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"They're probably only funded because it's Elon Musk behind them."

And because of significant advantages and opportunities. Tesla, for example, benefits from the department of energy loan program as well as other tax incentives (like ZEV credits, which comprised most of their revenue thusfar)
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I've been interested in venturing into Scala but have not found a good resource for getting a development environment setup. Should I be using an IDE or will sbt/Sublime be sufficient?
You guys should hire the guy since he showed the world what a big flaw that was, instead of selling it he kept on trying to tell to the company. He should be seen as a hero by Facebook!

Shows how many issues there should be that are not taken into account.

BTW: English not being the primary language for these folks has not to do with anything, shows how much stereotype there's in being American or not. It's a global world, wake up!

BR,
> “Modern society is rational and rigid, whereas postmodern society is irrational and flexible by definition. Delhi transformed into a postmodern society about two decades ago. Naturally the behavior of kids born in the postmodern era reflects the postmodern culture,” he said.

This quote confused me. I don't want to get into the freshman in a university discussion of the merits of different cultural values..

but when did Dehli become "post-modern"? Is this a phrase people use often? What types of changes happened 20 years ago? It's like this quote is hinting at a much larger social discussion, and then immediately they didn't discuss it.

This article left me completely wanting, and read like some unfinished first draft. Yes rich kids can much more easily get spoiled, and the term "spoiled" does have some literal meaning. It was almost as if the point of the article was to let me know rich people exist in India? Duh?
The article is also the first of it's kind I've seen that gives salespeople comprehensible and actionable advice on how to improve.

If they're salespeople worth their salt they'll be able to help leverage this newfound understanding to better sell their feature requests.

I do agree that ideally this nuggets of wisdom would not have been hidden in such a ranty article though.

P.S. Their equivalent post aimed at product managers is at http://blog.aha.io/index.php/hey-product-managers-stop-pissi...
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WTF. An advertiser. The single word you wanted is an advertiser.
If you're charging customers and aren't making enough in a few months to cover the minimum fee then your business is going to be in trouble in any case. Sure the percentage is going to be crappy, but if you're a SaaS business and your margins are so small that the percentage is worth stressing about in the early days then you're probably doing something wrong.

(I bootstrapped my last startup and 100 euros is roughly what I was paying SEOMoz, my accountant, etc. on a monthly basis)

It's way more important to just get something working and out-the-door and grow the number of customers then to spend a lot of time over what comes down to a relative small amount of money, you can always re-negotiate the fees when you grow and the absolute amount becomes meaningful.
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To those who exchange BTC for fiat or operate cryptocoin banks or any company in the financial business dealing with BTC.

As a bar owner who accepts BTC for beer, you are fine. However, the German Gov't has already declared they are set out to discuss how to tax companies that accept BTC.
You're right, my analysis is coming up short on go. I have golang in the dictionary, but not just "go" since it would skew for general use of the term not referring to the language. I was curious about this one too since it's been seeing a lot of time on HN.
> It's past time people started moving away from RSA.

What do you recommend instead?
The tone seems to give off an inferiority complex. It intertwines emotion with logical analysis and projects his distaste for Musk, taking a public paper and considering it a personal attack. This guy has a serious serious ego.
The reason there is such a large number of people involved in the community version is because of the game's nature - there were a large amount of highly interested programmers in the r/0x10c subreddit, so when someone proposed the idea of a community version, a huge amount of people offered to help.

Of course, about 90% of those will probably drop off in the near future, but I reckon that they'll have enough of a development team left afterwards to go through with it.
I don't know a few victory gardens and vertical farms could stretch things out for quite a ways before we need to fully switch to GMO in order to survive.
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Yes, that's my point; the VCs didn't really enable these companies, Musk did.
What you say sounds cool.
I wrote a bunch of Paxos implementations for distributed databases in C++:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo...

Can you share your Go code?
I switched to Goread.io as my full-time Reader replacement since I first heard about it after the announcement of Reader's demise. It's been a decent alternative, but it lacks the polish that Reader had, especially when it comes to read/unread stories.

After weeks of use, I haven't bothered to figure out the consistency of how to mark a story as read, so sometimes it will take frequent clicks on "Mark all as read" to register that I've read something. When you click a story, it awkwardly jumps your scroll position around.

These are minor complaints, and it's still very usable otherwise, but I'm thinking about upgrading my subscription to encourage development.
Ha! the irony here is just too much. The author of the post is not an engineer, and just spent the last two months talking to more than a hundred customers during our private beta (and loved it).

