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Even if web apps run in modern web browsers, there's a big chance that you would want your app to offer the same experience and integration as native apps on other platforms.

On Cordova/PhoneGap and Firefox OS, please see https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/building-cordova-apps-for-...
5 Future Features of Enterprise Data Backup and Recovery
An In-Depth Inbound Marketing Audit of Buffer
I really wish there was some thorough examples of using Ember + Ember-Data. Ideally it would be backend agnostic (mocked client side xmlhttprequest) and go from doing simple things like saving a model all the way to doing more complex things like you showed.

Drupal for instance has a /really/ great project that maintains a bunch of thorough examples (https://drupal.org/project/examples) which were indispensable when I did Drupal a while back.
> "We know being active is important, so your Vessyl connects with popular activity trackers for more accurate net calories and hydration awareness."

Phew, I was worried about this. If I can't sync my Vessyl to my fitbit to my strava profile with nike+ misfit shine integrations, how the hell am I supposed to know exactly how many steps I need to take to optimize my area under the fun curve subject to the constraints that I lose 1.6 pounds but can still eat artisanal cuisine?! The other day I almost went for a walk in the woods, but my Vessyl was dropping its bluetooth connection, so I retreated to the safety of my San Francisco apartment.
I'm personally shocked by how much power a DDoS has to potentially sway public opinion and influence the world at large. A few individuals have a hugely disproportionate voice in our public media by nature of the fact that they can control what other websites say through these attacks.

Is there any progress on infrastructure improvements that could potentially improve this current state of affairs? Is our only solution for benevolent companies like Cloudflare to offer their blanket of protection? I guess I'm asking, who will guard the guards?
"Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

What exactly does that little "in good faith" clause mean in there?
Map label placement in Mapbox GL
I keep bouncing between "this is an excellently executed troll!" and "…does this actually work?!"
The original II manuals were treasure troves of information. They certainly don't write manuals like they used to.

BTW, I didn't remember how much functionality the Enhancer II added:

* Full ASCII keyboard (128 ASCII codes)
* The complete printable ASCII character set
- including lower case - may be displayed
* User definable keys - with down loading from
disc [section: 5.f]
* Type ahead buffer [section: 5.g]
* Auto repeat [section: 5. a. 3]
* Fast repeat [section: 5. a. 3]
* Normal Apple ][ mode [section: 5.d]
* Typewriter like operation [section: 5.e]
* Shift-lock feature [section: S.e.l]
* Control-Reset protection (section: 5.C.1]
* Simple installation [chapter two]
* Microprocessor controlled (6500 series)
* Self test diagnostics [section: 5.h]
* A 2716 EPROM is used for on board firmware
* Complete firmware listings [appendix Y]
* Complete schematic [appendix Z]
* Dvorak keyboard option [section: 5.1]

http://www.apple-iigs.info/newdoc/VidexEnhancerII.pdf

Dvorak on an Apple II. I had no idea that was there.
It's nearly impossible to buy earthquake insurance (affordably) in the Bay Area, because all the big insurance companies know that it's going to happen and aren't willing to expose themselves to a potentially company-destroying event. Policies are available, but the cost of insuring against them is nearly as much as insuring against everything else that your homeowner's policy covers.

Most Bay Area homeowners are depending on a combination of prayer and federal disaster-relief funds, figuring that the government will bail them out if an Act of God destroys San Francisco.
To persist data you'll want a backend. That's a fairly important piece of any application which is why I included it in the tutorial. You could ignore the Rails parts of the tutorial and create your own backend.
Are there any meta-analyses of YC "I didn't get into YC" / "I got into YC" posts that can give a more objective conclusion to this kind of thing? We almost always see these posts from individual founders who did [not] make it into YC and what they think the reasons are. It's all anecdotal.

I realize the plural of anecdote is not data, but it would be nice to see some real scholarly analysis of what happens to YC applicants, as opposed to a series of anecdotal and speculative blog posts. Denis is both a founder and a YC advisor, so maybe his anecdotes are a little higher quality than others, but even so, they're still anecdotes.

Which brings me to my other point: every couple of months we get flooded with "I didn't get into YC" and they all basically say the same thing (or at least variations on the same thing). It seems to me that anyone who is applying to YC would already read up as much as they can about YC applicants, which includes reading every "I didn't get into YC" post they can find. After reading 5 or 10 of them, they'll quickly realize there are the same 5 lessons from each one. Why read any more? (Which translates to: why post another "I didn't get into YC" post?)

Anyway, just kinda thinking out loud here. I would love to see a more comprehensive, multi-applicant analysis instead of yet-another-anecdotal-blog-post.

