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I really don't understand what is the problem here. Sometimes the market can't do things properly, and there, tesla motor is a great example.

A consumer market is not always great when you want to make new things, because both consumers AND current manufacturers will say they are happy with what they have, and won't see your initiative like a good thing. Consumers absolutely can't have a say in anything because they're not educated and they're financing big existing groups.

Money acts as some sort of vote, that's not very hard to understand.

> hey here you have money so you can compete with competent guys using their money!

It's a loan, it's not like tesla stole money. To top it off, it was reimbursed 9 years early. What can you be angry about ? That businesses as usual are not given loans by the government ? Imagine the chaos it would create. Government is just stimulating innovation, it works, and now it's like the soviets are rigging the game. The invisible hand is a theory, not a proven thing that always works in practice.
It's often repeated again in the page as a H1, but that's only visible if you're scrolled to the top of the page. If you're part-way down a long HN discussion and want to quickly double-check what the topic was again, where do you look?
The grim reality facing our country today is one where we currently have a percentage of our population behind bars that surpasses even the heights of the gulags in Stalinist Russia

Best quote.
Tried them. The quality is at least 3-4 times worse than the DVDRips and not even mentionable in the same breathe as a BRRip.

And it used to decide to crash from time to time and then it would simply stop streaming and buffering and you couldn't do anything about that.

There's a new player in town CatchFlix. Haven't checked them.

There's also BoxTV which worse than them all.

And range sucked in all of them.
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Just add some javascript to load the time from a different server after the cached version is rendered. Build a simple service in node.js, ruby or java to return a json datetime, use that as the endpoint to load the time from. This is not rocket science and should not take 3 months to build, even with all the caching involved.

Edit: I just checked the headers that are sent along with any request to bbc.co.uk, and the response already includes the current datetime. So basically they don't even need to implement a time server anymore, but just do an Ajax request to document.location, and read the Date header on the result, to get the accurate time. They can just upscale their servers a bit to handle the extra requests (or implement an empty-response URL). Why would this take 100 days again?

Edit2: Sample code here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825319
how is this HN content
> If you look at the numbers you'll see that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest scalable energy source we've got. It's the energy source that has the fewest deaths per MWH produced, it doesn't produce CO2, etc. etc.

How about nuclear waste though? Where do we put that? I'm with you, it seems like humanity at large is hysterical beyond reasonable levels about radiation. However, it's not like it's completely harmless or unproblematic either.

Maybe - just maybe - we should just use less energy, so that the renewables suffice. Just a crazy idea.
" timezone issues, daylight saving, latency, etc"

Didn't it say "time in the UK"?
Nice! This is something I've wanted to do for a while, but whenever I started down the path of hacking together my own tool, ended up giving up after a bit of work realizing it was a bit more complicated to do well than I anticipated and I didn't have time to do it right.
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We use JIRA, but not in our planning meetings: a person writes down things on a whiteboard and then transcribes the result into JIRA issues. I don't know how applicable this is to your environment, but you may give it a try.
It's only for UK time. And nowhere it says it has to be included in the HTML itself. Ever heard of JavaScript?
this looks very similar to http://www.acooke.org/pytyp/pytyp.spec.dispatch.html#module-... (except that uses type annotations).
"There's no need to reimplement the whole clock."

Its a pity it "has to be" a symbolic fake looking virtual clock.

A webcam snapshot updated every minute or a live video feed of the actual real world big ben clock would look cooler and be infinitely more impressive and "British" (British being the first word of BBC)

Yes its not HTML5/CSS3/JS/AJAX but the tech infrastructure to cache semi-live real world pix like this would also be technologically cool, so don't worry about it.

Now... go reimplement Big Ben (just kidding)

(Edited to add, also you're also outsourcing your problem with this strategy... Time on Big Ben is wrong, who cares its not your problem, tell the Queen or whoever is in charge of Big Ben, its no longer a web developer problem)
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I wonder how he would explain rhombuses with negative area.

