skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice we're seeing ~25% loss of capacity at 40k miles in LEAF real world testing. 30% loss at 50k miles is the accepted norm. Capacity goes down annually after that. It seems that some cars are doing better, but play cars owned by the rich that get very few miles like the early Tesla sportscars. Real world daily-drivers like the LEAF experience the exact decay that was predicted. Lithium-ion isnt some new hot tech we don't understand. We understand it very well.

http://www.torquenews.com/2250/how-long-will-electric-vehicl...

Americans replace their car every 6 years now. You may have 30-50% capacity at year 6, depending on a lot of factors. This is unacceptable considering the anemic range of a new battery. EV means losing almost all your car's value after 3-5 years. High trade-in values we enjoy now will be lost as the majority of the cost of the vehicle will be its battery. These batteries will fill landfills and be an environmental disaster.

The current "fix" is just to build the battery replacement cost into the warranty. So now your car is more expensive. Warranty claims now become a legal struggle over what is faulty or not. Nissan claims 70% battery power is non-faulty. That means your 75m LEAF range is now ~50m. My gas car gets that in a gallon and a half.

>You also seem to be VERY anti-tesla as seen in your other posts in this thread.

Its a 12 year old company that has done nothing but burn money. They have no mature product on the horizon and their promises of making a middle-class cheap EV with great range and durability are just not in the realm of technology. The stock has been on a decline since mid last year and they have a celebrity CEO who is good at PR and gimmicks but not delivering affordable vehicles.

>Also, saying the only incentive of buying an electric car to save money

This is the only motivator for mass market acceptance. The idle rich love the acceleration of that $100k car, but that doesn't matter to someone who makes half or a third that in a year.
As I see it, the size of the dwelling is irrelevant: plenty of americans with high salaries still manage to live paycheck-to-paycheck.

If somebody has a huge house, a high salary and 3 cars but spends all of their money every month, has no savings/emergency fund and aren't saving for retirement then they are anything but wide awake. Rather, they are sleepwalking through consumerism (just like most of their neighbors, friends and family).
They charge a 3% 'host service fee' plus a 6-12% 'guest service fee' plus VAT on the above sometimes. So yeah, closer to 10%.
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I recommend you check out City of God to see what happens when people are housed away from economic centers - a necessity for suburban lawns, trees and plants. Moreover, these things take time to care for, and money - something that is missing, or we wouldn't be having this conversation.

It's ridiculous to suggest that services/jobs don't hinge on high population densities and efficient use of space.
How did you go about learning vim, and how long till it you became more productive with it?
Discussion on Arstechnica:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/truecrypt-security-a...
Facebook is practically a utility these days. It's not just your friends on it, it's your family, distant relatives, etc.

That makes it a lot less cool, but it also means its position is safe for now.
But 1% a year IS exponential.
Certainly, and you could measure battery capacity in joules, and... well, for some reason we've standardized on weird units for these things.
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> Repeat after me: JS is the compilation target we have.

No, it's the compilation target web developers have. The rest of us don't target the web.
> I think will add value, so its a more a VP than a MVP.
>To make this system work I have to decide what features need to be built BEFORE I feel comfortable sending out the brochure.
>I can easily send the brochure on the basis that the website is launching in two months time

This is backwards of what is taught The Startup Owner's Manual. You should "get out of the building" and speak with a lot of customers and really learn about their hair-on-fire problems first. Preferably ten per day. Additionally you should be iterating as fast as possible while you search for that MVP--the two months without a release is too long. Remember you're not going for version ∞ you're going for alpha-alpha-0.000001 release that tests a hypothesis.
Currently. I'm sure things will improve as existing drugs are improved and new ones are invented.
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Teen here.

I don't see 95% of my friends on a daily basis (even good friends). Facebook is incredibly useful for managing events, messaging others (my main use), groups (school and interest groups), and keeping up with what's going on in my friends lives (Snapchat and Instagram don't really solve this).
I once heard someone opine that computer science education plays a cruel joke on its students, and this blog post is perpetuating that joke. Computer science is often treated as an offshoot of mathematics when, in reality, you need to do far, far more writing than advanced math. Most students are going to be leaving school and working on professional programming, where they'll largely work with a group of people jointly maintaining systems. And these systems require good writing skills to effectively write documentation for the code, as well as writing the design documentation.

