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with all due respect to Musk (kind of hero of mine for fighting the uphill battle to really advance our civilization), and with Tesla S being an object of my desire, this sounds like a defect that have to be fixed :

( http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5121706/tesla-elon-musk-r... )

"it was damage to the cars' undercarriage and batteries, caused by striking metallic objects on the road while at high speeds, that caused both fires."

The software update to increase suspension clearance looks like just a [cheap] band-aid to me.

The third car fired as result of crash - that seems like a real and hard to avoid thing for lithium batteries and does seem like Tesla is ok here - the fire looked to be pretty limited.
I think you are mis-remembering history. People were extremely annoyed by this, and put quite a bit of work into figuring out how to clock the processors higher, and figuring out which processors could be safely overclocked.
> it'll just be par for the course, similar to how random DUI stops work now, which are a warrantless invasion of one's privacy without grounds.

I think I'd like the DUI comparison to be expanded on a bit. How are they being used to invade one's privacy without grounds?
Try Mopidy [1], it's a version of mpd that plays all your music - local files, Spotify, Soundcloud, Rdio, etc. It's awesome.

[1]: http://www.mopidy.com/
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Wow. They're making it sound like the investigation is a bad thing and that Musk is whining about it.
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Weren't OSes a factor in that? Especially in the Windows era - having one common platform where everything must work killed any chance of someone trying to do their own thing.

Or do you mean like OEMs creating complete computers that wouldn't take processors or expansion cards or peripherals from anyone but the OEM (via some sort of authorization system?)? From my memory of building back in those days, that'd have been a bad move. You'd get a rep for being incompatible and people would have less incentive to buy your system.
Good point. Of course another interesting way to look at it might be to see if there are multiple maxima. Perhaps if he advertised a very high rate comparatively to the competition, he could find another stable price point. Or perhaps he might just be able to keep going, pushing the limit of what people will pay, while keeping up the high quality work. Bit of an Apple strategy! It does help if the product/service is very good of course.
I'm cynical about how machine learning of this type might be used in practice and this is an illustration of why: the stated goal is a "you might also like" section.

There is no reason to believe the results are any better than a random method in respect of the goal (and it's reasonable to believe they may be worse) - we would have to measure this separately by clickthrough rate or user satisfaction survey, perhaps.

I believe you would get far better results by always posting the three most popular articles. If you want to personalise, post personally-unread articles. A lot less technical work, a lot less on-the-fly calculation, a lot more effective. The machine learning tools do not fit the goal.

The most effective real example of a "you might also like" section is the Mail Online's Sidebar of Shame. As best as I can tell, they display their popular articles in a fixed order.

Machine Learning seems to make it easy to answer the wrong question.
Automobile crash data is irrelevant. What we are talking about is whether the location of the battery pack on Tesla's cars are uniquely dangerous. Which requires an investigation. And which has absolutely nothing to do with the apparent safety of other cars.

We are talking about people's lives here.
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I don't know about anything like Codecademy for C++, but based on my personal experience learning C++, I'd recommend starting with a solid foundation in C. C is, for beginner intents and purposes, a subset of C++, and understand the concepts of C will make it a lot easier to pick up C++. I'd highly recommend Learn C The Hard Way ( http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ ). For C++, like Watabou, I really liked C++ Primer Plus, by Prata.
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Agree, and shoeless waldo.
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I strongly agree with this comment. I still wish there is an easy solution for hosting all my music in different original format without a high cost, but also playable through a cloud player. Music is something that I need it constantly but don't really mind if it is lost in a few years. I used to run Subsonic on beagleboard but it barely keeps up with converting flac to mp3 at stream time. I am looking at http://meetlima.com/ but I don't think that is what I want. iTune integration will become a huge issue unless it pops up as a Shared music.
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I don't know why you were marked down for this. Not marked up maybe but I was going to say the same thing!
Very similar to Berg's Little Printer

http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
I'll just name one: perfect replaygain. Meaning it uses the same code to decode and play audio as it does to scan and detect loudness. MPD does no replaygain scanning and only understands APEv2 tags. You have to manage replaygain scanning yourself, and if you have audio that does not support APEv2 tags you're shit out of luck. Groove Basin on the other hand does lazy multi-core replaygain scanning and everything it can play (which is everything that libav can decode (in other words anything that VLC can play)) it can scan. So you never run into that situation where you are listening to a quiet song, turn the volume up, and then a loud song blasts your ears off.

