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That number is insane, they work with many 3rd party suppliers and any one of those have issues can cause delays for any number of thousand reasons. Tesla also needs to expand their tech support/repair by many folds. Working on cars and computers, any issues is going to take a good amount of time to fix, not even thinking of backlogs. It helps that they literally only have 3 cars, meaning 3 sets of parts to inventory one whatever needs to break, but still the stories of how they handle repair is really amateur.
He does talk about the laptop he uses at the end of the post.

>All tests were performed on a 2015 MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. For all tests the best of three runs was selected for the result.
> Don't kid yourself. The users of Kodi have always been using it to watch their own pirated media collections.

Yes, me included. I think that's an entirely different discussion, but let me just point out that I love to buy content that I own. I do it with music all the time. Buying about 5-10 lossless digital albums is a weekly habit for me.
I can't do that with movies since content creators / publishers don't allow me to buy that kind of content in a digital, DRM-free format I truly own.

- It has to be DRM-free as I want to play it with my media player of choice and possibly long after the service I bought it from may or may not be around any longer.
- While I don't care for the physical medium and would prefer to play the movie in Kodi, it could be Bluray if it wasn't for the long delays between theatrical release, US Bluray release and the release in my country. I don't care for localization. I require the original audio track / language. I'm not content with the delay between US Bluray and local Bluray release while the movie is already available on torrent sites.

Bottom line: I'd gladly pay for movies if it was as easy and consumer friendly as buying music.
How much fallout will F5 really see from this bug though?
1. Booz Allen is the same contractor as Snowden. I wonder at what point does the Govt reconsider their relationship.

2. Thoughts on what he wanted/did with all of that information? It seems extremely amateur and not someone versed in tradecraft to have all of that just sitting around. I wonder if he was selling this stuff on the side, Shadow Brokers tools were definitely govt sponsored.
> not possible to do all at once.

Should have been done 20 years ago. An intrusion detection switch and restrictive policies to lock down hardware access is all you need for a first line of defense. All 1990's tech.
How so?

Who said "it's clearly a win for everyone"?

Obviously people might want to work remotely at the expense of the company and fellow work mates.

If bad practices allow this, then the company and in house people are effected.

Remove them and current employees and the company would be better off?

I don't get the logic?
haha "too big to fail" might be true this time rather than just a fig leaf for brazen corruption like it usually is.
Reminds me of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-gus... with later became Fresh paint.
Google has patented a drone for videoconferencing
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I prefer to give small sums to a wider range of people, and if each of them collected the money directly via Stripe, the per-transaction fee would also already make up 5 % or higher. With patreon, it only is deducted once.
I think you mean getting Cygwin running in wine running in Cygwin.
> Please go back to tumblr until you

You can't attack other people like that on HN, regardless of whether they also broke the rules. You owe better to the community here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597588 and marked it off-topic.
"Get to the top of HN" might be good advice for an ask, though.
People think the interface layer they see is all there is and all developers need to do is add some goodwill to make the software function.
What comment would you think is useful, and why not make that one instead?
> a company that is built around Octave

How many of those are there? I give talks pretty frequently where I start by asking people in the audience what tools they regularly use for technical computing, and I'm legitimately surprised the few times anyone says they use Octave for things beyond classroom-level work.

No offense intended to its developers, but Octave as a project seems like misdirected effort to me. Matlab the language isn't the most useful thing to try to emulate, Matlab the environment and tool set for getting non-software engineering jobs done is why people use it. For example, an increasing portion of the people who still use Matlab do so largely because of Simulink, for which there isn't a comparably effective open source alternative yet (you can sometimes use Modelica but there's less overlap in users than you'd think).
Like that, though I wish it would work with FF/Win10/XPS13 touch screen.
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That would be nice except for when white people feel uncomfortable, everybody else dies. Just because white America voted Trump, white america won't directly feel the butt of the rifle. Also look at who else is in line to assume power as the leading global hegemon. None of the big states are particularly nice players. The US loves bombing civilians in other countries, but so does Russia. And you think we have a problem with silencing scientists who have dissenting opinions from old economic powers? Take a gander over at china. I'm not going to defend the actions of the united States, but it's not like anyone else has been playing nice either.
Similar. I put out free technical blogs and charge for technical books. For a demographic that's allergic to paying, engineers are really profitable.