In uni we defined determinants starting with systems of linear equations and showing that hey, all these formulas for solving m-by-n systems can be generalised using this one monstrous equation, that has a simple recursive definition. We'll call it a determinant.
In what way is it a parable? Example sure, symbol maybe, metaphor perhaps.
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Maybe he's referring to the resistance from states that mandate a dealer network and won't let him sell directly to the consumer?
nice to hear that !
I think most developers would have considered creating a git/gist powered blog. I know I have. Being able to simply add a new markdown doc to a repo and have it show up in a blog based on date added would be cool.
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I'm not using Kaspersky myself, but I'm guessing they simply mark certain high profile websides on not-known tlds as phishing sites.

Think "amazon.co.tw/password_reset.php"
I got the same message today on something unrelated, it's not anything sinister. It's just facebook's worm control type thing and is only because the link has been posted a lot recently.
Another link on cars (trams in Holland actually, with backing from Alstom): http://sciencewriter.org/flywheels-spinning-into-control/
It could have been worse; his guests could have all had their throats slit in an act of callous revenge (‘The RIAA sends their regards!’).
Inefficient when it comes to innovating, yes. In any industry dominated by powerful incumbents and where the startup capital costs are extremely high, you do need outside intervention (I.e. a subsidy in the form of a loan) to help newcomers.
From what he's said publicly, I don't see how it can be a launch loop or anything much like it.
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What is is, why do I care?

Or are you just spamming?
We do have daylight savings so timezones do change.
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I feel bad, even though I am not from that country.

Feels like he had already calculated the fines and the outrage.

On a sadist note I couldn't resist wondering how long they are going to hold onto each other. Hope that ends without drama at least, after all this waste and damage. Well, this follows pretty soon these days, isn't it? Especially if it's two celebrities.
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When that is all that was taken away from a detailed and well written technical article, it is easy to see the problem with language tribalism.

That's a joke, son.
--F. Leghorn

It also illustrates the danger for authors of leading with a joke at someone else's expense. All that effort to carefully explain the ideas, why they are valuable, and how they can be used gets collapsed into a religious dispute over type safety.
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Tesla qualified. Their application was reviewed by a board of People Who Know Things.

I know this because my aunt, a respected physicist, sat on such a board. They're not throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks; they know what they're doing, and they're not picking winners and losers, they're playing the same game every investor plays: trying to decide who is going to win or lose before it happens. Tesla got the loan because they won it. Which is fair to the same degree as any other investment process. Unless, that is, you have some additional knowledge of corruption in the review process.

Solyndra should have proven that the government cannot "pick winners and losers" even if it wants to -- as long as the government isn't the primary player in the market, which is unfair, but also isn't what happened with Tesla.

Or GM, for that matter.

As for dealerships, the reason Tesla doesn't have to go through them is because they don't have any preexisting agreements with the dealerships, in the same way that, for example, someone who agreed to take out a student loan has to pay that back, but someone who didn't go to college, or went to a cheaper school, doesn't have to. There's nothing unfair about that either. Sure, dealerships are a pain: let's drive them all out of business, please. I'll be first on board.
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"I blame the cold war propoganda for our irrational fear of nuclear energy."

That's interesting, certainly very complicated, but consider an occams razor explanation like "Dumb people almost always viciously hate whatever they don't understand, and (intentionally?) not too many people understand nukes, so ... "
Thats an excellent description!

>> "... it’s a scanty collection of rare and rarified bubbles where wealth can temporarily repel the squalor, poverty and filth. Step outside these bubbles, as you must, and you find India."

I grew up in India in privileged conditions, well shielded by all the filth and dirt that exists everywhere. It's only once i started attending university that i realized the extent of filth in the streets and the dysfunction in public infrastructure. Most car owning/laptop wielding Indians i know never realize just how privileged and shielded their lives are...
Yeah, I stopped reading the article after 140 characters.
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And getting it wrong by dropping 10% of error messages randomly.
This is a great point. We have ~10 repos as part of our product, so we faced the same issue.

After toying with different solutions, we settled on using two dedicated issues-only repositories. One of them handles software development (all bugs, feature requests, the engineering stuff) and the other handles operational stuff like client installs and so on.

This has worked well for us. Here are some advantages:

0. We get the big picture you mentioned, which is the crucial point. Planning, grouping issues for releases, etc., becomes much easier.

