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Just trying to correct a problem. The level of discussion will never rise if people don't make more of an effort. Placing the words "friendly reminder" doesn't change the fact it was a stupid comment. As a friendly reminder, try not to restate the obvious and help raise the level beyond noise. Most threads read on this site add little value and nothing is to be learned from them. Can't we do better?
And don't forget the 'cost of money'. Take the purchase price, $35k, minus an old car, say $5k, and you have $30k making money for you over the 20 years. Conservatively, even in a bank in some countries, the return from $30k in the bank is going to pay for your gas then you'll still have the principle left over at the end.
I don't know about the rest of the US, but I grew up in a state where the school districts are funded by local property tax. As you can probably guess, this has the effect of making schools in poor areas overcrowded and underfunded, while schools in affluent areas spend millions on indoor pools and turf football fields.
Why do you think so? Do we all continue to deal with this inefficiencies and cause ourselves untold heartaches?
> That's why I don't like this sentence. Every time the topic of ads come up here or on reddit, people always say "I'd pay for high quality content". And it gets upvoted, dozens of children comments of people agreeing with them, and everyone pats themselves on the back for such an easy and obvious solution.

I'm willing to pay for high-quality content, it's just that whenever a "pay" option is offered, it's usually overpriced. The standard Netflix subscription costs ~$10/month; the online subscription to Wired costs $4/month. Is accessing a single random website (Wired) worth 40% of Netflix to me? No, not really. Am I going to spend hundreds of dollars a month to individually subscribe to every website I use? No, I'm not doing that either.

Add to that that I'm extremely wary of subscriptions for obvious reasons.

I'd gladly pay for content if I could subscribe to most websites I use with a single service at reasonable prices (or better yet, buy credits/access-triggered weekly passes for them).
Your argument falls apart when you consider HN is explicitly a place to advertise either ideas or products. And you can show your disdain via the downvote button or you can offer criticism in the form of comments. This is a platform for advertising, whether there's money to be gained or not.
Great write-up, Jacques. Bookmarked it. :) Nice reference to Interface CEO, too. I like what he did. His presentation style is so good I can never tell if he genuinely cares or just wants us to think so. Just has that kind of smooth delivery. Could've been a politician if he wanted.

Back to your article. You seemed to cover unethical dealings with a warning not to do them. Then, comments here contradicted that where you chose to scheme for survival of business. This brings me to a topic you didn't cover much: competition, esp pricing or service, in many industries can force a CEO to use unethical practices of competitors to achieve parity. For instance, selling cheap clothing to people will almost inevitably end with manufacturing done in low-labor countries if not sweatshops. Likewise, in INFOSEC, one can't build a secure system using certain popular components but demand side forces their inclusion in "secure" or "security" products. Invalidates the whole claim but you fail otherwise.

So, it seems that unethical behavior might be a prerequisite to success in established industries where the inputs or certain value-adds specifically rely on unethical behavior to exist. I would suggest people avoid those industries as a result but many are critical. It might be more ethical to compete with a differentiator, a bit more honesty, and better working/environmental conditions even if still kind of horrific. One is still exploiting and doing damage within the operating constraints but reducing overall damage.

So, what's your thoughts on this part of ethical CEO activity?
> can't the kids get protection under cruel and unusual punishment?

It's possible to be declared a refugee if you can prove you'll be persecuted in your home country for any number of reasons (gender, religion, ethnic group, etc.). I have no idea how difficult it is to do that.
To didn't enable a setting in Chrome, yet this still works for me, and has for a while.
I'm sure it will. $23 for a few years is Ok though... it only takes 30 mins to swap it out.
Vertical integration limits options and competetion.

This is excellent for Tesla, but awful for the consumer.
The whole of the youth depend on the whole of the elderly, and vice versa. That's society. If we only rely on our parents and our offspring, than that's a tribal system, there's no society.
I'll have that one too, sir. You're a regular here with insightful comments. So, let's see what you dealt with and learned from it. Well, I just read the "learned from it" part. The origin then. :)
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Now that we have a marketing team we do have someone on that team who helps polish posts but that's a pretty new thing. In the past posts were polished by the likes of me or eastdakota. But that's assuming that they need polishing; one thing we look for in hiring is ability to explain.
Atri (http://www.atri.me) does just this, but bypasses the sites and uses the Twitter Handles on the page as the creator of record.
Car was ordered with about 380HP, but delivered with a software update to unlock 428HP (Metric).
At least here you are aware of what is going on, you're tracked for a reason and you have the possibility to stop it anytime.

