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I say they shouldn't receive copyright protection because consumers dont enjoy equal representation in Congressional copyright hearings, such as those for DMCA or the numerous copyright extensions. We simply cannot afford to pay for congressmen to vote for our interests the way the movie, music, and publishing industries can.
A Flying Chainsaw Drone That Trims Trees and Decapitates Snowmen
Almost all of last year's tech IPOs went down.[1] Some, way down.

Twitter: -32%
LinkedIn: -44%
Pure Storage: -28%
Square: -4%

With numbers like that, overpriced "unicorns" know they'd have to IPO at a huge discount from their exaggerated valuations.

This is a bubble, popping.

[1] http://www.renaissancecapital.com/news/tech-sector-sell-off-...
Windshield stretching from front to back (the roof) will be quite a bit more expensive to replace than a standard windshield no doubt. Ironic given the price point.
I see your point. A 30% drop in capacity in an 80-mile range car is worse than a 30% drop in one that started with 280 miles.

But these are worst-case scenarios. Hopefully the batteries will last much longer than what they're warrantied for.

And with any luck, affordable aftermarket battery replacements will be common enough by the time the battery needs replacing (and may give a lot more range, too).
Fortunately, the impact is not major enough to prevent me from being a happy MBP user.
There is also an additional possibility: Recycle old computers. A Intel 2008 laptop performs OK with a modern GNU/Linux with an efficient Desktop (for example XFCE4). This also helps avoiding CO2 emissions, saves rare earths and energy. And it is a statement against a unsustainable throwaway society.
I'm Jesse - the creator of beekeeper.

The idea is that actually writing code to work with REST APIs kinda sucks a little bit. And doesn't usually give you a very good native structure to work with.

beekeeper aims to change that by moving API configuration outside your code, and by creating an object structure that looks like the remote system you want to use. Once you initialize, you don't need to be able to understand the "beekeeper API"; you just need to understand the structure of the objects in the remote system.

I'd love your questions and comments.
The airline industry is extremely protectionist. I'd rather fly on Qantas JFK-LAX (they do fly that route) but cabotage rules prevent them from selling tickets on it.

Because evidently if any competition comes to the domestic aviation industry, US airlines are doomed.
Overhead really depends on the type of work. But, HMRC is not forced to be located in high cost areas which really brings down costs.

Anyway, you should get into the right ballpark just looking at there budget. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Revenue_and_Customs
£4.09bn budget, 56,000[1] FTE = ~£73,000 per FTE including all overhead except possibly unfunded pension liabilities.
They stay on Slashdot and in my news feed. Here's a few from Oracle and one from Fujitsu:

Oracle T4
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/sparc-t4-announc...

Oracle M6
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/sparc-m6/index.h...

Oracle M7
https://blogs.oracle.com/rajadurai/entry/sparc_m7_chip_32_co...

Fujitsu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC64_VI
This seems a little bit like kidnapping.
The safest vehicle (not just cars, any vehicle) ever tested by the IIHS, and the highest aggregated reviews of any car ever seem to agree with me.
The hardware should be leased then, or software should be open sourced at EOL so people can use what they have paid for.
There was a short story cropped up, I think here on HN, a few weeks back with exactly that scenario.

My search-fu fails to find you a link.
> I still can't believe something like Dropcam is such a huge success. The level of security awareness the general public has is terrifyingly small, and companies are taking advantage of it to produce brickable devices. It is the legal variant of ransomware...They can hold your data hostage for any reason and at any time. You're completely at their mercy, with regard to pricing and availability, and you have to trust they won't fall on hard times, or get tired of running the service.

That is the difference between tech professionals and the general public. We care, others don't. Make it work, make it just expensive enough folks will buy it to fix their problem while you clean up, profit.

If you want things to change, it'll only happen with regulation.
This would be huge. Half or less of the cars equal mobility. If a single family car could drive home so my daughter could drive to school and then drive back to work so I could drive home it would be awesome. You still get near full autonomy for a family with a single car. No-human driving is probably a tougher policy hurdle than human-ready-to-take-the-wheel driving, but it would be amazing.
The Raspberry Pi still relies on a closed-source blob running on a CPU core whose instruction set isn't publicly documented to even boot, but I suppose at least it's possible to reverse-engineer that unlike Intel ME.
In terms of just web programming, Elm is amazingly close to my dream. I have some beefs with the language (Ports are unintuitive, generics higher kinded polymorphism are non-existent, haskell syntax), but they are pretty small beans. The big part that I find missing is the cross platform abilities (I'm talking web, mobile, and desktop platforms without the slow/hacky do-everything-in-html5 methods).

