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Triggit - San Francisco Full time

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That's true - it's good that people don't take their life situation for granted.

What concerns me is when it's presented as a predigested, one size fits all "conclusion" - e.g. "Straight White males are oppressors, females and minorities are oppressed, no exceptions ever".
So you own it technically, but they're obligated to buy it back after 36 months. Since you own it technically, you get the federal/state tax benefits.

Seems like this whole scheme will unravel as soon as those tax credits die out, which they will.
The press release is rather odd. Under the section "How it works" there are five bullet points, but only two of them (arguably three) actually describe how it works.

The guaranteed buyback is the special sauce here. So I'd want to see exactly what's involved. Are there lease type conditions on miles driven? Exorbitant charges for minor damage? The small print is rather important.

As for lining up banks to agree to financing subject to approved credit, it's fairly meaningless. Someone will always lend you money subject to approved credit.
If you want this claim of yours honestly evaluated, state your company, location, job requirements, and how much the compensation package is.
This is a slight spin on leasing, but it's a good one. I love the boldness of Musk's leadership with Tesla. Ready to go out on a limb and try new things. Clever way to ensure that tax breaks still happen, but gives confidence to the customer over things like battery life. It also allows Tesla to control the resale market for their product, as I am fairly sure folks buying a second-hand Tesla will want one where the battery has been fully refurbished by the Tesla factory team.

If you look at Tesla's ambitions - to start at the high end, experiment there then bring the innovations to the broader market - this could prove to be a much bigger change than it appears. Plus, lease-type mechanisms like this can lead to a significant greening of the auto industry over time if such arrangements take hold.
Define "actual language."
I don't think there are any rules to "AAVE" either, one speaker of this dialect? creole? language? or whatever we're calling it, would not be able to point out grammatical errors in the speech of another.

You're wrong. Linguists have been studying AAVE for years. It has been determined how the grammar of AAVE differs from SAE.

All are bad English, i have no doubt whatsoever, that all would be understood by a speaker of "AAVE".

Leaving aside whether these sentences are AAVE, are you arguing that being able to say the same thing multiple ways means that AAVE is not a language? That seems like an absurd point to make.

Also I feel like people (educators in Oakland?) just caved, and don't want to admit that they have failed to properly educate and include a huge swathe of people.

Did you read the article? It explains that by acknowledging AAVE as the native language of students, educators are better able to teach SAE and explain to students in what context it should be used.

Frankly, at this point you need to educate yourself. It's quite common for people to have the initial reaction that AAVE is bad English. But to continue to deny it a status of a language, and to insult its speakers as uneducated borders on racist.
You didn't read the article, and you're saying gibberish. Please stop.
You would never have such litigation in the first place--there is no such tort or legal concept of "too hot".

On the other hand, if the player were to sue for negligence, then the question of whether it was "too hot" is a factual question that the jury would decide, after the lawyers present evidence for their preferred answer (and possibly evidence against the undesired answer).

The jury's finding would be a finding of "fact" as to whether it was "too hot" would apply only to that case, because their finding would necessarily depend on the specific facts of that case. Juries cannot make findings of "law", which are general principles/rules that can be applied to other cases.
Looks great in Mac OS.
(defmacro select [total _ coll]
(let [total (keyword total)]
`(map ~total ~coll)))

(select total from orders)

Problem solved!
Wow, I'm a bit disappointed in the HN community here. There are a lot of <i>idées reçues</i>[1] that seem to come up over and over again (anti-homeopathy being one, not that I'm pro-homeopathy, so don't get off-topic over it). But this whole anti-Ebonics is new to me (in this community), especially after the OP explained it in such understandable terms.

Secondly, the whole interpretation of "double negatives" as being logically equivalent to (not(not TRUE)) is quite unfortunate. When languages use double negatives, it just means that that language expresses a negative using 2 helper words in separate parts of the sentence. It's a pattern for expressing a single negative, not a formula that doubles (or cancels) the negative.

Luckily, I can understand where programmers are coming from, that they're using their "native" languages, and that we can help them understand that those languages aren't appropriate in other contexts :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas: "automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid"
Personally I'd rather download a DMG and put it on a USB I can buy locally. Better than waiting for international post.
"Ham radio kits are still around, right?"

Amateur radio may be the last bastion of free, decentralized communication. 70 years ago (when the Internet did not exist) Hams could send and receive signals all over the world, and they still do today. They don't need an Internet, a cellular phone infrastructure, etc. And should the Internet become controlled to the point of being useless (by governments and greedy corporations), RF may be the only thing left standing.

