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> Most everything feels mass-produced and cheap

That's because most everything that you use other people want to use as well. Companies will manufacture them en mass. That's why they're cheap. That's a good thing.

Perhaps you should solder your next keyboard yourself?

I have a pair of logitech speakers that I bought 8 years ago (mass produced, of course) that sound great. And they were pretty cheap at the time.

What point are you making? Perhaps do some research before you buy a product.

> There is no reason to trust the banks.

Yes, you should read the contracts that you sign.

Beyond this, what do you mean? Trust the banks with what?

> Credit rating is bogeyman.

Try getting a large loan for a business or for a home or a car with poor credit.

You can get credit cards easily because the risk is lower (it's relatively small amounts of capital at risk and it's for a shorter term than a 30 year mortgage) and the reward is higher for the credit lending agent.

> Cars are expensive and limited in utility.

Agreed.

> Our parents set our city planning up for failure.

Yes, according to what you would deem a success in city planning at this moment in time.

> Our government doesn't care about us.

Social Security and Medicare/aid were never meant to be retirement plans.

I also don't know what this means beyond the healthcare/SS aspect? The government is people. They maintain the roads and infrastructure, don't they?

It's not perfect, but then again, if you're on HN you most likely live a life better than 99% of people in the world.

> Our companies don't care about us.

Sure, why would they? Social welfare is a role for the government to fill.

> Congratulations, we're all contract workers now.

Sounds good to me.

> We don't believe in advertising.

Sure, most commercials and billboards are pretty stupid, but define advertising. Advertising encompasses a lot of things that you probably find ok.

How do you hear about the products and services that you're searching for? From friends? How did they hear about it?

> We don't believe in the police.

Perhaps because the stories where the police do their job professionally don't get reported?

> We don't believe in the news.

You shouldn't absolutely believe in any news mainstream or not. The idea, however, that you are being actively lied to by journalists is just absurd. Journalists mainstream or not have biases and agendas.

Critical thinking is required to form a legitimate opinion regardless if the media is mainstream or not.

I really don't get the derision of mainstream media. It has a role, just as blogs and independent media does.

> We believe in each other

Agreed. But I hardly think this is unique to our generation. Rather, this is a human trait.

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.
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What I don't get is that the administration is pretty much equivalent between the 2. I spent a ton of time learning how to run recipes for EngineYard, and how to restart my processes, and how to kick off SOLR as soon as I deployed... For all the hype that these cloud/PAAS gets, you'd think it's as easy as clicking a button, checking a few boxes, etc.

Ever since I moved to managing my own servers, it got arguably easier. I wrote a Capistrano script that builds and deploys everything to production.
Agreed - I can't show my full time job stuff and my at home stuff is for a little side money to pay my bills and not open source. I don't want to just throw random stuff up there.
I've been reading their primary job board for a long time, and looking at this site I realized that I do miss seeing the cities listed.

It may seem paradoxical but I did like to know at a glance where the company was located, among other reasons for the fact that it communicates the likely salary (if they're in a small city and I'm in a large one, for example).

Otherwise it looks good (if top-heavy) and it's always nice to see remote opportunities.
now in pictures http://islandofatlas.net/2013/10/21/i-guess-this-is-how-yc-f...
Configurability doesn't make it better, in the contrary, it has to many vane options to my taste.
Re: 1. Yuck - that leaves a window of vulnerability as long as "recent". It also opens up the possibility of hijacking "recent" via NTP to change the client's clock for just the duration of the HTTP GET to the update server - this is not as difficult as it sounds. A better approach would be to have the client pull a list of revoked certs along with the JS source/hash. You'll need a majority wins system for the revocation otherwise the compromised cert could be used to revoke all other certs. Also you need to avoid replay attacks, so you'll have to embed a chain of all previously signed hashes/revocations as well (just being "recent" is not good enough).

Re: 2. Yes, you can't have any other browser extensions. But that is totally unrealistic. It's just a a complete showstopper.

Even a bookmarklet could bypass your cryptosystem!
The lesson is to keep voting and look at Congress next instead of focusing on the presidential election. It's possible to fix things; state government in California has gotten a lot better recently due to redistricting and primary reform.
You can already assume other people's leases and there's even a market out there for this.

www.leasetrader.com or www.swapalease.com or a boat load of other websites.

How is this any different?
I've always wondered about this. I can buy the idea that a judge would compel you to fake a written canary like this. But how far would they go?

What if you recorded a monthly video of yourself naked singing the national anthem with "I have not received any secret warrants under the patriot act" scrawled on your chest in lipstick?

