skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people do prefer OSX. Between OSX and Windows, I'd choose OSX in a heartbeat because cygwin wasn't so great when I tried it a while back.

I did try OSX for a while, and wanted to like it because I can get it for free at work, but I'm so used to Linux that OSX quirks really annoyed me. Things like package management being an aftermarket hack, pain trying to get functional RAID10, Apple changing core functionality between releases breaking my setup, etc. For me, Linux is WAY easier. :-)
This survey was in the US, though, where the term "software engineer" isn't regulated in any way. You can become one just by impressing someone with your Github profile: no other accreditation or experience necessary.
> Not to mention the violent revulsion many people (myself included) are expressing in this topic.

Immaturity seems like a good explanation of that effect
there are usually a couple dozen emails per week, but easy to skim through. i read most of them, as i'm sure many do.
Applying limits : as a large company unravels towards bankruptcy, it's business plans evaporating to ether it rapidly approaches the hallowed title of a startup. By the above metric sun was a startup post 2002, AMD is still a startup, Blackberry is a startup...
No disrespect taken at all. I don't have any problem admitting I'm completely wrong on something. I'd be glad to learn more about the topic. However, a trivial amount of research has really only served to seemingly complicate the matter rather than confirm it either way. For instance, luxury brands fared well here:

http://forums.motortrend.com/70/1044466/the-general-forum/co...
Ancient world: fertility rates are positively correlated with prosperity.
(E.g., the Roman Empire's decline of fertility rate at the end is caused by the economic troubles of the dying empire.)

Industrial Age: fertility rates (of the middle classes) are negatively correlated with prosperity.
start using preprocessor or what, emmet and you won't at least have to write them right? they aren't causing issues in overhead
The Nexus 5 should have much better touch response times compared to every Android device on that list. It isn't quite as quick as the iPhone 5, but I suspect it would beat out the iPhone 4.
Ask HN: What would you do to improve this landing page?
Federalism has many meanings, but the basic concept is an association of equals or near-equals who make decisions by established protocols. While the US Federal Government was established in a time when communication could take weeks, by the mid-ninteenth century, communication was near-instantaneous, and many political thinkers tried to convince people that they could give up such a high level of representation in favor of mutual decision making based on systematic federalism. This was the beginning of the anarchist political movement, but it was widely dismissed by socialists in favor of traditional power hierarchies. Perhaps today with our even better communications infrastructure, we might be able to revisit some of these ideas of a more distributed power structure.
Why would they send an NSL to someone who isn't subject to US law?
Depends on your definition of startup, doesn't it? Some people prefer a definition based on growth rate. Another definition that occurs to me is a company that could perhaps one day be massively profitable, but is currently losing money.

To me, Tesla does seem to have IPOed unusually early. The "usual route" I have in mind is that tech companies typically acquire some very significant market share before their IPO. Tesla look like they're still getting started.
Mostly RDS / EC2 / Python with C/C++ extensions
>Your whole rant comes off as entitled. You haven't really said anything of value. Just hackneyed sentiments that you can see any day on reddit or on Facebook.

You seem to be suffering from the same curse here. Every counter-point you make is no less evident of your own privilege. You've taken many of his points and flat out denied or stated it's his fault—solely from your own perspective.

You seemingly like to blame the people who feel like victims instead of discovering WHY they feel like victims, I suppose that is a product of our society though eh? Is it not enough that this is how he feels? You're telling him that his feelings are wrong; funny thing about feelings, they don't go away because you're told they're wrong.
While seemingly a sensible limitation to free speech, the "shouting fire" line was coined to justify prosecuting a man who was protesting the draft. (This man argued that the draft was a form of involuntary servitude. I think he had a solid point.)

In a nutshell, it was argued that in this case the political speech represented a "clear and present danger" to national security.

Never concede to them anything. Any slack you give them, they will use to hang you.
> It seems like the mod scene for a lot of games has kind of died out, at least for shooters.

Yeah, definitely. Although the Doom engine releases are neat to play with. If I was creating a total conversion these days, I'd probably do it with the Doom 3 engine... which is sad, because that thing is old. Still looks great though, and beats using Darkplaces!
I worked through car dealerships both at a low and a high level through my early career. Would be interested in chatting. valgui@gmail.com
Abandoning segmented stacks in Rust
Actually the Constitution guarantees total and absolute freedom of speech, including the right to yell FIRE in a crowded theater

Every court ruling to the contrary is activism in the face of the plain language of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has proven time and time again to be terrible protectors and stewards of the constitution
I read a financial newspaper report earlier today predicting good results for Tesla for its quarterly earnings report today, and thus a likely continued strong performance of Tesla stock. Seeing the headline of the article kindly submitted here prompted me to read the fine article, of course, and also to check for other news stories from later hours of today about Tesla.

