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Note that "futbol" is _not_ a misspelling of "footbal," but rather the Spanish spelling of the word.
> I imagine they'll go with pm to be difficult and to hurt Android's qi based phones.

Disclaimer: I really dislike Apple and am not likely to ever (personally) own any iDevices in the future (although, I am the Android minority in my household). But I can't really fault them for making their own charge connector that does appear to be superior to the mini/micro USB that is standard on most other phones. It would be nice if all phones used the same connector and if it was the Lightning Plug I'd be fine with that. But if they come late to the game and pick PM or Qi just to be difficult but gain no real tech advantage... well that is just a dick move. Which is exactly the type of thing they would do, sadly. :/
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It also sounds like you probably have some degree of anxiety that was being amplified by the drug. Most of the time it's probably beneath conscious awareness or latent. I imagine that when you're always disorganized and getting in trouble for things outside of your control as a kid, it sets you up to develop an anxiety disorder.
That's a very hard to answer question.

The risk is obvious, and e.g. a pandemic strain which followed the Ford swine flu mess is thought to have originated from a Soviet bioweapons lab.

But there's great risk in our not understanding just what the bleep made the 1918 flu pandemic so lethal for such unusual age groups.

Either could result in 10s of millions needlessly dying.
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No. But if you were Gigantic Auto Manufacturer, you'd probably have your lawyers talk to Tesla's lawyers and get something in writing first.

This is merely stating that Tesla is open to such things, not a legal guarantee.
source at https://github.com/KaeruCT/short-experiments/tree/master/glx...
Regardless of if IE9 use is 3% or 9%, the point still stands. It's still an at least higher or comparable number of internet users that are ignored and marginalized by the workflows and decision-making of most internet app projects.
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This seems to be the right amount of wriggle room.

A high profile company like Tesla is not going to want to be seen suing two high schools students using an electric motor to power their Tanzanian school. But they want to reserve the right to stop the White Supremecist Indy 500 team using the same engine.

Seems like the best of a bunch of good and bad choices
This is a bold move, and of course open to interpretation. But I am still optimistic about it. You can argue why they have patents in the first place, remember that if they didn't or sold it to a third party it will come back to bite their ass.

It is much better to hold the patent and allow others to used without being worried about getting sued. I am sure the big auto makers may consider taking advantage of this situation to crush tesla, but Elon Musk is known for not getting distracted by the petty things.
"In good faith" means that when you write to Tesla asking to license their patented technology at no cost as promised by their CEO, their lawyers write back saying "OK, if as a sign of good faith you also agree to license your patents to Tesla at no cost".
Why? Do you think you would notice?

(I realize your post may have been tongue in cheek, but it can be hard to tell on the interwebs.)
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> For a copywriter you're pretty boring.

His profile says "I'm a copywriter, a web designer, and a deeply cynical person."

I believe that is utterly congruent with his comment.
That may not have been their intention, but that's what came to mind for me as well.
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Not everyone subscribes to the theory that companies must have a grim and humorless face. I don't see why a lighthearted title is a bad thing. It's not like it's lowbrow or mean-spirited humor.
They just updated their Amazon Music app in the Play Store. It's a complete revamp!
Docker on Docker is way cool.

The use case we're trying to solve here is a tad different though: it's to provide virtual infrastructure for the "first level" i.e. in the case of Docker the outer container host. For Docker the answer could be EC2, since Docker itself doesn't need VT. However that precludes you from using KVM in any layer below, which in turn means Linux only and fairly simple networking (no multicasting even in VPC, and hence no VXLAN for example)

We very much wanted to create something to assist OpenStack developers in developing OpenStack itself. It should be especially useful for projects such as Nova, Neutron and Ironic.
Another advantage of vanilla LaTeX is as a litmus test: if your interviewer recognizes Computer Modern, you know they're legit.
I guarantee the amount of time spent on traveling salesman problems at Uber is a miniscule fraction of all development time.
Yeah, the magic rejiggering of names everywhere with no clear documentation of what mapped to what† killed my interest in Ember the first time I tried to actually use it for even a fairly simple app.

† Plus the enforced snakeCase/CamelCase everywhere, but that's more to do with me far preferring names_with_underscores in general.
> We use Ember at work, although I wish we used React.

