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The Kindle Fire 4G offered a limited time data-plan that was like $50 one time fee for 6 months of 10gb@month. I imagine they would like to have some kind of data plan that hitches on you buying apps and content and having that subsidize the data plan somehow.
> What I really want is the Tesla S4/S5 or 335is-equivalent, though.

Sorry, I don't think the tech is there. Either the range would suffer (due to more compact frame allowing for fewer cells safely) or the power would be gimped (to allow for lower overall battery capacity).

Electric cars are competing with the entire petroleum-fuel supply chain, and as such, are fighting a david vs. goliath battle.

That Tesla does this, has won consistently, and wins with style is why their stock is up 500% over the past year.

Of course, they've picked their battles, and fighting the S4 or 3 series isn't one of those they're ready to fight (yet). Maybe, like Apple, they never will (Apple ceded the enthusiast/gaming desktop market years ago).
the difference between night clubs and parking garages is that night clubs use more consumables

you can take an average performing and up the price but maintain the level of business on the books (cars per day) but in reality fewer cars enter. another aspect to make cash flow set up a contract for parking with another of your shady businesses and money can start to flow to one legit business (garage) from any shady business
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Awesome move! But from a data-gathering point of view, why not leave all the questions in. More questions more data!

Also, I find the "how do you make money" question still the most important. Sure a non-profit shouldn't focus on making money, but the more money it can pull in, the bigger its impact is and the higher the likelihood for success.
FWIW, you have an incorrect understanding of what your 4th amendment rights actually are.
You're right, there is a spectrum of preference. But just because some are ok with it, doesn't mean all of us. Why encapsulate everyone under the same policy of track everything?

On the Do Not Track, I think turning it on by default is a bad idea. It gives companies no incentive to follow it and abide by it. (Yes, they have no reason to abide by it right now either). There is no law that says they have to abide by it, but it seems to me they might be more willing to abide by DNT if those that are tracking conscious were to turn it on, rather than it to be turned on by itself. They wouldn't lose as many people to track if it was opt in instead of opt out.
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> But seriously, state is inherent in most enterprise apps, which is to say, 95% of apps in existence.

That doesn't justify the claim that for most problems FP is poor; functional languages deal with mutable state, indeed, a big point of FP is that using it provides a way to cleanly divide pieces of code that deal with mutable state so that the presence of mutable state only complicates reasoning about those pieces of code that it inherently must complicate, rather than making the whole code base hard to reason about.
This is a really tough market. Most people who want to run Ubuntu are still quite tech savvy at the moment (though it is shifting), meaning they're willing to build their own machine. Those who are cost conscious and tech savvy will ultimately have more motivation to build their own machine, since they'll be able to "tweak the knobs" to choose their own trade-offs.

Complete wild ass guess, but you might have better luck selling a top-of-the-line Ubuntu machine on well-tested hardware. That last part, the well-tested bit, that's a really attractive value-add.

In the prior scenario you're asking me to give you control. In the latter, you're saving me risk and a big hassle.
Why should everyone have to live by the same rules? In a country the size of the US, a 1% minority (as a random unrelated example, the percentage of Linux desktop users) is still more people than several of the states. Why not let that minority become its own majority in its own political sphere? That makes a lot more sense than forcing the same rules upon everyone whose birth left them in a particular geographic location.
"What goes up must come down", and while that's often not such a big deal if the bullet goes at a high enough angle due to relatively low terminal velocities, a bullet that heavy (1.4 oz/29 g and on up) would do considerable damage if it hits someone.

That said, some crazy big game hunters use it for long range shots. WAY too much tissue damage for my family's tastes (as it were, what we hunt, we eat), but it is used.
I agree, though for jobs posted here I tend to assume that if no location is provided, it is somewhere in the Bay Area, probably in San Francisco, likely SoMa. I think these posts should also list the technology stack as well.
Indeed. It is important to use a cartridge of the appropriate size for your target. Shooting a drone with .22 rimfire for instance would be cruel. You need something that will kill the drone, not make it suffer.
Well that would certainly be a nightmare for Apple if Amazon was coming with the equivalent of a Galaxy S4 for free.

But I'm not quite sure that Apple would be the worse off compared to others. I does not really matter whether or not a brand has current plan for the low end: if people expectation are set to high-end phone == free, I'm not sure why they would want an low end phone unless what, you pay them ? What really matter is what brand has an alternative way of funding those phones. IMO that means killing "open" Android, anything open really.

Apple can still rely on the App Store and its walled-garden. MS tiny markeshare will probably make them give up under the risk of bleeding to death. Samsung has enough marketshare to build its own walled garden. Google would have some thinking to do, I'm sure other brand will start to question how valuable their client really are for Goolge. As for the rest of the Android player, RIM, ... well good luck.
I'm ok with this as long as they don't waste this as a trophy and properly clean and eat the drone.

