skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service, but electric cars require much less service than gasoline cars. There are no oil, spark plug or fuel filter changes, no tune-ups and no smog checks needed for an electric car. Also, all Tesla Model S vehicles are capable of over-the-air updates to upgrade the software, just like your phone or computer, so no visit to the service center is required for that either.

Gotta hand it to Musk - that's some smooth salestalk in what is supposed to be just voicing a public opinion against shady politics. I was halfway through the third sentence when I caught myself thinking - "indeed, that does sound like such a better dea--- Hey wait a minute!". Musk, you sneaky bastard! Never missing a chance to remind me why I want a dang tesla.

He is right and it's a terrific salespitch. That's the best kind of right.
This Planet Money episode[1] gives a interesting of the history of autodealers, with some additional info regarding the latest twists that had come up due the fiscal crisis too.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
You say only a subset are necessary. Necessary for what? Necessary to conduct banking as it exists today where we are faced with choosing between global cascading debt default due to a system that has no true demand deposits or hyper-inflationary spirals from ever larger (debt funded) bailouts of that system?
I hope not. It will convince them that bullying developers works because they can't afford lawyers.
I use a normal (non-Gmail dependent) MTU for my Gmail. What user need does the Gmail-dependent MTU from Google fulfill that warrants that dependency? As far as I can tell, my non-Google MTU adds more functionality to GMail than GMail has.

As for AGPS - great. But we already know that location services function quite well without it. Did you know that you can do AGPS and drastically reduce time to fix just by initializing a GPS receiver using your last known location? AGPS with a location obtained from a WiFi SSID (via a call to the cloud) is only faster when your last known location is drastically different to your current location (another state, or country). I won't believe that Google is incapable of designing a location API that's extensible. There's a non-technical reason, and that reason is in conflict with the openness Google likes to play up.
Do you have any further info on that guy's project?
This is a subtle point that is often missed. It's the same reason that butt-in-chair hours has a real effect on how those above you perceive your work. Being visible doing Good Things is often more important than not doing the bad things in the first place when it comes to careers.
I answered a general question with a general answer, and you understand the point I made as evidenced by your usage of the word "rare," so I struggle to understand your usage of the word "actually" to express disagreement.
Sure, I'll just click on that google docs link to read about it...
The monopoly is that only dealers are allowed to sell cars. Whatever the original intent, they seem not only unnecessary but quite anti-American (most definitions) now.
I don't have a fully formed thought here, but I think, sometimes, it can be difficult to know what your problems are, and perhaps even more difficult to know whether or not your problems are solvable.

I received a mass email years ago from someone I was acquainted with who was heading off to volunteer at a hospital in Somalia. She was spreading the word that they were rebuilding this hospital, lot of details, and then asking for anyone who could devote a month of their life to come to Somalia and train staff or help with construction.

I can't train medical staff, and I doubt I'd be much use with construction, but I reached out to ask if they needed any help securing their facility. The person coordinating the volunteer efforts didn't know until she contacted the woman heading the whole project. She told my friend that everything was being stolen. Sheets, office supplies, mattresses, and the drugs, which would be a huge target, hadn't even arrived yet. They were in serious need of a comprehensive physical security solution and didn't have a plan.

That is a situation where I can provide potentially invaluable help, but despite knowing there was a problem, they didn't even know that there were people in the world who could help with that on a volunteer basis.

So, again, I don't have a solid idea, but if there were any way to help project creators think through and detail their pain points, I think that could be incredibly helpful. My example was extreme, but I'm sure there are many people muddling through archaic, complex problems that don't there are better ways. The Toyota logistics donation to NYC Food Bank springs to mind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-...
I think the argument is that you are less likely to use the same password on every site and service, or easily guessed passwords, if you are allowed to use a password manager.

In other words, in practice there is an actual tradeoff between the two.
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My first reaction upon reading your comment was that there was no way you read the article before commenting. Basically, what you say is directly and effectively addressed in the article. I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt though until I saw that the article was posted 23 minutes ago. Your comment was posted 21 minutes ago.
I'll never set my foot in UK and I'm happy to not be british! goddamn what a shitty place.. in terms of policy, I'd be scared with the government if I lived there, I imagine there must be a 'soft oppression' going on already.. Not to mention speech is not protected
Doesn't really matter if there is an API for it or not, if Google were to display it prior to you being authenticated (which they would have to for it to have any impact in this sort of attack), it would be fairly trivial for the attack code to (behind the scenes) present themselves as you to Google and then scrape the correct image from Google's response to their request. There are various things Google could do to make this more difficult, like some fancy rendering via canvas or webgl instead of just using a bog standard img tag, but to counter this the attack could just run a headless rendering browser and pixel scrape the resulting image.

