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Another possibility - CIA just sponsors random stuff to promote confusion in enemy ranks. Then claims it was for Cold War purposes.

Adam Curtis spoke about Russian government vocally backing various organizations, some hostile and some friendly to it. That way people are never sure who to trust, because even opposition is funded by gov. One difference is that Russians broadcast who they sponsor, given their target is the public.

Makes me wonder if CIA let slip it was using art as weapon to Russians, then watch them panic.
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Which NoSQL databases do you have in mind?

No, this is really faster and easier than setting up MongoDB. Also, the performance is probably better. And your "schema" is much more flexible, since you can do wonders with JSONB in a Postgres database.
Steve Rattner's book about the auto industry bankruptcies and restructuring in 2009 (http://www.worldcat.org/title/overhaul-an-insiders-account-o...) makes one thing clear: a major win for the US manufacturers from their bankruptcies was getting out from under the onerous terms of some long-term contracts with dealers. Also, the last holdouts to getting the deal done were certain politically connected dealers.
> I wonder why it's based on Postgres 8.2 rather than a newer version?

That's what it was originally forked from.
Yes.

They've been described that way numerous times.
I can't imagine many people being willing to move to Theranos today, as long as their current job isn't totally awful. Reputation is very important in this field; heck, if I saw a resume with someone coming on board at this period, I'd be asking them some hard questions about why they did it.
Wrong link? Doesn't mention Coase anywhere and is talking about price curves?
>and because under Elon's leadership, they have making the best possible car and electrification of world transport as a terminal goal, not as instrumental to simply getting more money

Sounds like what any company leader would say, and/or Kool Aid assisted fan.

If long term profits weren't in aim, they'd could not care less about that "terminal goal".

And conversely, I wouldn't say other car companies don't have a vision and don't want to make the "best possible car" (BMW, Mercedes, ... Ferrari, etc), just have other constraints to what's best for their buyers.
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Mostly true, with caveat: it's hard to find big projects as single freelancer. Simply put, you won't be able to score a client that needs (let's say) both server side, front end, android/ios app finished in the same time. When working in (good) outsourcing shop, you work as a team.

I worked for two good outsourcing shops and both experiences were great.
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Correct. I discovered in selling cars that car buying was an incredibly emotional, often impulsive, decision for most people. Yes, some are able to handle the experience dispassionately, but most people are "on the edge" of being a "buyer" (as opposed to being a "shopper").

It is the job of the salesperson to "get them there", to nudge the customer towards making a decision to buy a car today.

More wisdom from a great manager: "Sales is the process of transferring emotion from the salesperson to the customer." If you're morose and apathetic, you can turn a buyer into a shopper. But if you are engaged and energetic, you can take even the most guarded shopper and make a sale out of it.

I saw this every time I watched Steve Jobs give a keynote.
"Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"

You can't write a balanced article on car dealerships without researching why these laws were enacted in the first place. So many people here just assume "oh, it's because of greed" - but perhaps you should spend a short time first of all investigating why these laws were created and the problems they were trying to solve.

Likewise, you can't write a convincing article about removing these laws if you don't speak of the reasons why the laws were created. You need to show why these reasons are no longer good.
This kind of network topology of the cortex appears to be also supported by research of hydrocephalus patients: http://boingboing.net/2015/07/28/man-born-with-virtually-no-...
"It works with Tesla because people trust Tesla because they are in it for making the perfect car"?

I don't think that reasoning explains the situation. Their cars aren't even that good, especially earlier production models and their several problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#Product_issues
I'm still unclear about whether the EU "eCall" system (which requires cars to SMS their location to the emergency services in the event of an accident) will also have the car attached to a cell all the time.
As far as raising money goes, liars tend to be really good at it.
Can someone point out to me what exactly it is that Theranos does?

My understanding was that this company administers innovative ultra-small volume blood testing. Now they say that only works for the HSV-1 test (that nobody wants, and by some accounts already existed), and for the rest of the 240 tests they use normal lab procedure.

What is the great innovation here? What is it that this company has been doing for 10 years? Why is it worth $10B?
I agree in theory, but the reality is that these companies made large investments under one set of legislation.

If a society flips and completely changes the economic/legislative landscape under which companies operate, it creates a very unstable business environment and discourages capex especially.