In contrast, you'll rarely need more than algebra, basic statistics, and maybe graph theory most of the time. All the advanced math stuff, such as SVM or Taylor expansions, are generally going to be found in the libraries that you'll use rather than code you'll write yourself. You may need math to understand what they're doing in detail, but with better writers on the documentation, you wouldn't need the advanced math to understand how to use them properly.
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"For example, in Cassandra such internal activities include the flush, also referred as minor compaction, which flushes in-memory data from the memtable to an SSTable file on disk, and may be accompanied by a substantial GC since a large chunk of memory becomes available for recycling."

So these researchers don't unfortunately understand the very basics of GC (or C* for that matter). The basic findings of their paper is to be expected given the question they asked, but the specifics of their findings should be considered suspect given the clear lack of understanding of the technologies they're interrogating.
Hasn't it stopped as of March 31? Github system status now shows green, whereas they previously said "We will keep our status at yellow until the threat has subsided": https://status.github.com/messages
Microsoft made that argument, and in the end it seems to have been right given that all OSs now ship with a built in browser.

What really screwed them over and resulted in the big judgements was their contracts with OEMs that said they couldn't ship any competing browser without losing the big MS discount (i.e. getting fined). Credit card companies did the same thing. Being bundled or up front isn't really the problem, it seems, but cutting financial deals to make using a competitor too expensive is where the legal pain starts.

I've heard Google are doing such things as well, with Android. But I don't know the details of that. It'd be a different complaint than this one which resolves around search results.
Don't know about it not being unlimited as any case will tried in an American court, go see what happened to Kim Dot Com. The government court upheld the governments seizure of his money.

When you control the legal system your not going to have much difficulty prosecuting the unpopular.
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> The first step was removing varnish

This was removed for architectural reasons. It brought a lot of downtime to the platform and didn't help speed all that much. It's better and faster to cache this type of content with a CDN anyway.
Who could you possibly call at say Capital One to verify that a change in their certificate was intended instead of malicious?
But a hectare in an isolated backwater has less value than a hectare in an urban area.

The land-value tax boils down to a tax on the site-value of land, which necessarily has to account things like proximity/distance to commercial centers.
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Flexbox breaks with all the past clusterfuck layout system. It's the reason React Native only implements Flexbox. http://flexboxin5.com/
Bitcoin does have a practical use right now
Theyfit have the same problem and provider a partner forwarding service[0]. Presumably there are other services like this.

[0] http://www.theyfit.co.uk/pages/ordering-from-outside-of-euro...
> I think the key difference is that Sony and Android both approached the watch as a smaller phone. You can play angry birds on it, and you can play music, and shop online and do everything that a phone can. In that sense they haven't built a new device, they built a miniature phone with a wristband.

The original Sony Smartwatch and Smartwatch 2 can't do any of that. They are simple notification devices with limited controls similar to Bluetooth stereos.

> predecessor "smart"phones like the razr and blackberry

In what universe was the original Moto Razr a smartphone? It was a feature phone at best, a fashion accessory version of a standard Moto flip phone.
I myself am Bipolar; specifically I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder, which is somewhat like being manic-depressive and schizophrenic at the same time. You can read more about it at http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

I am puzzled by the author's assertion that antidepressants aren't effective. That's not my own experience, nor the experience of many others that I know. However it is the case that any one antidepressant may not be effective for a specific individual. To find an effective medicine, one may have to try several different kinds. That experience is unpleasant, as it can take up to two months for an antidepressant to take effect, but after that the result is, without a doubt, remarkable.

Zyprexa is widely regarded by psychiatrists as one of the most-powerful antipsychotics. It is particularly effective for acute bipolar mania. However it can have the side effect of causing diabetes. As diabetes runs in my family, I avoid it, but I once specifically requested it at a time when I really did feel I needed it.

I've never heard of Zyprexa being used for OCD. However, once a medicine has been approved for any specific condition, it is quite common for such a medicine to be used off-label. Those off-label uses may or may not be backed by controlled, peer-reviewed studies. When a regulatory authority as - in the US - the FDA approves a drug, in general any MD may prescribe it for anything.

