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I would say there are few dominant strands of political views in Silicon Valley:

* "Liberaltarian" (http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/liberaltarians). Generally libertarian views (support for free markets, drug de-criminalization, gay rights, right to bear arms, open borders, etc...) but where views on social issues (namely basic civil liberties, gay rights, drug de-criminalization, open borders) trump (by far) the economic issues.

Most of these folks also don't subscribe to Randian/Nietzschean "virtue of selfishness" so given a candidate whose economic policies might benefit them but who opposes gay rights and immigration, they'll vote for his opponents even if they happen to be straight and native-born.

* Conventional style liberalism, but with heavier focus on civil liberties and technology. Zoe Logfren is probably great example of candidate that appeals heavily to this group.

* Bloomberg-style centrism: some degree of social liberalism (particularly in regards to gay rights, abortion), moderate-to-center-right economic views (mainly dictated by self-interest), but strong opposition to personal liberty-issues that are perceived to have social costs (e.g., drug de-criminalization, right to bear arms).

This is generally common with older folks, likely the ones that supported Reagan and Nixon earlier. Generally these are also the view of many California republicans (e.g., Meg Whitman) but also a significant chunk of Democrats. Given national republican party has now deviated from significantly from this view (with big factions now being religious right, Tea Party, and some libertarian-leaning folks), again there's a tendency to vote democratic on national level.

* Actual libertarians tends to be somewhat more common than in the rest of the country, but again there's a tendency for people to come to libertarian views from a more academic point of view (study of economics, philosophy, etc...) as opposed to from reading Atlas Shrugged.

So yes, if you define libertarian as Objectivist (a view that goes far beyond libertarianism -- the idea that poor deserve to be poor and do not deserve even voluntary charity, as opposed to the idea that economic planning hurts the poor more than it helps), then there's only few libertarians in Silicon Valley. If you use a more open-minded definition (opposition to economic planning and support for personal liberties) the picture changes a bit.
Actually, I don't, otherwise I wouldn't have asked.

Why are you so mean?
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I don't see how the label "hacking" confers anything about ethics.
So here are my reasons for high equity allocation in tech (notably missing from this list is that us techies are simply just progressive nice guys).

1. Less cash = more equity. Cash is expensive relative to equity for a start up and payouts are backended. In traditional firms (ie ones that make money) - your salary presents a larger % of the total comp pkg.

2. Human capital more important (in tech vs traditional businesses) = equity alignment is more important

3. VC rounds typically structure 10% to 20% option pools in to contracts. Ostensibly this is to create a pocket of equity for new employees. In practice this is often used as a tool to reduce the implicit valuation - creating a larger option than is needed, which is subsequently allocated because it is there.
MSFT has been up nearly 30% in the last couple of months. Since stock goes down after any big reveal (see iPhone5 and Google IO), that's actually a good thing.
I think this is the correct course of action. No matter what amount of privacy we have, and I think we are entitled to a lot of it, nothing stops someone who has more power from exploiting someone who has less. All the encryption in the world doesn't stop someone from breaking down a door and breaking the code with a rubber hose, so to speak. What does stop people from doing this is a very strong social stigma against this kind of behavior. Or at least it was a very strong social stigma, it seems to be breaking down if you are of a certain color or religion now.

Only by maintaining the social stigma can we really protect ourselves.

This is, at its core, a social issue, not a technological one.
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Also visual studio (and windows itself) are very thoroughly dogfooded. Which cannot be told for some of the other products. X360 RROD should have been impossible to miss.
It's just disappointing when larger companies that are supposed to be experienced with marketing announcements have messy executions, it just affects the service image/credibility. Well, at least it's good for start-ups to learn from them!
Even roughnecks make a fair amount of money in the oil industry. In canada a skilled tradesperson, like a ticketed welder, can easily clear 250k a year. The hours are long, and the work is hard, but it tends to be peicemeal in basis, so you arnt stuck doing it all year long. Also adding to this, as their work is typically all over the map, both living and traveling expenses are typically covered via something like a $100 a day living stipend.
For me one of life's greatest annoyances is the preparation and consumption of food, like 90% of the time I have to eat. To each their own, I guess.
To be fair, that was only added 15 minutes after the events in the pastebin. I was there for it.
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A much simpler point the author missed is that wealth doesn't exactly cause the housing shortage so much as not building houses. San Francisco has rent control, and most of the peninsula has severe zoning controls.

It would be extraordinarily profitable to build commercial buildings with dense lofted apartments in many areas of the peninsula, however they are simply prohibited by local governments. That's neither libertarian nor egalitarian.
Although I love the concept, backing a team that does not even have a single chemist or nutritionist in it is worrying.
You have to stand out, yes, but you also must present a clear message (which would include a clear call-to-action).

