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This is laughable from a privacy perspective. So you delete the emails immediately after they're viewed? We're expected to take your word for this? Are you saying you don't back up your data at all? How do you handle secure removal from backups? How do you perform the deletion? Do your servers use journalling filesystems? Do you expect us to trust (say) Gmail not to prefetch image data embedded in HTML emails? What happens if you get raided?
I read his daughter's squirrel story [1]. I loved the last line: "Poor grandma Jalapeno she got arested for turning into superman."

[1] http://justinjackson.ca/words.html
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Speaking of 'original' formats. Why would one prefer the Discrete Cosine Transform to the Discrete Fourier Transform? I've only worked with the Fourier, and I'm wondering if there are any benefits?
Survey reveals only 39% of IT professionals are happy with career prospects 
• 39% of those working in IT and Telecoms happy with their career prospects –above the national average of 38%
• 4G licensing boom is bolstering demand for tech contractors, but long-term career progression is becoming less defined as a result
• Better pay no longer the most important aspect of career progression – doing work that lets me learn new things and meet new people now top priority
Sure, I agree that governments spying on other governments is something that is a necessary evil up to a certain point.

In my opinion this is vastly different from a government reading and storing pretty much all foreign communication they can get their hands on from an allied state citizens though, something I understand the USA/NSA seems to be doing.
On the other hand, electric cars mostly get charged over night. The need for a battery swap or a stop for super charging should be much less frequent than the need to refill gas. It is hard to make a direct comparison.
Err yeah. Why would you think that a black president would be different to a white one?

That's precisely the shakeup the world needs - to realise that whatever skin colour, male or female, people are people and you shouldn't judge them negatively or positively on how much melanin or testosterone they produce :P
Banks and post offices get robbed every day. That problem is still not solved.
A good example - http://stallman.org/

Horrendous on the eye but gives everything you need. And more.
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If they would've filmed the audi getting a fuel fillup adding the same range the battery swap would, it probably would still be a close race, getting out, swiping cards (entering PIN around here (Europe)) and getting back in.
Tesla claims 426 [1] km on a fully charged battery.
Audi claims to do that distance on 45 liters (so half a tank) (9.3 km to a Litre [2] average fuel consumption for a 3 liter petrol car)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S
[2]http://www.autoweek.nl/auto/58469/audi-a8-l-30-tfsi-quattro
The HN mods should once again change the headline to the nytimes article as the original source just like the last time this was brought up. Despite the fact that for many, this was the interesting part. This is clearly blog spam and link bait.

Not changing it would be hypocritical at best.
I recall a past comment on HN claiming that altering URLs to discover content may constitute hacking. For example,

http://site.com/posts/img.jpg
http://site.com/posts/img_t.jpg

In the first paragraph of the article:

> The proposed definition … is to obtain information … by knowingly circumventing technological or physical measures designed to prevent unauthorized individuals from obtaining that information.

suggests that, in that context, the debate would be whether a certain URL structure implies a legitimate attempt at securing content, rather than just being a side-effect of website structure/design.

Would it be unreasonable to argue that blatant disregard for security due-dilligence or just 'bad' security is not an honest attempt at the same, and thus equivalent to no security at all?
A fantastic site that has helped me immensely. It's a little hard to gain reputation so much now, due to the amount of people who jump in as soon as a question is asked. But the vast database of answers to common problems it has created have added immense value. I much prefer using SO rather than dedicated forums which are often badly designed and slow e.g. Oracle, IBM.

Some of the other sites that SO spawned are useful too e.g. I like reading the English language stack exchange. There is definitely room for both Quora and the Stack Exchange sites on the Internet (Quora more subjective and discussion based, whereas Stack Exchange sites I use for more definitive / right or wrong answers).
Small correction: the iPad version isn't out yet, but apparently they're releasing it this summer.
Not entirely sure which Audi that is.
Lets assume:
http://www.autoweek.nl/auto/58469/audi-a8-l-30-tfsi-quattro
90 liters at 9.3 km/liter = 837 km. Compared to Tesla's claimed 426 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S)
Damn, what kind of car takes 83 litres?

Your point is what occurred to me during the video, though. It's fantastic technology, but the comparison is a bit flawed. However, they did get two batteries, which is still not 83 liters but it's pretty damn fast, and faster than "too long to wait", at any rate.
Ditto. For what it's worth I've only connected via 802.11n so far, so it could be an issue with a/b/g.
I am not worried about lawyers using these logs for evidence, I am more concerned about other government agencies doing so. Its not like the IRS isn't bad enough as it is.

