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That's not true, in 2012 The Audi A7 was their car of the year. So that shows that they're not just always picking an electric car no matter what.

The original article also mentions that the Fisker Karma won their "Design of the Year" award in 2012, but not the "Car of the Year".
Compound interest at < 1% isn't going to make much difference over a decade. At > 1% risks losing principal, and inflation is probably > 1% now anyway, so that you lose money on savings. Money spent (rather than invested) in one's 20s offers greater opportunity for enjoyment than when in your 60s, when your choices are more limited, if you even reach your 60s. A balanced approach is best.
It is really unclear what you're talking about. You seem to be suggesting that designing to a grid means somehow disguising your navigational menus, but that is just flagrantly untrue, so jiggy is trying to inquire as to what you actually mean. Rereading your comments will not clarify it, because your comments are either unclear (if you do not mean that grids = disguised nav menus) or very poorly substantiated (if you do mean to say that grids = disguised nav menus).
Well, keeping to this example, there are sometimes conflicting requirements. A transient with a long train decay, such as a crash cymbal or knock, explosion or gunfire for example requires a wide view to properly observe the full affect. The trailing decay can last for quite a while in this scenario. The optimum situation here is to include a segment before and afterwards, or perhaps even more than that, depending, as some modulation becomes clearer the more you zoom out, not in.

At the same time, operating on selected segments is more efficiently done with finely controlled hairline cursors, where an obscuring object like a finger doesn't contend, generally. After this of course, zooming and other means of fine control and selection come into play.

In scenarios like this it is very much a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees if making a representation too large.

There are solutions to the problem of precise location, which I think include touch and gestures, though not necessarily solely through touch. In practice I use the right hand for precise hairline location and the left to zoom in with gestures, zoom out again for context and then iterate.

I'm not arguing for mice over touch. I'm looking at precision. I always find it quicker to type on my Bluetooth keyboard than on my iPhones screen keyboard. The reason for that for me has just to do with the ratio between active elements. Keyboard keys are larger than my fingers, on screen keys are smaller.

I actually think that in some cases gestures in the z plane, as well as x and y would be a way of adding capability.

These opinions are based on having to give up the USB mouse in the field, using JTAG's and external drives in a two port only MBP. Using the trackpad leads to much longer work times, simply because it's a less precise device.
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>I don't get why people beg for followers at the end of their blog posts.

You don't understand why people promote themselves? You made it to the end of the blog post, which likely indicates that you enjoyed the content. Why wouldn't he say "hey follow me on twitter so that if I write another post that doesn't make it to HN front page, you can hear about it," to try to get some extra followers? Would you prefer he ask you to follow him at the beginning of the post?
There will be ebook versions later.
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The install sets themselves are checked by the installer, you could for example get bsd.rd from one mirror and the sets from somewhere else.
Oddjob was banned pretty early on in my family.
We went for a hardcover first because we love books. Digital copies will come soon after...
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How about sacrificing your own freedom by being sent to prison for destroying police property and endangering people on the ground by shooting down what's essentially a small aircraft?
> End users do not care about "write once deploy everywhere"

No, end users greatly care about that. They want to access their apps on all their devices, and to be able to buy a new device and use their apps on it. Just like they want to access their movies and music on all their devices. To them, apps and media are content and the computer/tablet/game console should just let them access it.
I have a (possibly) more interesting way to approach this divide: ask yourself how many IDEs (and I mean true out-of-the-box IDEs, not a tweaked Emacs or VIM setup) from over ten years ago are still in heavy, widespread use. Now ask yourself how many languages from over ten years ago are still in heavy, widespread use.

Language designers: please don't design for today's flash-in-the-pan IDEs that no one will care about in ten years; design a language to last a lifetime (or more!), and the IDEs will follow. Bonus in that your language won't be locked to some IDE no one will care about in ten years. Also, wasting your time and focus on making an IDE for your language will take away from your time and focus to make your language better, or you may make compromises in the language for the sake of the IDE.