If the non-techie who's sifting through resumes can't deduce in a few seconds whether or not you're even qualified and applicable for the job at hand, the resume is going to get trashed, regardless of whichever gimmicks you pull.
Yahoo'd is an actual term I have heard people use. So the verbing is there with that one!
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I don't like seeing advertisements on my game console. Advertisements annoy me more than most people.

But I only see them for the (literally) two seconds it takes to launch the game.
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>You've never had to log in to read blog content, there has never been a sign-up wall on loading a blog or blog post on Quora.

There was a time when I'd never had to log in to read past the first answer on Quora. If I'm not mistaken, there was also a time when I could read the first answer without pop-over sign up harassment. Likewise, there was a time before Quora started sharing my history [1].

It's hard not to expect negatives with that kind of track record.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377181
Soylent is a YC company? Nice...
and "of course it's safe, I've been eating it for, like, months now"
After some thought, I realized what was going on in my thought process. The problem isn't the price, the problem is the feeling that somebody is trying desperately to add bells and whistles to their thing to inflate the price.

Then I saw that there's no book book with the $30 option and it was just the final nail in the coffin. I think if that was the only option, or it was listed first, I would buy it. Especially if there was no patronizing "one month of something" and copy that tells me I am a bad person for not wanting the bells and whistles.

But here's the thing, my feedback reads: "As your target market[1], I don't like what you're selling me".

[1] assuming the target market are people in the process of writing and publishing a self-published (e)book
Given that the new processor is x86 I suspect that issue will solve itself.

I kid, of course. Nobody pirates games these days and I'm sure their latest DRM scheme will turn out to be the one that stops what few pirates are left in their tracks. ahem
Yeah, this quote is totally off base. Finance, consulting, law, and accounting all distribute company earnings very widely (often, entirely) to the people who do the actual work.

These companies also tend to have much flatter structures than Silicon Valley tech companies. The greenest associate at a big NYC law or consulting firm probably has just a few levels above him to the managing partner or CEO. The structure is instead broad and flat, with potentially hundreds of partners or managing directors leading their teams with high levels of autonomy.

Pay spreads are also narrower. I don't have numbers for consulting, but many NYC law firms are 5:1 or less top to bottom for partners, and around 30:1 for highest earning partner down to greenest associate (and many of these scales are lock-step, meaning everyone at the same level of seniority is paid the same). Finance is of course broader (thanks to huge bonuses for traders), and my impression is that consulting and accounting are narrower. The pay spread at Yahoo between Marissa Mayer and the most junior programmer is more like 250:1, and even within the ranks of executives the spread is probably more like 50:1.

The deep irony of these professions is that while they are a major part of the capitalist system, they are personally mostly free from that system. It takes very little capital to run a services businesses like these, which means there is no need to bring in shareholders, which means that the money of the business stays with the workers rather than being diverted to investors.
Yes, because a handful of smiley tech nerd kids know nutrition better than professional researchers with decades of experience, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
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As a Playstation guy (not really until PS2, but still having never purchased an XBox), it seems like a matter of course. Sony struggled with backwards compatibility, and my 60GB PS3 has lived to be a venerable old bastion of BC... but even in that ecosystem it's gone, with the PS4 being entirely non-old-people-friendly.

At some point I stepped back and questioned where this expectation came from, and I have to guess it's based on those of us who started as PC gamers and then went to consoles: Who else would expect something from one system to magically work on another? As more and more people grow up without this preconception, I'd imagine fewer and fewer will balk at a lack of backwards compatibility.
The content may have been a civil breach of contract for the originator to disseminate, but you commit no breach nor crime by looking at it, as you have no non-disclosure agreement with Apple.
What part of that did the Xbox miss? I only sporadically followed it, but it seemed to have plenty of detail on what you can do with it. Light on games perhaps, but it sounds like that's MS's direction with this generation.
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Why? They just alienated gamers while showing non-gamers that they've been overpaying for a glorified Netflix machine.

I've been a diehard Xbox fan since I first got my hands on the original, but this makes me want to switch back to Playstation.
They also have a bad track record of supporting other companies technologies which, at least for me, makes convergence impossible. If they don't support AirPlay and can't play content from an iTunes library, I'll still need an Apple TV.
Grouping those under ~30 or so into distinct political camps is both hopeless and erroneous, especially given how many of just people in general today don't identify with either major political party.
Yes, another of his inventions (or something he was at least involved in implementing) is Gearman (http://gearman.org/), a queue/worker system which I used in my last job at a domain registrar/web host to hack up parallelised domain name look-ups. Similar to memcached, it was ridiculously quick and easy to set up and use, and bought me massive efficiency gains with very little implementation cost.
Really?? From all the comments about this idea/execution/etc, this is what you chose to focus your attention on?!
From various gamers I've seen on twitter/etc I'm not surprised, the Core gaming audience did not seem impressed (anecdotal, but still interesting).

