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> many people buy iPhones, or bottled water in a fancy...

> a car is a car is a car, if it is on time, clean and cheap.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss branding as being inconsequential.

water may be water, but there's a fairly high expectation to achieve when it comes to user experience that's associated with branding. The minimum the general public will expect is "on time, clean, cheap".

While the HN population may have a significant size of community that looks to optimize for cost, the a large portion (maybe huge subsection?) of the population make choices based on the "premium" experience.

"What you thought I'd call an UberX for you?"
"Starbucks is way better than Dunkin Donuts"
"iPhones are so much better than Androids"
"Voss water is more refreshing."
"My Lexus is so much smoother than the Toyota"
"Target, where you pay a little more to avoid the people at Walmart."

As asinine as it sounds to us, there's a significant population of vanity that wants to be monetized for the benefits of social signaling and/or the additional desirability of a given brand.

I'd anticipate that the consumer market will be similar to the vehicles available today with the potential following major divisions in autonomous driving.

Value - 5-20+ minute wait times. it may be a little dirty, a little smelly, and sometimes will be nice and clean (nice surprise) but will focus on absolute lowest cost. (Kia, Hyundai, Suzuki level car) $200/mo for 1000mi

Premium experience - 1-15+ min wait times. generally clean & comfortable. (Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM family sedan level car) $200-500/mo for 1000mi

Luxury - 1-5+ min wait times in major suburban counties. high guarantees on wait & cleanliness. Optional personal concierge in car that helps with loading, groceries, etc (BMW, Lexus, Mercedes level car) $300-1000/mo for 1000mi

Executive - dedicated service in the equivalent of a 100k+ car (BMW 7 Series, Mercedes S Class level car) $2500+/mo for 500mi, $5000/mo for unlimited mileage.

With all that said, catering to these different markets may require quite a bit of pivoting for existing car manufacturers and of administrative burden they may not necessarily want or care to deal with. I also see car manufacturers doing something similar to drop ship online stores of today to prevent car buying power aggregating to only a handful of powerful buyers responsible for 95% of the business.
I hope so. T-Mobile is trying to provide their customers value that other carriers don't provide.
This is damn good. Surprised it's not getting attention at all. Well done, bookmarked!
This all points towards i being a market problem that the government tried to mitigate (which fits their narrative), not a problem specifically with GM being so bad it needed a bailout. If the market wasn't in the disarray from the beginnings of a recession (and IMO what might have well been a depression without intervention), then it's entirely possible that GM would have found enough investment from other sources to pull itself out of the problem (as you point out, Ford was able to do it a few years prior, and GM was able to do it with the government investment).

Investors that think the government will bail out GM again just because they have in the past are betting money in a way that they're likely to lose. The important factor of the GM bailout wasn't GM, it was how the industry as a whole was doing, and how the financial markets were acting at the time. GM would have been the first of a set of dominoes that included most if not all the auto-makers due to their shared dependencies on the parts companies that would have went out of business (which Ford testified to at the time). The important thing here is the dominoes, not GM. They just happened to be the first one in line.
I love the first line in this article: "We've long cried out for laptops with lots of RAM so that they can handle workloads as varied as hosting development virtual machines or running Chrome.."
> I could give two shits about the X1

The X1 comes with an (included) external ethernet dongle which runs at full speed. That is to say: it's not a BW-limited USB-based adapter.

I agree it's a bit silly to need a dongle, it seems to be quite a popular sacrifice (ref Macbook air) to help make laptops thinner.

As this trend increased, I suspect we will start seeing USB-C (3.x) type networking kits becoming the standard for ethernet. Maybe some day even without the RJ45 connector.
Oh yes.

I have an old Lenovo X200s and a new-ish Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro.

The trackpoint is A LOT more * accurate than the pad. And particularly so for business applications like spreadsheets, word processors etc. Also much easier when you're slumped back on a couch.

I use it for coding, but then I barely need the mouse.

* Now doing things like drawing (even just a polygon in design apps) is easier with a pad.
Well it's just more dramatic that way.
$25 an hour is paltry for this type of work, no matter the duration. The duration of one month is from the article.
I'm somewhat dismayed to find Huxley's work not mentioned at all in the article.
Thanks, gave that a try.
As much as I want to believe they do, I don't think most people care. Most Reddit threads on this are 75% "No, no! It's different because T-Mobile!" .
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10834897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830365
I'm confused.

I thought that the Beatles' story is ultimately about how clever their rights management was in the end -- supposedly they only sold the rights for records and tapes, and then when CDs became a thing they got to sell them again. Most recently and publicly they reached a deal with Apple for distribution via iTunes. Exactly what was Apple negotiating for if they had lost ownership of their catalog?