An extra $30k/year is pretty nice for a sidehustle I think. Mostly on track to do double that this year.

And of course, if a company asks for consulting, I charge. But I'm not focusing on consulting these days.

However a company is paying me to develop tech material for them as a content marketing strategy. At $600/article it's not a bad gig and I'm probably undercharging.

So .. uh .. the answer to your question is Yes, sortof.

You can read more about it here: https://swizec.com/blog/learned-6x-income-4-years/swizec/734...
The easiest explanation would be he just didn't ask YC.
Please don't. It breaks HN's rules to snarkily dismiss new work, especially in Show HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

All new work is vulnerable this way. Sure, most of it won't amount to much, but some will, and we want a culture in which people refrain from trampling on it. Even if you were 100% right in this case, your comment violates the categorical imperative.
This is a flame-war inducing comment if I've ever seen one.

The commenter you were replying to quoted specific, apolitical career advice from Adams and you're answering with highly polarizing politically-motivated comments Adams made elsewhere. If the article itself were related to wage gaps or the past election it would be on topic. It wasn't though.

It's possible to find value in a successful entrepreneur's career advice without agreeing with (or wading into) their political commentary. Would you mind saving these quotes for an article where they won't derail the discussion?
which is A Good Thing. Again, its those accounting people again "whats the difference between this and the free version".

Selling open source is like selling any other enterprise software - you need to prove value.

An alternative is to sell support (like pfsense).. which is pretty much the right to file bugs. We also buy a license for Handsontable Pro : we get right to file bugs and the fact that we get new features 3 months before the free version.

Its just a way to package gratitude-ware to pass accounting inspection.
If I take your brownie that's a brownie you can no longer sell or eat, this isn't the case when you copy software. If they stole a brownie you threw in the trash would you still call them a thief?
Should be easy since main app is in electron
How you managed to make Keybase.dmg 72MB when any Electron app is 120+?
They conceal it more than they should, but you can shut Cortana off and create a local-only account.
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Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13604684 and marked it off-topic.
See a history of fluid sim applied to watercolor-like painting: http://www.expresii.com/blog/innovations-in-digital-painting...
A quick look at David Li's source code seems to suggest Li's work is based on Mark Harris' GPU implementation (with Jacobi iteration) of Jos Stam's method.
Why such acidity towards Mathworks? I've use Matlab decades ago with someone elses licensing so I don't really know the details.

"our entire purpose for working on Octave is to make sure people don't have to use Matlab."

That's a really negative way to put it. Isn't Scilab a viable Matlab alternative as well. Are you hoping to block people from using that as well? What about Intel's fortan compiler...

The point is, it's much more approachable to describe things in positive terms rather than negative when all you are essentially doing is offering a product in a not-ruled-by-monopoly market.
Little to none, but I think this story was actually genuinely cool to read for some reason. I still can't put my finger on it.
The JVM has been capable of this for a while. I think the overhead of profiling and applying optimizations has always been greater than any efficiency gains.
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. I realize you might have just intended it as a rhetorical question, not a personal attack, but the internet doesn't do such fine distinctions. Please just keep away from that rail.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13596131 and marked it off-topic.
I think by "average successful" he means something like being able to pay rent and raise children (if that's a goal) and living to retirement age.
> They're getting their money's worth out of that billion dollar acquisition last March. I think Kyle Vogt is GM's MVP.

Many people, including me, were critical of the acquisition; acquiring an year-old company barely having any technological breakthrough for a billion dollars sounded like a folly. Slowly, it has become clear that the impetus behind the deal wasn't necessarily acquiring the technology but bring an ardent person on board who can accelerate GM's self-driving efforts. I have a feeling this deal would cast itself as one of the pivotal moments in the company's history.
That sounds sensible. Hopefully @nsqe is reading this and responds. :)
> James Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there

No, it's a disproven theory that has been superseded by the far more elegant notion of Lorentz symmetry.

> The years after, towards the end of the nineteen century, is full of scientists claiming incredible discoveries

Cranks are a constant presence.

> Imagine you had a grid of antennas and that you could adjust the phase and frequency of each as to get the signals from all of them to be in-phase at a specific point.

I look forward to the calculation here!
When he first announced that goal, his two top production people quit.[1] Now he has a guy from Audi heading up production.