And to be honest, if I were to start from scratch, I'd probably be re-implementing 90% of Elm anyway. Which maybe says to me that instead of starting from scratch, I should just join the Elm community and start hacking on the compiler backends (for compiling to platform-native code) and front end libraries (to target native UI framework code), and hope the language grows closer to what I would like.
He says in the reveal presentation that Autopilot hardware will come standard on the 3.
They usually don't publish their street address on social media.
The infrastructure isn't revolutionary, I believe IRON.IO and others have similar platforms.

The innovative aspect of AWS Lambda is the triggers hook into a variety of popular AWS services, e.g. S3, Kinesis etc, with very little setup required from the developer, along with an easy interface and setup process. It abstracts away from containers and operating systems.

Google and Microsoft have recently launched beta versions offering 'Lambda' like functionality. AWS has led on this one, I don't think you can argue against that.
Does this kernel run its own TCP stack and filesystem?
This is possible. I wonder how much of that is its design/I.P. and how much is what process node it's currently on? A port of proven I.P. with existing ecosystem to 28-65nm that ARM and RISC-V are using might fix a lot of that.
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As a woman, I find these classic just like the polygram music logo of dog pulling pants off of the kid
I really dislike the tendency of the new economy to simply pull the plug, not because of end of life, or unprofitability, but apparently because they're excited to work on something new.

To hell with your exciting journey, I paid good money for something I'd like to work for a reasonable length of time. I want home automation and appliances to work until they go pop.

It puts me off buying a lot of these things. We've already had smart TVs turning off features like Skype in 2 yo sets.
The path we as a society ultimately take isn't up to any one entity making decisions (not even Elon Musk :-) ).

Certainly lifestyle transitions will require decades, after all, it took decades to cities to become car-centric. But can happen even within a generation. Many millennials eschew car ownership and are moving back to cities, whereas for baby boomers the car was a rite of passage as well as its concomitant house in the 'burbs.

Transitioning entirely to electric vehicles will also take decades (admittedly it would be less time because car-years are much quicker than people-years).

What will happen is some mixture of both of these along with random jags of reactionary fascination with the happy-motoring era and who knows what else.

Ultimately, we only have a finite quantity of fossil fuels and there is no "free-refill" for the planet. At some point, lifestyles will have to change drastically to accommodate this limitation as population continues to grow.
There are different approaches that make sense for different use cases. Is your use case a big database that you just run some commands on top of? Lambda seems great in that case! Just build a front-end client, have it interface directly with Lambda, and you've got a pretty quickly developed app.

Is it the right architecture for everything? Hell no. System architects are in higher demand than ever because there are so many freaking ways to build technology products these days, and it's their job to figure out what tech is right for the job.
you mean like this? https://www.kaltire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jan-6-Plu...

we have heating blocks for cars that park outside in north america. If you can install a street light, it's not that hard to install a curbside charger
From my understanding, they trained msft china trained theirs on forum posts in china. I think they did the same in the US. So racism in US > racism in China
I think the GP pointing out the Supercharger network as a positive selling/marketing point when contrasting with other EV manufacturers is valid, but it read to me like you were discounting their position; sorry I misread, I can see what you are getting at now. My reply was meant to address that in such early days with early adopters like yourself, gaps in infrastructure for certain individuals---even early adopters like you---are part of the landscape. The Supercharger network was never meant to be a fast-growing, practical, charging network, it served a different purpose and that it doesn't fit your individual use case, I'm claiming, is A-OK in this early state of the market.

I suspect the Supercharger network was initially only meant to address a marketing point: an EV couldn't drive cross-country in a roughly comparable time span as an ICE. This was an extreme form of the range anxiety played upon by detractors. The Supercharger stations went a long ways towards defusing that sales objection for the target market. Turn back the pages of history and you'll find exactly the same marketing stunt was performed for ICE's. People planned expeditions across the country on rutted dirt and mud tracks that were only charitably called roads, and staged fuel in advance like mountain climbers staged base camps with supplies, at extraordinary cost and effort. If my suspicion is correct, then the Supercharger network not being near most routes means it was never meant to really serve most routes, only sufficiently enough routes to serve its key initial purpose to TSLA. If that purpose happened to fit some small target market, then TSLA is happy to take that market (and any adjacencies they can take for a marginal cost of adding a Supercharger station here or there), but I don't think TSLA plans on the Supercharger network becoming the way to recharge.

The closest analogy I can think of for the net is Google Fiber. I don't think GOOG plans on GF becoming the way to access the net, they are just pointing/prodding the way forward.

