skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+ (for new car) much closer to information symmetry with the seller, especially given lemon law protection and new car warranty although those aren't directly about information symmetry.

I've done both new and used and have had a variety of experiences in both cases. But I probably wouldn't be n a big hurry to buy a used car at this point. I looked around when I bought my last vehicle and the price savings associated with modest mileage used vehicles just weren't especially compelling. (And I wasn't even financing.)
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That's interesting. Can NY pull anything like that through? Verizon practically abandoned FiOS deployment, and even if they expand in a crawling fashion, more competition will only boost the market and will make prices lower (right now Verizon doesn't even offer gigabit bandwidth, and anything that comes remotely close in FiOS plans costs some crazy money: http://www.verizon.com/home/fios-fastest-internet/#fastest-i...). I.e. they charge $300 for 500/100 Mbps plan.
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You're kind of misusing the term federalism, I think. It generally applies in the US to moving power back from the federal government to the states, which actually seems to be in keeping with what you are advocating.

(it's strongest advocates in US politics have been people who are bitter about the federal government enacting the Civil Rights Act and stuff like that, so... have fun with your new friends)
Those short cycles are great for small startups doing MVPs. They have absolutely zero benefit (negative benefit, possibly) for large teams working on really large projects.
Also, Apple's profit margin isn't entirely dependent on winning a big government contract next year.
Sorry, thats not limited to industrial age, Ancient Greek, Rome and Babylon had the same problem.
I believe the contention focuses on the difference in how you play against an opponent. In chess, by this contention, ultimately what your opponent is doing has little bearing on what you do. There is a "correct" response to every board position.

Now, I think this is accurate for essentially single player sports. Golf and the like. Many competitive sports, however, you have to adjust what you are doing based on what your opponent is doing. Not just in a "correct" way, but to account for changing circumstances.
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Speak for yourself :) I moved here 5 years ago from the South (Memphis, TN) and I'm never going back.
An example for twitter https://twitter.com/Saying_co/status/397888453431398400
Exactly. I have a 64gb SD card and a dedicated battery charger with three extra batteries.

As lame as it might seem I just keep a spare battery with me at all times when the unexpected happens and I'm out later than usual or just use my phone too much.

I guess a case with a battery built in work work just as well, but I'm not willing to add the extra bulk.
So is YC worth it?

I think that for a first-time entrepreneur, that's definitely worth it. I wish I started my first company (ten years ago) at something like YC. We did so many mistakes we could have avoided , it would have been a huge time saver.

The question I'm asking myself today is: is it worth it for an experienced entrepreneur? As a so-called successful entrepreneur who has had good exits in the past, you already have a network of investors, credibility, and while any advice is always good to hear, it's not like you are just starting for the first time. But still, with YC you get the alumni network, a lot of audience for your product launch, and more competition among investors (which alone could "reimburse" the 2%~9% you'll "lose" to YC).

It would be great to hear the opinion of experienced entrepreneurs.
Yeah I'd love to see that. This results in this survey sound nothing like what I hear from my friends around here.
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This will be fun to watch.

I've had this discussion a couple of times with various city council members and candidates in Sunnyvale. Network connectivity should be a community infrastructure, just like roads. The argument I attempted to establish was that "network" was a thing that connected our community, "roads" connect our community. If you can establish that the city puts in the network to every business and home, they can have them all terminate at a city connectivity building (or buildings) and all of the vendors can offer services there, from Comcast to AT&T to Sonic to NetFlix. You pay "network taxes" as a citizen and as a provider which cover the maintenance of the system. Just like taxes cover the cost of roads.

The downside of course is that it makes it easier for the City to tap into your network connection. And perhaps connect commerce tax revenue with transactions originating out of your network port. Sophisticated users would use VPNs or what not to disguise that of course. But it would put all of the vendors on a level playing field.

[1] http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/apr/22/comcast-sues-...

[2] http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/comcast-att-may-thre...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1pn4cl/comcast_is_dona...

[4] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Continues-Leg...
I started making games when I was 5, and I love doing it. From flash to 3D applications I've probably given it stab.

