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You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model.

Except that typically programmers write open source code which they then use directly themselves to do other things they want to do. An author probably doesn't get much pleasure or utility out of reading their own book.

Writing a good story could open doors to writing a movie scenario...

Except that presumably you want that to be given away for free too.

Data must be free, and this is far more important than how someone can make money on it.

A book is not "data".
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I'd love to see something along the lines of Intel's Wireless Resonant Energy Link[1] used in conjunction with EV's so that the idea of "plugging them in" can be all but eliminated.

If you didn't even have to plug it in, just drive it to work, park it, drive it home, park it and it could charge automagically in both parking spots - its much more convenient than petroleum and would potentially be a big plus FOR getting an EV.

1 - http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/channel/general/wirel...
That's why I never use "this" in Javascript. For me, dropping any pretense of OOP allows me to write more elegant programs.
>No-one claims the iPod was innovative.

Well, I do.

Innovation is not only technical in the most narrow term ("first device with an SSD", "new display technology").

There's also innovation in product design (how you've desided to build your product), and also market innovation (how you selected your market and marketed your product to it).
> In this case the solution for that (and any M&A lawyer worth their salt would include something to this effect) would be to do part of the deal in cash and an acceleration clause that states that if the buyer terminates one of the original founders before the stock vests that their stock vests immediately. That way the problem simply goes away. If the buyer would not accept a clause like that then that’s an excellent reason to suspect that they actually will fire you on day #3, and if they have no problem with such a clause that will increase the goodwill between both parties.

Wait. Isn't the whole point of vesting to make sure that the founder will add value and not leave on the first day?

A clause like this means that a founder can stick around, do nothing of use, get their vesting period out and then leave. They can't be fired or they leave with all the stock. Exactly the opposite of what the vesting intended, right?
...I still don't get it why corporations are STUPID enough not to implement a system where old emails get deleted (in an unrecoverable way) after something like a week (ok, maybe they would have to invent their own messaging protocol with DRM-like features baked in, but still, it would totally worth the effort considering the legal risk of emails) ...or for god's sake, do "important" communication by voice-calls if not just face-to-face private meetings, but just don't leave this electronic "paper trail" that can turn back to legally "blow you up" at any time!
Any apps like this which use a traditional DB (mysql or pg) ? Want to see how a relational model translates to clojure.
In the startup world, more folks cite Zuckerberg and Dorsey. Hell, even Mason and Pincus get more press than Musk (though probably for the wrong reasons).
Thanks for the heads up! Fixed.
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Good luck with that. Renting a car for a weekend drive is crazy expensive and varies widely depending on location, time of year, etc. Asking people to pay an unpredictable several hundred dollars for the rental, then pay for gas, several times a year, is not going to work.

I'd focus on 2+ car households. I would love to have an electric that doesn't suck and another car for the wife, traveling, hauling kids, etc. The Tesla doesn't work for me in this case because of its price and the other EVs are not interesting enough for me, but hopefully that will change as the prices come down and the tech spreads out.
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We (Work for Pie the company, not me as an individual) started tipping folks recently. It's as easy as setting up a github profile for your company and signing up.

Our aim is to tip folks who have built and/or contributed to software that we use. Our way of saying thanks. :)
> It has been contended that Semmelweis could have had an even greater impact if he had managed to communicate his findings more effectively

This is the point. Anyone who is properly introspective is already following the good advice given here. But how about the total ramrods one has to deal with on occasion, those people who are crazy and deluded, whose self-confidence totally exceeds their grasp of the subject matter? Blessed is the man who can say to his line manager "I won't deal with N.N. any longer, he is incompetent and unaware of it." But sometimes the constraints of work do not permit not dealing with some people, or the boss is the crazy one. What to do in such situations?
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Still, it seems that you both have very long toes.

I'm 48, so my toes are not specially affected. I simply dislike when a bunch of journalists and pundits with vested interests blame the victims.

Older people have built a dysfunctional society and still the culprits seem to be the newcomers.

'pffff, that's no reason, I get free money, I don't need work and oh yeah, there is no work anyway'

And that, by the way, is exactly true. Why study if, after all the effort, graduates are paid less than unskilled workers? Why, if the important thing is who you know, not what you are capable of? The work thing is even worse, but I get angry only to think about it. Just think who their role models are.

