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> The problem came to fore when Acer got threatened with being cut off early access etc. when they wanted to launch other phones with Alibaba OS (Aliyun) on them. It's sort of a Android fork, but that's legal, but still Acer had to fold under the pressure or force getting cut off from their mobile business. Early access is much more important to OEMs than you make it seem to be and being able to fork is the core tenet of open source.

At first glance it looked like Google was going mental about Acer and Alibaba forking Android, but later on it became clear that their Aliyun OS was to be released with all the Google Apps preinstalled, which of course is not allowed. Hence all the drama at Google. Combine that with the fact that Alibaba is a big company in Asia, which gives Google reasons enough to step up.

> You know what, barely anyone would use CM if they couldn't get access to the Play Store and Google Apps like Map. So they download it illegally from other sources. CM used to provide them but got a warning from Google. So right now they wink-wink-nudge-nudge towards the Play Store.

Same issue here. Not allowed to come with Google Apps preinstalled. But unlike Aliyun, CM is not a competitor in the smartphone OS market. It just provides an alternative to the standard installed Android OS with custom manufacturer skin (Sense, TW, ...) and often bloated apps. Although Google forbids CM to come prepackaged with Gapps, I highly doubt Google would ever go on a crusade against CM for providing links to the Gapps packages floating freely on the net. After all, with a few exceptions, only people owning a genuine Android phone would ever flash CM. Having the ability to still flash Gapps would continue to extend their value as a customer to Google due to ad and Play Store revenue.

It's just Google enforcing their policy concerning the Play Store and Google Apps in the entire Open Source story that is Android. It's actually Google that's wink-wink-nudge-nudge-ing the entire custom rom developer scene. Plenty of ways for Google to DRM their apps to prevent the likes of CM from using them, but they won't.
"Old" as in, the last time this seemed like a good idea was the 70's.
You can build swap stations incrementally though just like they are building these supercharging stations, so I don't see what the difference is, other than swapping is quicker/better.
I have not started consulting yet, but I have a question.
In software development we often have to learn new APIs and learn some tools. Can we charge hours for jobs that require some learning or is learning considered personal time ?
Sorry, but your comment did nothing to convince the person above. In fact, you may have just turned a middle-of-the-roader into a lifelong enemy of your cause. I'm sorry if I'm beating up on you but this problem is huge in our circles.

Can we get off our snark and get people on our side instead? Comments should elevate others instead of showing off our sarcasm.
Having the same problem here is Seattle, WA
As someone who has run a consultancy and employed consulting staff my rough rule of thumb is 3x total
employment cost: one third for the employee, one third for the company, and one third for profits.
My comment wasn't sarcastic and I'm not interested in evangelizing.
Can you explain what your problems are with the wheelchair industry in regards to parts? I'm actually very curious.
Forms that hook keyboard events to do different actions to what you might expect.

For example, I was using a payment form recently. There was a <select> list for choosing my country, now I like to use keyboard as much as possible so I filled out the form by tabbing between the fields.

The normal way a select field should work is that arrow keys navigate the list and enter selects the current value.

Unfortunately the developer had hooked the enter key to submit the entire form.

Took my about 5 attempts to make the payment because I kept instinctively hitting enter to select the country before the form was completed.
Remember though that there are no carriers in the world that only permit phones as locked down as the iPhone.
Law and morals are vastly different things; sad that you confuse the two.
Excellent analogy. Tesla has major challenges to lasting as a company.

It spends about $100M per quarter and it has $200M of cash [1]. So in the next 6 months, Tesla will need to bring margins way up (unlikely), dramatically cut expenses (opposite of the current plan), or raise lots more money.

The company already has $400M in debt. I hope it can raise more. Or that the public will pony up more investment. I also really really want Tesla to succeed.

[1] See "Cash Flows" tab: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&fstype=ii&...
So, the new set of Magic (Ravnica) is coming out this weekend. Because I am who I am, I tend to try and find sealed deck generators like this to get used to the set - open up a set of random cards, begin to think through the process of how you'd use them to build a deck. "Sealed" in this context refers to a very specific format (sorry if I am patronizing, figured I'd clear it up for everyone else!) where you open a set number of boosters (6) and make a 40 card deck using them and basic lands.

On the docket:
- sort by rarity
- export to MTGWorkstation
- Color-specific backgrounds
- Hiding/Showing cards on click
- ??
Well, that's one view.

Another is that the SDK wasn't fit for public consumption in Summer 2007.

Nor would reasonable apps have worked all that well on 2007-series hardware.

But.. you have to start somewhere.
Given your scenario, you are indeed correct: throwing implementation-specific exceptions leaks internal details and further couples clients of the API. Can you imagine using such an API which forces you to continually handle new exceptions that arise from new implementations? As you suggest, it's better to create an exception for the API which then wraps the underlying exception. I would not go so far as to create a family or hierarchy of API exceptions unless there's a need to communicate each of them individually.

