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Remember that VCs buy preferred equity that can limit their downside (1x liquidation preference at least, maybe a preferred dividend).

The company you follow sells common stock to its shareholders.
So it is. I tried to find a big picture of that multimeter to see what it was set to because the video image quality it poor, but now on closer inspection I can see it's set to AC volts. The most similar analog radio shack model I could find a picture of extended the resistance area further up the dial.
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I always felt the X37B was likely a platform to test/perform 'strike-back' comms capabilities after the initial orbital bombardment of comms satelites during WW3.

It's all a guess, like any of this.
Half a liter in a few hours is way less than a cyclist needs. This is renewable and a bottle isn't but I can pack much more water in the volume of the device and get other water when I stop. If I can't find water maybe I'm in bigger troubles than half a liter can save me from (in a desert, really?). It's not worth it.

However, put a bigger device on a car or on a boat and that can be useful.
This site takes about 15 seconds to load on my iPad in Europe, which is so slow someone is likely to tab away.

I haven't looked into fast-render mentioned elsewhere, but initial load time has always been a issue, and it seemingly gets worse as you add more functionality to your 'app'.

Personally, I'd only consider betting on Meteor for anything non-trivial once some form of incremental/optional loading of functionality was included.
A bit late to the party but here's a good story about this: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/24949768311/i-kno...
No, that's why you have representative democracy rather than direct democracy.

You have a republic rather than a monarchy. In order to establish its leadership, a republic can use representative democracy, direct democracy, fascism, dictatorship, whatever -- as long as it defines the power of the state as flowing from the entirety of its people, rather than from a subset of the population or by a divinity, it's a republic, end of. "Republic" is not a synonym of "representative democracy".

I wish I had a penny for every time I had to dispel this awful misconception in constitutional studies that only Americans seem to have.
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The question is :
Why don't they use an unnamed vehicle for testing new fuels?

In lots of ways unmanned is actually simpler than maned, as the US army knows.

Using pilots for testing new things looks to me as extremely outdated, from the old macho days.

In the old macho days you had to sacrifice people for learning things as simple as how to control the aircraft over the speed of sound.

But today it is totally unnecessary.
Yet more sheer propaganda about what the right to be forgotten actually entails.

Here's hint #1: what Google takes down under the flag "the right to be forgotten" is Google's choice, not the law. And Google wages a propaganda war against any EU privacy laws, so they'll pick the most ridiculous and damaging examples possible and claim "we have to because of the EU".

The author lazily copied Google's propaganda instead of doing her homework. Which makes the sarcastic sentence "Of course, all that balancing and fact-gathering is generally outsourced to journalists." all the more ironic.
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How do we determine whether it is 'your shit' and not someone else's? Do you have a right to erase my past if it intersects with yours? Would you have the right to erase memories from my brain if they referenced your past? Where is the line?
Hey, if someone wants to waste their money who am I to disagree if it lands in my pockets? :)
Maybe because Windows reigns as development platform for game developers and LLVM still doesn't support it properly.
Mostly, I have a bias against book burning, which is what this kind of knowledge destruction resembles.
It's the ultimate marketing & free PR hack.
> It's interesting that they're measuring AC voltage while supposedly charging a DC device, a phone.

No, it's not weird. DC would come later.
> it seems to be working pretty okay.

These things have a tendency to balloon out of control over time. I've seen class hierarchies start out very benign. Convenient and well-designed, even.

But as the codebase grows and new objects need to be modeled, it inevitably gets stretched beyond the limits of its original design, and that's where things start to crumble.

Also, the more layers of inheritance there are, the more brittle the code becomes due to tight coupling between child and parent classes. Super calls start to turn into a tangled nightmare.

Here's a different perspective on the same topic: http://berniesumption.com/software/inheritance-is-evil-and-m...
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Even stationary objects will feel pressure to move towards the lower density region, so ww520's analogy still works.
Yeah, except at least on that last point Musk is wrong (and i know saying that on HN is kinda like saying that jesus isn't the son of god in Rome). He's just repeating his own self congratulatory narrative.

Human's are biological creatures. Just like when we run, when you go for 30 seconds vs 3 minutes vs 3 hours vs 3 days, the relationship of what happens is not a simple linear one of input. We tire, we lose concentration, we actually get worse if we go all out for long periods than if we act in controlled and conscious burn with good amounts of rest and down time.

As another poster has said, what does happen is that the ones that put in the long hours, in my experience, are often the most incompetent, the magical thinkers, the ones most out of touch with how much they're doing, and the ones putting on the show. Of course, in this world, the ones that put on the show are the one's that often get the most rewards...