I've came to the conclusion that making games is far more constructive than watching TV or playing games, but untimely you're wasting your players time. Creating content now isn't novel, you're competing for users time which is already saturated with other games (plus other mediums such as TV).
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India's budget for this year is ~ $270B. So this "aid" from Britain (most of which would be absorbed by British charities buying British goods and hiring British consultants anyways) amounts to about 0.1% of the budget. Sounds pretty miniscule to me; and in terms of impact, would have roughly the same effect as a flea jumping on an elephant.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Union_budget_of_India
Why not image decoding done in a sandbox?
We just started one of these within the company I work at. We are all working on a project on the side aside from our day jobs and I have to say it has been really helpful so far.

We only have 4 people so we take turns each week, 1 person brings a problem to the table and then we get 3 other peoples thoughts on it. That week is dedicated to the one startup... Because we work day jobs it works better this way as we won't have any astounding advances each week but each month we do.
I imagine a major difference is that most vacation rentals are rented out by the owner of the unit, whereas it seems like a lot of Airbnb rentals are being offered by tenants who are under existing rental agreements (which likely stipulate they can't sublease without permission from the landlord).
If anyone is going to go down, it will be the doctors. The cops that went out of their way to anally violate a suspect will walk away, and absurd search warrants will continue to be issued on a flimsy notions.

The same search warrants that end up with your dog getting shot and possibly anyone else who might raise the slightest suspicion of being a threat to them in their midnight raid of your home.
S3 is already redundant - it virtually guarantees no data loss and mirrors your storage across multiple data centres.

You're also completely ignoring the costs of hosting this stuff, the computers they're in, redundant network switches, failed disks over time, and administration costs to rack and stack failed drives plus all the risk associated with your redundancy going wrong. You're also assuming your hard drives will be able to handle the performance needs. Not to mention this is one site - no DR.

So, Amazon S3 at $7.5k a month for 100 TB is $90k annually with RIDICULOUSLY high redundancy and known performance. Reduce it to 99.99% availability (about what your setup with dual drives might be if you run it well) and you're at $60k annually.

You really are going to host fast, reliable 100 TB for under $60k? Betting your business on it?
Depends on 5-8% of what :)
I wasn't going to bring it up, but I'll definitely dogpile. While I generally prefer the SPA (ajax) style site, I don't mind the old-fashioned "each click renders a new page" so long as it's efficient, but navigating the different pages on this site was an exercise in patience... pages seemed to take from 1-3s to render, reminding me of the old ASP classic sites.
Frankly, thats what struck me the most- them smiling as if nothing happened.
> You generally don't trust code updates, _which is one reason you do them infrequently_ [emphasis added]

Is this true anymore? So much stuff auto-updates I barely know what goes on these days, and it seems pretty frequent. Between Firefox auto-updates, OS X updates, MS Word critical updates, etc., I would be surprised if a week goes by without something important being updated.
My point is, there are fewer and fewer email providers, and they are getting bigger and bigger. If for some reason 95% of the population had a gmail account, Google could be tempted to shut down all SMTP communications. Technically that would remove them from the federation. Practically, that would remove everyone else from the federation (they are on the bigger half on the network, after all).

Another, more realistic possibility is that a consortium arises to fight spam, and the result is that email that doesn't come from big players or registered entities will simply be ignored, on the grounds that most mail from little domains would be spam (which by the way is probably true). The next step will be about refraining themselves to send email that look like spam, never mind the freedom of speech issues that will ensue.

And voilà, we have a world without spam. Too bad I can't send email to most of my friends any more (I control my own domain name).

Now Facebook is even worse. It already took over. You could try and build a federation, but unless you can force Facebook to communicate with it, it will still be a mere competitor, which starts at the wrong side of the network effect. Just like any Facebook competitor, actually.
I sympathize and I see your frustration. What do you think people should be working on? Why aren't you working on it? Do you think that startups are able to deal with the occupation at all?
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The battery door and clips presented a variety of design limitations that weren't worth the trouble anymore. You can get the exact same functionality with an external battery pack or extended battery life case.
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I remember reading about how the USA "freedom of speech" is not "freedom of general speech", but more like "freedom of political speech".