That leaves me wondering though, if the non-TSLA charging networks have built their charging stations to be easily upgrade-able to higher voltages and amperages in the future; the ones I've casually inspected don't seem to lead to some conduit or similar infrastructure that can easily swap for bigger buss bars or similar. Ripping and replacing all that pavement and underground infrastructure to bring in more current has got to be murder on the capital budget. Someone must have made the calculation and figured out that the adoption rate is too slow to build in that expand-ability up-front.
Just keeping good distance isn't guaranteed to save you from other drivers. See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-5fKzmy38
The last years/decades have made pretty clear that the financial sector will happily screw over their customers whenever they can. No wonder who are not financial experts prefer safe investment where they at least don't lose money.
Well, it has >93% usage for padding-left, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-top.
> No reason to charge them at dinner time. Timers and current control & remotely adjusting by power company

My main issue is with your notion that the cars should, somehow, be limited to only charging at certain times. The issue becomes, "OMG I CUT OFF MY FINGER". "Oh, sorry, cars not charged yet." "Oh, I want to go to Walmart and grab some chips." "Sorry, cars not charged yet." "Oh man! I forgot about a meeting I had with my realtor!" "Sorry, cars not charged yet"

> "There's no reason to recharge them at dinner time."

The issue is that this could be a problem now. Instead of me just being able to put fuel in my car whenever, now I have to be like "Oh yeah, it's dinner time and I'm home. Can't recharge my car yet!"

AND, when everyone has an electric car, it will very quickly become like a busy cable network in your neighborhood. "Well, it's estimating 18 days until the ~download~ charge is done."

Refueling with an ICE takes no time at all and can be done anywhere. Even if the car is out of gas in my driveway, I have a chance to walk and get a can of fuel and put fuel in my car (in probably less time than it would take to recharge it).

I would bet that the "power company's night time rebates" would go away really fast when they were struggling to meet the sudden demand of charging everyone's cars.

> Most Tesla owners are happy with their range and it will improve by 5%/year.

Even if their current range is 300 miles, that's 15 miles the first year. That's not really significant.

Lastly, your disagreements all seem to be either flawed or they seem to be with the less important issues (tow hitch, range) and ignore the more important (charge time, accessibility, cost, cost of infrastructure, etc).
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You cannot boot RPi without proprietary blobs, so it's not what you're looking for (it sounds like?).
I think the public will eventually notice that gadgets and appliances that rely on apps and internet access are a risky investment. Even multinational appliance manufacturers give up on the smart features in their TVs after several years.

Forget the high end products with their fancy features and instead stick with reliable basic/mid range products that will last for decades rather than years.
> southwest

right, so in other words, you're still flying the cheapest possible airline, yet claiming you'd pay good money for well-established privileges that are already available for good money on the open market on pretty much any non-budget carrier.

when it comes to luxury, you have to pay to play, and those who don't pay, don't play. end of story. you're competing with humans for space and time, it's going to be expensive if you want to be given special treatment.
You're right. I wasn't sure if it was here, reddit, or somewhere else. IIRC, it also had a quadcopter that jammed GPS or something, and the auto-taxi drove through a bridge and fell in the water.
There are seams, it's not one giant piece of glass.
Agree should spend less on cars, but you also need a dependable and honest mechanic who won't milk you on a used car.

Also is driving for Uber really good financial advice ?

And why do people use gross income. Should use net income. It's not like you can deduct your car on taxes.
> POWER is the only architecture currently competitive with Intel in terms of raw
performance, and boots using a fully FOSS firmware with no DRM
antifeatures embedded.

That's pretty cool. This combined with some benchmarks I saw for server workload on POWER8 will hopefully revive some interest in the platform.
Looks like it has been deleted from npm too. Weird.
Where's Elon when you need him?
Another major piece of this puzzle that people overlook is AWS API Gateway, which provides a web gateway to Lambda. It's a newer product (and quite poorly PM'd, quite frankly), but it's an important part of the puzzle that no other cloud function provider has yet.
Which divorce? He must have had an ironclad pre-nup with Riley.
that sounds like india to me
Prairie nigger" is a term that got thrown around--and wasn't objected to by a sitting US senator.

Which Senator? (For my notes).
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I'm not sure I know what you mean by ABI here? ABI in this case to me would mean Application Binary Interface, IE the C ABI that's defined by the platform and not the processor.
To the best of my knowledge, VIA CPUs have no secure boot, management engine, or any other proprietary secondary hardware.

Coreboot supports many VIA CPUs and motherboards[1], though it's unclear if it uses any binary blobs the FSF seems alright with VIA Technologies and apparently they're cooperative with open-source BIOS[2].

1. https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

2. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html
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It's interesting how so many people think this is a new problem because of IoT.

This problem has existed for years with games. If you had a game that had to be online to play, and the company decided to stop running the servers, you were screwed.

