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The intersection of jobs and software development is interesting to me.

With both politicians and business leaders lobbying for the expansion of H1B and related work visas, the nature of how those visas are currently used, and the repeated findings that there isn't a STEM shortage I wonder where you stand on such things.

To provide some topics you can reply to:

* H1B visas should be a last resort. They should either be more expensive or more restrictive.

* H1B visas should not have citizenship tied to the employer, if they are that badly needed their citizenship should be fast tracked

* Employers should be more incentivized to provide training programs for US citizens before hiring foreign workers

* Similar to Obamas focus on creating a university rating, a school should also need to report foreign student graduation rates and if they stay to work on a foreign worker visa. There are graduate programs that merely exist to allow foreign students a way into this country which ultimately drives up the cost of education, displaces citizens from the classroom, and then once they graduate they get the job that the citizen isn't qualified for (because she was priced out and displaced)
Gates is worried about law breaking now? I guess this law breaking won't make him any money.

He's too smart and rebellious to actually care about the law. He's not stupid enough to believe what he's saying about lawbreaking and herohood. He means he likes the system the way it is because he's on top, and he has no motivation to rock the boat or have the establishment against him

Which is a shame, because he has the money and power to defend himself and say what he really thinks and stand up for real justice.

He lost some of the respect I had for him because of his philanthropy when I read this.
it's all crony, no capitalism

crony capitalism == crony "capitalism"

Americans are just lousy with punctuation.
"crony capitalism" is just regular capitalism.
Fear monger. What if what if what if... I'm not saying it couldn't happen, I'm just saying that possible new issues are no reason to persist the old issues
At the time I used it, it was far ahead of anything I knew.
Law is about getting as much justice as you can afford.
Point taken, but then again - it really is a salespitch in what is supposed to be a statement on a political issue.
And the physical location...
It used to be that investors said "I want a part of the next Compaq". Then it was "the next Google".

What this shows is that investors now want to be a part of the next Instagram or WhatsApp. They are literally throwing away the notion of profitability or monetization. Now the model is to get as popular as possible as quickly as possible. If you win that lottery Facebook or Google will sink BILLIONS of dollars into you.

My bet is these investors are looking at an app that has existed for less than two months and think they are getting in early on the next one of those. I'd love to know what the valuation was (north of $17M at least).
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That's what I meant. Great news! Tempted to try. Do you know how green switch feels? Never had them.
Is it just me or is there something they aren't telling us?
"do Teslas apply OTA updates while the car is underway"

Even your cellphone doesn't update when it's 'under way', what makes you wonder a moving automobile will? If you hazard a guess as to how OTA's are applied to automobiles, I would guess it'll be in Parked, plugged in, and prompted to update by pressing an "Accept & Update" button.
We need someone rich and powerful to champion this cause, to put their name, influence, reputation behind it. We need an Elon Musk or a Mark Zuckerburg to just do it, and say go ahead, try suing me, I am going to change the system.
I find this pattern:

Q Up Left E Right Down, repeat

Seems to get really, really far.
Why is this?
> One-off laws for specific legal entities (individuals or corporations) are unconstitutional, so no one is asking for a law that exempts Tesla and Tesla only.

As an aside, that's actually not true - laws that are intended to benefit one person are passed all the time. [1]

What the constitution forbids are bills of attainder, which are bills that declare a person guilty of a crime.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_bill#United_States
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I commuted by public bus for 5 years in Sweden, and it was very consistent in commute time (less than 5% late 95% of the time). Cities that take public transport seriously generally make accommodations in traffic infrastructure, such as separate bus lanes and signals.
NPR said it was due to Ford and other auto makers back in the 1920-1930 bullying dealerships.

Why in heck do we let software companies bully OEMs?
Does that mean it stores values for fields uses with credit cards, for example? Because that doesn't seem like a great idea.
More to the point, the things he mentions are not very expensive service items--to say nothing of the fact that there's no particularly compelling reason to have them done at the dealer if you don't want to. (And talking about "tune-ups" is pretty close to an anachronism at this point.)

Tesla, on the other hand, does have all its new electric car components which are all very impressive technically but about which relatively little is yet known about service life and long-term service costs.

Really, this is about Musk wanting control over the complete experience. Nothing wrong with that (see, e.g., Apple). And I'm no particular fan of the auto dealer experience. (Though I don't buy luxury brands today which, I've been told, unsurprisingly offer a better dealer experience in general.) But you'll end up with dealers of some sort one way or the other.
"Creditors ended up getting wiped out, but deposits were safe."

