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I'm skeptical about Tesla's future, but not because I doubt their product. The Roadster was an amazing, unique vehicle that wasn't priced so high it was unattainable, at least to the moderately wealthy. There are plenty of Mercedes on the road that approach the Roadster's price. I'm skeptical because they weren't able to turn a profit on the Roadster. As far as I can tell, they sold each one for a loss and even then weren't able to produce enough to meet demand.

I have no doubt that the sedan will be an amazing, unique vehicle, but Tesla still has to prove itself at the nuts-and-bolts of the auto business: manufacturing, retailing, and service.
Wow audio galaxy looks amazing! I love the pin feature and easy publish to Facebook. Just downloaded. Also like that it doesn't force me (a la iTunes match) to fill up my phone with 256kbps files--I think apple wants to sell larger GB devices. Good reviews too. Lol I haven't thought about audio galaxy since 1999. Congrats!
The TPM-based measured boot isn't part of the UEFI secure boot specification. It's a separate TCG spec. Secure boot doesn't use the TPM and doesn't support remote (or even local) attestation.
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Ask HN: What is the legal status of ride sharing in the US?
I'm interested to know if there are legal boundaries to ride sharing in the US? Based on a question raised in the Ridejoy thread earlier, it was mentioned there that a service couldn't be a taxi service, presumably because of permit requirements. It also appears there's some Californian legislation that requires people commuting do so only to and from work and not leave state boundaries. I'm not a lawyer and I don't know the law in regards to this but these kind of guidelines seem a little strange to me. Is this commonplace? Could a service facilitate transactions between a person selling a seat and a person buying said seat or would that somehow be illegal?
I really hope that Tesla can actually become a profitable company, because it's time we had some real innovation in terms of car technology. I'm not a car buff or an environmental buff, but having a real zero-emissions car that will help get rid of our dependence on oil just makes sense.

However, can any experts educate me on the status of the Li-ion battery? My understanding is that Li-ion batteries lose 30% of their capacity over 2-3 years. So what does that mean for the range of the Tesla cars? My Honda Accord lasted 11 years and 200k miles, it doesn't sound like Teslas have nearly the same durability and range. Is this a ticking time bomb, or is there a solution to this?
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I'm an open source person and I care for EFI :)

It looks like some Free Software people (along with the coreboot) guy don't care for EFI, due to IP issues.

However, Free Software hardware (and peripheries like coreboot) efforts rarely seem to gain the kind of sizable acceptance required for these kinds of endeavors.

It looks like the coreboot guy, Stefan, works for Google. So that may be a possible "in" (for example, future Chromebooks).
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Would pseudo-code be permitted as well?
Another difference is that by buying music the albuns are yours forever, and with a service like this when you stop paying you got nothing left.
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It is strange that we haven't made this as comfortable an experience as our modern technologies/engineering allow. It's the equivalent of us still using the same type of mattress they used in the 1920's. I sleep on a "sleep number" and it's WAY more comfortable. I should be able to take a deuce on a way more comfortable toilet. Heated seat, automated flushing and paper dissension, automated seat rising and collapsing. When you are done using it, it should revert to a "closed" or "sleep" mode. The flush should be a pleasant sound enhanced by audio of your choosing etc. It should be a personalized experience.
I don't know, I would rather have my TV content aggregated with a consistent interface.

I just want more options on how a pay for programming. Let me subscribe to a show, to a channel, to a category, and to a bundle.
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Show HN: Helping groups or teams easily organize themselves.
Hello,

My co-founders and I have just launched our website http://readymixteams.com . Our goal is to help groups or teams organize themselves by providing an easy way to schedule, communicate and collect money. Our site is completely free to signup!

In a future release we will also be including a custom clothing store for each individual team.

Any feedback would be great!
I got my Logitech Revue as part of a promotion by Google, and I agree with you -- I'm glad I didn't pay for it.

It just didn't do anything spectacular or exciting. The browser is cool, but I always have my iPad 2 with me at the sofa so it was rendered pretty much useless. Also, no apps (until now, if Logitech updates).
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Yeah really, what's the opposing? "Ho-grammer?" no good.
> They only have 500-600 million accounts (and not all of those are active).

Nope, we have 800+ million monthly active users (logged in w/i the past month). On one day, we had 500+ million active users in a single day. Though I don't know the exact number, it's probably safe to assume that not every account was logged into in the past month (people pass away, etc.), so the number of accounts is probably larger than 800 million.
No, but this is a common misconception. Though the summaries talk about "sold to users", the license itself defines "sale" in such a way as to include zero-cost distribution:

"Sale (Sell) (Sold) (Seller) – shall mean any sale, rental, lease, license, copying, transfer, reproduction, Transmission, or other form of distribution of an AVC Product or the Transmission by any means of AVC Video either directly or through a chain of distribution."

