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Firstly, FoxConn has 1m+ employees. 3,000 is a drop in the ocean.
Secondly, of those 3,000, "wastage" will whittle it down to an effective corps of maybe 100, plus 1,000 support staff.

In a year's time, the commit logs for Firefox will have @foxconn all over weird and wonderful hardware compatibility bugs for Foxconn's big customers.

This is simply a marker, put down to say "if you are a handset manufacturer, and thinking of trying this new OS, then make it with us, because we are investing in it too"

Its a sensible move, covering their bets. And if FirefoxOS takes off (and I hope it does) they can double down next year.
I saw it and wondered "what about dirt"? Dust, gravel, spilled oil, the stray coke can. Rain (yes it does sometimes rain in California). This is a fine stage demo, but really? We're talking enormous sealed electric bombs, swapped out by automated wrench and jack platforms, then a subterranean battery-storage-and-recharge system. The bigger technology than 'doing it at all' is 'keeping it working under environmental conditions'. Any info about that?
You're going on long trips every single mile?

Otherwise you're charging it at home, at work, or using a supercharger while you eat lunch.

You may only swap the batt 10 times or less in those 37,500 miles. And you still get all the battery-quality advantages.
I worked on a college team that dealt with this exact challenge. We had an electric F1-style race car that required battery swaps half-way through the race. In our case, the car held 24 (? - I think) large heavy batteries from Electrosource (now out of business) that were configured in pairs, and slid in and out of the vehicle on sleds by a pit-crew. Heavy as hell, and a real challenge to do at a race - but functional. To see this whole thing automated is really fascinating on both a technical and personal level. Some companies are adding 9 seconds to video. This company is defining our future.
You are starting at the right place and asking the right crowd. You need to provide more details, what does no budget mean? What resources do you have at disposal to execute a marketing plan even when the budget is limited. What you did by posting here is comment marketing but even for this you need manpower. In the uk for property, there is zoopla and rightmove who have the large chunk of the market. Are you going after the estate agents or home owners? If I had to give you my take on marketing, 60% is your product, if it is easy to use and solves a headache for your target market, it should keep people coming back. This repeat traffic will have no choice but to share it with their contacts but you must make sharing easy. If you want viral help: Your internet marketing plan for viral growth must provide clear understanding of what your product is going to do for your users and it must deliver on this. If you can take away only one thing from this, remember: from the start, only push One Main Message to achieve viral growth. This should not necessarily be your unique selling point but rather your Unique Spreading Point.
I'd love for a neuroscientist to weigh in on this - what is the possibility that something like this could be used to generate an artificial neural network which imitates, even crudely, the functions of the human brain?
Apart from the extraordinarily rare successful heist[1], banks get robbed of teeny tiny amounts. That problem is effectively solved.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/981...
I used to do a lot of audio and video editing and the releases of OSX always seemed to have problems on launch day so much so that people in the industry always suggested to wait for the .1 release. Over the same time you've seen similar problems in apple's hardware. "It's mostly alright but some people are getting yellow cinema displays" "wi-fi connectivity issues" "a few models were XYZ" perhaps the same policy should be applied to hardware. Wait a month until they get the kinks worked out and you'll be rocking and rolling.
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I agree with your argument. But I think the internet's strongest trait is not necessarily revolutionary changes (wikileaks and arab spring). The things that have been built on the internet have been incredible. Think of crowdsourced projects like wikipedia and how ridiculously trivial it is for a scientist (or someone like me; a student in a lab) to access information or search for experimental data (genes are the tip of the iceberg here).

I don't want to belittle the Arab Spring, but the NCBI database and Wikipedia have arguably had an even larger impact on society than social networking's capability for kickstarting revolution. It's just slower and less obvious.
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Anyone with money would suffice (and pretty much anyone would be willing to provide the service for a song considering there is no risk to them even if they mess up, FB anyone) when floating a stock. Instead banks get to do their retarded song and dance that no one needs or wants and they collect millions for that which enriches their managers for nothing.
Experts Exchange has betrayed their users / community numerous times over the years in experimenting with how to make money. So far I would say that Stack Overflow has done a great job of not compromising their mission in the name of revenue. That's a very difficult balancing act.
What is the point of a sentence like "A Hungarian psychology professor once wrote …" without the actual name? His/her mythical study is a recurrent theme in the article, but not once the name of the author is mentioned. This diminishes the value of the text.
Specific desired actions that are realistic within the current legal frameworks. Go pirate party.
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Because it can't due to Android interoperability. Seen as they removed real time filters from the iOS version to make it more like the Android version
This doesn't break self-charging. You could use the same battery pack for a couple of months and then do the battery swap when you're doing a long distance drive.
"Next-gen", as it is in consoles, is derived from the traditional business models where things go in 5-10 year cycles based around fixed hardware that falls in cost over time.

