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Firstly, I don't believe electric cars are a good idea.
Secondly, I absolutely hate the idea of cars so dependent on electronics and software.

My neighbour has an old dumper truck he lets me use, probably 50 or 60 years old. It starts every time, first time. There is literally nothing to go wrong on it.

Now contrast that with a modern car, where you need special tools to access the electronics unlock diagnostics. What about when cars have auto update software over wifi? What about when the government forces car makers to embed their own tracking software into them to monitor and spy on civilians.

Tesla isn't quite as bad as the idiotic self drive cars Google is pressing for (So they can drive you to a google advertiser), but they're in the same bucket of nastiness.
Try as I might, I simply can't get worked up about Tesla.

They make excellent toys for rich people, but are irrelevant to everyone who is not some sort of millionaire entrepreneur or high-paid executive.

Electric vehicles are incredibly attractive and massively beneficial to society if they are adopted at scale. Unfortunately, Tesla seems content to cultivate an image as an ultra-luxury brand, and hasn't attempted to lower the barrier to entry for electric vehicles.

I have no problem with companies that only want to sell expensive things to very wealthy people, but we can't possible pretend that companies like these will matter in the grand scheme of things.

Wake me up when we can buy an electric car for $12,000.
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Historically speaking, the US Government is pretty damn good at winning wars of attrition. Don't think you're going to find any amount of money that Congress won't happily hand to the military-industrial complex. They'll spend whatever it takes.
Sure you can. USB has a dedicated pin for sending power down and it's been an integral part of the design since the start (USB 1.0). How do you think USB pen drives (et al) work when they have chips which need powering? Or USB "soundcards", wireless dongles, USB keyboards and mice? They all need powering and they all need powering while in operation.

You might not be able to send higher charges while using data - I've not followed the spec that closely - but you can supply at least enough charge to keep the phone running even if you cannot recharge it.

The reason you don't get docking stations for other phones is because every sodding phone puts their USB socket in a different place (and often it changes from model to model from the same manufacturer). This means whatever dock you build will automatically be fugly compared to iPhone/iPod docks because you'll need a USB cable. Which is why any such dock will either have a 3.5mm audio jack (TRS) and thus support any portable device, or use bluetooth for a wireless solution.
Thank you, as I mentioned I haven't used it for a few years, and it seems it was old and broken even then! Apologies.
With Bin Laden some of the fear and panic did come from our not being used to such things, but a lot of it also came from our government's overreaction. Which seems to have been at least partly pre-planned and just waiting for an opportunity.

With Snowden, things have been getting more and more absurd and someone was bound to point it out with credible evidence sooner or later.

Politics isn't supposed to be this neat and tidy, is it? Things like this are only supposed to exist when you revise history to make the lines less muddy.

World War I was set off by one guy assassinating one other guy. But, it wouldn't have really mattered if everyone wasn't already this -->.<-- close to breaking out in war anyway.

Politics isn't neat and tidy, and there will always be events that hit at the right time to have outsized effects. And a lot of times, those events will have some visible individual playing a key role.
That was shot down quite fast. I would give them a few months before making such a judgement.
I tend to see negative correlation between shares on any social media platform x and any social media platform y. The audiences just differ so much that anything that'll grab the Twitter crowd will tend to put off the StumbleUpon crowd, and so on.

There's some crossover between a very few platforms, e.g. posts which get a lot of InShares will also likely get Tweeted a lot. It's quite rare, though, in my experience.
I've looked at standard library implementations of strncmp before, and there are definitely some crazy tricks done to make it fast. Anyway, totally agree that I'd want to see some benchmarks to prove that it is a bottleneck. My point is that I wouldn't claim that it isn't without seeing benchmarks either.
I don't believe electric cars are technologically better. Lugging a half ton battery around, then waiting for hours for it to charge doesn't seem that clever to me.

Of all the things that are banes of our lives these days, surely it's everything that runs on a battery.

Remember when phones would last a week or so on a charge? Now you're lucky if a smart phone lasts a day on standby. And people call it progress...

So no, I think the idea of having a massive battery in my car is horrible.
Maybe it's just not the kind of contents I expect to find in wikipedia, and as such is just click-bait since it's likely to be high in google search results?

