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With Python at least, it's effectively the law, or at least is defined in PEP8.

PEP8 is tricky because it's technically a "style guide", but heaven help you if you're trying to get your code into somebody else's repository and aren't abiding its tenets.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Facebook data privacy audit
I had a summer job in a telemarketing sweatshop and I learned that you should be polite to telemarketers.

At the time, at least, the company I worked for had two "call back later" lists. If the telemarketer didn't reach a human (because the phone was unanswered or went to voicemail), the phone number would go on a "call back next week" list. If the telemarketer reached a human who said "no thanks", the phone number went on a "call back in six months" list. However, if the telemarketer reached a rude human, their phone number would go on the "call back next week" list, just to spite the person. :\

Also, you should ask to be added to their "do not call" list. If you ask to be removed from their list, they may oblige, but they are likely to remove you from "that" list and conveniently not bother removing you from the master list.
You have to try Reelsurfer . The website lets you clip any video from any website, allowing users to edit videos right from their browser simply by entering the URL on ReelSurfer’s website. Try it its great.
In true capitalism you have competition, and in many cases Comcast is a monopoly when it comes to cable television — so that really makes them a utility. And like any other utility (phone, gas or electric) that means there needs to be some government regulation to balance things out.

So yes they're a business and of course they should make money, but that needs to be balanced out by the needs of their customers. It might be overdue for cable companies and the phone companies to be broken up. In fact it might be a good idea that they be broken up every ten years or so given their immediate power over consumers.
It's more efficient than blowing it up in your engine.

ICE engines are ~15% efficient at converting energy to movement. You must also include the cost of transporting, refining and drilling for the oil (coal is cheaper to get). This should push it down to ~10% burn to road.

Main stream coal power plants are ~30-39% efficient, electric transmission lines are ~95% efficient, battery charging is ~88% efficient and electric engines are ~92% efficient. That's burn to road of ~20-30%. Even without taking into account the extra costs of doing stuff with the oil to put it into your car, and having that priced with electric - electric is still better. There's a reason we electrified our trains, and a reason that diesel trains actually use their diesel engines to run electric motors.

Here are Tesla's calculations:

http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric/efficiency (look at the final well-to-wheel efficiency - you'll notice it's a little more than double ICE engines).

We're also ignoring the cost of pollution that ICE vehicles bring (it's a lot more than power plants - which because they are centralized, can economically mitigate the release of pollution). If you price that into ICE, they lose pretty badly - because pollution is not, and never should have been free.

It's a resource you use and abuse to the detriment of everyone else.

Fundamentally you must understand this and this only:

Electric vehicles are 2x as efficient as ICE vehicles and cost less on a total cost of ownership basis.

They have won so badly that only willful ignorance can stop one from avoiding such an obvious conclusion (Innovator's dilemma).
But water is not really a special case, though.

Tap water is nearly free and bottled water is >$1/gal. so the markup during a disaster is >100x.
Beautifully written, thanks for the insights.
My perspective is that life circumstances often force you to "get your shit together." Specifically, having a spouse and kids to support provides an instant shot of maturity and focus for most (decent) people. That was certainly the case for me after having my first child at 26. Since more educated adults these days seem to be delaying marriage and children into their early thirties, it naturally follows that more twenty-somethings would lack the motivation to lead a more disciplined/career-minded lifestyle.
While I agree that it is possible, I don't think this method (or Apple's) is anywhere near as efficient as a mouse. It will always be 20 times slower to select a part of a word, compared to a mouse, because you have to hide the word with your finger, see a popup of what's underneath, and then somehow select the letters.
Using eBay these days feels like playing World of Warcraft.

If you're a high level eBay user, it's a fantastic place to move goods, but god forbid someone new signs up to buy or sell something. Just like what it must be like to sign up and play World of Warcraft for the first time.
I agree with everything you just said.

That doesn't change the reality of today.
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There is actually a lot of innovation in those spec upgrades. The A6 SoC is custom designed and pretty impressive considering it is faster than the competition whilst using less power. And the thinness of the screen (i.e. integration of touch sensors) is definitely innovative.

Then again Apple has always been evolutionary.
The Complex was a much better level than the temple in my opinion.
Dammit, Jim, I'm a programmer, not a power engineer! So I'm just wondering whether harnessing tidal power will diminish that power over time, with results that might make global warming look like a church picnic by comparison. Conservation of matter and energy and what-not, right?