In approximate chronological order:

"Tesla Motors stock slides despite delivering 5,500 cars in third quarter"

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24460515/tesla-motors...

"Tesla Beats Expectations On Record Sales, Investors Decide To Sell Anyway"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/11/05/live-tes...

"Tesla loses $38 million; adjusted results beat forecast"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/11/05/tesla-ea...

"Tesla outlook, deliveries fall short amid capacity constraints"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/us-autos-tesla-idU...

So a lot of investors saw news about the same earnings report, but some considered differing additional sources of information, or simply interpreted the same report differently. Different investors have differing investment goals, so it's not completely surprising that the same news can prompt some investors to sell while others hold and a few even buy.

It will probably take a few more days to be sure what interpretation of Tesla's news is most persuasive to the largest number of investors. (Disclosure: I do not own stock in Tesla nor do I own stock in any other company. My son the hacker has an investment portfolio, but I have no idea what is in it.)
Rolling your own:

http://blog.apiaxle.com/post/storing-near-realtime-stats-in-...
I wouldn't expect Apple to ever receive a 215 order. They'd just play ball before one was even needed, and so the canary can stay in place indefinitely.
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Speed, I'd imagine. But that should probably be revisited with the amount of exploits it seems to cause :/
Sure and also money laundering and underground economy.
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Production in the quarter significantly exceeded deliveries in order to fill the pipeline of vehicles in transit to Europe and provide cars for service and marketing uses.”

- I'm not sure but does that mean they built a boat load (pun intended!) more cars than they sold? That would impact costs vs revenues/sales.
The law is a lot smarter than this. Any act that tends to disclose the existence of such an order, which could include the publishing of a revised transparency report in reaction to receipt of the warrant, could be construed by a judge as a violation of its confidentiality provisions. The law is very broad on this, and subject to interpretation by the judge.

In short, warrant canaries are no different than taking out a billboard announcing receipt of the warrant. Both are overt acts intended to disclose the warrant, and both are illegal.
> but a law cannot compel you to make a statement

But why couldn't it? All the executive orders so far have been pretty draconian. What would exactly stop them from explicitly stating that Apple is not to signal everyone using their canary and to leave it there. Maybe even providing an assuring immunity that they will be not prosecuted for making false statements in company's reports.
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The loudest advocates in the US for federalism have been the nutty and frankly rather mean far right-wingers but it's worth mentioning that Noam Chomskyesque anarcho-syndicalism also involves some similar levels of decentralization.

The why and the how matter a lot in making that happen.
Thanks for this job board, very interesting.
Great analysis! Some suggested tweaks below.

SALT:

1. You estimated revenues - let's multiply that by AT&T's 5.7% 2012 net income margin [1]. Y1 earnings: $12.7 million.

2. That seems low - let's double your business revenue estimate. Adjusted Y1 earnings: $17 million.

3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim real GDP grew at 2.4% a year between 2009 and 2012. Assume that continues into perpetuity. AT&T pays 5.3% and 3.7% on its 2041 and 2029 debt, respectively - let's say you can borrow between those.

--> Present value of cash flows: $0.6 to $1.3 billion. Quadruple your revenue estimates and borrow at 3.75% to hit $5 billion.

CAYENNE:

1. $5 billion to roll out fibre across Los Angeles seems optimistic. The issue is compounded by the city council having no skin in the game, even with regards to bureaucratic inefficiencies (e.g. some land use or environmental commission jamming the entire project for 5 years).

SUGAR:

1. Your revenue estimates look pessimistic - businesses could pay differing rates based on usage and more than 1/4 of the population could sign up. You also don't include government demand. But it's thorough enough to look closer than 4x off.

∴ The RFP in its present form looks more like a political stunt than a serious proposal. Not sure what the LA electoral calendar looks like over the next 3-6 months.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=T+Income+Statement&annual
I understand all that having also done this type of work previously. In your original comment you mentioned the KC deal included the "easing of street cutting costs" which should have been very minimal in KC due to the fiber being run overhead. That's all I was trying to address.
Isn't this sort of futile? Say Apple removes the section about "... never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act" tomorrow. What does that tell us? That Apple did in fact receive such an order in the last 24 hours? Perhaps, or perhaps they were instructed to remove that part of the transparency report and Apple complied.