What usually happens in practice is a combination of none and all the above. A bit of a mess, really.
From what I've heard, US employees have very little legal right to privacy while at work, even if doing things or visiting e-mail accounts of a personal nature. Regardless of whether the practice would survive a legal battle, it is already widespread.
I'm of multiple minds of this. My personal relation to this is my brother was a punk in his teenage years. He stole from friends, neighbors, and even my mom's engagement ring and hocked it all to by drugs and alcohol. My dad was and still is in the firm "loving community" area with him. Selling my dad's car was the last straw and we sent him to a juvenile detention/rehab/detox center to recover. We feel this was actually worse because this is where he learned from the other people how to lie, cheat, and evade better than he would have on his own. For years he would comeback and steal from my dad knowing he would not be turned in or would at least be released to his care. Now he is career criminal and next chance for parole is in 16 years.

My brother needed professional help but I don't think he got it from that rehab center and sure as hell did not get it in subsequent trips to prison when he became an adult. For him he could act and say exactly the right thing to whoever he was talking too to convince them he was reformed yet again. Being sent away for rehab was probably the wrong action but we did try several things prior to that that never helped.

I think this kid is trouble and the parents knew it which is why they gave the author the option to engage the authorities. They maybe afraid to do it themselves not knowing if he would hold a grudge against them if they did it (my brother did). I don't know if engaging the legal system would help and certainly wouldn't if he was a psychopath. For the author though, this is probably the best option as he did not escalate the situation with the kid. He probably will not be the target in the future but hard to say really. If the kid really is capable of those actions then I would not want him on my enemy's list. The kid has just learned that there are no real consequences for his actions. I think the parents need to be the ones that take action and at least have him see a psychologist as a minimum.
Love the landing page.

It looks like a mailchimp targeted at developers. That said, it's not clear why I would use this over sendgrid or amazon's email service (better prices? easier API?)

That being said, there is definitely room for this type of service. I love the template language built in the emails.

Also I love your error page. Turns an "ehh" moment into an "aww" moment.

Not sure if the lack of markup is intentional - I like it. I can imagine a biz person saying "Could you add an image of a facebook logo in there?" and me saying "ummm... not really."
What has changed is that you have discovered a use for the term. RMS already had one.
"Girouard himself left a solid gig at Google — something his financial advisor counseled strongly against — to launch this effort with backing from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, NEA and Mark Cuban"

Yeah, seems like a huge career risk. Who listens to their financial advisor for career advice?
"Even if there is some genetic difference, it seems clear that the vast majority of the difference is cultural and not genetic."

This is just a rephrasing of the original baseless assertion. The relative contribution of genetic and cultural factors to group differences is not at all clear.
Guy breaks the phone company's new voice authentication system, Sneakers style.
The press release makes a seemingly absurd claim:

Each solar power system is designed to generate more energy from the sun over the course of a year than is consumed by Tesla vehicles using the Supercharger.

wtf?
You're forgetting that in the case of Telsa's car the entire battery pack is a part of the undercarriage and hot swapping in that case is quite difficult.
It's not a backdoor, just uncontrolled engineering. I bet you that the product manager never knew about this; it's provably a capability buried deep inside the ip block (which, logically, is used in other Actel parts).

Low cost ICs are incredibly complex nowadays, to the point defending even the most integrated, self-contained of parts is near impossible. I've been doing security analysis for manufacturers of high end microcontrollers and these parts are packed with features to the point they are just hard to seal.
It's common to have a debugging/manufacturing/update/boot mechanism that can be used for attacks even when things are supposedly locked down.
Comparing Apple's walled garden to Microsoft's is comparing apples to pears. Not being able to open a .doc on another word processor is different from stopping grandma from opening funnycatpicsnotvirus.app

I like to see things from the benefit to the consumer. Microsoft stagnated the computing world for 10 years by failing to innovate. Apple is suing because (let's face it) competitors are jumping on their gravy train and not deviating from their successful designs.

Yes suing is douchy, but to me it's better than the FUD and EEE.
I understood it to be free for existing Tesla customers, not new ones...
The battery pack weighs 1,000 pounds so it's not as simple as picking it up and taking a new one off a shelf. Also they would have to maintain a huge inventory of unused fuel cells at all these stations, each slowly aging into uselessness.
Le film Pain and Gain dévoile une première affiche officielle musclée
Saviez-vous que Lindsay Lohan avait tourné dans un téléfilm destiné à la télévision américaine ? L’actrice, dont la carrière n’est pas si en berne, est devenue Liz Taylor dans Liz and Dick.
Yes, China is going to pass the US as the world's largest smartphone market. And if Apple's maps genuinely are better than Google's in China (something people are arguing about in this thread), that's to their credit.