Of course it could be just as much fun when employers demand access to this data. Soon we will get a Citizens Privacy Bill of Rights which will protect us from no one and codify the government's rights to continue as is.
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To have used Altavista or Dogpile one must have either been on the internet before it was cool, or made a deliberately retro choice of search engine. Either qualifies for hipsterdom.
Well, this wouldn't be fair either. Audi allows you to fill 90 litters, it's the advantage of the old technology. Fair comparison shouldn't artificially cripple the competition.

For me, battery swap in 90 seconds is a powerful enough and honest marketing message, no need for a comparison.
Yup, underneath. The battery makes up basically the whole underside of the car, it seems they drop it straight down. I have no idea how the power/data coupling works though, maybe that stuff just slots in?
Remember the search aggregators, like Magellan (maybe Columbus? Something like that) that searched X different engines and aggregated the results in a desktop app for you to use?

Then I found Google, and I never used anything else again.
Maybe you should try expressing it with a picture :P
I would say before one moves to Berlin, you should make sure you're alright with these:

- for a great part of the year, poor weather with very low cloudy skies
- winter darkness
- occasional hostility to foreigners (in certain neighborhoods, in words and sometimes with violence)
- high energy and telecommunication costs
- poor access to good vegetable/fruit quality
- terrible restaurant offers in certain styles (japanese for instance) ; in general lack of variety
- ugly city

Also be careful and do check about the compromises that some promises made come from. For instance the cheap housing is in general badly constructed, and your landlord will perform renovations so they can drastically increase your rent in later times.

Can't comment about the startup culture.
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Sites made ten years ago with a design that focuses on the text still look good. Sites with a more "visual" design, even one that was very well regarded at the time, look far more dated.
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Hello,

I'm starting to build a new control panel for virtualization ( Xen , KVM at first ), this has been something I've done for my personal use but I'd like to expand it further and write something that can be a direct opponent to SolusVM which is simply tacky in my opinion.

If there are any developers ( ruby/JS ) that are interested into starting this, please let me know :)

I do expect either this to be fully ignored or receive bad comments :)
So instead of loading my battery i just swap it with a fully charged one and the thing is done. My old battery gets fully charged on site, and if someone else comes along he gets my old now fully charged battery.
Basically you never have to charge your Tesla again....
90 Seconds to "refill"... nice one
Sadly you chose a font that only works when it's gauss-blurred.

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By definition if you haven't received the letter it is impossible to know what to add. Having said that, and stating the obvious, a letter of intent is generally intended to grant an exclusivity period to the potential acquirer in which to conduct due diligence and determine whether they really wish to purchase the company.

Consequently as you allude to confidentiality is vital. At the same time, you should have a limited exclusivity period following the expiry of which you are free to go to any other potential acquirers, and also the acquirer will have to return/destroy all confidential information.

Of course in reality, the benefit of the information could already have been derived from the acquirer. In the first place therefore only information which is absolutely necessary should be disclosed.

In any event, in a usual acquisition you would have lawyers deal with the paperwork for the sale and purchase, so I see no reason not to get those lawyers involved at this stage. This does to an extent depend on the size of the deal, and whether sales or assets are involved of course.
While I totally agree that you'll need to incentivize the potential users to use your app, I think that right now you've subconsciously taken the right path. To attract the users you need sufficient number of interesting ideas to show to them. That's why targeting the entrepreneurs,developers and designers (as someone brilliantly suggested) is a way to go for now imho. After that you can focus on implementing changes aimed at acquiring "normal" users. And that can be a real challenge. The perks/benefits seem to be already proven solution. I also thought about turning the "upboats" into some kind of game of prediction - can the user guess which idea will take off? Something like here: http://www.upboat.us/idea/c4861c9bf49ce663 ;)
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Definitely some interesting little details to iron out. The alignment should be easy. Just have to park within some tolerance, and the unbolting platform can rotate to adjust.

I wonder about the unbolting. What if one of the (what seemed like) dozen screwdriver bits fails? Screw the rest back on and fail the procedure? Also can the re-bolting fail, e.g. by dropping the bolt? Would your car end up with fewer and fewer bolts over time? I guess the system should have a reservoir of bolts that it can reuse.

Also wonder how this would handle east coast winters, what with all the ice that gets caked on the undercarriage.