Such a verification image makes the MITM attack a bit harder to code, but not really by much, and in the process might introduce an increased false sense of security.
I can quote directly from the node documentation:

"Domain error handlers are not a substitute for closing down your process when an error occurs.

By the very nature of how throw works in JavaScript, there is almost never any way to safely "pick up where you left off", without leaking references, or creating some other sort of undefined brittle state.

The safest way to respond to a thrown error is to shut down the process."
> I don't think the attacker could reasonably expect to get you to enter two 2FA in a row.

Just tell the user the first one failed, and ask them to enter another.
Depends on the job, depends on the business.

Here at a medical device manufacturer, a minimum 4-year degree in a technical subject with enough experience to show you know what you're doing. Or a CS or Engineering degree and no experience and having good software dev. skills coming right out of school.

In theory if you don't have a degree but do have the experience we're looking for, we might hire you, but I have yet to see a resume with no degree cross my desk. Even for a phone screen.

If only I could get back all the time I've wasted interviewing people who couldn't even write a for... loop properly I'd probably be adding years to my life!
Interaction is no substitute for information.

-- Me
Because existing businesses are afraid of change and politicians are afraid of possibly eliminating jobs. People are afraid of change because it means that they will have to adapt.
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There is an encrypted message [1] in the last commit of their website (popcorn-time.github.io).

[1] https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-time.github.io/commi...
> AFAIK, fractional reserve is the bete noir for many believers in bitcoin.

Then they're hosed, because as soon as somebody somewhere makes a loan using bitcoin, then bitcoin becomes a fractional reserve currency.

Edit: It seems that some cryptocurrency folks have confused "fractional reserve" with "fiat". Those are two very different monetary concepts.
I have no idea what they were doing - the point is that a Facebook account indicates the opportunity to use the internet. There has literally never been more information/tools available to potential programmers than there is today - free online coding schools, tutorials, stackoverflow, wikipedia, anything you want. Not to mention free compilers - when I was a kid, Borland C++ cost money.

I mention Facebook somewhat sarcastically because it's a service with no shortage of women. If women can be on Facebook, they can also be on Github if they choose to be.

There was never an easier time to learn programming, for free, while sitting at home, without even putting on pants, than today.

The secret of the patriarchy: http://bit.ly/w0iWlY
How long till someone forks it...
Government does not respond to a passive arrangement where you "vote for ethics" every so often. You have to participate more actively. This involves work.
If they have a list of usernames (easy enough to get, or guess), they just have to do an automated series of bulk requests
Perhaps it was just an innocent mistake?

Off By One?

Storing a long result into a short?

Even so, a Forensic Accountant would have caught the problem well over a year ago.
Trying to make this sound constructive, but if I can't get past the tutorial, I'm not going to have enough faith in the level design to continue at all.
Yes they did. If not from a "VC" there were plenty of investors and funds that the CEO pitched to. But they already had stores by then (originally started as boutique coffee roasters).
I wonder what will happen to the code-base. It's pretty hard to make an application go away when there are many checkouts of its git module around the world.
Here's where the official API docs say you should always let your process die when you encounter an unhandled exception:

http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html#domain_warning_don_t_ignor...
Sadly, existing then shutting down so fast will only hurt the whole reason they set out. Lawyers and middle men are licking their chops and toasting champagne and caviar dreams at the idea of such fast work on their part.

It did prove once again that demand for easy services is desired but lots of that were also because it was free.
> The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you!

One of the things I love about Elon Musk, besides the fact that he has the balls to tackle hard, capital-intensive problems, is that he has a pragmatic, realist approach. Getting SpaceX NASA contracts was not something everyone would have done, not when many were marching to the drumbeat of "private space exploration is superior to public." And apparently, he's not being above throwing a recent scandal in Chris Christie's face.

The whole article is a great play though. Note that he starts by explaining the rationale for the existing laws, validating their original purpose, then showing why that rationale doesn't apply to Tesla. This is wonderful persuasive writing.
In case you missed this last year, Tesla's vision for servicing and customer delight is refreshingly progressive: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/creating-world%E2%80%99s-bes...
This brings back so many good memories I can hardly believe it. It brings a very small but very real tear to my eye.

