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> they're lawyers.

Which means if they say "it's very serious threat" and the code gets deleted everybody would think they are serious lawyers even if the claim looked ridiculous - because you see, lawyers said it's serious and who are you to argue?

On the other hand, if they ever say "it's ridiculous" and then they get sued, they could be fired or at least suffer damage to their reputation for not preventing it.

Thus, there is exactly zero incentive for the lawyers - at least ones acting purely according to near-term incentives - to ever take even a minimal risk and declare anything like that ridiculous. They have all incentives to always react as if it was 100% genuine infringement - because that costs very little and has no risk.

Some lawyers and companies are more civic-minded and reject some ridiculous requests and take risk because that's the right thing to do. But you can not require people to be heroes.

On the other hand, we are not lawyers, so we have all the incentives to proclaim how ridiculous the whole thing is.
but recovering from one is a lot tougher than the other
A lot more money to burn?

Tell me one thing: these other companies with all this money to burn, where are they going to get batteries?

Oh....I forgot, from the overwhelmingly abundant supply that's readily available.

Really makes you wonder why Tesla is building the largest battery factory in the world, which they had to start planning and construction for multiple years in advance....it almost leads you to wonder if perhaps there's nowhere else to get them from.

It doesn't matter how much money they have. Even Apple can't conjure a battery factory out of thin air. Rest assured money is not slowing down the progress of the gigafactory. It's not as if "if only tesla had more money, they could finish the factory sooner!" They're going as fast as construction allows.

At this point, it is no longer a game where more money will help, and most observers don't get that. Elon has said this explicitly time and again, and for some reason people ignore him.
From the article "Uber has also alleged that Ola exploited a "loophole" in its system by using data-only numbers - to which calls cannot be made - to create multiple fake accounts and has sought damages due to cancellations, investment made on drivers who have left, trip fare and reputation".
> but going after a company because you feel that they wronged you is as far from justice as revenge killing

But out desire for revenge i.e. a negative consequence to those who wronged you, is the fundamental source of our idea for justice, just formalised for a city life.

The guarantee of negative consequence of equal proportion represents a game theoretically optimal approach to discouraging others from harming you.

And if they kill one of yours, then to maintain said deterrence you have to kill one of theirs. As reflected by laws and customs for most of human societies throughout history.
At YC? Nothing. They have no reason to do that. It'd defeat the purpose of YC.
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erm it's not coupled with Heroku at all? Where does it say that?
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 difficult transition from being a trendy boutique manufacturer to a mass market juggernaut.
I know some YCF companies. They loved it. I wanted to move to Mountain View and do the full three month program. But if I couldn't, YCF is a great deal.
kik has lawyers all over the world... because it is the platform of choice for pedophiles and sexual predators. there are many billable hours spent responding to doj/states attorney subpoenas. (http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20140728/pedophile-on...)
(http://woodtv.com/2015/02/02/sexual-predator-warns-parents-a...)
Because they are all from different industries and are unrelated to the small company's field.

Also in the blog, they have huge blogs posts publicizing big partnerships. They only have 1 or 2 blog posts with one of big brand name companies.
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You give people too much credit. The vast majority won't notice or care.
Usernames are still limited to 8 characters in HP-UX as far as I know.
Still rings true for Mac.
Its more about minute-to-minute autonomy than answering to a person/customer per se. With the customer you still retain control over your day to day ... if I feel like going to the dentist on Tuesday, and then going to watch a matinee after lunch because I felt like it, I'll do it, and the customer will never know about it ... can't do that at most fulltime jobs.
I've never used npm, but doesn't it take at least as long to find, evaluate, and install a package like left-pad as it would to just write the function yourself when you find you need it?
Lots of Tesla haters in here apparently.

For me I'll be looking into a family car in maybe 2 years as an upgrade, and having some form of Tesla on the horizon would definitely hold off until it was available.

It's just not just the price factor, its the cool factor, the tech factory AND the ev factor.

The fact that the article talks about petrol prices as a decision factor seems short sighted. Do we really think they arent going to shoot back up in the next 10 years AND that electric car charging infrastructure / prices wont come back down? Thats the sort of lifecycle thats going to matter for these
Think you meant "publish or perish." I'm not on academia, but it seems like it'd lead to a lot of filler articles written.

The problem with research is that it doesn't always move in predictable increments. Sometimes things do take a few years to actually have any sort of breakthrough. Secondly, it might pressure researchers to falsify their data just to appear that they're making progress. I remember this being a contentious issue laster year.
Yes, I would consider it production ready. The library itself is really small, which means you don't paint yourself in a corner by using it.

