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The Tesla Model S is a great-looking car but, unlike some, I still don't see electric cars as being the future. Batteries are still too heavy, take too long to charge, are too expensive and require materials that in widespread use will probably become far more of a problem than fossil fuels in terms of scarcity.

Of course, there can be and no doubt will be technological innovation in this space but (IMHO) the future of personal powered transportation will still be fuel-driven.

What will change is the source of that fuel. It may be some kind of hydrogen-rich fuel (methane or ammonia) or it may be making the necessary hydrocarbons from the air and/or seawater.

Portable fuel supplies are just too convenient. The relative simplicity of the internal combustion engine (or some derivation thereof) is just too advantageous compared to even optimistic long-term alternatives.

EDIT: the amount of cognitive dissonance when it comes to electric cars is mind-boggling eg:

A: the benefits are too numerous to list

B: can you use it in an apartment?

A: no...

Or the amount of infrastructure retro-fitting that needs to happen (power to parking garages being just one). Or ignoring issues or range and recharge times. Even with swappable batteries, even if that were a thing that people would do (there are security, weight and cost issues), the recharge time is still an issue.

Power is not free. An electric vehicle still needs to get power from somewhere and that power requires all the normal transmission infrastructure.

Someone brought up what's happening in NJ but if you had an electric car you'd be even more screwed. At least now you can transport gas to people.

Seriously, out of cost, weight, range and charging time all of them need to get an order of magnitude better to even be on par with fuel-driven vehicles.

How exactly have electric vehicles "already won"?
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Your copyright already says 2013.

Why did you settle on a .org?

Are you planning on turning this into a 50lc3? or some other NPO type?
I don't like the idea that "having fun" and "building a career" are mutually exclusive entities that don't touch on a Venn diagram. I built a career in my 20s based on things that excited me as a teenager, and I'm still excited by my career and consider my job a lot of fun. I didn't live in exotic countries or lounge around aimlessly because I'd rather be designing and building software: that's my fun. I suspect a lot of people on HN feel the same way, and just because one person's idea of "fun" is to travel around the world doesn't mean that they have a monopoly on what fun means.
Chomsky is right up there with Minsky in being part of the problem. His ideas about language being part of the genome are fanciful nonsense. Skinner produce reams of reproducible empirical observations of behavior which are, today, critical to the evaluation of the performance of AIs. Chomsky has produced interesting theories, but mostly derailed linguistics on the basis of the argument 'language is complicated, something magical must be going on.' His contributions to political debate are monumental. His contributions to science are negligible if not entirely detrimental.
Lame attempt. Sun shipped M*N and 1:1 threading in Solaris 2.2 (1993). HP-UX followed in 1997.

You're like a grammar Nazi unable to spell check his own posts.
I have a different take:

College Years, 18-23: This is the time to just be. You can treat college as a stressful strive-fest for meaningless grades, or you can treat it like a 4-5 year vacation. Optimize for gentleman's C's. You still get all the social and class benefits.

23-30: These are your prime productive years. This is the time to amass your fortune.

30 to death: Travel, play golf, foster community and friendships. Get married, have kids. All of these things will be much more enjoyable with some cash.
AI hasn't "gone wrong" yet. At least, we don't know that it has, and we can't truly know until we've solved it (for some concrete value of solved).
I work at the lone automated calling company that represented the "industry " at FTC Robocall Summit(http://www.call-em-all.com) and we are interested to see what solutions to this problem might come from this.

We definitely would love to have a solution to where we could guarantee that no illegal calls are being made (Recent Blog Post: http://blog.call-em-all.com/3-reasons-we-are-excited-about-f...). We have our own internal checks but something which can be implemented on a higher level would be great for us.

The reality is that with the mix of old tech and new tech (read VOIP), tracking who is really making the call is very hard right now (timely and costly). Scammers knowingly break the law and unfortunately, a list of people saying don't call isn't going to stop them from scamming.
In developed countries with a sense of social responsibility, the same thing that happens now - the state carries the burden of caring for lesser able individuals.

Keep in mind too that software developers are a bit myopic about technology; a great many people are productive and contribute to society in jobs that do not require software!
Alas, the article is a bit thin on the details.
Better Place has solved this. They lease out the batteries. You drop your old battery off and get a new battery in less time than it takes to fill up a gas tank. They can figure out how many miles you put on the battery pack in any number of ways (even live while you drive via 3G) and bill you on that.

