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Consumer vehicles are definitely getting there, at least for high income and/or high net-worth people.

And while that is a relief, it is still very troubling to think about the implications for our transportation infrastructure as a whole (where consumer vehicles represent a minority fraction.)

How will we power our ocean freighters, our freight trains, our 18-wheelers, and our high capacity airplanes without high energy-density hydrocarbons (or with prohibitively expensive hydrocarbons)?

I can imagine nuclear and electric solutions (hand-wavy or hypothetical) to some of these modes, but could they be implemented on a global scale in time?

It makes me wonder what our transportation infrastructure will look like 100 or 200 years from now.

-In what non-obvious ways will we look backwards to people of the future?

-Will these people envy how cheaply we moved goods across the globe?

-Will they laugh at how expensive it was to move things across the globe?

-Will they even have the luxury of thinking about these things?
Spot on.

It's like the Flash/ActionScript developers of the early 00's have crawled out of their graves one night and worked out how to do splash screens again.
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One nit: in T (object ...) doesn't create an anonymous class, it creates an object implementing the given operations, just as lambda creates a procedure. I agree that it's a lovely feature worth highlighting.
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Have you tried using different colours to make it easier to distinguish inbound and outbound, like this? http://www.opentrack.ch/opentrack/downloads/otTrainGraph.pdf

I suppose you could even set the colour dynamically along the track, and set the hue based on how late the train is.
It happens in the southern sections of the city too (which are not included on the map). Ingleside Terrace is considerably more expensive than the OMI (ocean view, merced heights, ingleside). Similarly, Mission Terrace, which not a posh neighborhood, is nonetheless a bit more expensive than the Excelsior, which is elevated ground toward McLaren Park.
The important thing is that Treasury category. It shows how much of the budget is going to debt service payments. It was almost 1/4 of the budget in 1995, but came back down.
I imagine out there someplace is a group of developers who are positive, supporting of each other, who check each others work without vile, and who want to see each other succeed... but in my limited experience I have never seen it.
Very interesting, as this is the first time seeing your company. Perhaps I missed this (I went over about three pages on the website), but:

1) How much are you trying to raise? What if it fails to meet the goal?

2) How exactly can I get a perfectly fitting shirt? What do I need/get to measure (i.e. is it two things and you get close or is it more)?

Love this idea for a company, by the way. I often have to find clothing in odd corners to fit my physique (tall, thin, long arms and torso). I've ordered tech shirts just because of how they fit (e.g. http://www.googlestore.com/Google+Redesign/Wearables/Men+s+T...) and buy lots of cycling oriented clothing as it seems to fit me better than "mainstream" clothing without being tailored.
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Ad that made it past screening, nothing to see here.
I prefer when the font is rather thick than thin, which leads to using sizes like 14, and I've found that Lucida Console and DejaVu Sans Mono work best for me.

The former in Notepad++, the latter is perfect for Eclipse, because Eclipse has a very small spacing between the lines (not configurable) and many other fonts look too condensed due to that.
while your characterization rings true for academia, I hardly believe that those attributes are the provenance of MBAs. The irony is that we are in an age of scientism (as Feynman would say) and it's precisely the popularization of science itself that has led to 'pseudo-measurability' that you speak of. I remember chuckling that my humanities classes were grading essays via mathematical rubric at a time when the math classes (which were proof-based) would just mark errors and give an 'overall grade'. Maybe they were just CYA in case someone would claim unfairness - which would not be the fault of the Business school.... Rather the fault of the law school litigious mentality.
"Emulator" is not the word - it should have been "simulator". From an emulator I expect the ability to run all the usual Linux commands, or at least all the docker commands (this can be already done, maybe even just with JS [1]). Had they called it a "simulator" from the beginning and my expectations wouldn't have been so high.

I understand the "type the correct string and go to the next step" kind of tutorial, but as someone who is used to the Linux shell and had heard about Docker, but never used it, it's a bit frustrating to finish the tutorial and not be able to play around a bit with the "simulator" to test Docker without having to install it.

Anyway, I suppose it serves the purpose of "getting started".

[1] http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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Data that reports per-person activity needs to control for population density in each section, otherwise it just becomes a population map.

http://xkcd.com/1138/
I really like how the very first link leads to "http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th.html)"

Truly, this is a Lisp article.
I'm probably going to buy your book because getting our servers to be managed in a sane way is something I'm slowly trying to drive at our company. But I noticed you mentioned that if you have more than 100 servers then it's not really a great resource for understanding what's going on with the different tools.

