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As for the one-click payment system that helped build both their online stores, the US patent to that expired in September 2017.

I could understand allowing a months-long patent of this kind, but 18 years seems about an order of magnitude too long.
In that case, Tesla would have lived and died happier if he'd had a Musk around to help him find a way to scalably and sustainably bring what he invented to the world.
Hi dnomad. Though I'm personally inclined to agree with the gist of your arguments, the way you're presenting them violates the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Even if you believe someone is arguing in bad faith, the exercise of responding to their best possible interpretation forces us to sharpen our own arguments and makes us stronger. It's a worthwhile constraint.

I hope you'll find a way to accommodate yourself to the guidelines and stick around; if not, I hope you'll find a venue that suits you. Regardless: keep on keepin' on, amigo.
The "this sort of thing" question matters more generally. One stupid patent expiring doesn't stop the next tranche of stupid patents coming into existence.
Bootstrapped a fitness app (Bruiserfit - https://bruiserfit.com/) with a friend based on my own measurable high-intensity physical training workouts. We built the first version not really knowing what we were doing, slapped AdWords on it, but users never came. We couldn't get past the activation phase - the initial product wasn't intuitive and compelling people to workout is challenging. Over the past couple years we've iterated on the user experience to an adequate state, but we still lack retention. It seems like the format is still confusing for beginners and that most people simply don't want to train themselves to do tough, fast bodyweight workouts.

On the technical side, we used Rails 5 and followed the Thoughtbot playbook. But neither of us were very experienced in native development, which prevented us from offering many of the bells and whistles that other market offerings provide. If I had to do it all over again I would probably give it a shot with React + Firebase.

Like others have said here, democratically running an equally shared company with friends sounds better on paper than it is. Different personal beliefs and approaches often lead to deadlock. Communication is essential to avoiding resentment. It gets easier with practice, but there was still too much to juggle for us and not enough time, know-how, and motivation.

We still casually hack at the project on the side. My cofounder and his wife swear having the project on his resume landed him his current and very comfy gig. I'm still waiting to see if anything beyond the experience itself comes out of it for me.
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Riding on the rare occasions there's snow on the ground in London is great. Assuming you can avoid snow in your chain (which causes it to skip the sprockets), the roads are empty - no cars, no busses, it's lovely.
>I wouldn't think of my body as private property.

Which it is fine.

But unless you are totally naked, your body (not your private property) is covered by your private property and/or carries it.

It is clear that a car occupies a lot more space than your clothes and carry-on belongings, but as said earlier that is only quantitative and not qualitative.

And cars don't kill people (yet), their drivers may.
That’s not really the same thing at all - listening for a deliberate transmission from a ship announcing its location is easy, required only an antenna, and can be done from a cubesat.

This is an active radar in space.
Not sure why's you're getting down voted. I guess because your comment is considered whataboutism and the patent is not defending Apple. But yes, for example, Apple's slide to unlock phone patent is equally as dumb.
>>Managers are expected to coordinate, set priorities, negotiate about deadlines and scope of project, plan and re-plan, explain why we are going to be late

You are describing a Project Manager. It’s a different role than a department manager.
Why can't I install the Zotero Connector in Safari 12?
I find animal farming fascinating because they are basically just miniature bio-factories - converting feed and other additives into a higher-value food product. Of course, each different animal converts feed at a different rate of efficiency and over a different timeframe, in different controlled environmental conditions.

I think there is a huge appetite out there for tasty, cheap, nutritious food. Fast food mega-companies are ignoring a huge opportunity here - imagine if McDonalds (or equivalent) was a food choice your could healthily eat for every meal? They would be better off thinking as their food as part of daily nutrition, instead of a meal out. They could adjust their operations and menus accordingly - with a significant increase in revenue.
Until the 1950s most heavy things were moved by water.

I still can't believe how much I can pack into a canoe, probably as much as I can into a pick-up truck. Running down a lake or river, with a canoe, is even a smoother ride than a car on a regular road.

The first passenger trains were actually designed to move people from the city to the countryside. Once they achieved regular service people figured they can commute into the city, and started to live in the country.
One of the most interesting experiences in my life was visiting Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur. On that day all car traffic is prohibited (also TV stations are offline etc). It was absolutely amazing. Tel Aviv is a city with large roads and usually extremely busy. On that day, cyclists ride over the highway, kids play on the streets. I never felt that directly before how invasive the normal car situation is.