1. When it comes to access security, we can give people access to the issues repositories (via GH teams) without giving them access to the full source code.

2. Splitting operations and engineering increases focus. Engineers don't need to look at client installs, etc.

3. We can still reference repo issues in commits to other repositories. See [0] and [1]

So all in all, I agree the fragmentation is a real problem, and I think centralized issues-only repos are the way to go. Hope this helps.

0: https://github.com/blog/1439-closing-issues-across-repositor...

1: https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets
same here. It's absolutely not a couple of servers and a bit of node, kids!
The fear prevents development of safe nuclear reactors. Irrational, yes?
The server time would drift by the latency from server to browser to start with.
> a million mathematicians cried out in terror

I'm sure this is meant as joshing, but I don't really get it. I reduce abstract concepts to geometry all the time in my classes-- every math person does. For instance on the first day of Calc, I reduce the rate of change of a fcn to the slope of a tangent line.

It is true though that at least in the US many students see determinants for the first time in Calc III where they are used for Jacobians and are introduced as computational gadgets (many instructors would say that they did not have the extra day to describe them in another way, such as the linked-to article does). That's too bad, and I could definitely understand it leaving a bad taste.
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Oh no, to be able to find speakers for my next upcoming conference, I'll have to communicate with actual people. What a hassle. Let's build something to fix this problem.
Um, Fukoshima went very, very wrong, and there were Zero deaths/sickness. That was the point of the article. And these were the worst reactors currently in service.

That leaves us with safer, more productive reactors. The future holds even safer reactors. This seems like a good trajectory for everybody.
From the last discussion [1] I thought launch loop was our best guess?

How does a launch loop conflict with anything he's said publicly?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796880
You can't "just" pre-seed with the current server time, since there is latency between the server sending it and the client receiving it.
Possibly dumb question, what is the difference between amazon.in and junglee.com ?
By this logic speeding fines shouldn't exist since nothing is actually damaged.
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This is a complicated topic where your simple notion of "fairness" doesn't quite apply.

In any industry where there are powerful incumbents and extremely high startup capital costs, the startups often need to be given outside assistance (i.e. government subsidy in the form of a loan) to have a chance of competing with their innovations. This is not ideal, but it is a necessary evil.

Furthermore, the incumbents had plenty of chance to innovate. What many of them did instead was to go bankrupt and ask for bailouts. Tell me: would you trust these companies with another $500 million of taxpayer money? It's like giving more stipend to a child who has proven irresponsible with money.
When I was young, my family lived 200 miles north of my grandpa's town. Whenever grandpa visited us, he insisted that the road north was uphill all the way. I always knew that it was nonsense. After all, we lived in a coastal area, whereas grandpa lived inland (and it was definitely not below sea level), and there are no significant mountain ranges in between, so if anything the drive north should have been mostly downhill. Only later did I realize that the perception of driving uphill probably had something to do with the way most maps are drawn. Grandpa probably did burn more gas on the road north, though, because he didn't have to haul any gifts on the road south.
Except that they did not receive approval for development as required by the California Coastal Act. Presumably the guys on Top Gear aren't breaking any laws.
So, TokuMX is web scale?

In all seriousness, this looks super cool, but I'm easily fooled by benchmarks and I don't have any projects right now that really push MongoDB that hard, so it doesn't impact me other than giving us a potentially faster Mongo, which is cool.
Not to sound mean (and people usually say that when they know that they could come out as mean), but for some reason that reminded me of people who walks around with bluetooth headset and talking to themselves, surrounded by a lot of people.

Its just me though.

Otherwise your question was interesting and unpredictable, almost all the other questions were something I would have thought about asking. You know the usual stuff.
The common subset is most of the language, if you target 2.7 and 3.3. But yes, it has clearly caused extra work. But all the tools I use support Python 3, and I'm looking forward to when new users routinely go for 3.
I don't think bacteria and viri care about such differences.
See It is hard to take any of your statements seriously as your reading comprehension is so bad, that you don't even notice that you are arguing with the wrong guy.
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WordPress, no other ecosystem with such support, themes and plugins.
This is now, I think the law itself is quite old. There was a time when dealership was very very profitable business.
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Actually, fossil fuel power plants release more radioactive waste than nuclear ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Comparing_radioac...