[Edit: Next up on a Jemaclus post, how many times can I use the word "anecdote" in one comment? Stay tuned...]
Please define best, because best could mean different things to different people :)
Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
How is being a consultant tax-optimized?
> Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

I'm not familiar with US legislation, but from my perspective this is just Musk on his soap-box making a statement. It's not something I can rely on while building a business that possibly (!) infringes one of Tesla's patents. They may retract their statement and reconsider at any time, especially when times get tough.

It's nice to hear this, sure, but I fail to see the meat in this announcement.
I tried to search for S3-API-compliant alternatives to amazon. So far I've only come up with the S3 wikipedia entry:

Google Cloud Storage, Openstack Swift, Cloud.com’s CloudStack, Cloudian, Connectria's Cloud Storage, Eucalyptus, Nimbula, Riak CS, Ceph, Caringo, and LunaCloud

Some of the above may already be defunct -- do you happen to know any that I've missed?
Agreed. I was hoping for a link to a BSD- or Creative Commons-style license, but this was only a reason for not [suing anyone] using the patents (as welcome as that is).

[edited for clarification]
Too many ways to screw things up, not enough decades of cryptographic analysis, and there are simpler tools available which have been around for longer.

This is subject to the caveat that ECC offers benefits under certain specific conditions (e.g., you need small signatures or a small ASIC die area); but in those situations you want to talk to a cryptographer anyway. My talk was providing guidelines for software developers who are writing code for general-purpose PC hardware.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html
No longer vaporware!!! I've been waiting for this forever!
Weekly and monthly transfers
Entrepreneurs make companies, not accelerators.
Thank you very much - this helps.
That's not entirely true.

Proper cryptography can keep them from learning that it's you they'll need to kidnap to get the secret, or even keep them from learning that there is a secret they might care about in the first place.

Also, there are plenty of bad guys in the world that can't kidnap and torture you that it's still quite worthwhile to keep your secrets from.
April fools comes early.
> Now, which one has a higher "marketshare"? Crest or Colgate?

Trick question.

I can't answer that question until I've decided whether I want to be a Crest fan or a Colgate fan. Sort of like how I can't decide whether to measure smartphone market size by units shipped or dollars spent without first deciding whether I want to promote Android or iOS.
Was it ‘crazy’ to re-create a virus that killed 50 million people?
Didn't Twitter declare something similar?

Is there anything they can do that's binding outside of a declarative 'we won't sue you unless...' statement?
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They have to keep the patents (or donate them to a trusted third part, as a bunch of tech companies have done). They unfortunately need the protection. Otherwise, someone could sue them.

I think Musk's word in this case is good. He's not a nobody; his reputation is stellar.
Ha! When Google is fighting battles with all sorts of European regulators, it's a VERY smart idea to point to where they're investing in European culture. This isn't going away anytime soon...
Until clarified, it kind of reads like "independently came up with the same idea, but did not research patents or reach out to us for licensing first."
Twitter Introduces the website tag for remarketing
I work on the service and CLI, so I'm probably wrong... but I think we're incrementally fixing these.

See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/testing-your-native-androi... for an example
Great, so now I have to maintain an updated LinkedIn profile, contribute to various open source projects on GitHub, sustain an active StackOverflow profile, and complete coding challenges on HackerRankX.

I hope the employer who hires me doesn't mind if I do all that on the clock!
FCC DoSed into silence as John Oliver roused net neutrality trolls
They should license the patents for free to anyone who wants to use them. There's no word needed.
In the biotech space there exists a system called "patentleft" which theoretically provides royalty-free licensing of patents with the stipulation that any derivative works / improvements also be licensed under the same terms.

Seems like there is good potential to build on the momentum of Tesla's announcement to formalize the process, and answer the questions that I'm sure will emerge in this thread - eg more akin to an Creative Commons (which is very well defined and practical).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft
In my experience with this, all-cash and over-asking have nothing to do with one another.

Yes, I too have heard the anecdotal/unsubstantiated claims that many all cash offers are Chinese. It may well be true, but all I've ever heard was conjecture.

But over-asking has nothing to do with all-cash. We bid on several homes, all of them, including our final winning bid, were 20-30% over asking. That is normal in this market where the RE agents have decided we need to play this charade of low pricing instead of pricing accurately to the market.

While I agree that a house is not a good short term investment, I disagree with the notion that this is a market out of steam. I've seen nothing to suggest that.
Wondering how to get your first client as a consultant for a non-technical role? Creating something as thorough as this is probably a good place to start.

When people talk about creating great content, they dont mean a weekly roundup post, or asking 17 industry leaders to answer a question, they mean something like this.
These are big words, even coming from the extreme underdog in the auto industry.

What exactly is Elon committing to here? Is Tesla planning on releasing any design documentation, or technical specifications or manufacturing process information?

It's great that they won't enforce patents in an effort to not stifle innovation, but do they plan on taking any actions that will encourage innovation?
As with most JS-heavy websites, NoScript improves its readability. In this case, there are no shitty fonts.
Why the Google Diversity Figures Matter
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Resources are welcome.
I have only one question.