I am not the author of the post, but I am an engineer, and I've worked with sales teams ranging from large enterprise sales, to SaaS inside sales, and I know just like you that it is hard, hard, hard. But I also know, just like the author of the post, that everyone trying to close a deal thinks that their deal is the only one the matters. Getting to club, or meeting your quota is a strong motivator - and one that many engineering teams are oblivious too. I would imagine that many line engineers don't even realize what a big part of a typical salesperson's compensation is performance based.
Having experience on both sides of the debate (i was a SE for 3 yrs, PM for 2 yrs, sales for 3 yrs now) I totally agree with you!

You need both, neither group is more valuable than the other, and you certainly will not succeed selling a beautifully engineered product with a shitty sales force reppin' it.
I agree with what you say... but I meant the media more generally not just the right-wing media

I can see the headlines on the nightly news: "journalist GG retaliates against UK government's detention of his gay lover by publicly releasing classified documents"

and then all of a sudden it's about GG vs the government instead of what it should be, the govt vs the public interest
Beautiful article. Just beautiful.
This is actually easy to work around by creating trampolines. Dan Carney creating a small header file with templates to create those trampolines easily:

https://github.com/drcarney66/v8-backport

Amount of typing one needs to do is minimal, I think.
"You are overhead — until and if you ever deliver." - That's a very "engineery" statement.

History is littered with engineers that build great things and never convert them to commercial success. This is a two-fold sin. The engineer is never compensated for their hard work and the world never benefits from their efforts.

"Engineers are overhead, until and if you ever deliver." - the statement is open enough to be non-meaningful but still come across as an ad-hominem.

Of course a salesman shouldn't lie to the client, and you spotlight a couple of examples of this. Salesmen also tend to be hyperbolic in most forms of communication. It takes a good relationship between sales and engineers to understand the difference between a "must have" feature and a salesmen being a salesman.

The underlying issue you're highlighting is that salesmen at some point continue to do "discovery" while engineers get upset that it makes their Gant chart non-symetrical.

I agree that a good relationship between sales and implementation is important, but your personal take on it reads like you just got in to an argument with a salesman and wanted to let off some steam.

Respectfully.
What do you mean by "all bitcoin companies" ?

This regulation would apply just as normal financial service regulation - to companies that make bitcoin/money transfers on behalf of others, as a payment service provider (like paypal is regulated); that hold bitcoins on behalf of others (like any deposit-accepting bank is regulated) or those that buy/sell bitcoins from public (like currency exchanges are regulated).
Silicon Valley actually funded PayPal. Elon Musk made a boatload of cash from that, and used the mojo (part of it was his own cash, part of it was the reputation he built with PayPal which enabled him to raise more money) to jumpstart SpaceX and Tesla.

But anyway. I am going to say something VERY controversial. Think of it as Devil's Advocate, squared, on steroids. Here goes.

The article could be seen as a rebuke to the fundamental principles of capitalism. You could say capitalism doesn't scale - not to Hyperloop size anyway. Projects at this magnitude simply require that bigger powers get involved. E.g., the government. Sorry for using the G-word in such a refined milieu.

Quote from the article: "Unfortunately, the market does not reward cash flow because the market does not reward value and innovation. The market rewards exits." If that doesn't ring a bell, I don't know what does.

Another quote: "The next reason that we don’t have Hyperloop, but we do have Instagram, is that Fortune 100 companies have notoriously bad in-house R&D. Therefore, acquisitions are driving most of the innovation. " Again, this could be seen as further proof that profit-driven endeavors only innovate small-scale and short-term. Larger leaps are driven by different incentives (I could go on a ramble about the joy of making, but that would be preaching to the choir round these parts of town). And when it comes to truly fundamental research - well, that field is simply allergic to what they call "the industry" (a slightly derisive term, when used in this context); spend some time among theoretical physicists and you'll see what I mean.

When I was young, I've read an essay by a Russian scientist, who was arguing that the centrally planned economy allows for high-magnitude projects, precisely because large financial forces can be easily engaged at this scale. I can't say I entirely agreed with the article back then (a kid growing up in the Eastern Bloc, not really liking the system), and I would not support it indiscriminately now either.

But then there's the Hyperloop. Or any other large scale project like this. Does capitalism scale at this level? Seems like it doesn't - at least not the capitalism of the smartphone app ecosystem. Are there any built-in limits to capitalism? Looks like there are - the limits are the power and wealth of a single individual, whereas some things are too big for any given person (and yes, I am aware that multiple investors could get involved to fund this project, which merely makes the problem slightly less bad, but still leaves it laying in the gutter).