Otherwise imagine all the wasted money they could cause.
> The point is that if you can contrive of a way to (perhaps inconveniently) pre-share static keys, you should consider doing that instead of relying on number theory to protect your secrets.

No I got that just fine. As you know, I'm suggesting that not using public-key crypto or something else for the same purpose is impractical.
Thanks a lot for posting this. I'm joining a startup next week as the first round of employees and there are definitely some good lessons in this article and the updated version to keep in mind. Thanks again!!!
it's not like, a competition ...
As I said above, go check out how Aston Martin builds cars by hand and you'll see the difference. They don't allow imperfections and each engine has the builders name on it. They don't charge $150k a car just because of a luxury badge on the front. That's what I mean by hand crafted.

Here's an example of their level of effort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_JaKvqdh4

Is that good enough for you? Or do you still need clarification? Because I can cite 90+ years of history.
What the hell?

Top Gear lied. Tesla wasn't expecting special treatment for sponsorship, they were expecting a modicum of honesty. You don't get to put this down to "culture clash" unless you're defining "ethical" and "unethical" as cultures.
I don't really know much about hunting, but I imagine such a large round might legitimately be necessary for things like bears or moose. You have a good point though, you shouldn't be firing stuff other than birdshot into the sky.
I think these lists are an important way of reminding people what one of the costs of drone strikes (or other military intervention). I think Ai Weiwei proved the effectiveness of this with something similar for earthquake victims in china: http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/64/AiWeiweiChallengesChin...
Amazon has a media-oriented ecosystem. The advantage is that Amazon customers spend directly on products that Amazon sells at retail. The disadvantage is that it doesn't cover the same suite of services as Apple, Microsoft, or Google.

I have not been attracted to Amazon's Android-based devices because I would rather have the more-general suite of services provided by Google. But I can see people making the opposite choice.
I'm using an intel NUC i3 at the moment, which worked with 13.04 out of the box, takes 16gb ram and drives a 2560x1440 screen via thunderbolt. Sure, not as cheap, but the specs are more serious and the form factor similar.
You know, you got a point - Drone attacks are just yet another form of terrorism (but officially approved, with a stamp).
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Sounds nice. I've been trying to use IFTTT for similar things, but it's fairly limited. If you add feedly I'll sign up! I'm still trying to find a nice easy solution to save the full text of RSS items that I mark as "save for later" in feedly...
Heh.

Semi-seriously, the two are not mutually exclusive, what's on display, bone, antlers, tusks, fur, etc. is not fit to eat.

Not that I understand the trophy hunting mentality, although the best of them make sure the tasty meat goes to a good home.
So just because that happens, we should overlook the fact that there are drones killing innocent children everyday sanctioned by the United States? You seem to be the type of person that says, "What if X is bad? Look at Y, which suits my agenda."

Things like this creates more terrorism and more extremism. You may not realize, but it's not a nice thing to see your children and loved ones being killed by planes from the sky.
So you can race between the lights? There is a lot more to it than that.
I've never heard evidence Top Gear UK lied or slandered Tesla in the review. I believe the contention of the lawsuit Tesla filed was the 55 mile range quote would be misleading to the public because it was based on driving the Tesla around their track at race speeds. (The judge threw it out saying it wasn't misleading at all)
Free, without a contract? Surely then everyone who hears about it will order one, and 99% won't even use them? Or am I misunderstanding and this is "free with a XX/month contract"? In which case, big deal - here in the UK you can get pretty much any brand new, top of the range phone for free if you get an expensive enough contract.

It's certainly something I'll be keeping an eye on.

EDIT: Also, they have to realise that it'll be rooted and have Google apps installed on it within days, thus loosing their "guaranteed" revenue stream...
I don't quite see the point of having a desktop PC so underpowered. Unless you aim to be the cheapest of the cheap... but this isn't anywhere close to that cheap.

Pre-installed Linux is a promising niche, but I think not too many people would benefit of this particular model at this price.
I set up an account and got one "offer". They're not really offers, they're requests for interviews. I don't think they're under any obligation to follow through with their offer amount. One of my coworkers got two "offers" and then interviewed with both. For various reasons, neither of us got any of the jobs.

Took a week or so for everything to happen.

It's anecdotal, but my advice would be to take DA's promises with a grain of salt.
TC harbors some of the dumbest commentators, and many of them post on their real Facebook account. It's like they don't know how to Internet.
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That's the wrong comparison to make. AFAIK we're not launching those drone strikes to kill some Middle Eastern children in retaliation for our children that died on Sep. 11. Instead, we're taking actions in the Middle East, which we know will result in the deaths of a few [1] children today, in hopes of disrupting terrorist capabilities to prevent the future deaths of a lot [1] of children in terrorist attacks tomorrow.