And even if we do know that they received such an order, what does that tell us? Does that tell us that the US government is targeting someone using iClouds? Or maybe it tells us that the US government issued a pointless order just so they can void this so called "warrant canary". It tells us very little.

Ultimately, unless corporations-as-persons have the right to speak freely about government orders it receives, we can only assume that everything transmitted through the Internet can be intercepted and given to the US government.
It seems like what we need is code signing for web pages and their assets. If you sign the app, you still have to trust the people making it, but you don't have to trust the server it comes from. This puts you in no worse of a position than an update to your non-web mail client.

And if a web site suddenly switches to a new public key, the browser should do the same kind of thing as it does for expired SSL.

It should be relatively easy to create a browser extension that does this in the meantime.

Then what I'd like to see is a mail service that sends its source unminified, and then publishes the same code (with signature) on its server. That way you could easily verify that you were getting the canonical version of the code (and not a special compromised version that an attacker inserted for users on a special list), and anyone could look and see if it was doing something fishy (or broken).
How much easier it would be if we could just trust that people use their own judgement to ignore nonsensical/potentially harmful things they hear (like is currently the case with advertisement).
That means they were missing from the original data. I kept whether they existed or not.
There are a few complaints here about remote jobs not really being remote (eg. contrained within US borders).

We're looking for a remote Growth Hacker, and we really do mean remote... https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/142.

You can be anywhere in the world, you can work whenever you want. We even just expect 30 hours p/week, with full-time pay.

I know this comment is self-promoting, but we're a small bootstrapped and profitable startup from Australia. It's not easy to get the word out... so am taking the opportunity here.

Thanks!
The problem is that the current stock price implies that they will be dramatically more successful than any other car company (electric or otherwise). It's all relative to expectations.
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I see you're using adblock, perhaps that is blocking the featured listings?
The future is bright for Tesla, but not necessarily for $TSLA (which is all the financial analysts really care about)
Web mail is one of those things that really, really makes sense though. I don't use it on my computer, but I'm glad it's there when I need to check my mail from any other device.
Evidence of future mathematical ability in infants
I meant SMTP as that is the protocol used between servers and that is where some encryption should really start.
Thanks for the info Dude! (",)
You might want to take a look at Leanpub (https://leanpub.com) if you haven't already. Seems like it may suit you.
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This may be a case where a good story told in your blog would create more interest. What was done to achieve success is more interesting than status as the number one paid business app for Windows Phone among all companies with their headquarters east of the Mississippi River and a founder whose first name contains two or more vowels...so to.speak.

Entertain us.
Only at the file level, and nothing as advanced as state of the art that google has for C++ (but where people are building the same thing anyways). I did tree level incremental compilation in Scala for the presentation compiler, but Martin replaced that with laziness, which obviously isn't the same thing.
I'm excited to see the costly boondoggle that will come from this, because we all know how well the SEC is at regulating centrally controlled currencies.
"9) Use Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) from the start"

This is now a no-brainer. New registrations in certain zones will kick you into a basic VPC from the get-go.

The only inbound should be via an ELB (HTTP/HTTPS) and an non-DNS-resolvable SSH bastion/NAT host (m1.small is more than enough). Your bastion is the only host that is on the public Internet.

Setting up a bastion is reasonably straight-forward. There is an AMI that will do it all for you. Just make sure you've got "src/dst check" turned off in the EC2 panel for that server. Just that tip can save you hours of hair-tearing.

Outbound is via the bastion, which you can lock down to certain protocols via VPC security groups. I limit to HTTPS (no HTTP!).

The bastion should use ssh keys only (no username/password). Put in place fail2ban on the bastion. You can also add a firewall rule that backs off multiple fails SSH attempts. This all but nukes brute-force attacks. Also, make sure you patch regularly.

I go as far as to have separate keys for the bastion and then the hosts, but sensible policies should apply here (e.g. passphrase on your keys please).

Keep the bastion superuser login to a very select group. You can quickly remove employees' access by taking them out of the bastion. If you're in panic mode, you can turn off the bastion and isolate your network until you can regroup (similarly with the ELB for web-based attacks).