Though I am not sure how well that was enforced with communism in the 50's and 60's, and now with theocratic political systems.
IANAL, but there is significant difference.

As you say, both saying 'we just got a warrant' and not including the warrant canary language would be against that law.

However, you don't neccessarily have to obey all laws - a law can prohibit you from making a statement; but a law cannot compel you to make a statement - so the claim is that if your actions conflict with the law in this way, then (at that instance) application of this law is unconstitutional and your violation is acceptable.
One thing to note with EMR: you still pay 25% of the ondemand price as overhead to use EMR. If you're bringing up and turning off clusters all the time, it's probably worth it, but you might want to look into using Whirr instead.
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Uh, oh. This will either be really good for Bitcoin or really bad. I am thinking the Government are going to try and clamp down on Bitcoin and do their best to get their share of the pie through taxes and whatnot. An unregulated currency has surely got a few Federal Reserve members and those with vested interests in currency on the edge of their seats and on the attack.

Government backing is the last hurdle for Bitcoin. If some rules are put into place that allow its use in the US alone, it'll set a precedent for other countries to follow-suit. It's apparent the Government don't care about how Bitcoin is being used, all they care about is getting their share of the money which at present is zero.
Except many of the salaries listed are such a large range they're practically useless. $75-150k, 0.1-10% equity. WTF?
You're also one XSS vulnerability away from losing all of your private communication to an attacker.
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The reason I am confident in the rsync canary is that you are so proud of it. If a court were forcing you to keep updating it, I would expect you to talk about it less frequently and/or with less enthusiasm (how could a judge practically force somebody to be proud of their canary and talk about it on HN? I'm sure they could say "Keep talking about it often on social media!", but how could that actually be enforced?)

I hope I didn't just give any potential judges any bad ideas...
Keep a spare micro USB battery and you can charge almost any device. Good for emergencies though indeed not quite as convenient for a single gadget like this. Pro tip: you can get micro USB adapters for lightning. ;-)

Oh and get the 32GB model, that was obvious to me....
I'm not saying that the government forced them to make a false statement - rather, that Apple chose to make a statement that would be expected regardless of whether they've received any 215 orders (if they haven't, then it's a true statement. If they have, they are forced to deny them...). However, they didn't have to make a statement at all, and I think that part is telling.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm pretty sure that isn't how it works. An illegal gag order can be proven invalid and thus lifted, but you'd still be held in contempt of court for violating it before it was lifted. I know that Kafkaesque logic applies to court orders that turn out to be improper.
I'm trying to figure out: Should it be dood-eye-n (like wine), dood-een, or dood-een-eh (like a german might say)?
Tesla is a startup and at present, I can name few "startups" on the scale of Tesla who aren't losing money. Look at the likes of Twitter, Spotify and Quora, large user bases and are technically making money but still not turning a profit. Tesla is no different and to be honest, has a good chance of succeeding. Elon Musk is one talented guy who has investors swooning over him to give him investment.

Looks like the down-voting has begun, whatever. I won't let people on this site get in the way of voicing my own personal view and opinion on Tesla and their losses. Feel free to disagree.
You need to include some sort of "or more" language.
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> I live in the fourth-largest and sprawliest metropolitan area in
> North America (Houston).

Looking just at the US, Wikipedia[1] says that the fourth largest
metropolitan area is DC/Baltimore. Not sure about the sprawliest.

Houston proper is the fourth largest city by population,[2] although
that distinction really ought to belong to Brooklyn.[3]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

[3]http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/33/41/33_41_welco...
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If you are going to raise money, it is probably worth it. There's some level of "past success" that would be a good stand in, but it's a really high bar ... which is why you see people repeat YC reasonably often.

At the very least, YC is an ally if you run into issues with other investors. They are incredibly pro-founder (as is SV Angel) and not afraid to wave a bat around.
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The margins on used cars are many times those of new cars. Most dealerships do make more money from their used cars unless they are very high volume.
The original source is quite informative:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2896666

It's a GDI component reading TIFF files exploit, it is being used in the wild right now, and the vuln won't be patched until Dec.
It seems to me that "no limits" scales when you can expect people to average out their usage. But when people just accumulate usage I'd suspect that it becomes harder to sustain. There has to come a known point where a user is costing more than they're paying - and when every active user is bound to reach that point sooner or later, I can't see it could be sustained.
My favorite is this one from FogCreek...