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My wife works in a family court, I sent her your post and she replied with this:

- Don't believe in anything that people will say to you, they are usually wrong, talk to a lawyer or court services

- Litigation is not necessary in a divorce, but it seems that she wants that, so yes, you need a lawyer

- Your case is not unique and the decision about it has already been made by past cases, no one will dig your computer logs, except if you say you can't pay for child support and are posting ferrari pictures in your facebook

- You will talk to a lawyer, try to find someone you trust (someone recommended by friends or family) for a chat before making decisions, you don't need to pay for a initial chat
Cockney slang has rules too, it's at least as much a dialect as AAVE.
It is called a trap.
A double negative is not double negation (in other languages), it's called agreement[1]. Just like you have to have agreement between numbers in English (It is / They are) you can also have languages that require/support agreement in terms of negative/positive. Yes, it's redundant information, but all human languages have a lot of extra information built into them at every level to make them easier to use.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_%28linguistics%29
This is why I joined Coursera instead of starting another startup when I left the one I founded. There are few things more exciting that a web developer could be working on today than access for education for everyone. Big movements are happening in online ed. Tectonic shifts are happening.
A quick search shows that residual values of S-Class's vary based on model and mileage per year, the numbers I'm seeing are in the 49% to 54% rate. The base price of the 60kWh model is $73,070, so assuming they don't include the federal incentive when calculating the residual value, they'd buy the vehicle back from you at ~$36.5k.

Edit: Based on DanielStraight/Tesla's numbers below (43% RV) that'd be a residual value of $31420 on the base model, with a penalty of $0.25 on each mile over 36k.

Tesla's True Cost of Ownership page has more:

http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership
Well, I'm definitely up for being a part of said group
That makes sense. It's not clear to me though why error logging should belong to it.
We never left the mainframe. The bubble did but not the rest of the world. Most fortune 1000 companies still have active mainframe installations running. And so do most governments.

What has happen is computer power has become much more accessible. No more time sharing. No more Comdisco. No more running down the hall to pick up your printed materials. And no more 1m+ price tag (unless you need it).

The mainframe is no longer the front and back ends (which is was). Now it's just the back end - running huge data stores. In other words, it's perfect for the cloud (which by the way, is also nothing new).

The computer industry isn't regressive; it's circular. So is fashion, by the way. Oh and Hollywood and - well you get my point.
Impressive, he has passion, vision and determination, he is truly a great entrepreneur, maybe the boldest of these times.
To make a blanket statement like "[Contributing to keeping prisoners in prison] is in no way an inherently good thing" is just madness.

I don't understand this point of view. At least in the US a very large portion of the prison population are in jail for non-violent crimes related to drug sales and/or possession, and are being imprisoned unjustly. Some if not all "white collar" crime prisoners should probably also not be imprisoned. I for one certainly do not see jail as having any sort of innate "goodness" or nobility associated with it. It's a horrible, brutal, inelegant hack at best, and a travesty of justice in many cases.
I was in QA at a retail company. It's hard to do targeted notifications and updates. You miss one condition in a WHERE clause when defining your target and something like this happens. It is also fairly easy to figure out the size of the group you missed from a single example.
Absolutely it is. Furthermore, the concept that an applicant should dictate whether he/she speaks to a manager is impractical. Just as dismissing screeners as largely incompetent is silly.

To be clear-he's absolutely correct that automated screening of applications isn't up to snuff.
Instacart is one of my favorite services. I use them every week. I want them to build a sustainable business and last forever, since I never want to visit a grocery store again.

When I saw this on HN this morning, my reaction was that it's easy for things to get missed in the chaos of startups.

Remember, these guys run a startup. They're juggling a million things, including a company that's growing fast due to high demand. These things will happen. It's how the team deals with issues like this that will make them a great company.
Counter anecdote:

We don't really have an HR department at all, and we don't have much trouble finding people when we need them. Sure, we get our fair share of chaff like everyone else. Still only takes a month or two to find someone worth hiring. I do not consider that an unreasonable amount of time. For the record, every engineer we have hired since I started, and including me, has been a cold application off a web posting.
I remember hearing about SCVNGR back in 2010 before the pivot to LevelUp (I think it caught my eye since I'm a Princeton grad). Back then the company really seemed to be touting allowing brands to let people have fun with their friends through various location based things, and it seemed pretty appealing to me especially if I lived in a city like SF, NYC, or Boston.

