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> The Tesla Model S has demonstrated that a well made, well designed electric car is far superior to anything else on the road.

I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. What the Tesla Model S has actually shown is that a startup-designed $100k electric car can be comparable to $100k luxury cars (S-class, 7-series... etc) and that classic car makers got complacent on certain features (like electronic UI elements). Much of what he said is true, or could easily be true, for $100k gasoline cars too!

In fact, I think that's enough of an exaggeration for me to question his whole conclusion. He made a good case for why Tesla could be the next big thing, but just like Android popped up against the iPhone, I could see gasoline cars copying many of the advantages—anything that's not a direct result of an electric drive-train.

This isn't to say that electric cars won't take over—I think they very well might—but the blog post doesn't make the best case for it.

I also really dislike that whole argument style of cherry-picking a "disruptive" innovation that happened to succeed but ignoring all the others that either failed or didn't deliver for decades. You can't generalize the smart-phone's success that easily! It feels like a pernicious case of what poker players call "results oriented thinking"[1], which is something I see a lot in business analysis.

[1]: http://www.toppokersites.com/strategy/results-oriented-think...
you dont need a garage, you can just have a lead, my friend was doing it like that in london 5 years ago! just had a lead coming out of his house onto the street!
People talk and talk about how The Cloud is about decentralizing things but really at the end of the day it's about centralizing everything with about a dozen vendors. And of course when price sensitivity causes attrition that will turn into 4 or 5 vendors.

I'm not sure I see how that really counts as 'more robust'.
While search results aren't speech, they are how people get to speech.

At least in the USA -

You aren't guaranteed a platform for your speech, and you aren't guaranteed other people will listen to you. All you are guaranteed is that the government won't persecute you for saying it.

So a private company that does not promote your speech, is not a violation of the 1st Amendment.
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yes, absolutely! It has to be this. Plus, a tiny little period is really hard to miss on mobile (where the shortcut you mention applies). it's almost justified.
Previously on HN

2013, 237 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596855
Owning an expensive car doesn't make one a cunt. Displaying wealth and hesitating to make one nice, small monetary gesture to people who you just laid off, this might make people think of that person as a bit cunty.
I agree, and I'd like to add that its not just this particular author, but most people who criticise C about it's "insecurities" use sloppy code when they criticise C, which always bothers me. I'm far from being a C fan (I'm also a Ruby fanboy), but programming languages aren't safe, only code can be safe, and that depends entirely on the developer.

Yes, it's "easier" to introduce some bugs in C than Ruby (or Go, or whatever), but that's because whoever wrote that code with the bug didn't know C well enough. Is that C's fault? Same can be said about any language, really.

If you don't know that String#match returns nil on unsuccessful matches and try to call MatchData#[], you'll get a NPE (something along the lines of "undefined method `[]' for NilClass"). This is very similar to dereferencing a NULL pointer in C[1].

[1]: I know dereferencing a NULL pointer in C is undefined behaviour, but your program will crash—if you're lucky enough—when you try to work with NULL pointers when you don't expect them.
You won't buy the car outright, and you won't drive all those 875,000 miles. You will rent it as required and others will use it the other 99% of the time.

Look at taxis/Uber and think about what portion of the cost is licensing (Uber's cut in their case), wage and fuel.
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If Google utilization is really only 10% of capacity, that's pretty surprising and worrying for a host of other reasons.
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I switched over to using size_t for array indexes a few years ago, and found this a big improvement. And once I switched to size_t, most of my uses of unsigned went away - either you care about the size (and you want a uintN_t), or you don't (and you probably want size_t).
Yes, we are all familiar with the Mythbusters episode, which does not take anything away from the fact that particulates will be in higher concentrations inside a public restroom. Increased concentration means increased risk of transference and consumption.

As to your other point, people are not only touching the external edges of the aerator, but the aerator itself, which water does come in contact with.

Lastly, the bacteria present are not non-harmful, and a solid chunk of feces is not required to cause illness. The only reason why these illnesses don't commonly come from restroom faucets and surfaces is that, even though the bacteria are present in the water while washing your hands, the transfer from water, to hands, to mouth is much more difficult and unlikely, especially after drying your hands. However, if you drop those bacteria directly into a glass of water, which goes directly into your mouth, your risk increases dramatically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal-oral_route
"Her notebooks, her clothing, her furniture, pretty much everything surviving from her Parisian suburban house, is radioactive, and will be for 1,500 years or more." ... the most stable isotope of Radium has a half-life of 1600 years (the decay product of which is Radon gas Rn-222, itself radioactive). We'll assume that's where the article got "1,500 years", yet that being just one half-life the "..or more" isn't so much an option as a certainty.
Aren't numeric promotions only applied in mixed expressions? (However, I'm not a C language-lawyer, so I could very easily be incorrect.)
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> How did you capture and render text input, and how did you handle new lines when the text wrapped? How do you handle paragraphs, especially when a user would delete text?

