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> Are you comparing charging stats unironically and saying it's a dealbreaker if it's not just as good as the incumbent in this category?

Yes, I can guarantee you that the layman doesn't give two shits about electric cars. Until it's cheaper and/or more convenient for him than gas cars, he won't switch. And until laymen switch, you won't get the economies of scale necessary for a vast charging network.

> assuming the chargers are well distributed.

That's a pretty big assumption. First of all, Musk said there are charging stations in several cities in California, but exactly how many are there in each city? Do you have to go to one particular location in each city for charging? Because that's DOA. There's no such thing as one convenient location for everyone.

And don't forget that right now all the testing is being done in California and Nevada, both of which are well known for their plentiful sunlight. But how much energy will the solar panels be able to contribute back to the grid when installed in a place like Seattle? Far less, I'm guessing.
getting a bum set of batteries

That would be covered under warranty like any defect on any car.

or mis-charging them

As long as you don't let them get completely empty, this is impossible.
Plus there are some truly amazing library interiors. The state library of NSW is one that springs to mind. A really uplifting setting.

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Hydropower is pretty gnarly from an environmental standpoint. And I doubt the land they are using would otherwise remain undeveloped.. it is an urban area after all.

Perhaps solar in previously undeveloped areas would be better? I doubt that. Developing solar plants in undeveloped areas only to put the charging stations in urban areas (that is where the market demands them after all) hardly seems better than putting charging stations in urban areas and sticking some solar there too. What is there to be gained from not putting solar wherever you can?
These superchargers are for road trips, so a location just off a highway exit is convenient for everyone.

For places without plentiful solar, hydro, or wind, we know the solution (the n-word) but we just lack the political will to implement it.
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Day to day it is already more convenient, because you charge mostly at home - you never have to go to the gas station in the first place. It's pretty rare that I have to drive more than 100 miles in a day, and when I do, I'm really happy to stop for half an hour here and there to stretch my legs.
"Not understanding Evolution effectively locks students out from large swaths of science."

The government, in their National Assessment of Adult Literacy, used to measure up to 'advanced literacy', which was roughly the level you would need to be able to read a scientific journal article. Such a small percentage of adults were able to read at this level (less than 3%) that they dropped it entirely, and now the literacy assessment scale only goes up to 'proficient'. This is the level of literacy you would need to compare and contrast two newspaper editorials, which are generally written at around an 8th grade reading level. 96% of high school graduates are unable to do this.

If you're worried about not understanding evolution locking students out of science then I would suggest that your concerns, while noble, are about 95% misplaced.
The Tesla site shows the locations. They look to have one in each city, but its not as big of an issue as your make out. The only need to make them convenient for travelers. Locals can always charge at home. That's something you can't do with a gas-powered car.
Indeed, you should check out the Espresso Book Machine. It's being installed in libraries around the world [1]. I've seen computations that suggest printing your book on demand might be more cost-efficient [2] than maintaining book inventories and hiring librarians to restock shelves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_Book_Machine

[2] Though probably much less environmentally sound!
Good definition of trolling. I have but one thing to add to it.

Trolling is a art.
> Fueleconomy.gov says it costs $3,550/year to fuel my 2008 Infiniti G37 (at $4.75/gal, premium), and $400/year to fuel my Model S (assuming 15K miles/year). That's a savings of over $15750 over 5 years (assuming the price of petroleum-based fuels doesn't go up, which it will).

Don't be absurd. Getting either an Infiniti or a Model S makes absolutely no sense if you're interested in saving money. The base model MSRP for a 2013 G37 is $36,900, and for the Model S it's $49,900. The MSRP for a base Civic Sedan? $15,955. This debate was never about what's the most economic option.
Biology is large, and you cannot seriously study modern biology if you flat out deny evolution. Suggestions to the contrary are simply absurd.

Knuth is Lutheran iirc, he could fall either way, I don't know which. Lutherans are a coin flip.
> So index into your actual table, and check to see what's stored there

But that check isn't a constant time lookup. The lookup time can vary. (Analogously, a lookup in a phone book can vary in time; we can't necessarily go to the exact spot the first time.) So the total time for both steps must vary as well. I think.
> Tesla's supercharger stations are designed specifically to address this 5%. He quotes studies about driving that show that most people stop for approximately 30-60 minutes every 200 miles or so. The Supercharger stations are supposed to be able to charge to 160 miles of usage in 30 minutes, enough time to get a bite to eat.

I've driven cross-country many times and we never stopped for 30 minutes every 200 miles. We might be off the freeway for 15 minutes every 300 miles, but less than 10 minutes of that time is available for charging. (Pulling off the road and getting somewhere to do something takes time.)

