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Just like the guy who plugged something into his car's ethernet port. I think he discovered the Model X (or 3?) referenced in software.

As a present, Tesla remotely disabled the ethernet port and downgraded his software "so he couldn't do that any more".
Sure. Which means that, similarly, a really great response from the public would be along the lines of "We greatly appreciate the data transparency program, the NYPD's responsiveness and the steps being taken to correct this going forward. We understand that any large organization dealing with literally millions of cases of parking violations is bound to make mistakes. All the same, we believe that people who were ticketed in error should be refunded. If there is no budget in place for the overhead of correcting this error, then perhaps a budget to that effect can be passed by the city. We will gladly put the extra few tax cents per person this year to see this corrected, if you will put the organizational effort to make it so and the process in place so that this will not easily repeat in the future."

One can imagine a stronger version of the above in which the agency is asked to find funds within their existing budget to redress the mistake. However, "thieves! they must be fired!" is not the correct response to public servants making an honest mistake (as opposed to dishonest mistakes, of course, but that doesn't seem to be the case at hand).
If it becomes illegal to pick your nose from today and you unknowingly pick your nose, would the police let you go? Would they "forgive" you for not knowing the law? That's right, they wouldn't. You would be caught and sentenced.
There is a good anecdote here: http://firstround.com/review/radical-candor-the-surprising-s...

I think excessive fillers betrays a lack of confidence in what the person is saying, so reducing will help you be a more persuasive speaker.
According to this chart, Apple spent $6B in 2014 and is projected to spend just over $10B in 2016.

For comparison, in 2014 Volkswagen spent $13.5B, Samsung spent $13.4B, and Microsoft spent $10.4B. [1]

Apple has, historically, not been a big spender when it comes to research, tending to favor short-term, tightly focused research over long-term, curiosity driven research. Over the last few years their research budget has ballooned, but only in 2017 (projected) are they going to reach levels that the above companies were spending at in 2014. Has Apple's research focus changed?

Perhaps we're not seeing some monumental project in the works, although an autonomous car would be pretty big. Perhaps what we're seeing is Apple deciding to loosen the purse strings and, instead of stashing away obscene piles of money, they've loosened their research focus and now have a lot of people doing whatever the hell they want, much like MS, just because something useful might someday emerge.

Let's face it, Apple has so much money they could probably launch their own space program if they really wanted to.

[1]http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/
We have easier access to computers (not true when I was growing up), we have slightly better tools, but otherwise the barriers aren't much lower. We have more people attracted to the industry-CS is the most popular major now in many schools-programming is still hard even if more people are doing it.

One wonders what could be if programming was easier, being considered as such a basic skill as writing an essay.
I wouldn't be surprised if he photographed the van with the photo in the window to submit to the police as an "updated" photo. He was a software engineer for a few decades and it would fit his sense of humor.
I’ve read a number of articles about the prospect of an Apple car but most have still left me with more questions than answers.

My main questions regarding an Apple car are the following:

1. Apple seems reluctant to chase market share at the expense of profit. The automotive industry is very well established and from my understanding operates on razor thin margins. Apple seems to be a master of the supply chain but much of this has to do with the fact that they ship such large numbers of very similar hardware. Apple doesn’t ship the most smartphones in the world but they do ship the most of a single model and this allows them to put incredible pressure on their suppliers. Does anyone expect Apple to be able to move so many cars that they would be able to put more downward pressure on suppliers than the traditional automakers?

2. If the strategy isn’t to dominate the market and thus assert downward pressure on suppliers then I would assume the strategy would be to sell a premium car that carries higher margins. Apple obviously has a well deserved reputation as a premium product within the computing/electronics space but is it a given that this would translate to the automotive market as well? I don’t particularly care for a brand’s prestige but I know this does inform many consumers’ decision making. Apple might be viewed as a premium brand compared to Samsung/Moto/Lenovo/HP/etc, but would most consumers be willing to pay a premium for an Apple car compared to a BMW or Mercedes?

3. Is there any reason that Apple’s prowess in the electronics supply chain may not translate well to the automotive supply chain? These two industries seem very different to me.

4. Apple, like almost everyone else in the tech industry, uses outsourced manufacturing for the majority of their products. While there are similar contract manufacturers in automotive, they are not nearly as large nor their use as wide spread, to my knowledge at least. Foxconn was already one of the biggest electronics manufacturers even before they started building iPhones for Apple, I don’t think a Foxconn equivalent exists in the automotive world. I would imagine this may present problems for someone like Apple that doesn’t plan on actually building their own cars, or do they?