Akathesia is not "bizarre" and is a fairly common side effect of antipsychotic drugs. It is an inability to sit still. It can effect one's ability to work at a desk job; were I to get it, I'd have a hard time working as a coder.

When I am manic, I do some ill-advised things.

On the other hand, in the US the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids discrimination for reason of employment or housing against the mentally ill. The simple fact that I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder cannot be considered when determining whether to make me a job offer. On the other hand, suppose I became manic on the job, and emailed all the company's trade secrets to a competitor. That's something one could be fired for.

I expect but don't really know that the EU has similar laws as well.

If you'd like to know more about bipolar mania, manic depression, depression - including suicidal depression, as I have attempted several times - please ask me your questions and I will be happy to answer them.
spot on. there is no substitute for hard work
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If you're interested in this topic, might I recommend:

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, Frederick Brooks (1987) - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBulle...

No Silver Bullet Refired, Frederick Brooks (1995)

Both can be found (along with lots of other good ideas) in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition - http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin...
You are, you just can't be lazy about it.
The most interesting thing is also depressing: there was a fairly well-known researcher at the University of Manitoba who was working on designing a better condom in the early 1990's, and there is still work going on there today: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/condoms-treated-with-silve...

The work I recall from the '90's (I was a post-doc there, working in a different field) involved changes to both shape and design, with some kind of extra band around the base to prevent leakage and accidental slip-off.

As near as I can tell, none of this research has had any impact on condoms as they are manufactured and sold. The best you see is a non-latex condom being sold now and then, but they never seem to stay on the market very long (they are generally more expensive).

So the most pressing topic for research would seem to be going after the question, "We know all kinds of things about building a better condom, and have for decades, so why haven't the condoms we buy changed appreciably?"

Some of this will be due to the difficulties of getting things past the FDA, particularly for smaller operations as the article suggests, but since we do see non-latex condoms from major manufacturers (http://www.walgreens.com/q/non-latex-condoms) it is clearly not the case that the FDA makes stuff impossible. It may be there are economic issues at work as well, but I don't think the situation is so obvious that we can just apply $IDEOLOGY_OF_YOUR_CHOICE and say we're done. This is particularly true because condom availability isn't great outside the US, either (although what the US approves does have an influence on what gets sold elsewhere, I'm sure.)
Not true re GPU bandwidth/dictionaries. see cudahashcat - we're using it on a switched PCIe bus feeding dictionaries with plenty of bandwidth. You're not limited to mask attacks, which is what you're describing.
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What is your initial impression of what you see?

Are you encouraged to create a new account?

Would you sign up for a free trial of this type of service? Why/why not?
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Way to completely miss the point and spin it in a different direction.
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> Yeesh what an overwritten article.

So often, it seems that's what is meant by "long-form article."
I posted it and I received it because I have a MSDN subscription so I agree, it's more for telling use that is coming, the merge change that you noted etc..
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you know what is amazing and hilarious? i have an idea on my pad that says: Idealist - a way to collect and help you move forward with your startup ideas

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Now mine was slightly different, since it was oriented more toward people in developing countries who don't always have the resources or support to think an idea should be pursued, but still, love it
Make no mistake, I'm not carrying water for Teller in this thread or defending Jane Fonda. I do think Teller was sort of a nutcase, and Fonda was definitely a traitor. Frankly we're all lucky to be alive after some of the crap that was done in the name of "strategic defense," and it's indeed tragic that countless victims of the superpowers' proxy wars can't say the same.

But deterring a third world war is not one of those things that's subject to moral relativism. You seriously need to spend some time talking with WWII vets, while we still have them with us.
The situation in Somalia can be readily explained by low incomes and decades of violence.
I'm not sure how cars will ever constitute "sustainable transport". Less unsustainable than carbon fuelled cars, maybe. And that's a big maybe, given batteries, power generation etc.

But I suppose there's not that much money in trying to sell bicycles...
Can you give an example of a file encrypter / decryptor that has a portable version and is cross-platform?

Also, file encryption / decryption fails massively for some things. What I want is something that implements a filesystem. As otherwise things with many files get... annoying. Not to mention less secure.