You can also charge the battery on your own. I'd sign up for it even if they billed me the same for charge I supply or they supply.
So little of the screen is used for browsing your pictures. I wish this were improved.
So much of it has to do with where the economy is.

Looking for a job in 2000 vs 2001 was a change in what you could demand as a salary. Same in 2008 vs 2009.
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I do the same in vim. I do any actual editing of code in vim with eclim loaded. I run eclipse in full GUI mode though, and I switch to that when I want to use the debugger or some of the other Android related tools.

I've been pretty happy with the experience with this setup.
The parent wondered why the price of gasoline was not currently astronomically high to reduce demand to meet supply. My response is that this means of sharing a limited resource disproportionally burdens those less wealthy. Over the long term it is reasonable to say that a resource has a high price.

In the short term, strict capitalism would say that a wealthy businessman makes better use of that tank of gasoline than someone who is desperately hoping to transport their family out of a flooded house to stay with relatives in another city. That social burden created by the loss the family man endures doesn't carry a dollar amount, so a system based strictly on capitalism can't recognize that it has become poorer than if the resource had been shared in some other fashion.
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I got a survey from a company that Wells Fargo had hired, to see if my recent visit was satisfactory.

It smelled legit, but my policy is to never respond to any email from my bank, I only communicate via my online account where I'm logged in, or by a call that I make.

After that email I logged in (separately), and sent them a message saying the above. They responded quickly and automatically that yes, the 3rd party email was legit.

Really, banks should just pretend that email was never invented.
Superconductors have the ability to transfer electrical energy extremely quickly. Which is an ideal characteristic for a battery. I don't know enough about SMESes to say whether they are a good storage solution (assuming we could eventually develop a room temperature one).
My first thought was they need to charge more than $99/month. People who need this kind of realtime data would pay for it. Great job
The grid is not a big bucket. The local conditions matter.

Your local neighborhood transformer might be serving only 5 houses. If one or two of them decide to charge an EV every night, the transformer may not get a chance to ever cool down, like it is designed to do.
"What's actually said is more like, "Take a few months and a backpack and go travel somewhere" or "start a company with no idea if it'll pan out". Party. Start a band. Chase some girls [or guys]. Read a lot."

I am in my 30's and I hope to continue/start doing some of this.
I don't want a touch screen OR voice controls. I want knobs and buttons.

I can use a physical control without looking. It isn't confused by wind noise if my window is down. It doesn't bother a sleeping passenger.

The only disadvantage to physical controls is mapping them to an ever-larger number of functions. The early iPods did that well with their scroll wheels and single button, but there are limits.

Then again, maybe the large number of functions is the problem, not the controls.
I believe the new display being (been?) developed by Cadillac has got tactile feedback.

Otherwise, yes, I agree with you. Touchscreen displays are as dangerous as texting while driving.
+1 for edit and continue not working. It rarely does what it says on the tin. Usually in our case as we have 64-bit COM binary dependencies, we can't use it anyway as it doesn't work in 64-bit CLR processes. In 32-bit processes it throws the HRESULT of death MsgBox and dies.

Regarding ASP.Net debugging, I have to resort to the same thing. We actually have a set of custom framework assemblies as a last resort debugging tool that we load into the GAC in a VMware instance which have gone through a tool I wrote using Mono.Cecil that makes all members and classes public and not sealed. They all have exported PDBs as well from MS symbol server so we can step through :)

However, Visual Studio would get a fuck ton more love from me if it didn't crash 8 times a day as well. It's so damn unreliable.

My "other world" of gcc + C + vim + Linux is far more pleasant.
I used to work for the FTC, and I was surprised how many calls I received at work from scammers. It always renewed my motivated.

In an effort to continue this tradition, I would suggest you ask scammers to call back on your other line. Then give them an FTC number. Any number 202-326-xxxx should work.
My mother still cannot use the iPad I bought for her. She still uses a laptop, but her typing is atrocious. It's not her fault, she wasn't trained to use a QWERTY keyboard like the rest of us and she's an immigrant.

She can however, speak somewhat understandable English. As we move toward devices that fit into how human beings naturally interact, I think a necessary evolution is going to be voice recognition, but not as we think of it. I don't think it'll be as clunky as it is now, but much more like giving commands and discussion to another human being.

I could be wrong. More kids text message now than ever use their cell phones, so perhaps a keyboard is necessary as the article says.
Ooh, I also made a thing for NaNoWriMo! Namely, a way to force yourself to spread out the writing over the whole month instead of pulling all-nighters at the end to try to catch back up.

