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I agree this isn't as big of a deal as the stockmarket may imply, but this line bothers me:

"That equates to 1 vehicle fire for every 20 million miles driven, compared to 1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla. This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!"

Americans drive an aggregate of 3 trillion miles every year, while Tesla drivers have done 100 million (and they don't cite this number; are they including test drives?). That's well over an order of magnitude difference. Plus, the average Tesla driver is currently probably a superior driver (if for no other reason than they have a brand new expensive car) and has taken better care of their car (since it's within 2-3 years old, tops). In theory, Teslas will eventually become more mainstream over the years -- resold, price drops, lower-end models, etc.

Again, I don't think their conclusion about Teslas being safer overall is wrong. However, their conclusion of the likelihood of a Tesla catching on fire seems off, and the exclamation mark makes this press release seem glib.
My condolences to people living in countries with dysfunctional politics.
A facile assumption.
Did anyone say you didn't?
Your post assumes that every one of us on here is dumb and will fall victim to these "traps", lest we be saved by your brilliant opinions and revelatory messages (hyperbolic in their own way, ironically)..
Tesla's write-ups on their blog are the most informative reports I've seen written by a company about their own product. It's awesome to see this kind of transparency as opposed just a copy-paste statement like "Tesla is investigating the event."
In making that claim he's presumably assuming that the battery design prevents a cascading failure where the failure of one battery module causes adjacent ones to fail in turn. He's also assuming that there's no external factor that could cause all the battery compartments to fail simultaneously. It's partially PR fluff in other words.

The total combustion energy of the battery pack is only 10% of that of the petrol tank in a petrol-fueled vehicle partially because the energy density of Lithium-ion cells is significantly less than petrol or diesel fuel, which is why the Model S has half the range of similar conventionally fuelled cars in it's class. I'd also speculate that he's only measuring the combustion energy of the hydrogen that could escape & ignoring any electrical heat generated. The control systems on the batteries ought to cut the connections to the cells if they detect a short of course, but no system is perfect & he's very careful to use the more specific term "combustion energy".
Sounds like you tried to confront them with the argument that "investing another 1000$ in this guy's machine will change your bottom line in the millions". What did they say in response?
This happens to me often. It's also the reason I love the fact that StackOverflow automatically searches for the text in the question title box as you type it in. There have been a few times where I will start to write out a good, descriptive title for my problem, and realize that I've been searching for the wrong things all along.
> Sometimes people forget that democracy is about the majority oppressing the rest.

That is just one form of democracy. There's a lot of works that discusses forms of authority and democracy and various ways of balancing the rights. One of my favourites on the subject is "After the revolution? Authority in a good society" by Robert A Dahl - particularly because it is short, clear and to the point.

But incidentally, your reasoning is the basis for Marx use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" - in Marx view, a state wielding power over one group against another is a form of dictatorship whether or not the group wielding the power has a majority or not.
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iOS is starting to regain marketshare from Android.

They just released a new iPhone. It's probably fair to say that that will be a short-term bump that will flatten in good time.

I think it's seriously disingenuous to describe the 5C as a "serious downmarket move". It's a token move at best, and doesn't get anywhere near the price point a "downmarket" device would require.
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So, most of the world population?
That's irrelevant. Microsoft can survive on incremental gains but their hardware partners cannot; that's why they're abandoning the platform. HTC's Windows Phone have been disasters, that's the reason they are pushing this dual-boot strategy. Otherwise they'll lose all hardware partners and only have the remnants of Nokia to run themselves (far from a sure thing).
> Hey, does it not seem at all odd to you that he focused in on the stereotype that women trade on their looks in broadcasting, ignoring that men do the same?

No, because on Twitch it is much more prominent for women, and even if it wasn't, there's a 50% chance for either.

> Does it not seem passing strange that he brought it up when nobody was talking about appearance in broadcasting in the first place?

No. People bring up new things all the time.

> Like the thread wouldn't be complete without a negative comment on women?

Sounds like a straw man argument. I don't think he or anyone else claimed that the goal of the comment was to "make the thread complete."

> If I randomly said, "Some women are gold-diggers," in a thread unrelated to gold-digging -- say, a thread about amicable divorce, which we have had on here before -- it would be a) true, b) irrelevant, and c) probably sexist.

I disagree with b) and c).

> Do you understand that?

I understand and disagree.

> If not, I would say you are probably suffering from an over-abundance of privilege and a serious deficiency in empathy.