And no, eating within walking distance of the only charging station in Elko, Winnemucca, or Battle Mountain isn't enough.
Rockmelt actually does this. It's a browser built on top of Google Chrome. Along with a bunch of other features, it has one button in the top right where you can take any page you're on and post it to Twitter, as a Facebook status, or on a friend's Facebook wall.
Yes, I believe we should surround them with love and forgiveness.

We also should -have- provided them with love and forgiveness so that they would feel comfortable talking about their problems before they could result in severe issues.

What do -you- suggest we do? Beat them up? "Teach them a lesson?" What will that accomplish, exactly?

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Let me just say that I sense a great deal of pain in you. This is not an attack. Your points seem to be based in fear and anger - you are being very reactive rather than clearly laying out a well-reasoned argument. E.g. contrast your response to my own - yours relies on ad hominem and caricature and then finally a straw man argument. You seem sad. I hope you're OK. Hope!
This threatens to de-rail the discussion and so I'll keep it short, the confusion here is between "God" and "Religion", in my world view God is a concept and Religion is a system of exploiting that concept for gain.

I'll claim that you can believe in the existence of God and not be Religious, and you can be Religious and not believe in the existence of God. The error is inferring one from the other.

You need look no further than the example that the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Mormon Religions all have the same 'God' at their center, but very different rules for their members. Christians have Protestant/Catholic schisms, Muslims Shia/Sunni schisms, etc. So it is always risky to conclude that a belief in God conveys a particular religious alignment, it may mean a particular alignment but it may easily not mean that. There is no dependency requirement to be met.
I fail to see a qualitative difference between "mobile", "laptop", "desktop" or "stovetop". Those are just form factors. They are all computers. We can put a computer inside almost anything nowadays. What matters to me besides what's on the motherboard are peripherals, drivers and access to networks.

Things got smaller. We all knew they would. But they should not become less functional. (Hello Apple.)
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You can say science isn't dogma, but it has real people playing the part of the scientists, and those real people often sound as biased as you just did. In other words, everyone doing the science sees the world through their own lenses and you just have to try as hard as possible to observe and analyze objectively.
> Locals can always charge at home.

In which case you're just pushing the negative environmental effects to the power plant.
> because you charge mostly at home

One of Musk's arguments for the supercharger was that it doesn't use non-renewable sources of energy. If you're charging at home, you're doing just that, since you're relying on the power plant for energy.
I've gone from first contact to first day in 5 (monday -> monday). I think it's imperative that you work quickly when it comes to candidates. Do your due diligence and when a candidate is in the office give them your time and attention. I have found that if you do that, it's easy to make an offer after one day interview.
I mean is it desirable behaviour? Would you not want a chat program which never dropped your messages? If that's the case, we should work towards it, not accept a 1 of 1000 messages lost because "there are more important things to worry about". The most important feature should be prioritized over less important ones, but it should not make us forget them - they should be as good as possible as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: You cannot ignore all the other features except the biggest one.
Will do! Thanks for the heads up.
Um, blacked out words showing just then first and last letter would be fine.
First, I'm well aware of the definition of psychopathy. Second, psychopathy is not a binary condition. An individual can be on a spectrum of severity, or (as has been noted by people researching the condition) psychopaths can and do mimic the responses to emotion that they see in others but do not feel themselves. Perhaps he is or perhaps he isn't, but without additional action of the part of the OP and the kid's parents there is no way he will be properly diagnosed until something similar, but more severe, might happen.

So, yes, we are making judgements in this thread, but not everyone here is being "judgmental." Making a considered decision about available evidence is a reasonable act. The repercussions of this young man's actions should not have been watered down because of his age, and especially not in light of the toll it exacted on his victim. Others might be calling for extreme punishment, but I am calling for appropriate response.
My point is that the value of Google Maps is not in the interface, it's in the data. Apple Maps has the interface down ― that's the easy part.

Google has never claimed that apps specific to its services were part of Android to begin with, so your point is moot.
Why the top of the pyramid resources are needed?
I agree.. plus I'm using Opera as I type this.
>The first thing Scientists NEED to do is stop being so passive when it comes to dealing with Creationists.

>Why not just educate Creationists? Because it doesn't work.

This I think is not universally true. Some creationists are not in that deep, and a calm gentle education is all they need.

Some.

It's not nice or pretty, but I absolutely think some people really need harsher treatment than many are willing to give in order for anything to get through. I was fortunate that a few people in my life were willing to put in that effort. It took people I respected intensely being very very blunt with me for me to finally start to listen.
> Spammers/scammers use Tor. And they use it in a big way.

