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1995, Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era is a non-fiction book by American economist Jeremy Rifkin, published in 1995 by Putnam Publishing Group.[1]

In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.

As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that would create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers
Pretty sure about ten years back a team at MIT did a paper on how Tetris is NP-Complete...
> As pointed out elsewhere, if you are wealthy (qualify for the Alternate Minimum Tax) you don't get the tax credit. So that claim is false.

Source? Everyone in this thread on the Tesla forum seems to think that you can still get the credit if you pay AMT: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/9263-Is-7500-t...

And if you check IRS form 1040 http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf and its instructions http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040.pdf, you will see that the tax credit for electric vehicles is added to line 53, which is subtracted from your tax liability whether or not you paid AMT (line 45). AMT applies to taxable income, preventing you from claiming exemptions if your income is over a certain amount. Tax credits apply to your tax liability, which are subtracted after computing your tax and alternative minimum tax.

So yes, you get the tax credit no matter how wealthy you are.

> I think EV subsidies make sense, and I made the point of NASA for a reason. Sometimes when we have an important goal (interstate freeway, getting to the moon, moving the entire country over to electric vehicles) it's worth investing in.

I agree that EV subsidies are worthwhile, but I think that there are better places that we could apply subsidies, such as all of the other infrastructure improvements I suggested, and promoting low-car lifestyles rather than pouring all of that investment into alternative types of cars. But those other improvements aren't as sexy, because they frequently don't involve exciting new technologies but instead simple restraint, better planning, and investment in things that are associated with lower classes (busses, trains, dense urban planning), rather than upper and middle classes (sexy cars, suburban living).

And you know, another way for me to disagree is doing exactly what I'm doing here; trying to urge restraint of many people who think that Tesla is so amazing and so much the future that they lose sight of other, simpler, cheaper ways of solving the problems that Tesla is supposedly solving. There are an awful lot of people here who equate negative opinions of Tesla with being evil, backward thinking, luddites, while really, some people are just asking "is Tesla really profitable (as paying off the loan early might make you believe), or are they still making money off of the taxpayer and zero-emission credits paid for by other manufacturers? How long should the taxpayer fund toys for the wealthy in order to help bootstrap an EV manufacturing industry, as opposed to putting money into other, even more sustainable infrastructure improvements?"
I'm building a platform to enable just that for businesses. It's mostly geared towards marketing integration and automation but could really be used any way imaginable.
I specifically pointed one out in the original post.

Samsung Series 7 Ultra Touch, 57Wh battery with 1080p touchscreen. Gets over 6 hours of battery life in rigorous use.

There is a Ultra Touch model with iGPU if you're willing to put up with weaker graphics.

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Hell, get 20+ hours of battery from the Lenovo x230 (with the slice battery attachment).
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...

Laptops are a PC: they come in every shape and size. You just gotta find the one you like.
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Well I wasn't even talking about syncing across devices but yea - that Twitter behavior pisses me off. They also show me the same unread notifications on every device. The frustrating thing is that I know how easy it would be to fix.
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Maybe because the customer doesn't want to be bothered?
Is English your second language? Maybe the informal nature of forums brings this out but your grammar is pretty poor and for better or worse, English grammar has quite a bit to do with how people perceive us as individuals.
In other words, you have no basis to deny my words, so you want them banned on this forum.
Dealing with the politics, aspy personalities, and payment issues with a small space is hard enough... I can't imagine it magnified to shopping mall proportions!
You wrote " I think all those failures killed me and now I'm lost". Which sounds like you need a good vacation in another culture to me. Go camping if you are on a tight budget. Leave the screen behind for a while and see the world around you.

After the rest, I would suggest that you work on a problem of personal interest to you. Not a problem that you think someone else might have a need for, but a problem that YOU are the person who has a need for it. There are still an uncountable number of problems in the world to solve.
Yes, how do I get in on this gravy train.
Late to the party but I wrote a website to help you do exactly that http://www.codetriage.com. Find a GitHub repo you like, then subscribe to receive one issue in your inbox each day.
Oh and tl;dr I've decided to put all my bootstrapped startup's prototyping out in the public, declaring death to the cult of stealth startups. Would you do the same? Are you doing it already? (edited typo)
Glad I'm not the only one just checking for an '@'. I wouldn't want to prevent users from registering with my sites just because I didn't foresee some funky email address formatting with my regular expression.
How can a tsunami cross the Pacific in 10 hours? Isn't that as fast as an airliner? Of course I'm not questioning the maps, but isn't that shocking? How does it work?
This advise should be the top-voted comment. Because this really works, all the time. If only the OP gave this a shot..
Well; given the scale; I'd estimate they'd have a couple of million in servers that they could offload...
... And then never go back to that store again.
That was a very effective line in kindergarten.
So true! Finally someone said it.
This is a very common practice if the CLI application depends upon Node.js.
the only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves
Obviously, if people died, then someone screwed up bad.