(and yes, in case you couldn't tell, I'm an Emacs user ;)
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I am a senior in college and have recently received two similar offers. Any general pointers for deciding on my first career out of college?
There's calling anonymously, and there's intentional misrepresentation. I wouldn't mind retaining the ability to set your outgoing caller-id to Anonymous, or Name Withheld, or something like that. But I don't think Joe's Sweatshop should be able to set its id to Legitimate-Sounding Business, Inc.
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Your average car engine is dramatically less efficient than a power plant.
> Internet based HTML5 has an intrinsic latency due to the connection with the server.

For first load, sure, just like it takes time to download and install an app. But you can then access HTML5 sites again quickly if you store data locally (using IndexedDB for example).
I'm going to link this here because it was really interesting: http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
I know two couples who waited till their mid-30s to have children and after various miscarriages they both delivered boys with Down Syndrome, so was that worth partying in their 20s? No.
Huh? The signing key isn't kept online, unlike the binaries. You "remember" OpenBSD's key once, and can detect if someone tries to replace it with a different key.

You thought you were being witty with this "performing artists" stuff, but really this is just florid ignorance.
What's the point? I'm 24 years old. Education was expensive, so I worked my way up as a programmer and web developer right out of high school. I've worked at some pretty big corporations and now I'm looking to buy a house while my friends are just getting out of University with junior developer positions while living at home. My co-workers are all around 10-20 years older than I am. I've made senior developer, but I won't be able to move into any type of management positions for another 5-10 years just because of my age. There's no additional advancement or benefits to a slightly early head start on a career. People who give advice like this probably don't remember what it was like to be this age.

My advice? If you have the chance to see the world, have a cool college experience, or the opportunity to do something unique with your life follow through with it.

Climbing the corporate ladder in any field at any age is difficult at best, but doing so at twenty? Probably one of the main drives behind talented 'kids' joining startups now days.
What an unfortunate comment/comparison by you.

http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-doz...
If the binaries get tampered with on the server, then the file will fail the verification. If the signature gets tampered with on the server, the file will also fail the verification. I don't see how any tampering can cause problems, provided the OpenBSD project team publishes their public key widely [0].

[0] There is an attack where the adversary distributes malicious binaries signed with a key that appears to belong to the OpenBSD project, but which in reality would belong to the adversary. This could work if the adversary manages to mislead the user, but if the OpenBSD project team uploaded their public key all over the Internet (and preferably announce it on the mailing lists and home page), then this attack is ineffective. During signature verification, the key ID that created the signature is displayed and the user would know that something is wrong if the signature has not created by the usual OpenBSD signing key.
I find your desire to "build a large company" interesting - I shared this until I realized that almost nobody gets out of bed in the morning because they say "I want to build and run a large company" - this is fundamentally unsustainable. Instead finding problems you care about or find interesting might be more motivating and put less pressure on your psychological well being. This helps you get rid of the time pressure you seem to be feeling and will bring a new sense of focus and purpose.
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You're asking if I believe in qualia, and the answer is no. There are firing neurons and that's it. The great variety of ways in which neurons can fire, and the great variety of experiences that shape how neurons fire combine to form an exquisite set of possible firing patterns (this is literally what makes me me and you you) but ultimately, to mis-use Gertrude Stein's famous phrase, 'there is no there there.'
There's a follow-up by The Consumerist. Once they got in contact with Comcast, Comcast predictably changed their tune: http://consumerist.com/2012/11/01/comcast-knows-that-your-st...
Unless the author is Hunter S. Thompson or someone of that ilk, I'm not sure I'd really want to read a book written in 3 days.
My understanding is that power loss through transmission averages at 6-7% for electricity (don't know if the Wikipedia article includes all losses happening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Los...), which is really not that bad. I am not an engineer, but converting oil to gasoline/diesel, distributing it and burning it at an inefficient RPM in a car might be just as bad or worse.
I've read this advertisement in the last 2-3 "Who's hiring" posts. I finally understand what they do after you highlighted that sentence.
Then you have to write "non-banana-republic". "Non-banana republic" is not even ambiguous, it's just wrong.
yeah the main thing I got is that Drew seems like a crazy awesome dude
So the question is - was the supervisor at fault or was the system set up in such as way as to tie the hands of the supervisor so he was unable to make any other decision?