According to Snopes, they sold the publishing rights to Northern Records.

"Paul McCartney and John Lennon (and Lennon's estate, now that he's dead) have always received their 50% songwriter's share of the royalties for all Lennon-McCartney songs."

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.asp

Basically, the Beatles tried to be both the artist and the publisher (Northern Records) and after signing over their publishing rights to Northern Records, lost control of Northern Records. So they're reduced to the position of a merely very successful artist who doesn't own his/her own record company.

I also see here that rights revert to the artist after 56 years:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2394325/Sir-Pau...
You get upvoted for the negativland reference :)
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The point of Tails is not to be read-only, hence all the work they have put in to enable persistent storage. USBs can be read only, especially when using a device such as a forensic write blocker. It all depends on how much you trust the manufacturer of the hardware you are using. Even then, if you are truly paranoid you can build your own write blocker using something like USBProxy.
Imagine if you owned 10 rental properties, were a plumber, an electrician, a basketball coach or had almost any job other than something in the tech industry. You would use your truck/van/large SUV for hauling trash, wire, sports equipment, etc.

You would laugh at the idea of selling your primary transport and using an uber/lyft every day to transport all your equipment. Every time one shows up or drops off, remove and replace all your tools/gear. The wear and tear on these vehicles is greater than a small commuter.

Just because you rented a truck once to move gardening supplies makes you anomalous. Most people who want to do that kind of work/hobby own a vehicle that allows them to transport these things with ease.

We haven't even gotten into the aspect of children. Imagine remove/replace every day on a child car seat from a rental.
As a flight sim enthusiast, I am super pumped about this. Though a shame the hands-controller was delayed so I'll need to buy a third-party one (leap motion).
Yes, absolutely. I actually have a USB ThinkPad keyboard that includes a trackpoint, and use that when at a desk, in preference to any other mouse or keyboard.

With the sensitivity set well, a trackpoint can move the mouse all the way across the screen with a strong push, yet have pixel-accurate precision with a light touch. And it sits on home row, making it trivial to switch between keyboard and mouse without a major hand position change.

I only use the touchpad to scroll. Even for that, some people configure the trackpoint to scroll while holding the middle mouse button, but that configuration doesn't work for me as I rely on a functional three-button mouse (middle-click to open a link in a tab, and middle-click to paste in a terminal).
Why GM and Lyft Is About the End of Car Brands
I don't know if the X1 is a direct competitor to the XPS13. Probably more the Yoga 900.
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The trackpoint is the primary reason why I've bought ~5 Thinkpads over the last 15 years.
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I don't care for all those big cables coming out at the sides... especially the right side where my mouse hand will be. Wish manufactures wouldn't do that so often.
You're absolutely right. I always forget this one.
Get ready for 'concierge' media
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How does public key crypto let me use multiple website, similar to github's, so that I can create a PR, and update/edit notes/comments on issues? It's a demonstrably broken experience in the browser.

Having one key to rule them all, so to speak is far easier than having to sign into every project's own issue tracker. I understand the risks (ie: sourceforge), but have some level of trust in GH's founders.
Local monopolies are the norm in industries where massive capital investment is required (electricity, cable). Uber is not this type of business. Uber is more like a marketplace (like Amazon or Ebay)... while network effects are strong there is no reason to think that local monopolies are inevitable.

Also, if you catch an Uber in SF or Seattle, the driver is likely to be running Lyft and Uber. Sure, Uber can try to give drivers disincentives to use multiple apps. But good luck doing that AND staying out of anti-trust investigations AND convincing everybody that their drivers are still contractors not employees.
I'm not very acquainted with other YC companies. But I know of hundreds of others that have gone this route for many technologies ranging from energy production to cybersecurity to sensor devices to materials science to software applications in AI and other areas, you name it.
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Given that they don't come in 4K resolution (I have a Yoga Pro 2) it should be quite a bit more usable.

But I agree, it's been hit or miss for me as well.
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> Thinkpads are hit-or-miss when it comes to Linux support

Historically, ThinkPad devices seem to me to provide the most reliable Linux support. What issues have you encountered there?

(Note that buying a brand-new laptop with a brand-new chipset can potentially require getting updated drivers, such as for graphics or networking, but that necessarily happens no matter what brand you pick.)
AVM FritzBox and other router models allow creating a "guest" WLAN network. This only has access to the Internet but cannot do stuff as UPnP port forwarding.

Pretty nice if you don't want everyone and their dog to search your home server for private stuff.
Will we have the inevitable Twitter moment when Slack closes things up, and it becomes a crisis of unfairness for companies that built upon another?
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People like you don't get it anymore.

