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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. - Publius Tacitus ca. 56 – ca. 117 Roman orator, lawyer, and senator. He is considered one of antiquity's greatest historians.
Short answer: Think "the Apple Store" of car dealerships.
Long answer: I don't think the mass market is in Tesla's future anymore. They're too late. There are too many competitive new entry level entrants from Honda, Nissan, Ford etc. I don't think Musk cares. He strikes me as a guy with a mission - to get us off fossil fuels - and he's doing that. I think his deal to supply the motor industry shows you where Tesla will be. Kind of like an "Intel Inside" strategy (total wild guess)
Here is a closer look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-H3-F4Ztc

Looks like it's held on by 18-20 bolts.
Pretty spooky. Or maybe the woman just went to his website, and looked at the contact page.
GroupTalent
shameless autopromotion, a.k.a. my viewpoint: http://blog.cyplo.net/2011/07/24/how-to-hire-people/
I mentioned upthread, I was overweight. Not incredibly so, but certainly overweight. I was 6'2, 210, without very much muscle mass.

I gained maybe a pound a month during 2010 and 2011. Finally 12/2011 I had enough. I didn't like how I felt. What worked for me is this:

1. No depravation. I ate dessert every day. Period.

2. A large dinner (followed by that dessert) every day. Large as in, feeling totally full but not like so-full-it-hurts full.

3. Three 90 minute visits to the Gym every week.

4. A dramatic reduction in what I eat during the day. Dramatic. I went from free startup catered lunch every day (which is essentially like eating 2 dinners a day) to eating only raw during the day. That was my commitment: Nothing processed or cooked until dinner. But gorge myself at dinner if I wanted.

I started this 12/2011 and eat like this to this very day. It's easy now. In fact I hate it when I have to eat a big lunch. Today my lunch is 1 large apple, grapes, 5 strawberries, 1 small "Babybel Light" cheese and 3 water crackers. (I only added the cheese and crackers once I got down to under 170 and needed to eat more to stabilize my weight). I ate more fruit and veg the first 6+ months after I started this, I've just acclimated now to the smaller intake.

I cannot stress how important the big dinner was to me. Because I tried dieting before. Deprevation is very very hard to make work I think. And most importantly, what I've done was change my diet, not go on a diet. I can literally eat like this for the rest of my life. But a more conventional "diet" diet? No way. I'd hit some goal, then drop that misery like a bad habit, and probably slowly go back to the gaining 1 pound a month.

For me, at the gym, I was 28 but I'd never really done much time in the Gym. All i did for the first 8-10 months was cardio. The Elliptical. I'd just get on there for a full hour. The computer attached (as unreliable as it is) would usually indicate 800+ calories burnt. I had a handfull of 1000+. In one hour at the gym.

i morphed that later to 35 mins cardio, the rest alternating between isolating muscles (the machines) and free weights.

I mention all this not because I think I've discovered "the way." But your comments reminded me of how I felt before I did this. And now I'm so so happy I did. And here's what I really would hope, if I could pick the best outcome of my spending this 10 mins writing this:

People would read this and realize that they can innovate their own solution, borrowing a little from one diet, a little from another, weaving together a solution that works for them. What I do -- no breakfast, small lunch, huge dinner -- is basically 180* from what the conventional wisdom is. But it works for me. I iterated and found what works for me. To hell with the "experts." What I learned reading Pollan, etc, is that the science of nutrition is hardly a science at all and is full of contradictions and confusions.
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Snowden Petition Is Useless
Because law is not expressible as code. The phrase, "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" is captured in human language for good reason — it contains embedded values and cultural assumptions that cannot be written objectively.
So.. they said please, didn't threaten you, and pointed out a few potential problems with the method you are using (like missing return addresses).

That seems.. helpful?
How did you answer that question? -- I honestly don't understand what possibly could be drawn from asking that.

Deductive reasoning? Logical thought pattern? Creative thinking? Seems like there are a lot of better ways to find out if someone is capable of such things
Is it a good idea to approach from behind and force the parson to lay back on you? (A headlock basically.) This gets their mouth out of the water so they can breath.

Once they breath for a bit they'll calm down and can help in their rescue.
> I made the parent comment.

D'oh, I didn't see that.

> Linking basic health care to employment as a default is ridiculously stupid. There is no real relation between a person's health and their job. Basic health care needs to be connected to the individual, while "extended health care" (or additional options, etc) can certainly be offered as a benefit.

I put it to you that no white collar (and a chunk of Blue collar) employers in Canada don't give "extended health care" as part of employment.. which is to say the basic health care provided in Canada is not sufficient for those people. They need those extras. For those people to have sufficient coverage, their healthcare is now tied to their employment, which you yourself said is "ridiculously stupid". There is no moral justification for this, only the monetary one (which I'll address below)

> There is no viable reason why employers should be banned outright from offering extended benefits as a condition of employment to compete for talent.