Of course there are shades of grey inbetween but I'd be fascinated to know exactly where the blame lies inside Comcast.
I guess this will get rapidly downvoted, but let me say it anyways, because I've always felt there's more than a grain of truth to it - If you want to obtain $$, and you feel the way to obtain $$ is to find this mythical customer, and then solve that customer's problem, and then get that customer to part with his $$, so his $$ becomes your $$....its extremely longwinded and convoluted and most importantly, unnecessary.
I had this professor at UChicago who used to say people who did not have a ballmark estimate of M1 & M2 should not even talk about money, let alone suggest how to make it ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/MB%2C_M1_and_M... )
Now its one thing if you are working at a high beta startup...going from 0 to 100MM in a few short years is definitely commendable. But otherwise, this whole idea of squirreling away money little bit by little bit as you find customers and solve their mundane IT problems, whilst not taking an interest in the "pointless meetups & language-centric threads"...is like, I dunno, computing the Riemann integral of some exponential function by taking tiny narrow slices and systematically adding them up one by one. While the procedure is very sound & society will commend you for being this patient, upright, model citizen, you are never going to ever compute that integral this way...life is just too short & there will always be 20 year old Zucks around who will plug the upper & lower bounds into a closed form formula & spit out the answer you were chasing for your entire life. Its just not worth it.

Instead, do it for the fun.
Why we got an email instead of a call from the YC partners after our interview
Why have I never received something like this, nor know anyone who has, in Europe? Whats different over here that this doesn't (that I know of) happen?
It's not just the age of the female partner that affects the child's health. As men age, the risk of passing genetic mutations (including those that cause diseases) onto their offspring increases. This article talks the study: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthiness/9492343/Men-ad...

So if you're an older guy, having kids with a younger woman doesn't make this problem go away.
To some extent, I agree. But for some reason, I have a feeling that "Wearable Computing" is gonna have similar fate.
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I know this is going to be unpopular, but...

Comcast is a business, and their goal is to make ever increasing profit. Yes it's horrible your family and hundreds of others lost everything due to a natural disaster, but that's not Comcast's fault or problem. When you signed up for service from them, I'll bet it's in the fine print that you are responsible for returning the cable box.

If it got stolen, that's not Comcast's problem.

If your hot water service burst and spilled water all over the cable box, that's not Comcast's problem.

This is the world we live in. You can't choose to have the benefits of cheap cable, then complain when the company wants to keep making profit, and enforces a contract you signed.

EDIT: To be clear, I personally hate that this is how the world works, but I accept the reality that it's true.
But that's not what you wrote. "Non-banana republic" can only be parsed as [non-banana] republic. You need to write "non-banana-republic" if you want to say non-[banana republix]. Better yet, use a less clumsy turn of phrase. Best of all: drop the remark entirely, it's pointless.
So to get an electric car that affords me as much freedom as a fossil burner I /only/ need to drop $102k? Sign me up! /s Electric cars will have won when normal people can afford them. I hope that'll be soon, but it's definitely not the case right now.
Benefits? (Vacation Time, Insurance, perks)
Branding? Are the companies both awesome brands? (you can define what an awesome brand is as it is very subjective)
Room to grow? (So how long until you're a Director of blah blah blah?)
No doubt their homeowner's insurance will cover this cost along with everything else. There's no particular reason for Comcast to eat this cost, although they probably could be more diplomatic about it.
How are brain structures fuzzy?
Can they generate API to get me the connection path between two people on facebook :) :)
I'm another decade older and I lost countless lives playing this game ... My (then) 9th grade son, his friend and his friend's little sister consistently ended each life just seconds after it began!
There's a huge "Follow so-and-so" Twitter button immediately following the writing, so I'm pretty sure that the corny self-promotion didn't need to be part of the article itself. I read lots of articles where this happens, and it's always jarring.
In my late twenties I spent three full years smoking weed everyday. I didn't build a career in my 20s, I just fucked around because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I smoked weed and partied. I had a long-term relationship in my 20s, but we broke up and at 30 I was single again. I was thoroughly lost. I slept on a friends couch for 5 months in a row. All in all, not a very bright future, right? Wrong!

