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Could not agree more. Our society is based on the foundation that everybody does her/his own fair share, if the leaders of the world think it is not the way then lets just stop paying taxes and see how fast things change.

One funny thing about humanity, we used to pay 1/10 of our income that was enough for the "state", I am paying 65% (that is right) of my income to the sate right now and it is not enough, I have to pay VAT on everything on the top of that so that the government can spend it the most ridiculous inefficient way on projects that are at least questionable, yet many of the politicians just avoid paying taxes through these offshore tax havens. Do they know something we should too? :)
The hype is too much indeed. It's actually concerning - I believe that a lot of people will get their $1000 back, once the first negative review hits, and this is going to backlash. And we are definitely going to see such reviews, because the negative and "something-gate" news sell well.
Disclaimer: I am a fan of Elon.
p.s. Why am I being downvoted without a response?
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This is the best reason I've seen yet.

And good evidence that startups (yes Tesla is still a startup) will always be better at exploiting inefficiencies in larger companies.
> The public battle between the FBI and Apple gives me some confidence that my phone isn't bugged.

What if that is exactly what FBI and Apple want you to believe? If you think Apple is fighting for your privacy rights, then you don't switch to an alternative encryption method or start developing a solution to this problem.

I think both Apple and FBI need to play this public circus to fool people into a sense of security. That would make many activists sit on their hands, waiting for Apple to do their work.
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Hey, thanks for the detailed feedback! It's always great to hear about use cases and what people need. Helps us shape things.

Something that's been core to our product's philosophy for a long time is to be extensible and to fit in with other tools. We're doing more to help there in 3.0, but we already have a very fleshed-out API and extension framework used to add on new features and capabilities, API, etc. The lack of an API for user account creation is clearly a pain point for you. I know I said we'd get that into 3.0, but I think I'm going to have to take that back.

I'm going to try to get it into the next 2.5.x instead.

> - Reviews need to be generated automatically when suitable trigger conditions are met. This means that there has to be a dedicated user account in RB that can create reviews on behalf of other users. Reviews also need to be automatically updated when new changes land in the branch under review.

You probably know this, but in case, or for anyone who doesn't, there's a permission that allows users to post or edit review requests on behalf of another user. I'll make sure that can be set in the API.

> Furthermore, I realise your permission model is tightly coupled with the underlying architecture, which itself builds on top of Django. Exposing the kind of functionality I ask for requires to expose and nest quite a few internal API layers. I do genuinely see why that has not been roadmap item so far. Codewise that is a big undertaking

Fortunately, large parts of this are already written for RBCommons.com (our Review Board SaaS) for our own use, and we should be able to port much of it over.

> Once you have native DVCS support and push-to-commit for fluid integration between other tools, RB has the ability become "just another tool". I see that as a good thing :)

It should be very cool :) Still a lot of work to get where we want to go, but it'll happen. Much of it already has, just not in a stable form yet.

> I haven't yet tried phabricator (evaluating it is on our infrastructure team's roadmap), but so far it looks like it tries to do too much.

I can't speak to their product. I believe we have different philosophies. Many tools choose to be like GitHub and do a little bit of everything under one product (which can be good if you aren't using other tools, or want to consolidate them all). We opt to focus solely on code review capabilities, trying to innovate in that area and plugging into other services/tools already being used. Pros and cons to both, but I certainly have my preference :)

Thanks again for the feedback! If you ever have more, or want to talk more about this outside Hacker News, definitely reach out! We have a dev-related list at https://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard-dev/, which I pay a lot of attention to, and others might have some good thoughts as well.
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Many of the family members of current and former Chinese Politburo officials are exposed in the file leak. China has implemented a complete censorship about this topic and any sources/comments that mention the involvement of Chinese leaders/princelings have been deleted.
An Honest question, which of the large Startup / Internet Giant are using BSD? Whether it is FreeBSD or OpenBSD or others.

Judging from some previous Facebook post, it is likely Whatsapp will be moving to linux based as well instead of on FreeBSD. Yahoo used to be a FreeBSD shop, but Marisa Mayer has since converted all to Linux. Microsoft had some FreeBSD long ago but has since converted all to Windows or Linux. The only FreeBSD on Netflix are their Open Connect Appliance, their main AWS instances, which is the majority of their servers are all Linux. Both Cisco and Juniper are using less FreeBSD as we speak. Even Apple, with many parts of their OS based on FreeBSD, are using Linux for iCloud as well.

So who is using BSD?
Yay! I'm not the only one old enough to have seen that movie on HN.
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>It's just crazy to see them beat the competition so badly.

The BMW electric cars (i3 and i8) are quite successful, beating Tesla sales-wise in Germany and selling half as many world-wide.