Here's a photo https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2015/09/F141003...
Unwillingness to change, plus a STRONG unwillingness to be told to change.
There shouldn't be any doubts, it's definetly will not be 2023 and its not the point.
Everytime Elon mentions date, media just takes it for granted and repeats itself everytime the deadline is missed.
In reality, if you have only broad understanding what is needed to be done and you can only make assumptions about how long it will take, you still need to target some specific dates and try to stick to them even if more often then not, you will miss these deadlines. In this case its the date if everything would go to the plan perfectly. But we are not living in the perfect world and who knows that difficulties could accur or how long they could take. How you can incorporate these in your predictions?
Its very difficult to properly predict big projects and this type of projects are in scale which is even more insanely difficult.
That's fair, perspective from actual founders definitely is a more interesting point of view.

Didn't want to give an off-topic anecdote but thought from my experience seeing what can go wrong for founders of a start-up I would share my experience.
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Head over to /r/wallstreetbets if you'd like to get a nice dose of adrenaline / heart attack.
That’s just not how the Internet works and it’s never how it worked. This old article from Cisco (based on a 1999 book) explains that there can be various kind of business arrangements in an interconnected network: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/press/internet-protocol-.... The article likens the situation to airlines, where multiple transit providers might be involved and where there may be complex fee sharing arrangements between all the providers.

Note that this book predated the rise of streaming video providers by more than a decade. Back then, nobody thought that delivery of content over the Internet was this simple one-sided transaction. It’s a new view of the Internet that has arisen because it suits the interests of these very lucrative streaming businesses.
Wonderful wonderful website.

What happends to quirky people like this when they leave university and enter the industry?
Apple's pricing for a battery replacement - which I've never needed, and I tend to keep my devices for about three years - is about the same as the price of a new battery from a third-party vendor, and it comes from installation. I've had to replace two screens, and Apple's price is the same as the mall kiosk - and it'll be first-party parts, maintain the warranty, and my fingerprint sensor will still work right.

Apple devices (both laptops and phones) have a dramatically higher resale value than others, so that bit of your argument baffles me.
I think you are really confused here.

The problem with Reddit isn't the subreddit home pages it's the article comment pages. There are so many of them, people routinely comment/upvote months old articles and the distribution is unpredictable so it can be difficult to know what to cache.

And there isn't a datastore on this planet that could handle an event log like what you are proposing. Reddit would receive hundreds of thousands/millions of votes a second.
Just a side question: Did you also happen to found that you're more likely to going into a store when walk by it compare to drive by? (assuming you can park your car right at the spot and no charge)
And you just reinvented timezones yet informally.
> cars (especially privately owned ones) just do not make sense going forward

Inside cities that is. One must remember that a lot of the people that move around in a city every day don't live in the city. And for many of them a car is a requirement anyway. For me the car is a sunk cost - I have it for the rare times I need it (I don't need it to go into the city), but buying/maintaining/insuring it is mostly a fixed cost, meaning that the marginal cost of each mile driven is very very small. I wouldn't mind if my city was made car free tomorrow - but I still wouldn't drive any less.
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> Can Masque manipulate people?
> No, not entirely. Masque causes cognitive bias in people's behaviors.

So, no manipulation, just an effective sugestion that changes behavior. {/sarcasm}
I like the W3C WebSub standard (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) which uses RSS/Atom underneath to syndicate content. The only catch is that it requires a publicly visible URL for callback. This is great for services like Feedly but may not work for individual subscribers who just want to use a client application and not run a server with public facing URL. But maybe, this is better than running a Mastodon server because we can still have the benefits of a simple Atom format and protocol.
I still don't get the love ( real or manufactured ) for VS Code. There are far better tools to use on linux. On windows, you should use visual studio. VS Code doesn't make much sense unless you want to install additional spyware.

It's funny to see people say how "light" VSCode is when they use it as a glorified notepad for a few days. Then they install more and more extensions and then slowly VS Code evolves into Visual Studio.
How cold/humid on average is it?

Where I live, temperatures between 2C to -5C make the worst driving conditions (you're typically dealing with a mix of freezing rain, snow, ice, and slush).

Even though it's colder, -20C and just snowing isn't as bad to drive in.
> Some of the family members wanted us to get the others arrested but this isn't so easy when you are family. It literally ends up with you getting your cousin's dad arrested, the same cousin you grew up playing soccer with

I grew up in the Southeastern US. Here, getting your cousin's dad arrested is a Tuesday. ;)

In all seriousness, sorry you had to go through this, and glad you took away good lessons. On the other side of the coin, never feel guilty about getting what's owed to you.