Deposits were safe, but all of society got kicked by inflation and increased unemployment. Of course, that only hurts poor people, so, win for the depositors!
Alternative viewpoint: Christie may already be on his way out or on his way to becoming a lame duck. Musk clearly sees no future for Tesla as long as Christie's admin is calling the shots.

Remember, this letter is to "the people of new jersey" and not "the current governor of new jersey". Musk is choosing his venue, the court of public opinion - an arena where Christie is taking some major hits.
Sorry, I don't have time to do so much work just to log on quickly on my email the morning or when relogging for the 25th time in the ticket manager at work, that has too short sessions.
Also, enjoy explaining your method to a lambda user, I'd bring popcorn and watch :)
> Because it's all crony, no capitalism.

Well, except that it demonstrates exactly the characteristics of the system in which the holders of capital hold society captive to their interests which led to its criticism by the people who coined the term "capitalism" for that system.
I think I bought my "frugal-mobile" from one of them.
Eyes turn to Russia on record drop in U.S. bond holdings
and this loss of trust is reflected in the drop in bitcoin price from $400/btc to $600/btc since the incident.
From http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/google-and-microsoft-... :

"The report states that Intel's plan around this is to help OEMs ship PCs and tablets to distribution channels with no OS pre-installed. The device could then be loaded with the desired OS when a customer orders a system."

This would encourage less buggy UEFI/ACPI firmware, for one thing.
Misled? There is a bullshit law on the books he wants repealed.

I have no idea where you came up with this line of thought.
"Team" would seem to be mirroring what Automattic have done with WordPress + P2: http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/
He's trying to make as if he's acting in the best interest of the people of the state of NJ. When it is very clear that his motivation is his own interests and selling his car.

I don't see how these goals are mutually exclusive. And saying that he wants to sell his car is falling into the realm of ridiculously obvious.

Most businesses don't make it that obvious.

Really? Most business make merely a token effort at pretending every action they take isn't just about the bottom line. I don't see how pandering to customers makes one business any 'better' than another.
I wonder if they could get away with having iPads pre-loaded to teslamotors.com on-site.
Tesla is the new Country Club membership? (They are also being granted as perks of employment.)
He is explicitly anti-Snowden and agnostic on Government surveillance (love the "we need more debate" trope). Bill Gates knows who butters his toast.
What drives you to complete projects?
I think you mean inflation. Taxes hurt rich people, inflation hurts the poor.
Or it allows the market to get more out of each person while still paying them the same.

Or it just offloads a function that we used to do without perceptible effort (remembering phone numbers, land navigation)

Or it does give us time, which we then spend on software's other products (social media, sexting apps, Candy Crush, etc..), which are compelling to our brain, but whose betterment of our lives is arguable. (Says hypocrite posting on HN)

The issue for a lot of folks is that there are a bunch of solvable, real world problems, that a traditional meatspace hacker might have tackled, but much like the financial industry, the easy money of software app. startup culture is perceived to be sucking the air out of other forms of hacking.
I did not test LastPass and 1Password, only FF sync & Keepass. And it was a while ago.
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Why wouldn't they do this? They presumably want someone to look at the attack before engaging the protection, and I'm sure not all of their staff is able to make network changes. If they've got it automated to the point where a single command can do it, what does it matter via what method they use?

If they're all in Campfire anyway, there's no overhead here.
btw, if you are ordering from WASD and have a mac, you can also order a set of customized mac keycaps that match exactly the apple keyboard. Just download the keycap layout file from my blog, and order them from WASD:

http://www.clingmarks.com/custom-mac-mechanical-keyboard-let...
Or, if you're on anything approaching a modern system:

1. Tap the power button (one single brief tap)

2. Wait a minute

3. If the system hasn't already shut down or isn't obviously in the process of shutting down or you just get impatient: hold the power button down

4. Now that the system is off: tap the power button.

Modern systems (whether server, desktop tower or laptop) have a "soft" power button, that when tapped briefly sends a signal to the OS. Most flavors of linux are configured so that receiving that signal initiates a proper shutdown, just like "shutdown", "poweroff" or a GUI shutdown. All of this has been true for quite a few years now.

If the system is so locked up that the power button initiated shutdown doesn't work, you might as well just pull the power, which holding the button down for a second or two will do. Even if this happens, you're probably using a journaling filesystem that comes back up cleanly.

None of that will help with unsaved data in an application, because you almost certainly have to tell the application to save, and if X has locked up there is no way to do that. A clean shutdown might signal the app with a terminate signal and allow for data to be saved before doing a hard kill.
Event driven I/O like this? (hey look ma, it's callback-free!)

https://github.com/celluloid/nio4r

https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid-io

Actor framekworks like this?

http://celluloid.io

High performance web servers like this?

https://gist.github.com/YorickPeterse/9555037
Anyone who has evaluated Rackspace for pricing would instantly see that Exelion is a tiny fraction of the price for high-end hardware.

