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If you can get a car to go 200 miles and charge in 1 hour, at a price that is comparable to gasoline, that is probably good enough. Maybe some traveling salesmen wouldn't want it, but even people who take a lot of vacations would be okay. And it'll probably end the cross country road trips, but these actions are total outliers.

I've driven on semi long road trip vacations my whole life. Chicago to Hayward, Wi. A 400 mile trip almost exactly from my parents old house in the burbs.

You'd just take a break halfway and get dinner while the car charges. It's about 7 hours to go 400 miles including a gas stop, piss break and quick dinner. Just make it 7.5 hours and take a long dinner.

The extra 45 minutes charging time is really no big deal if you only have to do it every couple months.
I don't think it's quite as good a deal as you might think.

First of all, the investment is €21 billion, not €315 billion. €315 billion is the projected return on that investment.

Secondly, that €21 billion will be spread across a number of EU countries, Greece's share will be a fraction of that total.

Thirdly, whilst SMEs are mentioned in the announcement, a larger portion of the investment returns are expected to come from long term investments. Long term investments generally refer to investments that have a low return on investment in the short term and better return in the long term, which can be a sensible way to invest, but those investments will be based on loans, and the interest accumulated on those loans doesn't necessarily start when the investment pays off (i.e. the interest could start straight after the loan is made, regardless of how long the return on investment is projected to take).

Lastly, even if Greece got the full investment (which they aren't likely to), this €21 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to the existing debt, and furthermore will come with its own debt, it might help if it was managed right but it's a huge gamble and I'm not convinced it would make much of a dent in the overall debt. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I hope you can see why I have these doubts.
TL;DR;
Anti-science article that knows it is, but preemptively calls that it will be called that. Scientists don't start out by saying I will be called anti-science. They prove points through facts.

Nothing they state in the 5 points has the facts to back it up.

> Ireland’s population was decimated by the effect of monoculture during the potato famine. Just consider that the same can happen at a planetary scale.

We have famine at a planetary scale, just the writers are not in that famine.

"Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. " https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

[edit] "The Black Swan" is just plan wrong, I really don't get why people buy into that book. It's a cute idea. But wrong.
I think electric cars win on every metric except range and refill/recharge time. They have better torque, better efficiency, lower emissions, lower noise, simpler drivetrains, and more reliable motors.
Smartphones are physical. They exist in my hand.
Are you sure the cars were not being driven by a human at those times?
It takes no more than 5 minutes from the moment I drive into a gas station to the moment I drive out to refill my Honda civic (10 gal). EPA dictates a maximum pump rate of 10 gal per minute [1].... so the actual pumping phase of fill-ups is just 1 minute for my car.

[1] http://www.epa.gov/OMS/regs/ld-hwy/evap/spitback.txt
Boston has added hybrid buses to their fleet. They are much quieter. I'm a fan.

But I agree about the parking spaces. Even now in new construction, it is considered forward thinking to have 2 or 3 spaces with outlets out of 100. For the future of electric cars, they should at least have conduit to spaces where outlets could be installed.
How is there no way to fill a car in 5 minutes? I suppose I don't time myself, but it always seem to take between 3 and 8 minutes.
Whats wrong with:

- deprecate in Java 9

- "make it explicit to turn on" in 10, offer alternative official APIs as fallback

- remove entirely when most people have switched
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I think what this shows is the downside of having Yishan Wong as your CEO or ex-CEO, more than anything else.
Would it be possible for iTerm to "type" the whole thing in for me? It's already executing a curl, can it do the whole thing through the host?
I wonder if you are targeting problems in search of a solution, or solutions in search of a problem. There is nothing wrong with starting a business to show users that they have a problem they did not even know they had. The only real issue there is that you have to educate your user base... and that is hard.

Taking a look at your links:

Online Money Transfer -- This seems like a solved problem. Maybe I don't understand but is money transfer online something I can't do from my bank or 100 other reputable entities? Why should I use yours? Are your rates lower? Are you more secure? Can you get around some pain I am having? From your site it seems like you are giving a simple way to transfer money but frankly, in a very saturated market.

Get Power Help -- Now this is more interesting. I had no idea there were rights involved with NPower. However, I bet very few other people knew that either. Now the question is, do they have rights to make money from their complaint? Which complaints will make them money? I don't want to pay you GBP30 for an apology (no offense). I want a chunk of GBP10000! This is an education problem. If you can solve that it might work. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Ombudsmen gets a whole lot more written apologies than they do GBP10000 rewards.

Stop Lost Transfers -- Again, very interesting! Seems to work well. When transfers are slow or stopped do they have any idea to even check if their name is on the list? If they transferred with a reputable transfer service and something happens will that transfer service tell them why it was slowed or stopped? How do people even know they should check their name before they initiative a transfer? Again, education.