All in all I'm jealous of the engineers at Tesla who get to work on it :)
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Insofar as this interview speaks to the relevance of brainteasers to actual software development / engineering, it fails to provide a meaningful topic of conversation. It surprises me that nobody's pointed out that at best the conclusions are relevant to engineering "leadership" performance, rather than -- as I expected for "Google" and "head-hunting" -- coding performance. Sure, people skills and team skill are important, but if you're going to get good at selecting for leadership and ignore selecting for productivity, to the extent they're not related you're not going to be very good at creating and maintaining software. Although software isn't 100% of Google's success and coding productivity isn't 100% of software success, it's pretty important.
I have Audi A6 (older than in video, so my might be less efficient). I see that you can travel 300 miles with Tesla under perfect conditions (http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options). TDI Audi likes this under perfect condition can travel a little bit more than twice as much. In city mode Tesla might show better results than Audi (I would like to see real world results). So it looks like it is the same.

Again it might be more complicated. E.g. we might need to use Audi with better engine (bigger fuel consumption) to match Tesla. I have used TDI in my example and we might get completely different results with TFSI (since it is USA I guess we have TFSI Audi).
I've never understood this attitude. If your monitor is too wide for comfortable reading, don't maximize your browser. Why would you ever want a window that was 2/3 white margins? Site makers: please please please let your text expand to the width of my browser. I made my browser that wide because I like it that way.
Does anyone know of a good "compile to js" lua implementation ?
Ask HN: Most effective web launch strategy to gain fast traffic from no budget?
We’re a few weeks away from finishing off our property portal which promises a better experience to house hunters here in the UK.

As we are complete newbs at this and have moths in our pockets, we’re short of ideas of how to do an effective launch with little or no money. We’d love to get some experienced hackers who’ve been there, done that, to give us a tip or two.

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That's likely the reason it's hosted on developer.apple.com and not their consumer-facing site. (It's also the same way Google measures their OS usage data, also hosted on their developer site.)
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Would be interesting to compare performance to the other ways of getting Lua to run in the browser, which include writing a Lua bytecode interpreter in JS, converting Lua to JS, and code generation from bytecode.

https://github.com/creationix/brozula
https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
(and others, I had a list somewhere)

Quite a few companies are using Lua->JS as a way of doing write once run cross platform games eg we had this talk at London Lua http://www.londonlua.org/luajavascript/index.html
What happens in war is different from what happens in peace.

First off, things don't "happen", people do them. Secondly, the actions of people determine peace or war, not the other way around. Thirdly, the "War On Terror" is a rhetorical device, and depending on the thickness of your skin, an exercise in hipocrisy or comedy.

all the terrorists, many tens of millions of radical Muslims

Wait, what???

what is going on in Gitmo is not really the US criminal legal system. It's a bad situation. But 9/11 was a bad situation

9/11 was a tragedy and a horrible crime, but what made it the bad situation you are referring to were the, how do I put this, nazi cunts who abused it for their ends. I also assume building 7 collapsed out of sheer sympathy with the whole situation being so bad? And of course, this logic applies to the attackers as well. Killing thousands of people wasn't ideal, but the situation was "bad", you know.
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Love the "RSS activity feeds" feature the OP mentions toward the bottom of this post.
Raising my glass to stackoverflow! It had done more to improve my productivity than anything else. Jeff Atwood and the whole community have changed the world for the better. Why is it that stackoverflow is so much more useful than expertsexchange or quora?
I like Factor a lot. Forth has always struck me as something with potential; but, alas, it's stuck in the 70s. Data structures are painful. You can forget about anything like generics, polymorphism, interfaces, etc. It supports functional programming poorly. It fails to benefit from modern ideas about modules/namespaces or type systems that stay out of your way. And there is no protection from anything at all. When I look at Factor, I find myself thinking, "This is what Forth should have been."

So, yes, Factor is worth a look. Certainly as a mind-expander, and possibly as a practical production language (just guessing here).
I wonder how many of this 6% are non-updated developer testing iphones/ipads.
"Namely, the business units are so disconnected from engineering they don't even realize the costs of what they're asking for, and the engineers are so disconnected that they reap zero benefit from whatever business goal is going to be accomplished by this."

I don't think it's just that they're disconnected - some of the orgs I've been in - they simply do not care, and never will, even if they completely understand the "costs". Why not? Because they don't have to pay it. It's not coming out of their budget, the 'costs' of higher support later on don't affect anyone who's making the decision right now, and damnit, we have to get this out now or we'll lose marketshare!

This is a toxic division, and seems to be more prevalent at companies that do not see themselves as software-based companies. Yammer is all tech - Yammer couldn't have existed 30 years ago, but plenty of more traditional companies still see software as something divorces from their main business.
Agreed. There is an incredibly annoying bug with iOS 6.0.1 that causes a crash when using the photo picker or game center in a specific orientation. And the workaround requires supporting all orientations and editing every view controller in your source.