Can that web page be any more resource-intensive? It's basically a slideshow as I scroll.
Huawei goes it alone in the US with a direct-sale, unlocked $299 phone
in-app billing is coming soon, as is simple push; the other API's will appear on Firefox for Android (and therefore be available to these apps) on an API-by-API basis, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

some API's are the same as Chrome OS, some are not; we are talking regularly with those folks about standardizing API's.
I think it reads more generally, as in "for any purpose whatsoever except patent litigation".
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I agree but you don't really need an in depth reason why because at the end of the day you gotta make it happen or don't.

I think it's just annoying to see posts about the same topic someone already mentioned several times again.

It's like yup I've heard that before and then my response is, "Okay so what are you doing about it?"
Since this statement comes from a Chairman and a CEO, wouldn't a breach of this promise be considered as a form of bait and switch? I mean, he publicly advertises a certain promise in a function of a key operative from the company.
In case anyone else was confused as I was, it looks like OpenSSL uses letters at the end of the full version number to indicate the release. So, '0.9.8' actually has multiple releases, it's currently on '0.9.8za'.
Would this not be a get out of court free card in any lawsuit Tesla would try to start?
Amazon launches Prime streaming music service
There really should be better examples. In the mean time, you should check out the Balanced Dashboard, I've learned a good amount from it

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard
Their patents and patent applications will be published and should (in theory) enable someone to practice the inventions they cover.
The people who own taxi medallions are usually not the taxi drivers themselves. The medallion owners (who usually own many medallions and rent them out to drivers) are as pissed off about Uber as you would expect.
He makes an interesting implicit argument - that it's okay to use patents to block established players from innovating with you, but not to block new startups from challenging you.
The "new economy" is a much less friendly one, and I am also personally terrified of my coming professional irrelevance. Savings are nice, as is the social safety net, but I've seen them both either fail or get used up. It is a perverse culture where you fear the fate of your father.
Additionally, idiomatic Rust code will employ iterators rather than direct indexing where possible. Rust's iterators are memory safe and do not perform bounds checking.
I don't know. Nearly all the IE9 users are on Win7.

If I had to guess, it's simply because upgrades are such a hassle in heavily regulated industries. (Above and beyond the typical hassles of an upgrade in any large enterprise.) I see similar numbers in Healthcare, for example, but not Education or Construction.

I keep meaning to do a blog post about the tech trends in different industries.
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If I understand this right (I'm not an electrical engineer) a hypothetical memristor-based computer would not need discrete RAM and disk storage nor would it have a fixed processing power. Rather, the chip of memristors would simultaneously be acting as the CPU and as non-volatile primary memory with the speed and efficiency of DRAM (or better). Additionally, the number of memristors dedicated to computation vs. storage could be changed in real time on a live system.

This absolutely blows my mind.
Call me maybe: etcd and Consul
The Crypto 101 ebook [1] has been discussed a bit on HN [2]. It was submitted by tptacek, who had positive things to say about it.

It is in my "summer reading" pile.

[1] https://www.crypto101.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430946
I also encountered #2 and the first "Run This Town" selected wasn't accepted as correct. The next song was still "Run This Town", but this time with only one option presented and accepted as correct.
Console OS: Android dual-boot for PC
Neil Gaiman: "I'm Obviously Pissed At Amazon"
HP announces plans to destroy windows
You forgot twitter and technology blog too!
Yeah, a lot of web APIs have implementations that connect directly to the Android equivalent. When writing a web app you'd always use a "web" API though. Some of those APIs are still very new and Chrome and Mozilla haven't reached consensus yet so you'd have to deal with prefixing and what not.

Mozilla's APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
Some companies offer DDoS protection as part of their hosting services. OVH does for example. Reputedly, it's very good.
A couple of replies in, they say "In other words, the idea that you can pre-declare a lifetime is fantasy." The thing is, it's really not. You say "we'll support version <foo>", and that means that you release security fixes for <foo> that don't change anything else. It's then easy for maintainers to decide whether the need for the security fix affects them or not.

The alternative is discrete versions where any number of things can change between versions, but you have to accept everything in order to receive security fixes. In some instances, those are inevitably going to break backwards-compatibility for at least someone despite all best efforts, and this may even kick off regulatory compliance procedures.

Either way, distros are going to continue to do the "we'll support version <foo>" thing, so this is basically offloading the need to carve out security patches to them. In some cases, they might even have to write the security patches themselves. And this is supposed to make our systems more secure?