There absolutely is when those extended benefits are required to live at an acceptable standard for lots of people, which essentially makes them basic benefits, just using different semantics.

Of course, the Canadian government only wants to scale-back the basic benefits and increase the public's reliance on "extended health care", thus transitioning the system to more closely match the current US system, where if you don't have a job with "extended health care", your health care sucks.

> Interestingly enough, a socialized (single payer/universal, etc.) system of basic health care with privatized add on's and extras is basically the way every civilized society on the planet operates

Yep, and Canada is one of the few where your employer gets to stick it's nose into those add on's and extras, which is, as you say "ridiculously stupid"

> This statement shows a complete lack of understanding of actuarial science, which is the basis of all insurance. See Here: ...

It's very interesting to me that I'm talking about trying to increase the standard of living, freedom of choice, and people's HEALTH, and you're constantly talking about bean counting, expenses and accounting.

It's sad that you actually work in the health industry in Canada, and you're more interested in schooling me on basic accounting principles than having a discussion on how the system could be modified to actually increase people's standard of living.

That's exactly what's wrong with the American system - accounting is more important than health care - and you're so far into the Canadian system you can't even see you're justifying the way in which Canadian system is doing the same thing on the basis of accounting.
"Who the fuck knows?"

Anyone who's following this issue, even cursorily. In my state of Virginia, it's no secret that the auto dealers have formed a cartel and are leaning on every level of government to forbid Tesla from selling cars here. This activity is not remotely secret, and is known to be happening in several states. There may be other groups pushing this anticompetitive legislation in NY, but the chance that the dealers are not is vanishingly small.
Just added to Radio - relaunch to get them immediately otherwise they will show up in the next 24 hours.
So do these companies using GroupTalent accept part time contracts? That would be a decent strategy to minimize risk. Even good developers may not be hired after the initial contract.
Which, according to his findings with the dumpmon twitter bot, is not uncommon. Obviously you can make the case that YOU would use anti-virus software and YOU wouldn't let malware be installed on your computer, but in the end, you're still using a fairly insecure method to store your important passwords. And really, wouldn't a solution like LastPass be better in every way anyway?
Very cool, although I don't think we really need anything else to spy on us at the moment.

This is the first time I have seen a flapping wing vehicle perform that well - I wonder how power requirements for something like this vs fixed wing with prop vehicles compare.
"Quit wasting my fucking time google-interviewer."

"Correct. You're hired."
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I don't think that will become an issue. Ideally I think once the site is done and starts getting populated with post it'll end up being more news about tech and gadgets along with cool new geeky products. Even if it turns out to be more geeky humor and memes, each member can choose what they like to follow and what shows up on their main feed once logged in
Is there anyone that have read one of the readily available interview books that can't answer one of those estimation questions? I'm sure the answer to that question is 'yes', but I am also sure that their utter inability to prepare for an interview or reason on their feet will be discovered in the interview by other means.
Oddly familiar...

http://files.myopera.com/illithid2003/albums/4327322/encore1...
I aced the teaser back in college a s still didn't get the internship... What does that tell you?
You could also create another app that only has the dyno curl the website every hour.
What's the actual protest? That the paper FOIA requests don't include the required information to honor said request, allowing the NSA to throw out the requests entirely without having to spend time fulfilling them?

Sounds more like the ~~company~~ guy is trying to cover for ~~its~~ his fuckup filling out the forms. It's a much more effective protest to actually make the NSA follow through with the requests.

Edit: Also, from http://www.mynsarecords.com/contact/

To reach Jon, please e-mail: jcorbett [at] fourtentech.com

Yes, how did they get your email, indeed. Probably some kind of spy technology.

This man is an idiot, please don't fill up HN with this drivel.
For most software companies, the overwhelmingly highest expense is going to be employee salaries and direct costs of employment. At many companies that is 80% of all expenses. (Exceptions: companies with large advertising costs, and platform companies with exceptionally large costs that scale with the success of the core business, like you might imagine Twilio, Heroku, or Stripe having.)

Consider a 3 man company which raises $5 million in investment and expands to 10. They'll chew through a million every six months just in payroll costs.

Ten is a fairly small company. There are many VC-backed companies which are in the 100~200 employees range. Payroll scales pretty much linearly, so...
Yes but... I didn't give them my Web site, either. All they had was my name as the return address.
Location, location, location matters too. $50k in Alabama is at least $100k in SF.
I think the opposite
Hi - this is Manny, CEO of GT. If you a try a company and then FT it may be a great outcome for you too. As you may in the long term not be a good fit for that job. Plus in the process of discovery you made a ton of money (contractor payouts are 70% to 100% higher than regular FT salaries even when it includes benefits!)
Your point is right in that try-before-you-buy is not a new construct but rather a corollary of being an at-will employment society. So yes, GroupTalent is just a hiring platform that allows tryouts as a perfectly reasonable alternative.
> I'm confused as to how anyone could have believed that one of the 5 largest signals intelligence agencies in the world could not have been tapping Internet backbone cables.

