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The real question to me is why are [Apple] not doing anything half as cool as what Musk has done in the past 10 years.

I don't understand: what hasn't Apple done that isn't "half as cool"?

Clearly, the iPad alone is a significant product that has literally changed the computing industry.
It is. I was just stating a fact though :)
I don't understand why science should be a closed guild in the first place.
I'd add that, nobody is going to give you the sysadmin keys day one. But each of the contributions mentioned above can earn trust with the project you pick, which may eventually lead to something directly related to sysadmin :)
The legacy is RubyCocoa -> MacRuby -> RubyMotion.

RubyCocoa was actually a wrapper, but was very slow. MacRuby's innovation was that it was a Ruby implementation in Obj-C, but it relied on GC and was Mac OS X only. RubyMotion ditched the need for the GC and supports iOS and now Mac OS X.
I'm becoming pretty convinced that the human future depends on the disruption and obsolescence of bureaucracies.
A few reasons come to mind. Either they are planning to do something cool, though it's not public yet, or people who have the cool / life changing ideas will go off on their own to do them.

The way you keep people like Musk in companies performing is giving them a large portion of ownership of their particular endeavor, so they benefit based on how successful they are - however then they're really just becoming investors.
I feel obliged to point out that these other journals are merely copying the real pioneer in this field: http://jir.com.
In case it slipped right past your nose, the previous comments were a play-on-words in reference to the library.
Of course they are disruptive. They achieve the same capability as an internal combustion engine, but they do it in a different way.

ICE automakers can't retool their supply chains overnight (or even over several years) to make an equivelent product.

How are they disruptive? They achieve identical (performance wise, superior) capability with reduced maintenance and reduced fuel cost due to electricity being cheaper than gasoline.

In the short term, the increased cost makes them disruptive only in the high-end sedan market. As the production scales up, this will move into the lower-tier markets. I think you are intelligent enough to get this.
right, except craig never had $Billions to buy out all their competitors as soon as they emerge as a threat.
Canada has significant costs associated with delivering health care service to remote areas because of its low population density. A US public system should be more efficient, not less.
What kind of "Front end" developer are they looking for?
People seem to really want the electric car to fail to the point of irrational investing.

You don't short McDonald's because you dislike the Big Mac.
Part of why it may not be true is that we lack the language or conceptual vocabulary to describe how living systems really work.

When we engineer things, it's one-part-one-function. Living systems are every-part-every-function network graphs with weighted edges that are subject to dynamic reconfiguration.

A cell isn't a computer that runs "code" in the form of DNA, nor is it a "machine" as we understand it. A "structured cloud of probabilistic quantum interactions among molecular nanomachines" is a bit more accurate.

Until we conquer these meta-problems, we won't understand the cell or the genome. I don't think they can be understood classically -- and I don't mean classically in the sense of omitting quantum mechanics. (Though that's true too.) I mean classically in the sense of linear fixed-relationship cause and effect machines.
Apparently you don't need to move people like Musk to large companies for them to change the world.

(And many would argue the world is a better place for people not being dependent on existing large companies to have an impact).
AGREED! WordPress should actually have a "Naked" theme as one of the defaults, absolutely. Why a well-commented naked theme isn't part of the default WordPress install has never made sense. I had to make my own with each new version of WordPress so far so when I start a new project from scratch I have a clean slate and an updated empty theme.
White House looks to 3D printing plan for military
Well it was a secondary underlying theme to the lousy movie "The Dilemma".

I'm sure it can be done but the question is whether someone wants it. Many in that class would probably adjust quicker to the silence of EV's than a lie.

Do keep in mind that engine noise is not only beneficial to the driver but cyclists, other motorists and at crosswalks as well.

It's not a problem that is easily solved and satisfied by all parties.
I thought it was a good, solid bottom-to-top take on Lean methodology and with its own flavor based around "The Simple Team Principle". It is well grounded in common sense and I definitely came away with ideas on how I could improve my own teams' performance and overall happiness.
Disruptive technologies serve customers that are unprofitable ornindesirable for incumbents to serve. Tesla is a direct competitor to luxury sedans, and is beating them at their own game.

A disruptive electric car would be if a golf cart maker made a $7500 car with a top speed of 60mph and a range of 50 miles. No current car customer would want that, but people that couldn't afford a new reliable car, or teenagers whose parents only sort-of trusted them, etc would love to buy it.
Except in passive constructions, but maybe that's an easy case to detect.
The instructions in the CPU are no different from the statements in the Principia, just finite and physically realized. The instructions are combinations of logic operations, although the logic is now sequential and having state, which I would think sets it apart from the Principia since I haven't yet gotten my copy to study. The sequentiality gives rise to monadic world state, but all is still reducable to logic in the end.