Bear in mind, as someone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, I definitely do not advocate for the Five Year Plan economy. But I think these concerns are legitimate. And I don't have any answers. Maybe someone here does. Or someone "out there".

Anyway, that's all I had to say.
ECDH, ECDSA.
I am often distressed by the time, energy, and resources people consume in an attempt to escape reality (i.e. video games, films, alcohol, and drugs). Reading about endeavors like this renews my optimism for the future.
> More is different (PDF link: http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo.... ).

What? A link to a paywalled article with no abstract? That was constructive. Here's a real link:

https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...

As to the article's content, it's philosophy without supporting evidence (meaning it's philosophy), and its conclusions are regularly refuted by the many examples that connect physical fundamentals with everyday reality. Example? Quantum theory and computers -- as separate as the two may seem, we can't have the second without a detailed knowledge of the first.

> Much like a knowledge of physics is insufficient to draw conclusions about biochemistry ...

In the final analysis, all of biochemistry derives from biology and chemistry, each of which derives from physics. Relevant in that regard is the fact that chemistry turns out to be applied quantum physics, to a shocking number of decimal places.

> The theory and laws of e.g. civil engineering are typically traceable back to abstract physical principles, but are not strictly derivable from them.

Not true. Either civil engineering is "strictly derivable" from physics, or it's not part of reality. The behavior of concrete over time, as just one example -- we know what will become of it in the long term, and modern quantum theory tells us why.

Philosophical articles like "More Is Different" represent nothing more or less than physics envy. They're interesting and deserve to be heard, but in the reality footrace, events annoy the authors by reliably overtaking their philosophical positions.
You obviously never worked at a startup company during the dot-com boom.
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There is also the basic economic argument that much of the value of transit cannot be captured by a private investor because of externalities. The value of a transit line isn't just to people who ride it. This is obvious: compare commercial real estate leases near a subway stop versus ones far away. Governments can capture those positive externalities through general increases in tax revenue or things like tax increment districts. Private operators are stuck trying to recoup all their investment solely from riders.
sbt + sublime is certainly sufficient. I program in Scala all day long. I know many developers use the IntelliJ IDE.
Are the unread RSS feed entries stored in db then called to be read later?
>I'd argue that if you replaced school teachers with babysitters, the only catastrophe would be all those damaged egos.

The keyword you used is "replaced", not "do away with". Actually I think an argument could be made that teacher pay does already treat them somewhat as babysitters. Babysitters would likely be more expensive on an hour * kids basis than teachers given current babysitter rates.

Anyways, you are right, wages are determined by "supply and demand", unfortunately collective bargaining is seen as a bad thing, whereas I see it just as another way for a truly "free market" to communicate the value of a job.
In this case, weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) is actually just the same species as cultivated rice (O. sativa), and the two do interbreed freely (as per definition of species in plants).
Nothing stops the state for demanding tax payments in normal money regardless of if the income is in normal money or not.

This do happen in real life quite often when people are not paid in cash.
In my experience, jumping straight to writing code results, if anything, in a huge mess. For anything more complex than proof of concept programs for specific language or library features, this quickly becomes unmanageable.

I have obtained much better results by first developing a nice logical model (not necessarily 100% formal, but at least rigorous enough to be amenable to formalization), and only then picking a programming language into which the model can be translated with a minimum amount of effort. In this regard, a good language is one that allows translating as many logical constraints as possible into statically verifiable constructs (such as types). The nice thing about static verification is that errors in the translation can be detected as soon as you make them. Heck, in some cases, even errors in the original conceptual design can be detected.

Scala is a better language than Java because its type system is so much more powerful. Using Scala as if it were Java nullifies this advantage, and leaves you only with the inconvenience of having to learn a new syntax. So, what is the point?
"It seems self-evident that lecturing is a hugely inefficient and ineffective way of teaching people."

Is it possible that only poor lecturers give hugely inefficient and ineffective lectures?

It seems to me the point of lectures isn't to transmit information - that can be done using a book. Rather it is, or ought to be, a demonstration of how a master deals with a problem or answers a question.
Actually, combining driverless taxis with hyperloop/HSR for the long hauls might be an ideal solution.

Another option is personal rapid transit grids: http://www.skytran.net/
> If he fails

So far, its not clear that he is attempting anything with Hyperloop other than what he is demonstrated to be very good at: selling ideas.

