years. It's only since Reagan that science has essentially been hijacked by new atheism and private industry.
One nitpick:

> lack of real GC for data structures with cycles

This has not been true since (AFAIK) Python 2.0, which was released 12 years ago.
The site is really sexy, i like it. However I don't think it matters. Social media is built on fads. Myspace had its day, there once was a time when it was the "cool thing". I wouldn't be surprised if a few more users come back. However i'd be really surprised if it was any significant amount. The site, just like Digg, is a zombie. It is the living dead. You just can't make zombies into productive members of society again.
Yes. Quite a good redesign.
Symbian and Maemo/Meego also supported Python. I remember having Python interpreter on my 2005 vintage phone :)
If there is anything this continent (or world, for that matter) is lacking, it is space.

That said, I think we should be plastering the land we already use with solar panels. Might as well put all those rooftops to use.

I also think there is likely a lot to see in the future of non-panel-type solar. That generally involves a much larger or smaller scope than panels though, "medium" sized doesn't work well.
As neat as it is, the potential problem with the Espresso Book Machine is the quality of the resulting book. IIRC, the binding was not something that would hold up very well over time. There's a limit on what it can do; you can kiss hardcovers goodbye! It does, however, get the job done; it reminds me of the Wired piece "The Good Enough Revolution": http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff...
Power plants, even coal-fired plants, are cleaner than burning gasoline in an internal combustion engine.
Can you fuel your Honda Civic at home while you sleep?
...which is still vastly more efficient than an internal combustion engine.
Maybe they had more reason to call it a supercharger than you think. Supporting evidence-

A turbocharger, or turbo (colloquialism), from the Greek "τύρβη" (mixing/spinning)

Turbochargers were originally known as a turbosuperchargers when all forced induction devices were classified as superchargers

-- Wikipedia

In other words, the turbocharger was actually the origin of the concept of "turbo" meaning boosted speed/power.

I'm still looking for the origin of the "super" part.
It takes character and guts to stand up for something. I think MySpace can be credited for that. The snark-iness was probably meant more for ie6-7 users than Opera users.
The vast majority of FB users are confused enough to post this info publicly. Look at any "I got a new cell phone! Send me your digits!" post.
Got it : http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....
> . Until it's cheaper and/or more convenient for him than gas cars, he won't switch.

You keep changing your argument. It's fuckload more convient to almost never have to go to the gas station, change oil, coolant, transmission fluid. Fuckload cheaper too.

Fail, go back to troll school.
Can you explain more why? My monitor is 16:9, my iPad home button suggests is should be held 3:4, and at best is 4:3, which is not as well suited for side scrolling as modern monitors, which are wider than they are tall.
Is there really effort being put into evolution education? In my experience public education only dedicates a quarter of one year of one class to it. My single required biology class in primary school was 50% "name the parts of the cell/plant/body", 25% "here is how you use a microscope", and 25% Mendel/Darwin history lessons. And I think that is being generous.

Most of the real effort is in fighting school districts in court for trying to outright teach creationism (Such as at Dover, the school-district next to mine that made national news with their anti-science antics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School...), and in minor science celebrities writing a few books and making a few youtube videos.

Easing off evolution to work on literacy is like easing off NASA to work on world hunger. Find the players that are actually consuming the bulk of the resources.
> If you're charging at home, you're doing just that, since you're relying on the power plant for energy.

Not necessarily. In Seattle, where solar is less effective, the electricity comes from almost entirely hydroelectric, with a little wind and a little nuclear.

Source: http://www.seattle.gov/light/fuelmix/
I think he had them backwards -- I've heard similar stories from others who own gas stations. Gas makes up a substantial portion of their revenue, but the margins are so thin that most of the profit comes from the food and retail services.
Ah yeah, you're right in that case. I am curious to see how that will be handled, it could create some nasty demand spikes during busy times (especially around holidays). It's not a big problem to put a bunch of plugs, I imagine, but it would take some serious power hardware to handle all of those, and the electricity infrastructure in general probably isn't ready yet for that kind of localized beating. But when we need it, we'll make it work.