Seems like with each pivot, they've shifted from the social/fun side to the business/profit side, which parallels the way the startup trend as a whole has moved over the past few years. That kind of followership is a bit eyebrow raising.
Spammers exploit open redirects on US government websites
He isn't being asked to give out the student's names. He is being asked to give out the student's Wikipedia usernames so that Wikipedia editors can see what edits they are making and correct any problems. The students or the course staff can choose usernames that have no relation to their real names.
It does not seem reasonable for a tiny startup to accept an unbounded downside risk just for PR purposes. The refund they're offering is fine.
While we are on meta-topic, allowing comments to be deleted after there are replies is a fairly user hostile.

I suppose it's someone protecting his precious karma?
Interesting – I'm thinking about implementing something just like that right now. Did you find good resources about this?
It's really not surprising that the professor reacted the way that he did. His intentions where basically to improve wikipedia articles in his field through a group effort by his students. Instead of praise and thanks from the wikipedia editors, he was ostracized and rejected. I'd wager this entire situation could have been averted if the editors initially reached out to the professor in a more positive way.
What happened is that we made a mistake querying for the email addresses, causing us to miss a group of the first people to sign up for Instacart Express. This skewed heavily towards HN members. We knew a few people had been missed (because they emailed us after seeing the charge, and said they didn't get an email) but not why or how many.
What seems fair and reasonable to one person may seem very unfair and unreasonable to another. People may very well take offense to my writing based on their perceptions of my gender, and I am taking precautions to avoid that when possible. It is human nature to jump to conclusions. Good writing help readers avoid doing that.

As the old saying goes, people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
25$ completely goes to charity. But they could have still done it as a download though.
They made a mistake. They admitted it. Your argument is an appeal either to time travel or omniscience. It is hard to understand what you expect from them at this point.
Tesla has a PDF with more precise information:

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/tesla-re...

The guaranteed resale value is 43% and there's a penalty of $0.25 per mile for each mile over 36000 (58000 km).
Judge smash: Prenda’s porn-trolling days are over
Somewhat unrelated, but that page looks surprisingly dated. For a company that's thinking so much about design it's unfortunate that it's so difficult to read their press releases.

I think that might be the first time I have actually used in-browser zoom for something.
They're a startup that's experimenting with different pricing models. If a plan they introduce isn't financially viable, it's unrealistic to expect them to continue to honor it otherwise they would drive themselves out of business b/c of failed experiments.
A potential solution to their problem is to establish a WP editing aberration detection mechanism, which would run quietly all the time and establish statistical baselines for editing frequency, and recognize when an unusually large number of edits from a geographical area or maybe CIDR block are coming in during a short period of time. This would help them automatically identify cases where a professor tells a couple of thousand students to make updates without supervision. Maybe correlate these with accounts or IPs that have few prior edits. This could then raise some sort of quality control flag on the edits and simplify the process of reverting the topics.

I shudder to think of what the Wikipedia-editing analogue of a global DDOS attack would be.
Paul Graham is a very insightful man, except on matters of salary, compensation, and individual productivity. In this respect he seems blinded by his own success and probably infected with at least some small part of the greed sickness.
this ought to be called the "Screw the Government" financing plan. It's advantageous to the purchaser, yes, but only incidentally to it's real purpose which seems to be the maximize the tax advantage / subsidy provided by local, state, and federal governments in the US.

They are trying very hard to position Tesla away from the Rich and Famous market segment. This new financing program isn't so much intended to increase sales of the Model S (which is oversubscribed IIRC) as it is to work out the kinks for the lower-end cars coming in a couple of years. And expand the market of people who can and should be considering Tesla vehicles.
I did not say that it is possible to escape all of them.
But if you limit the leaked data, their profile is useless.
I do not get very well targeted ads.
That is a good sign that they do not have a good profile of me.
But I never used gmail or g+ for example.
Well look at it this way. If they can't ramp up adoption they're done sooner than later anyway. If they're selling a lot more cars in the future, they can eat a significant loss on today's numbers.
Mobile backends is definitely a hot topic nowadays and this is one of the greatest contributions. A small part of me wishes it was a more "Pythonic" though.. :)
No doubt. But they're likely to get plenty of Teslas on the road in the meantime, which is all they need: awareness that Tesla exists, and (theoretically) satisfied customers.

Presumably Musk is anticipating that most buyers will like the Model S enough to not sell it back; if reality lines up, Tesla comes out far ahead. If not, they're doomed, but this scheme would really only be accelerating their demise in that case.
No, it means "I've never eaten sushi"
Also goes up a whole bunch if you take off the business tax exemptions…
I don't know enough about Galaxy to say that we want to be the Galaxy of finance, but I can tell you where we want to go.

There are several key steps in the process of creating quant investment strategies: research, development/testing, backtesting, paper-trading, and finally, live trading. We want to cover all of it.