Where can I gain that perspective?
This (and actually bodily augmentation in general) seems like something that 3D printing is perfectly suited for. I see this sort of thing blowing up in the next 10 years.
The problem with being "too honest" about your work is that you would be the only one doing it.

When you read a "scientific" paper, you read it expecting it to be a sweetened account of the reality. The test have obviously been performed using only few samples; out of the the ten described features of a system, only the two described in depth are currently implemented; the source is not available because it does not work on the famous really hard cases of the class of problems it should solve.

The system is so polluted that if you start being as honest as you should be, the reviewers will think that you have done even less.
Create a CouchApp. Problem solved.
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How are two traditional houses going to house 20 people?
I don't know about you, but I don't read a screen nearly as closely to my face as I read a book. If, for example, you normally read a screen at ~2x magazine distance, it stands to reason that screen type should be around ~2x bigger than magazine type, no?

The best article I've seen on the subject is this one:

http://ia.net/blog/100e2r/

And maybe follow-up with this one:

http://ia.net/blog/responsive-typography-the-basics
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I wish I could upvote this statement more. It is difficult to transition from an environment of honesty and truth then into an environment where lies and deceit are the common denominator of communication.
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I read Spotify and had a major WTF for half a minute.
RTM was accurate in this case though, no? They did release this to their OEM partners to use as the basis for machines shipping in Q4, with the expectation that Windows Update will finish applying any interim changes, bug fixes, updates, etc.

It's understandable that they didn't want a bunch of review articles popping up insinuating that it's the final revision of 8.1 when customers with Internet connections would essentially be getting revved to a later build during installation.
People are talking about making smaller chips, but what about space elevators? Since DNA in a single cell is on the order of metres, we could presumably grow this macroscopically and find out if the breaking strength is good enough for space elevators. Also the graphene doesn't look like it's in the oxidized form touted a few years back, which was weaker than ordinary carbon fibers.
Exactly. A huge portion of the global economy is currently based on cheap transport of goods. What happens when transport is no longer cheap?
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"It's not that farfetched to imagine a future where plenty of programmers sit 'jacked' in, into an Oculus Rift to code."

Life imitates art. Sadly, William Gibson novels may seem less beautifully strange to future generations. ;)
The problem with this description is that neither long-term demand nor supply is fixed but depends on long-term expected price.

In normal usage in economics the "long-term" refers to an equilibrium where supply matches demand. Demand never outstrips supply but instead drives up prices until a new equilibrium is reached at a lower quantity and some current petroleum users are forced into alternatives.

This is the essence of economics: the study of the allocation of scarce resources. Notice "study" as this is a completely natural process.
I've read that the same build has been available for weeks via side channels.
as someone who dealt with L1/L2 visas for myself and my wife and someone who knows OP, his wife and his story in person, i can assure you that this story is absolutely TRUE. period.

getting visa in US embassies abroad after having it approved in US is a complete MESS. This is well known fact for almost anyone who dealt with it. There are tens of scary stories that international founders (including YC founders) could share about that.

Also stating that someone is lying without clarifying details does not make one look smarter (although might bring some quick carma here)

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1. Figure out what kind of work you want to do.

2. Acquire required skills by working on projects in your free time.

3. Apply to companies hiring engineers with the specialization you've chosen.

4. Prosper.
A block with ten times the population density and four times the number of residences that has ten times the number of home break-ins is more dangerous - there are more crime victims. I suppose this means that the type of crime is important.
Same reasons we ignore how capitalism messes with everything else.
> How do you make sure that the academe that is selling their project as 'basic research' isn't just pulling a fast one on you and sucking your funds to tickle their intellectual jollies?

what's the difference? would you want to fund a Feynman to tickle his intellectual jollies?
Whenever somebody says "why would you quit such an awesome job?", they have it backwards.

The better the job, the easier it is to quit and take a risk on something new, because (1) you tend to have more savings and (2) you are demonstrably capable of get another good job if you need to.
From watching people on boats, transderm scop is less likely to cause tiredness than the oral antihistamines.
I suppose standard infrastructure is out of scope.

"If you are considering a canvas dome, teepee, or yurt you should consider building a frameless dome"

For bathroom activities, I would suggest some kind of humanure solution.
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I think that the critiques of academic science are spot-on, although I am not sure that I agree with some of his causes, for example that "science is a business". A lot of the raw pettiness that happens in science would totally sink all but the largest businesses. I am not sure what the solution to the problem is, but of course, I'm launching a science nonprofit startup to try and do things without having to deal with as much of this silliness as I can get away with. I fully expect that if it should live past 30 years, my nonprofit will begin to succumb to the very things I established it to address.
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I wonder how long it takes to assemble/disassemble. Might be a interesting structure at Burning Man.
I have worked at EPFL for a short time as as post-doc, and it really is a great school. Its Ph.D. students are excellent, and so what he says has to be taken seriously.