But the "scandal" hasn't been about who screwed up. It's been about whether Obama used the word terrorism enough times in the aftermath, and nebulous accusations of "cover-up" with no actual allegations of wrongdoing that's being covered up. It's pathetic.
„avoid getting upsold by the packs of roving sales peoples trying to boost their commission by selling me something I don't need.“

I have some friends working in stores who quit their jobs because they were forced to sell nonsense stuff in addition to products :-/ Pushes me in the Amazon direction, too...
To me, Jaron's arguing for a robust middle class seems more like an opportunistic smoke screen than the actual core of his argument.

Especially if you look at his utterings from the point where he first "turned against the internet" (he used to actually see piracy as good thing!), which initially solely consisted of ranting against piracy and anonymity. It was only later that he came up with grander social theories to justify his rants.

Yes, the man is smart enough (certainly smarter than me) to identify some actual social and economic problems caused by the free flow of information.

But he's not interested in constructive solutions, because he the solution he has in mind was his starting point: re-establish the reign of copyright, abolish anonymity and stop the free flow of information.

And of course, micropayments to make sure he gets his share. It's funny how it always comes down to that one solution: hardwire micropayments into everything.

Does that sound like something that will solve the "surgeons replaced by robots" problem, or any of the myriad of other jobs replaced by technology, or just his personal problem?
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So you're forcing me to write @localhost :-(

Edit: Oh wait, on your own sites :-) I'm just slightly annoyed that I have to add a fqdn when doing local development with some apps...
When the regex is not RFC complaint is the worst case, for example, I want to use . or + on my mail address and the website don't allow me.
I always feel that if I answer "yes" to "can I help you?" it implies that was just randomly bumbling around the shop like a lost idiot, too incompetent even to ask for help.
I'll start out and say that the NYT's legal department was off the mark here...but they've been off-the-mark (i.e. heavy handed) in a lot of incidents...as far as I've seen, the journalists and developers who were part of Snow Fall didn't seem to give a shit, so maybe someone at NYT was like, "Well, someone do something".

So while NYT legal may be a bunch of blowhards, it's hard to say that they're quixotic takedown effort has any actual effect on journalistic innovation.

There is something highly off-putting about how scrollkit has carried itself in this. It's already been well pointed out that the "hundreds of hours" in making Snow Fall did not involve hand-coding, and that the barrier for storytellers to create "Snow Fall" like productions is not putting together the HTML/CSS, but actually making the content and doing the design work. And I say that as someone who has made a living building HTML and CSS.

Because if the substantial work of building a Pulitzer Prize level feature takes just an hour...then logic would seem to dictate that in about 5-10 hours, any given scrollkit user could create something quite epic (if not Pulitzer worthy), and yet, browsing through scrollkit's few exsmples in their Twitter feed, I don't see anything that comes close to delivering on the impressive design or content that Snow Fall had. And I'm not belittling them...that's not their fault. "Snow Fall" productions are hard, and the HTML/CSS editor used to create them is almost entirely tangential to their quality.

Do we really need to discuss the merits of scrollkit's purported claim, that "templates" are holding content creators back? Templates exist because in serious publishing businesses, there are not the resources to re-invent the HTML wheel, and templates as defined by CMSes do very important things, like represent content in a manageable, portable format. Anyone here who has happily moved their blog to Jekyll/Octopress, I believe, would agree with me. In any case, if we take scrollkit's philosophy to its logical conclusion, then the days of Flash and bespoke UI/UX were the glory days of content. And I'm being sincere here, some Flash apps/portfolio pages were amazing and have not yet been replicated at the HTML5 or even iOS level. And yet, Flash as a canvas didn't quite work out...