Musk is though, spot on with the first two points though. Things other people value. Tenacity.

Hard work, is of course needed, but baring some kind of ridiculous genetics which border on not existing, your productivity drops magnificently once you start going longer hours. That's primarily just for show...
I'm a skeptic myself here, but you do point out something interesting. Could such a technology be commercially viable if we make assumptions of where device efficiency is going?

All comments I've seen talk about charging today's iPhone. What about iPhones in 5 years time? Is it reasonable to assume that their power consumption will drop enough to make this make more sense? Anyone with lots of knowledge about power efficiency of mobile devices want to chime in?
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10-20k might not sound like much compared to $10million, but remember that was the total amount raised, so any one investment is likely around 500k. Sorry for taking your post a bit too literally, but 10-20k then represents an added cost of 2-4% (or more if your investment isn't that much).

I guess my point is that if you have 100 investments, you would maximize returns by balancing return on investment with cost of investment.

From the skeptical posts here, it sounds like that 10-20k (or whatever sum) may have been worth it in this case, but in general it probably is not.
I like the principle, but I disagree with the implementation. It shouldn't be Google or Bing removing search results, it should be the EU itself in cooperation with Google and Bing. Effectively, the EU decides whether or not a search result merits removal. Google has complained they lack the contextual facts (as pointed out in the article) to make an appropriate judgement.

I also find it odd that this is a case where governments are delegating what is effectively a judicial action to private companies. Because otherwise we are going to have complaints like Lazic's, which are going to the wrong people entirely. (I am also in full disagreement with Lazic, that everyone should be able to alter their search results.)

As an aside, as far as I understand the ruling, it is only for search results on the person's name as a query, not for unrelated searches that might turn up the same results.
until you realize that the drag created by the larger device actually costs more in energy to create the water than other sources.

im curious if this device on your bike would cause you to burn more water than what it produces
Apparently the BBC are setting up a page showing the removals. That would presumably not be indexed, but it's an interesting way to deal with it. Maybe this will become widespread if publishers keep interpreting requests as abuse.
As far as I know the circulation of DD reports is extremely limited, usually to the company paying for the report and occasionally the management of the company that was looked at.

In the case of outright BS it stays with the VC, if there are useful 'to-fix' prior to closing items then they usually get passed (sometimes edited or excerpted) to the company.

A general public disclosure is a possibility but I've never seen one, investors are not 'speaking for the company' in any way and if investors started to release such sensitive documents that would be considered a false step by the company (and probably rightly so, the information gathered during the process is company confidential and no VC in their right mind would want to suggest to future investments that they have a cavalier attitude towards such information, be it positive or negative, disclosure should be up to the officers of the company).
My main objection to the "right to be forgotten" is that censorship of non-defamatory information helps unsavory people more than nicer ones.

People may Google my name and find things I don't want them to see.[1] Fortunately, I can do the same to them. Even though most people are nice most of the time, this fact incentivizes everyone to be nicer than they otherwise would be.

If we allowed people to take down results they deemed undesirable, it would give bad people fewer reasons to behave nicely. After all, they can just make search engines remove the entries they dislike.

And there's the problem inherent in all censorship: Who do you trust to determine what you're allowed to read or say?

1. Actually they might think I've been murdered, but that was a different Geoff Greer (may he rest in peace). Should I be able to get those results removed? After all, the late Geoff Greer won't mind.
A review of a pianist is unlikely to be irrelevant and so EU search engines don't have to remove it.

All you're seeing here is someone who has a negative search result for his name who doesn't know how (or doesn't want) to use blackhat SEO to manage his search results; and a lack of services providing whitehat SEO to make more (to his mind) relevant results rank higher.

While it doesn't appear to be the case here let's not forget that it's entirely possible for a bad reviewer to write a review that is not based on any facts.

And we know that if you're searching for a person's name you use the US version of your search engine's website.
This might also be a problem:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=611948...
Are you claiming it's exclusively Google's choice? So the law just States Google must have a way for you to raise issues and it's completely up to them, no government interference whatsoever, whether to comply? And just to make sure it's totally their choice, there are no potential fines or other punishments anybody can enforce as a result of them declining such requests?
You seem to have some sort of inside knowledge none of the rest of us have? Seriously, to say that this is a poorly managed program is something you can't provide any concrete evidence of - there has been a tragedy, but you cannot say that it was poorly managed because you don't know.

