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> I wish startups could tackle actually making affordable home ownership a reality.

You're looking at one of the oldest, most capital-intensive markets in existence. It's practically the polar opposite of technology. Not a whole lot startups can really do.

> Specifically, I'm wondering why there are no cheap modular houses (like in movie ex machina). Houses that are mass produced, cheap and relatively easy to ship and assemble but configurable.

Well, that's easy to answer. In most real estate transactions, the cost of the underlying land is going to be the dominant factor, the house is just a value-add, the equivalent of buying a soda with your meal.

Modular houses themselves are at a disadvantage because it's not the cheapest way to put homes on land. Modern stick-framed houses are so cheap to put up these days that once you factor in the R&D, transportation and specialized installation costs, factory-built modular homes are at a severe disadvantage. Construction workers are literally everywhere, the labor is so cheap that it's practically a non-factor.

Also, it's easy to over-build. If developers create a glut, nobody's going to make money for a long time. Prices don't really come down during a glut because the developer would rather let the house sit than sell at a loss. So you get a lot of empty housing stock sitting around.
Absolutely. I wonder why you were downvoted for saying such.
But that sort of approach is effectively permission for an equally-well-funded unethical company that wants to disrupt an industry full of ethical business practices.

That's one of the biggest reasons that laws have publicly disclosed punishments associated with breaking them: they dissuade other people from breaking the law. If the penalty is low, and not because the people of California said that Uber should not be penalized (which presumably they can easily do), that communicates to everyone else who might want to break similar laws that the penalty will be equally low for them.
Extensive discussion a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803680
Github's life blood is not just the enterprise side, but its free offering, the community and the huge network effect it has over the open source community.

No one is sticking with Github because it has particularly good UI or functionality. Github raw functionality is completely undifferentiable from its competitors such as gitlab and bitbucket. People stay on github because of the number of developers who uses it, star counts, fork counts and reputation system it has built over time.
> Global thermonuclear war (Alas Babylon, Mad Max, Fallout),

Pretty poor choice of references here. In terms of movies, "The Day After" is the most viewed movie of all time, and certainly one of the best references for the impact of Global Thermonuclear war and what happens next on an individual level if you even make it. Mad Max is a fiction as best that has about nothing to do with thermonuclear war (it just serves as a background to start the story, but you can't see any of its consequences).

A little shocked the author did not mention it at all.
Valve, a company that also practices a system similar to holacracy, mentions that it's not the right fit for some (most?) people. But that style, is the right fit for Valve.
Let's hope that those cameras were supposed to be fake, rather than invoiced and paid for as real cameras but fake ones installed.
For the audience of Hacker News? Maybe. "Less crazy folk" encompasses a much wider group, though, I'd wager.
"I was awarded $470 for the spam, $50 for the
filing fee, and $5000 in legal fees"

This might be a scalable practice....if you're a lawyer.
> Still, all is not yet lost. Despite everything that has happened, in the past few weeks more members of the community have started picking things up from where I am putting them down. Where making an alternative to Core was once seen as renegade, there are now two more forks vying for attention (Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin Unlimited). So far they’ve hit the same problems as XT but it’s possible a fresh set of faces could find a way to make progress.
So this is a political problem -- here's my prediction of what will happen (given that we live in the real, political, world).

A political entity -- not necessary a sovereign government, but perhaps a bank or financial institution -- will offer a currency swap to existing blockchain holders to adopt their crypto currency. The inducement will be a limited time window to put in your claim, with all unclaimed but mined numbers going to the financial entity to reward their followers or stakeholders.

In the real world, this is called escheat and it is a power of the crown. Bitcoin is essentially a system for recording deeds to digital land. They aren't making more numbers, so the problem is the political resolution of competing claims to the same resource. This sort of claim comes, in the end, to a network consensus of who is the sovereign.
Not sure if this is true for all vidoes, but I have watched several shows on Amazon using Chromium, and I don't have Flash installed.
Who is responsible for making hiring decisions?

Who is responsible for removing engineers that aren't pulling their weight?
It's a large alien spacecraft. There was [a movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120902/) about it a while ago.

Does this site not use Markdown?
My primary use case would be searching projects and filtering out deprecated ones.
What other approach do expect from a place/culture like that.
There's a very active subreddit[0] that discusses a lot of stuff like this. Worth checking out if you've considered having a server in your home.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/homelab
mumble mumble chapter 3 mumble.

but, yes. valve does make some pretty cool stuff.
Yeah. We use GitHub private repos here at work, and honestly a lot of the requests in "Dear Github" apply for us, too.
Seems like this open letter is exactly the kind of thing a community manager should have gotten on tho.
The author probably bought all of those hard drives at once, from the same vendor. They're very likely in the same batch.

