colinshark

The car of the future fixes many of the problems, and it fits right into existing infrastructure. Think autonomous electric single/dual occupant taxis (2+ per lane).

We are still a ways off, but this is where things are headed.

We might not need the parking, but the roads will be useful.

It's not settled. These links are annoying.

"You know, stuff we needed but didn’t necessarily have a budget for. So, when this money comes in, it’s considered extra"

Except municipalities explicitly write expected seizures into their annual budgets. They literally must seize property to make their planned budget.

I can't get past the fact that the software, in order to interact with the 3D world, will be expensive and cumbersome to make. Also, people (your income) born before AR tech generally don't want hardware on their face.

This, and Hololens, and similar, will fail for a while, and I'm thinking it will be decades. I'm placing my bet now.

The message has an equally probably of decoding to ANY message. You essentially have no information to work with.

I enjoy driving each morning, and it makes me happy. Sports car, windows down, cold air, a warmed up engine. Few things are better.

Can I get a less intense summary?

Will this era be known for a glut of optimistic but worthless technologies?

Sounds like Riddley Walker.

The post is negative because the productivity posts are bad and make HN worse.

The alternative is to post ANYTHING other than "These 5 weird things are making you procrastinate" and similar.

Multithreaded code is more difficult to write and more complex to debug by any objective measure.

"There are difficult multithreading scenarios, just as there are difficult scenarios in the single-threaded world. But those are relatively rare."

Is this some sort of flame bait?

I think the difference here is that the goal is more ambitious (100% diet replacement). Ensure is explicitly a dietary supplement. The marketing, cost, flavor, and nutrient profile reflect that.

It's like wanting to enter a high end auto race and you just buy a sports car off the lot. It will be expensive and slow. The fast cars are custom built because the market is small and the requirements are unique.

The problem of radioactive waste...

Let's put it this way:

In exchange for clean, constant, domestically sourced, almost unlimited energy for an entire year, each person must dispose of or store their waste, which is the size of...

A pill of aspirin.

You could just put it in a little lead jar. That's all the waste. The alternative is fossil fuel waste, which would be...

10 tons of CO2 (volume = 5 American houses) which floats into the atmosphere, plus 2 tons of coal ash.

Of course, everyone can just pool their resources and put all the radioactive waste together. I don't consider it to be a very serious or unsolvable problem.

It's easier and cheaper to make a shotgun with 2 pipes, an end cap, and a screw. I'm not exaggerating the simplicity.

http://www.issafrica.org/armsnetafrica/sites/default/files/2...

Guns are simple.

Guns are 17th century technology.

The car may be expensive, but covered rear wheels are not expensive.

Another analogy: Mechanical watches. There are no good reasons to own them besides just liking them.

We shouldn't be able to patent any idea just by running it on a "processor and memory".

I'm convinced that trademark and copyright gives us all the IP tools we need. Patents can get f'ed.

If the US is going to field these weapons, we need to be cool with Russia and China tossing around non-nuclear ICBMs- because that is what this is.

Seems like LiveJournal did the "followers" thing first.

The option to enable/disable the nav bar seems ridiculous until a website disables it for you. The option is there to re-enable it.

No. It's just a matter of having advanced options or not. Each level of customization should be progressively more hidden but more powerful.

I guess I'm tooting my own horn now, but one of the original design choices for my game was to allow player-hosted servers. I don't want my game to die when I stop supporting it.

Matchmaking is centralized, but the game can be configured for third party matchmaking servers.

If it was good enough for 90s games, it's good enough for today's games.

Ideally, you have 60fps AND motion blur, for a picture most approximating reality. The fancy games have motion blur.

Any game without motion blur is going to show momentary disjointed images, which is alleviated by motion blur. However, you still want the high frame rate for smoothness and low response time for inputs.

No, because there is no single ideal price for anything. The ideal price varies between customers.

Real world: Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is overpriced. No sale. Customer B thinks the $14 pizza is delicious and worth it. Would pay up to $20 if forced. Pays $14 and enjoys $6 in surplus value.

Ideal world: Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is worth about $6. Buys it for $6 (Arriving at the deal is the tricky part). Customer B thinks the $20 pizza is worth about $20. Buys it for $20 (Arriving at the deal is the tricky part).

Now both customers are happy with their pizzas, and the pizza maker made $26 in revenue instead of $14.

There is no "true" price for anything. It's not morally wrong for the cheap customer to pay $1 in a PWYW deal, and it's not morally wrong for the seller to enjoy it when someone pays $100 in the same deal.

You're right, because no successful tech companies have ever been started by programmers, with programmer-designed UIs.

When I started developing and selling my own product, my obsession on code quality definitely relaxed. First and foremost, it's now about the end product and not the code.

It's painful for an engineer to be told to do MORE with less time and less "quality", but the business cares about more than just code.

This bike essentially requires the same skilled labor to build as a carbon fiber bike. Its only claim to fame is that it doesn't use the $8 (guess) of steel you need to build a standard bike frame.

The rest of the components cost about $90. It's competing with Chinese bikes.

The plan has not been thought through, but it's great news bait.

"1. The iPad eats the consumer PC market.

This is happening right now. In the third quarter of 2012, PC sales were down 8 percent on a year-over-year basis worldwide. In the U.S., sales were down 14 percent. A big chunk of the decline can be attributed to the rise of the iPad."

Or just that PC speeds have reached a plateau, and common desktop applications no longer need the latest hardware. The continuous upgrade cycle is slowing. I think that speaks for the 8% on its own.

On second glance, this whole article is borderline troll bait.

"The company has deliberately avoided filing patents on its heat exchanger technology to avoid details of how it works - particularly the method for preventing the build-up of frost - becoming public."

Evidence that the main use case for patents - protecting true innovation and development - does not even need the patent system.

...And brands like BonLook and Warby Parker are disrupting the old industry right now.

My wife and friends (24-27 years old) have been getting their glasses at $100 a pop, no strings attached, from these companies for a few years.