For rendering, I had a component that rendered the block element by splitting the text string at the indicies specified by the text ranges, inserting the appropriate tags, and dangerouslySetInnerHTMLing the text. I'd probably just manually generate vDOM nodes if I were to revisit it.

I didn't do line breaking, moving up/down was done using the caretPositionFromPoint code: create range, get it's bounding box to get initial x/y, getClientRects to get the position for the next line, caretPositionFromPoint, get block text index.

In this case (I did mention it was basic) I wound up not having to do cross-block operations because the UI never had more than one. I had a plan but not having to do it makes me happy.

In conclusion, you're probably better off just using an existing RTE.
Part of the iPhones success was the base of iPod users with music collections in the ecosystem that could only get it on the their phone with an "upgrade". No such thing exists for Telsa. Now when someone figures out drive as a service and it cost <$200/mo for the average user with a commute. You have a disruptive scenario.
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If he financed the whole car, hes paying ~ $1,400/month usd. Thats a mortgage payment for some people, and a months salary for for some people.
Aren't they convenient because they're only a few yards from your car? If you no longer need to drive to the gas station to get fuel, it's a lot less convenient, isn't it?
Haven't all of their accidents been from other cars rear-ending them, while they've been stationary? Not even worth mentioning the accidents in that case.
Yes. Japan engineers tunnels -- one longer than the Chunnel -- to survive 9+ earthquakes and they do. BART was undamaged by the Loma Prieta quake that brought down the Bay Bridge and the Oakland freeway.
this seems like a non-issue to me as well. you would expect malicious stuff to be there surely.
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Is it related go Internet Freedom? If so LiberationTech list is a good place to start.
Mental phenomenon do have something to do with your nervous system...?
I just noticed this got downvoted. What I meant is that in a situation like that it's really time to polish your github and linkedin, so you can quickly get a different job. If it's a fragile legacy system with Access 1.0 (!) and a bunch of external requirements you aren't allowed to touch, how much of a change can you make?
I assumed two things:

Victoria signed a very comprehensive non-disclosure agreement, and would have to give up a decent severance;

and Victoria is uninterested in picking a huge fight in public because she'd like to be employed again.
There are a number of players looking to open up that market. It will be a second order effect, once electric charging becomes a market driver for high end apartments. See this link for a quick example:
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/04/15/chargepoint-offering-sol...
Thanks for a clear, sensible investigation. ISTM your auth complaint is well-taken. Either Lambda should be seeing the same role as the gateway automatically, or there ought to be a way to configure that.

However, I have to admit that my first reaction to that difficulty in getting the account ID from the path/query/etc would have been to just shove it in the request body JSON that was already coming through. Then it could probably be taken out of the path completely, which would be a win for url privacy at least. This doesn't seem like the showstopper that the auth issue does.
> Current predictions of the future of electric cars are as wrong as any predictions about the future of mobile phones made in 2005.

I find it odd that Mr. Ralston says this while predicting the future of electric cars. Surely he meant "Everyone else's current predictions…"
Why wouldn't you have your car charging overnight? It'd be great to not have to bother stopping at a grotty petrol station - can't wait for that to be over.

I have read countless bits about charging times, Supercharger network, hot-swappable battery plans, etc. Surprised you've missed it in electric vehicle discussions and articles.
> The Google cars have been rear-ended seven times, often when stopped "but also on the freeway," wrote Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program. In other collisions, the cars were side-swiped or "hit by a car rolling through a stop sign." Eight of the 11 collisions were on city streets.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/297ef1bfb75847de95d856fb08dc0...
Did you really expect a severance package for a minimum wage job as a teenager or were you just being cheeky? It's a sincere question. Here in Canada at that age and wage-band I wouldn't even have considered the possibility.
See my other comment about implementations' core image sizes. SBCL is the worst offender for runtime space overhead[1], and it's CLOS implementation is heavily biased towards the "space" side of the time/space tradeoff, and a brief look at the implementation of this shows a lot of CLOS usage. I would expect that delivering with a different implementation would show a significant reduction in size.

Barring that, most GUI executables are fairly insensitive to startup time, so SBCL core compression would the lisp image down by a factor of 4:1.

Lastly, you can always just not worry about it:

du -s /Applications/*.app | sh ~/avg.sh
Total: 28529040; Count: 126; Mean: 226420; Median: 56752; Min: 8; Max: 6132408

1: Note that SBCL generates the best code of any Free lisp implementation, and makes it the easiest to tune your code for better performance. As disk space is cheap, it's what I use for most of my applications.
I just have to say, 4 weeks + 2 weeks per year at the company would be amazing. I get one week per year.