If I want to know the location of Abianti within Slovenia I'm more likely to turn towards some mapping website rather than wikipedia, where I'd expect a more detailed description of the city's history and other relevant information.
I think that Google is not magically adding their +1's to PageRank whilst not doing the same for Facebook likes etc. But rather that google plus has been designed by Googlers for Google's engine. As such a post on a plus account will attract percentage-wise far more +1s (same way a facebook post will get more likes).

And so if you compare two posts, one on facebook, one on plus.google, and they both have the same number of backlinks (likes/+1s) then the plus post will be better SEO friendly and so outrank.

The fact it out ranks so much suggests that something screwy is going on - either there is a lot of cash left on the table for SEO-friendly pages, or that something like being on the google root domain helps in ways that have not been corrected for.

I would doubt if Google is out and out cheating. But a lawsuit would force them to say how facebook could up its pages...

Edit: I know I'm not supposed to but really - why the down votes? I would be very surprised if Google is trying to kill the golden goose.
The author of the article explains his point clearly, and in a way it makes sense when looked at it from that perspective.

I'll offer another, more pessimistic perspective. He assumes that the users paying more will get extra service, while service level for the rest will stay the same. But, it's almost never the case. In practice, the level of service for regular price will just go down, and service providers will start to charge even for something that was free, or available at lower cost before this service differentiation started.
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that's not feasible in the long run.

Try that on a large or enterprise level project and watch your product fall apart. The effort you save by not testing will be wasted fixing bugs many times over.

Test driven development isn't necessarily the best/right way to test all the time but you have to have some form of testing unless you just don't care about working on the software for over a month
Actually, by definition, you are wrong. And you are wrong about 90% of the market as well.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2289560/Googles-Search-...
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> Because there are already dozens of people who did that already?

Do you really expect people to scour a newsgroup to find the meaning of your vague and unsubstantiated claims?

Someone could similarly say "Scala is an unmitigated failure of a language. If you want to know why, just track down its detractors on the Internet. There are dozens." Would you be impressed by that?
In my little experience music requires many layers of unintuitive abstractions, that, when reached, give you that feeling not very far from the one when you get your aha! moment in mathematics, physics or any revelation~.

edit: maybe being good at both is a sign of an innate skill for abstraction, or maybe it's another way for a student to dive into a subject and grow new abstractions and reinforce his brain.
The remedies are the power of the purse, which won't necessarily be followed but which we are attempting and got very close in the first vote in the House, and/or impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, which is an inherently political act. In practice, as the political lay of the land is today, I'm not even sure Obama would be impeached and convicted if he were "caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Edwards).

Touching on the Jews in Europe before and during WWII, first they were stripped of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (e.g. see this in two months: http://www.amazon.com/Gun-Control-Third-Reich-Disarming/dp/1...). As you may have heard, the US is going in the opposite direction outside of what we're taking to calling "slave states" like New York and Maryland, and probably California soon. We have options, please see here for previous discussion before you dismiss this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155921
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Saying "no" is a hard stance to take. Google undoubtedly does have some very smart people and some very interesting work, so it's difficult to throw that away because one perceives them as brain damaged when it comes to relationships and interviewing.

And of course there's always the "if you say 'no', there's always someone who will take your spot happily."
Here is a much better explanation, in Javascript: http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom...
What you mean competing political organizations that where as concerned with internal politics and doing over the opposition as fighting the germans.

The representation of the Resistance vs the Communist Resistance in 'Allo 'Allo! is not that far from the fact and internal infighting between royalist and communist is also a theme in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Nobody rational. Were you to evaluate the actions of any given nation state as those of an individual, you would probably decide that the individual was psychotic, psychopathic, deranged, and suffering from a bevy of learning disabilities. Our governments are insane, and we're all along for the ride.
True, the NSA doesn't respect the privacy of any non-American on the planet in bulk. This is more than just a privacy violation. Also the NSA might respect an Americans privacy if they are farther than three hops from a foreigner, kinda like saying they don't.
Not that far out then: http://www.chevrolet.com/spark-ev-electric-vehicle.html
Thanks, very interesting read (as usual with Adam's writing). It's to be expected that playing with fireworks is liable to get one burned, unfortunately intelligence services have a very hard time understanding this sort of thing.
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I'd add that node.js is even a good enough tool for heavy computation. Do not crunch the numbers in the main event loop, but spawn a worker-cluster and you're fine.

Do not forget that the raw speed of the V8 (not to mention C++ modules for more speedup) outperforms other current scripting languages like ruby.
I can't tell if you're arguing against me, or the UK government - you know, the ones who detained the partner of a journalist using anti-terrorism law. That is where this connection was made.