Nuclear power really is a darn good solution to our energy problems, and is more feasible and entirely more humane than using less energy. Our growing energy demands are not just a result of us being spoiled, they are a direct result of our need to sustain more and more people. Cut down on the energy, and you quickly fund yourself cutting down on progress and on the welfare of the poor.

Progress has created a lot of problems, but we can't really slow down in any significant way. Our only hope is to use our momentum to find solutions.
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> What you've done is read (or not)

How about we assume that I've read the article before commenting on it, and while we're at it, how about doing away with the vitriol even when you don't like someone or their opinion?

> decided that there must be something missing, and bemoaned the fact that people are applauding nuclear energy.

I have indeed, for myself, decided there is something missing and I put my doubts out there for people to judge, and I believe I explained where I see the problems. I did express some reservations about the completeness of the picture as it is being rendered in the article and I do believe some measure of caution is advisable, yes.
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I'm not feeling bad, in fact, it seems that I had two more weeks of getting used to than you, looking at when our accounts were created, :)

The post to which I replied has been edited. Where it now says "I do agree" it used to say "However, I disagree with you on..." or something similar, and also in other places.
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Sounds like Iowa 50 years ago. I grew up in a landscape of rusty machinery, wind-powered wells and mud roads. Our house was uninsulated, water froze inside the house in winter.

"Yeah, grandpa everything was terrible when you were young". Well it was. What saved us was the REC, crop insurance and better roads. There's hope for India if the new wealth translates in some way to better infrastructure.
Its simple money, dear NYT. He can be Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer or whoever, as long as his shit is selling. Innovation? oh c'mon, there has been no innovation since Einstein.
This is the BBC, not some startup in a garage with a couple of EC2 instances. It's the busiest website in europe, and it's publicly funded. If they just threw up external node services whenever they felt like it there would be chaos.

For example, whenever there's a major news story they see traffic spikes that would make you weep.

Internally on the other hand, where the stakes aren't so high, they make heavy use of rails, node, go and all that cool stuff. They know what they're doing.

Check out this list of some of their machines, from part of their monitoring system which is for some reason left open: http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/rrd

Here's is some data about their peering: http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/peering/

Yeah that's right. Peering.

EDIT: you're right that they could probably implement this quite easily, but the point is they can't just throw up an agile solution at the scale of the BBC, even if it seems safe.
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>So the government is now a venture capitalist or investment bank and should be encouraged to pick winners and losers now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employmen...

We've come a long way since the 1930s, haven't we? Yes, the government can do these things, and -gasp- it works, on a small scale, under certain conditions (economic depression).

The "$500m subsidy" to Tesla costs taxpayers zero after being repaid -- but represents a loan from the median taxpayer of about, oh, I dunno, seventy-five cents.
My reservations about the intent and reporting of the article aside, I do agree with you that the future holds safer reactors and that's a good thing.
It's on the BBC and so people expect it to be accurate.

For example, I imagine a lot of people aren't sure if/when the clocks change (daylights saving time). They check on the BBC, see that their computer time is "accurate" and assume the clocks haven't changed.

As another example, I often google "time" to check to see if my clock is accurate. If that just echoed back my local time I would feel like that was a breach of trust
Agreed. Amateur underwater devices have a century-long history of being unexpectedly fatal.
Well done. Reminds me a lot of when I was learning to touch type(I think it was called Typing Tutor). I'm going to pay at least for the smallest plan.
I disagree with you on the relative complexity of type systems, and, as someone passionate about my craft, I despair Go is merely good not great, due to what appears to be uninformed design decisions.

You may prefer to write in Go, but you don't work in a vacuum. Your creation is out there, gaining mindshare, and propagating mistakes made half a century ago. As a language designer, you have the power to shape human thought for years to come, and the responsibility to remain intellectually honest. This is the meaning of Hoare's apology. He didn't know better. You have no such excuse.
I think the point is that law should change.

Maybe it actually protected consumers three decades ago, but now, consumers have access to more than enough information to make those kinds of decisions for themselves.