The great weakness of the Tesla S in the German market ist the German autobahn, where it runs out of energy very quickly (after an hour or so for aggressive drivers). The Tesla S is not designed for sustained high speeds.
The only "fair" tax type is VAT for humans.

Buying a SUV -> You pay 10,000 USD in taxes.
Buying bread -> You pay 0.01 USD in taxes.

We could get rid off income tax at all and just increase the VAT to ~20 - 50% depending on the type of the product. This way it is almost impossible to cheat. Solving taxation for corporations still an issue though.
History will tell. Calculated bets move us forward.
I experimented with position-tracking on a Roomba 780 a couple of weeks ago. I found that its sensors were far too imprecise to get any sort of reliable position. I think the Roomba 980 might work, but it costs > 900 USD.

tl;dr: maybe, but only the very expensive models
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> > Torvalds doesn't believe in software freedom

> Source for that? I thought I read a quote from him saying that GPL licensing the Linux kernel was the best decision he ever made.

If you ever hear his explanation of why he used the GPL (which boils down to "I give you code, you give me code back, we're even"[1]) skips over the software freedom aspect. Not to mention that he's one of the advocates of the open source movement which doesn't have any views on software freedom.

I can't give you an explicit quote where he said "I don't care about software freedom", but it becomes quite clear if you look at his actions (particularly toward the GPLv3, where he clearly differentiates his views from the FSF's views[1] -- and he carefully avoids using the term "freedom").

There is a quote where he claims that vendor lock-in isn't morally bad[2], which is the best I could find after 10 minutes of searching:

> The GPLv3 doesn't match what I think is morally where
I want to be. I think it is ok to control peoples hardware.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

[2]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118236278730043&w=4
I had a bit of a problem with OTS reviews b/c not everyone is as professional when it's not in an open forum. We used GitLab merge requests with much better results.

It's kinda hard to describe in words - but programming is an opinionated profession and people have a bad habit of telling you that you should rewrite stuff b/c of code-style differences and what in essence is non-substantive feedback. They want everyone to look like the way they would write it. Not to say it's always without merit.. but it's honestly kinda irritating after a while b/c you feel you are being micromanaged and are losing ownership of your work (when reviewed by someone who is senior to you)
>California also taxes long term capital gains (LTCG) at a top rate of 13%

I'm sure that Zuckerberg et al have brilliant tax accountants, but this is one thing that has never made sense to me. Volunteering to pay an extra 13% simply for the privilege of living in Northern California seems insane to me. Any of these guys could move a few hours down the road to Tahoe or Reno and save themselves billions of dollars in state taxes, even if they left the company headquarters in CA.

I'd also like to see Pricenomics do a study measuring the market cap impact of California's high corporate income tax rates on major publicly traded Silicon Valley companies. I'm guessing investors would be sickened by the results.
Nah, it's more some parts of the U.S. are just ridiculously expensive. In many areas of South and East, you can get quite affordable homes within 20-30 minutes drive of the areas (eg "downtown") that have the big businesses and expensive homes. Local example is nearby properties at $80k-200k half-hour away from condos costing nearly a million right next to businesses. Locals working there spend most of their day, lunch breaks, and some free time on weekends around all those people. No need to live over there even for networking.

And then there's Texas doing it's own thing with its own cost-benefit analysis. As usual. ;)
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but we're trying to infer that things dont have value to the user based on complexity.... the lower threshold is an easier target.
Extensive discussion 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982192
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Interesting. That's a bit counter intuitive - thanks for the counter argument.
No, I think they changed the strategy somewhat.

Who has the best margins in the automotive industry? Porsche. In fact, it's almost always been Porsche since their recovery from the mid-90s. Porsche's margins are so good, investors are complaining that the high-volume Macan is dragging down margins to a "terrible" 16% from their typical 19-20% -- which (the 19-20%) is double what Audi's (#2 for industry margins) margins are. To put this in perspective, Porsche brings in as much profit (in Euros) as the Volkswagen brand, despite selling 2% as many cars.

Porsche commands their premium by finding a niche and trying to be the most desirable in it. They have competitors, but they offer a package people are simply willing to pay a lot more for. There were never a lot of competitors to Porsche's sports cars in their price range -- Corvette aside, Porsche still commands a huge chunk of the traditional $50-150K sports car market, and has a very devoted fanbase. They also carved out a significant chunk of the high-end SUV market.

What competes with the Model S and Model X? Nothing from a powertrain perspective. Add in clever packaging and other features that are largely exclusive and they've created a niche for themselves.