Personally, I have come to the conclusion that much of how Academia works today is inevitable. How many people are truly excellent in any job? Always only a small percentage. Let's say that in Academia the percentage is especially high, as high as 20%. What are the other 80% supposed to do? They have to represent something that they are not, because people outside of Academia must believe that 100% of Academia are excellent (otherwise they would revolt where all their tax money goes). Everything bad in Academia follows from this.
Large evolutionary jumps in mankind's history have always been associated with use of more energy per capita. The stabilization of oil consumption, visible since 2000, means one of two things:

a) Humanity has plateaued in its energy usage; or

b) Some other energy source is increasing.

Any of these means oil has hit a peak (there'll be no cliff, though, as you explained). The alternatives are not acceptable (evolution stopped or, for the first time in five thousand years, stopped requiring more energy use).
Seems we need a study considering the juxtaposition of property costs, property size, housing cost, housing size, and (oh, how to say this tactfully) social strata.
I agree. This is a good example of a small project that was worth getting out there. The code is posted, so if it's triggering some ideas, that's kind of the point - by all means, run with it!
The result of burning all that fossil fuel will indeed by internalized in the end, but when it comes around I doubt you'll call it a profit.
In the meanwhile I've heard that TrackIR works really well with sims (some saying it being almost as essential as a joystick)
Dismissing one of the leading penetration tester's essays with it mainly just boils down to watch-out for XSS attacks. seems unwise.
On my screen (1366x768), part of the rotated iPad is still below the fold. There are also bugs when scrolling through the "presentation" on this resolution that cause the iPad content to overflow:

http://i.imgur.com/GhsDyzN.png
yes. But I would not want someone to force me to fund Feynman to tickle his intellectual jollies. Moreover, your example has survivorship bias. There are plenty of completely rediculous people you probably would'nt want to fund. For me, one such person is Thomas Cavalier-Smith.
As a Rift owner, the most immersive demos I've tried by far have been ones where you are sitting in the cockpit of a ship or car. It's much easier for my brain to "believe" those demos, probably because it's not getting psyched out by the lack of 3 dimensional spacial tracking or the 'floating head' feeling you get when playing FPS's.
Looks good, please do repost when you've got some downloads ready.
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1. We just hit $10K, our goal was at least $5K, which is the minimum to place an order for 16 rolls from the mill.

2. Most people are adequately covered by the standard 6 sizes. Ours fit particularly well - how a shirt should. It is a lot about how it fits in certain areas of the body and then drapes. We spent a ton of time perfecting our block, specific for our cotton, and then expanded it with other shirt designs. We take it a few steps further and have made a number of other sizes to fit between a Small and a Medium, and one between a Medium and a Large, and then tall sizes, tapered cuts for extremely athletic people, and a relaxed cut for heavier.

We're working on the interface now, and will have it done when the campaign ends to collect measurements. We can match you pretty well with height and weight, but chest helps a lot as well. Whatever you're comfortable giving!
Can someone explain how docker relates to SupervisorD? It seems like it can be used for somewhat the same thing, but has more power around committing config changes / deploying?
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Some insight: it's possible to be productive outside a job.

It's possible to make money outside a job. It's possible to earn money, save it, and live off it for certain periods, then earn more again later. It's possible to build income-producing assets outside a job. It's possible to learn new skills, etc., outside a job. Some people are overflowing with ideas for projects and some also have the willpower to put their own nose to the grindstone to get them done and ship, so don't need a job to accomplish things. They might only need a job to earn money, especially have a steady paycheck to expect regularly. The opposite of "having a job" is not "doing nothing" or "rotting away" or "being a parasite", etc. Also, some people are just happier with a less externally structured daily life, and with the power to direct their own daily choices. Seeking greater happiness is quite rational. Obviously it's wise to make sure one has the money one needs. But in a high-paying field like software development, and especially if you exercise willpower to keep a lot of your mandatory life costs low, it's quite possible to intentionally have periods of "unemployment" and yet still be in the black financially, and get a hell of a lot of productive stuff done. Often, more productive, because not held back by bureaucracy or legacy systems, and your stuff doesn't have to go into an NDA or back office black hole.

Funemployment. This is why that term is often used.
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I'm a big fan of custom-made clothing (I'm an engineer at ThirdLove [1] - you take a picture of yourself, we figure out your measurements based on the picture, and you can buy clothes from our vertically-integrated brand based on your fit).