Your new PC isn't called next-gen, even if it's much more powerful than your old console. And even if you look at the longer timescales of PC, it's hard/subjective to choose a line in the sand for one "generation" to transition to the next. So I don't think VP9 is, wants to be, or needs to be "next-gen" by that kind of definition.

Having said that, it's a sufficiently "next-gen" bitstream (basically it assumes you have a certain amount of hardware oomph available) that its visual output can be better than x264 already in most ordinary videos, even with an encoder that could be described as "worse" in many ways. x264 may be a better fighter "pound for pound" but it's clearly in a different weight class.
Ask HN: UK government software experience? Help an OSS project
I am running a campaign (www.oss4gov.org) to get OSS into local government. A pilot project will need to interface with CRM solutions like Northgate, and workflow like eBase and systems like UNIFORM.

If you have experience of these systems, please shout (my contact details: paul@mikadosoftware.com and rest in profile)

I am looking to put together enough knowledge that the OSS pilot stands a chance of success, and works nicely in the eco-system.

Thank you
Between cars sexier than swimsuit models, and owning all the infrastructure to support them Tesla has a real potential to be a giant company. I don't usually buy individual stocks, but Tesla keeps looking more lucrative in the long term. If he can survive in the short term, there's a great future.
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The ways I've done this in the past is to find a good community of people who you would consider potential customers and market directly to them. I would do this by browsing for property related forums and discussions and building a reputation there. If they let you, add a link in your signature to your website. Thats one way of spreading word of your new service.
Time and attention management doesn't necessarily preclude a social network. Be creative all you like, but without downtime and some time to laugh the duration of that creativity is going to be sharply limited.
No accident Instagram’s videos are exactly as long as a television commercial
Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin on a lot of issues, including privacy. Having many parties, regardless of stance, would at least allow for more varied discussions.
It's disappointing that the reaction to PRISM outside the US has not been one of fury. Non-US citizens have been hit worse by this but nobody in the mainstream European political landscape is making any noise about it. Is it because they don't have the temerity to risk relations with the US by publicly criticising them? I suspect it has more to do with not wanting to draw scrutiny to their own programs for mass surveillance.
What's probably most relevant is that it would take roughly as long to half-fill the Audi as to replace the Tesla's battery. That's in many ways a fairer comparison, as the Model S has roughly half the driving range of an Audi, and (I think) most car gasoline fill-ups aren't from near-empty back to full.
And Firefox OS. And Android. With Linux being enabled soon. Mac is being worked on.
Depends on how you define "difference". In a way, of course it makes a difference. That domain wasn't registered recently, now there is a webpage there. It has words on them, people can read it. That it doesn't magically make the NSA disappear doesn't mean it doesn't make a difference.

Any and all change begins with thought, speech and action in individuals, then in groups. Some things took a LONG time, and consisted of many small things. Even "reading and talking about an article about something that matters instead of watching cats on youtube or discussing font sizes" can help, IMHO. Unless you think it distracts you from doing something that would have even more impact, I don't see the problem? I get impatience, but not futility.
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>Score: 130

>binarytrees	46.051 seconds

Without any frame of reference, those values are meaningless.

However there is one I can evaluate:

>1.58 MFLOPS

Given I have an i7-2600 and its flops on benchmarks[1] (FPU Flops score: 8500.09 MFlops), that tells me something I could have guessed: performance is 3 orders of magnitude worse than native high performing code.

Still, in order for this comparison to be complete, I'll have to

- try this benchmark in Firefox with OdinMonkey, the new and very promising JS engine[2]

- run a similar benchmark with "native" LUA

edit: results obtained on W7 SP1 with 16GO RAM and Chrome 27.

1: http://www.maxxpi.net/results/show.php?ID=c3x2c5w6d7b7

2: did you know the logo was awesome? https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Odinmonkey800.jpg
The statement would have been true millenia ago and will probably remain true beyond all our lifetimes. So not necessarily.
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What a positive enlightened call to action! Go you!
Yes but javascript is a higher level language than C++, so it's more like advocating programming in 680x0 assembler and compiling it to C because the tools for 680x0 development are awesome and it runs almost half as fast as handwritten C.
This is really the most important point. When i use a new app i do not look at the icons and try to figure out what the images mean. What i DO is look for icons that are in similar places, or look like icons i'm used to in other applications. When i can't immediately find what i'm looking for, i use tooltips to search further and once found will easily remember which little picture does what i wanted, or at least roughly where the little picture was.