In fact, you don't even know that rubber in the hybrid engine blocked the nozzle. You can't know that - you aren't part of the investigating team. And they don't even know yet.
I think maybe it should be binary. If you want to be forgotten, then sure: you don't appear in any search results, period. You don't get to pick and choose what does and doesn't appear.

If someone has published libelous statements about you, there are legal remedies for that. If they're insufficient, those laws should be improved.

Your shit does stay with you forever. As it should. Because it's truth. Crafting your own image by using legal means to remove things you don't like presents you as someone who you are not. I find the thought of doing that to be incredibly unethical.

I've certainly posted things on mailing lists (that are likely still publicly searchable) that I regret. I was younger then, and now I'm maybe, hopefully, a little wiser. I would hope that someone seeing something from me posted in the 90s (for example) would think "oh, he was a teenager then, and he's probably a very different person now". And if not... well, I tend not to care about the opinions of people who lack critical thinking skills.

On human civilization scales, the internet is barely an infant. People aren't used to having such easy access to a variety of things about other people's lives. Once we (as a society) gain more perspective on what that means, we'll be much better equipped to make rational decisions about others based on that body of data. Everyone has things that embarrass them. Only very recently was it so easy for others to find out about a lot of those things.
If there are no inherently safe options, then that tends to preclude engineering in safety. I really don't think you know what you are talking about.
Depends. What is your first and last name?

I require your address, SSN, mother's maiden name and the name of your first pet to verify your answer.

Thank you, have a great day!
The ruling also states that if the article itself is in the public interest (such as an important person being unsavoury), it cannot be removed.

Also, no, you cannot have the late Geoff Greer's article removed, because it's not you. As I understanding the ruling, you can cannot act on behalf of someone else. Particularly not one who is dead.

However, I do agree with you on the problems with implementing such a system, which is why I at least think the EU should be handling the requests and not Google. But even so, while I agree with the principle, there will always be someone abusing the system.
You don't know what the problem was.
Found a workaround for Windows Phone: In settings, go to region and change Country/Region to United States. Restart phone, go to Store, and you'll see Microsoft Health in there. After installing you can change your regional settings back to your own country and the app is still available on your phone.
The people executed by Saudi Arabia eg [1] four people executed for possession of marijuana are not accounted as drug related deaths. Singapore also kills people for drug possession. Relative to this, drugs are pretty safe.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-saudi-execution...
Why did you estimate the size of a drop as being so small?
I haven't studied GR, but I too have always had the same problem with this analogy. It is a crude analogy perhaps suitable for a 1 minute introduction.

As far as I can tell, this video gives a far better intuitive insight:

http://youtu.be/jlTVIMOix3I
Another interesting case: suppose you have a contiguous array of objects that are 48 bytes big, and your cache line is 64 bytes. Then every second object will straddle two cache lines. For random access to any one such object, padding them out to 64 bytes each will run faster on average, as it will access main memory only once and evict fewer cache lines. But you can only fit 3/4 as many objects in your cache now, so if you need to access a lot of them then your program will run slower.

So, "profile, profile, profile", but also understand factors like this that pull in different directions in different scenarios.
One problem with using ultrasound for anything is that interference between two ultrasound sources and ultrasound and 'regular' (audible) sound can be audible itself.

This is interesting technology (and not exactly new technology either), but less than practical when deployed with the same carelessness with which WiFi base stations are strung up (and extension cords are deployed).

Ultrasound may not be heard directly but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect you either. Unlike magnetism (of which we can be exposed so serious field-strengths before it starts to affect us) ultrasound, especially high power versions (you're going to have to do this at a fairly high power level if you're going to be beaming the power indiscriminately, if you want to 'focus' on a receiver then you're going to have to take all kinds of losses from less than ideal angles and distances into account which really adds up) can cause you to experience sensations even when you can't experience the soundwave itself.

Nice idea, probably won't fly but I'm rooting for them anyway and I hope Andreessen and co had this properly vetted for all of the above before they invested (I can't imagine them doing otherwise but VCs are not above making stupid investments). They indicate several times they did plenty of DD so who knows, it might just really work and have no side effects whatsoever.