Exelion's Basic model includes an incredibly fast Xeon processor, 16 GB of RAM, RAID 1 storage and a gigabit port for $99 per month ($66 per month with 5 year commitment).

Compare that to Rackspace which I'm guessing would charge about $1 billion per month for the same thing although I haven't checked their prices lately. In all seriousness - Rackspace can't come close to their pricing.

Other than that, there are still some open questions - where are they located, how can we be sure they'll still be in business a year from now, or hey, what operating systems they support, etc.
Their Monetization strategy? Thats simple ... Blackmail

I kid, I kid, but oh the things they could do lol
I seriously don't understand people that get mad when someone makes a profit. Like are those people expecting to work and earn nothing? When you risk your capital, should you not get a return? And when you risk it on something crazy like electric cars, shouldn't the profits be even that much larger, to compensate you for the out of proportion risk?
That may be gone but you can still use http://www.nzbplayer.com/ if you absolutely must watch things as you download them.
Still, they do actually have the option now and they are losing it in the future. If the prospect was that they were going to keep being able to buy directly from Tesla, and that this was foiled by a backroom-deal (to put it in his words), then he is technically correct.

I can understand what you mean, but to the end consumer they are going from being able to buy a Tesla directly to not being able to.
Sorry if my reference was unclear - I meant "0wned" in the hacker sense, in that ultimate control rests not with you, the owner, but with the manufacturer, who in the case of Tesla can apparently just pump new code out which your car will install. That seems seriously creepy and weird to me. When I buy a car, its previous owner should have no further control over it. OTA updates for a car sound really wrong.
Sure. I've been using it since the early days and it's still excellent.
Yay this! Another way to bounce off developers is through a humans.txt

http://higg.im/humans.txt

Mine is nothing special, just a simple quote. There is even a whole site that crawls these files.

http://humanstxt.org/Standard.html

Some of them are gold. Get ready to see lots of ASCII art :)
It'd be interesting to see what percentage of use cases were for "legal purposes"
I don't care about PHP
Write it in C then compile it to JS with emscripten
The problem isn't with owning the Tesla but rather that the economic transaction involved in acquiring the Tesla would leave nothing to NJ (except perhaps sales tax).

When you have a dealership, you have local folks working there thus some of the money that car buyers spend gets circulated locally, which would not be the case if all you have to do is point and click to get your car delivered.

This is a serious concern as more economic transaction is virtualized.
Mining bitcoin.
> In the US, at least, a bank would have a very hard time doing something this irresponsible.

Did you completely miss out the part where Goldman Sachs drafted gvt regulation to its advantage and conducted insider market manipulation that led to the 2008 crash ?
If he expects a different result with a Democrat then he hasn't looked at the political contributions of the NJ auto dealers.
I've actually been thinking about doing that. And yeah, 2009 was my year to leave as well. It was mostly a combination of personal factors (parents divorce etc...)

I'd like to go back, but feel daunted, and lack the capitol to do it without debt.
The man is nothing if not a smooth salesperson.
Google around a little and check the forums - there are a couple versions, none great but they do get you access. I think I use "SoulSeeX"? I'm primarily on Windows so I can't remember exactly.
The relevant government in this case is the state of New Jersey, not the United States of America. There is a lot of variation between state governments.
> Further, /sys/fs/cgroup is just an umbrella for all cgroup hierarchies, there is no recommendation or standard for my own cgroup location.

I think the key is just this bit & wanting to develop standards in the Linux container community.
No, CSRF isn't relevant. I'm an attacker and I have a server that's pretending to be a Google login form. I also have a client computer with a scripted browser pretending to be someone trying to login to Google. When you come to my page and login, I steal your data and immediately have my client program use it to login. If Google asks my client browser for a 2FA code, behind the scenes I forward that request to you and then when you answer, I forward the answer back to Google. From what Google can see, it just looks like someone logging in from a new computer.

None of this has anything to do with cross-site scripting. It's a MITM attack. CSRF doesn't come into play.
would it? it's probably exactly what you'd expect. :)
you're right, torture is usually not among them these days, but it's in the historical record, and chilenos of the time were aware it was going on.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agreement_of_the_Chamber_of_D...

"g) It has made frequent politically motivated and illegal arrests, in addition to those already mentioned of journalists, and it has tolerated the whipping and torture of the victims;"
I suspect it's the same general mechanism as even the most liberal of recent US presidents strangely doing the bidding of the military-industrial complex. (Obama and Carter.)
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This is exactly what Servo[1] is.