Maybe I'm a pretty standard size, but is there really a huge demand for custom-fitted t-shirts/henleys? Custom fit is valuable for clothing that is three-dimensional (suits/sports coats) and/or has many different fit parameters (dress shirts). For the segment of people that are interested in custom-fitted clothing, is a custom tee significantly better than an off the rack one? I guess I'll answer the question for myself - buying the $99 package.

On a side note, some feedback on your checkout process:

As a guest, when I go to check out, after I register/log in, it takes me to a referral page instead of the payments page. That was really confusing. You should be taking people straight to the payments page if you want to maximize your conversions.

[1] http://www.thirdlove.com
Right. Hydrocarbons, then. Natural gas and petroleum have similar geologic and economic characteristics.
SSH tunneling from your desktop to your MySQL host and connecting you admin client through that should alleviate the concerns around exposing 3306 to the world.
Great idea guys- I'm wondering about #2 as well!
It's as if the value of a formal education has never been lower, the job market is swamped with people that would be more qualified and experienced than you, and the cost has never been higher.
I agree, of course, that when production gets harder, prices go up and consumption declines.

The problem is a portion of that consumption is agricultural vehicles, employees getting to work and vans of food getting to wal-mart; and real-terms food price rises can lead to political instability, especially in poor countries.

So, one reason to put effort into alternatives to oil is to maintain food price stability and political stability.
Wearing the v-neck right now! Congrats.
Thank you so much! That's it!!
I think batteries with the help of nanotech will eventually reach energy density approaching liquid fossil fuels, will probably be another 10 years though.

BTW - A couple of my friends recently started a recruitment company for scientists in the Oil & Gas industry, I'm helping them out with their branding/site and hosting. Would love to get your insight on what they're doing right and wrong - http://discoverinternational.com
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I remember a guy around '97-'98 who was trying to get me involved in his research around giving the impression of movement in VR systems. Electrodes would be applied to the base of your skull and they'd be used to stimulate your cerebellum (or somesuch, I can't recall) which would give you a sense of movement. This was amplified by standing on a gel mat.

Talking with other people, they said that a side effect of this process was that the electrodes kind've hurt, and none of them would do it again.
Author here! There seems to be some confusion about this visualization, but we can solve it with just two words: Start Clicking!

The thing that makes this visualization different than other visualizations is that you can see the individual components of what makes up the large departments. Just double click on any of the boxes. If you single click on any box, you can see how that box changed over time.

So, for example, you can see that in 2012 that 2.89% of the budget went to education, but if you double click, you can see that only 13.73% of that went to elementary and secondary education.

You can also single click anywhere and see a graph of how things have changed over time. So you can see that in 2009 there was a huge spike in elementary and secondary education, and you can go to 2009 to further investigate, and find there was a "State Fiscal Stabilization Fund" in 2009 that sent $14 billion to education, and then went away.

As many have noted, this doesn't do a good job at comparing different departments to each other over time. This isn't a surprise, since a treemap is the completely wrong format to be able to do that. However, it is a very good format for exploring what agencies, bureaus and line items make up the large departments, which is data I've never seen anywhere else before, and why I built this visualization.
Yes, the EU only mandated that the industry choose a common standard so they picked the cheapest of all the options they had. With the newer spec you can indeed draw more power but it requires hardware negotiation to prevent older devices catching on fire. Some of the other options on the table at the time were much more elegant and extensible to, for example, household appliances (USB is not allowed for use in the bathroom or kitchen). The other options were a few cents per connector more expensive so they never had a chance when the EU decided to leave it to the industry.
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It's interesting to think though, that government funding has produced nearly every single form of medicine we have, it funded einstein, it was indirectly responsible for the internet.

The problem is that you have to pay a bunch of parasites to support the few who are actually advancing the human race.
Nope. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/
3 out of 6 of Microryza's current team are graduate school dropouts. Technically, you could add 1.5 more (Ethan Perlstein left academia, I never started), so 4.5 out of 6.

We've all been there. I think you have to either be purposely oblivious or one of the extremely lucky ones blessed with a true research environment, but it is impossible for the new generation of scientists to not see the writing on the wall. Every single student is suffering from the symptoms, yet very few are doing things to change it.

One note, echoing the original author - for myself personally, the letters 'PhD' no longer carry the same meaning anymore. If anything, it's become an additional signal that you once bought into a system that is selling you short. I still respect those who have PhD's, but only for what it once meant, not for what it means now.
Probably for the best -- I have a strong impression that you wouldn't like the rest either.