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Face it, battery technology is not sufficiently advanced to deliver good range without some serious trade offs. The trade off of the Tesla may prove to be the wrong choice long term.

No one would ever suggest lining the bottom of a car with a gasoline tank, fortunately we don't have too because the power density is so high. Hence they can put tanks where a collision or road debris damage are least likely to damage them.

However Tesla needs a stupendous amount of battery to get its range. Hence we get large cars where they have chosen to isolate the entire pack at the floor of the car. They made the choice to dispense with a central tunnel which could hold more batteries, not use the front engine area or any trunk space.

There were to reasons for their design choice, first because of the sheer amount of batteries needed and second because of pack swapping. I don't think the trade off is worth it.

They can use some of the front "frunk" area to have a raised stack of batteries where the traditional firewall is and do similar in the rear. The could have a raised tunnel down the center line and reduce the need of having batteries so far forward. There were many choices available but they wanted swappable packs.

What statistic I want to see is, how many penetration events have their been versus how many fires. How many cells have to be penetrated to create a fire? Is there some flaw that another component is failing during these minor accidents that is causing the fires?
With all due respect (and I'm wrong a lot!) Google left quite a bit on the table. Their stock price went up 500% from $85 over the next year. Wouldn't they have been better off capturing some of that?

The jury is still out on Facebook. Their IPO could hurt them getting money in the future, but maybe not.

It's not the underwriters who get paid when stocks double, it is the people they allocate the stock to.
Technology and automatization of production is changing everything, the more we raise productivity the less people can satisfy our needs for products.

Do you propose we just start shooting people who are below the skill level required for sustaining the economy?

I for one would like to avoid living in a Logan's run type of universe. Thank you very much...
Milton Friedman proposed negative income tax _in addition to_ guaranteed income. Worth noting that the US has partially implemented negative income tax (we call it EITC) - it's working really well and should probably be expanded (probably worth taking money from other welfare programs if it comes to that).
I've been quite satisfied, most of the things, it's just a matter of adaptation to a new way of doing stuff.

My only big issue is that I'm having some performance issues, and that is something I can't live with.
How would you go about getting supporting evidence for something that hasn't been tried yet? At the very least we would save a ton of money on bureaucracy and corruption.
> I don't get what the hype is about.

Video game consoles are entirely about experience. PC gaming and console gaming are entirely different. It's not just about graphics, it's about the controller, the immersive experience of playing on a TV screen in your living room (I know PCs can do that too, but for the average person it can be a hassle to set everything up).

For developers it's a single target that never moves.

Peoples' love for consoles is shown by the fact that many people still play on consoles that are 10-25 years old. I still play games on a PS1 occasionally.
Resistance is futile. Google+ is awesome and soon or later you will be assimilated.
That there were explicit people explicitly willing to buy those shares at that price. Exactly that. The explicit term is quite important. Secret information is not part of the market (it is not market information).
Maybe, but the same could probably be said about the favelas in Brazil. It probably makes some sense to subsidize people to live in the area where there is currently the most opportunity for them.
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The important thing in this demo is that his code reduces to arcball-like rotation in the globe projection, but works on arbitrary map projections. Notice how the interaction works for Eisenlohr's projection in the same way as the globe, but the behavior must be different, of course, since the projections are so unlike each other.
It's funny I used to get that screen to turn it into a plus account but I got annoyed with it and opted out, I guess I didn't appreciate it was a one time option. All I get now is a plain profile picker (which as I say defaults to the social network profile, I have accidentally used it several times liking videos etc and then realising I was in the wrong profile). All things being considered this is only a trivial annoyance, I am just surprised at how bad the UX is for me now.
Someone has. They're called the content creators. For some reason Youtube has gone to war with the people who make it a good place to go, people who've worked for years building their channel's reputation, content and style. Now youtube are systematically pulling it all down, real name coment issue aside.
Depends. Some countries will require you to work a certain amount of time. And some contracts will require you to work after handing in a notice.
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When I saw that xkcd I knew how I'll be spending my free time over the weekend. I should've known that someone on HN will forestall me.
It matters to developers, and in turn to the customer in that it affects the amount and type of games released on the console.
If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool.