The Model 3 is Tesla's Cayenne/Macan. The volume play to ensure their top-end electric vehicles can continue to command their prices, and to provide cash for general operations. Being the mass market player is admirable, but if someone (or several companies) outplay or match you, you could be in for a rough ride. To me, Tesla made the smart play by focusing on higher-margin vehicles.
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Why are you obsessing over the origin of the quote? There is nothing to defend here.
From the link you provided:

> an adult worker is entitled to an uninterrupted rest period of not less than 24 hours in each seven-day period

The key word is "entitled", meaning that an employer cannot force them to work (or fire them if they don't work). The worker can choose to do whatever they want with their time, so long as they retain the right to exercise their legally permitted break.

It would be a very weird law to not allow a worker to do any work related to their job during their free time. Would that mean that a musician couldn't play music during their free time?
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Link to the missing white paper : http://www.evworld.com/library/Tesla_21centuryEV.pdf
Can I get some context on this? This is not the panama leak that's been blowing up today, right?
Another story here is how did it leak?

It's interesting to observe that Mossack Fonseca's client portal login uses @#&@!&*! wordpress.

I have no knowledge of how it leaked but it's amazing to me that a firm responsible for trillions of dollars uses wordpress on its client login site.
The trouble bubble is not only a perfect solution for this, but an apt metaphor for the whole process.
Definitely, though Dallas prices are on par with Houston. However, even in Houston, there are expensive homes (such as in the medical district, River Oaks, The Woodlands, etc)

My mom lives in a little $20k house about 90 minutes north of Dallas. (and it's not necessarily BFE, but in an older part of a 40k city)
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I live in one of those areas. I mock their attachment to yards. I do love that we have plenty of space that's ours under our rules. That's front for public stuff, back for semi-private, an insulated house for noise reduction (love that), and so on. As often is with suburbs, it's close enough to big city to get its benefits without its problems. It's all that for under a grand a month.

Is all that normal for the big cities with dense, multi-story housing?
The warranty is 8 years. Cars don't just die the moment the warranty runs out, including Teslas.

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/infinite-mile-warranty
All that clip did was make me want to re-watch Ronin.
His response was fairly short. However, I learnt something I didn't know -- the FSF CLA actually requires that the FSF will always maintain your contributions under a copyleft license. They also provide recommendations on how to make contributions to projects that require CLAs (such as negotiating similar terms for the project).

Here's the complete contents of his email:

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[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]

[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]

[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

This doesn't change my views on the general issue of assigning copyright to free software projects, which I stated in http://gnu.org/philosophy/assigning-copyright.html. There are sometimes good reasons for license changes.

---
But none of this explains the main reason they would do this (a buyback or a dividend) instead of reinvest the profits. Yes the have lots of cash, but they have for awhile.

So the interesting question is why are they doing this now given the medium/long term ROI a company with cash looks generate. It could mean they stopped seeing obvious medium/long term investments. Maybe a small bubble is 5-10 years away.
> Because why would you use a lot of energy for sensors, insane mode, automatic doors, displays, computers, and so on?

Signals electronics (displays, sensors, etc) use so little energy compared to power electronics (the drivetrain system) that it doesn't really matter.
One minor counter to this is that you shouldn't get too caught up in the hype about this being a mass-produced car. HN and tech journalism is a bit of a bubble. Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car. We're still talking about a high-end vehicle. Nobody driving a Model 3 is going to be devastated when it needs to go in the shop.
Yes, I agree. The bet is high and I hope it will produce nice outcome for everybody in the long term!
I'm not a bspwm user myself, but it can look really nice as well (a different sort of nice I suppose). You could check /r/unixporn[1] for inspiration / examples / shameless copy-cat. It's really incredible what some people are pulling off[2][3][4].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3r85qh/bspwm_ligh...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3og32q/bspwm_wip_...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3xen3g/bspwm_func...
It is ... difficult for me to describe just how dangerous it is to try to use 3 dimensional intuitions in a higher dimensional space. As the number of dimensions increases the amount of "space" there is for things to get weird get much more complicated; for example any knot that exists in 3 dimensions can be untied trivially in a 4 dimensional space.

Suffice to say if you try to use your ordinary everyday life intuitions doing higher dimensional mathematics you will continuously embarrass yourself until you learn not to. Some folks develop the necessary adjustments and have higher dimensional intuitions; I do not and have to do the math anywhere higher than around 4.
A much cleaner, GPL-ed implementation is provided here: https://github.com/WebDrake/GrSL/blob/master/sampling/vitter...

(I personally find Kevin's code very hard to follow)
The simplest workflow I can think of:

1) Publish with no review

2) Open for review

3) If review is passed, tag as reviewed and bundle all those into a special reviewed section (which can be cited)

4) Reserve the right to remove from reviewed (some later reviewer finds major flaws etc.)