There's no magic in the computer and no analogy other than designing analog circuits that clamp voltage levels and a very large finite state machine. It's logic all the way down, limits and all, though instead of incompleteness there's incomputability. 2 sides of the same coin.

Pure boolean logic can be reduced to symbol manipulation using rules of substituion and inferrence, but, of course, what is that composed of? Godel showed that metalogic is made of logic, you just elevate the types.

What is logic made of?

BTW I know computer architecture very well. There's no analogies, just abstraction.
I'm not very good at finishing projects, but I've gotten much better at finishing books. Here's what I do: I keep a spreadsheet with all of the books I've read. I record the number of pages per book and I calculate for the year how many pages I read a day on average. I only allow myself to add a book to the list if I finish it. This has definitely given me an incentive to finish books.
I would suppose when you see a page from Amazon, there are numbers of the system that contributes to the page. Some with HTML, some with API. And as other commenter mentions, these are all generated by some backend system. Probably no one has to full control on how to format HTML at the front. Or they probably can, but with a lot of meetings.

The store front probably just gather all this stuff to produce the final page that you see.
Title correction: Yahoo acqui-hires GoPollGo. Like Summly, the service itself will disappear completely.
One of the tricks is to have what you're doing - or what you're going to do - really small. This way you don't have enough time to become bored. For this approach to work, you need to be able to split meaningful projects into still somewhat meaningful, fun enough but small subprojects.

Another thing is that for many projects you're starting it understanding that you won't finish it - in one piece of time. You're going to start, progress, reflect on it, do some more - then put it on the shelf for a while. And this is ok. This allows you to actually boldly start projects which you know you won't finish - again, in one chunk. For example, I also took several courses on Coursera etc. and dropped then after a couple of weeks. But they are still high in my priorities - as soon as I can/want/return to the same subject of interest, I come back to the courses, reading the material, watching videos and even doing homework. This at least allows me, when taking that course second time (if I need to - usually I don't, the primary reason is knowledge, not the certificate) to feel right at home.

I'd say, don't throw away that list of ideas you developed while working on something - but check it, choose perhaps something out of it for the new list, may be you're still interested in some projects mentioned there.

And... you still have to be persistent at times. Don't worry - it's a source of great feeling when you actually finish something non-trivial - and only you know how hard it was, and you really learned things from that - and you know you're better because of that.
He's still got an uphill battle on the dealer network thing. North Carolina being the latest problem:

http://insideevs.com/hearing-on-tesla-selling-cars-in-north-...
The Clone Army from Star Wars! Admit it, you were thinking the same thing...
International Students Expect Delays at U.S. Ports of Entry
Motivations of the last 6% are probably relating to trying to create a business that won't just be copied by someone who has access to resources faster than them, e.g. entrepreneurs and business folk..
I didn't know something could be done for firefox blocking the font. Thanks for the advice
The 2013 Thiel Fellows
? It is related to the topic. Maybe not specifically the article but the website in question that was linked. I thought it was a pretty odd choice, and website design is definitely relevant to HN
I am building a service to handle the backend of any HTML page. I think it will handle your use case just fine. http://www.steveapp.com/
You should get rid of all patents if that's the case. Patents slow down innovation period. And software patents can be non-obvious, just like hardware patents -- software and hardware innovations can be just as equally obvious to anyone who starts to work on a problem.
Ember at Embedly - Part IV - Models and Ember Data
Why are there not more Elon Musk's in America and how can we create more of them?

Answer here: http://home.bresnan.net/~cabreras/theboy.htm
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Henry Ford almost destroyed the Ford Motor Company because he believed the Model T to not need improvement. So the Ford family doing things that don't benefit the company has some history :).
API: Application Program Interface.

There is nothing other than the interface of an API to copy. That's what it is.