Be interesting to see if MS manages any level of 'course correction' at E3 or if people who aren't hardcore sports/CoD/etc gamers simply aren't the target market now.
The 1TB is definitely real. They had unlimited storage before for pro users. The fine print was confusing (i.e. max 300mb uploads per month). But I guess consumers now favour an actual measurable number (1TB) than unlimited. Flickr is a social community, not sure how reliable it is a backup solution. Good question though. Recently in the news they accidentally had some user's private photos as public :S
It's a $230 "backer", and you happen to get a months worth of the stuff as a prize. Same with all the Kickstarter stuff.
I'm surprised this is even legal.
Is it me or is the nutritional breakdown of the drink not listed anywhere?
Do they really expect to market this without even listing whats in that thing? And why does not a single person in their team have any credentials in the area whatsoever?
A very valid question. It was probably the outcome of a team meeting (don't we love them?), and one or more people were present with reasons not to take this route. What those reasons were, or whether they were well-founded, we'll never know.
For a video game console? Yes. Yes it is. GameFAQ's up right next to the actual game? Control panel where you can control your livestream?
Most likely it will have to work with an external subscription. The guy on stage mentioned that he uses Comcast and then did the demo. So I imagine it will work like Google TV and just be a glorified channel changer without any content of its own.

I too have the Logitech Revue and it eventually just became a netflix box for my kids. We just switched back to having a dedicated laptop for our TV and never looked back.
Yeah I remembered he claimed to be able to control the monthly cost for around $103 and I got pretty excited over that. Now I'm disappointed to see the price rose to $230. I guess it is time to really find out where my own mix went wrong: I feel the irresistible urge to eat a ton a few days after I'm on my own mix.
As HarryHirsch says, no he absolutely does not have that right. Zoning is far from a new invention, it's been around since the industrial revolution at least.

I'm honestly shocked that people apparently would want to live in the kind of an environment where at any second the property next door could be turned into a tannery. How could anyone have confidence in their property's value in a society where that was allowed?
Assuming this product is made from Soy (ingredients aren't listed), I would caution any male from inducing it in large quantities.
Lol, that's not hard because it's hard, that's hard because you make it hard. These are 2 whole different problems. A name certainly can help to a startup (i.e. seo), but a startup is only a startup for it's rapid growth, and because Google searches are not undergoing rapid growth most of the time, this is not a startup problem but just an identity problem, which is a struggle but not a problem.
I'm not sure that the cost of a month's supply on this campaign is necessarily what it will ultimately cost in full production. The prices listed here, I assume, are what they think they need to charge to reach their 100k goal to enter mass production (based on how many people they expect will support the campaign). Ultimately they have a lot more costs than just the price of the ingredients, and their first run is likely to be more expensive than subsequent runs.
I've found it annoying how he's milking his mailing list (that he got off of HN publicity) for all it's worth. He used to hit us with a sales pitch basically every day, now it's only every 5 - 9 days or so.
Is it actually because of the presentation or just a coincidence?
So now I can have a UI with ads overlaid on my TV ads? Fantastic!
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Are the people that die from smoke inhalation going to buy and feed themselves on Solyent in the future? That is an interesting logistical problem, and if so, what would that logistical footprint mean for the environment? I think these arguments are ridiculous, no matter how good it is, unless it is opened, locally produced food will always be the best choice, environment-wise.
There's an app for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062555
Hmm, that could be it but they were showing a guide within the Xbox One interface if I am not mistaken. I guess they could be showing their own guide and then just sending a message to the cable box telling it what channel to switch to. Definitely interested in hearing more about how they see this working.
Limited market appeal (folks who eat to live vs live to eat) and it lacks the credibility of a clinical study done under the supervision of folks who have the experience to evaluate the results.

So in that way it is simply another "look, eating this probably won't kill you, at least not quickly." product. There are many of these introduced and produced every year.

That said, to the extent that this guy can get traction for his effectively artificial food, the big food companies will watch it and talk about it. If there is something to it they might add their own toe in the water, or not. Most recently they have been hammered pretty publicly about how their manufactured food products aren't really much food (see "In Defense of Food" as an example of the narrative)
Precisely this.