There are a bunch of other flaws in MPD's design which I've carefully fixed in the design of libgroove/groovebasin. I know because Groove Basin used to be an MPD client until I got stuck by all of the issues and then finally ripped out MPD and wrote my own backend to use instead.

I have a WIP blog article that goes into more detail about this stuff. This Winamp article might just be the kick in the pants I need to get it finished :)
Cool, definitely something that has needed to exist for a long time now!

What's the story with security? It looks like you are using Rserve, are you also using AppArmor or lxc or something to prevent users from doing bad things? I didn't do anything malicious but did play around with system() and was surprised how much I was allowed to do.
On a side note, I wonder how many Win2000 systems were actually infected.
They just publicly, cleanly, and professionally blamed themselves.
Sounds pretty interesting especially as my first computer was a stack-based B6500. Looks like it'll be five years before we have any idea whether it will fly or not, but then if you think back to RIRC or the history or ARM (or even Bitcoin!) then you'll realise how murky things can be at the start...
You're missing the point. If the crime on the books is "criticizing the government," you can have all your procedural due process safeguards of presumption of innocence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But I'll still get you convicted and thrown in prison for the rest of your life, Gulag-style.

Again, folks: it's necessary to ensure that criminal laws on the books are just and reasonable (see malum prohibitum vs. malum in se) and that due process is followed when enforcing those laws. Due process when enforcing a law that's unjust leads to unjust results.
Foobar2000 is also pretty stable and awesome -- just need to drop in the Facets component & it's a dream. Winamp is a nice memory from back in the Napster days tho. :)
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now that's a hack. well done!
Elon repeatedly tries to misdirect from the issue at hand. Teslas do not catch fire more often than the average U.S. car. But that is not in question. The question is, "after a collision, what happens?" And so far, the answer is, "the Model S has a 25x increased chance of catching fire." That is the focus of the investigation. Fires post-collision are a bad thing, even if the never reach the occupant: they can ignite other cars gas tanks (or other objects), and impede rescue work.
A polygraph got into YC?
I did that. After the break, I found a contract that paid more than a double than the previous one. Then another break (this time a little less than a year), and another bump in pay. If you can show you're valuable, the gaps don't matter (at least, that is my experience).
It's not really the fallacy of equivocation, since legal rights follow natural rights and he's not confusing the two.

Property rights are not necessarily externally applied. As you can apply use to the area around you, you can use your natural rights in order to claim property and protect it through force. In this way you are innately a sovereign. When you join in a community, you give up some of your natural rights to the state, particularly as regards the application of force.
I did not ask them (two of them are personal friends of mine, so I didn't feel like taking them to task about it).
One last point. People like Donald Knuth and Brian Kernighan are heroes of mine. I would not sully their names by comparing them with the likes of me.
A DUI checkpoint is a search of your personal property, without a warrant, and without cause. They set them up at random locations, and at random times. They stop every car that comes across, whether they were acting suspiciously or not, require everyone to open their window, whereupon they peer inside and look for anything that remotely resembles probable cause so that they can get grounds to 'search' you, when in most cases, they've already done exactly that.

More simply, a police officer can't stop you for no reason. They must have a reasonable belief that you've done something illegal.

A DUI checkpoint violates that first tenet straight off the bat.

Moreover, a police cannot search you without probable cause, but requiring you to open your window while they shine a flashlight throughout your car, after already having stopped you for no reason, is going even further.

I won't bother touching upon situations where dogs are trained to 'alert' for illegal substances whether or not they exist (because I honestly don't know the frequency), but that also happens.
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This teardown seems to disagree:

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/New-iPad-Air-Cos...

The 16GB models have 45-50% "implied margin". The highest end has 60%. That hardly sounds like subsidizing for any useful definition of subsidizing.
Quit comparing them to gasoline powered cars. We have a car more than qualified to compare it to, the Nissan Leaf. So the real question is, in comparable accidents is the Leaf as prone to a fire that destroys the vehicle? Was a compromise made in the S with the pack design so as to facilitate pack swaps that perhaps made it vulnerable when it would not have otherwise been? Also, is the battery design more susceptible to fires than that employed by other cars, namely the Leaf?

I am a fan of alternative methods to power car and motorcycles. Yet the questions for each is the same, what are the safety issues with each and what compromises end up affecting safety?
But clearly OSU! is the best rhythm game, and it is PC exclusive.
Is it a scandal to sell a cup of coffee for $3? It's water and coffee grounds. Is it a scandal that the large size is $1 more, but doesn't cost an extra $1 to provide the extra liquid?