However, the implementation is what copyright protects, so, honestly, I think this whole article is not very relevant.
Yes but they are a satirical news outlet. They wouldn't want to confuse people by reporting news that is true.
$70k. Plus 3-4 years down the road Tesla aims at the $30k price point with BlueStar. That's definitely becoming, very soon, a disruptive technology.
Those people it's suggesting have probably e-mailed you in the past, or are in the networks of people that have e-mailed you in the past. LinkedIn matched your e-mail to their address books, which they gave to LI when they let it connect to their Google/Yahoo/etc mail accounts in the past. If you sign up with a fresh e-mail address nobody's ever seen, you'd have no initial recommended connections.
I believe that this is exactly what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet.
Might have to replace your "sensors" a lot, since I'm pretty sure most moths only live for a a fortnight or so.
The ability to do that is not creepy. Doing it is.
I knew about the exception also but I always think its a bit strange. Wikipedia refers to it as more of a tax on performances than perpetual copyright[1] because European copyrights for Peter Pan expired on December 31 2007.

The legislation is 301 Provisions for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children from the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_copyright
[2] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48?view=plain
Very true, but Apple can afford it, when 99.9% of the people on their website probably not only already know what an iPod or an iPhone is, but actually already want to have one...

If I go to a website of a product I've never heard of, my main questions are most likely to be "what is this thing?", "what can I do with it?", "how is this better than what I already know". In this case, explaining the WHAT is probably most important. If I see "Engineered for maximum funness" on such a website, I think I'd be much more likely to hit the back button.
One thing I've always wondered: How does Consumer Reports afford to purchase all those cars (and other expensive items that it reviews)?
Hyperbole and a Half's Allie on depression
I agree with that. PHP is strongest in areas where it doesn't try to imitate other languages and overload itself on features that are duplicitous or superfluous. The last feature that I really loved and anticipated was functions becoming real objects, it's one of the very few things among recent additions that I think were absolutely essential and overdue. It's also nice that FPM is now part of the default package. There are certainly a lot of areas that could be improved - for example it's incredible how they're still not cleaning up the standard library or some of the parser quirks.
This article seems link baity. It doesn't talk about the Snapchat servers not deleting photos, but the Snapchat app storing photos locally in a "hidden folder". It then advertises a $300-$500 service to remove the photos in the hidden folder.
Don't forget the ability to Dock a module with the freaking ISS.
does adroll do this? curious
That's cool. I can definitely do that and then maybe put a message about options for if you don't completely trust the person that sent you the link... Thanks!
They're not competing against non-consumption. Tesla may well end up successful, and an electric car company could be disruptive, but I don't see their product strategy as disruptive. Sales, however, is a different kettle of fish, and I expect it to be what brings Tesla down. Car dealers are way, way, way too powerful for a boutique to take on. Look at how much was clawed back from GM by their dealer network when they were trying to kill their terrible brands.
Considering that electric cars were held up in Christensen's books as an example of a disruptive technology that would disrupt a major market in coming decades, they qualify.

The definition of a disruptive technology is one that starts off objectively inferior but which, on projected technology trends, will meet the market need at some future date. The existing market can recognize these facts well in advance, but when the time comes to switch technologies finds upstart incumbents using the new technology with a cost structure the established companies cannot match.

Electric cars qualify because they do not at the same price have the same range, acceleration, or refuel time as gasoline cars. But all three aspects are improving exponentially over time. On current trends, electric cars will be comparable to or better than gasoline cars on all three metrics within 20 years.

What Elon has done is realized that the cost difference between building a top end car and a bottom end car is not that great, and at the price of a top end car he can deliver equivalent to better acceleration and range, with recharge time that is acceptable to many. This is very unusual - normally the upstarts in a disruptive market start at the bottom of the market and move up. (Indeed that was the pattern that Christensen predicted for electric cars.) But the mechanics work the same way. By the time Tesla can deliver a mass market car at a mass market price, the incumbents won't have the technology or business structure to deliver a competitive car at a competitive price.

For all of the reasons why existing companies will not be able to modify their technology and business structure to what is needed to compete with Tesla, I highly recommend Clayton's followup book, The Innovator's Solution.
Why do all disruptive companies end up making much better products than the incumbents, changing the game, and revolutionizing the market?

Because big incumbents have little interest in changing anything. They're happy selling the same thing, slightly improved year after year, decade after decade, and only myopically competing against their "direct competitors" (i.e. all the other companies cloning each other's products).

You need new thinking, new ways of doing things and new business models to change the game and the market - something the incumbents have very little interest in pursuing.

Also, who said it was easy? You should watch some Elon Musk documentaries, to see how many times he was close to bankruptcy, not just of the business, but personal, too - all while running a rocket company, too. He might make it look easy, but it certainly wasn't, and I'm sure most still believe he'll never beat established car companies like GM and Ford (I'm quite certain he will, and make Tesla the "Apple" of the car industry).
They're 2 iterations away from the "every man" car.