What if something goes bad with a drive? Well, ZFS to the rescue. Maybe even two.

What if the whole batch was bad?

I've built my NAS with not quite as much storage but more drives using drives from different vendors and different batches from different manufacturers.
New startup idea: acquire copyright to stack exchange solutions (there must be at least some authors willing to sell out), sue companies, patent troll style.
If either of its competitors were even a little better I would switch.
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Electric cars trade pump prices for grid prices. In the long run, that should make sense whether there's an oil glut or not, since oil should affect prices in both columns.[0]

Hybrids trade pump prices for cost of additional (non-oil-based) components. That's going to be a better trade when pump prices are high. It's more contingent.

So... low oil prices could mean we should see more electrics, but fewer hybrids.

[0] Should, hasn't yet, I don't know why. So far lower oil costs are reflected in transportation fuel, but not in household electricity costs.[1]
Maybe because the grid just takes a really long time to shift its energy portfolio? Maybe I'm just completely wrong...

[1] http://www.eia.gov/pressroom/presentations/sieminski_0226201... : slide 11.

[2] Yes, embedded footnotes. And unreferenced footnotes. Madness.
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Need something like npm. Open semantic modules and you vote on modules with your feet. Use something like web assembly (which is actually an abstract syntax tree format) and you get support for many programming languages and architectures.
This is pretty exciting news -- Sierra Nevada's "Dream Chaser" cargo version lands on a runway, and may lead to a future human-carrying version. Until now it looked like Sierra Nevada had no customers.

Orbital and SpaceX are incumbents for the previous contract.
What an incredibly passive aggressive, rude, thinly veiled 'fuck you' of a blog post. Does this guy actually work for GitHub?

I am sufficiently offended by the tenor of this post to consider taking my private repos off GitHub and move them to BitBucket. And, given that my employer already uses JIRA for issue tracking, I'll probably suggest we consider moving our organization's repos over to BitBucket while we're at it, too.

Edit: Julian doesn't work for GitHub. He works for Chef: https://github.com/juliandunn, and his blog post is incredibly poorly worded. Fwiw, if this is what Chef's product people are like, I will never consider working there.
I don't entirely agree. As someone who works in a mid-to-large company, and who has worked in a 50,000 person company (admittedly for both companies not all employees were engineers), I feel it's worth noting that as companies get larger and teams more diverse, they tend to require the exact features open source projects need.

A product manager in team X who noticed a bug in product Y is not going to know what fields are necessary for that product, and as issues make their way to company-wide mailing-lists (or are linked from internal meme websites -- you know who you are), they may accumulate +1-spam if no voting system is put in place. As such, I believe GitHub's ability to move upmarket and satisfy its larger customers is actually aligned with implementing the features requested in the "Dear Github" letter.
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Truthfully, lot of people just don't know how to use Bitbucket and aren't really aware of Gitlab.

It isn't even entirely about Github being better in social terms, it's just that people aren't strongly aware of their alternatives.
LVM does snapshots & checksums. dedupe and compression require huge amounts of memory and cause problems with databases. I've used ZFS before, and I switched back.
Opt-in but yes
Several deaths within a couple of blocks:

http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index....
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"Cancer" isn't a single disease or problem domain, but what could be categorized as a syndrome that shares some basic commonalities.

The governmental "War on Cancer" began under Nixon and was pitched as a "moonshot" type of program, which promptly ran aground on the realities of cancers.

If only there were some sort of documentation for this kind of effort... perhaps they could call it "The Emperor of All Maladies" or something.
I bet a lot of those people who left did the following:

1. Take the payout

2. Take a few weeks vacation

3. Get a new job (when you switch jobs you usually get a raise).
Ethereum is one prominent example of this: we'll swap currency on your blockchain for currency on our blockchain, ours will totally be worth more due to enhanced features.

They aren't making more numbers

"We can conveniently restrict the supply of numbers" is one of the fundamental failures of the imagination among Bitcoin enthusiasts. "There's only 21 million. Trust us. We counted." "But couldn't I make a new 21 million with a one character code change?" "Well yeah but they'd be so much less cool than our 21 million and you'd have to convince people to use them." "But wouldn't I be able to use the Satoshi adoption strategy -- give them away for cheap to bootstrap a distributed boiler room then gradually make them more expensive, enriching early participants in the scheme at the expense of later participants?" "But that's crazy, it will never work. Nobody wants worthless currency units tied to a transaction network that provides absolutely no value. They want spendable money." "Of course people want worthless currency units tied to a transaction network that provides absolutely no value, if they have the expectation that they will not be the last people to want those currency units. That describes why you invested in Bitcoin!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890792
Similar to what sister posts say; I have a reasonably large home fileserver (one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3K293... with dual xeon 5606's and 12 non-green 7500 RPM disks) and don't find it makes me surprised in terms of consumption.