Yes, and they use the rest of the internet, too. Maybe we should ban everything.
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Yeah, say that exact thing _before_ people sign up. Just cut and paste "You can sign up and have one snitch for free." into the main page, so it's crystal clear to everyone, and hearsay from HN does not prevent people from creating the free account :-)
I think where you're getting confused is that you're conceptualizing this like a search problem, where you compare values and inspect each member to see if it matches the target.

That's not what's going on here. Instead, you use the value as in input into a function that tells you where to look for it, then you look, to see if it's there.

If it's not there, it won't be anywhere else, so you don't have to keep looking. Things get interesting with collisions but that's a subject for another time.
Adjacent parking spaces, eh? To go from 3 charges a day to 6, right?

Assume you've got a couple dozen slots, charging 100 cars a day. (Far, far fewer than an equivalently-sized gas station. If we're going to transition to an electric-only transportation infrastructure, then car changing stations are going to become a common sight)

That's 9 megawatt-hours a day. A random solar panel calculator I found guesses that would need ~2000KW of solar panel capacity. So you'll need 8,000 250 watt panels. That'll cover 9,600 square metres, (2.6 acres-- if you're lying them flat, which you won't. A big dedicated solar generation station will use tilted one-axis tracking, which will use a lot more ground space) and cost you (at $410 a panel) a cool $2.4 million.

(Google's big solar installation at Mountain View, the one that got so much press, was only 1700KW. Our tiny electric car charging station has to be 17% bigger than it.)

Electric car charging uses a lot of power. Solar is great, I love solar, but it's not space-efficient, or cheap. Either Tesla is going to build a national solar generation network on the scale of Germany's move into solar power, all on their own dime, or they're lying through their teeth about charging draw/solar production breakeven.
Happy to help, ThroneMonkey. I'm looking to add more interesting features as well. Just built in the ability to sort, now to make the magic happen in the gui...
It's about time the tech sector got respect again.
> This is some horrible stuff, and there's very little
> one can do about it really.

Not quite. It still has to become EU law and then the EU member states have to accept it. There are still chances to axe this. See ACTA.
Just because CL has a large user base doesn't make it a monopoly. CL can go the way of MySpace if a better competitor comes along. There isn't any barrier to entry to create your own CL + Padmapper type listing site that requires some sort of monopoly break up.

The hard part for you is creating a compelling enough competitor 15 years too late and also to make it worth people's while to start using your site vs. CL.
Companies will resort to making patent or trade dress claims against people who offer 3d printing schematics.

When the court system decides that Samsung can't make a phone that looks sort of like an iPhone, it's a good bet that courts will find that it's illegal to print, or assist printing of, a replica of some $megacorp object or part.
Sorry Steve Jobs, we could have saved you.
As a regular Craigslist user (buyer, seller and message board poster), my personal preference is to have material I post only accessible directly from CL. In other words, I do not want my classified ads, contact information contained therein, pictures, social banter, business ads and other information available to any external information service or website.

This is my expectation not only of CL, but of many sites. I understand that others may disagree. But, I suspect that my expectation of non-propagation of material is the default expectation for many or most sites that accept user submitted material.

If CL is somehow forced to let others scrape their content, I would welcome an option to turn on a switch that will block/hide/protect the material I contribute from external entities. On second thought, I would rather have the do not share option be the default and let me opt in to sharing everything always, share by material classification or one post at a time.
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Sorry in advance that this is so negative, but it reflects my honest feelings, as well as some experience.

The big problem with Python was always predicting what any given piece of code would actually do. Considering the lack of static typing, pervasive use of exceptions for non-exceptional cases, and subtle behavior changes in the core language from version to version, you basically never knew what you were going to get. On the plus side, all the Python libraries I ever used were open source and the code was easy to access. On the minus side, I needed to access that code on a daily or even hourly basis. Getting something working on my own machine wasn't too hard. Getting something working on anyone else's computer was a challenge.

It seems that most Python developers now use virtualenv. This is a handy little tool that creates a small runtime environment for your Python program. Basically, it allows you to explicitly set the version of every library that you use.

I always viewed virtualenv as a sign of Python's failure. Having stable APIs is damn near impossible in Python, so let's just give up and use old versions for everything. Put the whole mess in an airtight chamber, and hope you never need to do anything with it in the future. With an attitude like this, it's no surprise that the adoption of Python 3 has been pushed off into the indefinite future.