Of course, if we won't see any knock-on effects till well after the sun has expanded to incinerate the planet, then shoot, full speed ahead!
Comcast boxes are such a ripoff. They used to be $3/mo, and now they're at $7/mo. A brand new DOCSIS3 modem is less than $90[1], and the ones most people rent are bottom of the barrel DOCSIS2 modems.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-SB6121-SURFboard-DOCSIS-Cable...
If you want to look at it from a purely cold and objective light, then you are correct. It's true that it's not Comcast's problem, that there's a contractual clause, and that Comcast's role as a business is to maximize profit. However, it's also really bad public relations to look completely insensitive to hurricane victims, and that can affect the bottom line. The Consumerist is just changing the coefficients of the cost-benefit equation of eating the cable box cost vs. a public relations fiasco.
Oh, hey dude.

40 amps at 200v will completely charge a Roadster in something like 7 hours. I don't know how long for a Model S, but it is probably longer. I am only familiar with the day-in, day-out of the Roadster so I will stick to that mostly.

So the "charge the car all night (7-8 hours) scenario" only makes sense if you need to charge up the battery 100%, i.e. you were on fumes before you plugged it in, which means you drove 200-240 miles the day before. This may be true for some people but it is not going to be true for most people most of the time.

I drive from SF to Berkeley and back most work days, a 25-minute commute each way, and I like to drive it like a sports car, so I use relatively a lot of power for that length of trip. Generally I use about 20% of the Roadster's battery on such a day, so that's probably about 1.5 hours to charge in a 220V outlet. If everyone did that, you would probably want to stagger the charging times, but it is totally doable even with current setups.

I do think that there would be some increased power draw and that we would want to beef up our electricity infrastructure a little. But that is pretty different than what I see as a Republican talking point, which is something like "there is no way that the USA can support everyone plugging in their EV, it's impossible." That is not my experience as an EV driver.

When I was coming up with the dryer analogy I was just using numbers I pulled off the Internet about what people were measuring their dryer's pull at. It's possible dryers just are not very efficient, I don't know! (Though I thought the whole Energy Star thing was supposed to put pressure on that).
I'm so sad to what they did to skitch :( It used to be my go to tool for screenshots and annotation. Now I'm stuck with the default mac screen capture & Preview annotation. I haven't find a better alternative yet
Ignore “The Law” and You are Doomed to Fail
I don't understand why the FTC wants to pursue technological solutions to this problem. Instead, why not let the jail times of the officers of the companies associated with these scams scale with the number of complaints received?

If they're taking payments, there's even a handy money trail.

If they're operating outside of US jurisdiction, freeze their bank accounts just like we do to Iran.

Bottom line: it should not be possible for these companies to collect payments, and their officers should receive mandatory jail time.
I have now hired someone to help with this.

Please feel free to send an email to andrew@gaiagps.com if you are interested - some chance my first try doesn't work out!
I recently tried to sell a Samsung Galaxy Tab on eBay, and had a similar experience. The second chance buyer, on the second listing, was the first person who was actually willing to buy the product and at that point the procedure went smoothly.

However, it should not take until the second buyer of the second listing, and if it is going to take that long ebay should indeed make it easier to get to someone who will actually buy my item.
I didn't read this article because of its title. I think it is either a lie or a lie that's nuanced in a way to be technically true.

Assuming the book actually was written in three days (planning, research, the actual writing, typography, editing, etc), I'm not sure I want to read it, because I fear the quality to be low. Similarly, I'm not sure I want to read an article by the same author.

Pity.
Yeah, there are all kinds of tools and procedures available to you but not made obvious, and all kinds of unwritten rules and guidelines to be aware of that you're never told about. Things you only learn because you get burnt once (or more).

And this applies equally to WoW and eBay, definitely. At least in WoW you generally have a guild to let you know in advance what mistakes you're likely to make. On eBay, you're on your own.
eBay has listing fees, of course you are going to be up for them regardless. Personally I would just set a reasonable price buy it now with immediate PayPal payment required, no need to waste your time then with anyone who hasn't already sent money your way.
I honestly dont understand what the take away is from these articles...

Lots of people communicate information in a hurried manner using a similar formula.

- College students do it the last week of every semester but its called a paper

- Bloggers do it all the time but its called a blog

A book typically infers to most people something that has been written in a very thoughtful or high quality manner with much thought put into it (and we have many descriptors for the "lesser" forms... articles, stories, etc.) That doesnt mean you can't write a proper book in 3 days... but whats the point? - you are just likely putting yourself at a disadvantage. What matters is how impactful the book is. If you spend 3 days and its forgotten (sorry but likely based upon effort) and somebody else spends 1 year to craft something meaningful (much more likely based upon the history of literature) its pretty obvious who is creating value for their readers.