The Internet as a whole is scary. Everyone tracks you. You are also tracked and profiled behind your ad-blocker. So no big[ger] deal...
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It's remarkable that you had to preface your argument with "Just playing the devil's advocate here". It appears that the fear of AI taking life and death decisions is so great that merely making an argument in favor of it is seen as immoral. Doubly fascinating is the fact that this attitude has taken roots on HN of all places.
Are typeclasses possible on the JVM? I'm a .NET person, and I've always heard that typclasses aren't possible on the .NET CLR, so I wonder what's different about the JVM that makes this possible?
I'm sure the "immigration law" in question was either simple evidence standards ("there's a difference between things you saw, and things somebody told you about"), or rules about what qualifies for refugee status.

The thing is, if the court does appoint an attorney, the attorney will need to explain these same concepts to the child as part of preparing a defense.
He's advocating a combination of ethics, following the law, playing it kind of safe, following financial obligations, and giving a shit about human beings. What made you think American on the first guess? You have a lot to learn about business practices in an imperialist, capitalist country. Do more research.

Note: To be clear, I'm an American saying this from vantage of all the evil shit I see in my business news on daily basis. The above points would make me guess European or Nordic before American. "jacques" would make me guess French or French/Canadian.
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easy power, low pollution?
Should probably have named it yeepsum...
The ability to potentially break your car has never stopped any other car in history from having an accessible engine compartment.

This is basically in tandem with the John Deere story - the consequences of proprietary software bleed into the physical world and cause an incredible amount of difficulty for people who do not even recognize what the problem is. Tesla can only get away with all this because of how digital the car is in the first place.
Simply pouring Money into a School District without fixing the fundamental failings of the school district is a terrible investment.

Case in point: Dearborn vs Detroit.

School Districts Border one another.

Detroit gets $16,138 per student and Dearborn $12,128.

Detroit Public School District consistently ranks in the bottom 5% of school districts statewide and Dearborn in the top 10% of school districts in the state. If money were the solution why is Detroit not on par with Dearborn despite Detroit spending 30% more per student?

https://www.mackinac.org/depts/epi/fiscal.aspx
RH was playing nice for as long as they were the underdog fighting the established Unix vendors.

But since most of them folded and adopted Linux, and especially after Oracle upped and forked RHEL6 to make Oracle Linux, the actions from RHHQ has taken on a more controlling nature.
Advertising is a spectrum.

A landing page for a product is advertising, but so are popups. The difference is that one is pull the other is push.

Same with offline. Junk mail is push, billboards are push etc... those are the things that people complain about.

I'm almost certain that nobody has ever complained about pull advertising - so the hyperbole of the article isn't that.

What you describe with searching would come down to pull advertising, because you are asking for it, not being shown it out of context.

The answer to your question though actually leads to a much less desirable future: A search engine would know you and your behaviors so well, that when you ask for something it knows exactly your preference and gives you the most relevant return.

In effect you end up with the same system we have now, only much more in depth.
Paid "acceptable" ads lists are a joke, but ad blockers that don't allow control of which kinds of ads you want to block are also a joke too.
If you don't want to manually tag each directory, I'd suggest autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump). It'll automatically track visited directories.
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I agree entirely that there are no acceptable ads. I have only one life and the entirety of the value I derive from it comes from that which I pay attention to. Thus I highly value the extent to which I can control my attention and the thoughts swirling around in my consciousness (and in my subconscious, since that has a significant effect on what ends up being promoted to conscious thought.)

I consider advertising to be robbing me of ME. I understand that this is a cost I am incurring as payment for a service, but I consider it an extremely high cost, and exploitative of the fact that it is difficult to see how high the cost is.

This view is informed largely by popular books on how the brain/humans work, like Thinking Fast and Slow and Consciousness and the Brain and podcasts like You Are Not So Smart, etc. It is also somewhat informed by meditative experience, which I think has given me at least a little insight into the workings of my mind.

I'll note that I do think there is some amount of informational value in advertising. But as long as advertising is created and funded by people working hard to drive me to a specific conclusion rather than to inform me, I'm not interested. I'd rather pay services like consumer reports to deliver this information to me.
Those sites are read by lots of people who do like that content. Content is content, you can't just engineer constant attention without actually producing anything.

The fact is that the mainstream does like reading what Buzzfeed puts out and are getting plenty of value/benefit from it - regardless of your subjective judgement of it.
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It sounds like Stypi was an acquihire.