This is consistent with the discussions I've been party to with the MPEG-LA directly.

Edited to add: I would very much appreciate a reference to MPEG-LA saying the things you indicate in your comment. It would be very interesting to be able to point to those statements, in a number of ways.
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Tilestream totally blew my mind. Great demo effect!
You're right, of course. While I believe that the MPEG-LA's enforcement practices are not non-discrimatory as it's claimed to be, that's a different discussion, and it wasn't appropriate to single x264 out that way.

I apologize.
I don't believe they have 800 million. I think an active account counting as "an account that has logged in within 30 days" is skewing the stats beyond belief.

They have more like 500 million active right now.
You could spin this further. Me thinks SJ might have been wrong with his analogy of "trucks" and PCs. Perhaps instead, TVs will become the center of processing power and memory/state in the home, with tablets/phones, in combination with an external keyboard, accessing the power like terminals used to in the 70s, except the mainframe is now in your living room instead of n km away. That would also require a unified OS so it's not one or two generations away. Still, this could be something to think about...
update: "customer satisfied" http://www.ecatnews.net/2011/10/28/e-cat-plant-shutting-down...

http://twitter.com/#!/PESNetwork

wiki updates http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:October_28%2C_2011_Test_of...

photos from earlier this month http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:October_28%2C_2011_Test_of...

maillist discussion http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/
Ask HN: How do market place startups collect payments?
All marketplaces like (eg: Vayable) collect payments from one party and then send that payment to a third party after taking a cut. I've seen that most payment systems (including Paypal, Amazon, Google, Stripe) do not allow these kind of transactions per their terms of service.

These are known in the industry as Third Party Payment Aggregators (ie like Amazon, Paypal themselves) and its very hard if not impossible to get a payment service to take you on if your doing this kind of a business.

How do these startups get around this?
It is pretty clear that if Apple were to enable unknown sources (my comment was more of an unlikely hypothetical intended to point out that Apple isn't really that jailbreak friendly), it would void all warranties and be very detectable. Also, just like Android, it could easily be turned off in enterprise settings.
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Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different genre. They also have tons of small, high quality bands.

The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one.

It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the adobe air desktop app is lightweight and responsive. Nice bonus: you can have up to 2 or 3 computers streaming music on the same account simultaneously.

Seriously, I cannot emphasize enough how awesome Pandora is.

Windows 7 in the US; YMMV elsewhere.
I use meditation. same idea though, keeps the mind sharp.
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I go talk to people face to face.
No. The purpose of "accreditation", like all regulations, is to distort the market for investment in favor of established interests, namely the friends of the politicians in power at the time they passed the law. This profits politicians as well, by giving them a favor to trade, to the detriment of startups and small time investors across the country.

You can lose $20,000 in a weekend at a casino, but you can't invest it in your brother's startup.
The same way you can be a wingman and not be male.
If it works, we'll just figure out a way to make nickel (or whatever material eventually becomes the catalyst) scarcer. For that matter, it might trigger a Water Rush because the assholes who run the world's govts don't like to share.

If it doesn't work, then it's BAU...
It could come in two parts, one replaceable. It makes sense if for some reason, the display part needs to be integrated more than with an HDMI cable. I think the remote control experience alone would justify it.
When I worked on Qt I would monitor various mailinglists and when I would see more than one person asking how to do X I would often go and figure out why the documentation didn't provide that answer.

One simple example is that when using QCryptographicHash a common operation is to compare the results to a hex string. QCryptographicHash::result() returned a QByteArray which isn't a hex string. So after seeing more than one person ask how to do this I added a "\seealso QByteArray::toHex()" to the documentation.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/qcryptographichash.html#result

Another favorite thing to do was if people were looking for a function say called "Foo::search", but it was actually called "Foo::query" I would add the word "search" inside of the Foo::query docs so at the bare minimum if they searched on the Foo page they would find the word search and the api they needed. Often after that help for Foo::search disappear. (or to do bla you have to call X() and Y(), mentioning bla in X and Y's docs really help)

There was a lot of pride in the Qt documentation and little improvements like this all of the time really helped to make the dev experience better.
ideally for me this would be a web app similiar to amazon cloud reader. The Real World Haskell online version has a primitive version of this concept with a comment section after every paragraph. Add the typography of Dive into HTML5 and I'm good to go. In the future if they could add a feature where people would pay a small fee to turn their online ebooks (that the authors host on their own sites) into ebooks with 'open margins' that might be kinda cool.
we have 800+ million monthly active users

Assuming we = you work for FB, can you help us out with what a "login" is defined as internally, given that the stat is 1 billion logins a day and you're saying you have 500+m active users.