Sure, sometimes people reversed engineered it, and while the company usually didn't care, it was technically illegal.

We need some laws to protect consumers, that either say that they must release their API if they're going to shut down, or at least make reverse engineering the system legal.
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I work for a company that takes federal contracts. We're allowed to accept basic coffee, but not doughnuts. I'm serious. And frankly, I don't have any problem with that.
AI is that which is non-biological, builds its own theories/models of what things mean and how things work, and updates those models when it observes inconsistencies.

When unable to resolve inconsistencies it would remember the confusion and with every new thing it learns -- try to resolve, with the new information, those remembered inconsistencies.

AI is that which would generate novel theories by analyzing similarities in things it already knows. And of course, it generates its own plans for attaining any goals it has.

Machine learning is a necessary but insufficient condition. Imo, today's excitement about ML means that winter is coming.
I would prefer all tabs start muted and you have to enable sound if you're interested.
Hey, it worked on Batman too.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-star
I personally hate stored procedures because they invite bad design. The code for them rarely makes it into source control, and even when it does there are often contextual parts of the schema that aren't included.

If you can do them properly (i.e. source control everything, proper schema update scripts, etc) they can work ok. Just hope you marketing guys don't want to do any A/B testing of various algorithms.

Stored procedures, IMO, are a case where DBAs should be pushing their pain down to the software engineering teams. I think a lot of this delineation will disappear as cross-functional product teams become more integrated across the industry, however.
I assume an S II is going to be coming out sometime.
Maybe I forgot and it was the US standards that had to recalibrate but it was said in a few articles that Model S was above the highest ratings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Safety But I now read that there was a rebuttal ..

For speed I meant the 0 to 100km/h, but anyway you're right, not the fastest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car... , only number 6. Maybe seeing it faster than a McLaren made me assume it was number one.
That is very much dependent on the circumstances. Besides, this is pre-interview weeding question, and if they give the O(1) answer, that gives use something to talk about in the interview.
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A totally acceptable answer. :-)
"But the SPARCs you mention have their drawbacks. LEON is not that competetive in the high end (in order single issue, low clock freq) and T1/T2 are only cores (i.e. without interesting "uncore" stuff) and not that good as general purpose "desktop like" CPU."

There's definitely drawbacks. I've just not even seen interest in embedded sector of FOSS for SPARC even with open cores. I wouldn't argue stuff like Leon4 in its current form is suitable for replacing a Core Duo or anything. Yet, that it's suitable for many apps but ignored for all apps by FOSS in favor of proprietary MCU's/CPU's might reveal a problem on their side.

Far as RISC-V, the community is booming and I have high hopes for them. Maybe they'll make something. My recommendation was to create Pi-like board with RISC-V SOC by licensing Leon3 or Leon4, replacing SPARC components with RISC-V, and getting the rest w/out effort. I think we would anyway given it's designed for easy configuration/modification. In parallel, continue developing clean-slate replacements. Gives us a rich, interim product to use with full FOSS down the line. What you think of that idea?
Site would probably handle load bursts a lot better if it was hosted on Lambda * g *.
Ah, Snowden will not be in the Guinness Book of Records because of that, won't he?
Says they are using Raft: https://raft.github.io/
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1- I don't think it is controversial that some people like to drive, but I think this is such a tiny fraction of the market as to not matter. This point - that people like to drive - contradicts your "transportation alternatives" more than self-driving cars, as self-driving cars are closer to "driving a car" than public transportation.

2- Your point was that other improvements were way better. I don't disagree that we can make roads safer without it.

3- Self-driving car will certainly diminish the need for ownership. But I was just arguing on the environmental point of yours, that even if it does not solve, it will help alleviate.
That's not the case for everyone.
Array accesses are implicit indirections. The base, index and element size are used to compute the address of a location which is then indirected to store or load. Without range checking, array accesses can be used to read or write arbitrary locations in memory, just like pointers.
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Computers certainly can be racist when it comes to visual recognition tasks. Different races do look different, after all. For example, there have been several cases of face tracking software failing to detect black people.
To be fair, Oracle winding up with the most open hardware is such an outlier it would be like checking if Stephen Hawking won the Boston marathon.
You can see what aircraft is operating the flight you're booking on most airline's websites. Makes a huge difference in what flight I book.

For example, I just booked ORD-SFO on UA in business, which is a completely different experience on the upper deck of a 747 (UA1213) than the usual 737 :)
Let's say I decide to get up and leave the plane but not pay. What happens?
Market saturation. Lets wait for quantum computing and wetware programming.
just because the car owner allow search of his property, it does not make your property available.

and i am also pretty sure even a bad lawyer could get you a criminal kidnap case out of this.