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>How much did you spend on your Roadster, and how much is it going to cost to replace the battery pack when it wears out after only ten years or so?

Is this a fact, expensive battery replacements after 10 years and all?

I really have no idea, but I took a few minutes to try and look it up.

At a glance, it looks likes replacing a Prius battery today runs about half a much today as it did 10 years ago. Folks on the Tesla forums claim that you can pre-pay for a an eventual replacement to the tune of about $12K or 11% of the price of a new Roadster. That's a bit less half of of the current Tesla battery replacement cost I've seen thrown around and in line observed reduction in price of Prius batteries.

Spending 11% of a car's new price on a such a major repair, 10 years down the road is not bad at all. In fact, in my experience that's right in line with a basic import and cheap for anything could be considering sporting or luxury.

Unless I'm way off, this doesn't seem like a big issue at all.
Yeah... writing a site as simple as HN that doesn't fall over in a week isn't rocket science.
Honestly, it's usually trolls using the word troll. That combined with the lack of empathy and entitlement displayed in your original comment compelled me to check your comment history. You're a nice person in there though. What gives? I'm genuinely curious if I struck a nerve or something.

But let's give you the benefit of the doubt and let me ignore how entitled and demanding your "Explain" was, and actually explain.

It's not that the transaction was a failure that upsets me, nor is it the actual end cost to me. It was the abysmal entire experience, from start to finish. There are plenty of reputable companies that - when faced with a customer who has had a bad experience are happy to refund them their money and apologize for the inconvenience. eBay doesn't do that, and makes it as difficult as possible to actually contact them to resolve it.

Now, this is entirely speculation based on what I've learned from the comments here and on my blog and via Google, but odds are very very good I would never have gotten that money back anyway. And odds are very very good I would have been on the phone for upwards of 30 minutes in queue.

But ultimately in the end, the fact that I had to pay any money to them after having such a terrible experience, just to get them to stop bombarding my inbox with "SWEAR TO GOD, WE WILL SEND YOU TO COLLECTIONS (also don't reply to this email we won't read it)" is a complete failure of customer service. That's what's unacceptable, not the % of the fees I got back.
Looks like it could be entertaining! The video was well produced, but I would suggest shortening it and showing some actual gameplay on the homepage. 30-45 seconds tops. The rest of it looks like cutscenes from throughout the game and doesn't really tell you what you get if you download it. Good Luck!
I still don't understand this criticism of OpenBSD. I managed to use the installer to set up a fully partitioned OpenBSD system circa version 2.7 as a stoned highschool freshman. I think some people just have trouble using computer programs that require them to use a keyboard and read the documentation.
Vim and Emacs use different keybindings whichever OS you use them on AFAIK.
haha, that was my first thought too. But thinking back, I was on the phone within a day or two... I guess we all deal with stress differently.

"Honey, the house is on fire..."

"I better call Comcast and cancel internet for the winter."
"What if Intel introduces new instructions that assist with some patented algorithm but do not carry out the complete algorithm? Software completes the algorithm using the chip instruction. Is that covered under Stallman's software patent immunity proposal?"

Sure, why wouldn't it be? I'm not suggesting his idea is feasible or not. But as he stated it, in this case if you were able to reverse engineer the software bits required to make the magic happen on the chip and reimplement your own version you wouldn't be on the hook for actionable patent infringement whether you were the developer or a user.

OTOH you wouldn't be able to implement the hardware side of that system under these rules.
I saw the HUD on the most recent BMWs and though it seems like a cool piece of technology, I am not sure if it's something that I miss sorely. Don't get me wrong, I was definitely wow'd when I saw it but in the end the amount of information that can be displayed without distracting the driver is limited. I am sure someone can prove me wrong but I have not come across it, not yet.

Given the amount of used cars that are sold every year, and the way people get wow'd by such technology, I would say it's worthwhile to build a SDK and at the same time provide an example of how to make a DIY HUD, if you get a lot of traction you can always make custom HUDs that users can buy directly from you (kickstarter project).
Seems like they deployed a version that broke the app on Nexus S.

The remaining one stars are users complaining about lack of support on various android phones.