This is a pretty sound foundation for a secure setup.
I have fond memories of the old PSP hacking scene and working on TIFF based exploits with DarkAlex, Booster and a couple others. It was really my first exposure to "hacking" and was fantastic
Toptal (http://toptal.com) is trying to fill that void. Also heard of http://www.10xmanagement.com/.

Back on topic, that's exactly what the original commenter (zura) suggested. You can hire a foreign company for contract work without needing to hand over an entire project - you'll be paying for deliverables/features instead of time, but the end result is the same. AFAIK you have to report it to the IRS, but don't owe any taxes on it.
> Sorry, I'm going to disagree here. My generation worked our asses off getting Obama elected, and was really the driving force behind his election (to my shame). Yet, as soon as he's in office, all his promises to us, all his soothing words, all his assurances of change, were out the window. Other than some lame alternative to single-payer health insurance, and (only after major prodding) some gay rights advances, he's become George Bush II.

I noticed this during the two-year campaign. People would ascribe views and assertions to him that simply weren't true. He always took moderate to conservative positions on things. As far as I can tell, he's done or tried to do just about everything he said he would.

My advice would be to pay attention to what candidates are actually saying and not rely on second-hand takes from blogs and poorly-sourced news reports. That's what I did, and nothing surprised me. I knew Obama would be a modest improvement over the status quo, and that's what I got. He was the best of a lot of bad options.

And stop skipping non-Presidential elections.
You're lucky that there's any desktop environment that does things how you want. I haven't found one yet, but xfce with compiz and a lot of customization gets close.
You sound a lot like someone who never needs their phone to go for longer than a day without recharging and spends their whole time in an area of good signal.
I agree. I looked for some consulting work last year on Odesk and I saw many listings where the average wage was $1-$4/hour.
What we eat has nothing to do anymore with why we kill.

As a whole, we hunt species to extinction just because some old geezers believe a horn is an erectile dysfunction cure.

Yeah, we can invade countries to search for a magic cauldron retconned to mean an easter souvenir, but we can't protect our home planet from an ecological devastation that will surely affect the future generations because we are now adapted to urban lifestyles and everything else is somebody else problem.

Somehow Agent Smith was right with the virus classification.
Are incoming articles just pulled via RSS and then a sorting algorithm decides what is displayed?
I love how there is no 'one' person in charge of bitcoin, who are they planning on summoning.
For such a business, the real competition is the same customer using a loan to buy a used-car, approximating the same up-front, monthly, and end-of-term costs.

So, to succeed, can the business acquire its fleet more cheaply than others? Tricky, especially if trying to keep a uniform fleet of desirable used-cars like the example Honda Civics (which already command a resale premium).

Or, can the business better assess credit/damage risks than established used-car financers? My hunch is those people wanting to lease, rather than buy, a used-car could be uniquely risky.

So it feels double-sided in the adverse-selection dimension: both your fleet and your customers will be rejects from other fairly competitive, evolved systems.
They note that the reason bulls are expecting deliveries of 6,000 or more vehicles is because of issued VINs, but they believe that many of the vehicles which have been produced were used for showrooms or loaner vehicles at Tesla’s service centers or are still in transit en route to delivery.

People are really reading into things here. Expecting a company to beat guidance by 20% per quarter is alot to ask, but i suppose the type of momentum you need to bid on an already expensive stock. [They moved 5500 units on guidance of 5000].
Shouldn't that be factored into the cost structure? What does it matter that the margin on the storage costs was cash flow positive?
Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy

Which tells us nothing of what the 'doodle' in Yankee Doodle Dandy means. Yankee fine; Dandy, a foppish hipster type; Doodle???
Has this specifically been tested in court? It seems like some form of 1st amendment or 5th amendment case could be made against this...
I think there's WAY too much baggage with the word leasing. Car ownership-as-a-service or car subscription or...

For $X, you get a the use of a clean car full-time. For a $30 cleaning fee, you can swap it out for a different car (bonus-- drive different cars!). Or for a one-time fee, you can access the "specialty fleet" - trucks, vans, and the like for when you need to move stuff or when you have lots of company in town.

Upsell to insurance packages, white-glove maintenance packages, etc.

This also disrupts long-term car rental (which is annoying) for relocation, long-term biz trips, etc.

Huge savings in time dodging registration, buying/selling, etc.

The big question is: can you make the numbers work... And, of course, the elephant in the room is that you need a TON of money to give this a proper try (though there are interesting hacks to test an MVP).