We're still early on, so there are many different implementation patterns that might evolve around the core library but in my experience and that of other devs I've talked to it is already a pretty good step forward from an MVC approach.
I wore out my copy. Have you come across any books or course with the same approach but more updated code to recommend?
For the price of removing some of the rusty nails sticking out of C, I'll happily pay a few 16KB on a binary as large as clang. Plus in most or all of those cases, the optimization would still be possible even with stable uninitialized values. It just needs to be done in a different way. You might be able to get 13 of those 16KB back with a very minor amount of work.
So true. I had a job like that. It's a recipe for an ulcer.
Some artists get to a place where no fucks are given. If there's adequate money from royalties or an inheritance or donations or marriage - even if it's not much in absolute terms - then there's no external pressure to produce.

E.g. A composer called Conlon Nancarrow spent most of his life in Mexico, punching holes in player piano rolls to make music that was impossible for humans to play.

He was pretty much ignored until he was 65, by which time he'd been writing music with no audience for most of his life, making next to no money from anything.

His career finally took off in a big way when he got a MacArthur award at the age of 70.
This shows 2015 data. There were early adopters and it took some time for people to learn about Tesla. I think the same will be true for Model 3. It will require a network effect of neighbors, friends, and coworkers to saturate demand potential.

The biggest concern I have: superchargers. If they want to sell hundreds of thousands of Model 3 a year, what happens during Thanksgiving in the US? Newark, DE had 4 superchargers and they are now completing an upgrade to 12 or more. While there are other superchargers in New Jersey, Newark is a critical location between DC/NY/Philly and west. It takes 40 minutes to go from ~50 to 215 miles and that is if your supercharger isn't shared by another car (2 superchargers per transformer). Additionally, you won't get 215 miles because the heater will suck a lot of energy, and forget about charging to 300 unless you want to wait another 40+ minutes.

My hope is that Tesla has the same vision as Nissan and others with wireless road charging. That sounds crazy and inefficient, but I don't see any way you are going to accommodate thousands of Model 3, Model S, and Model X drivers Thanksgiving 2018.
I wonder how long /usr/bin/true source is.
I don't even know if "WAI" means "Works as intended" cause if so, then he is saying "It's WAI" which would correspond to "It's Works as intended" which would be super confusing grammer.

Either way, you shouldn't use acronyms unless they're easy to understand and you know grammar.
That's not much of a factor. Piracy is only a risk in 3 regions right now, and even there the risk is low.
> This offering is significantly less substantial than it would appear at first glance

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/17/ope...

> The repository currently contains a subset of all extensions in Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015. Some extensions are not yet ready to be open-sourced, but we’re working on making all of them available over time.
> I'm sure Tesla will get sales but imagining some sort of dominance is silly.

People said the same thing about the S. And now we have a car that's going to be $28k after tax rebate, before add-ons. Idk about you but I know a very large number of people who are willing to spend more than they ought to on a car they can only narrowly afford just because.

Tesla is the height of cool in the car industry at the moment. If people will buy a brand new ~$20-25k generic car, you don't think they'll spend a few thousand extra to get the hot new thing, the 2017 car version of what the iPhone was in 2007? Especially when it means no more paying for gas, and having autopilot?
Reading some of the comments reminds me old tale about a young man, that every morning on his way to work passed by a beggar and gave him a coin (that was back when coins actually had some value). One morning though the beggar notices the coin is smaller than usual, and he asks:

- Why you gave me a different coin today?

and the young man says:

- I got married and now I'm starting a family, I need more money so I can not give you as much anymore.

And the beggar cries out:

- People, look at this putz, he got married, and now I have to feed his family?!

I think the fact that we get so many awesome things for free is unbelievably lucky. I mean, not only we work in the one of the more generously paid jobs, we also get a lot of the tools we need for free! How cool is that? But some people think that if they are given those awesome things for free, they must deserve it and whoever gives them owes them forever. That's not the case. Yes, it is annoying to find somebody who contributed before does not want to do it anymore. It is mildly inconvenient and it can be improved. But let's not lose the perspective - the author does not owe us or npm continued support. It is sad he does not want to do it anymore, but that's what open source is about - people can take it over, and it happened within a single day. Such resilience is something to be proud of, not something to complain about.
That venn diagram was epic!
you've essentially described minimum wage
I honestly thought this was satire.
How one developer broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JS
except mr. rich is now making more for producing micky-d burgers
Operating in oz? tech, banking, e-commerce, etc: gaol of 10yrs from April
I'm staunchly in the "would never buy an electric car" camp, but I'm interested to see how this plays out.
> One of the reasons golang is so successful is that there is very little magic in the syntax, and even when there is it's fairly easy to grok (an example would be the `go` keyword).