This would not be good for the long term economic health.
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Nice quote, led me to https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/.

> The quotation you’re looking for is from Chesterton’s 1929 book, The Thing, in the chapter entitled, “The Drift from Domesticity”:

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
I think one of the biggest problems with outsourcing comes from 2 groups of people.

Generally these are the most vocal proponents at first, only to become some of the most vocal opponents later. The way I would classify them, generally speaking, are: (a) business people looking to keep costs down but don't know the first thing about running a technology project, (b) those who think "outsourcing" means "I tell you the idea, and you do all the work".

Technology projects (especially custom ones) are hard, and they require a lot of due diligence and hard work from all parties involved.

I would never recommend a non-technical person / company to try outsourcing. It's a recipe for disaster. That is unless you fully trust the person / group of people who you're putting in charge of the project.

EDIT: Thought I'd add a clarification here. Never recommend outsourcing of CUSTOM projects that is. Cookie cutter solutions it's obviously a different story...

And I guess another edit would be to differentiate "scale" of a project. Large scale projects which will be "centerpieces" to a company, are the kinds of projects that I read about being outsourced which alot of times seem to turn bad.
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The following [1] is an article that explains a bit of the supposed corruption behind the franchise protection laws. It is from a very biased source (Mother Jones), but the underlying facts can be sourced from many places.

Essentially, California pioneered the idea of protecting existing franchises from being cannibalized by the manufacturer that they were dependent on. But other states have taken the idea to an extreme.

[1] http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/why-you-cant-buy-new...
Ukrainian developer here.

First of all $4k is not much - less than $20/h

The salaries here are very diverse.

Outsourcing companies tend to exaggerate skill level of their employees and one could be called a "senior developer" only after 3-4 years of experience. These "seniors" can be paid much lower salaries (say, $1500-2500 monthly) while the company can charge its client $50-100 an hour. That's where their margins are.

Your first job might led you about only $500, though, and on the opposite side of the spectrum there are people of exceptional skill that bring home $5000-7000 per month.

These sums seems higher than in Europe simply because of different tax structure. If you bring home in, say, Berlin, $3000 after tax, your employer and you still have to spend another 3-4k on pensions, insurance and taxes - about 100% premium vs 5% in Ukraine. Here we don't have any of that. Our pension will be about $200-300 and we don't have a decent quality health care or education for our families provided by the state.

Also, mortgage rates here are insane - 20%/y with 25% down payment! So most developers end up saving big parts of their salaries to afford buying property without taking loans.

Many developers here would prefer $3000 in Berlin over $5000 in Kiev because of all the value that you get from the state and the economy.

*My numbers around taxation may be off to some extend but you get the idea.
I signed up for the Firebase beta in February 2013 using a unique email address and got a phishing mail to that address in September 2013.

I reported this fact to security@firebase.com but never got a reply. I guess they preferred to sweep the theft of their customer database under the carpet.
Exactly

Most of the time, the people going for upwork have no idea of what they want, they just want 'an iPhone app'
I have launched at least 10 products with remote developers and I can assure you that it works perfectly fine. The key here is to find a good local manager that is from a country that you try to hire developers from.

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>A dealership inventory is controlled in such a way that area dealerships are forced to compete heavily with each other. In order to sell a car, you have to have a car on your lot. In order to have a car on your lot, you have to order it from Honda.

Maybe Toyota does it differently from Honda but this is the way the Toyota dealership manager explained it to me: all the dealerships are grouped into a "region" such as Houston+Dallas+Austin+etc. The new cars going to those 3 cities enter the USA at the gulf port of Houston (or Galveston? can't remember exactly). If I go to a Houston dealership "A" and I want a black Camry but they don't have any on the lot, the dealer can check the entire region's inventory. If Houston dealership "B" or Austin dealership "C" has them, those other dealerships are required to swap cars with dealer "A". That way, the customer isn't forced to go to another dealer just to get a particular car. The dealers' computer screens showing inventory all show every competitors' available inventory. It's possible the Toyota manager's explanation was bs or I left out some critical details.

To make the Toyota story compatible with your Honda story, I suppose that for a dealer to sell a car, he still needs to have inventory. To sell 50 cars, he needs to be allocated 50 by Toyota Inc. But he's doesn't have to sell particular the 50 he happened to get. The "50" is really part of a shared pool of cars.
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In France there is almost no "inventory" of new cars in car dealership. You try the model they have, but then you can configure it exactly how you want and it gets custom built for you before being shipped to the dealership.