What the picture shows does not matter, only that i can remember it.
I think what is interesting about this idea is that a lot of television ads are noise. they don't bring any value what so ever. the other class of ads are so well thought out that many mistake them for content. For me, my friends and the people I follow on instagram spend time crafting photos, sure there are some pictures of food. If Instagram/Facebook can ensure that the videos that I see in my feed are crafted that they fit the look and feel of instagram then sure let them in, but I could do without garbage ads.
Why is everyone fretting about US citizens?

a) Thinking the NSA and other intelligence organizations would really make the distinction between US and non-US citizens, except in the scope that public opinion doesn't instantly crush them, doesn't seem like something they'd actually be likely to do.

b) 95% of the earths population are outside of the USA, Facebook alone has a user count higher than 3 times the total US population.

Really, the distinction is completely meaningless for this discussion. The only effect it has is alienating non-US citizens because it makes it seem like US citizens are only concerned about themselves.

I also think the focus on the US surveillance apparatus might not be the way to go either, things like the upcoming Indian surveillance system belong to the very same discussion.
All the companies that I have worked with is using Github, and I both have a paid private account and a private organization.

Maybe I am atypical, but I really like Github :)
I'm proud of them for reflecting inward.
>what is the possibility that something like this could be used to generate an artificial neural network which imitates, even crudely, the functions of the human brain?

If possible, this would open a huge ethical can of worms: how can we tell such a simulation is not conscious? Would deleting its runtime data after however many simulation cycles be tantamount to murder?

Edit: I am not saying that the above concerns should stop us from working towards developing human brain simulations since the potential benefits of those are just too great. Rather, it is something we have to have in mind as they get more complex and closer to the real thing.
Is there some way to compile "normal JavaScript" to "asm JavaScript"?
This is a recurring theme with new chipsets. I'm sure it'll get cleaned up in firmware/driver updates as usual, but at some point, you'd think Apple would figure out a better QA strategy for wifi.
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EDIT: On second thought, I think what they're actually saying is: "Don't worry sharemarket, our future revenue won't all depend on Apple". At this point the mechanics aren't important.

Agree with your assessment that organizing a team like this inside a hardware company is going to waste a lot of human capital.

Because 3k ppl would be order-of-magnitude size of the Windows 8 team. However Microsoft have decades of experience doing this stuff and frankly they're still the giant that walks, e.g. their organisation is so large it's frankly astounding they manage to ship things.

Ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/17/introducing-th... (estimating as (40 devs + 45 testers/managers) * 35 feature groups = 3k, plus tech writers, overhead, usability, localization, etc, etc = 10k?)
"Due to the good public transportation in the Netherlands distance has become irrelevant. We can reach almost any destination by train easily and relatively quick. In our busy lives we now think in time rather than distance. Therefore the current maps, as we know them today, are obsolete. Thinking in time affects a map and hence the shape of the Netherlands also depending on the perspective from which we look. From the perspective of Eindhoven, for instance, the Netherlands is relatively small because of the quick and easy connections to other cities. At the same time, seen from a more remote and small village such as Stavoren the Netherlands is much bigger. Not only the location from which one looks, or travels, but the hour of the day is very important.

At night the map of the Netherlands will expand because there are no night trains and in the morning it will shrink once trains will commence their schedules. The map of the Netherlands will never be the same again."

Source: http://www.timemaps.nl/
It's a double edge sword.

I'm going to speak about my experiences with PHP (8 years worth).

Anybody can pick up PHP. I kid you not, not just programmers, so the labor pool for PHP is huge so the wages are lower. Not only is it lower compare to say Ruby but there are tons of bad self taught programmers.

I led a development team of 5 programmers and let me tell you, 3 of them were self taught-- they were very very bad.

Needless to say, I tried apply to other places and all salaries they've offered were slap in the face. When I asked them for 80k they would be like we can hire 2 programmers with that salary (80k for 8 freaking years man, I'm very confident with my skills). Hell you can just outsource it to another country with that logic.

My last interview I was interviewed by a CTO PHP dev, it was bad. During the interview he uses so many buzz words it was killing me inside. "We migrate our code base from PHP4 to PHP5.3 and hydrate our code." Wtf does hydrate even mean? Needless to say he can really sell himself to non technical people. He asked a shit tons of technical questions from his ipad (design patterns, pdo & prepared statement, etc..), I'm pretty sure he googled it, I asked him a few until it dawn to me he was self taught. I asked to confirm it. Yup. Like if he knows closure, traits, etc.. He would always right off the bat says of course never really explaining it. I asked him if he was part of the old php developers he said no. If he was the most senior, yup. What happen to the old developers. He stopped, and you can see the gears in his head churning trying to give a nice excuse. "They didn't work out and didn't meet project deadlines. So we clean them out and now we me in charge we went from fixing 2 bugs to 20 bugs and from finishing 1 projects to 5 projects." Noticed how he focus on output instead of code maintenance. Real hallmark of some dude that backstab or suck up to a higher ladder rung position.