Power bill for the apartment typically runs me ~80-100$ a month, (I'm mildly embarrassed that this is the metric I gauge my server by as opposed to true avg. wattage) not insane, higher than I might like though. I'll likely shrink to whatever the latest gen of that neat Intel mini-itx server board they recently released is, when the big build starts to go, but I'm not sure how much that will end up helping.
I think most Americans pay between $0.20 and $0.40 per kWh.

I am lucky though that here it is only $0.06. But in summer months it goes to $0.14 for every kWh over 600. Staying under 1000 kwh's a month is hard to do.
I'll give you the best advice you're ever gonna get, but you'll ignore it.

You can't "last for 3-4y without working". You are massively undervaluing those savings. You look at that money and assume it will be easy for you to get back to that financial position if you burn it on a startup.

You are at the age where you need to start thinking about a wife and family. To do that you need a house and a job. Spend your savings on buying a house.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do a startup - maybe you should - but you should absoutely not do it but burning through your savings even for six months.

If you are a programmer then you do not need VC money, a team or a cofounder. Just write the damn code. If you lack time then reduce your hours or get a job that gives you the time outside hours.

Now you may thank me.
For example, any web developer on here could implement 'delete an issue' in a few days, with unit tests. It's not rocket science.
Well there in lies the beauty of Valve. From my outside observation, no one is making a HL3 / HL2 Ep3, because that project can't get critical mass to build (although there is a part of me that wonders if they'll pull it out for the SteamVR launch).

It's an interesting method to build entertainment software--build something you're passionate about and can get others passionate about it, rather than taking money from a publisher to build something that has someone made a business case for.

That philosophy doesn't work unless you have deep pockets, which Valve does.
Yes, I agree, mirroring will help when a disk goes back, but it won't help if you accidentally delete data. This is the one that people tend to forget a lot, which is ironically the original reason for having backups.
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Agreed. You should never, ever publicly confront a set of publicly notable and popular customers to tell them what they are asking for is wrong because the company you are trying to defend doesn't need to do those things for their paying customers.

I love GitHub and use it everyday. But I have a feeling this post with result in a talk with the "product guy" to tell him how this attempt at "putting customers in their place" backfired, even if he doesn't work for GitHub.

What a PR disaster.
No mention of Bitcoin?

Oh right, the experiment failed.

Too bad, too bad.
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The SIM in 3G isn't really much like a DRM thingy, apart from containing a key; it's more like a securid keyfob. The only interesting thing it does (apart from storing constants like its serial number and variables like your phone book and text messages) is to generate authentication responses (to prove to the network that you have it) and derive session keys (so your phone can encrypt and authenticate what it sends over the air).

All the interfaces to this are open: the wire protocol to the SIM and the over-the-air protocols for authentication and security (what a phone needs to do) are specified completely by freely available 3GPP/ETSI specs.

The details of how the SIM computes the derived keys and authentication response are a black box. 3GPP suggests a couple of sample algorithm sets, but there's no way to know whether the card did that unless you have the secret key (shared between the card and a box deep inside the carrier's network).

However, the phone just passes the authentication-request parameters in an authenticate command to the card, passes the result of that in an authentication-response message back to the network, and obtains integrity and ciphering keys (for GSM) from a couple of files on the card (UMTS/LTE use some keys derived from these, but again, it's documented).

An alternative, used in some older US specs like late AMPS, CDMA, and (EIA-136) TDMA is to store the secrets in the phone, generally at manufacturing time. This means that there's no real boundary between the carrier's authentication widget and "your" phone.

Much better to have the identity contained in a SIM that belongs to the carrier, that your phone talks to at arm's length.

Java seems to be for applications other than plain (U)SIM like prepaid account management. The card can ask the phone to add a menu to its interface, show messages, collect inputs, and other things. Maybe all plain USIM apps are written in java these days instead of having a masked ROM like they probably used to.
And I'd add that not everyone reading Hacker News is working at a startup either. There's a bunch of folks from large, stable companies checking HN as well.
> It is not surprising that like the production of electronics, clothing, toys, etc. the lowest cost center is in China.

The lowest cost center for mining bitcoin is absolutely not China. The reason mining power is currently centered in China is because producing the latest-generation ASICs is cheapest and quickest in China and for various reasons the companies involved prefer to just bring them online in China quickly.