Incredible coding skills. Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal."

...A little intimidating ain't it? Not sure what an animal developer truly is.
After having thought a great deal about it, it's worth it for two reasons in my mind:

1) the recognition, the prestige, the 'YC' name that gets you really good deals, which entails VCs (the good ones) coming to you, press taking you more seriously, potential candidates being more enticed working for a 'YC' company (so the normally difficult task of finding early employees/co-founders is made considerably easier)

2) You get to be in the YC network (in some senses this is comparable to being in the Harvard Alumni association, where being a friend of some guy can mean you can become a C-level or VP of some company). Moreover: Being friends with other talented founders, getting advice from people who know their stuff and have done many things before, and a lot of times getting good deals from them and their startups (if you happen to be low on cash [1]).

[1]: Speaking of which, a possible third reason is the seed money.
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True and it's interesting for reasons I haven't seen mentioned yet.

When I was a landlord I remember having two tenants who were subletting the house. I didn't care, in fact I specifically told them that I didn't want to know about anyone not on the lease. My reasoning was that if they wanted to have a few friends live there and split the rent, it meant they would have no problem paying me every month. However, I wanted to limit the damage liability to just the two official ones.

Now, if I knew they were subletting through AirBnB and making multiples of what they were paying in rent, I'd have to ask myself why I needed them and why I shouldn't just do the same when their lease was up.
> Then the question changes, and becomes: "can the US government compel a swiss national to make false statements".

Does it? They can't prevent the disclosure no matter what they do, but they know who they sent the NSL to. They may not be able to arrest the person who made it public, but they can still arrest the person who failed to keep it private.
In the case of the rsync canary, compelling rsync to not remove the canary would not be sufficient. They would also need to compel rsync to periodically replace the existing canary with a new one.
I work in an open-office layout and when people want to write or code they often work from home to avoid distraction. For every serendipitous conversation I have, there are ten distracting and useless conversations. I would kill for a cubicle - right now I work in a 6-person bay, 3 people on each side, sitting back to back, without dividers.
On the surface, the points you cite are inflammatory and often used a priori to justify paying women less.

It's a bit irresponsible after that slide not to put the rest of the results into the context of gender.

Are women represented proportionally by age? The last table in the article ("What Matters Most") would blow the lid off of many of the arguments. Do people who "could find seven attributes of their job more meaningful than base salary" in general make less than others? Do women and men respond differently to those questions? What is the disparity between men and women who value base pay most?

The only value I can extract from this survey is that a) it's BS that female compensation stagnated while male compensation rose (was there a mini-baby boom during which a lot of women took unpaid maternity leave?) and b) Dr Dobbs is getting less and less relevant, given that they consider "Company-paid smartphone/wireless email" to be a form of compensation.
I think step 1 should be "reduce the influence of money on electoral outcomes." That would significantly lower the bar to putting pragmatic and thoughtful humans into positions of power without leaving them chained to the well-funded interests that helped put them there.

The problem is, I don't really know HOW to do that.
Does anyone else use codepen.io as a learning resource?
The new hotness in the auto business is used car only stores. So not EVERY dealer would suffer from your proposed hardship. Further, the way the market segments some people only consider new cars. It's as much habit or bias as it is an opportunity based decision.
Their cash balance increased and gross margin is up to 21% from 14% last quarter on the Model S, with non-GAAP accounting. That's a fantastic number for a car manufacturer.

Of course if you only care for the linkbait, feel free to go with the GAAP numbers and ignore underlying meaning.
Or "Tesla spent $38 million on extended R&D involving extensively field testing its first production models". Take your pick.
A post-IPO, $21B company is still a startup?
second one.
How does this site work?

I see no search field. And jobs have no contact field.
Luxury brands depreciate at a higher per-day-per-mile amount than non-luxury brands. A trivial amount of research will prove this out. No disrespect intended.