So looks like people are really interested in using it but can't get proper access to it, those than can do like it,
Been using http://getlazarus.com/download for years - much happier!
Figuring out how to apply fuzzy concepts like "generally used computing hardware" to a messy world is a big part of what courts are for. I don't see any reason to believe that Congress would do a better job of it.
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Less than one in twenty people are writers, so...
"People discounting the whole 4HWW lifestyle - it's real. But who has time to convince other people of something you know to be true..."

Apparently, you.
I am not very familiar with software patents, just business process work.

If you write a program in say... python which is open source. You can patent that program even though your work is based of something that is publicly available? Or can you only patent additional libraries/new languages?
Also if a seller tells you to keep waiting or that they resent the item you didn't receive, NEVER let it go past 45 days. Because after 45 days you can't even leave negative feedback on the seller much less try to fight their scam. Even if you do go to the trouble of getting into their system (which filters auctions older than 45 days) you will get a canned response of NO.
I doubt they'll change much outside the US.
Could you elaborate on Freud? I thought the general consensus was that none of his "theories" were accurate and evidence doesn't support or it directly contradicts his ideas. From the admittedly little I've read, it comes off as just "making stuff up" and generating frameworks that can explain anything (hence nothing). Psychoanalysis certainly has no place in modern psychology.

Or are you saying that Freud, despite being entirely wrong, got things moving and eventually helped folks to start taking psychology as a serious science? Or another point I am not understanding?
Who changed the title? Are you the author of the original article?
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So how about you RENT A CAR once a year, for your 8000 mile trip across multiple state lines. Your daily commute is how far?
Few companies cause me physical discomfort when I hear their name, PayPal will always be one of them (among GoDaddy and Rogers Communications).
> His contributions to science are negligible if not entirely detrimental.

I think it would be nice to have some more references or more explanation before declaring Chomsky detrimental to science.
Wouldn't want it any other way.
I'd use this and like it much more than the digital wallet.

The idea of my phone dying and leaving me with no means of communication and no means of payment sounds like a good way to make a bad day go to much worse.

As someone who travels frequently on business and is in places where I dont know a soul and arrive at sometimes odd hours - that scenario is terrifying to me.
What kind of R&D is happening at Apple? I did a search with the keyword "research" on their job board and not much interesting turned up except for a few "Data scientist" positions.
Does Google forward the charge to Amex, or does the Google Wallet Apps just simulate the Amex card's NFC signal, so that the merchant can't tell the difference? If the latter, you obviously deal with Amex
This is really impressive. It's a cogent, insightful articulation of the current situation, including the realistic constraints (e.g. that Supreme Court ruling re: private privileges), and a practical suggested solution that could actually be implemented in the current political environment. Don't always agree with Stallman, but this one's well done.
I've always wondered if corporations lose certain lawsuits on purpose to change the outcomes of future cases.
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It's interesting that they list their loss rate at 0.3%. I'm sure that's pretty low compared to their customers. I've seen a lot higher in ecommerce, and for retail shrinkage is usually around 1.5%.
See, this is a prime example of what I mean. There's no dispute that he listed items, so proof of such is irrelevant. However, you're taking the purported meaning of the cryptically phrased document-that-nobody-reads as immutable truth. Fact is that ebay failed to successfully execute the auction - they accepted bids from the guys in the back with the way-out-of-range numbers hand-drawn on cardboard.
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Couldn't disagree more. What's more portable than a solar-powered charging station? Solar energy is getting better and better - i.e. producing more KwH per unit of time of sunlight. That will likely continue - as most technologies tend to do.

Let's assume for a minute that Tesla survives the next few months and is able to ramp up production and deliver vehicles to it's 13,000 clients that it has received deposits for, it is mind-boggling how significant that impact will be on costs of everything.

The costs of production of each car, each battery used in each car, each car part, etc. will all fall. The cost of production of solar panels used at the Tesla Superchargers around the country, will fall.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla starts selling franchises on the superchargers - say 7/11, etc.

At some point in the next decade, just from Tesla alone - again, assuming they survive and continue on the current trajectory - you can reasonably assume that you will be able to travel much cheaper (if not free) than current gasoline. Not to mention that they will likely start selling Solar powered kits for home charging.

The question about an electric car performing in a flood/water is similar to the question of a combustion engine performing in a flood/water. They both will likely have trouble - although, I would be more willing to bet that the Tesla design could handle it better.