Soon ASICs will stabilize on the most modern production processes and commoditize and Bitcoin mining will shift to where the marginal cost of mining is low -- Iceland or other cold countries with extraordinarily cheap energy.
Some other company can start up to handle them, or they can move to competitors.
What exactly do you mean by "legal" if not "conforms to the App Store rules"?
You can restrict the supply within a single system, and value follows the network effect due to fear and greed.

https://coinmarketcap.com/ lists 650 alternate value storages which take up 650 million dollars. Bitcoin alone takes six billion.
I guess it depends who is logging issues. If I'm experiencing some bug that I need fixed and motivated enough to log an issue at all, I'm probably motivated enough to fill out a few more fields.
It's probably rewriting Zoppos retail app in Amazon's retail platform. That's like a redesign, re-architect, and rewrite of the whole app, plus the whole backend pipeline. That's a huge task. Also retail is driven by huge amount of data: product category, inventory, pricing, customer info, experiment data, marketing, ad, clicks, billing, etc. Migrating those data without interruption with live operation is like changing engine in mid flight.
Same. We currently use Gogs as a local mirror for our Github repos here at work, too. Brilliantly done app, Gogs.
The powers that be are the CPUs. If XT had reached its goal of 75% mining votes by versioning blocks, today it'd be what you call the "protocol".
Compare to Pocket C.H.I.P.[1], which has a screen but only a 5 hour battery.

1: http://nextthing.co/pages/pocketchip
You know the author of the article wasn't a product person from Github right? They work at Chef.
Julian Dunn does not work for Github.
After adding in config, Do we need to rota/generate ssh keys also ?
That's the thing.. government never chooses A instead of B, they choose to do A, B, and then C just for good measure.

This isn't going to take money from other wasteful or bad areas. It's just going to be more debt.
I used to build my own stuff, but now I buy Synology. It's really convenient, has great UI and support, a bunch of different packages you can install, etc.

Although I ran into a problem a couple of months after setting it up where the NAS became so slow, it was unusable. I saw that my IOWait was 100%, so I figured it was a disk, but nothing indicated a problem. Eventually I was able to get to a log that showed that one of the drives had some weird error messages, so I bought a new drive from Amazon that came the next day, pulled the drive, and replaced it and instantly everything was okay again.

I would have expected something on Synology's status programs to show a problem, but they were all green, so that was annoying.
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The X-Files movie was probably referencing "The Thing From Another World[0]," a 1951 movie based on the novella "Who Goes There?[1]" by John W. Campbell, which was remade[2] by John Carpenter in 1982.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

[1]http://nzr.mvnu.edu/faculty/trearick/english/rearick/reading...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%281982_film%29
Even if you don't have anything against Github relating to the Horvath incident, there are other things like Github shutting down people's projects because they wrote a doc containing the word "retard." In other words, now they are in the business of regulating the content of open source projects (beyond obvious precautions like not hosting stolen credit card databases, child porn, etc.)

They seem to think they're too big to fail.
Not Phillips hue related at all; it's like you have no idea how Philips hue works. It's a diy wifi bulb plain and simple.
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At my current job, we've been trying to fill a couple of positions for about 6 months. We're trying to get mid/senior level people. We've interviewed a few entry level types, but only a couple of suitable candidates. We have one coming on board next week. So 6 months to find a candidate isn't too bad really. It definitely feels like the people with jobs aren't looking.

Also, I've been interviewing around since December, and every company I've talked to, and several previous companies I've worked at, are all trying to hire mid to senior developers (java mostly, a former manager is trying to fill several .net positions). I"m getting hit up constantly on linkedin by recruiters. Through contacts, I've heard of no less 150 java/.net positions coming up, and this is a medium sized mid western city.

So, is anyone else seeing this? This is a demand for developers I've never seen before. And salaries are going up accordingly. I do know that some of these companies aren't competitive on pay. One offer I got recently, I was told they had to get sign off on my proposed salary from a senior exec and still low balled it. Just seems like a weird time in the job market.
After edit config file , Do we need to rotated/genrate ssh keys also?
Agreed. He works for Chef.io though, so those who are concerned about his response should consider what relies on Chef, not GitHub. There are many open source CI platforms available so it shouldn't be difficult.

Even if he did work for GH, they haven't published an initial response, so your actions would be spontaneous.
Wasn't this always the case? The higher miner tip would get picked up.
When I post code samples on Stack Overflow I want them to be freely useable, under the MIT license. However I don't want nor require attribution. In other words, I am perfectly fine with someone using my code on SO for any purpose what so ever.

This attribution required nonsense is annoying. I freely share my knowledge, anyone can use it, I would expect the same from everyone else that posts their code.
A better, cheaper option is to build your own: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
Shortcut to the answer of the question you are really asking (i.e., why bother to make another external DSL to write web applications?):

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