In other words, you should really be comparing to the children who would have died from terrorist actions if we hadn't launched those wars. It's like calling doctors murderers for providing a vaccine that kills one in a million, but prevents a disease that, left unchecked, would kill one in a thousand [2].

In either case, which people die are real and knowable as individuals, but which people are saved are hypothetical and statistical. You choose the best course of action from the alternatives available, but sometimes it's not possible to choose a course of action that saves everyone.

In other words, choosing the greatest good for the greatest number may result in some disquieting sacrifices -- we wish the world didn't work that way, but we must base decisions and actions on the way the world actually works, not the way we wish it worked.

[1] "A few" and "a lot" are relative terms.

[2] The scenarios aren't exactly comparable, because there are presumably plenty of well-designed studies which rigorously establish the number of children who would have died in the disease scenario.

The number of children who would have died in terrorist attacks in a different foreign policy scenario is much more difficult to estimate, and much dependent on your assumptions of human behavior: A hawkish viewpoint might say that if we hadn't counter-attacked with the war in Afghanistan and our drone activities, the terrorists would have been able to build strength and launch more major attacks; a doveish viewpoint might say that our military activities in the Middle East are a big reason the terrorists hate us, and if we don't attack them, they won't attack us.

We can observe that, having launched the wars and drones, the US has not suffered another attack of the same magnitude as 9/11 in the decade-plus since; the hawkish scenario is supported, or at least not ruled out, by the evidence. The doveish scenario is also not ruled out by the evidence, but we can't know for sure what would have happened on the road not taken.

Presidents have to make world-altering decisions on the basis of equivocal evidence and their best guesses of the future interactions of humans with wildly different cultures and sometimes-irrational thought processes. This is why I stick to math and science.
I am not doubting that there is a difference, nor am I even doubting that the Aston is of higher quality. I am pointing out that while manufacturing method is objective, quality is not. You are talking about two different things.

Better statements would be "Astons are higher quality than Teslas" (subjective), or "Astons are made by hand and Teslas are not" (objective).
You accurately describe the trends, but I'm not sure those are positive trends. If these CEOs of nonprofits were indeed purely sales agents receiving commissions, fine, it's a rational ROI to employ them in a role like Vice President of Donor Relations.

But they happen to also be the CEO, formally in charge of the whole operation, and further tend to set the tone for that operation. Then you have the fundraising tail wagging the mission dog. As a result, some nonprofits (and universities) start to look more like weird corporations that exist to perpetuate themselves and their top staff, with some kind of mumbo jumbo relating to public service being an official goal but nowhere near the top of the priority list. An organization that exists primarily to perpetuate itself and pay its staff well is perfectly fine, but then it doesn't really have any business claiming to be a charity...
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> In other words, you should really be comparing to the children who would have died from terrorist actions if we hadn't launched those wars.

Is there any evidence whcih provides more than weak and highly-speculative support for the claim that launching the wars has done anything to reduce the number of children (or any other class of victims) killed in terrorist attacks compared to what it would have been without the wars?
CL people are not very tolerant of functional nazis. (Probably because functional nazis are usually static type system junkies who scoff at macros and incomplete-impure-but-working solutions to problems which are often associated with CL.)
This gave me a good excuse to finally get off my duff and donate to them, but I wish they at least had stickers or something as a gift for one of the tiers.
I think Musk is in need of some good advice on PR strategy. He started public battles with Top Gear and the NY Times over inaccuracies. I think it's more than likely he was right in both cases--those are not the homes of highly objective and sophisticated auto journalism. Top Gear is just entertainment, and the NY Times doesn't bother including the weight of a car in a review, which says something about their thoroughness. Autocar.uk in contrast is extremely respected and diligent.

But engaging the press in a press release war creates the wrong image for the company. Who will hear about it? Viewers of Top Gear and the NY Times. And they won't be likely to guess their beloved news source is in the wrong. You can't win that kind of fight and he should have known better than to try. I can't believe it has been good for Tesla on balance.
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Sorry, but your generic excuse works for any war crime out there.

EDIT: Or any other crime against humanity. Nazis did holocaust for the "great good". This same reason was used for many communist crimes as well.
I think you're over analyzing. PG probably hacked that in 5 minutes, and then got to more important matters.
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You are missing an important point - the reasons drones are up in the sky in the first place is to fight the muslim extremists.

So the number of people they kill is an important variable to countenance the number of accidental drone kills. The two are not unrelated.
I respect this follow up... I think she gets it. But I feel the "rewrote press release" isn't that unusual.