Could you expand on why you prefer React? I have not tried React yet, but am interested to hear thoughts from someone who's used both.
>Twitter had 255 million monthly users in March, a 5 percent increase from the previous quarter. It was the second quarter of disappointing growth for the service, and Wall Street was hoping for an increase in the double digits.

Growing at a rate of 12.5 million users per quarter is slow?
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I work at a small startup with a somewhat large user base (1M weekly users or so) and every time I bring up accessibility issues I get shot down. Just the other day I was told "You talk more about accessibility than anyone I've ever met."

Well, yeah, because apparently no one fucking cares. Including you. (I said this not out-loud, to be clear.)

Thing is, making accessible sites is usually not super difficult. It's mostly just about making sure your site follows semantic HTML standards and you're not doing funky javascripty bullshit that a screen reader can't figure out. (e.g., hover-over states on elements that pop up important help information, etc.)
This is good stuff, reminds me of all horrible cancer I've had to deal with working on certain projects in past. This hopefully isn't an issue with anyone else out there, but there also should be a check for complexity in the views. Dealing with junk like anonymous classes, capture abuse, stateful partials, bloated clashing helpers, rjs, etc. have been worse for my health than 20 years of chain smoking, heavy drinking, and being stabbed.
That's because they usually are on the right side of them.
That compares a Java program written to use multiple cores with a C++ program not written to use multiple cores; because the C++ programs written to use multiple cores did not compile.

See http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...
Slower than they'd like.
probably not, but the comment did make me laugh
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Interesting point:

> At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.

I read this as effectively saying that it's easy for them to take this step, relative to companies in other industries (Apple, Google, Amazon, et al) because none of Tesla's competitors even have the ability to make use of their technology. Makes me wonder if Musk would have done the same thing if Tesla were a software company.
Reminds me of Forstall who dumped all his Apple stock months before being fired.

Why should they dump their stock before being fired? Is there a reason not to wait a little bit? It just looks plenty passive-aggressive.

Unless, of course they believe the stock will take a nosedive shortly after (which never happens).
But aren't Tanzanian students on the wrong side of the law already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxHkAQRQUQ
Anything short of a legal document setting out which rights are waived and which are reserved, and under what circumstances, is just PR. No company is going to use a Tesla-patented technology without that guarantee.
No, the models shouldn't have view logic such as formatting, that belongs in Presenters. What I was implying is that the views likely have boolean logic/conditionals that are checking various states of the model and then rendering partials/HTML content based on that.

Of course, there could also be model logic in the controllers and helpers as well.
This seems link bait-y to me:
"That said they created a life-threatening virus that is only 3 percent different from the 1918 Spanish flu"

I bet the flu itself changed that much in nature between 1918 and now all on its own.

For reference 4% difference is between humans and apes.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0831_050831_...

I'm not saying creating a deadly virus is ethical. Personally, I think it is under sufficiently tight controls...since these things exist in nature and if we don't understand them, we risk a repeat of 1918.
> I'm more curious why we don't start large-scale investigations in response to each DDoS attack: each one gives you a list of machines likely participating in a botnet.

No, at this point the machines are most likely 'innocent' and are just running exploitable services (usually NTP, DNS, or chargen). Despite widespread knowledge of the vulnerabilities of these protocols ( http://openresolverproject.org/ http://openntpproject.org/ ) getting people to actually fix their systems is hard. Since the systems themselves aren't compromised, investigating each one is not really a good use of your time.

These attacks rely on the ability of the attacker to spoof IP addresses. Tracking down the sources of these spoofed packets would be more useful, but this requires the cooperation of the transit providers. It will also lead back to providers that make money by allowing spoofed traffic in the first place. Ecatel is the well known one right now, they are very popular in the 'booter' business.
Singapore doesn't have a corrupted government? Its not perceived by its people as having one. Its true too, as long as you vote for PAP members, reelect them and don't read foreign newspapers; everything then is fine and there is no corruption.
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I read it more along the lines of "you may use these as you wish but don't try to turn around and screw the electrification of transportation, harming humanity's future for your own short-term gain". Musk isn't doing it for money after all.
So even the video doesn't explain this? Well that was unexpected. I really really find it odd that people that can engineer something like this don't even want to show a little bit of the magic they created? Sounds like snake-oil to me then.. even if it's not, that's how it looks.
"Sieve of Erathosthenes"
Not only do iterators help avoid them in most cases, I'm anxiously awaiting Intel MPX for more hardware support for bounds checks.
It's nice that your mommy and daddy are willing to support you, but some people have bills to pay and don't have the luxury of turning down work.
133 seems about right. 136 by my count of the Tesla patent wall via Steve Jurvetson.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/14405402742/
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You can be sure that some governments have significant amount of deadly viruses at their disposal [0]. I've heard anecdotes that Russian facilities storing black death amongst other bio weapons routinely lose power due to lack of funding [1].