Knowing how many people are actually affected by this would be incredibly helpful.
Was just wondering, what was used to put together this presentation? Any open-source tools or libraries?
I don't know - you can try to be inclusive and also set some standards. That doesn't have to be for the entire Internet.

The future people will have fun comparing and contrasting different reputation systems and online communities. Assuming enough information stays for them to study.

Usenet was archived by Deja, which got bought by Google. It's in a sorry state, but at least it's stil there.

Who's archiving Reddit, or HN, or 4chan, or all the rest?
I suspect they are mostly iPad 1 devices. My iPad 1 still sees regular use.
IMO: The logo mouseover is the one giant blaring loud thing on a page that's generally softer, more muted. I'd suggest you make the transition a bit more subtle, from dark grey to grayish blue rather than solid black to solid blue.
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An unicode aware string splitter would be more useful, as you could use it to reverse unicode strings in addition to other magic (like just splitting the string correctly).
Using the unicode aware splitting method one could reverse a string like this:

string.unicodeSplit().reverse().join('')
> The problem is that this biases the statistics due to the 14-day window: everyone who buys a new iPhone goes to the App Store in order to download some "staple apps"

How do you know that’s how Apple measures OS version share? Why would Apple limit itself to only measuring when users open the App Store?

Any iOS device that ever connects to the Internet checks in with Apple to be activated and registered. After that, iOS regularly checks for OS and app updates. If I own an iOS device that I never update and never visit the App Store on, that device will still check for updates and will transmit version data to Apple. Also, because every iOS device has a unique ID, more active users won‘t be counted double.
Who says you have to lease one physical battery. Perhaps the battery lease is "a" battery and not "your" battery and Tesla takes care of maintaining them all. And when new batteries come out, you can have the option of upgrading to those. In the future, the station could have three types of batteries for customers to choose from, just like gas.

Sounds like when I get my propane tank filled. They don't care what condition it is in. I get a freshly painted filled one every time. And if I want, I can pay for a bigger one.
I use some of them.

None of them, however, is the UK government unnecessarily leaking details of my interactions across borders.
I think you misread my post slightly.

I consider the trick questions from Google interviewers to be hostile. The only reason not to call them on it in the interview is that you want the job and think that you can get it by being nice rather than honest.

"having balls" != "hostile". "having balls" == "telling the truth"

The point I was trying to make in an interviewer is that you really want to find out what someone is going to do when you ask them to do something that they think is stupid. Because you will eventually.

As an interviewee, you really want to find out what happens if you have to challenge the management.

You can be both honest and nice. It is just harder than trying to answer the question directly.
Better compatibility with old browsers? This seems like the kind of site and attitude that wants to be accessible to as many people as possible.
Have you performed or read an analysis of this as it applies to GA then?

I'd love to read it.
I strongly agree with this post.

Please, when creating content, concentrate on the words first. There are some obvious exceptions, but almost always the words are most important.

You can then add the markup, and the css, and the javascript, and all the other stuff.

But having great copy means that your visitors will always have good quality content even if they turn all that other stuff off.
To me, the most surprising part is: Holy fuck, Audi's have huge petrol tanks! I usually fill up my reasonably priced car in like a minute or so and it gets a range of some 700 kilometers on a ~40 liter gas tank.

5 minutes for a petrol stop? That's insane.
Stackoverflow .. where all the useful questions are marked as "off topic".
I use Stackoverflow and its awesome. t helps me alot in resolving the issues i am facing. Now i think I should try answering questions..
In the largely broken analogy, you might phone the DVLA, ask to speak to a certain department (driver licenses, vehicle tax), then perform a specific task (apply for a new license). This maps to your navigation around the pages. Previously you would not really expect a third party in another country to be informed you were doing this, and I don't think it's necessary now.

>> If I walk around a public library and check out 6 books and someone follows me around watching me look at 6 books, then again I ask "so what?"

They compile a dossier on you, including everything you read, all of the shops you go to, food you like. They sell this data to whoever wants it and leak it out the back door to overseas government agencies.

But I guess you've nothing to hide from anyone eh? Good for you.
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I agree with a lot of his position, but HTML is so tiresome to write by hand (all those angle brackets) and the tools to manage it already exist. My blog (http://m50d.github.io) is all about text like the OP, but I still use strapdown so that I can write markdown rather than html.
Is it poor submission titles?

Is it websites that pop up a subscription box with no obvious close button?