The reason why I'm going off on a rant here is that, unmentioned in the OP, is that scrollkit got $200,000 from the Knight Foundation in an initiative to promote journalistic innovation in the long battle to making online journalism viable and vibrant. (DocumentCloud, which most HNers might recognize as the progenitor of Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and several other useful Jeremy-Ashkenas-inventions, was also a Knight-funded initiative.) So there's something a little galling about how scrollkit, which was given 6 figures to aid journalism, is instead raising publicity for itself by dumbing down the already muddled discussion on content management.

And also, its exploitation of the emotions and confusion in the continuing debate over intellectual copyright is also a little annoying.
Maybe I'm a minority (though not in here, I'm sure) as I'm a bit of an introvert but I strongly prefer to browse on my own. Whenever I am asked something "clever" like suggested in the article, I get annoyed because I feel like I'm being manipulated.
Discussion from previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486108
Good thoughts. I agree that the content is primary; however, I count some comments here among the best content and those are written by community members to other community members.

I also agree that PG is not always making the best choices and deputizations in his struggle to maintain the quality of the community. I understand that both decisions to pursue openness and exclusion in a large community will drive away some quality members, but the exclusionary tactics (banning the wrong kind of people) upset people philosophically opposed to it in addition to causing the atrophy found in exclusionary policies as I said earlier.

I hope that you'll stick around and contribute some great content, but if you don't, please influence TheList or whichever community you prefer to embody that anti-totalitarian hacker mindset and thus to really compete with HN. We will all benefit from that.
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People like that help teach the differences among bosses, managers, and leaders.
Oh, it's about how to make the service/server. I was hoping it went over how to make a client for somebody else's (SOAP/WSDL) service.

Making a client for SOAP is easy -- as long as you and your biz partner are using the same version of the same tool. God, I hate SOAP. Tweaking Axis to work with Visual Studio sucks.

There's a reason startups want to use REST, and leave the bodies of the "enterprise service bus" types out in the dumpster in the back parking lot :-)
Not entirely accurate - components of that programme (eg PACS and the Spine) are successes. Not to say that on their own they're worth £12bn, but it's not true to say that the £12bn was completely wasted.
And their first big campaign as a 501(c)(4) was gun control, and that's not political?

Note, I'm not saying that's wrong, in fact, it mirrors the NRA's ILA on the opposite side of that fight.

Look, we had an established system for doing this sort of thing, and it makes no sense whatsoever to make political organizations organize as for profit entities, monetary return on investment is not their game. And donations for political purposes to 501(c)(4) orgs are not tax deductible for the donors.

What we'd like is a return to the level playing field pre-Obama, but I don't know of anyone who believes that will happen, e.g. the IG finished the audit of the program in the middle of last year, obviously didn't release the results, but most damningly didn't stop the abuse, which continues to this day.
This is one of the reasons online shopping is so successful. I have never enjoyed being asked questions by employees when I enter a store. I go in with something in mind (or just to browse to kill time) and get out with or without my product.
Is it worth the work making the "fake" version though? By the amount of work that went into this pixel perfect prototype and the amount of "rework" it would be needed to implement it, shouldn't it be easier to prototype as app with a programmer from the get go? Or at least make a less detailed prototype (the usual)?

BTW, I'm not bashing, really good article.
Not necessarily. Not having a single (hopefully benevolent) entity control a platform means poor standardization -- which leads --> to vendor-specific variants - and voila, you get to the HTML/JS mess that we have today.
I'm not quite sure how this earned a "gate" suffix. Linking to some NYT content is hardly wrongdoing of Nixonian proportions :-)

Also, I'm not sure that this negatively affected Scrollkit at all. The main effect of this story will have been to a) remind people about the Snowfall story and b) remind people that Scrollkit provides tools for creating similar content. Both are good outcomes for Scrollkit!

As for "relationships", I'm not sure what relationships Scrollkit can have damaged given that they had no existing relationship with the NYT. Perhaps some people affiliated with the NYT will see Scrollkit as an annoying upstart and perhaps the NYT staff will feel annoyed that Scrollkit is commoditizing a design concept that was pioneered by them, but that's a small part of the market for Scrollkit (and, by definition, a market that doesn't need Scrollkit because they already have in-house technology to do what Scrollkit does!).

I think it's a fairly healthy part of startup culture that a startup can figure out how a larger company is doing something inefficiently, come up with a faster, cheaper, better (?) alternative, and tell the world about it. Startups shouldn't be bullied by bigger, established companies in these situations, and we certainly shouldn't accept that the larger company had a legitimate reason for doing so. The "relationship" that the NYT wants to have with Scrollkit looks like a fairly abusive one to me.
And I've genuinely heard of none of those :)

I was more thinking of music where few people would argue that the Top 40 or top YouTube hits represented the tracks with the most "quality".
> This idea that a web browser should be an operating-system-in-a-box-over-http needs to stop.