So stockpiles of stuff are readily available, thus the question transforms from "Is it ethical to have this stuff?" into "Is it ethical for researchers to have access to this stuff?". I think that, with appropriate security measures being taken, it is imperative for researchers to access viruses that pruned significant portion of human population. If you look at this from evolutionary standpoint plagues killed everyone with immune system that was not prepared to deal with that infection, thus shaping the course of evolution of human species.

TL:DR: To understand where we are evolutionary we need to understand where we came from. I think deadly viruses that wiped out significant portion of human population are important part of that evolutionary path. Moreover, even if a virus escapes, I do not think danger is significant, because infection already pruned some part of human population with immune system not capable of handling it.

[0] "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8267370/We-must...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozrozhdeniya_island
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I adore Twitter but I am afraid the company is executing poorly. Here are a few examples:

1. I receive daily emails on my main account urging me to advertise. Or more properly I don't see them because I've marked them as spam.

2. Created an account for an event that never got used. Receive two emails every single day trying to get me to engage. You would think after over a year that they'd get the message I wasn't going to use the account but the emails still come every single day.

3. Clicked on Twitter's own ad to find out more information about promoted accounts. The ad promises more information but instead an ad console loads slowly, very slowly. Is there any information as to cost? None, so I go to Google. The top link which is a blog says it will cost me $4 for each follower I gain. I click on the Twitter company link which is lower down the page and it tells me it will cost me as low as 30 cents a follower. Anyone at Twitter HQ noticing that their funnel is badly broken? I'm guessing very few small businesses are using this successfully and signing up.

Since Twitter went public the most innovative single thing on the platform was by an independent developer and that's Dave Winer's Little Pork Chop.

I am still hoping that Twitter turns itself around but the clock is ticking.
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When you're valued at $20b+ with less than $1b in revenues, good/decent growth isn't good enough.
"...is only 3 percent different from the 1918 Spanish flu, which likely killed more people than the Black Death."

Well, Spanish flu killed, tops, 5% of world population, whereas Black Death is likely to have killed at least 20% of the world population. I think this is more significant than 100 million vs ~90 million.
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"The difference is that when something goes wrong, it's usually the cyclist who ends up injured or dead, not the motorist."

In the case of riding on sidewalks where it is inappropriate, it's also frequently a pedestrian.

"I don't tend to get angry at cyclists whose choices are illegal but obviously safer (as in, I've read the actual research and current law and/or public policy clearly doesn't promote the safest option, not just doing something that intuitively feels safer but maybe isn't really)."

In those cases, I agree that the cyclist should do what's safest (presuming it's safe enough - on balance - for everyone involved). So should drivers of vehicles, for that matter. My understanding is that taking the lane, where traffic is moving at a speed the cyclist can keep up with, is the best way of keeping everyone safe (I wouldn't be recommending it otherwise). You are right where everyone who might hit you can best see you. I say this as someone who cycles in a big city fairly regularly, with a spouse who bikes in a big city even more regularly, in the wake of biking safety classes. I'm not just an annoyed driver/pedestrian/whatever trying to keep the cyclist down.
Oh, I'm sure. But it would be relevant which was my point. Someone at Uber at some point had to solve that sort of problem.

Many of the questions I've been asked in interviews are more or less, "Someone had to do X at some point as part of our product, how would you do it?"

The goal is to figure out if you are competent at solving business problems logically that are relevant to the business in some way.
Perhaps I should have added more context to the title and text as the purpose of the post seems lost to most commenters.

Rebecca Meyer is the daughter of Eric Meyer who you may know through through his two decades of work on behalf of web development and web standards. He is the author of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide and the widely used Reset CSS (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/).

I would assume that many (if not most) users of Hacker News have benefited from Eric's work.