Model S is a 60-90k car. The next level down is likely 30-60k. The next level down is the 15-30k car (think Honda Civic/Accord).
I'm not sure, I felt (and feel) the same way about tablets, and about smartphones except in limited cases. But tons of people got them and now they're standard.

So I wonder if a good litmus test for this sort of review might be to find/replace Glass with iPad and see if any of the criticism doesn't apply. Very little in the article seems to pass the test, so even though I tend to agree with the sentiments, I'm not sure most consumers will feel the same.
Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data
So you want to be a Browser Game Developer?
need it != it would be useful
https://github.com/taf2/rb-brill-tagger. For anyone usin ruby can do something very similar much of the code is c++ with smaller ruby API ... It's pretty good bug reports welcome...
probably worth pointing out that LI doesn't have ads and makes its money from subscribers, most of whom i'm guessing are sales/recruiting.

from a pure-business-no-ethics perspective, why would you care what anyone else thought? w/ that point of view: every connection or link, however creepy, makes the system as whole more valuable to subscribers.

personally, the feature doesn't have enough churn, so i always see the same 5 faces, 99% of the time it's background...otherwise it would probably creep me out slash annoy more.
Just recently I read pg's old essay on Microsoft. (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html)

> The surprising fact is, brilliant hackers—dangerously brilliant hackers—can be had very cheaply, by the standards of a company as rich as Microsoft. They can't hire smart people anymore, but they could buy as many as they wanted for only an order of magnitude more.

This seems like Marissa Mayer's strategy.
I'm sure numba is an impressive product. But I keep seeing examples on the continuum blog with an obscene number of for loops, and correspondingly great speedups.

My only response is: "My code doesn't look like that."

I'd be more impressed if they didn't cherry pick code with a dozen for-loops, and instead showed a moderate speedup from more standard (and vectorized) code.
Hrm. That shouldn't work unless they are within three degrees of the person. Or at least, it didn't work when I was there. Views to people's public profiles weren't recorded and there is no automatic redirect to their private profile.

Links to people's private profiles have an auth token in it that is good only for the account that generated it, so unless you're relatively closely connected, you can't actually view links to random private profiles posted by people on the internet.
Building Python Packages with Maven
Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information
A counter-argument:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226604
Bitcoin is cryptographically pure but programmers aren't quite as perfect.
> It's important to understand that when FSF talks about "freedom" they explicitly mean keeping the users free - not the developers. As a developer, I'm personally biased towards being free to other developers, and I think GPL (v2 and esp. v3) are very much pro-user at the cost of being anti-developer.

I don't think that's what the FSF means when they talk about freedom. Freedom is about keeping everyone free--developers and users alike. Copyleft licenses ensure that all derivative works be subject to the same licensing terms as the original work. It's a way to protect the self-perpetuating nature of free software that more permissive licenses fail to achieve.
He also built a space ship.
As I understand it the Bitcoin is HTML and bitcoind is Netscape

It does not make a lot of sense, to disagree/disaprove of HTML, and hail a Netscape alternative.
Doctors order tests to help them choose the right treatments.

If they have absolutely no idea what the possibilities are then they wouldn't be ordering tests anyway.
I wonder how the marginal cost of an ICE compares with the marginal cost of one or two electric motors + regen + batteries + charger, and how those change over time. I suspect the electric drive train isn't cheaper now, but will be cheaper in a few years.
"Click packages" for Ubuntu
If you want to maximize your chances of reproducing the results, you will use identical apparatus and methods to what the original study used. That is often not possible to do just from reading the paper.
Ask anyone under ~30, they won't know what you're talking about.
> There's a few Model S's in my area, and they're beautiful.

They're also luxury (the base Model S is twice an Audi S4) and on limited runs (the yearly production of Tesla is the same as AMG. Not Mercedes, the subsidiary which takes standard Mercedes cars and refits them with custom hand-built engines)

I mean I could make the same complaint wondering why the rest of the industry can't be Ferrari (7000 cars/year[0]) or Bugatti, but basic thinking will help me note that the market for that kind of money is sort-of exclusive.

[0] note: Tesla has ~250 more employees than Ferrari, expects to produce ~3 times as many cars in 2013 and has roughly 20% the revenue. The comparison turns out to makes way more sense than between Tesla and Audi or BMW, let alone Tesla and Ford or VW group.
That's how many disruptive technologies start. Then their price falls until it reaches parity with the old technology, and the choice becomes a no-brainer.
Nice post. I can see the argument.