I can't wait for LibreSSL to be usable, if this is how the OpenSSL developers think.
I don't see how that would be related to SIMD support in JavaScript.
Yes, they could hand over the patents to RPX, and pay the annual fee; instead of 'as protection' it would be 'as a donation to the public'. Perhaps an odd use of RPX, but it would be really effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPX_Corporation
Makes sense. I also find myself primarily listening to classical music, and, as a side note, I hate that apps like Shazam, Google, and SoundHound can't recognize most of it.
> PROBABLY AVOID: Elliptic Curve signature schemes.

Including Ed25519?
I'm not stellar with C, but I'd be happy to contribute!
Why Amazon Is Willing to Launch a Half-Baked Music Service
I don't get it. Rails monolith is great for product proof-of-concept. Iterative refactoring and incremental change towards an architecture you see working for similar companies is also really sensible. What would you do differently if you had heaps of money and VC?
Future Of Cloud Backup
How common is this - are there any well known examples? (If so, they're not in wikipedia!)
I'm going to take a guess and say that it contains a small device which uses an absorption spectroscopy technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy) or something similar. Given a large database of known beverages and their constituent parts, it could compare and find a match based on a known set of gaps in the spectrum.
The version numbers are different code bases and the letters are different patch versions.

Not really sure why they didn't go for the major.minor.patch convention like a lot of other software does, but it's all just arbitrary at the end of the day.
I agree, but not necessarily because Musk might randomly change his mind. The problem is if Tesla runs out of money they must sell these patents to another company whose CEO might not have the same outlook.

Longer term, the other problem is when Musk retires/dies. Of course, that probably wont affect any current patents, but it could to future ones.
also what inexperience looks like :)
I think the fundamental problem is cost. Much like raising an army, protecting against things like DDoS on the scale of 10Gbps+ costs real money.

Services like Cloudflare, Blacklotus, etc. act like insurance companies [e.g. You have a pool of X services and only Y are getting attacked at a time]. This gives them an economy of scale others can't match on their own. I'd like to see a non-profit public internet security service tbh but I don't think it'd raise the capital it would need to get to the level Cloudflare is at.

Provisioning something like this yourself is going to probably cost you $450 per Gbps of mitigation per month. HE is selling transit for $.45/Mbps/month, for instance. Then you'd need to clean it. HE can't provision this instantly or on demand, so you'd need to have it built out and semi-permanent [e.g. long term contract for 100s of Gbps].

You can create multiple targets too but the costs are still roughly the same vs. one big target. [e.g. 10 x 10 Gbps is pretty much as effective as 1 x 100 Gbps and similar costs]
What's the "value add" here over just going the Cordova route?

Cordova/phoneGap already has lots of plugins for in app billing, push messaging, etc....
I don't see the relevance. I, too, can easily find dead-end hardware that was expensive years ago that no one wants today. Most are just happy someone is taking that crap out of their hands. It's big, heavy, has strange power requirements, people forgot how to even turn it on and get it running, etc.
"but it will get you most of the way to WCAG."

Or, you could start with the 4 principles of Accessibility (Perceivability, Operability, Usability, Robustness) and build a working knowledge set on that.

Screenreaders are complicated pieces of software, just an hour a day is not enough, you do need to fully immerse yourself as a blind person. Do your day job for a month using a screenreader and no monitor (from turning on the computer all the way to turning it off) - that will give you adequate platform in which to appreciate the blind people you want to serve.

But that's just one disability (though a large chunk). Visual impairments isn't just blind people. It's partially sighted, low vision, photosensitivity, tunnel vision, colour blindness - each have their own accessibility characteristics. And that's just sight-related accessibility issues... I haven't even started talking about motor-related disabilities, cognition related impairments.

Seriously, WCAG took absolutely ages to write, but it will give you a better perspective of a wider range of accessibility issues than using a screenreader for an hour a day.
IIRC, Twitter's approach was to also give the inventor a transferable license to the patent. That way if Twitter used it offensively, the inventor could independently license the patent to the company who was being sued.
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What can an innovator do besides filing a defensive patent?

I've heard of various strategies like publishing the work in as many forums as possible; publishing it on IP.com; filing a patent application and withdrawing it; filing it and pledging; etc.

It would be nice if there were a step by step guide written by an attorney--ideally an ex-patent attorney--that goes lists the steps in order of priority/cost/ease for both individual innovators and companies with deeper pockets.
Presently each SCM (Subsea Control Module) uses a specific protocol to communicate with the topside system. The topside system often polls the SCM for data. In the case of RRC there are currently three different types of SCM and these use the following protocols: 2000, 3000 and 1024. how we can program a common driver interface and that will include the three protocols and the top side don't three package to control the three different subsea module ?????
Agreed. But his lawyers would have wiggle room with the "in good faith" part added onto the promise if they needed to go after someone.
If Tesla doesn't initiate patent lawsuits, then the usage was in good faith.
A general business tip: rely on someone's reputation as a signal that you should consider doing business with them, and then rely on their signature on a contract to protect you when you do business with them.