Why can't you do that in US?
Well, then. Good to know America's intelligence agencies are doing the important stuff. Yes, promoting dribbling on paper.
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> "outsourcing" means "I tell you the idea, and you do all the work".

It is okay for anyone to think this, but in any project it is not okay for the workers to leave it uncorrected.

I do contract software projects in the US (near NYC). I get this on every project. A loose scope and a general idea, and then the go-ahead.

It is my responsibility to refine the scope. Sometimes that takes an email, sometimes a longer discussion, and sometimes it takes a small prototype for the client to play with to find out if it is right for them.

It would be incredibly dishonest to just make a project based on what I saw from the beginning. It'd be dishonest of anyone in any industry.

"This is what you asked for!!!" does not cut it.
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I too enjoyed this piece and could relate to, well, all of it apart from the hair straighteners.

I spent a year on an exchange programme at a university in Italy, and found that 1) the Brits were by far the worst drinkers (followed by the Americans), and 2) the Italians had absolutely no concept of buying a round of drinks (I think they do have the phrase "bere in giro" but I'm not sure now if this was just a literal translation of the English without any genuine cultural meaning) - and the difference this makes is striking.

While the author talks about Peak Booze being over, the drinking culture in London is still pretty appalling, and not just dominated by people in their thirties (who should, like me, be the Peak Booze generation described in the article). I do see an improvement in younger people (late teens, early twenties), I think, who seem to have much less interest in smoking and to drink a bit more in moderation than we did - but I'm not confident that those same people in five years in London won't be out drinking to excess three or four nights a week too.
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Because some people understand why the FDA shut down 23andme and approve of this decision.

Maybe if you would have linked the official statements of both organizations rather than a "reason.com" blog link with opinionated bullshitting, then your point might stand some scrutiny.

This and the fact that things have now shifted [1] because even if that doesn't fill your sensational hunger, no, the FDA is not on a crazy trip to stop personal genomics.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
We were shopping for a December birthday and Christmas, so I'd guess somewhere around $600. In my $300 number, I'm also including a copy of Lego Rock Band for Xbox 360 that Old Navy was giving out for free just by being one of the first 100 or so people in the door and making a purchase, so that inflates it a bit.

That's actually an interesting story. Old Navy was #2 on our list of stores, I think a 3 a.m. opening. The line wasn't all that bad—everybody lined up along the front of the store. Around maybe 2:50, a bunch of people started showing up, waiting just in the parking lot in front of the store. As soon as they opened the doors, these people tried to rush the store and skip the line, pushing the people who had been waiting out of the way.

You'd better believe the people who had been waiting in the cold for a few hours were not happy about this. There's thousands of Black Friday fight videos on YouTube. They aren't caused by polite people suddenly turning into assholes at the thought of cheap junk. They're caused by assholes trying to cheat a pretty orderly system.
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> 20%/y

is that interest?!

One thing that always struck me about some countries that seem to have a really low housing (rent) costs: the home prices seem to be equal that in the US!

It doesn't make any sense. I'll see homes for 100K USD, but rent only $200-300/mo? How does that work?
You're not understanding these things in their proper historical context. We have to have a state, the state has to get funded somehow. The question is how. Progressive taxation is the product of tens of thousands of years of civic development, a process that started with gangs of armed men raiding your farm taking whatever the hell they wanted.

Yes there is a connection between time and money. But they are not the same. A person can, throughout their life, learn how to trade less of their time for more money. That makes taxation far less of a burden than slavery. The two are not equatable in the slightest.

And progressive taxation does not tax innovation and growth as much as you might think it does. In the United States, it is often thought that getting "bumped into another tax bracket" has you paying a larger percentage of your income as taxes in very non-smooth way. But it is smooth, you only pay a greater percentage of money you make in excess of the 'dividing line'.

This year, the cutoff between 15% and 25% is $37,450. If you make $37,451, then you do not pay 25% of $37,451. You pay an amount somewhat less than 15% of $37,450, (to account for the lower tax brackets) plus 25% of one dollar. You keep less of your earned income, but there is never a disincentive to keep improving and growing.