EDIT: Actually, even more interestingly, I wonder if this will get people to synch up their long-distance travel plans - ie everyone will plan to leave such that they're running low around lunchtime so that they can stop and eat while they're charging. This could create big traffic jams...
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Did Microsoft acquire Myspace? Looks like the (formerly known as) Metro interface, which is actually really smart, wouldn't surprise me in the least if Myspace got big again.
Your comment about contempt is right on. As soon as someone decides there can be no dialogue, only monologue [0], you've given up on convincing anyone and are now "preaching to the choir".

There's actually a much simpler Christian solution to the intellectual tensions between the creation account and science:

Recognize that the Genesis creation account (traditionally said to be written by Moses, to an audience that lived in Egypt) strongly parallels the Egyptian creation account. It's not a recipe to create a world, nor is it primarily a story about the world. It's a story about how this One God is different from those gods [1].

Some modern Christians have a problem with this response because they view it as a modern watering down of the Bible. Yet some highly respected early Christians, like Origen [2] and Augustine [3], expressed these views. The literalist/creationist view has only been in favor for the last century or so. Prior to that, it was common understanding among many Christians (as well as many Jews) that the creation account was about God's position as sovereign creator of the physical universe, not about the details of the universe itself. It's not literal history; it's a poetic description meant to highlight specific details.

[0] "sophisticated argument requires as an essential condition that you have the good manners to understand before you criticize" - from http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/GainesCenter/Letter%20To%20Jerr... (the "only monologue" line comes from the debate he is responding to.)

[1] I wrote a short introduction to this concept at http://transformedthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/08/genesis-1-in...

[2] http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.vi.v.v.i.html

[3] http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.XI.6.html
Yes, the J1772 connector has a data pin. The Tesla Roadster can negotiate charge rate: http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster/charging/j1772-mobile-co...
Kind of like how we know the universe is 13 billion years old because of the speed of light. And we know the speed of light is constant because it hasn't changed in 100 years. Hmmm.
It doesn't seem like there would be much barrier to simply adding more charging outlets if needed, would there?
> Python broke backwards compatibility for as simple a thing like a print statement. Nobody like to play stupid expensive migration games just because your language designer decided that print statement must be written a different way.

That is a silly argument. They didn't break compatibility because they wanted to change the way print is. They changed the print because they already had decided to break compatibility. Ie "lets break compatibility to change print" vs "while we are breaking stuff, lets fix the print too"
The problem is that most of Nigerians that Americans know (through Internet) - are scammers.

Even though most of Nigerians are not scamers.
What I would be cool with is solar on top of wall mart and home depot and costco...and the like...those are good size square footages. and the assets are already in place. wonder if the roofs would hold =D !
This looks very cool, indeed. My only question is: is this mac-only? Puppet is great for deploying developer desktops (read: linux), but, as the presentation points out, requires a few K lines of code. Templates would be awesome!
> You keep changing your argument.

Strawman, I never changed my argument.

> Fuckload cheaper too.

Oh really? Have you seen how much a Model S costs?

You need to work on your reading comprehension and math, go back to school.
How did this make it to the front page with only 4 points?
"In some cases, a Prince Rupert’s drop can explode with such force that it will actually emit a flash of light."

This got me wondering... and Google turned up a hit from an 1855 (!) edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica [1], and a fascinating Wikipedia article about triboluminescence [2].

What a cool world we live in!

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=92xBAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA564&...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
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Correct.

For instance in the Netherlands if you believe the person selling you the item has the right to sell it to you // perform that transaction, its yours. (The so called 'Vertrouwensbeginsel')

The only way for Alice to get her money back would be by going after the scammer, because he did not do his part of his deal with her(paying).
They do get free charges - but for a nominal fee, they have to upgrade some adapter (is what Elon said).
"I'll claim that you can believe in the existence of God and not be Religious"

I would disagree with this, on the grounds that the definition of religion basically pertains to your beliefs about the origins of the universe.

That being said, you can believe in god and be an atheist. (E.g. Einstein fell into the category for much of his life.)
Very nice. This brought back some memories of something similar I wrote many years ago[1]. I don't even dare look at that code now :)

[1] http://freecode.com/projects/decked
what's with the downvote? do i really care? the thing is, json could be use as a replacement for sql, a safer sql.
Absolutely. For that matter, get some solar-panel covered parking lots at those places too so my car doesn't melt in the summer!