I don't think you are bad at founding. I think you just haven't found a niche to found in yet which has high growth potential without massive education. On top of that, even if you did educate people on the need for your services, would you make enough money to make them useful? For example, if I were an investor looking to invest in your ideas I would have to ask, what is the upside potential of get power help and stop lost transfers? Right now you have no way to even monetize stop lost transfers. And I have no sense of how much people can win from NPower in disputes. I would pan the online money transfer as an investor because I think the market is too saturated.
Wasn't the airbed thing always just a cute, neat metaphor for the wider concept of renting out spare space in your home?

The founders literally rented an airbed in their apartment, which spawned their idea to create the service and inspired the name, but I don't know that they ever set out to create a marketplace for specifically this.

I could be wrong but nothing I've ever heard them say has suggested this was the idea, even in the company's very early days. Indeed I believe their early niche was renting out space for conference goers, in the homes of like-minded individuals, not renting specifically airbeds for conference goers - that'd be a bit absurdly niche, no?
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I've seen this argument repeated ad nauseum over the past 15-20 years. I think it depends on what you want.

Yes to some having consistent elements of UI make some users feel very happy about using your software. Most probably won't be able to articulate why, they'll just feel a bit happier.

I don't think there's an absolute in this discussion though. The web has proven that people value having access to more capability more highly than how well every aspect of that capability works. You could view the lack of integration as a weakness of the web, but for me it reads as flexibility/empowerment for the developer. It's possible to view developer empowerment as a negative, but in the case of the web it's enabled it to tackle some interesting use cases that you might miss if you stick to the rules too zealously.

BTW, I think it's possible to build crappy UI natively too. It's a mindset thing. The web isn't native on any platform yet there are some web apps with great UI. There are also some non-native client apps (like Chrome) that I think (admitting my bias in Chrome's case) do a pretty good job.
Just shy of 6 years for a new car: http://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/average-length-of...

Obviously a significant portion of those cars remain on the road, just with new drivers. As of 2012, the average age of cars on the road is 11 years: https://www.mainstreet.com/article/how-long-do-you-keep-car-...
A big problem is that battery's require lithium, which is quite rare(not supper rare but still rare enough for it to be a problem).

My prediction is that sales if electric cars wont become exponential until we get cheaper and greener battery technology.
I don't necessarily disagree. However, it sounded like OP was already doing a lot to get intellectual stimulation outside of work. He specifically mentioned not learning much on the job any more so that's why I recommended looking into a new job.
Yes. My config is something like this:

# proxy n02 connections through bastion
host n02.university.edu
ProxyCommand ssh bastion.university.edu -W %h:%p 2> /dev/null

Almost all my remote shells require a similar setup.
The author should really add this in the beginning of the article...

"Any set of emails this large containing attachments is bound to contain malware, viruses, trojans and other malicious software - just like anybody's inbox which receives more than 5 mails a day. This is a reminder to everyone downloading this data to handle it with caution. Do no execute code, and view things only inside constrained network isolated virtual machines".

The way its worded right now seems to point fingers at wikileaks.
Terminator comes close, but to be honest, iTerm2 still beats it with its user friendliness and features.

It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there.

iTerm2 now comes with 24-bit colors, command completion popup, notifications, triggers, profiles, mouseless copy, split panes, search, and you can even have inline images/gifs all out of the box with zero or minimal configuration required. That's just awesome.

All of these features and iTerm2 still feels much faster than Terminator to me.
http://polysome.io/

The manufacturer.

What purpose is this useful for?

Can someone elaborate?
Tesla has now apparently invited everyone who's ever charged at the Harris Ranch charger, on I5 between LA and SF, to use it. Personally, I tend to stop for dinner there, so supercharging isn't a problem.
Food is a technology. Horticulture, breeding, domestication, threshing, plowing, sowing, crop rotation, cooking, drying, pickling, brining, canning, curing, refrigerating, etc.

Modern civilization is massively more efficient at extracting food from a given piece of arable land than our hunter gatherer forebears were able too, all thanks to thousands of years of food technology.
> To say gas stations will go out of business is ludicrous at best, Tesla will go out of business sooner as established car brands move in and hurt bottom line for Tesla.

I don't get that dichotomy. If established car brands move into electric, wouldn't that kill both Tesla and gas stations? Why would gas stations survive?
To be honest, this misses the point in urban areas (which is increasingly where everyone wants to live).

There's too much congestion for cars to work in urban areas, at least for commuting. It doesn't matter whether they are autonomous, electric, petrol, hydrogen or whatever. The capacity of a multi-lane freeway vs a heavy rail commuter line or metro is so small, even with carpooling.

Unless suddenly this trend reverses and everyone wants to live in the suburbs, the car is really in trouble.