You're the only one you can trust to have your interests at heart.
I agree. I think that there is a transition point where slow moving cars and people can intermingle. A third option, a hybrid.
Most use cases are solvable with bikes, strollers, buses, and perhaps car rentals outside the city limits.
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I ride a motorcycle year long in Paris, it's definitely not comfortable during the harshest winter days but with proper gear it's definitely doable. Spring and Autumn is fine, you just need waterproof gear for rainy days. At lower speeds and with exercise keeping you warm riding a bicycle is probably even less of an issue.

Sure, on rainy or super cold days it's not like it's as comfortable as a car but you'd have to pay me to drive a car around Paris or any big european city at rush hour.
My medium-sized city made its main retail street pedestrian-only in the 80s. It quickly died and nearly all stores went out of business. The road was re-opened to traffic and now the area is booming.

One size doesn't fit all. What is your personal preference may not be others' prefereces.

Making a blanket statement like cars "are not effective in today's society" is profoundly off base.
But in the US, it is the (vast) minority who wants to live a pedestrian lifestyle.

If you look around the US you will see that even today, investment in suburbia far outpaces investment in "urbanism".

Trucks and SUVs are slowly cannibalizing sedan sales in the US. So not only do people like driving, the vehicles they tend to purchase are increasing in size.

If you are suggesting that society somehow prioritizes the 0.3% of young single males who want to live as pedestrians in urban cores...put it to a vote and watch what happens.

This entire thread is about optimizing cities for young single males. I can't wait until HN turns a median age of seventy...everyone will be in here screaming about a society that punishes the aged.
> The thing is, publicly shaming someone is a very lazy way to effect change.

Effective, too! Sounds like a win for me, a human being who isn't paid to ensure that other companies keep their systems secure.
This isn't necessarily a transportation problem. The question is "what kind of transportation?". A full (electric) bus is vastly more efficient than 20-50 SUVs carrying nothing more than their driver regardless if you do it on the surface or underground. And you don't need tunnels or even most of today's infrastructure if most surface traffic is public transportation.

Musk's idea basically focuses on moving cars underground if I understood correctly. It should focus on moving most of the public transport underground and simply "decommissioning" some of the road infrastructure from the surface.

A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city,

no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels).

That's not the solution if still you plan on having every person and their car move around. Maintaining the infrastructure for cars on the surface is already expensive and inefficient. Suddenly we can do it better or cheaper by multiplying it underground? You won't get rid of any of today's problems except one: drivers will be able to move from one side of a city and create a traffic jam on the other in no time.

Tunnels are great if you plan on connecting a few hubs spread around a city. From there you can use the most efficient surface transportation available. A bike, a bus, a tram, even on foot.

One lesson that most city planners learned in time is that the more infrastructure you build for cars, the more cars you'll have clogging it. The solution is o discourage the reliance on cars in cities and it worked every time it was applied.
True, though I don’t know if it would have the same effect today. There’s 5000 people living downtown today, which is very new.

When I go downtown, I usually don’t park on Fayetteville, I usually park a few blocks away and walk.
The irony about all of this is that you can live a perfectly normal life without Amazon, Facebook or Google these days. We sat around and watched in fascination and then horror as these companies became the "BAADD" companies they are today. Why does anyone expect them to self regulate? When you grow a business to this size, you not only learn a lot about your product and business but you also learn a lot about manhandling DC. As long as lobbying is a thing (FB has spent around $7 million this year alone), this is the shit sandwich we're all going to be eating for awhile.
He is "recalling" from other information at the time. I don't think most apple products were for sale on Amazon at that time, but that's not really what he's talking about.

He's referencing that other ecommerce sites (e.g. walmart) couldn't just say "oh, one click buying is a good idea, and an obvious one, so we'll implement it too". By having Apple pay significant money for right to use the patent, it adds validation that it isn't a frivolous patent, and actually a useful, non-trivial, non-obvious solution which warrents being licenced.

It gave Amazon much better ground to file patent infringement against any competitor that attempted a 1 click checkout solution without licensing the patent, both improving chance of further licensing and reducing the chance competing ecommerce platforms would implement the feature without licensing it through Amazon.
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It's funny because most of them said the opposite socially, specifically saying how they thought I was quite personable compared to other candidates.

I think more likely it was experience as I was in the midst of changing careers. The unfortunate part is they could have seen that on my resume and from our phone calls (not that they pay much attention).

I actually suspect a lot of my meetings were a case where my preference level was low but they were meeting with me to sort of bank a contact they might use in the future.... but not likely now. I suspect this as after I got a job, several have suddenly followed up with me after ignoring me in the meantime....
The people in snowy climates who are going slow are the better drivers. Moving isn't the problem, stopping is.