These articles read to me like "hey look at me I wrote a book in 3 days"... there is no mention of what is truly unique or skillful about it. Sorry to be so negative but I just feel like this encourages the creation of pretty artificial stuff that will be forgotten in a week.
> The gas stations without electricity aren't to get electricity any fast because the price of gas is higher.

If you can sell gas for $10/gal then it becomes worthwhile to get a generator and start pumping gas.

If you can't sell gas at a premium you won't bother.

You could say the same for anyone with a truck that has a bulk tank. If they could go house to house selling gasoline at a premium you can bet good money people would be trucking in thousands of gallons of fuel for generators. But that's price gouging so everyone goes without...
No, it's not the world we live in. Comcast is fully capable of making adjustments in specific cases, and a loss of a bunch of cable boxes wouldn't bankrupt them. Nobody says Comcast should abandon their rules and just gift their boxes to everybody. But exercising some humanity in exceptional situations is not contrary to business. The cost of those boxes probably won't even register given Comcast volumes.

I understand the OP probably spoke to some low-level grunts who might not be able to bend the rules even if he wanted. And the only way to solve this might be to escalate it to the level in Comcast that is allowed to think. But it definitely not "how the world works" - it's just how the Comcast works, and that's bad for them if it does. Business and profit is not contrary to having basic human decency towards your customers - actually, it is usually goes better if you do.
And this would be a problem if half the ICE car owning public went out and bought electric cars all in the same month. There will be time to upgrade the distribution grid.
some feedback:
The homepage is visually cluttered. it took me a while just to parse the page and figure out what I'm supposed to do. even now that I do know what the page is about, my eyes still don't know where to look.

"Currently, you are in a shell that allow you to program the web in Javascript, Coffeescript or Typescript!" is an unnecessary detail. Just say "javascript* repl" and "*also runs coffeescript & typescript" at the bottom of the page.

I don't think the byline is working. I do a lot of front end work and have used a lot of these apis. "the shell for combining web apis" isn't putting a clear image into my mind. I don't know what it means to "combine web apis", nor do I know why I'd need a shell for it. Something like "the easiest way to work with popular web APIs" might be better--even though it is less technically accurate, it has a few advantages.

- it gives me a concrete idea that my mind can latch onto
- it piques my curiosity. "oh neat. why is this the easiest way to do XYZ?"
- it gives me a framework from which I can evaluate the rest of the page.
Same experience. I've also heard from many that after the sale, the buyer complains about an issue to PayPal and is able to get their money back.
Having been working on a science fiction novel that covers economics, futures markets, genetic uplift, AI, finance, combat, and orbital mechanics, and having been working on it for 3-5 hours per day for 18 months ( http://morlockpublishing.com/the-book/ ), I'm somewhat underwhelmed with anything that can be done in three days.

I suspect that I spent more than three days on researching lunar geology, minerology, titanium refining, the compresibility of air, etc.

Not to mention that my first draft took 9 months, and my revisions have taken 12 months.

Some things require iteration and polishing. Writing, IMO, is one of those things.
This reminds me a bit of what scientists in other fields refer to as "empirical equations", which are equations fit from data without any particular theoretical backing or reason to believe that their components are a good model of reality. They're useful in that they may predict observations well, especially over a specific range of observables, but they don't necessarily give us an understanding of what's going on. An example is the historical Prony equation for hydraulic pressure loss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prony_equation), which doesn't actually correctly model what happens in fluid flow, but does happen to empirically produce fairly good results over a range of values, partly through the use of two magic numbers fit from data.

Another example might be the winning entry in the Netflix competition. If your goal is to predict film preferences (which is Netflix's goal, of course), it appears to give pretty good estimates. But I don't think even its authors would claim that it's a a scientific model of how humans form preferences.

In both cases the underlying problem is that there are fairly general functional forms, such as a few terms of a Taylor series, or a forest of decision trees, that can empirically model almost anything to a certain degree of accuracy, given enough data, even if the underlying process looks nothing like them. Therefore they can give accurate predictions that work in practice, without being accurate models of what's happening in the underlying system. Chomsky appears to be of the opinion that statistical NLP systems are more of that variety, so may be good engineering solutions without being good scientific models.
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Also rules change between regions, in AU eBay they encourage an email address on the listing for support. In the US the API will give you some abstract message about policies which you have to go away and guess yourself what it might be (turned out to be the email address)
Only electric vehicles start at 0 RPM. Normal combustion engines idle under 1,000 RPM and the M5 has a fairly flat torque curve for a naturally aspirated car with somewhere around 260lbs at idle. That's very good and about 50% of its peak torque.