If I worked 11 years, I get 11 weeks. Under your plan, I'd get 26, aka half a year. I think I need to find a new job.
People mention this frequently, but they never mention how often they procrastinate on stopping by the gas station when it's time to fill up. And the additional anxiety associated with not knowing if you pushed it too far and aren't going to make it to the gas station. Or the times you're later than you wanted because you forgot you needed to get gas. I've never had this problem since getting my Tesla since it's always charged. I've spent maybe 2 hours charging at a supercharger in the ~9000 miles so far. I would have easily spent a similar amount of total time driving to gas stations and filling up in my previous car, since ~5 minutes times ~9000 / ~350 is about 2 hours. And when you're sitting at a supercharger you can do things like eat or read your kindle. And if you needed to stop to eat anyways, it doesn't really take any additional time.
It's actually not bad at all - I can't speak for the java side of things, but transitioning a couple random nodejs services to lambda took under ten minutes each, with most of that time being testing (my only complaint is that the logging sucks). Lambda function are so modular that I can't imagine not being able to trivially slot them back in to a standard express endpoint. It might be tricky if you do a bunch of stuff with S3, but even then it shouldn't be terribly difficult to sub in the standard AWS modules.
> I guarantee you that self-driving cars will not be the mainstream even in 15 years. Probably more.

Want to make a Long Bet on that? I'm willing to bet up to $1000 USD, loser pays winner's choice of 501(c)(3) US charity org, that self-driving cars will be mainstream in under 10 years.
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Hmm... Because 32-bit Windows IRQ handler doesn't save FPU/SIMD state, Rust also needs to have ability to suppress any FPU/SIMD output, when generating code to run under 32-bit Windows kernel at DIRQL (= interrupt handler). Otherwise the mayhem in userland will be rather interesting, usermode thread SIMD state gets corrupted.

It'd definitely be tricky to use Rust for kernel drivers, but still so tempting!
Hardware's intentionally simple. We've even considered open sourcing it :).. [Density founder here]
'Engine' programmers are still indispensable.

While not directly related to the graphics pipeline, I'm very intrigued by all the physics grid and networking code that the teams working on Star Citizen are doing for their future title.
I just wrote a post condemning the use of SPAs that emulate multi-page websites and basic browser functionality, but you provided an interesting counter-example. In fact, it goes to an extreme by being an "app" with minimal user interaction beyond basic navigation across pages.

It is quite fast, which is nice. One of my concerns about SPAs that emulate MPWs is that you're sacrificing speed for complexity, which generally leads to errors. But by serving up static content and limiting interactivity, you get the speed while keeping complexity manageable.
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn lists Bernstein ("code is speech"), Grokster (a partial win), and then three surveillance state-related cases: Hepting vs. AT&T, and the still-active Jewel and National Security Letters cases.

As one of the comments points out, Steve Jackson Games from the early 90s -- which lead to the creation of EFF -- also could be on the shortlist.
People don't think about how little a car can possibly cost. In San Francisco, it seems that every third car you see is a BMW 3 series. If I asked the majority of my friends/coworkers who know nothing about cars what they thought about the owner's finances, they would state that that person is probably well-off. A used 3 series can be had for less than $15,000, around $12,000 if you get a much older one, less than the cost of a new, say, Mazda 3.

The 2005 Ferrari F430 your boss drives may have cost as little as $100,000, and your boss may have financed part or most of it. Good credit + an above zero net worth will get you very nice finance terms. If you looked at the car alone, you might deduce that your boss is quite wealthy, but in reality their net worth could be less than $25,000.

Even if you are into cars, a person's choice of vehicle is probably not going to give you any meaningful insight into their personal finances. Many people just like status symbols because they communicate how the person wants to be seen, not how they actually are.

Flashing status symbols in front of people who can't or don't realize they could obtain them is uncouth, though.
So it's not possible to implement compliant PCIe interface together with some bigger block with this board?
The $0.08 is the _marginal_ cost of operation. You're not comparing apples to apples. The $0.60 cost of operating a gasoline vehicle does not include the original cost of the vehicle. (Using your same math: $70,000 car driven 100,000 miles would be $0.70 per mile.)
To become a software developer, all you have to do is develop some software and keep doing it. I started when I was 13 and now 12 years later I think I'm doing OK. I started doing Freelancing jobs since I was 19 or 20.
I doubt it's possible. Keep in mind that nobody invested in AirBnb until YC, and as I understand it, they were mainly accepted based on the strength of the team.
Hail, pope.
Dog mouths are not sterile.
CommonQT works pretty darn good. qtools makes it work better. Ask Shinmera if you want to help him.
Why should it be the end though? You can do almost everything in your own home now, thanks to the internet and technology.