That being said, it is important to put this in perspective. While the overall Chinese smartphone market will soon be larger than the US smartphone market, the portion currently addressable by Apple (people who will buy a smartphone that costs 450 USD and up and won't support 3G on the largest carrier) is much, much smaller. Improved maps can't be a significant part of a plan to address this because they have no impact on the bigger issues.

Show me a cheap iPhone with TD-SCDMA and I'll agree that Apple is serious about the Chinese market. Until then...
>It's grid electric powered. The canopy doesn't do much.

They're sizing the installations in partnership with SolarCity, one of Musk's other start-ups. They claim they'll be sized such that it will generate as much energy over the course of the year as the vehicles consume. Meanwhile, you're estimating power output from a CG rendering on a marketing page.

You could argue whether or not they're lying, but they're certainly not incompetent. SolarCity's sizing calculators take these (and many more) variables into account.
>> I went off and traveled around the world for a year, met my wife, opened a coffee shop, spent a winter at a ski resort and freelanced in Tanzania (on Zanzibar).

Sorry for asking the obvious. But from where did you get the money to do all that?
I've been in a Better Place car here in Israel and experienced the swap, it works. Also, Shai Agassi recently completed a full cross country trip (North to South). Small country, but still.

What makes you think this is not a viable solution?
I've heard otherwise: hot-swapping was a design goal if not yet supported.
Neither do imply nor do I believe that a "loving community" can waive a magic wand and make this sick child better. I do believe that it is more or less the only chance he has. There is ample evidence that our justice system and public mental health facilities are woefully inadequate for dealing with mental disturbances which are increasingly abundant in society. The idea that "professionals" are somehow intrinsically capable of dealing with these sorts of problems is one of the more troubling and pervasive myths in the United States (at least among people I know/have met/in the beliefs of the people as presented in the media). I'm not an expert, but my impression is that ther countries known for having better track records w/r/t criminal and mental rehabilitation (Norway, Finland, Japan) have stronger community structures and a more communal-based jail/asylum system.

What do you imagine happening to this child once he begins receiving professional help - (and let's be clear, here - I am advocating professional help - e.g. I think it's good that the child will go to counseling) - from the authorities that be? If he is put into jail he has a high probability of becoming criminalized (attaching to a community of criminals ) - if he is put into an asylum he has a good chance of becoming institutionalized. What is the root of your faith in our prison/mental health system? I honestly want to know.

It seems that your belief might stem in the idea that the child's parents are somehow morally or intellectually weak and that therefore the government has to step in and be the child's "strong father/mother." Is this correct? If so, why do you believe that government agencies deserve this sort of power? Have they earned it?
Yeah, actually I do online BoA also, and that interface doesn't look exactly the same as the one I see. Shouldn't it be the same?.
For pymongo there is a "safe" parameter you can apply to operations or the connection as a whole. 10gen made a really stupid default decision here. Instead of calling it safe they should have called it async, and it should have defaulted to off.

So by default Mongo write operations are asynchronous and you have to explicitly ask for error codes later.
Right, so if you think of it as a grid tied system it will generate power when ever it can, and people will charge on it. I've got 5.2kW of panels on my roof and can verify attest to the fact that even though I might use 28kWh in a day I can generate 34kWhr (during the summer, during the winter my best days are about 20kWhr) I would guess that as long as the duty cycle on the fill up is small they will consume net zero power.

The SunTech panels [1] produce a nominal 295W and are 2 x 1M so in your 6 x 4M square you can put 12 panels, nominal output 3.5Kw, my system is 90% "efficient" (5.2 kW Panel rating, 4.7kW delivered to the grid) assuming the same that is 3.15kW delivered to the grid. over a nominal 6 hr solar 'day' that is about 18kWhr/day. So the duty cycle on a power station would need to be one fill up every 3 days. If the travelling is mostly on weekends I could see the stations getting a couple of fillups on the weekend and having 5 days of no visitors. Time will tell. It is handy that Elon's the primary stockholder of Solar City :-) Good discount on panels.

[1] http://www.solarsystemsusa.net/solar-panels/by-brand/suntech...
For some reason google doesn't allow * for wildcards in the TLD match patterns. I just added support for news.ycombinator.net though.
Is it outrageous to think that eventually this "gas" will be free because outlets will compete to have Tesla and other electric customers stuck at their restaurant, bar, store for a half hour?
Show HN: EventOnce, Really simple events.
Israel is only 263 miles from north to south. The Tesla S (85kwH)can go 300 miles. Seems like the Tesla might be overkill for that country.
And lest anybody say it won't be that bad, yes it will be that bad. There are some remarkably vitriolic people on the internet.
That page and the video are the source material.
no worries - I remember playing in a sealed tournament years ago, and it was extremely fun.