The M5s also have SMG which is a computer controlled manual transmission. No manually operated clutch. Even has a launch mode if you want the computer to control wheel spin for you so you get the best possible launch.

Throttle response is still the wrong metric to use here. And is a bit of a red herring in the discussion.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened: http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14672228

You would think that would have a procedure in place to address these types of situations, for good PR at least.
It just feels so weird to have the main interaction (browsing pictures from social networks) as the _background_ of the app. Personally, I wanted to fill the whole grid with pictures, so the colors at the top were useless. Maybe give an option to hide that huge chunk of space. And, again, maybe make the browsing in the foreground and the cover picture in a well or something like that.
Exactly. I think that's part of the reason WHY we see so many task management apps. Everyone organizes differently, and their apps try to reflect that. No two apps are the same, but for whatever reason, none really provide that "complete" experience.

I suspect that when a founder builds something tailored to themselves, not torn apart by superfluous outside input, is when they really shine. Workflowy for example.
I will always cringe when I see people use 'laptops' and touching the screen. It's become instinctually painful.
How breaking up would help? Instead of one huge Comcast you'd have 1000 regional mini-comcasts, with the same people and same rules. If some region has only one cabling network, they'd have only one mini-comcast controlling it, and so nothing would change for them - except for mini-comcast eating up the costs of natural disaster actually may be a huge hit, unlike Comcast today for which it would cost them less than salad dressings on annual employee appreciation barbecue (provided they have one).
Yes, and customers are entitled to complain about obnoxious behaviour, are entitled to choose not to give their business to such companies, and are entitled to publicise such obnoxious behaviour.

Comcast might not be legally at fault, but I have no doubt that they are ethically. When companies behave unethically, it ought to be sung from the rooftops - that is how you put a cost on unethical behaviour.
Yes, in the case that one is convicted of extremely heinous murder, not in the case that one loses a patent suit.
I keep my eye out for Vidyard video's around the web, but the lack of branding makes it hard to tell where it's from. But I guess that's the point.

Congratulations on the milestone.
Google+ Hangouts: nicer to look at, easier to use
This also presumes that you have access to a reliable power grid which is not the case in places like central and subcontinental Asia, or in the aftermath of a natural disaster like Superstorm Sandy.

(despite that i totally think we should go electric. just that we should figure out ways to setup better infrastructure and disaster mitigation)
If it was a leased car it wouldn't be "their" car either, but it would be ridiculous to expect the company you are leasing it from to eat the cost of the car simply because it was destroyed by a natural disaster. While you are in possession of the property it is your own decision to insure it or not. In this case it many (almost all?) forms of home insurance would cover the cost of the destroyed cable box.

If Comcast stuck a mandatory $3/month "cable box insurance" fee on everyone's bill people would be posting about how they are money grubbing assholes, but if they are effectively insuring all of their leased equipment against loss then they are doing exactly that except just not putting it as a separate line item on the bill.
As you can imagine, the problem of getting nutrition information from food is a really difficult problem, so we are breaking it into chunks.

For our first phase, we are using user input to provide a baseline of nutrition information. Some people don't want to use the existing apps which require you to select an item from an auto dropdown, then select the quantity.

For our second phase however, we are doing what you said. With the image and input data, we are training our artificial intelligence system to see if it can fix user entries, or at least provide a 'guess' of ingredients for the user.

Some interesting solutions we have seen from Harvard research papers is to get an image, then generate vector image shapes. With the image shapes, we can access portion size + the caption and fix that.
Resource Efficiency is not a criteria for the USPTO, that's your own personal, subjective opinion.
No doubt there are better solutions. But nobody has implemented one yet. Despite some users making up advanced theories for the lack of certain functionality, it usually only comes down to a simple lack of time and resources...
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Interesting, some feedback:

It's not immediately clear why I would shop The Shelf instead of one of the many other ways of shopping.

Please be super-explicit about what the app will do if I log in via Facebook. I like being able to auth without creating a username/password, but I worry about feedspam.

You should show the current bid amount on the front page before the click-through.

The scam "pay to bid" sites make me weary of new auction sites, so you may have an uphill battle proving that you're not one of them. I trust that you're not.
Cross-browser Audio Multitracking