Most office jobs can be converted to telecommute. Groceries and food can be delivered to your door. You can safely get wasted in your own home while video chatting with women you are whooing. You can watch a movie online. You can even get exercise with systems like Kinect or Wii etc.

If arcades are obsolete, so are most of the other public businesses.
While this sentiment and gesture is appreciable, this is also a potential example of rackless irresponsible hiring. When you hire people, you better damn make sure there would have something to do for them in foreseeable future as much as possible. Otherwise, go hire contractors. There is always some risks involved for employees however you don't want to bring in ton of people just to execute on one specific strategy with no backup plan if that strategy failed. Hiring should be sustainable in the sense that company should be making enough money to support all that extra hiring. If project A failed, we can start working on project B and so on. If that is not the case, candidates should be informed at the interview that if the project that they would be working on fails then they would be out of job.
>if you really care about them, you give them complete transparency in what's happening WHILE it's happening

To be fair, sometimes it's not always obvious that it's "happening". It can be a pretty tricky timing thing, and sometimes you try to hold on a bit too long, hoping to turn it around. But, maybe I missed a nuance in the post that you gleaned, which gave a better picture of the timing here.

On another note, maybe I'm old school, but a CEO dropping a bunch of f-bombs in a public forum just isn't professional, IMO. I think it's cool for companies to be edgy and non-corporate, but using language that is generally considered offensive shows a certain lack of appreciation for your position as a representative of your company, board, partners, customers and other stakeholders. This, as well as a lack of respect for an audience whose sensibilities almost certainly vary.

And, the repeated use of it in the phrase "I f*ed up" comes off as overdone to the point of disingenuousness and, oddly, maybe even a little narcissistic.
Sidenote, when I finish drying my hands I use the towel to open the door. First, why not. Second, the handle usually has some water on it, and I just dried my hands.
Petrol cars are limited to petrol stations. Electricity is easily and safely available everywhere. I'm sure soon enough many parking locations will come standard with charging. This is already in place in some areas. And if your doing long haul driving timing lunch or a break with their charging doesn't seem unreasonable. So I don't see this being an unsolvable problem at all. Quite the opposite. In 50 years people will probably be reminiscing about 'the hassle' of altering their destination to find a place to fuel their car. That's if we are still driving them at this point!
It is as of ISE-12. Some people, in fact, have reversed the datastream and can do it live, automatically, in realtime https://vjordan.info/log/fpga/full-dynamic-partial-reconfigu...
100k gallons of potable water per day.
So much for drinking from the hose, I guess.
Indeed it is and machine learning not being "real statistics" but ad-hoc methodologies (based on statistics but not being statistics) doesn't give confidence intervals etc.

Plus read the article/presentation. It goes into the issue with great depth and clarity.
Simply in case anyone is not already aware, there are some phenomenal add-on features for urxvt through the perl extensions: https://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/

Notably, keyboard-select allows you to cut/paste things into the X buffer from anywhere in the terminal scrollback using only keyboard shortcuts. url-select, conversely, allows you to cycle through any visible URLs and either open them in an external browser or copy them to the X buffer.
Moreover, even 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/8 of the original amount can be dangerous depending on how much there was to begin with.

Many people seem to assume that a half-life is how long it takes for a radioactive substance to become safe. That's understandable, since the half-life is usually the only time scale that scientists mention when they're talking about radioactivity.

Maybe we should stop mentioning half-lives in public communication and instead emphasize exactly how long something will take to decay to a safe level (either to a level specified by relevant regulations, or to the average background level).
If you own a single family home, then electric cars are ok. If you live in a multiunit, rent, do not have a garage or similar, then charging at home is not practical.
Hm, I bet there's a flag to disable SIMD entirely (not really important here), and maybe even enable softfp if you use any floats in your code (or libraries, by extension). That'd be interesting to hack in, if it's not already there.
Please feel free to let me know and I can correct it. Thanks for taking a look!
That'd always been possible on Cragslists, and in fact, AirBNB used Craigslists to bootstrap originally (and against the TOS if I may add).

What AirBNB has executed brilliantly are:

1. They offer the complete booking workflow: from initial contact to payment. They also offer feedbacks, reviews, rating, etc. to make the whole marketplace more credible.

2. They bootstrapped the market really well. Some of the early tactics were shady, but well, that's what you can do when you are a small start up. Offering free professional photographer service to the owner was a very good move: much better than spending that money on SEM or other marketing ploys.

3. A lot of luck.