I'm from a town not very far from there, in Cádiz. I had to come to Madrid 16 years ago, because there wasn't virtually any job for me there.

you don't live in Germany; prices are simply much lower

Sorry to be blunt, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Price difference may be significant WRT small villages near Ronda, but it's negligible compared to Madrid. And there is no decent work for a programmer in a village. And even in Madrid salaries are half what you earn in London.

Trust me that cost of living is not nearly double in London than in Madrid. You don't think it makes sense? Ask anyone anywhere if it makes sense for them to go elsewhere and get paid double.
You say, "the problem" when you should say "my problem."

Personally I just drive around the SF bay area. Maybe 120 miles on my longest driving day. For the one-two times a year I go farther, I suppose I need to rent a car, take transit. or have someone else drive. That seems like a reasonable price to pay to have the coolest car on the planet for a few years.
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You know, pivoting is smart when you're doing the wrong thing, and it's dumb when you're already on the right path, but the path you're on is long and hard.

For example, if you're building yet another iOS Twitter client or instagram clone, pivoting to something else might make sense now that the big opportunities in that space are gone, but if you're building a new search engine like Duck Duck Go, a pivot a year or two ago into something else would have been a bad decision. The tricky part seems to be knowing when you are pushing towards a big opportunity that is hard to break into or when you are pushing towards a gigantic waste of time.

Pivoting when you're going nowhere is smart, pivoting when something gets hard could be a huge mistake. This reminds me a bit of Seth Godin's ideas about "the dip".
If you find this topic interesting, there was a presentation at GUADEC from Adam Dingle of Yorba (http://www.yorba.org/) about "New funding models for open source software"

https://lwn.net/Articles/511260/
this is exactly my thoughts. I feel like they haven't been as prevalent as they were in results a while ago when searching.
Right? These are the same guys who had an XSS vulnerability in their freaking search bar a year ago!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2930363
You say "still doesn't come anywhere close to solving the problem". But in really it just doesn't solve your specific problem. Tesla have chosen to tackle for the common case; if they tried to be everything to everyone they'd never have reached production.

Don't forget that the Model S costs around $50,000. Most buyers can afford maintain a second car for the kinds of trips you're talking about.
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This is the first time I'm wishing for an acquisition to shut a product down.
It would be an awesome commuter car, but it's awfully hard to justify that price tag for something you only use an about 8 hours a week. Especially if the seats are as uncomfortable as he suggests.

Still... if I had that kind of auto budget, I'd definitely buy one.

It would be nice if the all-electric vehicles provided a port in which you could plug an emergency battery that would take you, say, 20 miles or so, so you could get to a recharging station if you overdrive your range. Yes, you have a range gauge, so you never should get into that predicament, but we've had gas gauges for decades, yet we still see people trudging toward their stopped vehicles with newly-purchased gas can in hand.
I always assumed most people 'do' a startup because they find it fun and love the freedom it gives them.

So personally, it's neither about changing the world, or about the money primarily. It's about doing what you love.
> You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model.

As someone who has released open source code I don't think this analogy translates very well.

I write code because I need it, I can then release it so hopefully others will use it and make it better.

I can see how maybe a biographer would write a book because they wanted it to exist, but my belief is that the vast majority of authors don't write for this reason.

> Data must be free

I don't think you can just state this as a fact anymore than I can state, no person should be able to own more than $10,000,000.00.
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Yeah, I apologize. I have changed it to read correctly.
Yeah you can maybe make it work for a 2 car household getting 1 electric. I agree that renting is not even close to a reasonable option.
The OP's argument is wrong. BOTH activities require learning the basics.

What parent, and the OP, did wrong was not understand that running with correct form is not an intrinsic, instinctual human ability. You must learn to do it correctly.
I second this. I'm on a Clojure kick right now and am enjoying finding useful examples on HN.
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The good news tho, SVG is a fairly good solution to the Retina display problem, so that might boost adoption.
I'm not sure that programming and running are both skills that are innate to humans. I started running because I was inspired from reading Born to Run. I basically went out and did it. Little training is required. There is some skill involved, but mostly just heart.
One has to learn the skill of programming. I can't tell my son to "go program", but he can "go run".
While for the majority of authors open source would be a poor deal, for some authors, open sourcing their work is still financially viable. I think to argue that either extreme is necessarily true would be foolish.
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The theory that depressed people have more realistic perceptions of the world is interesting, and apparently popular enough now for authors to wax poetic about it, but the only actual evidence I've heard of can be just as easily explained by the experimental design as by the theory.
The title: "Revenue Affect of Putting your App on Sale"

The linked article: "Revenue Effect of Putting App on Sale"

Affect (noun): "feeling or emotion"

Effect (noun): "something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence"

Moral: Don't invent article titles, copy them.
This (from the EFF) might interest you: https://defendinnovation.org/
Different news websites and publications have different styles - Sites like [0-5] seem to have decided on having one leading photo, with optional click-through galleries. On the other hand [6-8] have multiple images. Perhaps the websites of print publications have a tradition of more-text-fewer-pictures.