Could a judge really compel you to do that?
It's not bigger than Google Fiber. It's because of Google Fiber.

Driving innovation forward.
Most used car models are based on retailing a high percentage of dealer trades as they are the highest margin source of inbound vehicles.

Easy source checks are any research on CarMax, a light review of any of Pollacks books(Velocity, Velocity 2.0, Velocity Overdrive)

Source: I am also a domain expert in the auto industry.
Article title reads ES "blasts NSA," yet "This is clearly an overstep," hardly seems blast-like. How on earth can ES make cozy at the White House (with La Hillary) and not think he's compromising himself/Google? How can we stretch our waning imaginations and believe anything ES says? How can we believe Obama, about--anything? My gosh, after he went for Snowden like a torpedo. Impeding the Bolivian president's plane. I just don't believe ES. I don't believe Obama, either. And I voted for him. (censor me HN if you need to)
Unfortunately, we're lumped in with "Pacific", so all those developers in San Bernardino and Sacramento are dragging us down.
> Where are these 200k salaries?

If I were to guess, they're most likely in the Wall Street-powered high-frequency trading firms. That, and/or big pharma, big oil.
I see it as a tit-for-tat for the reality of huge companies paying little or no taxes. Democratizing tax shelters, so to speak.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
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I'm sure she's right, in that many nurses, administrators, and non-surgical physicians wouldn't have the nuanced understanding of surgical ability that she does. Just the same, I expect their rough sorting isn't too far off the mark. They certainly know more than the general public!
lol. clicking on those pictures... "for adults only", "NSFW"

good thing i'm the first one here this morning....
I know it's a cliche, but I do think there's a difference between the lone high school weirdo who stayed up late learning Commodore 64/Apple IIe/386/whatever internals and the person who learned how to program adequately well at university in order to get a "good career". I hesitate to use the word "passion" but you know what I mean.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is it's the weirdos who are in short supply and I can't imagine why that would change anytime soon.
> My not-a-lawyer read on the whole warrant canary thing is that it would never fly in front of a judge. [...] So warrant canaries, while seemingly clever, are actually pretty much worthless.

"Worthless" is a pretty strong statement: do you have anything at all to corroborate your speculation in an area which you admit you have no expertise?
People should be working more on startups that have a balance between expected revenues and value to the society specially in a country like Palestine where we truly should criticize our selves side by side with criticizing the occupation, we are no angels, and that doesn't mean we are devils, i think if more entrepreneurs felt how much the society need ideas to improve it'll be amazing, some examples would be sites to give free courses online in Arabic about programming and even about life matters, give education to those who can't attend universities specially the mothers at homes and those who can't afford it, internet is relatively cheap in Palestine though no where near how much it should cost it should be much cheaper, some great ideas would be to encourage people to do more community work and activities, another would be to help people sell their home made products ... the list is too long but no one investor would invest in such things! and sadly, our "authority" and the occupation government work hand in hand to prevent employing the right person in the right position so those who are supposed to direct donors money toward useful projects just steal them or steal a great portion of them, if not, then put them in meaningless projects such as Musical projects that even Palestinians won't listen to!!!.

and as for me I actually quit everything -though i am looking for a part time job/freelancing to support my self as no investor would invest in my idea- to work on my current project which is a project that will empower small business owners in the area and get them online, no fancy e-commerce solution, just a simple strong community driven classifieds system that connects the buyer and the seller, not inventing any technologies here, just making the best use of current tools, hopefully i'll be posting about it as i am going.

Finally the startups will eventually hit the occupation wall, there is a physical actual wall outside and inside our cities there is no wonder a virtual one would be wrapped around our dreams and projects, but it's no time to fear such things, i rather see Palestine educated and occupied rather than illiterate and free.

Edit : fixed some spelling mistakes and added some more details.
In one version of accounting... In another they made $16M. What's clear is Tesla has been dramatically more successful at selling an electric car than any other company.
I'd simplify it further. HN likes things that are new, interesting and novel. Not even necessarily things that encompass "hack values".