It's not about the hot new gadget anymore.

And VR is like 3D to the average consumer.

Your rant prooves my point. You have to type all those words to explain one thing. Why you are confused no one gives a shit about VR.

Personally it makes me sick.
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thanks (to anyone else, the comment ordering is messed up in this thread, each of USNetizen's replies is to the sibling comment below it.)
To the point where I won't use any other laptop but a Thinkpad and where I also own two Thinkpad USB Keyboards.

I'd have a Mac long time ago if they would offer a Trackpoint.
I can see why companies want to do this sort of thing, since it gives them a decent look at how people really do their job, but it almost entirely rules out people with a life outside of work. I'm already working a more than full time job, and Saturdays are entirely spent looking after our son so that my wife can get some work done.

That leaves one full day off, and a few hours each evening, by which I've likely been up since 5am, done a full day's work, got our son off to bed, and cooked a meal. Even if I thought I was likely to produce anything worth submitting, there's no way I want to give up the few hours of time my wife and I get together as a couple for the sake of a glorified job interview.

I guess I could take some time off work and treat it as my day job for a week, but then I've given up a decent chunk of my leave allowance in return for a job interview, and the addition of some tax paperwork to my life because I've been doing freelance work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830533
Yes, Edison who also invented the lightbulb, phonograph, motion pictures, carbon microphone, fuel cell, stock ticker, and alkaline battery.
This an 4k/5k resolutions.
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> If you are running Windows it makes a huge difference to have an SSD

SSDs make a huge difference on pretty much any system which can't live solely in RAM, no matter the OS.
>(Note: people already do this in cities like New York, where car ownership is relatively scarce.)

Car ownership is 45% in NYC. Not sure why this is considered "scarce" :)
This is awesome! I've been waiting for Aphyr to publish his analysis of RethinkDB as this is a project I carried out in a recent distributed systems class that I took. Although our analysis[0] is not as comprehensive (or correct?) as Aphyr's we still managed to learn quite a lot.

If you are looking at using Jepsen to do your own analysis, I have a few takeaways that might be worth sharing -

- Have a passable knowledge of Clojure

- Get a beefy workstation. We used a 160 gig EC2 instance[1] and still couldn't get Knossos (the linearizability checker) to complete for longer runs.

- Use the Docker-in-Docker setup[2] to minimize the frustration

- Pick an existing system closest to the system you want to analyze and see Aphyr's version of the tests for guidance and overall flow. The code is well commented and you should be able to follow through.

All in all, our major takeaway was that Jepsen is a wonderful (albeit complex) piece of software that takes time to get up and running. Once you are past that though, it stands as a very complete testing tool in itself.

Sincere thanks to Aphyr for open-sourcing it and helping us with our project!

[0] - https://github.com/prakhar1989/ADS

[1] - https://twitter.com/prakharsriv9/status/675049396636110848

[2] - https://hub.docker.com/r/tjake/jepsen/
The only problem is you'll be switching to someone like AT&T, who happily MitM your connections to insert extra ad-tracking cookies and the like.
The next 5-10 years is the time to stock up on popular sports cars and garage them to sell them as highly prized, super rare, trackable luxuries.
Hi everyone! Here's more info on my new book, Hustle:

My first book was a #1 bestseller. It took me a year to write it. Hustle is different. It was written, produced, and published in just seven days. The ridiculously short production schedule was meant to prove a point: focus + momentum = mindbending productivity.

Don’t be fooled, though. The biggest opportunities in life don’t come from sprinting. They emerge over time through constant motion.

The goal of this book is to engage with every hustler — all the people fighting for a purposeful life — and motivate them to keep going. Hustle takes you through my sprint of writing a book in seven days. But my message isn’t just to “go fast.” Hustling means many things. The core element, I argue, is constant motion. While I wrote the book quickly, I still poured every ounce of my heart and soul into it.

The book is already doing well. It currently ranks #1 in the Personal Success category, and #868 overall on Amazon (among all free books).

Hope you enjoy it. If you want to spread the word, feel free to post the link wherever you like. J
Kudos on hitting the ethos behind product first engineers who build w/ code for the love of creating things rather than just the code. Code is the tool you wield to build great things, not the only source of beauty.
Fun fact: Japonium[0] is a suggested name for Element 113. If accepted, the letter J will finally appear on the periodic table.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununtrium#Naming
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This is not mine, I just found it.