You'd have to handle the dynamic nature of papers (git-like) but in essence I'm thinking of a website with "all submitted papers" and a checkbox for "reviewed papers only". I think that would be valuable and people would likely leave the checkbox on by default.

I'm also curious if the review has to be blind in this model. I think it would be more valuable if the reviewers actually signed with their names and the review feedback was open as well. Shifts the value from being in a prestigious journal to being successfully reviewed by a smart/reputable person. Ideally doing these reviews would then become reputation building as well.
Actually, in its price class i think the model s isn't a particularly nice looking car. It looks cheaper than its price tag. But you're right that car makers have the unfortunate habit of making amazing ev concepts and turning them into ugly production cars, as if they assume that someone who buys electric has no taste and must be publicly shamed for it.
> I didn't down vote you but I assume the people that did have some kind of value system that doesn't involve culling the underperforming subsection of humanity during their annual review.

This is a rad comment, I laughed. Well, I'm not sorry if I jarred them, that was my intention.

> The implication in my original post was that there is enough "wealth" to go around but the current system prevents it from being shared with everyone. When I say shared wealth I don't mean equally, I mean enough so that people can survive without having to fight for subsistence wages to work part time at their local mega mart.

When I think about the great social upheaval that will come about from job sector-eliminating automation, I shudder to think about what the hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed masses will do. And, I shudder to think about what governments will do with them in response, (which I why I wrote what I did.) In my opinion a living wage just puts the class war pressure cooker on medium instead of high heat.

I wish I had a great idea or plan to keep things running smoothly, but I don't. I have seen homelessness explode in my city ever since the Occupy Wall Street protests, and I see a lot of young people among the homeless who should/could be off the streets making a living. It's absolutely criminal simply from a public health standpoint for the city to let homelessness proliferate like this, and that comes from someone who thinks of himself as a libertarian.

Here's a recent interesting interview on RuneSoup about work and money. It gives me hope when smarter people than me can present a positive vision of the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ci24y4wOHY
No, today's leak has not yet been published. This the leak from 2013, 260Gb of data named the Offshore Leaks: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_Leaks
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You can have net operating loss carry-forwards that offset profits for tax purposes in future years. You can have capital losses that can offset capital gains and some ordinary income at the investor level. So no, you didn't pay taxes on the losses.
What does it mean to install a GSM network via apt-get? If I run this command 2G mobile antennas will grow out of my laptop?
It shouldn't come as a surprise. There are many reasons why the incumbents don't want Apple entering the market.
Could someone explain how this works? I feel like unique shuffling given a random seed is very useful algorithm, but I can't follow this code because of the variable naming and stuff.
I do not, myself, know why this is the case. I can come up with several plausible reasons; for example, you're basically coming up with an alternate input device for your computer piggybacked onto something that's already there. Additionally these programs basically are the computer if you're blind; you develop a lot of experience with them quickly because the alternative is not using it at all. And some amount of it is probably cultural/historical, we make it hard because it's always been hard. Truly, I don't know, and I don't know anyone who does.
Trying not to be too much of a fan boy I smiled at the fact that, on its way to develop EV market recognition and infrastructure they made cars that topped anything else in safety and speed.

'if you want to have EV, all you have to do is buy the best cars we just made' kind of.
I like this idea and my understanding is that they have a similar rule here in Germany.
Why cannot you just create random numbers and discard duplicates?

For practical purposes when list.length << total.lenght shouldn't that be good enough?
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Mentioned just in the parent, here is the link : https://github.com/p12tic/libsimdpp

Reaching 2.0 very soon (in RC phase right now), with support for VS which was lacking before.
The Silicon Valley area is surrounded by either hills or ocean, so "a little farther" is a difficult commute with varying delays of hours on a couple roads.

Nobody wants to raise a family in Oakland.

Also, my understanding is that the Central Valley is a flood plain.
Juniper's Junos OS is based on FreeBSD.

Honest question though: Does the popularity of an OS really tell us anything useful? I often use the "if it's popular, it's probably good" metric, but I know I am just being lazy...

As a curiosity, knowing the "rank" of an OS is interesting, but if I am making any important decisions, I research the OS myself, hopefully disregarding outside influences.
> Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car. We're still talking about a high-end vehicle.

I don't think you've been car shopping much recently. 'Economy' cars like the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, Toyota Camry, etc. can easily push up against $30k with a few options. For some real sticker shock look at minivans, a Honda Odyssey can easily hit $40k-50k out the door.

With a five year loan or a three year lease and a bit of trade in from a previous car you can easily be driving a $35k car for just a few hundred bucks a month.