You could submit a Show post that has an excellent idea that would make you rich, but it would get ignored and passed over if it were a B2B app written in Java for a niche market.
20 years in the auto industry on the retail side. I'd be happy to consult for free and dig deeper if I liked the direction of the project. jmatthews005@gmail.com
I like this a lot - if you can regulate the market and ensure a high quality experience this would fit perfectly in the space between owning a car (big commitment) and renting (obscenely expensive). I'd use it!
Well you made it to the top of "Ask" this time. Congrats. ;)

Looks nice and clean. Good luck!
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I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying. My personal cell phone is 415-404-5650

Where we need help:
- Full stack engineer (Python, PHP, Java, SQL)
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The philosophy from the book "Getting Things Done" together with Evernote
Without disclosing too much of your internal procedures, can you say if you have a mechanism in place to prevent an American being compelled by American courts to tell a Swiss national that it is okay to update the canary? Under a gag order, the American presumably cannot inform coworkers in other countries that they are under a gag order.
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> and they [city officials] argue Airbnb hosts owe occupancy taxes, which assure tourists pay their fair share for police, street cleaning, and other public services they use while in town.

I don't think that argument makes sense. Each apartment is being paid for in the same way it would be if the actual owner lived there.
Detergent is optional, but it sometimes helps.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/tide_becomes_...
Whenever people question the definition of something being a startup I just point them to this wonderful Quora answer: http://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship/What-is-the-proper-def...

Dave McClure makes a fair point that until a company works out the following three things, they're a startup, not a business.

1. What its product is,

2. Who its customers are.

3. How to make money.

So yes, a post-IPO company valued at $21B which still hasn't worked out two of those three items is still a startup in my opinion...
TSLA prefers non GAAP because it collects all money for a lease upfront. Recognizing all revenue for a lease up front isn't logical.
Some of the anonymized acecdotes I've heard second hand with regards to why the well-adjusted suburban upper-middle class gets divorced is that it's often due to the wife getting paranoid about getting ace'd out of the financial picture in favor of the children in her old age. Another reason is because the old man gets utterly infatuated with a younger lady and he throws his brain out the window. Alcoholism can also be a factor.
More accurately, for R&D they spent $48 million on a non-GAAP basis and $56 million on a GAAP basis. Non-GAAP wise Tesla made money in the quarter to the tune of $16M. Their new leasing program and paying back the Department of Energy loan early helped lower the GAAP revenue fairly substantially. Cash was even better--$26 million of positive free cash flow.
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At a certain point, I think somebody with sufficient resources could mount a strong objection to such a compulsion on the grounds that it was either a violation of the 13th amendment or the 8th amendment (since the 13th has an exception for punishment).

Make a video every month of yourself (voluntarily) getting whipped while stating that you had not been served any warrants. If they said that they were compelling to you do it, you could argue involuntary servitude. If they argued that did not apply since it was a punishment for a crime committed, you could argue cruel and unusual punishment.

Ultimately, in theory, they can't stop you from quitting your job and shutting down your business. It seems as though that is somewhat effective.
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/after-hours

Link has pricing if you want to follow along
"forks the web developer community, not just its own paid developers"

Brendan Eich does not have a right to anybody else's effort. It is totally unreasonable to use artificial means to trap people on languages they have problems with, just because you want control of more of the programming world for yourself.
Perhaps when software projects start to consistently be completed ahead of schedule. I'm not holding my breath.
It seems like it's only getting easier for people to voluntarily organize these apartment-sharing or -renting deals. If it's not through AirBnB, it's Craigslist, or any number of online competitors. Governments can and probably will try to crack down, but I think they're on the losing side of this battle. And I hope I'm right.
The auto industry works a little differently. Some of Tesla's competitors have been in business for over 100 years, making primarily the same product today. Tech companies today exist in industries that didn't exist even 15 years ago.

Tesla Motors has only been around for 10 years (founded 2003), and their first product didn't sell until 5 years later. I think it's safe to say that Tesla Motors is still a startup. They are a startup in an industry that measures time in decades.
Tesla's still a young company and is bound to have some quarters ending in losses for various reasons as they try to reach economies of scale. As an investor, I still feel confident that Elon Musk's "master plan" (see: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p...) for Tesla is starting to get underway with the latest developments on Model X (and I'm sure other models as well). The future is bright for Tesla, this loss isn't necessarily a sign of decline.
Do you understand now why I didn't vote in the last election? It wasn't apathy; it was rage and contempt for the institution. Voting idealistically has gotten us less than zero as a generation.
I agree it's a tiny thing, but I think that first exchange has untapped potential. I like what Moo is doing, for example.
I'm not sure where in the Northeast this is pertaining to, but around midatlantic, it's never gotten better from the recession. Certainly salaries are much worse now than they were prior to it.
Even so, it's of almost no advantage to Apple to publish a false such statement out of the blue, and it's very unlikely anyone would be compelled to start a new canary, as opposed to maintaining an existing one, so I'd say it's almost certain the statement was true at the time it was made. I'd view this as mostly an attempt to test the waters.
Absolutely. I'm an openbox guy, though I have used XFCE and see it as a more sensible choice for a lot of somewhere-between-here-and-gnome users; that said, this kind of support for minimalist desktop systems would be a huge step in, if not the "right" direction (because that's a religious war), at least one that introduces users to a whole lot of flexibility they didn't know they didn't have.
"Getting Shit Done" will result in exactly that : Shit
The same is true in Canada. You can't call yourself any kind of engineer, software or otherwise, unless you're a licensed and accredited engineer.
>Despite what anyone tells you, end to end encrypted email is not possible in a webmail world.