Jason Chen, one of the founders wrote a blog post about it: Mechanics of a Small Acquisition (http://www.jasonchen.me/mechanics-of-a-small-acquisition/).

> Fortunately, my cofounder and I were lucky enough to have had access to several other acquired founders who helped us ultimately navigate our first multimillion-dollar exit for a company barely a year old.

> DISCLAIMER: Every startup and founder group is unique so the data provided here may not apply in all cases. In particular, it is skewed towards < $25m acquisitions made by much larger companies.

(Emphasis mine)
By the way, here's our discussion where you thought you needed to explain why SpaceX is landing on a barge:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384297

Do you think I don't understand why SpaceX is using a barge in the ocean? I'm trying to dig deeper and you seem to be stuck in the mundane.
I wouldn't immediately discard the economic advantage of having a cheap labor pool...
I think that your characterization misses that in this recent study, this money did go to the schools. The whole quote:

"But it does seem that certain types of spending, especially on non-instructional items like capital improvements and support services, make a significant contribution. In other words, providing better physical and social environments for poor kids helps boost their performance relative to their richer peers."

To me, your comment sounds like it's neglecting the fact that this study found performance benefit from giving more money to poor schools.
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Aadhaar is India's national unique identity program, and has collected biometric and other personal data of over 1 billion people. These people have done an impressive work of deduplicating so many identities based on both fingerprint and iris scan data.

There is controversy around Aadhaar at the moment, the Supreme court had ruled that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for people, and the government is trying to get around it using new legislation. There had been no legislation around Aadhaar till now, and there are objections that it had been falsely claimed/advertised as mandatory while trying to enroll people.

There is no privacy legislation in India right now, and it isn't clear if privacy is a fundamental right, so this makes Aadhaar particularly problematic, as it is not clear with whom the data can be shared.

The Aadhaar people, to their credit, have generally cared about privacy, and have refused to divulge data on several requests. Whether they are technically capable of securing the data remains to be seen. This pdf goes into some detail of their high-level architecture. You can compare and contrast this with other national id systems, such as Estonia's smart card id systems.
One mans keylogger is another mans debugger.

Note that the command is "xinput test id". Meaning that it is a way to monitor what xinput sees when a key or button is pressed.

I have personally used xev for similar purposes, map my keyboard's multimedia keys to various actions.
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There's a lot of people in U.S. prisons or graveyards who acted on your perspective. Feel free to try. The likely outcome is courts handing down a judgment. After you resist, they send regular cops that you'll probably shoot given Hitler references. The next round will look like the Waco videos on YouTube except you probably have less guns and soldiers. Not to mention cops get extremely, rightly aggressive once you've started killing them. It will be over much more quickly esp given all the military hardware our cops have these days.

The above scenario played out many times ranging from tax dodgers to drug dealers to land grabs. My money is on them is you follow that foolish philosophy.
Note that this is true of any car in a car dealer lot. But it only matters as a comparison when a car is potentially at end-of-life, and whether it stays on the road or gets shoved in a junkyard and replaced with a new one is an open question.

If somebody decides to replace their 2013 model, it's basically 100% odds of staying on the road, and that car being on the road maybe represents one less new car that could have been made. But person who buys the used 2013 might be selling their 2001 to someone who takes it and then scraps their 1992 model. The net effect is one new car being manufactured, and one old car being scrapped. We can't take each transaction in the chain and say "This sale prevented a new car from needing to be made and saved a bunch of energy and material costs, and so did this one, and so did this one."

That's only with respect to the manufacturing side, or what we'd call "embodied energy". There are considerations from ongoing costs too, like how the gas mileage (probably fine, I've clocked my 1998 Civic at around 32 MPG) or emissions (I have no idea) compare against a newer car.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/495sls/useful_...
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Also not modern, but if you're into XLisp and Motif, you'll love Neils Mayer's WINTERP! [1]

[1] http://nielsmayer.com/winterp/
Oh, and one more thing. Go walk around the yard of a tow company. Be prepared to feel sick.

You'll come away with the conclusion that the standard crash tests, which are well designed for common accidents, are still just a small minority of serious accidents.

And the most horrifying thing that I came away with is the number of wrecks where there is 'car' where the passengers should be. Even in trucks and SUVs.

The strongest cars ever built historically are still the strongest cars on the road, even though there have been some great innovations that they miss out on.