I use public transit nearly all the time and for the times I don't, I take an uber. I tried uber once when there was a problem with transit, and the door to door time was something like 4x the metro due to traffic. Never again.
Actually I was not going to say that. Just wanted to point out why perhaps parent wrote such comment.
I'm thinking about visiting a friend ~8 years ago. He lives in a rural area, and back then cell phone signal coverage was terribly spotty. Couldn't go around a curve without risk of losing coverage.

But the situation improved. When I visited a few months back, what a huge difference there was. I was amazed that out in the boondocks mobile phones worked just about everywhere. (Well, at least in that locality.)

Seems to suggest that once the demand for electric vehicle recharging begins to ramp up, the charge-station infrastructure will improve just as rapidly as cell phone towers have proliferated.

Tourism may be one motivator but seems predictable that once electric vehicles are good enough and affordable, small town residents themselves will generate the bulk of the demand for this infrastructure.
Once they release a true offroad type vehicle--preferably a pickup, I'll be buying one. I'm not sure the model x does it for me, though it'll be a "maybe."

I live in an area that can have limited access in bad weather, where 4x4 & high clearance are requirements, and right now a Tesla wouldn't cut it.
First reaction, "No, visual studio does this for me."

Second reaction, I think this should be packaged with localization tooling or be a simple, low-cost app. I don't understand what the value you are providing to me every month when I look at localization most likely a few times a year.
Austin has a service called car2go where there are cars parked all over the city, and you can pick one up and drive it anywhere in the city. They have you indicate whether or not the car is clean when you get in.

Self driving cars would be even better at this - if the car is dirty, you could press a button, which would send it back to the repair place, and send you a new car.
There is a company that already makes a Tsunami survival capsule, though it is only designed to float on water:

http://survival-capsule.com/
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What's on the stack?
So we just need those fast-charge batteries that garner a press release every couple of months.

Surely they're just around the corner!
> Host volume mapping is a folder shared between the host and the VM?

Yes.
The vast majority of small towns don't rely on tourism, however.
It took me a while to understand how the stack works on a low-level, so I wrote this. I hope someone finds it useful, and if you found something confusing please let me know and I'll try to clarify!

The second part in this series, What is a shell and how does it work?, was posted on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9794081
I'm torn, because for debugging and testing, this kind of instrumentation makes me salivate, but then I think about the kinds of codebases and, worse, library packages that will be built to depend on it.
I published a piece on exactly this earlier in the week. Admittedly I took an extreme position, but not an impossible one:

https://medium.com/@rorykoehler/carpocalypse-how-the-robot-c...

The major point of value I took from the OP here was that we have no idea what the landscape will look like in 10 years. It is totally open for disruption.
I was flatly told "no" when I asked for tap water at a restaurant in Italy. The waitress seemed a little disgusted I would ask, too. I've heard some peoples have an aversion to tap water even if it's become safe these days, so I guess it was that, or maybe some kind of miscommunication.

Maybe she just thought it has a bad taste, but it can't have been bad enough that I'd prefer paying 2-3 euros for bottled water.
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Software defined radio maybe?

Also, if you had a small motherboard with mini-pcie, this could be an interesting add on to offload processing to?
None of them while a car was moving in autonomous mode*

As I recall there were collisions where the autonomous car was sitting still. Others while in manual mode. Zero the fault of autonomous drivers, so far.
Another driver for fewer car sales: More ride-sharing and taxi (Uber) services obviating the need to purchase individual vehicles which see sub-5% utilization.

This is good for the environment too.... IIRC, the embodied cost to fabricate a vehicle represents something like 30% of its net carbon cost. This is pretty significant when you consider the very low utilization rate for a capital asset.
It's absurd that the official Java runtime for Windows comes with crapware and spyware ... Ohh, your program requires me to install Java? Then I think I'll pass.
Just include the runtime (around 140mb) and your customers won't know or care that they are using Java!
I use TransferWise regularly, so I am a potential client for TransferCorp but frankly as soon as I open the page alarm bells start going off in my head and there is near zero chance I am giving you any of my financial information.

The UI is a giant mess, there is tons of strange yellow dead space (70%+ of the entire screen), menu items are for no reason unreadable unless you mouse over, when you click on them you get an animation glitch, when you shrink the browser window the entire middle element (yellow/orange thing) disappears but the "Send Money Now" button doesn't and starts corrupting the green right side. I really cannot stress enough that the UI experience on that entire site is just awful, and that alone would put me right off letting you dick around with my money (if you cannot get the UI right I just assume security, reliability, etc are as bad or worse).

I also hate the complete lack of information. When I click on anything I get this silly login box (with a different colour theme) and need to click again to sign up. The track button and dashboard buttons are demos, but the send button requires login(?) for some inconsistent reason. The login and sign up button in the bottom left keep disappearing (WHY?!).