Its particularly clear, though, that the one thing he isn't trying to sell Hyperloop as yet (and may not be at all) is an actual project/business, as opposed to just a reason to not support CA HSR.

Why the CEO of a company selling currently selling high-end electric cars and working to expand the reach of electric cars in the market might want to sell an alternative to a project designed primarily to reduce automobile road trips (which incidentally reduces the need for automobiles) in California by improving mass transit on both the major intrastate long-distance corridor and the connecting regional/commuter mass transit systems -- either as a real system that doesn't do as much to reduce automobile demand (and even relies on transporting autos to provide door-to-door connectivity) or as a phantom system to derail the existing proposal -- is pretty obvious.

Hyperloop doesn't need to be successful as mass transit -- or even ever have $1 spent toward building it -- to succeed for Musk.
"The researchers did NOT observer genes crossing over from the GMO to the wild, weedy form of the rice in a Natural setting."

What you say is true, they didn't observe than. But weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) is the same species as
rice (Oryza sativa), so gene crossing is not far-fetched, it's to be expected in any case.
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Everything that is wrong with Minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap87xnjOh8E

In short, Notch seems to have lost his focus as soon as he started taking more vacations[1] and organizing minecon. The guys lazy. To this day, combat since alpha has not expanded, and is still boring.

[1] - http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2618/1355959516258.png
Also, VCs don't fund public utilities / infrastructure, which are (at best) generally capital-intense, low-risk but low-return projects. If a project like the Hyperloop had to depend on private funding, it would need to return hundreds of billions in value, and that's just not going to happen. To get things like eminent domain, it has to be built as a public good, which means it at the very least has to be affordable for the average citizen (in some form.) That's why projects like high speed trains should be funded out of the public coffer and are generally unsuitable for private investors.

Now, building a company to develop Hyperloop tech / high-speed train technology? I'm sure that's something private investment could do, but I don't think it's really SV's forte - there are other places that would be better suited to that kind of engineering.
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Indeed, but then he could go with a less scary title than "The Cryptopocalypse". "RSApocalypse" maybe.
> Their implementation sucks so much that most decently built concurrency implementation will beat Go-routines by a wide margin.

It's worth noting that they're aware of the schedulers problems, and Dmitry is working on a significant revamp. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sL...
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But the question remains. How did he drop the energy requirements by orders of magnitude, and from my fuzzy memory of such things, would that even be enough to make a warp drive practical?

If he's right, it would be at least, a step in the right direction....
I would love it if there were a straightforward way to donate money directly to NASA. I'd happily fund an indiegogo project for warp systems.
I didn't catch it all but it had a significant section on the main BBC Six O'Clock News.

I wrote to my MP, (Michael Gove) about this. While I disagree with him on many (if not most) things as an ex-journalist I hope he is unhappy with this.
The article mentions Litecoin and Ripple as well, so regulation would probably apply to them as well.
My mistake. I thought your point was, "Tesla was much cheaper to start than people think, well within normal parameters for early venture rounds."
What is J.J. Abrams teasing with Bad Robot's new mystery trailer?
I am sure if I went dollar to dollar, pound for pound, it may be more expensive, but I don't have money for the bandwidth or infrastructure to install at my house to do half the things I do with Amazon. If you have any alternatives, please let me know.
Matthew Green breaks this down in considerably more detail here; highly recommended:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238305
Whenever possible I avoid using Java libraries in Scala. Scala and Java have very different programming styles, which are codified in the APIs for libraries. You lose the benefit of Scala style when you are forced to program against a Java library.
I had to learn to pick problems apart

Well, that's what all good programmers do, so it doesn't look like not being good at math as been a disadvantage - quite the opposite I'd say. Sometimes you need to tackle things from a slightly different angle.
> How, then, do you account for the very basic and substantial errors described in the article?

Surely you don't think a single counterexample -- or a dozen counterexamples -- refute well-established principles? The argument was that various engineering disciples are independent of each other and of physics. That's very clearly false and smacks of post-modernism (i.e. that everything is a matter of opinion, not evidence), and it's hardly supported by an example -- or a dozen examples -- where someone gets the engineering wrong.
The legal industry is mostly "bullshit" work. To think otherwise you'd have to believe both:
(1) the system is perfect at making good laws which have the precise consequences desired.
(2) the average number of laws decreases, rather than increases over time (barring major overthrows, revolutions)