Do you have a specific symbol you would like to change in Rust, and what would you like to change it to?

The only example I've seen (in a child comment to yours) is effectively a complaint that Rust has lifetimes and Go doesn't, which is effectively saying "you should have a garbage collector like Go does", which is an argument against a fundamental design decision of Rust. If you want to argue that you should always use a garbage collector, argue that directly instead of making vague negative comparisons between Rust's and Go's syntax.
The illustrations are just...magnificent.
Crew cost is expense, not capital.
It's a little buried in the article, but if you just want to see the Google Spreadsheet with all of the numbers and columns and supplementary tables:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l3bXAv8JE5RB9siMq36-...
Lol. Good luck landing a maintenance crew plus tools on a ship that's dead in the water in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The available helicopters don't have enough range.
Because Rust has lifetimes and Go doesn't, so Go doesn't need syntax for them. If you want to argue that Rust should use a garbage collector like Golang does (which entails arguing that everybody who is using Rust is wrong for not wanting an always-on GC) I'm happy to have that argument, but say so explicitly.
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$35k is a price point where a lot of cars are sold as status symbols: it's the bottom end of the price range for new or certified pre-owned cars from the iconic luxury brands, and yet it's a price point that is attainable for most white collar professionals.

I think Tesla is poised to do quite well in that market. Their marketing is generally very good, and they are not above putting a couple flashy features in the car that no one else has (gull wing doors).

The Model 3 may not be able to compete with ICE cars on cost per mile when gas is <$2/gallon, or on maintenance costs, but the Model 3's price point is still one where looking cool is more important than the bottom line.
Incredible to me that someone would write such a lengthy comment based on a headline alone.
Do you know many lawyers?
> That's not necessarily true if Kik were planning to open up some kind of API.

Surely opening up a new API doesn't give them retroactive rights to the name in that space.
Same here, almost a year into buying a used Nissan Leaf and loving the crap out of it. If your still interested in an EV after the Tesla announcement would be an excellent time to pick one up - if it can work with your driving habits.

Looking at a 2013-2014 Nissan Leaf with 14K miles for about $9-$10k.
I'm not sure how the court could force you to do something you can't possibly do...
If not investors, then who? My point would still remain, and it getting down-voted to oblivion is not going to change the factuality of it (else, someone would have contradicted it by now).
The author offered to transfer the repo to anybody willing to take it.

https://github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4#issuecomment-20006...

You really publishing his code again is "going against his wishes"?

He made his point and got a lot of attention to the situation, he isn't responsible for the packages anymore. I would not assume that he wants further disruption or objects to people using his code.
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 blown many previous predictions about achieving profitability and being cash flow positive, so many investors are rightfully skeptical about this new prediction as well.
Gull wing doors would be a terrible idea.
Easily. The network is already massive and that's almost three years away. Most of the existing network was built in the last 3 years, and they have far more resources now than when they started, so you can count on the pace accelerating.

Elon has said from day 1 that the supercharger network would be designed to grow ahead of demand. This is definitely well-planned for and not at all something they're sitting they're frantically wondering how they'll manage.

According to their website, there are currently over 3500 superchargers. If they sell 500,000 cars in 2017, which of course they won't nor do they plan to, that's 142 drivers per charger if they didn't build any more.

Imagine if you only had to share a gas station with 142 other people total. Do you think you'd ever even see them at all, let alone have to wait?

Note that the geographic distribution of chargers matches the distribution of owners, i.e. more chargers in urban areas, so there will not be overload on some and underdemand on others.
Well, that's the impression the homepage creates. Where is my custom code hosted?
I think it's common but wrong to say the Model S succeeds because of Eco whatnot. Many owners care about that, but pretty much none of them care to the extent that it drives the decision to spend $70,000 or more on a car.

That's not to say that electric doesn't matter. The fact that the Model S is electric is key. It's just not for "green" reasons. Electric is better in many ways: performance, noise, convenience, cargo capacity, and the simple luxury of never having to mess with volatile, carcinogenic chemicals just to make the car go.

Tesla has convinced a lot of people that electric is better. Until and unless these other companies put out good EVs, the Model 3 isn't going to face competition from better products, not as far as those people are concerned.
Nr 1 on the front page for last 3 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
> Being forced to do work for which someone else will receive credit or compensation

I have a severely low level of tolerance for this. My first team leader at my first job as a code monkey blatantly took credit for a huge improvement I made to one of the company's long standing processes. It soon became apparent that climbing the corporate ladder meant climbing over the backs of others. I quit 2 weeks later and never returned to a cubicle.