Auto production lines usually produce about a car a minute. 500,000 cars a year is about two production lines running two shifts. In 2005, the NUMMI plant, which is where Tesla is now, produced 400,000 cars with 4,700 employees. Tesla is talking about reaching 9,300 employees. They do more than final assembly there, but still, that's a high headcount for an auto plant. Ford's Kentucky truck plant also produces about 400,000 units a year with about 4,500 employees.

[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20160504/OEM02/160509943/2-t...
Argh! Please remove the typing animation! It's flipping between one two and three lines jerking the whole screen around on my phone.
THIS.

Absolutely. I love my electric car for this reason and I _hate_ it when I'm in our hybrid and the dumb yellow E comes on and I have to make an unplanned pitstop.

I also got over range anxiety pretty quickly too: I've taken our Model S from Portland to Yosemite twice. With little kids, the time to supercharge is less than the time needed to get get them all snacks, potty breaks, stretch, etc. It was great!

PS: Just noticed that the last like 10-15 comments I've made are all about Tesla. I should probably get a new hobby :P
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It's a story about competent people handling a bug responsibly. Nothing sensational, but deeply satisfying nonetheless.
Oohh! i was looking for this!
i remember seeing this a few years ago and being really impressed. It looks pretty good, although im not much of an artist so i dont know how it compares to the paid competition. The UI could use some work though.

it took me a while to figure out but im having a lot of fun with it. performs surprisingly well for me on only an intel integrated card.
I have an original iPad. It doesn't get connected to the net. So, no way to get the app on there, and it probably wouldn't work for iOS ~5.1.1 anyway. ;)

That being said, it hadn't clicked that a non mobile (eg laptop/desktop) version of it could exist.

The wikipedia page for it says it's strictly mobile only[1], as does the Google install info page[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Authenticator

[2]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447

Oh well.
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Some ideas for OP:

- Evangelize Octave in education, especially K-12. Community for Octave is rather small and K-12 education has lots of potential users and money.

- Apply for NSF grants

- Create specialized plugins that people might want to pay for commercial usage. Think of it as your consulting gig.

- Write book not on just using Octave but something more generic like fun with math that can have larger audience.

- Create an edition like Octave Gold for $5 which has zero feature differences but has some cool logo or chrome or fun cosmetic thing. You will be surprised how many people want to pay for it.
Some folks might find it interesting that Thomas Massie is an MIT alum, former entrepreneur, and junkyard wars competitor.

http://news.mit.edu/2002/two-teams-mit-battle-it-out-tvs-jun...
Because of my prior knowledge on how the subconscious works to solve problems, I had a feeling that I understood that part of the course better than most people, but maybe not. I do wish though that they would really highlight just how much work the brain can do on its own if you prime it a little with information on a daily basis. Same goes for sustained aerobic exercise which creates new neurons that can be recruited to remember new things.
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Just give them some random password. They're not going to test it on a device for every visitor. If they come back after a few days saying your password doesn't work, just tell them you changed it for security purposes.

If they do force you to give a working password at the point of entry, keep a random password generator like last pass and tell them you use a random password generator.
I found it cool also and ultimately I'm Filippo's boss. The fun part is that he found this by accident while debugging a customer problem and he worked quietly with F5 to disclose (so quietly I found out about this a couple of days ago).

Also Filippo does a good job of telling the story in his blog post. I don't get the "fallout for F5" part. A bug was found, a vendor informed, everyone worked together in a responsible manner. Happiness!
The plumber can't execute change-washer.sh and have his job done in 1 second. The plumber can't use "down time" to proactively solve future issues. A sysadmin does have a higher level of abstraction available to them.
I think that's almost certainly false. JIT'd java is almost certainly faster than bytecode interpreted java.

edit: or do you mean that the overhead of applying optimizations and profiling outweigh the performance gains relative to compiling from something like c directly to machine code?
You are comparing yourself to others. That's what's happening. You aren't the only one.
Boost is not the "C++ standard regex library", it's one of the best known C++ libraries.
A bold move, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.
If we implement a 60 minutes deadline and a 10 minutes grace period, we might as well just set the deadline to 50 minutes and be done with it.