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I think you're being downvoted because people disagree with you. The EFF, being the Electronic Frontier Foundation, aims "increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in computing and telecommunications." [1]

The issue of drone flights and privacy absolutely relates to the mission of the EFF.

[1] See the EFF mission statement at: http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/?f=eff_creation.html
> On the other hand, I have been rock climbing for 7 years and I'm better than ever

OT(as far as the OP is concerned) questions from someone who is considering taking up climbing.

1. Isn't what you are doing in the video called bouldering?

2. Do you usually climb in your jeans? I am wondering does it allow you required flexibility?

3. Do you work on your core for climbing or climbing works your core?

4. What would you say about artificial walls and bouldering arenas for a beginner?
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I disagree with a lot of the comments - and with the article point.

We should not think about taking any age seriously or not, but of the bigger picture instead, ie one's goals in life.

Unfortunately, they are not written down for you, and they can be quite hard to find.

There are various algorithm that may work, but all I see in the article and the comments are basically 2 opposite proposals :

- plan A: explore in your twenties to make sure you properly identify your goals

- plan B : commit to your career in your twenties to take advantage of compounding interest (in life as in money)

But we all know alternatives approaches - like iterating between exploration (finding a local maxima) and exploitation (taking advantage of this local maxima)

I guess it all depends if you have already found your fancy, and all longs it will take to get you bored out of it, but it seems to be a much better approach - especially if you do not ignore the money aspect of your fancies (ie starting a band might be fun, but odds of financial return are low)

Also, it seems to me a lot of the comments insist about family and children. These are individual decisions - not givens, something the author clearly stated ("if having a family is part of your life's goals").

Fortunately for men, there is no age limit (and if we keep our rate of technological progress in stem cells and differentiation into germinal lines, there is no reason why it couldn't be also possible for women)

Currently, at least for 50% of the readers, age should not be factored in - opening the door for more iteration of the explore/exploit loop, with the always present opportunity to have kids.

I guess I don't understand or I'm missing something, maybe like the preference of dating someone of a similar age (which might then impose its own preference on optimal child bearing age)
Internal combustion engines are not at all simple. Sleek animations might make it seem like that, but when you are blowing stuff up, that tends to complicate things.

In comparison, electrical motors are extremely simple and maintenance-free. All while being on a level of efficiency that just can't be reached with a combustion engine.
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Pretty much. People need to start thinking about their career the moment they get their first job. This means planning out what kinds of skills they need to pick up to advance, opening a retirement account and putting as much money they can into it (compound interest), and never take anything for granted. Those who don't do these things in their 20s are basically going to be 10 years behind everyone who did.
They probably don't. Just as there is a critical temperature, Tc, at which superconductors stop superconducting, there is a critical current density, Ic, at which they stop superconducting. That places a limit on the amount of energy you can store in a superconducting loop. Then there is also the consideration that Ic scales as approximately 1/Tc, so high-temperature superconductors have a lower critical current density than low-temperature ones.
>Right-leaning investors have seemed to want the company to fail for months, but Tesla is looking resilient with their good backlog and a strong economy. They're paying back their DOE loan early.

Seriously? You think people are prepared to lose money to make a political point?
How do you approach Heidegger's or Derrida's arguments that 'language is complicated, something magical must be going on'? Will you allow for no qualitatively different meaning to language than probabilistic associations of sounds with objects?
Even water is not a special case. If you want to help people, give them extra cash.

(There might be some justification for putting in some extra-windfall tax, though. I am not sure.)
Slightly sleazier version: use a similar trick to get a discount when ordering new service, e.g. "I heard I could get a discount/fee waiver for plan X."

I don't consider this particularly sleazy because you can usually get the discount anyway if you haggle, but it saves a lot of time.
Haha. Good stuff, good stuff. People pooling money to get their hands on a document. A PDF so amazing that it isn't a PDF, it's a product. Knowledge so secret, and so powerful that it's worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

If you really made a 15x return from reading a couple pages, why are you here? Why don't you do it again and again? When are you buying your private jet?

Now, it's possible you did make $3,000. It's not hard to make $3,000 off of Adsense, or even as an Amazon affiliate. But you probably put in hundreds of hours of time for that 15x return. Because if you could really make $3,000 in a few hours from following some easy steps in a PDF, you'd do it over and over again.