I remember when I first read the creator's blog post and how little it costs to make. Now I come and see it costs about the same amount it costs me to purchase food for a week.
I don't think this is really an issue any more, even Linux itself has its source on Github now. There's almost certainly alternative, arguably better ways of contacting the maintainer of a public repository now.
Attempting to define a "rule" in this is what the title should imply is the failure, but it doesn't seem to take that to heart.

What you should be avoiding is having users reach your home page and saying to themselves, "Where am I?" Even if they are random hits -- which happens, and often -- your root page, the one people come in on who aren't going anywhere specific, should make it clear what you do or are, or at least avoid making it unclear.
Sort of a unexpected result, isn't it? The more 'egalitarian' companies distribute (massive) amounts of wealth into a (relatively) large number of people, gentrifying the entire Valley, and threatening to push the old inhabitants out. Is this egalitarianism? In making the middle managers (or whoever these people are) into millionaires, the divide between billionaires and the layman isn't actually improved: now the gap is even wider.

There is also some curious use of evidence: Obama won Santa Clara by 42% implies "the most dynamic sector .. is now decisively in the camp of the Democrats", but it was only 30 years ago that Reagan won the same county by >10%. The data seems to imply that the county could swing back next election, but the author doesn't seem to appreciate that idea. Why does the author have a hunch that while they temporarily voted Republican, they're truly Democrats at heart?
Very true. They need a nuticionist on the team
This is kind of what I wanted to accomplish by building Eat This Much[1], ideally making eating and staying healthy at the same time less of a chore.

I'm really on board with the idea, but what got me interested was the notion that it would be easy to adjust the formula to my needs, e.g. choose a different ratio of various powders if I want to gain weight, lose weight, or compensate for some genetic difference.

[1] http://www.eatthismuch.com
I hope they eventually state all of the potential allergens that are in this. As I've gotten older I've become very sensitive to various foods (especially anything with lactose in it) and this sort of thing appeals to me, but if it had lactose in it, say, it could be.. interesting ;-) Ditto for people with peanut allergies and the like.
I'd imagine it has more to do with Jefferies giving the stock a buy rating than whatever MSFT announced at their conference.
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It's almost worth it just to get rid of Verizon's guide...
Do you trust the client side at all?
Spent one summer living off of ramen, eggs, carrots, and celery. It's like tenbux for a week of food, and can be filling--poaching an egg into the ramen with a sliced up carrot and celery stalk is where it's at.
Thanks, I write for myself, and I think I'm a pompous ass. A log of the ideas about readers comes from parroting Zinnser's On Writing Well. I had it out from the library earlier this year.

One of the benefits of HN for me is that I don't get terribly upset about the subject matter - usually. I've tried to stop writing about things that I am upset about, both online and in my journal. It's made writing a much more pleasant experience.
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is this a joke? video was funny.
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More like half of that half. There's polls on how many people still think Saddam had WMDs or think Obama was born in Kenya or whatever. That's still enough to swing primaries and give us the current Congress.

I think a good number of small-l libertarians would consider voting Republican if they were a reasonable alternative and if Obama was actually the socialist he's made out to be. But the fact is, they're not and he isn't. Half of the political system is in fact impervious to reason.
It's interesting to see everything went from supportive on soylent to very negative after they published this campaign. I wonder what has changed?
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> So you determine value based on mediums (PDFs) instead of the outcome (learning how to self publish)?

Yes. Just like I prefer paying for Spotify instead of CD's. Just like I would rather pay for Netflix than cable. And so on. Medium matters in value perception.
It was always pretty clear that the early costs represented ingredients only, and the ingredients themselves have changed over time. There's also processing, containers, shipping, etc. when you're interested in someone making it for you.

The ingredients list is published and available, there's even a spreadsheet up with online locations where you can buy everything.

I can understand being dissatisfied about cost - but it was never claimed that you could receive this delivered to your door for $100/mo.
NYSE:SNE is an ADR [1]; basically, a bank buys shares in a foreign country, and sells a receipt for those shares on a local exchange. It acts as a proxy for the foreign share, without having to deal with currency conversion/owning direct shares of a foreign company.

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Yes, a claim that 0.2% of the world population dies every year from their own stoves caught my attention. The WHO report is striking to me, because that's a lot of people dying from causes they don't understand and don't see coming.
Really? He said he has replaced most meals, but I haven't seen where he recommends that strategy to others.
Is soylent vegan available yet?

Not yet. This first run will be the regular vegetarian soylent, but it is lactose free, kosher, halal, and absent of all known allergens

I believe soy is an allergy to some people. What does "absent of all known allergens" mean then?