I'm an advocate for a hybrid approach. Get machines to do the bulk of all the work, and have a human handle problems, edgecases, and "bending the rules for loyalty".
I've been recommending this to people who don't have time to dive in to Curtis' work. It's a great introduction to his thinking.
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If only legacy didn't exist, and I can't think of a way to toggle iframe and form without js =\

I guess we're almost all on evergreen browsers now anyway...
Sarkozy is prosecuted for several charges regarding the funding of his electoral campaigns (who cost far more than what the law allows), and it is now extremely likely that Gaddafi is illegally involved. Prior to that, Chirac had strong ties with Charles Pasqua, whom he appointed Interior Minister -- Pasqua was clearly linked to the Corsican mafia and he later funded the infamous SAC -- muscle from the mafia to counter the OAS. As for Mitterand, he made it possible for Berlusconi to invest in France via Mediaset and "La Cinq", among others.

So there's a long history of shady ties at the very top of the French institution, pretty often in the form of what was deemed as a "necessary evil", but corruption nonetheless. That's pretty much summarizes the spirit of the French Fifth Republic, anyway: "we go to do what we got to do, and the public wouldn't understand".
Yes, they lose money on bolts or at least break even. I'm trying to find the source on it but from what I read the reason they are making the bolts is to get ZEV credits that'll offset their larger & more profitable trucks and gain experience in building electric cars so if (when?) they have to compete head to head with Tesla on a larger scale that they'll have the knowledge to do so.
Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars are moved around everyday by excel and VBA scripts? Sometimes I've replaced these with real code and they complain it doesn't replicate the VBA errors.
Downvoters probably prefer Dan Nainan jokes.
Sorry, but $35k isn't "pretty cheap" for the majority of the US.
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I think people who have attitudes like this are misguided. If you don't like working for Elon or at Tesla, don't. There is only one Tesla while there are tons of other companies you can have a "good" work/life balance at.
> I then had the pleasure of experiencing some of these much-lauded “human touch points” first-hand on my travels back to NYC from abroad

> the clerk, who had apparently been craving some human touch points herself, had left her post to converse with the other clerk on the far side of the store. I ventured across the store to give them my money and was made to feel like I had barged into their private living room, demanding to be served

Was "abroad" France? Sounds like it (I'm French).

Anyway, the problem with AI isn't that we'll miss the so-called, and probably non-existent, "human touch". It's that it doesn't work.

(Examples given in the article, of vending machines and automated checkout, don't have much to do with AI).

See translation for example. It's not that automatic translations are bad, it's that they're incomprehensible: you couldn't guess what the text means if your life depended on it.

In Europe, Amazon offers to translate your listing in all marketplaces' languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian) when you create it for just one; that produces gibberish and results in zero sales, until you use an professional (human) translator.

Google translate, despite their recent bragging about a revolutionary update, is no better. Small example: in French, "coup de coeur" means something you love at first sight ("j'ai eu un coup de coeur pour cet appartement" => I fell in love with this place at first sight). But Google translate translates "coup de coeur" with "heart stroke"

https://translate.google.fr/#fr/en/coup%20de%20coeur

which is beyond wrong (in no context ever can this meaning ever occur). I noticed this because on some forum a user was describing his blogging activity as writing about his heart strokes and I wondered how many he had had and how it was possible to still blog about them.

Back to human interactions: machines are great when the outcome is discrete and completely predictable; using a vending machine, buying things from Amazon, checking in at the airport, etc.

But when some creativity is needed, machines can become super annoying; calling customer support and finding oneself interacting with a robot makes you want to murder someone (but there isn't anyone left to murder).
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I think you're forgetting content creators that aren't developers - although to be fair I don't see why you can't create an interface for the user that spits out / retroactively updates old pages/links/images.

There is definitely a trade-off between ease-of-use and cost-of-use and I feel this gap is bridged by the content created by those who could not publish bare bones.
Computers should be seen as turbocharged bureaucracies. They're great for simple, repeatable, and well-defined tasks. Once you venture past that, however, everything breaks down and refuses to work.
What was the business using? Clover, Rebel, NCR? On the pinpad itself, every vendor has limited control, and as you get into the smaller vendors, it comes down to where they just have to take what Verifone & Ingenico provide.
But how do you disable CPU throttling on an intel macbook to do accurate benchmarks?