Apple is a business that sells products to make money. Not every business is Wal-Mart and Dell with razor thin margins.

Apple nearly killed itself by destroying its margins and cash in the 90's and only survived by cutting all the unprofitable businesses and focusing on where they could operate profitably. Apple has since spent nearly two decades building up their cash reserves and only selling products that have something like a 30+% margin on them (which is similar to software margins FWIW).

I think it's smart and a lot of people could learn from Apple's obvious business acumen. Get good at selling your product with enough profit margin that you can sustain a business doing it. Sell to the people who are willing to buy at the price you are willing to sell, and ignore the unprofitable potential customers and ignore the pundits.
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Oh god, DCOM memories. I've spent days in a futile attempt to get that working. The best demo of how bad DCOM is would be the existence of OPC Tunneler:

http://www.matrikonopc.com/products/opc-data-management/opc-...

DCOM is such a headache that these guys sell a $1000 program whose sole purpose is to make it easy to make remote DCOM connections. And I've recommended it as a screaming deal at that price. Given what it costs to get myself or a proper tech to a remote site for a day, I'd much rather use that and spend my time solving the actual problem than spend a day trying to get DCOM working before working on the actual problem.
The question is whether the federal law criminalizing the sale and possession (not just sale!) of certain pharmaceuticals is just, sensible, and constitutional.
Apple don't have much to say about these factors in their AC powered computers. They just buy whatever is on the market.

And that's exactly what the market did just a few years ago, "ignored" (in favor for performance) heat output - until it became a big enough problem.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CPU-Sc...

Just before 2005 power consumption suddenly became a top priority (well, ok, earlier than that but it was around then the results were showing in consumer products across the board).

One can argue the same even with modern macbooks that get extremely hot when pressed. That's favoring performance over heat output. In a world were batteries were even worse that would not have been acceptable, now we live on the edge on how much heat we can tolerate.

Many of todays phones do get quite hot when gaming and with better batteries I'm sure it wouldn't exactly be less of a problem. Now we are saved by the fact that a battery time of 60 minutes wouldn't be acceptable in a phone and the goal is to get as much performance out of a device that has decent battery life. When battery performance goes up so does the performance of the phone - but not the battery life.
I do something similar when flying - a pair of Klipsch S4i's and a cheap pair of active noise-cancelling over-ear headphones on top (I personally use a pair of able planets I picked up on Groupon). It shuts out engine noises and I don't need to shell out a bunch of money and sacrifice portability if I only want to listen to music on the go.
What exactly do you think should happen when a jagged metal object collides with your car with enough energy to rip through critical components? Do you think susceptibility to telephone poles and meteorites is also a defect that auto makers need to fix?

Short of encasing the car's primary energy store with 6 inches of plated steel, what are you looking for, exactly? Is your car's gas tank similarly protected from being physically damaged? If not, does your car let you pull over and exit safely with voice and text guidance when a fire starts within?
The truth is that the rules of who gets how much are strictly a function of leverage. There is no such thing as an objectively fair system in divvying up equity. Money was the most scarce element, and thus thsee rules were set up to favor the money.

Now, money is not the most important component as the cost of starting companies continues to drop. Founders and engineers have become more valuable than they used to be in the ecosystem. In some companies, especially newer ones that required fewer people to get to solid traction, this is already being reflected in the cap table. In time, I predict we will move to a new normal where employees get more.
The only place you can realistically put battery packs on an electric car is beneath the floor. They're too heavy, so they need to be kept low or the car will have terrible (and unsafe) handling characteristics.

And crash data is most definitely relevant - how gas cars react to striking similar objects at high speed is a valid comparison.
Blame the receiver. They are the ones entrusted by the system to uphold the laws. We have laws (and lawmakers) precisely because we don't expect companies to always play fair. By contrast, once someone starts taking bribes, it becomes disadvantageous for a moral company to not offer bribes. Basically, hate the game, not the player, but hate the people who determine the game's rules most of all.
Google enforced their pre-existing API terms, that's not "Waging warfare".
The end of an era. I still have it installed, as on Windows there's still nothing better.

I remember switching to Linux and being frustrated by XMMS because it wasn't Winamp, although it tried to be.
>Bootstrapping is a different conversation, but in VC-istan you take more risk as an engineer (who might be fired w/out severance and have his career ruined by a short-tempered 23-year-old founder) than as a founder (who might have to pay himself "only" an engineer salary for a few years).

