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by rjdagost 10y ago
It most certainly doesn't mean nothing. It means that that there are significant trust issues that must be overcome before autonomous driving technology can get widespread acceptance. This is not a pure engineering problem that must
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by rjdagost 10y ago
The thing that strikes me as more than a little off-key about the hive mind-like push for fully autonomous cars is that most drivers don't want them: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash&#x2F
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It is important for a business to be thinking long-term. As we all know, that is Elon's real strength. But the financials of this deal make little sense to me and many investors view this decision as reckless. Tesla is a cash burnin
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by rjdagost 10y ago
Some people are questioning the reason behind this offer. Read between the lines here, folks. Musk has borrowed heavily to invest in SolarCity and Tesla, and with the ongoing rout in SolarCity shares he is facing a margin call: http:&#x2
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by rjdagost 11y ago
Keep a few things in mind about Musk's prediction of profitability. First, he is talking about non-GAAP profitability for this year. He doesn't predict true GAAP profitability for a few more years, maybe by 2020. Second, he has
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by rjdagost 11y ago
Have you ever been involved with the production of a mass market product? Scaling up production while making a profit and maintaining high quality is not something that gets solved easily. It remains to be seen if Tesla can make the diffi
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by rjdagost 11y ago
It says in the article that activist investors (Red Mountain Capital Group) pushed for the breakup. The defense business wasn't growing fast enough for the pump and dump traders. It's a textbook short-term move: cleave off the s
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by rjdagost 11y ago
Sounds like you found a good niche. Your work is solving real problems and you can make real money from your product, instead of just creating another VC subsidized ad platform that gets breathless hype in TechCrunch. I'd consider si
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by rjdagost 11y ago
When I first heard of uBeam and their goal I did some back of the envelope calculations. Setting aside the safety issues (which are not settled, start-up CEO claims to the contrary), the biggest problem is conversion efficiency. Using som
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by rjdagost 11y ago
Deep learning is definitely "the new hotness" for machine learning but it is a big mistake to assume that all other techniques are now irrelevant. Depending on your problem space, DL might produce decidedly inferior results. For
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by rjdagost 11y ago
You are correct, IP is a bit of a joke in China (oh, the stories I wish I could tell...). You can't rely on the Chinese legal system to protect your IP so you have to take a number of technical precautions to ensure that it is extreme
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Yes, for my industry China is still a little lower cost. If our products were more labor intensive then China would look much more appealing.
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by rjdagost 11y ago
For some industries the USA is and has for some time been a bit lower cost for manufacturing than China. Labor costs are only part of the equation- you also have to take into account transportation costs, energy costs, costs of obtaining c
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by rjdagost 11y ago
One question I have: if a pilot wave description of quantum mechanics was in fact the "right" one, would quantum computers be impossible? It's confusing because many articles claim that the various interpretations of QM yiel
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Much like racism, sexism appears to only go one way in the mainstream media
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Sam isn’t getting dumped on. It’s a simple fact that his best interests don’t necessarily coincide with your typical college student’s best interests. In my experience, on average you will be better off working at Google for 5 years than
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Sam is obviously not a disinterested party here. Don't join a big company- start a new investment for him to participate in or join one of his existing investments and help to make it a success. But in my experience nothing opens doo
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Racial discrimination, neatly quantified: "Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It use
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Yet another demonstration of the hazards of building a business on a platform that's entirely controlled by someone else.
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Houston is definitely not a place with a lot of charm, it's a non-nonsense down to business city. It definitely would not be my choice if I were an urbanite. But, there are some important things Houston has going for it. It has a fa
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by rjdagost 12y ago
You are assuming that users are making rational assessments of both their skill level and also of the difficulty of the modifications they are seeking to perform. Often the most overly optimistic people are some of the most unskilled. I d
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Allow me to play devil's advocate here. I used to work for a company that produces measurement equipment for professional technicians. It's big, complicated, dangerous, and expensive equipment that is comparable in cost to the t
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Seeking consulting work Location: Conway, Arkansas Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: MATLAB, Python, C++, C, C#, whatever else the day calls for Resume: available on request LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
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by rjdagost 12y ago
The ongoing extreme volatility of bitcoin is the news here. If bitcoin backers want it to be taken seriously as a store of value the massive price swings need to be smoothed out. Otherwise, bitcoin will just be a purely speculative asset.
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Once due to life circumstances I was stuck for a few years in a job I hated for much of the same reasons (limited growth, very bored, yet simultaneously very stressed due to ridiculous deadlines). One thing that helped me get by was to hav
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by rjdagost 12y ago
To add to your list: as an early employee, there is a good chance that your equity will get diluted a bit. The small fraction of the company you "own" when you join (and after your options fully vest) might shrink significantly a
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by rjdagost 12y ago
The cost to run utilities to a property varies considerably with location. Typically it depends on the distance of your property from existing electrical lines. If you purchase land way off grid it can cost > $100K to get an electrical
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Looks like it'd be a real pain in the ass to open when the motor fails.
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This was my first thought as well- it's tough to go wrong by learning C. For me learning C was a brutal struggle (driven by necessity), but no other language taught me more about what is going on under the hood in software. C has wit
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by rjdagost 12y ago
Congratulations, this is the most pedantic comment I've read on HN in quite a while (that's saying something). At the end of the day, log vs. linear is a visualization preference. It's not like applying a log transform to d

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