[0] http://science.time.com/2012/08/25/remembering-neil-armstron...
[1] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/neil-armstrong-modest-h...
[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9501410/Neil-Armstr...
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/26/neil-armstrong...
[4] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-26/us/33...
[5] http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1247118--neil-arms...
[6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/neil-a...
[7] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11162858
[8] http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/30958...
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It's not at all accessible to children, at least compared to what it could be. I've been writing code for money for 20 years and it took me a long time to understand that paragraph. It is concise, but it's not clear. And worse there is no indication of just how important this clever little algorithm is.
From reading Grisham (?) novels, I think each side only get a certain number of jury challenges. Maybe they ran out of challenges.
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Don't give up! Flag, and comment (briefly) about why. It's been my experience that lots of storied that I believed were long past flaggable (80-90 upvotes) have been killed sometime after I flagged them.

Even if your flag doesn't kill the story, the conversation about why you flagged it will be valuable --- at the very least, more valuable than the off-topic story.
I think that's a pretty poor practice. It's actually counter to central idea of this article; that you should think with the language features. In situations like the one above, if you dont want to lose the context of "this" you can explicitly bind an object to be this and return the new bound function. See underscore's bind(). Its a little more verbose and clunky but it saves you from tossing out modular code.
I'm on one of the NIH grants to look at the impact of clinical genomic sequencing on patients, which includes a bioethics perspective. The hardest thing is definitely that our ability to measure greatly outpaces our ability provide meaningful interpretation. You get into all these discussions about what constitutes a medically significant finding. It's very hard to quantify when you start to grapple with it, and slippery slopes abound. Happy to answer specific questions on this in more detail if anyone wants.
Ostensibly, but just how well are governments doing at regulating online casinos? Ok, add in easily accessible VPNs and stable currencies not tied to a regulatory body. The question is not can and will governments make these other currencies illegal, but can governments enforce any laws that they make?
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Cool! Thanks for the link. :-)
"Following the Samsung verdict, Bill Cox, marketing director for Microsoft's Windows Phone Division tweeted: "Windows Phone is looking gooooood right now.""

Too bad the carriers aren't listening much. I've been waiting for Verizon to carry more Windows 7 models. The only one they currently have is the HTC Trophy which is already a few years old.

In some regards, it doesn't matter what happens to the handset manufacturers, the carriers still have the last word on whether they're going to carry them. They're effectively controlling the supply of the handset, regardless of demand.
Thank you for posting that. I was beginning to doubt my sanity with the sheer amount of melodramatic comments being posted on HN the last few days.
I applaud the approach, but it seems like a challenge to achieve useful accuracy across many devices. I am a little skeptical about the 3nm claims.

First, the (bandpass) Bayer color filter arrays on cameras limit their color resolution pretty sharply. It might be a better (if less elegant) approach to use the ambient light sensor and scan it across the spectrum generated by the diffraction grating.

Also, the resolution of a spectrometer is in part determined by entry slit width. Old timers and DIY'ers use abutted razorblades to make a clean, straight slit. Problem here is that there is a trade-off. You need a wide slit to get light in for these insensitive webcam sensors. But then you lose spectral resolution because your slit is wide. Alternately, you narrow the slit to get more spectral resolution, but then your image is dominated by noise. I'm sure these guys have found the sweet spot.

Second, the spectral response of the color filter arrays varies both from camera to camera and even within same-model sensors (I personally own over 40 of one model of Canon Powershot, and the differences in color response are fairly extreme). This could in principle be at least partly calibrated out, if you had each device take a picture of a calibration standard.

Third, the image signal processors are closer and closer to the sensor these days. It may be impossible to get data which hasn't at least been somewhat mucked with, meaning some people will have a useful spectrometer and some won't.