This would be like waking up one day and realizing audiogalaxy was still there. Soulseek was my favorite music transfer program for a couple years there in the early 2000's and then I forgot all about it. I always loved the community aspect of it.

It reminds me of the very very old EFNet IRC days when I was briefly in one of the first MP3 kr3wz lol. #snes #warez5 stand up!

Today is a good day, today is a very fine day.
Not on Twitter it won't, because when you hit "back", there's 65 new tweets at the top of your timeline, so your position is not the same.
heh :)

it is worth reflecting that it is far easier to convince people that you are in control than it is to actually be in control, and for most purposes they are almost the same thing

also, if you have to fire missiles at stuff, you probably aren't in control, given that if you are in control you do not need to and missiles are expensive
Most of the effects of student loan debt are caused at the federal level. They're the ones providing loan money and making it impossible to discharge debt while not setting any price controls. My loan has a … 7% interest rate?
Absolutely. I have accounts on both what and waffles and use them once every few months only to avoid get banned for inactivity.
I was just thinking the same though. Perhaps a bit more crass, however, my thought process was something like 'tough shit'. My assumption would be those investing heavily in BC were thinking 'high risk, high reward'. Well, it proved to be pretty risky.
It's better that the Popcorn Time developers leave now than later. By leaving now they can take advantage of all the attention and get a great fork going.
Nope that's because you were in a country full of religious fundamentalist nut cases.

Ones who are brainwashed, censored, dogmatised etc etc.

QED.
It's very easy to say that, but is it true? I am not so sure. Around here it's easy to piss on managers because we all have horror stories, but on the same token a lot of developers have no idea what it takes to organize and direct a large organization, so it's really no different than a suit ignorantly asking "What is so hard about programming? They just type a bit of text then hit a big red deploy button."

As a CTO I have a foot in both camps, and I have to say there's a lot about management that developers don't know. In fact, my best management is never even known by my staff, they simply deal with a metric ton less bullshit due to a thankless move on my part—ignorance is bliss. Granted, it's probably easier for NNPMs to hang around an organization than NNPPs by virtue of tangibility, but I've seen enough NNPPs to know that programming is far from the transparent, egalitarian utopia that tech folks wish for.
Startup recruiting trends
Are small- to mid-size startups generally changing how they do recruitment? I am a student who has interned at a fairly well-known yet small company before, and during my search for something similar this year, people seem to genuinely think that that experience is really valuable. I pretty much always get several rounds of interviews, but even after acing them in half the allotted time and getting along well with the interviewer, I simply get automated emails indicating they wouldn't like to continue with the interview process. The only explanation I can think of is that the field of applicants is so deep that they can pick and choose from vastly overqualified candidates (although I would still be confused at their initial enthusiasm about my past experience). Is startup recruiting now getting just as competitive as the big tech companies, or is there something else I'm missing? Are startups doing hundreds of interviews to fill 1 or 2 positions?
"If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door, unless its run by mice." --me
This is my issue - an aeroplane disappearing from SSR and not making contact on the next frequency = sends up someone to have a look. Perhaps Malaysia's air force isn't as trigger-happy as here in England?

P.S. Never thought I'd see Farnborough West mentioned on HN! Hello fellow South Eastern pilot.
NO WAY! Artist - Song.mp3 !!! My entire collection is set up like this :)
Take a look at Fossil, then. It's a distributed version control system, bug tracker, wiki and blog, from the author of SQLite.
I changed all my passwords recently to do the same thing. The problem I've recently started to see is that, let's say for example my hashed+salted password is stolen from a site. If they brute-force figure out what my password is, they'll have my "base word" and all my other accounts may still be able to be compromised.

Recently I changed my big accounts (Google, Facebook, StackOverflow) to have a slightly different "base word" and the other accounts that I can afford to lose control of have stayed the same.
I made sure to download it right away a few days ago even though I don't know when I will get around to trying it.
Secure boot can be disabled
Remember that the US is not pro-business, it's corporatist. It's a government that is able to be easily captured by incumbent, monied interests. Starting businesses and operating them on a small level is much easier in other developed nations.
Someone from Hollywood made them write that :)
Quite a different claim from grandparent, that modern _state delivered propaganda_ is the biggest enabler of modern atrocity.
And it's worth remembering that banks aren't the only institutions that make loans. There are a lot of businesses that extend credit (post-paid services, invoicing with net 60 terms, etc), which has the same exact macroeconomic effect.
I was impressed by the fact that he bothered to offer an explanation of why the law was introduced and what purpose it served; it makes for a more compelling argument than some cookie-cutter rant about Big Evil Corporations wrapping their rent-seeking tentacles around the government.
What do you do when you have to change a password for a site? Multiple algorithms?