[1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas...
Stéphane Graber's ([1] one of the LXC maintainers) comment [2] highlights just how complex the issue is because cgroups are process based. You could potentially be in a state where "top, free, etc" has a different resource allocation than the process you are monitoring (from within the container). Although, this is most likely a configuration issue i.e. classify at the container level, rather than within a container.

Personally, I think we need container aware tools baked in from the start, rather then a fork of existing ones. I guess this is where CoreOS [3] come into play. Since CoreOS is a dedicated distribution geared towards containers. I guess the idea being, that CoreOS will be fast moving, and add support for this type of thing before the mainstream distribution can (ubuntu, rhel, etc).

btw, if you do not know how cgroups work, check out my screencast on them [4].

[1] https://linuxcontainers.org/

[2] http://fabiokung.com/2014/03/13/memory-inside-linux-containe...

[3] https://coreos.com/

[4] http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/14-introduction-to-linux-c...
Also use this. Much love for the author.
It seems unlikely.
He's done a very good job of spinning around the publicity for an improved public opinion of Tesla. Impressive.
No, it does not anymore, just spins. Mine also says Popcorn time Goodbye was just released you should get it now!
Mine does not work anymore, just spins. Mine also says Popcorn time Goodbye was just released you should get it now!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401316
Let's just play economist and call it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking

> In public choice theory, rent-seeking is spending wealth on political lobbying to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating wealth. The effects of rent-seeking are reduced economic efficiency through poor allocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, national decline, and income inequality. Current studies of rent-seeking focus on the manipulation of regulatory agencies to gain monopolistic advantages in the market while imposing disadvantages on competitors.
Here is the changelog: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showwiki.php?title=Model%20S%... These changes sound worthwhile to me, even if the mechanism is creepy.
Woz: Snowden is a hero and Apple is the purest of all
AFAIK, everyone who's ever bought a Tesla car has bought it online. In the states Tesla is allowed to sell directly, the process of buying one in the store is being sat at a computer and being guided through your online order with a sales rep's help. They don't have cars on lots you can purchase and drive away. The stores are all basically showrooms whether they're allowed to sell cars there or not.
"They are literally throwing away the notion of profitability or monetization."

To be fair Google had no idea how they were going to monetize search for a significant amount of time.

I'd say the pivot is from usefulness / utility to entertainment / novelty.
That's not what CSRF protects against and neither is it meant to. CSRF happens when you try to submit a form hosted on your site to a target site that the user has already authenticated to.

Here, the real form can be accessed from the attacker's browser, not the victim's, hence the attacker knows the CSRF tokens. CSRF doesn't protect against phishing.
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what's funny is i remember last year, crying and moaning about the google reader shutdown and scrambling to find a new newsreader. never really found one that fit the bill like google reader did.

its been a year now and i honestly don't miss google reader one bit. HN has become my news readers now :)
Goodbye Popcorn Time
Popcorn time had everything to disrupt the entertainement industry.

They decided the 'experiment' was over and that they don't want to be in that 'battle'.

Will someone pick this up? Is Popcorn Time end just the beginning?

I think they proved there is a technology for better service, and now they hope someone will pick this up.

https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4
> Popcorn Time as a project is legal. We checked.

The law isn't quite so black and white. There are a lot of different theories good lawyers can come up with. At the end of the day, the only thing that's legal is what a court says is legal.
> I wouldn't call teachers or non-CEO businesspersons underrepresented. The NEA and the US Chamber of Commerce are consistently among the top political donors.

The US Chamber of Commerce doesn't represent non-CEO businesspersons, it represents businesses-qua-businesses (and, increasingly, businesses of a very particular political preference set, which is why the CoC has been harshly criticized for many of its political stands by a number of large businesses that don't share its particular political orientation.)
No one's getting mad about profit making, the point being made is that when profit-making is the motive, it is disingenuous to position your argument as being about something else (such as pretending to be advocating for good government).
> Given that everyone in the US, starting at least a level below State Governor, is basically required to play political hardball just to survive, why does anyone in the US believe anyone's "non-politician" or "non-insider" political marketing?

Wishful thinking. Same reason a lot of people felt George W. Bush was someone they'd have a beer with, and considered this a relevant datum for supporting his presidency.

Schwarzenegger was basically elected as state governor off this notion. And it wasn't untrue so much as... stupid.
"Heartless or not, we still create a bond hard to break up.."
> We became the underdog that would fight for the consumer.

That's like saying "Sure, we burned down the bank, but we did it for the frustrated account holders."
Soliciting donations in currencies other than the US dollar while running for Congress would look bizarre and unpatriotic to most people, not to mention that it might be interpreted as an attempt to circumvent laws on political donations.