...does that mean on average every user physically logs into the site (username + password) twice a day?
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This is the main reason why I am using Rdio now. Their radio functionality is awesome and they now have a free version with no ads. Finding lots of new music through them.
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All they give is a tweet? Seems sort of fishy...
This really doesn't sound like Visa protecting my data. It sounds more like Visa having enough horsepower and backups so that they can keep their company continuously running.

Not that that's a bad thing, but I really don't believe they care about protecting our data. From personal experience, they seem to let any type of fraud occur on your credit card, and then if you protest, then they might reverse the charges. And then they issue you a new credit card number. They would prefer to fix the problem before, putting the onus on us to determine if fraud occurred, rather than actually prevent the fraud and protect our data.
Yea, reminds me of the "Professionalism vs Passion" HN submission. In fact, I think the two topics are closely related.
First look: Google TV gets Honeycomb, Android apps
Crazy thought... what if I could get you an $800 TV carrier/cable subsidized for $200 every two years (on contract)?
I'm not sure I agree. Apple is in a sweet spot - the more expensive the item, the more cool points you get for owning it.

Having a brand new Apple TV could get you laid, real talk. I don't know of any other brand that can say that.
If you start playing an album by simply playing a song in it, then Spotify won't stop when it reaches the end of the album. Instead it moves on to whatever song is listed after the last album song. I'm an album listener too, and that _really_ bugged me when I was testing out Spotify.
I heard the same theory about patents but after they reversed engineered it, the creator of FLAC pointed out it was effectively a superset of his codec, so any patent affecting FLAC would impact ALAC too, they'd only increased their exposure to patents.

Other theories included better PPC support, and better designed to be decoded in low power hardware like the Airport Express.

To be honest some combination of NIH syndrome and residual squeamishness about using open source code seems far more likely.
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I signed up for premium the day they launched in the US. I cancelled the day they required a Facebook account.

It may well be that Facebook virality is the only way to grow a music startup. I can't really critique their strategy. But I'll tell you this: I am willing to pay for music services that focus on the music and music-playing experience. I could give fuck all about what track 37 of my friends are listening to, and it's not like they were just tacking this stuff on, they have made this a core business strategy, and that will come at the expense of improving the core experience, which frankly could use a lot of improvement.
It may be infeasible, but at least it's not illegal.
I'm guessing its because he actually uses his twitter account. Shares interesting information and people will follow you. As a CTO I would think you guys might actually look at using it for your business...
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I really love my job, and when I am working on 'the good parts' of it, I find it very hard to stop at 40 hours (ok, honestly, usually it's a little bit more like 45). I do force myself to stop, in large part because I have a family at home who deserve to know me. But I've also found that when I not working, filling my time with some other things than work really does enrich my life, and I feel that my performance at work does increase, or at least is more consistent because of that.

In any case, I see very clearly, also in people around me, that loving your job and working extremely long days are not the same thing.
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I don't think so. First iTunes was your digital hub, now it's iCloud.
Thinking back to when I was a kid, just about anything was fun. I remember categorizing my entire basketball collection in a spreadsheet, managing my parents' antique shop inventory, building bookshelves and birdhouses, putting together a garage sale with my brother and sister, and enjoying all of it. It's adults that forget how much fun can be found in everything around us. By delineating fun, work, learning, and development of other life skills, it's very easy to do children a disservice.
People, for the most part, want to work with people that are “like them” or that fit a pattern that appeals to them.

I see this argument made a lot. But this argument has a huge hole in it - Chinese and Indians are also not "like them". And yet, Chinese/Indians are not underrepresented. If Hank William's theory were correct, they should be.

Any theory concerning the underrepresentation of blacks which does not distinguish between blacks and Indians is flawed.
I was responding to this:

> It's plug and play, the drivers are downloaded automagically.

and this:

>Like you said, printing is not a problem in OS X.

This is obviously and clearly not true, but you seemed to need evidence which I provided. In addition, in my experience the compatibility of macs and printers is far worse than windows and printers.
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I think this is an example of people not accepting responsibility where its due. Inadvertently fostering an environment of sexism and monoculture is as destructive as intentionally doing so. I understand that the intentions may be different but the result is the same.