Thanks for sharing, you should post this on the MTG forums. It's pretty cool now that I know what it's for.

I would want to have a running total of which cards are in my deck and how many I have left to choose. then again I don't play very much (1-2 times a week) and am probably not the target demographic.

Good luck! I can see this being a hit in the MTG community.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but I'll bite. My guess is never. CNC plastic printing has been around for 30+ years, and is only practical for making one of a kind parts. As soon as you are making something that 1000 people need, there is a better manufacturing method.

Maybe I lack imagination, but I cannot imagine a plastic piece of junk that need to be tailor-made poorly.

When the cost of a PC went from $30k to $2k, most people couldn't see the revolution happening. Maybe I am the same fool.
How is that a theft at all?

You know the part and can replicate its look... why not?

You wouldn't steal a cake, so why would you bake it?
Lets take twitter, for example. Right now I'm dealing with a weird bug. I have about a dozen followers, but none of them show up in my Enligsh language dashboard. But, if twitter recognizes that I'm on a Spanish speaking area then it translates all of the UI and the followers show up. Here is the funny bit. If I set my default language to Spanish the followers never show up!

Dear Twitter,

I love the service. You guys seem to be a great bunch. I use bootstrap a lot. But, if your most basic functionality is buggy, how do you expect people to use the service (and not abandon you)?
I know, I know. You are having front-end issues. But you seem to be stuck in an endless re-factoring loop. Please fix it. And stop trying on languages as if they were hats. Pick one, and live with it.
It's unfortunate that you have such strong authoritarian beliefs. Can I convince you that your ideas that criminals (this child is 17 - he has not, by our own state's very definition - attained an age where he can be defined as a criminal or where he can knowingly enter into the social moral contract that binds adults) "need to be taught that their behavior is unacceptable" is a very modern one and - what's more - one that is supported by state propaganda?

Do you actually believe that anyone who enters the prison system is "taught that their behavior is unacceptable?" Many sources indicate that the more common response to incarceration is "criminalization" - that this child has a high probability of connecting with negative forces which will push him further down the path of his darkness.

I recommend you read "Discipline and Punish" by Foucault - I think it would open your ideas to the genealogy of some of the ideals underpinning your beliefs and apparent faith in the modern justice system.
Those who fail to realize the importance of unicode support is the same group of people think handling strings with \0 terminator is OK.

But no, it's fucking not OK. Lacking basic unicode handling means everyone handles unicode strings in different ways, so various libraries clutter in basic string capabilities. Sometimes this really piss me off.
Cool idea - it needs a little more instruction - I was a bit confused as to how to use it at times.

Like once you create an event a "Great! Now share this URL with anyone you'd like to invite to EVENT"
What is the difference between a "reasonable, rational" individual and an "unreasonable, irrational" individual?

What is the basis of your faith in "credible mental health professionals?"
I didn't think anyone would be that interested in my little hypothetical. :)

Well, I may live in a different country to you, so any department I describe may not be familiar to you. But without getting too specific, my first starting observation is that the hiring practices of most public organisations are terrible. They're not stringent enough and they don't encourage self motivated workers. So that would be the first thing I'd want to try and fix. Self motivation within the workforce would seem to be one of - if not the most - important ingredients to get the Valve/GitHub style culture working.

Size of the organisation also would seem to be important. I have seen it discussed here before as to just how large an organisation this kind of flat strucutre would scale out to. I obviously don't know the answer. But again I think it would largely come back to how well the hiring process is managed.

And how such a essentially anarchistic department would interface with the rest of the government and/or the public would also be a interesting experiment.
I am glad to see designers pushing for the horizontal scroll. IMO, the everlasting vertical scroll always bothered me as unnatural. Kudos to MySpace for pushing the envelope on the redesign. My visits to Facebook won't be the same ;).
Exactly. It is no longer just about ideology or giving proper credit anymore.
http://redis.io/commands/sismember
Another possible revenue stream is free for Tesla owners, and not free for other electric cars that support the "nozzle" (if Tesla allows others to use the same nozzle design).
Tesla's supercharger stations are designed specifically to address this 5%. He quotes studies about driving that show that most people stop for approximately 30-60 minutes every 200 miles or so. The Supercharger stations are supposed to be able to charge to 160 miles of usage in 30 minutes, enough time to get a bite to eat.

The specs for the Model S (options section of the site, actually) state the single plug charger replenished 31 miles of ranger per hour of charge, and the optional dual plug charger replenishes 62 miles of ranger per hour of charge.

That doesn't address power grid problems if there is a large influx of demand because of electric vehicles, but at least it's at night, when there's less demand on the system from other sources. Ideally, that would spur more power grid development, but I'm not going to make predictions on such sparse and tenuous assumptions (even if they come from myself).