5. There is considerable risk when launching a car model, even for the established players, I would assume the potential risk for a newcomer would be even greater. Newly introduced cars seem to suffer from more serious and more widespread problems than newly launched smartphones/computers do, although those often suffer problems as well. Does the potential exist that problems encountered with a newly introduced Apple car may carry over to negative perceptions about the broader Apple brand? It seems enormously perilous to me to risk your brand reputation on one specific product line that traditionally tends to be both very low margin and suffer from frequent defects.

I’m curious what others may think of my concerns or if anyone knows of articles that have gone into more depth with regards to my concerns.
> In Scala every major release addresses one or two pain points and migration is very smooth – no "rewrite all your stuff".

Yes, the Java way. Take ten years to implement basic stuff.

I much prefer Swift and C#'s approach to this: first major version bump, things get deprecated. Second bump, they get removed. It worked great for C#, it's going to work great for Swift, which has already seen incredible adoption on iOS.

Scala is moving at a glacial pace in comparison, really not worth bothering with.
WinRT isn't embracing JavaScript because JS is so great, but to make the platform more attractive to web developers. Same with the HTML/CSS-style toolkits.

HTML/CSS, and Chrome tools, are definitely the better part of the web. The really terrible stuff are the JavaScript APIs. Of course there's JavaScript itself, which is gross. But there's no APIs for basic questions: where is the mouse pointer now? And is the mouse button down? How many screens does the user have? What is the width and height of this text? [1] Or anything Unicode-related. Or any sort of precise, pixel-accurate drawing. Web programming means resorting to terrible hacks all the time.

Maybe Electron has its own JS APIs that fix those issues, I don't know. But compared to making a traditional web app, it's a relief to use a real desktop API that actually has coverage of desktop capabilities.

[1] See the ridiculous lengths Atom went to just to figure out how wide a character is: http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/29/atom-1-1-is-out.html
People might be less likely to use Chrome if it was branded as "the DoubleClick browser". :)
Heh. In contrast to most GPS systems, my Audi doesn't outright block the ability to enter destinations whilst en route, but instead says "don't do this while driving", and proceeds to let you do it if you so choose.
You can use Redux with Polymer projects. I've created an element for that: https://github.com/lastmjs/polymer-redux-store
Nope. They were getting sick of having to maintain different versions of the Scala clients because of breaking changes, as per a Kafka committer.
Just because something "exists" doesn't mean it's a good thing. Try to use silence instead of those ummms. You'll notice you'll get much more attention when you're talking. Silence introduces tension to conversations which makes people pay attention. This is based both on theory (there are tons of books out there that talk about this) and practice (mine).
Exactly.

It died for technical reasons because .net supports reified generics, which made it pretty much unable to support Scala's type system.

People who keep saying that erased generics is a stupid idea have no idea what they're talking about.

scala-native is facing insurmountable difficulties, the kind that will certainly not be conquered by a single student who will stop working on it as soon as he graduates.
Proof that you should get a life
Where exactly does it say that you can't start by actually learning how Rails works, before you build things with it?

I think the biases of people who were experienced big system developers before they moved to Rails, are very different from those who started with it, potentially not understanding web app development very well, and then produced something challenging to maintain
I'd like to see them get into construction. They could build residential or office space with amazing attention to detail. I'm imagining the level of design that usually goes into a car interior applied to a home or hotel. There are already builders in China exploring mostly prefab highrises - so imagine if Apple started building a few thousand luxury buildings a year and were able to get the costs down.
I'm going to suppose that your response is fixated on:

> Wholesaler sells short remaining 1300 shares at $10.0290

whereby the wholesaler takes a speculative position wrt the original order?

Are you suggesting that the wholesaler giving you 0.0010 profit on your trade guaranteed, is working against you? Without regard to your execution costs?

Can you suggest a single chain of messages where you make money on that trade? What are the chances where that chain of messages is likely?
With bookmarks, I lose my state. Scroll position matters. The highlighting of search terms (by Ctrl-F in the browser) matters. The content of an unsubmitted form matters. Web site log-in matters.

Even if I didn't lose my state, reloading a bookmark is slow.

With bookmarks, deletion is a pain.

How would I even know when to bookmark something? I might open 10 links from a news site or search engine, each in a different tab. Do you propose that I bookmark them immediately, even though they are probably tabs that I will soon close and never wish to see again? If I see the page and think I want to consider it for a few hours maybe (or longer; how should I know?) do I bookmark it? Perhaps I should wait the few hours or days...? Why should I even have to make this decision?
This is more than an eye for an eye: it is the PD that had its procedures wrong, and you are asking the victims to pay the cost (in terms of the time, money and risk involved in court procedings) of making it right.

In an argument where the authorities are using the cost of repayment as an "argument" -- that's pretty silly.
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Is there real evidence for this? Does Paramount care about ad blocking?