I see plenty of people trying to participate in this stuff and fail to realize that even when they do actually turn a profit, they are making minimum wage when they factor in their own labor costs. Usually they choose not to, because it's just depressing. It's pretty easy to lie to others, but the easiest person to lie to is yourself.
No, I'm all for the technology. It's just that the particular poster has a habit of banging on about how we need immortality research right now. Curing/alleviating illness and promoting immortality and two different things.
Well that makes sense. Also would make sense that this is possibly why he got laid off in the first place.
Yes. But don't give people gas money. Just gives them money.
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We're not acting like that. We're saying it may as well be that way for most people. You and I would be fine if Google disappeared. We'd just switch our auto search to Bing/Duck Duck Go/Blekko and never look back. But most "non-technical" people are dependent on Google, and if they wanted to use Bing, they would have to either search "Bing" on Google and click the link in the results or find a nerd to set it up for them.

Real World Example: Some relative of my girlfriend set up her mom's computer to use Yahoo. But she has since been convinced that Google is better and she should use that. So what does she do? Every time she starts up her web browser, she types "google" into the Yahoo search box, clicks the link to go to the Google homepage, then does her search there.
Yes still the same field. If I switch jobs I think I can probably expect a 30-40k bump + signing bonus since it's a totally different market now. Also when you have a job people want you. When you're out of a job you're seen as deficient in some way.
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Two of the company names: "Web Design" and "LLC"? Those were nice land grabs.
> I agree with your entire comment except for the first sentence.

I meant the term "first step" historically. It is really the first step to true open hardware because it is the first project (as far as I know) that solely relies on basic electronics you can solder together on your own pcb.

There are many open hardware projects but all of them are based on complex hardware (FPGA kits etc.). There are several good open cores you can download into your fpga but what if someday your fpga stops working and you can't buy another one because these fpgas are not produced anymore?

I agree with you that selfmade processors will never be able to compete with modern processors. But even a 1 MHz 8 bit cpu can do a lot of things. Remember the huge success of Commodore 64. And if you are able to 3d-print one such a cpu you can also print many, and build a multicore system.

Who says that selfmade processors have to work with silicon and copper? If someone finds a way to produce cheap conductive plastic filaments that would be a huge leap forward for printed circuits. I believe that there are several smart hardware hackers who could achieve a solution we could live well with. 3D printing is just in the beginning. I expect amazing times to come.
are at a higher risk of birth defects

From everything I have read, the risk doubles. That may sound like a big deal, but quoting from memory, it doubles from a 0.5% chance to a 1% chance, which is still exceedingly low odds. I'm not sure that risk alone is enough to warrant holding back on having children later in life.
I wasn't sure where I stood on the whole thing, but I think I agree that 200-300% of pre-crisis prices seems like a reasonable cap. Acknowledge that something happened but reign in the worst excesses of the market.
> Portable fuel supplies are just too convenient. The relative simplicity of the internal combustion engine (or some derivation thereof) is just too advantageous compared to even optimistic long-term alternatives.

We've spent way too long ignoring the externalities of our fossil-fuel energy supplies. Besides, moving to electric is a great common platform for future energy sources. It makes a whole lot of sense, for example, separating the power plant (ie, gas engine vs. remote nuke plant charging your batteries) from the propulsion mechanism (motors).
It is interesting how your first two paragraphs don't connect with your third.

Shouldn't the right reaction against the hypocracy be to have firm and simple principles, like relying on price as a signal?
That's why they pick that name.
What do you think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language ?

It certainly makes me doubt language (the technology of it) as purely cultural and learned.
Wouldn't that make Google Wallet to banks as Google Voice is to mobile operators?

I also just realized that the Wallet app doesn't require an Internet connection to make NFC payments (cf. tip at the end of http://googlecommerce.blogspot.fr/2012/08/use-any-credit-or-...).
Also New York is richer partly because it is better managed.
Without being unkind I think the authors on the blog should work on their writing. Read the first sentence of this entry on sleep: http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need-t...

Notice the two uses of 'average'?

The rest of the blog post is similarly poorly edited. It needs a good reread, edit and subedit to reduce wordiness.

Another example that I have a hard time understanding: "Here is what a recent study found: The sleep deprived person can in fact deliver the exact same results as someone who isn’t sleep deprived in an exercise, for when they give it their best shot."

Or: "One of my favorite writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt does the same things for many years and posted his insights in this great post about napping."
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