Or really creepy.

a- Imagine you're going to a real world bookstore. You look at the back cover of a few books and all the reviews are by your Google+ "friends". Customized for you to increase the chances you're buying it. (If ads are going everywhere and you try to ignore them, what will be left?)

b- In your holidays you're traveling to another continent. After arriving, you're surprised that you see the faces of your Facebook stalkers everywhere. Would you like that?

c- Your government rolls out new mandatory ID smartcards for both the offline and online worlds. Soon after they require everybody to sign their TCP packets with those cards. A friendly smiling illustration of a computer asks you to swipe your card to login to your OS. Have a safe journey online!
I answered a very similar question on stackoverflow here:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/1229241/25981

In this case the user wanted the program to run out of memory and the best solution I could come up with was to use ulimit, to limit the amount of memory available to the process.
Basically. I like Vimeo better than youtube but it doesn't seem to get used as much.

The front page of vimeo isn't as good though. It tells you about vimeo itself rather than giving you a large search bar and a bunch of content like youtube does.
With little administrative overhead, this should be a more effective way of stimulating demand than QE.
That's exactly what he wanted to emphasize.

People think government has some magical, limitless supply of money available to them, when in reality, it's mostly just money that's forcefully confiscated from everyone.

In other words, basic income is a zero-sum game, but not without its consequences. It's alright not to go into printing or loaning money here, both of those lead to ruin too.

How high would tax rates have to be, to collect enough money for basic income? How many businesses would just shut down or get the fuck out, leaving that much fewer businesses in the country to shoulder the burden? That's a feedback loop right there. The remaining businesses would be just that much more likely to get out too, and then the next remaining, and so on.

The idea of basic income is not rooted in reality, but entitlement and the need for "security", no matter how illusory it might be.
We have an unofficial line in our contracts with both employees and customers that essentially just says "I will try not to be an asshole". It does not always work, but I like having an expectation set up front that everyone is going to put in the minimum effort towards being reasonable.
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Vimeo is not a Youtube alternative. Vimeo is to Youtube what Hacker News is to reddit. Vimeo is a nice video platform for creative projects, they do not allow a large amount of the content that Youtube does (no gaming videos, no dumb cat videos) and so it's not really suitable to replace Youtube.

There are other alternatives though, dailymotion.com is fairly popular and will accept anything.
Also, if you aren't near one of the locations you can always drop into irc://freenode.net/aaronsw which was set up for previous hackathons.
I have not used Kickstarter, so the surprising revelation in this article for me is that charge backs come out of the dispersed funds and not Kickstarter itself. I'm sure if Kickstarter itself had been eating the losses they would have detected it a lot sooner and would have taken faster, stronger measures to identify and remove suspected fraudulent transactions than they seem to be taking now.
Yes - building on this, I see 4 quick benefits:

1 - Suggestions on where problems have been solved before. (Your point)

2 - Having people say, "Here's the style we use to make this easier to support in the future"

3 - Mentoring on tougher problems, and turning quick hacks into elegant solutions.

4 - QA. (This is the stated benefit, but falls below the other 3)

The key is not to turn code reviews into a bottleneck. If you just view the purpose as any 1 of the 4, you're likely to under-prioritize or over-formalize it.
"Copying" and "almost identical": No. Lame.

"Adapting" and "significantly different": Yes. Reasonable.
I also saw a Toyota Corolla pull suicidal acceleration, I wonder if it is also a software bug.
There are many, many more alternatives. Finding them starts with society saying "I am not ok with this, we must stop it, how can we do that?"

From there we get creative. We pay more to implement better working conditions, we provide aid to areas to send kids to school instead of to the factory, etc...
I like it. It's the flip side of "So what's your greatest weakness" bullshit question that's sometimes asked of employees.
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Good points, especially the varying cost-of-living associated with medical conditions. The obvious gets-us-most-of-the-way-there solution is to have those costs covered by a generous healthcare system as a separate matter from guaranteed income.

Living in SF is a good, like a car or a degree. All of those things help you get a job, but it should be up to you which of those you choose to invest in. Throwing in cost-of-living adjustments is equivalent to a guaranteed income except that the government requires you to spend $X on housing - it's strictly worse for everyone.
I wonder what benefit selling the Xbox business would bring.
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Whoops, yes thanks.
Re: Fired / Being fired.

The distinction only matters as to whether the OP has leverage over severance or goes after unemployment.

OP's future prospects are hurt either way if the next job calls that PM as a reference -- and slightly by this blog post.
Does Google kidnap people? Confiscate their equipment? Harass travellers at the airports? Send IRS after their competition? No?

Can Facebook maybe deny me a business license? Cancel my passport? Is there a Facebook commando that would break down my doors if I did something Mark Zuckerberg didn't like? No?

Can we then stop pretending like corporations and governments play even remotely in the same league?

What can Google actually do? Target me with ads? I won't so much as see them.