Honestly you know the scene in cheesy hollywood movies where someone asks "What is wrong with the way I look?!" and the other person just points at all of them? Yeah, that right there. Everything is wrong with the UI of that site, just everything. I'm sorry, I have nothing constructive to say, scrap it and start again with a consistent theme and go learn about usability and UX, forget trying to be clever, save clever for when you get the 101s down. I thought I was bad at UI, but this site is like a Geocities page.
The article is written by a woman.

There have been many more clickbait articles written in support for Ellen after her termination. Gawker and Inc. especially

The rest of your comment are just little snipes at a diverse group(Heterosexual, probably white, men) that happens to contain some undesirables.

Maybe you could define my unhealthy approach to women, and what this very rigid belief set is?
React (and others, I'd assume) does this by keeping a virtual DOM and then only applying the DOM manipulation necessary to get existing state to match desired state.
Feedback is just as much of an issue whether the relationship is correlation or causation. All correlations are either based on random chance (thus not statistically significant) or based on some causal relationship, even if we can't identify what it is. Could be A->B, B->A, C->A and C->B, A->C->B...

Correlation and causation have the same predictive power.
You're right, that is weird. However, since he had operational responsibility for "community" it sounds like it was his call.
But it's a really poor parallel. People wanted a smartphone because it was a total game changer. Electric cars are not.

I'm an electrical engineer and I only sort of give a shit what kind of powertrain by car has. My mom? Doesn't know or care how her car works. My dad? Probably against electrical out of old man-back in my dad behavior.

Cost will be the big change. Once an electric car is cheaper than gas, the public will switch. But that is not why people switched to smartphones.

Also part of the reason for the smartphone revolution is the market psychology behind carriers subsidizing very expensive phones. People think their iPhone 6 costs 200 bucks.

Finally, the short upgrade cycle for phones is totally different than cars which last for like 15 years on average.
Code your algorithm. Make money with it
Have you ever programmed in java or javascript.
They're asking about an implementation detail.
The FPGA is an XC6SLX100T, so the bitstream could be up to 26.7 megabits. It could take up to two seconds or so to configure the part with a large design.
not only that, it's called "diabolo canyon". I mean talk about tempting fate.
If electric cars are going to become mainstream we certainly need something far more affordable than Model S. With the money it costs I could buy a Mercedes S-Class which is unparalleled in terms of quality and ride comfort. Furthermore in regions like Europe you can run in all short of inconsistencies with incompatible sockets/recharge stations. Just the other day I was watching a video [1] of a car journalist who tried to make the trip from UK to Amsterdam in a BMW i3 Rx and it took him twice the time it would with a conventional car.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0f0_hqWdTk
Regardless, autonomous vehicles will improve at a staggering pace due to computing power available to them, and sensors rapidly developing.

~33K [1] deaths a year from car accidents currently due to human drivers. I doubt autonomous vehicles can do worse than that.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
> In the short while the euphoria towards Tesla will continue but it's headed for a not so pleasant ending. Great for humanity, bad for Musk.

And I can't help but wonder if Musk is okay with that, or even planned it that way from the start?
Sorry, what? I fill my car in closer to 2 minutes, not counting time that would be included in either type of refill (pulling in, paying, etc).
That lithium is rare is a common misconception. It is actually one of the more abundant elements on Earth, especially in seawater [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Terrestrial
Extending health care coverage for three months was extremely nice of him to do for the people he had to let go. I can't imagine being in that situation.
If this is the best his opponents can do, maybe Jim Comey has a point
Same here, style in XAML is very verbose, and conditional rendering is not created from the code with ternary operator and conditions, but with templates in XAML that are very verbose and it is hard to remember how to use them. Also the use of 2 way databinding cause a lot of problems.
How exactly does one properly evaluate the local culture from the freeway, anyway?
It's an article from one of the individuals involved in the catalyzing of Gamergate, how is that going to be balanced? Her agenda is the opposite of
Gamergates'.
For refill time, note that most electric car owners do almost all of their charging in their own garages overnight... not something that's common for gas-powered cars. Long trips are worse for electric cars, sure. But day-to-day driving? Charging is not an issue if you can charge in your garage.
People who don't drive that distance don't need cars, frankly--and not owning a car at all is a trend that's growing faster than Tesla sales.
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He's the chairman of the board. A lot of things are his call. I'm just saying, that call made the CEO's job especially difficult. Keep that in mind if you're ever tempted to say "the buck stops with the Reddit CEO."
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346731
+1 for conemu/cmder plus git bash on windows. again, different than iterm2 but also a must have
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Robot Odyssey

ZZT

Bolo

. . . a lot more retro than Warcraft. :-)