Issues like the global interpreter lock (GIL) and lack of real GC for data structures with cycles just reinforce the impression of a better /bin/sh, not a serious language. Sadly, in some ways, Bourne shell is still the better language, because it got backwards compatibility right, has a bigger install base, and better startup time. It's also significantly less verbose for simple tasks. And really, if your task isn't simple-- you shouldn't be using a language that doesn't even properly support threads.

tl;dr: Overall, I think my interest in Python has come to an end. It's over, sorry.
Have you ever written software? Or counted?

Facebook pushes code every day. As does Google and Amazon. These are orgs with thousands of people. Not every engineer pushes code every day.
>>These are exciting times to live in.

I agree. This is the first time I actually believe we may become oil independent in the not so distant future (i.e. decades, maybe even in our lifetimes). As soon as the market realizes that a credible replacement to oil is here I expect oil prices to crash. I wonder what will oil companies do when they realize that their markets are about to evaporate?

Exciting times indeed.
I've been dealing with this for months, and tried to let people know the upgrade wasn't worth it. I figured if I kept some people from it I'd have done some good. Everyone shrugged me off. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've ended up in different states and even different countries because maps search is such shit. I even held out, hoping it would get better by release, as it is their first maps product, so give them some time to work out the flaws. Not any more, I'm incredibly upset I didn't downgrade before they stopped signing 5, and am stuck with this junk for the time being. Hopefully apple pushes the google maps app through so we can forget about this ordeal.
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OK, thanks, I'm starting to understand. Good explanation. I quit being lazy and searched around too, to see that it's possible.
Slight pedantry note: revenue and earnings are not the same thing.
I thought it was OSS patronage, not an investment ಠ_ಠ
Let's keep in mind that electric car owners "fill up" their cars at home. Unlike gas stations these charging stations are only for unusual situations. Most the people you see at gas stations aren't on 200 mile plus trips.
Now to track down and murder the designers of Ribbon and we can start building a new UX utopia >_>
I think we can tackle more than one problem at once.

Anti-science styled creationism concerns me because even very bright people are susceptible. Read about Kurt Wise for a very sad but great example of this.

Of course getting students to read is also immensely important. If I thought efforts to teach evolution were hampering efforts to improve literacy, then I would immediately deprioritize evolution... but I do not.

<cheeky-mode> Perhaps we can hit two birds with one stone though, and encourage people to read the bible.</cheeky-mode>
Crap! You're right, how embarassing. I edited my comment.
Hmm, that's actually very interesting, but it sounds like it was much closer to a socialist anarchy, rather than libertarian capitalism.
Evolution as a conceptual framework for understanding how complexity can emerge from simple feedback is relevant to many branches of science, including computer science.

Maybe I am really stretching, but if evolution wasn't real, then many machine learning algorithms wouldn't work.
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If we are going to experiment with completely unproven political and economic systems on our own society, I vote for a socialist anarchy. First order of business: eliminate corporations. Immortal amoral virtual people cause nothing but trouble!
It takes space and power.
I'll speak for myself, as if I had a child that acted in this way.

The first, and most important response would be to establish why. With actions like this being carried out in and from my own home I would have to immediately reassess my level of involvement with my child and whether or not I was culpable via omission. Very soon thereafter I would seek out the advice of people directly involved with the study and treatment of psychopathy and sociopathy and have my child assessed. From there it would be up to the outcome of that assessment.

Perhaps that's not the kind of clear cut answer you were (possibly) looking for, but I think it comes down to whether or not it was an innate or developed problem.
Thanks for one of those rare concentrated knowledge nuggets that are one of the best parts of HN.
Only inept developers would assume MongoDB behaves like a DBMS?

You can only handle the errors that you know how to handle, in this case retrying the operation may have created a bigger problem.
Why not? The new lighting cable with hdmi or dp chip that transcodes data from soc with new software
If FB shows in-network content to people who joined after the content was posted, that is a severe privacy violation.
Wait, the guy's complaining about condescending browser-fail messages and you have a go at him for writing something condescending? That's entirely independent of the design (which I like).
At $0.11/kWh, the Roadster at 53kWh would take almost $6 to completely fill.

Though if these stations charge using solar power and store the power in a battery pack to discharge when a car hooks up, it could potentially cost them a lot less than $0.11/kWh, depending on the cost of building the station itself.
For small-to-medium manufacturing runs, you could use a two-stage printer that first CNCs a metal mold, then uses it to injection mold. All of this off a 3D model and within hours.
Craigslist's copyright claim is likely indefensible. Read the article for the reason why.
How does scaring people off the system benefit advertising sales? Think before you post. Even being greedy and selfish is not the same as desiring to ruin users lives.
Anti-GMO researchers used science publication to manipulate the press