Why? The Web platform is the only non-proprietary platform that has serious market-share among end-users and mind-share among developers. Therefore, it's the only thing that has a serious chance of ending the dominance of proprietary platforms. IMO, that goal is important enough to override any aesthetic concerns that we developers might have.
Java moves ahead despite peoples continued misconceptions about it. There are js-based jvm bytecode interpreters: https://github.com/int3/doppio seems pretty nice.
I would rather lose a few users through a faulty regexp than lose double digit percentage through an email activation step.
woo textpad! I haven't used it for years, but I did buy it at one point. I mostly used it for editing ActionScript 2, because the Flash CS4 editor just failed to do anything if you weren't using the latest and greatest language (you couldn't even configure spaces instead of tabs in the autocomplete ffs!) I was pretty hot on my textpad shortcuts and hacks. :)

Nower days I mostly work in Eclipse inside a Linux VM (convoluted, but I've found Eclipse in OS X to be severely deficient for python - and I can work on files on my host filesystem via a shared folder.)

When I need to edit in Mac OS I use Textmate 2, but I've never actually used any of the magic of Textmate beyond the syntax highlighting (and the latex compile-to-PDF key shortcut.)
That quote ending with "they want help" reminds me of Alec Baldwin's monologue in Glengarry Glen Ross. It sounds salesy to me, and I'd reply with "just looking" and pretend to be undisturbed but to soon leave the store, much less likely to return.
Why not:

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We're clearly already in a transitional time where our society produces much more wealth than we need - so much so that we have to artificially increase consumption in order to keep the gears of capitalism turning.

There are people who are already advocating for a "guaranteed minimum income" - part of the idea is that if it wasn't so painful to be unemployed, then people would be less likely to oppose automating jobs away.

The post that introduced me to the concept is this one: http://itself.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/from-the-generalized-... . It's a little bit ranty, and I'm not sure it's the best introduction, so if anyone has a better link I'd love to read it.
You can have zero character domain names. Briefly trying out a few of the country TLDs, the one for Anguilla works: http://ai. the trialing dot is not needed but helps tell your browser not to try to expand it further.

Many TLDs do not resolve, though many others resolve to the TLD's registrar's site.
I actually had just this experience last week when I went shopping for jeans. Instead of asking me that dreaded first question (to which my response is invariably no), she simply pointed me to men's jeans, asked me my size, asked what kind of style I was looking for (X or Y), and picked out a few pairs for me to try on.

It was great. From a business point of view, I didn't spend any more than I'd intended, but I finished quicker and left with a positive impression.
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Hi there, I am Arvind one of the guys behind Electronic Letters. Hope you like our web app. It's still an MVP if you compare it with traditional email (Gmail and all), but meaty enough for serious consideration.

My friends and I have been using Bubbles for sometime, and we found that it mostly replaces the 'payload' emails i.e. lowers the need of sending files as an attachment. 'Mail is the file' sorts. And it replaces one-line emails that one usually sends in a hurry.

Electronic letters have more possibilities and actions compared to simple reply and forward options of emails. For example, doodling, scribbling, in-line commenting, collaging etc. and returning the same mail back to the author.

There are other exciting possibilities like people can write in the language of their choice, send steganographic messages etc. It actually feels cool to read someone's handwriting, especially someone close!

Think what? Please share your feedback and guide us.

[Edited for grammar]
Danger is not a deterrent (think of climbers).

Dealing with dirt and feeling it as humiliating is subjective (there are plenty of satisfied janitors and trash-cleaners out there).

Menial does not necessarily mean 'hideous'. There are plenty of happy nurses and people working at hospices.

Serving others can be a real motivator.

I edited my post above just to clarify I am no fool on this.
It is fun article with some apt analogies and I am glad that I decided to read it despite the title. To me at least, "Game of Thrones" TV series would be a horrible project management tutorial, as almost all characters in it do not have a slightest idea what they want and/or how to achieve it, changing sides in a conflict on a whim. Obviously it is about a journey, not a destination for Westeros nobles.
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Mid-Life Crisis
Trouble in techtown?
First world problems
and
Africa is still in the dark ages.

You've all heard it before.
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