Hrmmn... when did I last set this password?
Your workstation is no longer defined by the physical space it resides in, so it can go with you wherever you want, such as on the train, in your self-driving car, etc.

I was referring to this sentence. The input device will probably keep being restricting until we have BCIs.

But I agree that it sounds like a great idea having a virtual half-sphere surrounding you and it would certainly be a relief for the neck at least.
The "bridge closure to sell you" zinger made me smile.
I couldn't find the related public key to decrypt it :(
Most dealerships would not count as "small" businesses. They are at the very least "medium enterprise" and at the most Fortune 500 companies[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_1_Automotive
Well, really, the only difference between people like me, who have been doing this for most of our natural lives, and people like you is that we've run into a bunch more walls and now act like it's no big d. But the initial frustration as a n00b can be killer.
Can you tell me advantage of having this metric? What can I use this data for?
It is a terrific salespitch, especially in how it raises the subject of OTA updates while adroitly waltzing you past the obvious worry that a poorly tested OTA update will brick your car.
His best line:

> The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures 'consumer protection'. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of 'protection', this is obviously untrue.

Nicely done, Elon. Nicely done.
That's some good writing by Elon, by the way.

Perhaps it went through an editor or two, for typos and such, but I have to say I find his style engaging...

(Disclaimer: If I had the money I'd buy a tesla, and I am an investor.)
Girls engage in other solitary activities like literature, music, art, crafts etc.
There's a big difference between "preaching a free-market economy" and "preaching a free-market economy except in cases where I think there shouldn't be a free-market economy." The latter is the norm in the United States and every other country in the world that I know of.
I think you're spot on that many people don't even know what problems they've got. Something we'd like to do in the long term is build a community of solvers that actively seeks out projects. That way people are taking their expertise to the problem and saying, "can you use _these_ skills?".

Another idea is to have a team of enablers - if someone has a project but they don't know what to post we invite them to come and talk to the enablers in a chat room. They then help the project owner figure out what kinds of skills could help them, and get the project posted.

I loved that story of Toyota's engineers, and it was probably in the back of my mind when I conceived Solvers.
It doesn't blow your mind, it happens the whole time. Car imports are a similar example.
Hm, I might've missed that. Carry on!

By the way, thank you very much for writing the article. I've been tempted to try Clojure to build something desktop related :).
I think it would be better to say "unless it's run by the current mousetrap manufacturers."
Pretty well done, what program/software did you use to make it?
Musk is massively disingenuous and rather insulting to our intelligence. But he's a heck of a salesman and makes a wonderful car. Like many persuasive people he arrives at an answer and backs into rationale but makes it appear the other way around.

I'll give you just one example. The law of the land in NJ is that you can't sell in NJ unless through a dealership. That's the current law. Those laws need to change to allow a direct to consumer sale. Map that to this quote "ended your right to purchase vehicles at a manufacturer store within the state." Brilliant. "You lost something you had" is so much more powerful than "We need to persuade the legislator to make a change to add something new"

Seriously, I dig his cars. And his vision. And I suspect that to attack such large entrenched markets you have to have this kind of maniacal drive. I just hate being misled and manipulated - no matter who the person.
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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. Depending on your definition of service workers, several unions are also among the top donors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/
I just use this bookmarklet to remove "autocomplete=off" from form elements:

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Love the video production, fast-motion + narrator.
Secureboot can't be disabled on tablets.
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Not really. Treehouse is a learn-to-code training tool for beginners. A blog post about typical beginner mistakes is pretty relevant to the Treehouse audience.
Lets keep the discussion positive. Understand I'm not a political science major or a fancy debater, I don't claim to poses more than average intellegence, I'm just asking a question, hoping someone with more knowledge on the matter has an answer. After working to provide for the family I don't have a lot of free time to commit to politics if that's what you mean by 'participate more actively', is that the only course of action?
"goad"? "facilitate"? What's the boundary?