That sentence is preposterous, and inappropriately aggressive and accusatory. I'd prefer that you refrain from judging my "privilege" (which is a meaningless concept that just means "you're bad") and empathy levels when you have essentially no information about either.
The IRS is also shut down.
It wouldn't have been mentioned if it wasn't already the main discussion going on about the video. News outlets love to jump on that kind of controversy, and I saw that comparison as them trying to quell the argument.
You have a good point, but keep in mind that everyone has biases towards different forms of communication. Some value written commendations, money, or non-monetary gifts. A manager/team lead must straddle both communicating effectively with the person while communicating in a way that is uniform and predictable to the team. Give me a "great job" in front of everyone, so everyone knows what is going on, but understand that I don't believe a word you say until I see the bump in pay.
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I'm not sure if it's just me but the scale on the graph seems a little odd.
It's probably not enforcing democracy, since polls seem to show a overwhelming majority of Britons have problems with the ECHR.
ha! well, it was only an hour w two people for both sides to mutually figure out I wasn't a good fit. Probably would have taken longer if it went forward :-)
Because Microsoft thinks the Windows internals have value both to developers and, more importantly, to Microsoft's own engineers who are better at doing engineering on Windows. They can deliver features that stand out.

IF they just stuck metro on android, they'd just be a UI skin.
Hah. Those of us who spent the late 90's deploying on Solaris boxes instead of the Linux or BSD hardware we wanted know that's not true. Middle management has the same brand loyalty mania as phone-jealous teenagers. And Sun at the time was the face of Unix and clearly the "best" by every metric management cared to look at.
To some extent the comparison needed to be made based on the media reports calling into question the overall safety of EVs based on this incident. The closest equivalent for conventional vehicles is a gas fire so pointing out the (apparent) greater danger makes sense here.
This is a good explanation imo. But, the damage has been made, bad news sells, all the news outlets have just sold the bad news. Hope Tesla recovers from this faster.
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yup - the Apple way works well on hardware and even on operating systems. My post is more about my own experiences on how they'll either embrace different styles (or not) for software application development.
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Side note: no intermediate node in the Tor network can see your traffic in clear. They just see the encrypted data. The only node that could see what are you sending is the exit node, but that can be solved easily using HTTPS.
What are some passive ways to make money online?
If you are planning on starting a company and are looking for some ways to earn capital on the side, then we are in the same boat.

I've written off doing freelance work as it's highly competitive and requires a lot of networking to find work. I've been there done that - not worth it.

I'm looking for an automated way to earn money online - I can code rails apps/websites quickly so ideally I'd like to use that skill and create a money maker.

Let's discuss...
Looking at the table of contents, it seems the approach is deeper than O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. I'm thinking about buying it, for Chapter 12 alone.

When you read that, can you tell us what is was like?
I both play video games and experiment with new technologies at home. I don't think it's strange to use the same card for play and research.
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Lysander Spooner is not a mainstream American political philosopher, except to the extent that you consider anarcho-capitalism mainstream. And your citation does the same thing you just tried to do, which was to define away the liberties you don't care to defend as "crimes". Spooner does so more rigorously, and isn't deploying his arguments as a superficial attempt to deflect an argument, but I don't see how your citation is particularly helpful.

I'm also going to raise my hand, declare ancap philosophy to itself be a worn-out Internet meme, duck, and run away.
My first reaction is that fallacies and double standards abound, in this brief description. Can you point me to a more in depth reference, so I can inform myself before trying to reply?

For example: Is it moral to aid someone in their self defense? How are groups of people treated in relation to individual people? Under what circumstances, if any, is responsibility transferable? At what point are my actions no longer force (even though the results of my actions might be)?
I'm using the proprietary driver, it has had XRandr support for a while now.
Replace the words "drug" and "medicine" by "chemical" or "bioactive substance". You see, that's what we must talk about if we talk about legalizing "drugs". One person's drug or medicine is another's poison (Datura is a good example, interesting for discussion because it's legal to own as a plant). If you're fine with criminalizing the sale of contaminated meat, then you are implicitly relying on the government to protect against certain bioactive substances. You're clearly willing to make the security/liberty sacrifice, as are most reasonable people.

EDIT: You'd better serve your interests by advocating for a well-regulated narcotics market with proper safety controls and the distinct possibility that certain substances will just have to be illegal. That's much sounder than saying "legalize drugs because I prefer liberty over safety, except sometimes".
I wonder if break-away would make sense.
Cool video, by why not link to the original copy with 2.5+ million views instead of some copy with a bunch of SEO keywords and only 38 views?

Here's the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
In liquid form, gasoline isn't all that excited about exploding.

Mythbusters did it:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...
Excellent post-mortem!

And who would have thought a side-effect of disrupting the automotive industry would be training fire-fighters on the correct techniques for battling a lithium fueled fire?
I did try to Promisify the pg library but it didn't seem to work, and just broke :(
When I said dividend, I should have specified 'special dividend' one that is paid out once in a large cash payment.