Autonomy is king. Without it, I personally cannot function.
Another would be professional poker player, an idea I toyed with for awhile. You have customers in the same way sharks have customers. Every other person at the table could hate your guts (though that's not optimal), but they'll still sit there and give you money, provided you're sufficiently skilled.

The two professions are pretty similar - they both involve a zero sum game you're playing against other people.
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If you mentioned what company you're talking about, it might be easier to get help. Is there a reason you're not doing that?

As JacobAldridge points out, the "authority" in this case is the owner of the logo being used, so you'll need to find contacts at each company. On the Dropbox side, you can email brand@dropbox.com in general with questions about brand use. If the logo use is truly inappropriate, that team can decide whether to reach out to the startup.
How long ago was this? From what I've read it seems this used to be the case, but they got their act together about it within the last couple of years. On their site they claim to offer DDoS protection bundled with their VPS offerings:

https://www.ovh.com/us/anti-ddos/
> People said the same thing about the S.

I didn't.

> Tesla is the height of cool in the car industry at the moment. If people will buy a brand new ~$20-25k generic car, you don't think they'll spend a few thousand extra to get the hot new thing, the 2017 car version of what the iPhone was in 2007? Especially when it means no more paying for gas, and having autopilot?

1) I said it won't be market dominant beyond the first year, at most.

2) It'll have very limited self-driving features, that isn't the same thing as autopilot.

> People said the same thing about the S. And now we have a car that's going to be $28k after tax rebate, before add-ons. Idk about you but I know a very large number of people who are willing to spend more than they ought to on a car they can only narrowly afford just because.

I'm genuinely amused how quick you are to defend the fact people exist rather than trying to provide any kind of evidence they exist in such massive quantities.
Can you elaborate? I'm interested in why you'd take that stance.
What's to stop an original author doing the same thing? This isn't a new danger.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rMpCud1IwQ
As far as price per mile goes, I pay 13 cents per kWh, a bit above the national average, and that makes my Model S about as expensive per mile as a Prius at current gas prices. The Model 3 will be more efficient. Prius running costs in a package that isn't embarrassing and can make it to 60MPH in less than 10 seconds should be pretty compelling.
I don't know. I wrote up a longer comment; but, when I was typing it up, I realized that I don't know, I don't even have the beginning of an idea.

I think the BMW 3-series will hold it's buyers pretty well, though. There's just something, especially in the tech community, about owning a BMW 3-series. They might as well be the Toyota Corolla of some parking lots I've seen.
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This would kill seafaring unions. Don't underestimate how appealing this is to shipping companies.

Note: I am not arguing against seafaring unions, just explaining the reasoning of corporates (having worked in head office of a shipping company).

They are not quite on the same level of stevedore unions, but they are immensely powerful and militant. The term "sea lawyer" [0], which predates unions, adequately describes them. They know their rights, are completely inflexible and prone to strike.

Simply not having to think about union demands is enough to make a CEO salivate over autonomous ships.

I like sailors, I especially like sea captains and know a few captains of huge container ships. I have major respect for them. But I completely understand why corporates would end seafaring unions is they have half the chance.

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sea-lawyer
> or on maintenance costs

What?

Perhaps with the exception of Lexus (Toyota), the iconic luxury brands have abysmal track records for reliability. And when they do need parts, they tend to require slightly special parts that are exorbitantly expensive.

In what universe does an electric car, which doesn't even need oil changes, fail to compete with this?
While a criticism of their debt is fair, they are clearly not debt-laden (heavily weighed down by it).

Tesla has $2 billion in long-term debt. Today's corporate debt is generally the cheapest corporate debt in world history. Stacked against $1.2 billion in cash, and the ability to dilute to raise more cash at will, as the market is still giving them a $30 billion valuation.

That $2 billion in debt is trivial to manage. It would have to be $10+ billion for them to be close to debt-laden, and even then with debt costs as they are, they could deal with it.
That doesn't work in the real world. A disabled ship won't just obediently sit there like a broken-down truck on the side of a highway. A ship without power will drift with the current and crash into a reef, or simply break apart and sink when it gets caught in a storm and can't keep its bow into the weather. http://gcaptain.com/tag/el-faro/
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I'm gonna tell you a secret. Every patent claim is questionable. That's why in almost every infringement litigation, validity and enforceability are at issue.
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I wonder if there's any way to get it back as an adult.
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