Relevant comics:
http://xkcd.com/1004/
http://xkcd.com/1031/
http://xkcd.com/1288/
http://xkcd.com/1418/
http://xkcd.com/1625/
What in "Brave New World" was prescient, really? Maybe I'm an epsilon double minus on too much soma, but I'm not seeing a world government using genetic engineering to stratify society.
I sometimes feel like part of the problem is that we look at this too black and white, for example we never say to avoid death we should eat less sugar which is true but the more immediate thing that should come to mind should be less critical things like bad teeth or getting fat, which are in their own right very important. I think by constantly just saying we're at risk of burnout makes the problem appear easy to fix, namely just avoid burnout (take a vacation, etc., in the case of excess sugar just don't die, that's what I think a lot of donut lovers are thinking) whereas if the problem was many-fold then it'd be hard to trivialize it and therefore being on call just two days a week not being a big deal all of a sudden becomes a big deal.
Author is confusing Mathematics with some subjective representations like using decimal vs another number base or the arbitrary 360 degrees in a circle, that by the way is not western, it comes from Egypt or some Middle-East culture, can't remember now (and we also use the non-arbitrary 2*pi angle), Math won't change by changing such representations. We have International System units and Imperial measurement units and science is the same regardless of what units you use.

Other ideas of "space time" or whatever of some cultures, well, they need to be formalized and expressed properly so see if they have any real value beyond the verbal idea, that's how math and science works.
> Barring massive public subsidy for car ownership

Not to be trite, but one should never underestimate the impact of lobbying from massive established corporations.
Ubuntu 15.04+ supports all the hardware on my Thinkpad T450s out of the box.

In contrast, with a fresh install of Windows 8.1 on this machine, networking (wired and wireless) doesn't work immediately. Downloading the Lenovo drivers fixes things, though that's a bit difficult without networking...
Because that industry employed two million people and a blow that large to the workforce with the economy how it was might have resulted in consequences that reached far beyond that industry.

Put another way, a free market will result in the best solution. Eventually. There's no reason we can't target what might end up being cascading failures to reduce the negative swings in the economy. I would hazard that this will result in a better economic outcome quicker, but even if it doesn't, I think it at least results in less human suffering, which is a fair trade in my eyes.
Great string of comments, interesting that Friedman supports basic income. If anyone wants to read my comment far down below and answer any points you disagree with that'd be super welcome! (it starts with "With this comment I'm answering both PG's post and an answer to his post that can be read here: http://cryoshon.co/2016/01/02/a-response-to-paul-grahams-art...)
I'm a bit skeptical, maybe because I see the potential for some cool short-term stuff, but not so much long-term stuff. I can see how I would be entertained by this concept for awhile, maybe years even, but I'm not sure it would replace a simple big screen TV in the long run.

Others are free to disagree with me here, but I've seen 2 technological concepts in entertainment/immersion that became huge in the last decade and slowly died off as people became tired of the gimmick: motion-sensors and 3D. You have a lot of people very entertained by stuff like the Wii or watching Avatar in 3D, but over time I've noticed people don't really care anymore.

VR has the same challenge as those past technologies: how do you create something truly unique with this concept? Is this like the dawn of the television, or is it just another way of watching television?
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I have a neat idea: someone should implement a VPN-over-"video", so that all traffic (or at least server to phone) is not counted against data caps.
IIRC OSX had it at some point.
Looked into it some time ago and I think there was something about having the no-webcam, beefed-up-wifi-antenna option that made it difficult.
I can't speak to the others but my mind will often continue chewing on problems when I'm outside of work, like if I'm driving home, over dinner, etc.

There's also a nagging bit that says "the wife and kids are asleep, there's nothing stopping you from sending those emails/working on the fixes you were looking at earlier". Then one email becomes four, a feature is completed/tested/checked in, and it's midnight.

It's not that my employer feels entitled to free labor, it's that my brain can't stop thinking about work. My job has somehow become my hobby.
Top three reasons why people in my company had to be upgraded from 4 to 16 GiB RAM:

• Running multiple VMs to debug IE 8-10

• Chrome
I know the cause. I'm just stating that Netflix isn't a viable "cord cutter" option until they work something out.

I'm got too much to lose to be messing around with torrents. I just want to pay something and get the content I want. For now, that's cable TV, not Netflix.
Curious to see Use of Weapons in there. While it is a fantastic story, it never struck me as particularly prescient, even compared to some of the other books in the Culture series.
Relative to other areas, it seems scarce to me.
Buffalo is the nickname for the American bison. Are you talking about milk from African buffalo which are different from bison?
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It might be interesting to take a look at PostgREST: a similar idea, though only for PostgreSQL. http://postgrest.com/
Meaning I was guessing that Hungary was the country turning away from democracy that you were referring to.
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I think Dave Temkin mentioned this at a NANOG or two. Or maybe it was at the bar. I'm not sure. I could be completely wrong. That's why I typed "think"
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