This is just for fun really, not trying to make a point with it, but this is an old Volvo destroying other cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R95yOXPoR_s
Love to see tech-bubble white guys mocking the way some black men talk. Keep up the good work, folks.
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> To me, a car that you can't service yourself is worthless. A car that needs the manufacturer's permission to activate is not your car--it's owned by the manufacturer.

How many cars sold in 2016 can be activated without the manufacturer's permission? If you break your engine control module, who, if not the original manufacturer, can provide you a new one that works for your car?

(Serious question, no sarcasm.)
Or better, social the technician and grab that delicious signing key :-)
There's a place near me where I get my hair cut (it's a fairly straightforward affair - open blade clippers all over, takes all of 5 or 6 minutes) which costs GBP6.00, I always pay them GBP7.00 because the staff are nice and chat to you rather than between themselves. If they charged GBP7.00 or more then I'd probably not tip.
That is an extremely tiny amount of code for an editor to start choking on :(
For this post, we've scraped various signals (e.g. online reviews/ratings, covered topics, authors authenticity in the field, price, etc.) from web for 100's Machine Learning & Data Mining books. We have used these signals to compute a Quality Score to rank books and publish the final list for top Machine Learning books.
Interesting extension might be to offer jobs as well to 12+ year olds (apprenticeship/training). Essentially JROTC or something taken to an extreme.

A combination of a "total institution" for children, combined with a clear path to a good job after, would probably be appealing. I don't think anyone but government could legally do a lot of this, but a local or state government might be able to provide cover.

Healthcare as a field might be a good domain...viewed as "good", high amounts of government expense already (va, Medicare/Medicaid), a wide range of ultimate skill jobs ( orderlies through types of nurses and techs to doctors to research), etc.

If I were a poor parent in the ghetto, and I could get my kids into "work at local hospital: pre pre med coursework plus objective standards for admission into various education later, and jobs", I'd do it in a heartbeat.
"Google wouldn't exist without ads, etc etc... Sure those sites exist now, and you take ads away, they're already entrenched, but what about the future google or reddit or facebook?"

Allow me to point out that you have just posted this comment on the future reddit.

Or some facsimile thereof.
How about a Donald Trump -ipsum?

“I know words, I have the best words”

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Iterate quickly?

Hardware is not software. The environmental cost alone of building a new car is outrageous.

In addition to which, the SV2.0 "iterate quickly" ideal turns consumers into guinea pigs for half-baked and half-broken products that will just be updated out from under them.
>Given that Spotify is private, how would you know if Spotify is making money?

Industry observers see the financial numbers from Spotify filings in the UK and Luxembourg and can piece together that they spend more than they take in. Another source of information about Spotify health was the Sony email leaks[1] revealing the unfavorable terms to license the Sony music catalog.

Lastly, CEO Daneil Ek has been on record[2] saying, "we believe in the business model of Spotify, and believe that ultimately we’ll become profitable at some point..."

It is not wild speculation that Spotify is losing money.

>How about Pandora Radio? They have about 80M users; is that a failure?

Pandora is also still losing money.[3] Whether it's 80M or 800M users, it's a failure if the business can't turn a profit. (Otherwise known as costs exceeding revenue.)

The overwhelming "costs" in both music streaming services is the royalty payouts for licensing music. So far, not enough people can be convinced to pay $9.99/month. Or, the people that are willing to pay something-per-month are not willing to pay higher amounts such as $19.99.[4] So far, the financial numbers are not working.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_ha...

[2]http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/07/daniel-ek-...

[3]http://www.techtimes.com/articles/98853/20151026/pandora-con...

[4]https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/201745891-How-mu...
I think it's because one person might come up with a more convincing headline than another that causes the post to take off here. If that's the case, the first one to submit shouldn't always win. Also, if multiple threads on the same topic take off at about the same time, mods sometimes merge the two.
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Surely a black banner day, if ever there was one?
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Great post.

"You are not allowed to cause the company to break the law."

With spam, growth hacking and whatever someone calls it these days, I see a violation of this rule multiple times a day - done by startups, small businesses and even large corporations. Every single unsolicited mail is breaking those anti spam laws.

And yes, I know the laws where I conduct business about spam, UCE, UBE and whatnot.
I think it's possible to buy an ECU from a parts dealer. You wouldn't have to necessary go directly through the manufacturer. You might also be able to get one from a junkyard.
Scala has typeclasses. It is not strictly equal to Haskell since it relies on the usage of `implicit`. Plus it doesn't enforce that there is only one typeclass per type in the classpath (I believe I remember that Haskell enforces that I compile time).
If even half of this gets done, Swift will have a great generics type system