I'm 35 now, I quit my job & moved abroad, became an independent web developer, met a wonderful woman who's 5 months pregnant with our firstborn, I've been asked (!) to lead the development team of a highly rated startup and have been making more money than any of my peers for the last few years... So you know: things can change. It's not a strict requirement to spend your 20s all serious - even if you don't, you can still be successful.
If your toaster is destroyed in a hurricane, Target does not replace it.
If your car is destroyed in a hurricane, Honda does not replace it.
So if your cable box is destroyed in a hurricane, I don't see why Comcast should be expected to eat the cost of replacement. You're renting an item with the express provision that failing to return the item means you've bought it. Expecting Comcast to provide free hurricane insurance for all their cable boxes just doesn't make sense--it's like expecting the furniture store to refund all the money you paid for the furniture in the house.
Apple was doing 3D panoramas in 1993. It really isn't that impressive.
If you tried to do this as a smaller local business however, your resulting reputation would put you out of business pretty fast.
Tesla's EV batteries already in common use last a lot longer than that (7-10 years), so I am not sure what your point is.
You can -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf.

It'll take a few more years for mainstream adoption - but it'll hit. Tesla Model S is like the Apple I - only rich smart people own them.

The Apple II is when things get really crazy - that's when middle-class smart people own them.

See plan here: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p...
OpenBSD has a huge anti-NIH sentiment. This can be a good thing, as bringing in code from others = bringing in their bugs as well.

For example, rather than import the quite huge Intel formulated ACPI stack, they have one of the only non-Intel, non-Windows one out there.

See also their reimplementations or forks of SSH, NTP, SMTP, BGP, etc. all done with a security focused mindset.
Yes, you still have fsck them. It sucks.
Raising prices will reduce the amount of gas people are willing to put into their cars when they finally do pull up to a working pump. If more people only fill up partially, then more people will be able to make due for a time.
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"Comcast is a business, and their goal is to make ever increasing profit."

And part of that is Brand Management AKA not looking like dicks after a hurricane level event and adding to people's misery.
Heh I'm sure they realized the guy posted an article on a website and that if they didn't do something ASAP their Comcastic reputation would become even more Comcastic.
Also, insurance would cover the fees, right?
I'm pretty sure HiDPI mode and accessibility zooming are not the same thing.

100 DPI is pretty much the industry standard, so if it feels awkward to you then it's not a problem with the iMac per se.
I'm curious what the 'snooze' or on hold % is.
Not everyone who has kids in their mid-30s gets a kid with Down syndrome, and not everyone who has kids in their mid-30s does so because they were partying.
No - the world we live in takes PR into account, though I'm still not sure that matters in this case - because: monopoly
I know you can do that, but that's not the best solution. A signature of the install set made with a key known to belong to the OpenBSD project is probably a much better assurance of integrity and authenticity of the files.

Besides, how do you know the files and their hashes are not modified en route to you? One rogue node on the way to you (think AT&T Room 641A, but with data modification abilities) is all it takes, unless the transfer is SSL encrypted. And I don't mean just between you and the mirror, possibly also between the developers and the mirror (I bet some people would be very interested in backdooring one of the most secure systems on the planet by compromising their install images). Modification wouldn't matter as much with a signature-based system, since anyone doing the verification correctly would notice the signature verification failing or the signature coming from the wrong key (see my other comment for more information).
I will not pass final judgement on the book until I've had an opportunity to read it, of course. But my initial reaction to this title is one word:

“Poorly.”

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Every application I've seen that was written in three days with any amount of functionality was also written poorly. But it didn't matter. Because you don't consume the application's code, you consume the application. The trouble with writing a book is that you do consume the product of the book directly. That's why I'm skeptical.

That said, maybe this book is awesome. That would be awesome, and hopefully would get more people riding the writing train and flexing that language muscle so many often forget about.
But it's not "their" cable box. It's Comcast's cable box. IMO, it would be fine for Comcast to charge for damage due to negligence or intentional vandalism, but not due to circumstances beyond the homeowner's control. Do they charge if the box is damaged by lightning, e.g.? Certainly my old cable company didn't, but I don't know about Comcast (I got rid of the cable after Comcast bought the company I had).
Yes, yes we are.

Edit: And by that I mean you should take point and make it happen ;)
>You can't choose to have the benefits of cheap cable, then complain when the company wants to keep making profit, and enforces a contract you signed.

You are damn right I can, and I damn well will and I will be as public as possible about it.

This is the world we live in.