Personally, i'd say there's a pecking order from awesome to awful for the median driver in snow as follows: Buffalo/Vermont natives, NYC/Boston, DC Metro/South, Florida/Texas.

Likewise, if you're from the Northeast, driving in rain in the southwest is surprisingly hazardous.
Indeed, this is someone who's happy to spend $100m on a picture.
You realise that Reddit is over 10 years old. There would have been trillions of votes since then.

What database are you thinking that could store all of those and then I assume aggregate them ? Kind of curious about this proposed architecture.
Refusing to meet them also would seem to close a door when you're looking for any option you can.
Yes, just wave a wand and instantly transform thousands of existing low-density cities and suburban neighborhoods into little European villages. I’m convinced, cars will be useless in short order.
I'm in exactly your boat, also interested in an answer. I'm amazed how far I've gotten with a fuzzy understanding of both fundamentals and details, and trial and error. But I'm not a muddle-through engineer anywhere else, and this slow half-blind process is frustrating. If it makes you feel any better though, it seems there's a lot of us out there, something about css encourages many to make do with muddling through.
If you want I can forward you the contact of a person that does exactly what you need. Just throw me an email and I'll set you up.
GMT and UTC are not semantically the same though. In this case UTC makes more sense as it doesn't depends on Greenwich time.

GMT should be defined by UTC, but not the other way around
Why is that interesting? Limiting it to 3 makes it hard. If you allow an arbitrary amount then you can just represent the number in unary and call it a day.
> there are strict time limits on when delivieries can be made, e.g. 6-8am when barriers are open to let vehicles in and out.

That is nuts.

That means a plumber, electrician, home appliance deliveryman, mover, etc. can only handle one job requiring a vehicle per day. He will have to charge 3-4 times more for his services than someone working in an area where it's feasible to finish 3-4 jobs in a workday. The costs are of course passed on to the customers. Is their car-less life worth living in a pigsty that they can't fix up because laws force contractors to charge exorbitant fees?

That means any business will want a dedicated vehicle to haul what they need in the 6-8 am window. This is not just grossly economically inefficient (no outsourcing delivery to third parties), it results in more vehicles sitting idle during the day, using up parking space!

And that means moving is a nightmare. Moving a two-bedroom apartment worth of stuff into or out of a truck is, realistically, at least a four hour job. That means a cross-town move that could be done in one workday with sane laws will take at least four workdays (two to load the truck, two to unload) in your crazy UK town. Imagine the costs. How is it moral for you to shackle your people to the land by making relocation unaffordable?
Didn't get it. State machines are the very first basics of any degree in computer science. You learn that such models are the basis for any computation. You also learn that no one uses such formalizations in practice because they are way too complex.
> The chip in question, the Allwinner A13, is a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. While it’s not much

When did 1 GHz cores become "not much" for small embedded systems?
Ask HN: How do you wake up in the morning?
What's your pre-work routine? I can't seem to consistently wake up at the hours I want.
During the live event this was one of the question on Q&A. Yusaku told that he'll probably invite Musk on a ride with him. He smiled and told something on-par "why not".
> Seconded, Ghent in belgium is also pretty cool car-wise. It has so-called pedestrian-centric planning. For example, the city centre may not be entered with a car, only by foot, bicycle or public transport. It's great.

Louvain La Neuve (in french-speaking belgium) has an interesting take on this: the entire city is on a concrete slab, topside is entirely pedestrian, and underslab hosts car streets and parkings.
Just give up on modern software and join the demoscene.
On the other hand, with some Java/JVM knowledge, they are very helpful. Whenever I come across supposedly nice error messages in most other languages, I'm convinced more and more that stacktraces are one of the right ways to do it...
I don't know the answer to this. In Berlin I had no car and walked everywhere near my flat. Just strolling around I would end up finding shops, cafes, whatnot. When I used public transportation I had a destination in mind. So it was more purposeful and I didn't normally casually find a store when I used public transportation.

Now that I'm in the U.S. except for one street I never casually go to a store. Everything is purposeful. In the U.S. I go to the store because I need to and it's not a chance encounter. I know where I'm going and what I want to get.

Though I hate the huge, ugly parking lots and what they represent. I tend to purchase stuff online and rarely go to a store these days. I do try to go for walks frequently but that is to get outside and I don't shop when I do this.
Keep learning those two, they are valuable in the job market. Don't lose core focus on language (js) vs framework/tooling. Knowing the core language is the adaptable skill.
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second that, wholeheartly.
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