Of course I think their actions are outrageous and unreasonable. In the light of them, however, hypothesising that supporting The Guardian financially may be construed by those in power as financing terrorism is mere extrapolation.
My point was regarding the usage of bots to scrape that content and adding it to a specific Wikipedia in an attempt to boost the article count, as has been happening on certain Wikipedias. The article that you linked to was created by an actual user.

For example, there were tens of thousands of articles created by bots on the Dutch Wikipedia, within a day, around the time when it was about to surpass the German Wikipedia. I don't consider that to be something appropriate for an encyclopedia. It's really difficult to find any alternative explanation for such acts, other than "we wanted to be ahead of that other Wikipedia in article count".

>and there is no limit to the amount of content.

WP:Stub would make it seem that it's at least not endorsed and that there's an expectation of having such articles expanded. But these don't get marked as stub, because there's no expectation of them having more content, just a mere increase on the article counter.
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A copy of the letter from David Miranda's lawyers is now available here:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/20/dav...

Looks like they want to take this to the high court if possible.
don't forget though, Teslas have no engine in the front... that space where the engine goes becomes a 2nd boot so you end up with more storage, even with the 3rd row of seats (obviously, you won't get a set of ski's in there but still... it's more than normal)
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While it's true these concerns are probably overblown in the eyes of the public (it's not something they need to worry about). It's absolutely not 'astroturfing' from my perspective (as someone who may need to cut one of these up some day).

I very much appreciate the amount of effort Tesla has put into producing training materials for working with their vehicles.
I have a counter-current question (and I feel that this should be a legitimate site for asking such questions, because we are all hackers here).

Were lavabit, groklaw profitable and/or widely popular?

Is it possible that these are sites that are not profitable and would have been shutdown anyway but which are now using privacy as an excuse for shutting down?

This does not excuse the misuse of governmental powers, but if it is true, it is a distraction (and a cynical manipulation of our views).
> With respect, a conspiracy believer sees everything as backing up their beliefs.

I think that's a slightly narrow-minded view of it, as there's no black and white single line between being a conspiracy theorist or not. It's all subjective, and while some conspiracies most of us may agree are obviously that, others can be far more subtle/debatable.

Not that long ago, people who believed the NSA were spying on people to the extent that we now know they are would have been labelled by many as conspiracy theorists. Now we know they were just... people with the correct knowledge and/or guesses. So because they were once thought to be conspiracy believers we should lump them into one category and say "they see everything as backing up their beliefs"?

The nuttier a belief is, and the longer it goes on, the more likely it is we're to hear about it. For every new "this proves me right", those of us who don't believe it think here we go again..., while for every new "this proves me wrong I've changed my mind", we don't hear about that.

All in all, there are two options about 9/11. Either it was a Government plan, in which case of course new points support the theory, and one day we will probably find out the truth. Or the conspiracies are complete bullshit, in which case some statements/facts will be used erroneously to support them, but that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't statements/facts which genuinely do support those theories.
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Actually, to me he looks darker and terroristier in your picture, due to being photographed against a light background.
We went crazy over terrorism? Who's we? Am I part of the we that helped pass the PATRIOT Act (which was an Act of Congress) without reading it?

Am I the one who pitched Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify an invasion of an irrelevant country that resulted in ~125,000 dead civilians?

Am I the one who has been helping build the system that has devalued an American college degree to the point of worthlessness? Did I decide to over-advertise the college experience to impressionable kids? Did I decide to give more student loan money to college students? Did I decide to raise the cost of my university to account for said federal dollars that I can now obtain out of greed?

Of course there's a bleeting majority supporting all of this. They're, like all citizens in a democracy, only as good as the media they're fed: http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/how_to_subvert_democrac...

But many of the policies and actions are coming from a higher-level than your average citizen.

EDIT: However, I agree that the stupidity and apathy of the general populace is at least partly to blame. The people who know what's up ahead of time aren't confident enough to act until it's obvious, in which case it's usually too late. The rest just don't care and assume someone else will solve the problem. Further, following trends and the subsequent inability to make it through a turbulent or confusing time without devolving into mass panic and animal-like behavior is also a problem.
startups that look for "superstars", "ninjas" etc... thinking they will be the new Facebook starting from tomorrow.
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Check out the mixmaster anonymous remailers:

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This is 'argument by smurf', wherein the word takes on whatever meaning you want it to mean. Smurf me that smurf, Handy Smurf!
$5,000 is an incredible amount of money. If I were to spend that amount on a pre-order, I deserve to know what I'm paying for and how much it will cost me.
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We already have one. It means nothing.

http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

Scroll down to: Protect Whistleblowers
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If your plug is sideways, which way is up? Therein lies the rub basically.
> Patents aren't private property.