Everything you are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. This is just the model T of EVs. With the Model S, the EV is finally coming of age. The future looks bright, and I am excited.

If anyone can bring that future forward, I would stack my chips on Elon Musk.
If it was on a cronjob, he would know precisely what time the server reboots.
> spending on research and development has grown significantly
> to $3.4 billion—an increase of $1 billion over 2011

This can be construed as either a positive or a negative. It's positive if the R&D has a particularly focused scope, resulting in coherent products/technologies that actually hit the market. Often when there's a lack of vision a company (Microsoft is a great example) will produce a plethora of solutions in search of a problem and patent the shit out of everything along the way.

Hopefully this isn't a case of lack of vision where Apple is throwing crap at the wall until they find something that sticks and packing IP in the piggy bank for future lawsuits. Big R&D budgets can be a sign of this. We'll see.
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Huh. So I'll have one credit card to carry around that will just pass through the charge to another card I'm carrying around, because none of this stuff is yet reliable enough to abandon my wallet entirely.

Sorry for the abrasive skepticism here... it's part of being in the industry. But I see one of two scenarios playing out here:

1) Google becomes (buys/owns/works with/...) a proper Issuing Bank giving out real lines of credit for a credit card. They get interchange fees when you use your card, just like any other card issuer. No real value is added to the equation, and it's yet another service that Google offers which becomes a nightmare if you need to speak with a human - which when you're dealing with people's money is quite often. They may have a decently searchable web UI for your transaction history, but so does Mint.

2) Google does some clever magic where they authorize one of your cards on file when you swipe your Wallet card, and just pass through the result. Because they still need to act as an issuing bank here, they either raise interchange over the real issuing bank of the actual card (store owner gets screwed), or charge the same or less and eat the loss. Presumably they'll make up this way by creepily using your purchase history.

Neither of these scenarios does anything to move retailers closer to NFC adoption (actually useful for Google/Android), and I'm not sure how many people are willing to have some "one card to rule them all" thing going on, which is the only real benefit I see to the consumer here.

Having my wallet 3mm thinner isn't enough benefit for me to not pick the best rewards card based on where I'm shopping, never mind the fact that I don't trust Google with my financial data (or, more accurately, I don't see any benefit in giving them access to it)
My guess is that the Volt is a stopgap, whereas Telsa are skating ahead of that puck. The Volt works for now for most people for most of their trips, which is awesome. However, you are still dealing with a whole host of moving parts and my guess is maintenance costs will be higher than either a pure EV or pure gas powered.

Given the rate Tesla are going, I think the plug-in hybrid (or indeed any hybrid) is going to look fairly quaint in 5-10 years.
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What about the surgery example he provided?
Google had a partnership with Citi, so if you had a Citi card, it would actually send the real card number. With any other bank, the proxy card number is sent, and Google forwards the charge to the real card.
R&D at Apple can be summed up by the iPhone 5.

They developed a new SoC in the A6, made the screen thinner incorporating the touch sensor which was novel and created new manufacturing processes for building the case.

All of these obviously flow to the other products e.g. iMac, iPad Mini.
Based on replies, it seems like you may not have done a better job than eBay.

What data do you have to support your belief that you're doing a better job?
Racket is open source. Have at it. http://racket-lang.org

Based on the last time I touched it, I suspect it's a managed memory leak, though. The vast majority of Racket is in racket/base or mzscheme.
Implementation is not required and are not in fact what is actually patented.

An implementation can implement something that is patented, but that does not mean the implementation is itself patented.

MS Word is not patented, but implements many patented concepts.
It won't get you from SF to LA either, but that's why Tesla are building those 30 minute charging stations.

My guess is that Tesla license the technology out, and road stops on common long-distance corridors start offering the charging stations in their parking lots to dominate the competition, you stop at their place for lunch, and then others will have to install too to compete. Job done: superchargers everywhere.

It looks like this is already happening in San Francisco (albeit with the city bootstrapping it): there are parking garages with EV spots and those without. Given a higher EV usage, those garages are going to do better, and the others will need to install in order to win that custom.
So:

1) A software update can now render you unable to make payments.

2) You're only able to pay people if you've bought one of a few specific pieces of hardware.