And I don't use facebook, it barely raises an eyebrow. I couldn't try that with a national ID because I wouldn't be able to do anything.
I agree with you, especially on open borders, but:

a system like this may actually mean to cut spending on a lot of bureucracy... and its aim it's probably not growth, but rather a decent living standard for every person
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Things have to be known before they can be hated.
Also, Ebay is just around the corner. Buying merchandise, especially high end or expensive merchandise, has always been a simple way to "drain" a stolen card, even if you end up selling it for less than retail price on the third market. It's a lot less suspicious (generally) to go on a shopping spree than it is to withdraw 10 grand from an ATM.

Between about December of last year and August of this year, a Pebble watch was running at about $300, new in box, until Pebble was able to finally build up enough supply to begin shipping them from their storefront. That's a 100% return on someone else's money, if you don't get caught.
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Yeah you are right on about that. I always wondered why they aren't more friendly to their own content for nonusers because they're very friendly to discovery when you're logged in.

I think it doesn't get used as much though because they will pull content if you're just posting videos of your friend doing cartwheels or something. There is a higher barrier to entry but they also only want very high quality HD or serious commercial or educational content.

I wonder whether they aren't more forward about discovery to save on bandwidth money.
I should have written that in a more neutral way. What I wanted to say is: Our corporations and our governments can and should be held partially responsible for these conditions. I'm not saying that it's only the fault of "evil corp" in the USA or any other western nation but saying it's their problem and sweat-shops are fine is in my opinion not the whole truth.
I'm a huge fan of Deming, and many of the problems we see in software can be fixed by paying closer attention to his 14 principles.

One question that I've had applying him to software, though, is how you align his concepts on systemic defects (most defects are common causes) with the high variety of performance differences in programmers? In a factory or call center, the worker performance is uniform enough to view everything as a common cause, with the goal of reducing variation. In software, you want the opposite - you want to unleash your 10x performers.

I'm interested in your views on this. Again, I'm a huge fan of Deming and have read and applied his ideas throughout my career, but this is a sticking point.
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Seems like the graphics guy has confused LAN and external IPs
Marketing is harder than programming?

To a programmer yes.

If programmers and marketers were to swap jobs, my guess is that programers would get closer to achieving the marketers job than the other way around.
One important advantage of BI would be that it would allow the labor market to be more liberal (especially in Europe, I don't know about the situation in the US). Employees wouldn't need to be protected that much, because they would be less scared of being fired.
dm's player and overall speed is unfortunately way behind youtube.
- Google is afraid of Facebook

- Google wants more users in Google+

- People don't care about Google+

- This doesn't change the fact that Google is still afraid of Facebook and wants more people to use G+

- Google will try to do everything it can to drag you into this service which you won't use anyway

What's so strange about this?
As a developer who is heavily involved in our marketing department; I really don't think it's hard at all.

Marketing is about a few things:

- Who is your customer?

- Why should they buy your product?

- Find them and tell them.

The problem with marketing is it can get really expensive really fast and if you're limited in capital then that becomes a problem.

But it couldn't be simpler. There's no complicated problems to solve like with programming. It's a single task; find your target audience and tell them about what you have to offer.

If you don't have convincing reasons why people should buy your product, then that's a product problem, not a marketing one.

Also, marketers DO have a tools. If you think they don't that's probably one reason why marketing is so hard for you. All of your advertising should be using tracking which lets you see conversion rates, average income per click, income per view, etc. and help you make future advertising decisions.

EDIT:

I should clarify that I think Marketing can be/should be a full time job and if you can afford it, it's good to have a person (or team) dedicated to it. But I don't think it requires the same kind of problem solving that programming does.
I _think_ he's talking about whether or not OpenSSL supports AES-GCM.

e.g. Debian 7 has a version of OpenSSL that supports AES-GCM, but OpenSSH isn't one of the affected versions.
What I find appalling is that now if I like a comment it is public on G+.
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Vimeo is terrible, very anti gamer, to.the point they ban developers that put trailer videos on their service. I am personally very happy that YouTube now match Vimeo quality and happily hosts my trailers for me.
It seems odd to see a commit in this day and age with no unit test. When you make a new newkey struct the clean-up callback should be NULL.
> Especially because we can afford it.

You mean you can afford it. How do you know if I can afford it? By necessity, to implement this, you've got to take money from people and give it to other people.

Your assumption is that by rights any one in the category of those losing money, is making so much that they lack any moral claim to it.
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Not necessarily applicable to Kickstarter but I thought this might be of use to less experienced HN readers.

Tip of the day: When dealing with international orders of any magnitude always, always, always get paid via EFT (electronic funds transfer/wire transfer). Far safer than credit cards.