I feel bad for conspiracy theorists. Had they made the same statement a month ago, they would have been called tin-foil hat wearing nuts and now people say things like the above so casually and pretend like it was obvious all along.

I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow it is revealed that the NSA has collaborated with Verisign and other certificate authorities so as to decrypt SSL certificates a whole bunch of people would come out of the woodworks to claim "of course the NSA can decrypt your SSL connection".

> To believe otherwise is to believe that intelligence agencies believe the Internet is off limits ... Of course they don't believe that.

Of course they don't. People probably doubted they had the capability to sort through and and find useful information inside an internet backbone. It's a tremendous effort collecting and querying that much data.
My three quick contributions:

http://qz.neocities.com/

http://scientists.neocities.com/ (Back to the Future)

http://fometer.neocities.org/

I've had issues uploading CSS, JS and manifest (for offline) files - anyone else?
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"...politics is really about obtaining and wielding power. The people who thrive in politics are more interested in power than ideas."

This should be the preface to every history book. BTW, s/politics/business/ and it is still true.

Not to say that politics and business are not interested in ideas... they are, but not fundamentally. Ideas are only a means to power. Understand this and you will understand much about an idea you wish to see implemented.
Without commenting on the article's fundamental point, which is valid and urgent:

I don't think it's actually a felony to throw away junk mail that isn't addressed to you after it arrives at your house. The statute is written to address cases where mail is taken from the custody of the US Postal Service; it refers to "authorized depository of mail matter" where other language in the US Code specifically calls out letterboxes and the like. I do not believe your home mailslot qualifies as "an authorized depository". I did some searching and found some support for that belief, but nothing very authoritative (a MetaFilter thread and an eHow article).

Let me just acknowledge right away that this is trivia; the proliferation of strict-liability crimes (and the fact that strict-liability is actually a kind of default in federal law) is a real problem, as is the problem of open-ended legislation where the details are filled in by unelected regulators.
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I would agree with you that that's a brainteaser -- or at least a stupid question that shouldn't be asked.

However, brainteasers are indeed banned and they always have been. The problem is that what you and I call a brainteaser isn't what everyone else calls one. Thus, a brainteaser could still be asked, despite the ban.
RSA Conference 2012 -- NSA's Secure Mobility Strategy - Margret Salter
21 pb a day - someone has an expensive storage bill
some of them do. We have had developers moonlight at other companies while keeping their day job to try out a new company before making a jump. It is less risk indeed
As far as I am concerned that email is the work product of a dedicated civil servant. I wish more companies I interact with would do something like google my name in order to learn about my needs and then email me advice on how to better utilize their service.
this reminds me of this chris rock skit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIv4phFcAAs
Well, it's a good thing fruit grows at ground-level then, where deer can pollinate it.
> This is the absolute most obtuse reading of the situation you could have mustered. And this is the problem with this entire debate: those who are arguing against these "seduction" techniques must resort to strawmen and imagined scenarios to show how awful this is.

I didn't even attempt to portray that as his argument. I said that if you don't then there must, of necessity, be some communication going on. -le sigh-

> Unfortunately, this is the stuff that social interaction is made of. You're not going to change it by suddenly defining normal interaction as assault.

Uck, for a block user function.
AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement
> Now shut up and believe what you're told.

Nobody is saying this. What they're saying is "apply the same level of skepticism to your pet theories as you do to consensus reality", which is something conspiracy theorists seem incapable of doing.
New Study Reveals How Cancer Cells Avoid Death
We are using the dating model to the recruiting process. Could not control the title of the article, but thx for pointing that out
This is a good solution for me when I'm staging a site for a client before moving to a full-on production setup. A common complaint I get, that has to be explained anew each time, is that the site "takes forever to load". New Relic (or Pingdom) helps me keep it up (sorry) so my clients don't think I built them a POS.
Isn't this just the standard 'Windows is woefully insecure' problem? I would be curious to see how this works in the browsers on OS X.
My whole career I've worked with freelancers at both big firms and small firms and my general ambient belief is that the market is full of people quietly beating the returns they'd get from being FT by doing freelancing work instead.

I'm not suggesting that you need to be Patrick McKenzie to execute this strategy.
Dealers in North Carolina are attempting a similar tactic.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/13/north_car...