If there's a better way to do this then let me know.
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> I doubt the devs did anything

The best course of action was to do nothing, given they couldn't talk about it if they were served. Walking away was the only option.

This is pure speculation. Logical, but still speculation.
> I think I remember reading about LUKS supporting TrueCrypt's container format - but that, of course, only works on Linux.

"LUKS" stands for "linux unified key setup" and it is an "on-disk format" and its reference implementation is found in cryptsetup[1]

LUKS on-disk format is supported in windows through doxbox[2]

cryptsetup also supports TrueCrypt,the on-disk format.

people usually say "LUKS" when they mean cryptsetup as it makes no difference to them but i think its important to know the difference.

[1] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/Specification

[2] https://github.com/t-d-k/doxbox
"That's basically worthless because after 13 uses there is a 50/50 chance of infecting someone."

Well, there's 50/50 chance of not infecting anybody vs infecting at least one person from 13. That's a much better chance than say 50% chance of infecting at least 10 person from 13. When you are thinking about spreading a disease, this matters a lot. Sure, for couples, the chances of infection after N use is high, but that's not the only use case. (E.g. one night stands.)
Aside from the fact that this appears to be yet another cuckoo-pants management cult, I just cannot stand the name - it is obviously spelled wrong, and should either be "holocracy" or "hollacracy".
Side note: that re-implemented scrollbar is terrible. Makes it very distracting to read the whole thing. I'd suggest at the very least halving the time of the scroll "animation", if not ditching the whole thing altogether.
Interesting. I remember before stereo audio was available on TV in the UK, there would often be concerts and similar broadcast with video on BBC 1, where you muted the audio, and listened to simultaneous stereo audio on e.g. BBC Radio 3, which was a neat hack.
There really is no use for it. Banks have made transactions dirt simple and convenient (especially those outside the US), as well as safe.

The only real use for Bitcoin is for anonymous, difficult to trace transactions (ie. black markets), and speculation.

With my regular bank account and credit card, I can buy products from China to NA to Europe and just about anywhere, can change my funds into a myriad of currencies, and since I have an investment account, can also invest in 19(? have to check with my broker) different countries' stock markets.

The problems Bitcoin claims to be trying to solve were already solved by the banks a while back. Plus banks will insure a fairly large amount of cash (more than most of us will have at any given time).
Not the same, CS majors in Germany have to choose one "Anwendungsfach" that consist of a subset of classes of natural-sciences, humanities or engineering majors. You have to choose one and stick with it. Also there is the "Nichttechisches Wahlpflichtfach" (probably the most german words I know) which can be a language class or mentoring first-semesters or something similar. So I feel like we get a lot of interdisciplinarity.
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> This is also what the TrueCrypt developer recommends.

You can't be seriously deferring to that? The end-of-the-line announcement was so completely out of sync with all previous communications from the TC devs, so un-TrueCrypt like, that everything it said should be taken with a huge grain of salt. _Especially_ any advice pertaining to better managing one's security needs.
I would tend to agree with the author here. I can't see Bitcoin ever emerging as something legal and useful to the average person.

>Bitcoin enthusiasts disagree, claiming illicit activity is practically non-existent. Instead, they preach decentralization, trustlessness and smart contracts - none of which are benefits but merely features.

Bitcoin enthusiasts preach an awful lot of things, particularly preaching about how others should adopt Bitcoin as a currency while they themselves sit on their stacks of it hoping to see its price rise and cash in.

Indeed, it is these Bitcoin "enthusiasts", or more accurately lay speculators, that are likely one of Bitcoin's largest issue. They've turned what was designed to be a currency into an investment/speculation instrument and it's not transcending beyond that because of it, with the exception of people using it for illegal purposes.

So you've two sides to Bitcoin in reality - speculators praying other people adopt it as a currency and those using it for nefarious purposes - both of which are off-putting to any normal person who'd consider using Bitcoin for purchases.

I see no real future for Bitcoin personally. Gambling, perhaps, but even Bitcoin poker at the moment is mainly already skilled, dedicated players using Bitcoin Poker to play since they can't in the US, and that's not going to attract many casual players in itself to create a sustainable ecosystem, nevermind the Bitcoin barriers to getting on to the site in the first place.
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Because I had no idea what PrEP is. This might help, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html