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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:57PM (#21716404)
Already solved, no worries needed. https://www.duesenfeld.com/index.html
But chasing the higher hanging fruits might allow for breakthroughs that you would not see if you only went for the low hanging fruits.

The range anxiety is less and less problematic with EV. The Tesla Roadster 2 already is said to have a range of more than 1.000 km. Add current research in the fields of solid state batteries and super capacitators and you have the possibility to reach those numbers even with less expensive versions of EV. German automakers already calculate that by 2026 electric engines will be cheaper and more capable than their ICE counterpart.

If you go for that easy middle ground like hybrid cars that you suggest, you limit yourself to the local maximum of that solution. Hybrid cars have the same maintenance cost as non hybrid cars and additionally the complexity of balancing both engines. The only saving in maintenance cost is by going full electric. In the same way you might only achieve certain breakthroughs by actually going for full autonomy even if it wont work perfectly for the next decades for all edge cases.

Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:03AM (#16514028)
35% of ecommerce customer journeys already start on amazon. It is not like they totally depend on SERP rankings.
Re:Vue HN 2.0 on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:02AM (#14285254)
Nice job, but I prefer the text based version. I dont like having to parse all those pictures in my head. Who cares about a thumbnail of the website?
Instantly had me hooked again. The game does not move on after the city of vilcabamba, though :-/
What made you leave? Did you miss european culture ( or sports on TV or anything like that)? How did you deal with the time difference between Europe and NZ? When I was in NZ on vacation I missed being able to watch the stuff that I am used to on TV in the evening, due to the twelve hour time difference to Europe. I dont think I could ever switch from soccer to cricket.
Re:Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:01PM (#13860516)
Simple example? Before finishing the first paragraph, it says

"The slope and y-intercept of the line are determined using gradient descent."

What on earth does that mean? Maybe they should teach mathematics in english at universities outside of english speaking countries. German mathematics does not help here.

I wish there was a 4GL like SQL for machine learning using dynamic programming for algorithm selection and model synthesis like a dbms query planner.

PREDICT s as revenue LEARN FROM company.sales as s GROUP BY MONTH ORDER BY company.region

Re:Tutorial on Deep Learning on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:16AM (#13505338)
The first eight minutes were promising. Then a mathematical definiton of how neural networks work follows and I am already lost again when trying to learn about deep learning. It is like trying to learn Postgresql's new JSON features by starting to look at relational calculus first.
Well it is only useful when you really rely on asynchronous programming. Nobody states that every piece of code is supposed to be written like this. You should only use async/await when a thorough performance analysis shows that it is your bottleneck.

Think of handling a web request, where you have to do parallel I/O requests to subsystems like a database, a webservice, redis, and so on. I think async/await gives us a nice standard way of describing "hit me back once X is done".

How do you know which device is positioned higher than the other (on a bunch of books)?
Re:Arbitraging credit cards while traveling abroad on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @03:13AM (#10114986)
Interesting concept let me see his method..scrolling.. oh it is about marketing his app.

Unless you invest the money you get from the credit card, isnt his approach just min/maxing your cost to get money?

You published it? You should have gotten a "micro-docker"-like hashtag trend going and then pitch your idea to VCs. The main "Lighter than Docker" startup would be valued at around 5-7 billion right now.
Re:Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort on Monday July 20, 2015 @04:23PM (#9918784)
> mobile is the predominant method of browsing for a huge number of sites all over the world.

That is not an excuse to give up on high information density on the desktop, just because your headings have to be ridicoulessly big for mobile.

Re:Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort on Monday July 20, 2015 @04:21PM (#9918769)
So true. I hate it when CMS administration areas are rewritten to be responsive and end up wasting a huge amount of space on the screen. A CMS admin area is a power user , that most people us on their computer.

Yet characteristics such as high information density and very accurate mouse interaction are all thrown out of the window, because of how the admin looks like on a phone.

How is it responsive to ALL devices, when mobile first enforces such restrictions on a design.

Re:Ng-book 2 is out on Sunday July 12, 2015 @08:45AM (#9873302)
Am I the only one that is not a fan of the new syntax? There is so much duplication and lack of clarity.
Does it run Crysis? Apparently now Linux can.
Re:Facebook PathPicker on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:31PM (#9507207)
Thank you for making the mouse a thing in a keyboard driven world. As someone who grew up with gaming and learned IT as a result I never was able to fully give up on the mouse during my daily workflows. I admire people who can use VIM etc only by keyboard, but my muscle memory just says: mouse.

Thanks for establishing something that embraces this.

Re:How to Center in CSS on Monday April 20, 2015 @03:35AM (#9406617)
How about an opt-in attribute to enable ordering then?

<table sortable >...</table>

Re:Scala: Where it came from, Where it's going on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @11:29AM (#9218567)
Is the compiler faster these days?
Re:Tree structure query with PostgreSQL on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:51AM (#9111511)
If you ever need web scale, there is always nosql to fall back on Kappa
Re:Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:17PM (#9076227)
While you are technically right, that kind of thinking gave people access to a ton of MongoDB databases last week.
Re:Ferrari F1 Concept – Is This The Future Of Formula 1? on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:07AM (#9061745)
Aerodynamically a joke. Most likely a quick render based on marketing drawings.
Re:Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams on Thursday January 29, 2015 @02:11AM (#8964760)
They are again? In this talk they mentioned them to be cheap in 2008
Re:Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @01:17PM (#8961494)
I agree that is is the standard way of doing things. I was just curious why the trend moved towards this approach. Not a long time ago Concurrency based on a lot of threads had an upswing.

http://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf

Re:Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @01:13PM (#8961471)
That explains it, thanks. To me this makes the focus on non-blocking code in PlayFramework2.0 a bit more strange to me, since the JVM isnt single threaded.
Re:Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:25AM (#8959380)
Interesting comparison. I have never used Node for anything bigger than small personal stuff, because non-blocking code was never a requirement. I still dont see the value in it in scenarios like in the blog post, as all he is doing is a bunch of functions and once all of them are done, send something back to the client.

How does the client or the dev benefit from the non-blocking approach here? At the end of the day he is describing a sequence of actions the depend on each other. Why not block then?

I really dont want to sound arrogant, but I am just curious what the benefits are that I dont know of.

Re:The growing irrelevance of MongoDB on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @09:21AM (#8886354)
I wish I could have a foreignkey within that json.
Re:The growing irrelevance of MongoDB on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @04:17AM (#8885143)
Probably the EAV nightmare
Re:GitHub blocked in Russia on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:18AM (#8692868)
What next, also StackOverflow blocked? Next headline would be Russian software development comes to a sudden halt

Edit: downvoted again. My mind is just not made for this hateful community here.

Does the guy in charge want his most private search history leaked? Because that is how you get your most private search history leaked.

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