Sure it is. You just have to do crypto in JavaScript.
I do think the parent is overstating the case a bit, but I also think you're looking at it backwards. The constitution guarantees you the right to free speech and then carefully circumscribes what the exceptions to that are (e.g. yelling fire in a crowded theater, libel, and others) and those exceptions have sharpened by the courts. But the courts are required by precedent to place a great deal of weight to free speech, and it's generally required that the government prove in these cases that the right to free speech hasn't been violated, or that it passes the strict scrutiny test [1], which is a high bar, and doubly so when it comes to free speech.

In other words, "you're allowed to say what you want" is the default. Thus, a "well, there are exceptions to free speech" counterargument carries the burden of articulating why this particular piece of speech qualifies for such an exception. It's true that many kinds of gag orders have been considered constitutional but many have also failed to past muster and been lifted by courts. I'm no expert, but I suspect the ones in question here likely don't qualify for the exceptions they're claiming to have, because the orders (and the laws that enable them) are very broad, can not be justified by a compelling government interest, and possibly other issues. Time (and the courts) will tell.

The point is: railing that this kind of gag order is an absurd violation of free speech isn't fallacious just because yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is not free speech. It actually is the expectation being expressed in the constitution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

Edit: typos and clarity
Who knows, maybe it sets the precedent that government can seize assets and allocate them to other people (corperations) in the name of progress. If google blows their monopoly in x years, what's stopping them from seizing it back and giving it to someone else?
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They might do similar work, but I see software engineers as being accredited engineers, with that is a legal attachement to the title.

Instead of startup vs bigcorp, I see it more like startup building some social phenomon that will be forgotten tomorrow as opposed to BigCorp coding airplanes systems.
Put me on the "IANAL, but it seems to me that removing that language is just another way of disclosing, so if they do receive a request they cannot remove the language" bandwagon.
I would love this. I always lease my cars. It's extremely convenient, but there are also huge price benefits. Manufacturers often have great lease incentives, and spending ~$35k on a car I'll likely get sick of in a few years seems crazy to me.

But I don't particularly care about new cars, I just want them to be "new enough". If someone can deliver a good used car leasing service, I would be all over that.
No point in doing something if it isn't authentic to who you are and isn't bringing you closer to the life you want to lead.

The Silicon Valley way isn't the only way. If you're interested in a more community oriented brand of business, take a close look at the Mondragon model that has worked well in Spain. There's a great documentary here that will explain a lot of it: http://youtu.be/-obHJfTaQvw
I realized the only way to be a competitive player was to become a human database.

I would have agreed with you five years ago. Today, Magnus Carlsen is known for being less booked-up than most elite players, playing openings just to get in the game, while rated #1 by a significant margin. So maybe there's hope.

Beyond a certain point getting better at chess simply means you got better at chess and nothing else.

No argument there. And isn't that true for most things in life?
That really applies to most other fields. Some people are just bad at their job. Some people are good and some are amazing.
Not if the person who "failed to keep it private" isn't subject to US law, they can't.
That arbitrageurs would find and exploit this loophole seems obvious in retrospect. This invisible hand is pushing up the cost of an apartment, and down the cost of a hotel room.

What we need now is software that can find apartments for rent and people looking for a place to stay, offer to rent the apartment for a bit less than the owner wants and offer to rent it to the people for a bit more than they're looking to pay, pocketing the difference and doing this hundreds of times per second. This will provide "liquidity" and make the AirBnB market "more efficient".
We built a unique image pipeline with excellent full-res image optimizations allowing to save close to 5X in bandwidth and storage costs. Incidentally, it also makes syncing entire life photo collections much faster, that's why the average Everpix user had more than 9,000 photos.
The city already sold the network once for $40 million, which didn't apply to the bond taken to build the network, and then got stuck with it again when Veracity folded. The sale to Google isn't so much a gift as it is a chance to not default on the bond (in theory) and get the service actually running. We can argue over it being anti-competitive but it doesn't appear that there were a lot of companies chomping at the bit to get this network due to the terrible state it was in.