I feel like the simple explanation (DRM is about piracy + a certain worldview about effectiveness about DRM) is a bit easier to believe than a conspiracy.

DRM is being used as a red herring so that movie studios can control web browsers? What?
What Is Contextual Advertisement and How Can My Business Benefit from It?
Um, if it detects an obstacle, how did it hit the trailer?
You misunderstood (and I didn't do a good job of stating my position).

I am NOT saying that taxation is wrong or that we should not pay taxes. We have to pay for the cost of running everything you listed and more.

What I am saying is that waking up every day to a new tax on something else someone pulled out of their ass is wrong. And that using taxation to influence behavior is also wrong.

One tax. That's it. Clean. Clear. Transparent. Full accountability.

Things have devolve to the point where nobody can truly understand how much money we are handing our government in the way of taxes. So many taxes, from so many angles. It ultimately means less money in your pocket and more government waste. They are not accountable for anything at all. And pecking at your money from a million little angles make that easier.

Look at the roads in California. Now they are saying we don't have enough money and have to raise taxes. Really? Where did all of that money we pay at the pump (probably the highest taxed gasoline in the nation) go? I'll be if we look it went into ridiculous pension plans and benefits. So, they've had a party on our dime and now that the roads are falling apart they are going to make us pay for it AGAIN while they all retire on the fat pensions they got with our tax money.

Government has devolved into something sick and disgusting. While we are all busy earning a living they take sweet rides on our backs. Next they are going to tax our farts just so they can throw nicer holiday parties.
But still loses money
Elon Musk is another popular example. His presentation skills are awful. I appreciate that they do away with corporate ultra-PR presentations, he certainly seems more human, but I have a hard time enjoying watching his reveals; they're too far in the unrefined direction.
Google's business is 90% ads and they did $16.35 billion in profit in the last year compared to Apple's $50 billion (from Yahoo Finance). Should Apple focus their efforts to get a chunk of the ad $ out there or focus on a business that utilizes their competencies?
Hi Jason! I read your "Clever Algorithms" book a couple of years ago, and I loved it. I never had a chance to thank you, but since you're here, thank you so much for writing such a fun and interesting book. I just loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in cool algorithms.
IIRC, Tesla has had only one profitable quarter since 2003, its founding.

Last quarter, they had 1.4 Billion in cash and had a $280 Million shortfall. In ONE quarter.

That's AFTER accounting for the +$350 Million-ish they brought in from the Model 3 pre-orders btw. I don't think they are going to repeat the +350ish thousand preorders at +$1000 cash per anytime soon.
> Automotive is a low margin, high liability industry.

It's a lower margin for the classic companies that use a dealer model to sell cars. Direct sales like Tesla have pretty decent margins. It's unlikely Apple would use a dealer model. That's pretty outdated and will eventually go away (though not without kicking and screaming from the existing dealers).

Don't forget many Android phones have awful margins but the iPhone? HUGE margins. Apple sells premium products. Ultimately it won't matter what the margins are for any of the existing companies when they move into a new industry.

> I'm sort of surprised that Microsoft & Amazon are sort of just sitting back, watching. I guess neither of them care so long as the back end is running on their cloud.

I would be surprised if both companies haven't done some research into this. Microsoft's R&D is pretty famous for working on tons of moonshot ideas, many of which never see the light of day. Amazon seems to move into whatever space they think they can get into. Right now they're kicking ass with their brand new AI initiatives so I think they have their hands full (if I were them I'd shove Alexa into every product I could).
Here is a description of Firefox's CDM sandbox:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
Google Maps' advantage has a lot more to do with data than algorithms. Google Now is probably a better example, though I've never used it myself.
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Apple made highly successful hardware, players named iPods. Apple effectively controlled what most users put on these players. The music industry had to consider it. And getting rid of DRM there took many years.
Yeah, that. I think he got a PhD for RCS and what he should have gotten is shown the door. RCS sucks, SCCS is far, far better.

Just as an example, RCS could have been faster than SCCS if they had stored at the top of the file the offset to where the tip revision starts. You read the first block, then seek past all the stuff you don't need, start reading where the tip is.

But RCS doesn't do that, it reads all the data until it gets to the tip. Which means it is reading as much data as SCCS but only has sorta good performance for the tip. SCCS is more compat and is as fast or faster for any rev.

And BK blows them both away, we lz4 compress everything which means we do less I/O.

RCS sucked but had good marketing. We're here to say that SCCS was a better design.
The description of what they hope to achieve is vague, in a good way. I'm sure a lot of people from the rationalist community in the Bay Area, who already admire YC, will love this.
Nice. I'm just hoping you won't find out one day that they didn't forget in the form of an arrest warrant or something like that for failure to pay. (Disclaimer: I live in Melbourne, Australia, so that could just be the stuff of fiction for what I know).
Added my email on my "about box" Thanks Matt - I will email you in morning.
This could easily have been a garage door. And in Tesla's own words, Summon can be used to park in a garage, and handle opening and closing the garage door.