"The upside on buying shares back is that it doesn't force people to reinvest in the company - it just shrinks the ownership base as the company shrinks."

That upside is really not important for professional investors when dealing with mid cap or larger companies. Assuming best case that management teams are genuinely looking out for shareholders rather than inflating the stock price for their options, management teams are not very good at predicting when their own stock is under/over valued.

Most investors want them to return cash to shareholders in most cases as liquidity for companies like IBM is so big that it doesn't matter if they must buy back shares.

Since it is professional investor's jobs to value the share price, they are in a much better position to decide whether the share should be bought or not.

Also, dividend stocks have supposedly performed better over history, but dividends is not a recognized alpha factor by the main finance research relied upon by market participants(1). Dividends go in and out of favor depending on a number of factors, right now, its probably the market's expectation of raising rates set against the background of increasing demand for income.

Professional investors like dividends because they can simply put that money to work somewhere else.

(1) There are papers that say dividends are a factor, but I'm not aware of one that is widely implemented.

Anything beyond fama-french's 3 factor model doesn't have widespread acceptance yet. There are a number of other models in use, especially by quant funds, but they are not public and tested in public.
I'm happy that at least one company tries to get it right BEFORE unleashing its products on the public. From my experience, the iterative approach often means that a bunch of casual users are given as much input into a design as the designer who devotes months or even years to trying to solve a problem holistically. Iterative design usually means Frankenstein design, that is, a product with way too many unnecessary features, a lack of cohesion and just plain ugliness. The iPhone could not have been created iteratively, and even if it had been, it certainly wouldn't have had the design impact it did. I don't think Google is even on the same planet as Apple, design-wise.
I like it. You need only look at a few log charts to get the hang of it, and if it wasn't a log chart, it would be hard to see the difference between organizations with less than 20,000 employees, because the bars would all be very short.

Edit: took another look, and it is quite a bit more confusing than I thought, because of furloughed vs total employees. I can't quickly tell if the furloughed for an agency is linear based on the percentage of the total employees for that agency, or is also logarithmic.
> "highway speed"

crafty writing. read it as "high speed"
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> I think it was $600. That was pretty expensive at the time.

Just a few years before, people flocked to buy $599 Motorola RAZR flip phones on two years contracts. I saw the hordes lined up, myself. Next to that, the iPhone seems like a bargain
I kind of use tiling in OSX. Most of my apps are running full-screen on two monitors, and I swipe across desktops to get to other apps. Of course, I am able to stack apps on top of eachother, but for the most part I don't. I have a desktop for sublime, a desktop for sequel pro, a desktop for a browser. In the event I need to look at two things at once, it's easy enough to drag things around.
I think the write-up is pretty good.

I would only point that 25 tons of force, isn't really a lot - I mean, the small jack that you use to lift your car can be a 5 or 6 ton device.

You have a vehicle traveling a decent rate of speed, for it to strike or run over anything at all will involve tons of force.

Neat explanation of the sort of math involved, with both SI and US units http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/carcr.html . In the example, a car going 30 mph (50km/h) striking a tree will hit with about 48 tons of force.
wow. reading their report always inspires me to be a better engineer
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> criminals, by definition, commit crimes -- violations of criminal law.

This is only true if one takes the State's part in these discussions. The State can claim that certain forms of agriculture are illegal but that doesn't magically make those forms of agriculture criminal endeavors in anyone's eyes but those with an interest in the State's narrative.
I've got to ask one of the other guys where he got the data. It's available via json in our project here: https://github.com/dvito/govuptime
Cars don't generally explode. You need a mix of fuel and air to burn, so most of the gasoline in the tank can't burn at any given time.
Yes, but a car/truck/van will turn into a ferocious little bonfire given the right kind of damage, an ignition source, and time.
> Americans drive an aggregate of 3 trillion miles, while Tesla drivers have done 100 million. That's well over an order of magnitude difference.

The data on 100 million is probably enough to compare with the 3 trillion miles. The populations don't need to be equal to compare them, just big enough that they are random and distributed enough.
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Apple has a history of only getting one chance. The Newton at the end was great. Maps could turn into the best mapping system ever and it won't matter. As for Microsoft, Bing could start giving the best results and it won't matter. You have to be in shouting distance of perfect in the consumer market.

For a media version take SNL's clumsy portrayal of Pres. Ford after his incident and the reality of his athleticism[1].

Ask Blackberry about how their release with flaws worked.

1) he played linebacker and was actually pretty athletic and not clumsy. Chose your shoes wisely.
It's a 85kWh battery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Specifications).