UPDATE: Actually it appears Tesla is having a rough go of it in a lot of states, Colorado being the first one to oppose their efforts:

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130525/APF/130525068...
8/10 piss it away quickly on new hires, new offices and "marketing". The other 2 piss it away just a little slower than the other 8 to give the illusion that they might eventually become profitable or survive to raise another round of funding.
My point had nothing to do with the credibility of either of those outlets only that they both routinely publish stories critical of the United States and since they didn't publish this story then they must not have faith in it.

In short, I agree with you that lack of reporting from foreign outlets is indicative that they think there isn't enough evidence to report it.

Just to be clear we are talking about different things: You are talking about whether the claims are true, or more sensibly, whether they are supported by credible evidence. I am making a more narrow point about the fact that media institutions are strongly influenced^ by government and corporate interests. That is true independent of whether Tice's claims are.

^ Obviously foreign institutions are far less influenced by other foreign governments and are therefore more reliable when reporting on those foreign governments, though not always (e.g. Iraq WMD claims).
You should understand that government is not a single entity. Having friends in the energy department doesn't translate to the whole government.

It's not a dictatorship after all.
OT: What's with the triple quotes? English isn't Python. They have different syntaxes.
Processing the UK's real-time traffic data with Python
Can we all stop examining local news and panicking globally?

Am I coming across as panicky? I don't really see that... I'm just pointing out that deer don't have the same keystone role in large ecosystems as major pollinators.
Further, you shouldn't do this if you plan to leave it like that in the long term. That's robbing Heroku.
This is a concept I've heard a lot growing up by all sorts of people. Usually they suggest something tangential or paranoid as a result.

I'd say its normal and to be expected, and this kind of whining is equivalent to someone writing an article on car crashes and titling it "No One Is Safe".

Civilization and governments are emergent, more or less, and hobbled together by all manner of parts and precedents.

We live in a democracy, or an approximation of one. That means we aren't ruled by an evil cabal, we aren't ruled by some landed elite. We aren't governed by some educated class (you should see some town hall meetings).

We've chosen a democratic process, which means that we've chosen in aggregate to be governed by whoever shows up.

That's horrifying in its own right, but its more-or-less what we asked for.

And what, you were expecting a perfectly oiled, benevolent government from top to bottom with seven nines up-time and great fault tolerance?

Shitty things like this are a cost of civilization. By all means we should try to fix them, but we shouldn't act appalled when we find them, and we certainly shouldn't advocate throwing out the cradle of civilization with the bathwater. (Not that this site necessarily does, but "revolution" is in the URL, and many who point out things like an imperfect justice system do, and civilization smash-and-grab tends to be the M.O. of certain political parties that point to things like this in an attempt to tear down other portions of civilization).

I upvoted the article because I'd like the discussion, but I don't like the sentiment of this article, which is essentially "Civilizations and governments that evolve over hundreds of years get very complex, and you should be afraid, be very afraid."

Enough with the boogeymanning. It's not a good way to open discussion or fix things.
On OS X, the passwords are probably stored in the Keychain which would be much better than this.

Personally, I just disable all password storage on all browsers and use 1Password.
Wow, that was uncomfortable to read. I had forgotten about a time where this happened to me in a regular in-ground pool (I was very young.) I can confirm the description of the article: arms extended, cant speak, mouth going in and out of the water with my head tilted up etc.

A friend noticed and got me to safety; my dad was confused and I felt very weird/blurry about how I had reacted.

Thanks.
I remember some software explicitly storing your saved passwords in plain text to make the point that storing it "encrypted" is in the end no different.

Short of making you log in to your browser/password manager with a master password every time, how can you possibly store and retrieve passwords without letting other programs running with exact same permissions as you retrieve them?
Plays nice with http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/
Hi there! Thanks for the great comment. I had a similar one on my blog that I responded to in the following way (I hope it helps!):

"Good question! You're right - in these cases it is assumed malware is already present on the system and running in the context of the user. But there can simply be better protection.

Consider Firefox's use of a Master Password. Even if an attacker is on the otherside of the airtight hatchway, he/she will not get the credentials unless they can find out the password used.

Thanks for the great comment!"
Same thing in Java -- if there's a class named something commonplace like "Transaction" or "Connection", it's going to be pretty critical to understand whose implementation that refers to.
CIA faulted for choosing Amazon cloud over IBM
HIV virus modified to attack only cancer cells, and it works.
"Five Eyes" Alliance Between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
So they can augment their budget estimates for next year's FOIA compliance program?
They were certainly polite. :)

I did a quick check for people submitting things like "FUCK YOU" and "YOUR MOM" in every field and deleted those before sending. A couple I let through had things like missing city but valid ZIP code, which I assume would actually be enough to get the letter to them. 95% of what was sent had a full address.