It may not be a sensor failure, but for Tesla's advertised (and this) use case, it definitely is a _design_ failure.
Tesla's official statement:

Safety is a top priority at Tesla, and we remain committed to ensuring our cars are among the absolute safest vehicles on today's roads. It is paramount that our customers also exercise safe behavior when using our vehicles - including remaining alert and present when using the car's autonomous features, which can significantly improve our customers' overall safety as well as enhance their driving experience.
Summon, when used properly, allows Tesla owners to park in narrow spaces that would otherwise have been very difficult or impossible to access. While Summon is currently in beta, each Tesla owner must agree to the following terms on their touch screen before the feature is enabled:
This feature will park Model S while the driver is outside the vehicle. Please note that the vehicle may not detect certain obstacles, including those that are very narrow (e.g., bikes), lower than the fascia, or hanging from the ceiling. As such, Summon requires that you continually monitor your vehicle's movement and surroundings while it is in progress and that you remain prepared to stop the vehicle at any time using your key fob or mobile app or by pressing any door handle. You must maintain control and responsibility for your vehicle when using this feature and should only use it on private property.
Aren't they also pushing to increase the quota? And isn't increasing the quota a good thing?
I only saw Apostle smile once.
It was Gauss' birthday, which he always celebrated in April with a cake. It had the Flux Theorem (Divergence to Surface Integral), and I got the "dx" labeled piece.

I complained that he had given me the smallest piece, and saw just the hint of a curl to his lips.

Hopefully, the "useful theorem"* didn't die with him...

*Apostle always referred to the useful theorem when proving problems in class... if you could figure it out, you were done.
I wish there was an edit button, like SO, on HackerNews.
The idea that Apple is going to "pivot" is fatuous.

Are they working on some non-phone products that they hope will be big? I'm sure they are.

Could they conceivably find that one of those products achieves massive traction and overshadows the iPhone (especially as the market for smartphones cools)? Sure, though I'd bet against it actually playing out like that.

Is Apple making a big planned play to radically deemphasize smartphone sales in a desperate gamble to become a car company? Of course they aren't.

Even if the smartphone market's high-water mark was 2015, Apple has a hugely successful, almost grotesquely profitable product that will -- assuming they don't do something absurd like pivot away from it -- be the source of incredible value for at least a decade and probably much more. On the back of the iPhone, Apple has grown to a market cap that -- even after recent losses, and despite a weirdly low P/E -- is massively higher than the combined market caps of the top five auto companies.
"The cup is blue" feel free to contact me or ask me more questions here.

When you work with tech agent, I feel they have more of a vested interest in the ongoing success of their clients.

I love connecting people to the work they seek. I feel lucky to make a decent living helping others with my unique talent.
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Give me a file that was slow and lets see how it is in BitKeeper. I bet you'll be impressed.

50K lines is not even 3x bigger than the file I mentioned. Which we check out in 20 milliseconds.

As for optimizing blame, you are missing the point, it's not blame, it's merge, it's copy by reference rather than copy by value.
That's not comparable. Toyota used black box data in _court cases_ where they were being accused of negligence, and people were attempting to hold them civilly and financial liable.

This is Tesla managing their PR and saying "if you say anything bad about us, we'll publish to the world your driving history" (or in other cases, as they've already done, disable features and functions in what is supposedly your property, or downgrade the software thereof).
This thinking is twisted. If you smoke intensely all of your life you will die a horrible death for being a moron. That is probably the worst example you could have pulled. There is no excuse for sucking smoke into your lungs. None. If you are looking for sympathy you are not going to find it here. I should not have to pay for the medical care of a smoker. A cancer patient? Absolutely. A smoker? Eat shit (or tobacco) and die.

This also reveals just how royally fucked up our politics have become.

If there's one product that should be absolutely positively banned and hyper-criminalized it is tobacco and cigarettes. Instead, crooked politicians make deals and tax them. Tax them? No!!!! Ban the shit!

Check this out:

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_...

The consequences of smoking are staggering.

So, we use taxes to try to influence behavior and pay costs? Nonsense.

No, taxes should be reserved to pay for the cost of running our government and infrastructure and NOT used for social engineering. That's perverted and it simply does not work. Another case in point: War on Drugs. What a joke.
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> However I really miss a Ember.js as example of successful story.
>Is it a a badly designed framework? Or just there isn't any huge company behind it?

Ember has both. It is not mentioned the purpose of those articles is advertisements, not enlightenment.