Compared to alternative ways of funding the state, progressive income tax regimes have proven their worth in many countries. The US is the most economically powerful nation on Earth, so if a progressive taxation regime is bad, it must not be that bad.
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How does insurance in NL work like that? I work for myself in the US and it is a huge pain.
I agree somewhat.

One feature of Ceylon that caught my attention however is that Ceylon modules are implicitly OSGi modules. If you are building a microservices-type JVM application based on OSGi, Ceylon could make this a lot easier.
He's not a fan of two's complement, I guess.
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The Internet has countless local area networks that then connect with larger, regional networks and ultimately with the backbone of the Internet. The brain operates in a similar way

These kinds of "news releases" from universities are really annoying to read. How could the brain be set up any other way than "local network areas connected by a bigger network"?

Is that really even notable?

These types of "stories" are simply fluff PR for academic research, and (IMO) get more traction on HN than they deserve given the lack of substance.
It is in the interest of the customer to define and specify what it wants as much as possible.

In more formal environments it is normal to have a requirements specification as a point of entry for developing the SW, and the first output by the contractor should be not code, but technical documents describing how this requirements are going to be met, how they are going to be tested, the technology used...

Of course this is a process that require additional effort and time, not only on part of the contractors but from the customer as well (in terms of requirement definition and review).

What I'm saying is that there are well known processes and methodologies to deliver SW products, and it's up to the customer to define what it wants, and to what detail, and up to the contractor making sure that he has a clear idea of what he is going to get.
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Ceylon caught my eye. It's the former name of Sri Lanka as well as being the name of a cross-platform language that's currently on the homepage.
That's an interesting point. I was wondering how Apple could get anywhere with no car experience but I guess if they had fairly generic cars manufactured by some outsourced company but with a better electronics/software and a better sales and service experience that could work.
Thank you. This study has rocked a lot of people in Head Start around the nation. This could cause problems with funding in the years ahead.
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I wouldn't worry too much. Things happen incredibly quickly at scales such as this.

How many people had cell phones, much less a smart phone, 10 years ago? How quickly has Amazon grown?

Not saying they're in any way correlated, but technology growth and adoption of new stuff is fast. Super fast.
Well, at least it sounds good to taxpayers "Defeating Russians with modern art".
It's rather sparse since 2000. For example South Sudan in 2011 is missing in the list.
Perhaps not all globes show Kosovo as independent, but it's also missing Kosovo (2008).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_ind...

Wikipedia has a great list that could help in dating both other websites with this kind of information and globes. :-)

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>First, dealerships don't really make that much of a profit on new car sales. At least not Honda dealers.

This is essentially the case on all volume mainstream manufacturers. Hyundai/Kia, Toyota/Scion, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge/Chrysler all fall in this bucket in the United States. The exception to this being trucks (RAM, GMC and Chevy Silverado, Ford F-Series).

Where money is actually made on sales are in the luxury segment. However, who is really making the good money has become interesting over the years. Lexus, Acura, and Cadillac margins are fine, but the Europeans have better margins still, though there's still a chasm between everyone and the VW Group.

Rolls-Royce aside, BMW only has Mini which has been little more than break-even since its relaunch. Moreover, there are slimmer margins on the 1/2-series since they serve as conquest cars. The same goes for Mercedes-Benz with SMART, and the CLA/GLA being their (very aggressively positioned) conquest vehicles. For mainstream luxury brands, Audi has some of the highest gross margins at 10%. Yet their ultra-luxury brands -- Bentley, Lamborghini, and most importantly Porsche -- is where the real money is made (at least on a per-unit basis). I struggle to think of the last time (since their return to form 10-15 years ago) where Porsche's gross margins were under 20%. Porsche prints money.

Sorry for not taking JLR into account, as they're still restructuring. Infiniti is excluded because Ghosn has nearly killed the brand twice. As for Tesla, I've been saying for years that they were more likely to model themselves more after Porsche than Honda/Toyota, as that's where the real money is for a still growing company. When the Model X pricing was announced, that was all but confirmed.
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Then you should be willing to pay for inventory and overstock. I find that to be a waste. Then again I'm the kind of person who when the time comes can likely find a car that I will be fine with from a selection of a dozen. I'm also fine with waiting for a month or so.