These people and people like this is the reason why I'm moving away from PHP. I would like to be under someone that is at least knowledgeable and as passionate as me in programming.

Most of these PHP shops offer horrible salary and they don't offer any good incentive. If you're going to give horrible salary you should at least offer learning opportunity (ruby, redis, nodejs, android, ios, anything). But nope, you get stuck with PHP code from some self taught programmer, you don't grow and advance you're just stuck at PHP among the huge labor pool.
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That might be the case, but even the NSA will not be able to decrypt a well encrypted message - or so we think at least.

That all said - and I realize that this might be controversial - I fully agree with wiretaps as long as there is a warrant (and I mean a real warrant from a real court on a case-by-case basis).

With its sweeping data collection the NSA is doing itself a disservice as it will eventually lead to wider use of strong encryption, which will make wiretaps with warrants much more expensive (or even impossible) to serve.

I think new laws for stricter limitations on exporting cryptography software or even restricting cryptography itself are likely in the near future.
This will lead to interesting trials where folks might be forced to reveal their encryption keys; and the inability to prove whether there actually is encrypted data (good encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, and some folks wipe old harddrives with random data before they are discarded, how would one prove that this is really random data?)
I'm not necessarily saying we _should_ create a simulation of the human brain - just asking whether it would be possible. There are other much more concrete concerns with creating strong AI too - avoiding accidentally creating a paperclip maximiser comes to mind: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
It potentially also enables the used car market. I definitely would be hesitant of buying a used tesla if i knew there was a potential 15k bill waiting for me very shortly.
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One way to find out:
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/ruby-on-rails/topusers
Most of that is by design. It was designed as a questions-answer site, to collect every question of every programming language and provide the correct answer. It was not designed as a forum, where you go to talk with friends. The problem is what to do when all the questions had been answered?
The big reason is the purpose was to create the best Q&A site for programmers (Quora is better than most Stack Exchange sites, just not Stack Overflow) and there was a relentless focus from the very beginning on making that happen. Compare to Expert's Exchange where the whole thing is designed like a liquidation sale flyer. It feels like a cheap commercialization of knowledge that is freely shared and thus feels exploitative, like it runs directly against the hacker ethos that enabled it to collect that information. Stack Overflow is very clearly designed by programmers to help programmers, and it was seeded with a great community to start it off on the right foot.
John Howard is very cool. He already created the JägerMonkey and IonMonkey logo for us. We print them on shirts, cards and posters.

http://monkeyink.com/ink/blog/archives/2011/01/jagermonkey_i...
http://monkeyink.com/ink/blog/archives/2012/02/its_ion_monke...
This isn't Google Drive for Linux, it's third-party sync software.
Excuse me, but a huge portion of the US population lives in places that do not have water scarcity problems. I live in Iowa, we have more water than we know what to do with. Irrigating my lawn doesn't hurt the environment or any of my neighbors. Not everyone in the US lives in the southwest.
The biggest challenge will be for the HR team who needs to find 3,000 productive new employees. They're not hiring unskilled labor here. When you're hiring that many people, you need to lower your standards and you're going to wind up hiring people who will be a drain on productivity.
Third party, proprietary, 10$ software when it's out of beta.
Yeah, a good bit of internationalization and localization, I suspect, too.
The limitation, though annoying, is there for a few reasons. One being that it discourages users from making quick edits just for the reputation or badge. I have seen many users get more wrapped up in getting a badge than actually using the site as a means to help their fellow users.
It's like Launchrock for apps :)

- Your design doesn't look great. Should be easy enough to fix, buy a template. And get rid of that Drupal logo.

- You're just selling a list, which seems dodgy. A better approach would be to keep your list, and create a system that gets reviews. You keep the value (the list) in house, and you can optimize with technology.

Good luck!
Well, the name of the professor or his/her book isn't so relevant to the story, but I tend to agree with you. A real name would have been nice.

(http://www.good.is/posts/secret-to-creativity-learning-how-t...)

> When setting out to write his book Creativity, Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi contacted 275 creatives whose habits he wanted to study. The idea was to gain insight into their processes so that others could apply these practices in their own lives. But in many cases, the answer to his very inquiry was actually the secret to creativity. Out of all the subjects he asked, one third of them said no to being studied. The reason? Most simply did not have time. In order to be creative, many explained, it was vital they say no to any request that would take away from their time spent creating. Several who rejected Csikszentmihalyi knew of the respected author's work, yet they still maintained their hours were best spent on their own output.