Traditional payment cards suffer neither of these problems which is probably why Google's planning to offer this... but overall it sounds like this is just adding more complexity into the already mindlessly-complex payments infrastructure.
If you have done your job AND communicated well, that is still only half your job. Ensuring the company, department, etc runs well is a bet better...

I am unsure if I could get it right in a soundbite. What I learned working in kitchens, from 'you got time to lean you got time to clean' to 'your job isn't done 'til everyone's job is done', mixed with creating and running a business, and solving hard complex problems is that 'it' must be done. If everyone just does their part, it won't be enough.

Working at 100%, to me, is the rate I can work day-in/day-out without being burnt-out. I do that, as it is my work ethic. Although, I have been at some jobs that will throw fake work at that 'problem'. If that is the case, I leave. Someone somewhere needs things to get done.

Seeing the populace of Japan get back on its feet is a great example of a good community doing what it takes. How to make that happen beyond your immediate vicinity is a whole different can of beans.
If they both retracted their offers, which would you be more disappointed about?
rbanffy wasn't suggesting otherwise. It was your comments that seemed to suggest that inefficient, expensive research should be more worthy of patents by virtue of being expensive.
This is seriously misinformed. You have no idea what goes into making a site "as simple as HN", and I very much doubt you would be able to write one in a month, let alone a week.
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It would be nice if it could generate a new number for each transaction.
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> > His contributions to science are negligible if not entirely detrimental.
> I'm not a linguistics expert, but from my vantage point as a computer scientist, it would be hard to conclude that. Chomsky essentially founded the field of formal language theory

Chomsky did great work for CS (and NLP) through formal language theory, but his work in linguistics -- in particular, his anti-empiricism and hostility to statistical views of language -- was very unhelpful for getting computers to understand language. See e.g. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/papers/rsoc.pdf
aahh!! now i know why my application submit button would work sometimes even after i had the browser open for a few hours. Now I know that whenever it didn't work I could have been a victim of this restart.

thanks for the info.
I've owned an electric car for about two years now. The article missed a few points:

1. The regenerative braking means you do not need to replace your brakes nearly as often. (Tires are a different story.)

2. There are far fewer moving parts than a normal car. This decreases the amount of maintenance you need to do.

3. Since there are no moving parts, it's less damaging to the car when drive it hard. Accelerating quickly with non-electric sports cars wears out very expensive components very quickly. With an electric car, you can get that 0-60 performance every single time you accelerate without wearing anything out. (Except the tires.)

When you're comparing the annual fuel bill to the extra cost of the Tesla, don't forget that you are buying a premium sports car. Something like a BMW M5 gets 14/20 MPG, and expects that you feed it premium fuel.
> Clearly, it didn't make economic sense for people to drive 1000 miles to sell generators at cost, because people stopped doing it once they weren't allowed to profit.

I literally thought they weren't letting anyone into the Katrina-damaged areas, whether they were trying to gouge people, or just sell necessary supplies, or even give them away for free.

I understand their rationalization - how do you tell a do-gooder from a looter? And even if you can prove they're a do-gooder, how do you know they won't fall victim to crime, and become another casualty for you to worry about? But I do disagree with it.
The card will likely be reprogrammable using NFC to 'become' whichever card you choose.
Several large banks have had this in the works for a while, but it seems like Google will beat them to it.
The value of a patent is not in whether it is infringed, but whether it is both novel and non-obvious. Many software patents are neither, as evidenced by the recent spate of lawsuits over patents that largely amount to "regular expressions, but on a PHONE!!111."
Please list your assumptions about what ideas I have - since you're clearly assuming I don't work for a company that knows how to write websites that scale.

Edit: I find it adorable that you all think HN is a hard site to run. Good luck breaking 200 qps.
I got an email from Chase welcoming me to a new account. It was legit, but I hadn't opened an account. When I called in, the rep assured me it must be spam.

Their abuse department emailed back to me verifying that they had sent it, but that no account was using my address anymore (it had the right DKIM, so I was a bit paranoid; looking back, I'm not sure what trouble it would case me).
And, I got mine a week ago. So you get everything a little sooner than you would by downloading.
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Just wanted to say thanks for a calm, level-headed, and informative response.