Yes, they are. (Particularly, they are intangible personal property.)

> They're a government-granted temporary monopoly.

All "property" is government-granted monopoly in the control/use of some thing (sometimes dependent on a grant from another private party, but still ultimately government granted), concrete or abstract. Some are temporary (this is true of real and tangible personal property, too), some are permanent.

> In the absence of government, there's still some notion of property, but no notion whatsoever of patents.

Outside of government/legality, there's certainly still some notion that things, concrete and abstract, can belong to certain people such that it is wrong to "steal" them, and that certainly includes ideas. The particular details and names of particular classes of property are, of course, products of people, over time, spending time teasing out vague notions into more detailed sets of rules -- which, in the case of property rights, is something that tends to happen in the context of government (not always by government, but you don't even have developed philosophy of property rights without government existing to create a stable enough society for people to spend time writing rather than defending their immediate personal possessions and survival necessities.)
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That is pretty much the definition of freedom of speech universally applied. You are free to say what you want and your employer is free to say things like "you're fired."

Freedom of speech != speech without consequence.
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Great point, and this is a big reason why the "I have nothing to hide" argument comes from a position of childlike naivety.

Even if you have nothing to hide, what about your members of parliament? CEOs? Mayors? President or Prime Minister? Judges? Police chiefs?

Is there a single one that has never written an email or made a phone call that could destroy their career? What lengths would they go to in order to keep it private? Do you honestly expect them to fall on their sword for the good of the nation?

Giving a shadowy group with essentially no oversight access to damn near every skeleton in the closet society has under the guise of "security" is analogous stuffing your house with munitions and trusting your kids not to play with matches.
i'm a bit confused here, so forgive me if i've got something muddled up.

were zeromq's queues just in-memory? it was never meant to be reliable in the sense that messages were preserved in a database at each socket, was it?

alternatively, if i am wrong above, and zeromq was reliable / persistent then why did you drop this?

thanks (i've worked on esbs, but not with zmq).
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In practice, Southwest airlines has one class of passenger. Everyone rides in steerage, but you can pay a little extra to jump at the front of the line and pick your favorite steerage class seat. They're able to operate profitably on a fairly consistent basis, this author is postulating a necessity that does not exist.
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The ONLY thing I would say to all that is that the IRA actually existed, and civilians were constantly attacked by them, for over 30 years. The IRA even managed to blow up the UK government. The threat was real. IMHO, the AQ threat is 99% bogus. It all hangs on 9/11, and the London Underground bombings. One single event in the US, then the UK. Yes I know other events have been attributed to AQ, but frankly, one by one, they all fall down as actual organised terrorist activity. Its mostly pissed off people aligning themselves with Islam or AQ. Frankly, now journalist's partners are considered a threat to national security and arrested as terrorists, we can see how lose and there for useless the term "terrorism" now is. Its is not even slightly the same as the IRA. They were "proper" terrorists.

There for, one can understand (note: not condone, excuse, etc) the extreme reaction of the UK government. Although, for all that time, the US was funding the IRA. So........er.......
> Personally, I hope Tesla fail, and think they will.

I think that without any kind of justification, this is completely unnecessary for HN, and downmodded you accordingly. Even though I agree that many comments here are one-sided, and haven't considered what the PR statement might be missing.
I doubt it.

Does Facebook allow Google access to the signals it would need to weigh the relevant results?
Read the thread--as per usual, the stock response to criticisms of C++ (here, the difficulty with intrusive lists) is "USE MOAR BOOST!1111one".

Now, it's a very useful library, but it's also an amazingly tired refrain.
True that.

The answer is also kinda obvious. It started it as a matter of convenience ("I'm too fking bored to type out my long-ass password" or "I have so many passwords, I can't be bothered to remember them all" or "LastPass? What's that?") and has remained so till date. In fact, it will continue to do so until a zero-day exploit appears that can uncover these plaintext passwords, which, judging by current events, doesn't seem too far away
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