Gasoline is about 12kWh/kg or 9kWh/l (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_content)

So, that 85kWh battery, when driving an engine, is equivalent to about 10 liters of gasoline. I guess that's more or less what could get released in a fire (corrections welcome; I don't know what kind of factor that 'effective' could introduce)

If that logic stands, to get at 1%, the typical car would have to have 1000 liters of gasoline on board (for the metric impaired: that's over 250 US gallons/over 200 imperial gallons). That, clearly, is unrealistic.

Elon may have knowledge of the loading state of the battery, but if so, I think he should have mentioned that. Gasoline tanks aren't 100% full all the time, either.
At work I spend all day in Windows 7. The best thing I've found is WinSplit Revolution, which is nice but leaves a lot to be desired. (Unfortunately switching to Linux just isn't going to happen, for a number of reasons. But I get to use dwm at home, which I really like.)
Heh, do you work at my place?

We have the exact same issues with Mongo-specific queries. Even worse, our indexing regime (because we store relational data in Mongo) demands that we stick with Mongo 1.8, so all the comparative goodness of 2.x is lost.

And just this week, it was determined that there won't be any migration from Mongo to something-SQL in the near future, because it'd be too risky to attempt to translate a schema that's half foreign keys, half embedded JSON.
> the cartels would be cleared out in a month.

I fear they could coast on their cash reserves longer than that (and would desire to, instead of merely dissolve, to protect their remaining cash and avoid arrest), but otherwise I think you are exactly right. Kidnapping may be profitable, but it is nowhere near profitable enough to feed that beast.
I LOVE Divvy on OSX. http://mizage.com/divvy/
I'm happy with tiled windows in Acme (editor/IDE) for daily work. The layouting algorithm (a simple one) does the right thing most of the time :^)

My usual mode is Acme maximized on one screen, and browser, email and IM spread on the other.

See it in action in rsc's screencast: http://research.swtch.com/acme
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Wow, first serious Tesla road accident and all they can say is how unlikely it was. It was impossible before, now it's only extremely unlikely. Until next time? There are probably many other ways to destroy the battery in a collision, how likely is it to ignite when damaged?
Hoping that others will find this useful. This represents about a week of work to figure out for an expert user of EagleCAD, a moderately experienced user of SolidWorks, and a Linux user of 12 years. If you have any other suggestions definitely comment either on the post or here! I'm willing to pay some money for software, but not $7k/year per head for Altium...
I think it should be called 'web scraping 101'

Very thin article.
I tried melatonin, among other things, years back, but it wasn't until I became very mindful of light pollution past 9pm that I saw a huge correction in my terrible sleep patterns. Never even heard of that goggle trick, fascinating.

I minimize all of the blue light in my place though I am left wondering if just minimal light is the most important part.

Turn all the lights off, a few nightlights, a computer monitor (flux or better), and a dim tablet seem to do the trick.
The guys at Netscape would love to speak to you for a minute.
So how does one determine which sites are being intercepted through Tor and served malformed code? Start doing CURLs from within Tor and outside of it and comparing hashes?
Anyone know if "Notion" works as well in the latest Ubuntu releases as suggested by the author of the post?

(i.e. XMondad got jacked pretty badly in Ubuntu 13.04 and now requires lots of low level linux voodoo.)
This is really slick. Had I known about this, I might not have built one! But background fetch in my client feeds my addiction.
I've used awesome before, and I was quite impressed. Once you get the hang of shortcuts, you tend to be vastly more productive than if you were using a traditional or compositing wm. I grew up with a compositing WM, but the transition was easy enough. I'm curious if the advent of mobile devices (i.e. smartphone, tablet, etc) would lead one to choose tiling WMs over the traditional kind.
I really wanted to like it, but the lack of syntax highlighting drove me nuts.
In both examples that you provided, the cross-sectional area over which the force is applied is greater, so the overall pressure is lower. The magnitude of the force applied isn't the only parameter by which to judge the structural integrity in this particular instance.
To put it in perspective, the disparity is equivalent to polling 10K americans and extrapolating to all of america (which, for better or for worse, is what most pollsters do).
It is not a reference to Ender's Game and "the enemy is always down"?
Right - but this is specifically the limitation lifted by PNaCl.
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Build a product and sell it/subscriptions. This is a question with an ever elusive answer that we all seek. Hard work is key to earning a good living.
> This is only true if one takes the State's part in these discussions.

No, the definition of what "criminals" means is independent of the value judgement of the correctness of the state's laws.
I use SizeUp and have been very happy with it.
NVidia has a history of not playing nice with Linux. Allow me to point to a small comment Linus Torvalds made on Nvidia a while ago (NSFW):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw&t=1m41s