Rebecca died from cancer on Saturday on her 6th birthday. As per the link from Jeffrey Zeldman's blog, there is an effort to get #663399Becca trending today, (June 12th) in a show of solidarity.
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I know differential geometry is, as they say, needed for general relativity, they say also for quantum field theory.
Agreed. "Share" is an ideologically motivated term.
Not many people have been in the same boat as Tesla, a young company in a trillion dollar industry with limited players.

What Tesla is saying, here are my patents, let's start building electrical fuel stations arround the world, i can do a lot of them by myselve (and i'm doing that), but i don't have enough budget to do it arround the world.

It seems clear to me, that Tesla's biggest obstacle for electrical cars is electrical fuel stations and not other car dealers, because Tesla dominates the electrical car "scene" right now (personal opinion)... But i don't consider one , because there aren't any electrical fuel station arround here (Belgium) - although they are working on that as fast as they can, checkout http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger and scroll between "open right now" and "winter 2014-2015".

I think it's a good business move from Tesla.. I'm just curious what happens when a car manufacturer takes the patents, adds one of their own patents and then unites with a other car manufacturers.... Leaving Tesla in the dark, is that possible or are there some limits to "opening" their patents?
>What were the action items?

Diversify hiring and promotion. Done.

Expect the same professional output from all employees. Done.

Encourage different groups early in their lives to pursue tech. Done.

Don't be an jerk/treat people with due respect. Done.

Call out people for acting like jerks or not treating people with respect. Done.

(Here 'Done' means it has been my policy and will continue to be my policy not that it is finished, just to be clear).

I don't think any of these things are controversial. I look around my office and I see people from all walks of life doing their jobs, meeting their goals, progressing in their careers, and treating each other well so something must be going right. It's not complicated.

If you have suggestions for more action items, I'm all ears. I am even more interested in knowing what other people have tried and what worked and what didn't. I am not saying there is no more room for improvement, there is always room for improvement, but it seems like a backward step to be stuck on the 'identify the problem' phase.

I think the impedance mismatch between us is that you are advocating a top down approach through legislation and I am advocating a bottom up approach.
And you'd keep most of the code in javascript so new comers wouldn't get "culture shock" by having to learn completely new syntax. +1
Clickbait title, but there was a decent quote.

"I'm completely convinced we'll never develop AI. Because every time we think we have, we'll just invent harder and harder tests."
I would say that Brazil is no lesser a power than Russia. Russia just makes more noise. India is in the same league, I guess. The EU is lacking in diplomatic unity and militaristic strength. If we set the threshold above those, we're left with the US and China.
adjective: best

1. of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality.

best for the most part won't mean different things to different people, but which rapper whom people think is the best is certainly a subjective thing.
Agreed, and although I initially didn't like the new iOS icon it does make sense to think of it as outbound/upload vs. inbound/download.
> I'd be happier if they always took the Google Maps route.

Part of being a good taxi-driver is knowing which parts of the city are going to busy at different points of time.

If a taxi takes a detour from the best map-presented route you don't know if they're giving you a faster journey, or ripping you off. Too often people assume the latter.
There weren't any "Don'ts" about compression.

Is that solely an SSL/TLS concern, or is it generally applicable to cryptosystems?
Not only that CLRS, Knuth, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, distributed system ecosystems....
"Good faith" is somewhat subjective, and usually it depends on context. Generally speaking, it means acting in an as-stated, forthright, non-deceptive manner.

For example, if I agree to explore a partnership with you "in good faith," it means I am serious about the possibility of a partnership. I am not merely wasting your time for the purposes of distracting you, defrauding you, conducting market espionage, or sending false signals. Basically, I am acting "in good faith" when I honestly believe I am doing what I claim to be doing, for the reasons I claim to be doing it. You assume I am acting in good faith, and vice versa, unless a pattern of actions or evidence gives sufficient cause to doubt it.

IANAL, but I've dealt with "good faith" issues in business development and licensing contracts more times than I wish I'd had to. There is usually an implicit assumption that all contracts are entered into in good faith unless proven otherwise -- which means I'd almost definitely want to enter into an agreement with Tesla if I were to use their technology.
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Some of the selected papers might help:

http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/The_second_paper_to_read_...
> So you didn't get into Y Combinator, now what?

Hmmm...maybe build your company anyway and keep more equity for yourself.

ycombinator != only route to startup success, obviously.