Disclosure: A previous startup of mine was covered on TechCrunch. It was a rewritten press release... It felt so good.
Who said he was a "worthless schmuck"?

You've implied that what he's in charge of right now are "toys". Does that qualify?
However, it is not within the NSA's authority to pursue criminal activity within the U.S. — they're only mandated to spy on communications between the U.S. and a foreign country, or entirely outside the U.S.

Completely untrue. The NSA is in the business of gathering national foreign intelligence, which includes intelligence on the signals activity of foreign persons within the US. Suppose we know there are two Belgian spies in New York, are you telling me the NSA isn't allowed to listen into their conversations? Of course they are. This notion that they're not supposed to listen to any calls that begin and end within the US is just absurd. Foreign intelligence doesn't just encompass other places, it encompasses persons from those places who may be acting within the US. I can't believe I have to explain this.

See http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execut... 1.12b

EDIT: It amuses me that people downvote posts with citations to primary sources. Have some more! Here's the definition of US persons (who the NSA is not supposed to spy on): http://www.nsa.gov/sigint/faqs.shtml#sigint4 per http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1801 which defines exactly who is a US person, an agent of a foreign power etc. basically, individuals who are citizens or hold green cards are US persons (also some associations and corporations, but you can read it yourself), any other individual is not regardless of whether they are in the US or not.
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Definitely as a specialty. However, branching in to other tasks is definitely appealing. My main thing would be computer vision to break in to next.

The main thing I'm going for here is "self-funded scientist" . I want to do something commercially viable while solving problems I enjoy doing.

Being that running a company (even a life style one) takes a decent chunk of time. I can't devote the time to other branches of machine learning that I'd like.

That being said, I'll be investing time in the upcoming computer vision class (albeit to maybe finish the material, the certifications can be a good chunk of time)

I think as time moves on I'll move in to other areas, but if I do some kind of project or even just building out something major, I want to at least have a chance of monetizing the technology.

In this case, with NLP there's a breadth of technologies, apps, and ideas that you can do using that as a baseline platform.

Computer Vision is the same way. Admittedly, I'm not as familiar with the different ways of commercializing it as I am NLP.

It's also something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

When Watson debuted, I had wanted to be in the space for a
long time.

We'll see what happens as time goes on.

Right now being able to run something as well as collaborate with some of the smartest people I've ever seen on an open source project has me in a pretty good spot.
I agree. I'd rather not use a service at all which I find morally objectionable, than just deny them revenue and keep using it. Adblock does kind of feel like stealing to me.
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Would an electronic license plate still draw power when the vehicle is parked? That could be a problem if it drains your battery. Also, wouldn't the car need to be altered to run power to the outside of the vehicle? Also, what is to stop hacking? It is more difficult to swap out physical license plates quickly, but I can imagine bootleg electronic ones that allow electronic swapping on the fly, e.g. display the fake one while speeding.
They also have a few other talks on youtube about similar topics and a book now: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do
Even then I think you are chasing the wrong horse. My wife has worked in non-profits and social good startups for several years now and getting to know her friends it's obvious that sometimes they may make decisions based around finances, but frequently and I would say usually their decisions are based around impact of the organization. YC stands the chance to greatly increase the organizational effectiveness of these organizations, which is an issue that many non-profits struggle with and could help them leap forward tremendously in their early days.
Anti-material rounds like .50 BMG are way overkill for anything you'll find in North America, calibers in the .338/.375 range, with around 1/3 the weight and energy are probably good enough (would have to check for bear, my family's never hunted them and none are to be found in my home town). For "thick skinned" dangerous game in Africa, heavier stuff is legally required, but the energies are still quite a bit lower than .50 BGM.

Hmmm, while it gets into "destructive device" territory ($200 Federal "tax" per round and of course paperwork, which they aren't exactly required to accept), something that explodes with a fuze that sets it off way before it nears the ground is called for. You want proximity fuzing anyway ... send a microprocessor after a bundle of them wrapped in an airframe ^_^.
Murder for murder is the way that vendettas and feuds continue for decades, centuries, and even millenia. It's how one death turns into ten then a hundred then thousands then millions.

That's not how civilized people should approach violence or warfare, even when violence may be justified.

Look at the aftermath of WWII, for example, many of the most bitter enemies (such as the US and Japan) forged bonds of friendship and alliance and today live in peace with each other, contributing more towards each others' prosperity and happiness than anything else. That's how conflicts are truly ended, the chaos of the battlefield is merely a tool that allows you to get to a point where such things are possible, and if that opportunity is wasted then you have done little other than to perpetuate or create yet another vendetta.
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