Tip #2: Don't be too eager to ship. Give your bank time to fully "digest" the payment. The money showing up in your bank account isn't the end of the story.

Tip #3: Get out from behind that desk and go meet your bank manager. When you receive a sizable payment. Ask about that payment from your international customer and how/if the funds can be rescinded. Under some circumstances and with some countries there are ways your customer could pull back funds even a year after the transaction took place.

Tip #4: I hate to say it but I have scars to prove it: When it comes to international commerce you have to have your guard up all the time. I've dealt with many people all over the world and the vast majority are on the level. No issues. However, every so often someone shows-up who wants to take you for all he can.

Tip #5: Come to think of it, you have to be guarded, period. I had a supplier take me for $12,000 a number of years ago. He was in Florida and simply evaporated. After much interfacing with police we learned he did this to a bunch of companies and bolted with anywhere between $100K and maybe even over $200K, never to be found.

Tip #6: Business is a contact sport. You are going to get bloody every now and then. Price your products and services in order to be able to absorb a blow here and there or it will really hurt when it happens. And, as always, if it is too good to be true, stay the fuck away from it.
At the last G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland this past June, the Chiefs of State had agreed on an Open Data Charter committing their respective governments to make efforts to bring more open data online in machine-readable formats.

Today France releases its action plan for the implementation of the Charter, and specifically commits to releasing more governement datasets and APIs for hackers and startups to experiment with.

Specifically, we're committing to:

- progressing towards publishing data openly by default,

- building an open platform to encourage innovation and transparency,

- developing Open Data policy in consultation with citizensand civil society,

- supporting open innovation in France and throughout the world.

I'd be very interested in HN's feedback on how useful this can be for you, and what else you'd like to know about our Open Data policy and how we're trying to improve it!
a - That would be awesome.

b - That would be awesome (since I assume you mean the beter direct analogy, which would be that any of my Facebook friend's statements about being there are visible. Now I know who to chat with about restaurants, sights, etc.)

c - Can you say strawman? Making up a dystopian future and placing it alongside something you don't like doesn't make the thing you don't like any more like it.

Youtube comments are universally derided as trash. This might make it better. It might also simply stop a lot of comments. And in fact, probably both.
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See the comments since Nov 6. A lot of users are jumping ship.
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I think the goal is ultimately more targeted advertising. In a way this is helpful. It would be great for adult advertising to stop showing up on cartoon videos.
Also, this just happened:

http://news.yahoo.com/p-downgrades-france-credit-rating-aa-0...
I've never had this happen and I've had a YouTube account for a while. This honestly sounds like a bug of some sort. Have you found other people experiencing this?
Good to see someone thinking for himself here.
Interesting point...maybe he or she was thinking of it from Dyn's perspective of remote access. Each of those devices probably connect to a hostname with their own IP (using port forwarding) or something. Good point though..the second half of the graphic is what I thought was interesting. The breakdown per region is pretty interesting. It's hard to imagine that years ago people they didn't expect this to happen.
I'm not sure you can have both high quality content and a zero barrier to entry. I actually think YT does an okay job surfacing some decent content for folks on the homepage, especially when you're logged in. I seem to anecdotally find the "related" sidebar more useful in recent times as well.
Universal health care is prevalent in Europe and might alleviate the effect of 1).

The situation you describe in 2) is the status quo, no? UBI would mean more money for those who've been looking for a job for a long time.
I agree with everything except that a PM can be extremely valuable on a small team. Developers are much more valuable designing and coding than in endless meetings and planning sessions. That said, IME PMs should be at the same level in the hierarchy as the devs. PMs manage projects, not people.
Even if I assume your premise, why would you assume that this is a more effective way of stimulating demand? (I'm not necessarily disagreeing its just not obvious to me that one mechanism is better than the other.)
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I think you should work on Factor: http://factorcode.org/ It's a new and very different programming language that takes about a month of study to learn. After that it will totally blow your mind showing you new and better ways to write software. So embrace Factor and spread the message! :)
That makes sense. It's too bad that the existing service wasn't part of the package.
So hilarious!
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Developers should be careful with extensions like these.

Another popular one (switch "cloud" to "butt") has resulted in me finding image embeds from "buttfront.net" (and broken images) in page sources on a couple of popular websites.
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Try another guess. :)
Well that's because the command may refer to any of these

In case you don't know this humorous tale, read and enjoy the part about `git checkout`
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
If I were thinking for myself I would support this idea and then go on basic income for life, I can live with very little, so why not?
And FF 25 as well.