Huh. I thought that companies with the 23-year-old CTOs (and startups that don't just hire the founder's buddies in general) tend to hire young and inexperienced. Generally speaking, it's considered fair to pay the inexperienced less.

I thought all this talk of "rockstar ninja" was for the inexperienced. I mean, sure, experienced folks do have a tendancy to act like primadonnas, they usually are not proud of it. It's something we all fight.

Note, I'm not insulting the companies that just hire the founder's buddies... those companies tend to be where you see the top talent. That's the thing, it's almost impossible to get good people "cold" if you just hire a recruiter. But if your founder is a mid-career industry notable? they will not only know who is good, but they will be able to attract those good people.
You probably won't see this reply, but what I meant was...

Change in our language is slowed because we have high exposure to how the language was used decades, or generations, in the past. This exposure 'anchors' our language to a much greater extent than societies that do not have a high rate of written or audio records.

We acquire language in the form that it is used around us. In the absence of records, this means that the last generation's "slang" becomes our "normal speech," and whatever was spoken sixty years back is something we've never heard. This makes for a high rate of linguistic turnover, and four generations of separation will usually result in mutual incomprehensibility.

In modern times, I'm regularly being influenced by English that's 50 years old via Star Trek, Star Wars, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Silver Surfer comic books. Because I still have exposure to generations-old versions of English, my speech will continue to resemble them.
The question "do I need hard math for ML" often comes up in #machinelearning at irc.freenode.net

My point here is: You don't need hard math (most of the times) because most machine learning methods are already coded in half a dozen different languages. So its similar to fft. You do not need to understand why fft works, just when and how to apply it.

The typical machine learning workflow is: Data mining -> feature extraction -> applying a ML method.

I often joke that I'm using Weka as a hammer, to check, if I managed to shape the problem into a nail. Now the critical part is feature extraction. Once this is done right, most methods show more or less good results. Just pick the one that fits best in results, time and memory constrains. You might need to recode the method from Java to C to speedup, or to embed it. But this requires nearly no math skills, just code reading, writing and testing skills.
Yes. Our current social spaghetti has nothing to do with an overeducated populace or anything like it; it's simply a wealth divide that is self-propagating. It has to end sometime and it ain't gonna be pretty.
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That is how Apple would probably spin it. We're not charging you $300 for a $16 part (16GB -> 128GB, 1800% markup) [0], we're simply making it easier for you to chose a model. IBM doesn't offer that feature!

[0] http://www.insye.com/DP/NANDFlashSpotPrice.aspx
I don't know too many details, but they are running multiple lawsuits against the nsa https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying.
I know it's lame to hijack topics with "yeah, but [something else but similar]" posts, but I am still sad that DeliPlayer isn't being developed anymore :(

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/DeliPlayer
Many states have now set up DUI Checkpoints. These are not targeted based on behavior: Every car traveling between point A and point B is expected to pull over and take a breathalyzer. These are often targeted based on neighborhoods or proximity to 'party' districts. They are conducted without warrants, and cast a wide net on individuals traveling.
I'm not a lawyer and therefore not qualified to expound on what "Three-pronged Test" or "Doctrine" decides what qualifies as an invasion of privacy, but...

If the cops could easily tell you were driving drunk, they'd pull you over and cuff you. They have no particular reason to suspect you're DUI if they have an armed checkpoint set up. There's the first problem, "no particular reason". That's not supposed to happen in America, that was what happened in Nazi Germany, and Soviet Russia.

The second problem comes from what's probably the real reason, or at least an important subsidiary reason, for the "DUI" armed checkpoints. According to some "N-Pronged Test" or "Doctrine" that non-lawyers can't possibly understand, the inside of your car is "public". If a cop sees something fishy, he or she can just search your car. That's the second problem: "DUI" checkpoints rapidly become fishing expeditions for whatever minor illegalities the cops can find.

The penalty structure for any crime or administrative infraction (at least in the USA) is set pretty high. This may have made sense when cops were few and far between. The USA had to make penalties pretty severe so that folks would stop at stop signs even when a cop wasn't there to watch. You didn't get caught very often, even if you did whatever crime. A fairly harsh punishment made sense in sparse cop circumstances.

But once you universally enforce some "sparse cop/harsh penalty" punishment regime, you've gone way off the ranch, and you're probably just doing it to increase revenue, either through fines, or through privatized prisons that need their bunks overfilled.
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The alternative to taking that job was staying in magazine publishing. Magazine publishing has probably done even worse than comedy writing over that time period.
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What purpose could this possibly serve that is more important than have proper fire exits?