Meanwhile, I'll be plugging my cellphone into its charger and call it 'good enough', once every 5 days is a minor inconvenience.
This is understandable, you don't like people to think bad things about you. But what if they don't comply and still do? What if they somehow would still remember "ah, this is the guy who 2 years ago... etc."? What if they keep records, archives, talk to each other, share their views, memories, write books, memoirs, etc.? That would be a problem. The only solution I see is to ban the concept of recording of the past, the records and the memory altogether, at least where it concerns matters that can upset somebody. If you want everybody to forget you got drunk and embarrassed yourself 2 years ago, they must do so. If they have photos, they must delete them. If they have recorded it in their journals, they must destroy them. If they talked about it - they must stop talking. If they have memories, they must forget - or at least never speak about it again. Understandable, this could be a bit of a PITA to organize and keep track of, but isn't it a worthy goal - everybody then would be able to do shit and no long-term consequences would ever follow!
glad you liked it, it was fun to figure out
This is the same argument people use for mass surveillance.
Google "classical inheritance harmful" and you'll find articles with plenty of code examples. The point of my article was not to bog the reader down in implementation details, but to communicate high-level concepts in rant-style prose. ;)

Here's a bit of code, ranting against the same problems, but coming up with different solutions:
http://berniesumption.com/software/inheritance-is-evil-and-m...

Here's a nice quote:

> I once attended a Java user group meeting where James Gosling (Java's inventor) was the featured speaker. During the memorable Q&A session, someone asked him: "If you could do Java over again, what would you change?" "I'd leave out classes," he replied. After the laughter died down, he explained that the real problem wasn't classes per se, but rather implementation inheritance (the extends relationship). Interface inheritance (the implements relationship) is preferable. You should avoid implementation inheritance whenever possible.

Link (with code samples):
http://www.javaworld.com/article/2073649/core-java/why-exten...

More ranting:
http://sebastiansylvan.com/2010/12/03/implementation-inherit...

Fairly decent list of rants, with some pointed quotes from software development luminaries:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/

As for the IGG campaign, yes, I'm selling something. I make a living writing software, and teaching other developers how to write software better.

That has nothing to do with the validity of my arguments, except to underscore the fact that there is plenty of real experience behind the words.

"The way to be a 10x engineer is to teach 5 other developers how to be 2x engineers."
`git summary` from git-extras is great.

https://github.com/tj/git-extras
> I tend not to care about the opinions of people who lack critical thinking skills.

Some of those people might be HR people, divorce judges, immigration officials, dispute arbitrators, loan authorizers, etc etc. It's hard to live off the grid when you have a family.
The invention of the PCR technique for duplicating DNA sequences is at least partially attributed to the use of LSD. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis)

Francis Crick is also known to have experimented with LSD when discovering the double helix structure of DNA.

(http://www.intuition.org/txt/crick2.htm)
I think his dark energy illustration doesn't work. Dark energy is the inflation of spacetime, not mass warping spacetime (well at least we don't know what is causing the inflation). To make the illustration work, he needs to pull the whole sheet out along the rim, making the whole sheet bigger.
Ask HN: What are the easier ways to become rich than starting a startup?
Sam Altman mentioned in his first lecture of "How to Start a Startup" that "There are much easier ways to become rich and everyone who starts a startup."

What are those ways? Consulting? Investing in property?
There's also this library by David Nolen which seems similar https://github.com/swannodette/mori . Haven't used either library; someone with more experience might want to chime in on the differences/similarities between them.
Cars, planes, etc are all much safer than before while costing less. Safety mechanisms are not somehow immune to efficiency improvements.
Not necessarily. The estate would happily sue and prove that the descendants would suffer if certain unsavory details would come out, so they must never do. Just like copyrights and such are extended way past the life of the creator, so can be other privileges. As soon as we accept the premise that you own and can control what others think and tell about you, it does not have to stop with your death, just as any other things you own do not become unowned after you die - they just become part of your estate and then can be owned by whoever inherits it.
if only there was a high quality set of 'standard' libraries for Lua. And maybe some portable multithreading.
which is why the law asks the search engines to remove stuff from an index and not to remove the original source. They are trying to do what archival did: the information is still there, but it's not nagging you constantly.
It also looks solar powered-only, so its efficiency is not better when the dew point is closer (night/morning).

Linking a small solar cell (I would say ~1W from the shown surface) to a Peltier element (known power hog, a really small one takes at least 4W) is not a solution for efficiency.
"A few years later, Crowley got a call from the U.K. Prime Minister's office. It was early 2010, and London had found out they'd be hosting the 2012 Olympics. They decided to hold it in the O2 Arena in Shoreditch, an area that happened to have a tech coworking space and the beginnings of a community. They'd just started hosting nightly events but hadn't jumped on the hashtag train, though they knew that branding was needed. The Prime Minister created a task force, and they looked around the world to see which startup scenes were catching fire. That’s when they noticed Silicon Beach."

This is a total load of utter shite.