I think Galaxy is most like the 'research' phase - you want to get your data assembled and in something like a pandas datapanel, which you can then adhoc plot. You're looking for patterns, very quickly testing hypotheses about the data.

We made the decision to build live trading next, and we're full tilt on that, but we will keep expanding the product and it will include the research phase.

drop me a line and we can talk :) -- fawce at quantopian dot com
It's a convenience thing so that users can quickly see if there are any errors happening in their applications. While you could provide hooks to integrate the error stream with some external error reporting system, you also want something that just works out of the box. Zookeeper is the only place that Storm can store state, Zookeeper is good at storing small amounts of data, and the recent errors are a small amount of data (as long as things are properly throttled). Hence, the design.
Ask HN: When do you call it a startup?
I realize this is more of a question on semantics, but it usually leads to some interesting discussion.

At what point does 'it' become a startup? Is it when you incorporate, get funding, or some other milestone? When you drop everything else and work on it exclusively? When you get your first users?

There are so many goals and tasks of a startup that I've always wondered what others define as the 'beginning' of a startup. What're your thoughts?
I was childishly hoping for some explosive TV-style courtroom drama but this leaves me satisfied.

One thing I don't understand is why all the shadowy connections and potential fraud? Couldn't one of the attorney's started a media holding company which acquired the copyrights, and then hired the second to pursue lawsuits? Then keep track of payouts and payments to the lawyer.

The tax evasion theory I guess would make them some more money, but still, why risk it if you've got a money making scheme running?

Also, Popehat is great to follow, along with Groklaw, for reading legal news.
That's awesome! Thanks for that. I love you. Don't tell my wife.
So just confirming, it's a webapp which would work on all the phones, not just iDevices right? (Asking as you specifically mention iPhone, PC and Mac but not Android)
Sorry about it. Could you please check now?
Leetspeak can be classified as a dialect too, if you'd like, it has its own words (leet, pwnd, haxor, etc.) and you can find grammar differences if you look hard enough[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Grammar
Hey Brianeatworld, these are a few companies which participated in the hackathon as sponsors. Mozilla wasn't in it.
By the very definition of what you said, if it's "over diagnosed" then in the majority of cases it IS made up. That's what "over diagnosed" means: more diagnoses than actual incidents.

I didn't say it's entirely made up. Some people might legitimately have it. But I'm pretty sure from what I've read that a large majority of them do not. To quote Wikipedia:

"""In the United Kingdom, diagnosis is based on quite a narrow set of symptoms, and about 0.5–1% of children are thought to have attention or hyperactivity problems. The United States used a much broader definition of the term ADHD. As a result, up to 10% of children in the U.S. were described as having ADHD."""

I read those numbers, knowing how the medical "industry" works -- and how societal, work/life balance, dietary and other such issues in the US are fast to be characterized as "diseases" in need of medication -- with huge grains of salt.

100% more cases in the US? Sounds like a good deal of over-diagnosing the non existent to me.
Comcast injecting JS
We know _now_ that it was Instacart's fault. The only fault I take with the email is the use of the word "if" instead of "that". Given a single case of an email not being received it's not unreasonable to assume it was caught in a spam filter.

As for refunds, sure, Instacart could have offered one, but honestly I don't think they should. As an Express member who was surprised by the delivery fee, there's no way I could have missed the fact that I was being charged one before I placed the order. The very dropdown you use to pick when you want the delivery also tells you what the fee will be. The fact that Caleb went ahead and placed the small orders that had a delivery fee is entirely his own fault.

And I also disagree that it required public shaming to be offered a refund on his express membership. He never asked for one in the first place. If he had responded to Mike and said that, given the changes to Express, he would prefer to have his membership cancelled, Instacart most likely would have gone ahead and done that for him.
> - prisoners are kept in jail

I wouldn't be too proud of that. In fact I would turn down such a job "opportunity" if it ever should come up.

Yes, I know. Prisons are a necessary evil until we come up with a better solution to crime but still they are evil and I don't want to help robbing fellow human beings of their freedom.
You do make valid points. Yet I reason you are reading two much between the lines. My point is that there are less opportunities for people to make a good standard living than there were before. That is simply from my POV, and I can definitely be wrong.
If you cut through the questionables - the cheapest model for "All other states" runs $893/mo for 10k miles per year and $4 average fuel cost per gallon. With that I think the only good thing about this offer is they will buy back the car from you after 36 months?
I also have this inexplicable desire to work for Mozilla, albeit on the PM/Business side of things (and more importantly, to help contribute to its success).

Maybe Mozilla isn't as visible on campus in their recruiting efforts?