This goes doubly for phones with bad imaging pipelines, where the image processing is out of your control. Lots of spatial and spectral processing going on. It will be interesting to see, for example, how the auto white balance and sharpening algos deal with having zero natural image content in the captured data.

Aside from the within-sensor variation/image processing problems it would definitely be usable for relative data - I see that they used a relative approach on their UV detection of a bluing dye in detergent. Nice.

All that said, I run a somewhat-similar project using cheap cameras to do work previously only reserved for hard-core SLRs and scanning line sensors, and I've found that over and over again, something is vastly better than nothing and often "good enough" is better than expensive, complicated, and pain in the ass. I've also dealt with a lot of people laying out a bunch of complicated technical "Here's why it won't work" talk and have learned to counter with my own "But look, it does work" answer.

Blah blah: I think it's important for the capture software captured as much metadata about the image sensor as possible. Their software looks great and a database of spectra would also be great. It would be AWESOME if the Shazam-style auto identification worked at all. Good luck, I'll probably be supporting the project.
The subject was JFK. I wasn't changing the subject to Bush's grades. That would have been a stupid, political thing to do and I would have complained. So I'm not sure why you are lecturing about a double standard with GWB? Nobody is picking on GWB here. And whatever your suppositions, I'm not affiliated with Obama in any way so I don't either understand why you are saying that Obama ought to understand such and such. Obama isn't here. I am irritated by topic changes which are very political and biased.
I was in the same boat until last fall, when I finally caved and bought a Kindle. I hate DRM too, but at least Kindle's DRM is easy to crack, so you have a way out of Amazon's walled cesspool if you need it. (I haven't needed it so far, since the Kindle is my favorite mobile reading device and Kindle Cloud Reader works in Linux. But if Kindle's DRM were stronger, I never would have bought one.)
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As Mattheij pointed out, that's possible, just not very likely.
This is caused by the change in food prices/availability. Traditional "mediterranean" diet is healthy and didn't cause people to get fat. Now unhealthy food is much cheaper and readily available. People hasn't still learned how to manage the change. Eventually they will... I hope :-)
To be fair, Apple offered to license its patents to Samsung already and Samsung said no. Sure, Apple was asking for a lot, but Samsung could have negotiated for a better deal, they just didn't think they had to.

Ultimately, there will be cross licensing deals and patent trades made and this isn't going to "slow innovation" as much as pundits believe. It's just going to be a case of trading money to buy innovation instead of doing your own R&D like Apple, MSFT, Motorola, and Nokia have done.
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I'm no optical scientist, but seeing as the diffraction grating being used is recycled from a DVD and the sensor is a consumer webcam, I wonder how accurate/reproducible the results would be.

A conventional diffraction grating is pretty inexpensive ($2.50): http://www.rainbowsymphonystore.com/difgratfilsh.html
When to pivot or not is the hard question, and no one, including Seth Godin, knows the answer.
I regularly travel 450+ miles to visit family. Cannot use this.

What if someone made you a "range extender" module that attaches to the towing hitch? I'd design one on a detaching cart so no lifting would be involved to install.
It's IAC, owners of ask.com, match.com, okcupid.com, Vimeo. Who knows how they structured this deal.
Interesting RFC. Do you know of any implementations of it?
Writing code is very different from computer science. Also, computer science isn't really a young field, it is a new(ish) branch of mathamatics.
I can't wait to see the part where you get to meta classes. That's when the real fun shall begin :D Still, an inspiring series for python beginners. Keep it up!
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I personally, REALLY wanted a leaf. However, there were was only one reason I didn't buy one. I'm a renter. Though Boston is part of a program to install public electric chargers I don't think I can count on 1.) always being able to get that spot and 2.) being able to get a charger at the next place I live at. I'm perfectly ok, with the "short" range. I'm positive 78 miles would cover 90% of my driving needs.

If I buy a home, the next car I buy will probably be an EV. Until then, i'm going to keep driving my Infiniti.

The program: http://chargepointamerica.com/program-info.php
I'm just suggesting that the general population doesn't have 50k to spend on something that only provides one very specific utility. As Musk just pointed out the other day, they are in a do or die 6 month period right now, and might not survive. The other electric car options have mostly been failures. Clearly I'm not the only person who would like to have a bit more utility for my 50k.

Keep in mind that you don't get 250 miles of range unless the place on the other end can charge your car for you. You only get 125. That's really not that far.