Thus, it is the responsibility of every person in every industry to work hard to intentionally work against sexism or racism or discrimination of any kind (intentional, unintentional, or implied).

For better or for worse, when you have an industry as heavily male dominated as the tech one, it takes more active work to counteract the natural tendency of the industry to a masculine culture.

I am on a mailing list that spent a fair amount of time discussing the recent dust up over sexually explicit slides at the EECI conference.

One respondent wrote to the list saying that as an employee of the federal government she finds all of these controversies sort of amazing (in a negative way) since employees of the federal govt all have a very clear understanding of what is and isn't appropriate and would never show slides with sexually explicit material.

I know that everyone probably just read "Fed govt" and thought "PC, boring, and miserable" but as a women in tech, I would LOVE it if less of my time could go into being angry and frustrated, or spent trying to educate people on why things are offensive, and we could all just spend more time doing the work we are here to do: making cool technology.
Plastic pyrolysis and then subsequent cracking to diesel is not a scam. In fact, I know the guy behind http://www.agilyx.com/ which is doing the same thing.

That Rossi attempted this in the mid 70's is interesting to me, and gives him more credibility, not less.
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This is exactly what Microsoft has been building towards with the Xbox. The espn app on there is fantastic, and just added the ability to watch two events in split screen, while watching a customized news/score crawl at the bottom of the screen. You can invite friends to watch with you, and participate in quizzes relevant to the game you are watching. All this with Kinect voice support too. It feels pretty damn futuristic. And now they've announced apps for exactly the kind of services the article talks about: HBO Go, SyFy, Comcast On-Demand, etc. Add in the fact that it's already a game console, and I'd say they are closer to creating a central media hub than anyone else.
The other posted comments are correct. Alternatively, it could also mean just how well the co-founders communicate, cooperate, and come to a consensus on 'pivoting', how to 'gain traction' and how to 'make money'. Time is $, and how quickly you and your team can adapt to the challenges is the main challenge in the face of all other challenges. Good luck.
Are you sure that it wasn't just a bad joke and a case of someone trying to be 1337, but ended up at 1335.
It's either a non-disclosure agreement from hell or you are right it's fishy.
Including users that are just cookied and visit other sites with Like buttons? Or do I have to hit my wall to land in Facebook's metric de jour?
when the best source of news about this is http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com… I dont know what else to say
I ask for this disruption everyday, but the resistance from cable companies is so strong 'cause they make so much money leasing boxes and locking people into 2 year contract bundles along with exclusive sports packages.
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Yeah, socialist Norway will dispatch their elite commandos to deal with the "cold fusion problem".
Yup.

Keys work very well here ;)
The Enertia is out -- when getting married, to close the deal, I had to agree to never get another motorcycle. But she didn't think to rule out submarines!
You're wrong about that. The big hosting providers do not put public cloud hardware next to dedicated hardware. Public cloud hardware goes in big, homogenous racks in a specific area of the datacenter. Dedicated hardware is very mix-and-match; you have all sorts of servers and network devices racked together. Connecting the two environments is no small feat, given the VLAN limitations of most current switches.
Coming in two parts seems very un-Apple, though not necessarily a bad idea.
Are you sure? It sounds counterproductive to deliberately tie up a socket and process with artificial delays since it would leave the server less able to service other requests.

I had extremely slow page load times on HN for the past few weeks but since the beginning of this week it's been fast & snappy.
A couple of years ago there was this electric car coming soon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/2748517/E...

I havent heard of it recently though.
The way it worked for me--during a summer job--was that days when I had something cool going I'd stay as long as I felt; if I was bored or unoccupied, I just left early. As far as I could tell, almost all of the developers worked this way.

In practice, I'd average maybe 45 hours a week. However, this was mostly because I didn't wake up early and, since I was biking, tried to leave before dark as often as possible (although sometimes I was too occupied to notice).

Overall, I think that was basically a perfect schedule for me.
Are they really "sold out"? An employee told me they pre-sold 6,600ish, but i believe this includes people who reserved the cars with a $5K deposit, those who prepaid the entire amount, and those who out down a $40K deposit for the signature model.

Personally my allocation number is the 4,XXX range, I put down the $5k deposit and have yet to truly decide if I'm going to buy it, but I suppose it also presents and opportunity to flip the spot to the guy who has to have it now. I went to he factory event a few weeks back and it was a pretty wide demographic.