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This works fine if you don't have a marketing team to answer to or a CEO who's sister has just got 3/4 of the way through her JQuery class at JC and "has some ideas".

Also, this blog post comes from the perspective of a single use website. Treehouse, build a website. AirBNB, rent a pad, etc.. There are corporate websites out there with multiples of sub-companies and 100s of different product offerings all competing for space.

Putting up a full screen image and a button that says "Get Started!" is the easy stuff and isn't what I would consider the definitive example of good web design.
Elon made enough off PayPal to never have to work.. ever again . Instead he put all of his money into Electric cars, solar power and rockets with a huge chance that he would loose it all (and almost did). I don't think that profit is his motivating factor.
With the march of Moore's Law, it should currently be feasible for automobile controllers to actually run under a kind of hypervisor and keep a copy of the old system so that it can roll back. (Including by request of the owner.)
"Musk is massively disingenuous and rather insulting to our intelligence. But he's a heck of a salesman "

Agree. And makes you wonder a bit about the marketing materials surrounding these cars, huh?

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. And making more money for himself. Most businesses don't make it that obvious.

Another word I will use is immature. His argument sounds like a spoiled kid who doesn't get what he wants and is going to call out the teacher at school hoping to berate them into just caving in. [1] Real life doesn't work that way. Not to mention the fact that there simply aren't enough people in NJ [2] that care about buying a Tesla to protest and make change on this.

[1] "Hey great argument no I don't mind if you insulted me because you are right!".

[2] Guess what? In Pennsylvania there are many more people that don't want to buy liquor at state stores (which they have to) and that hasn't changed yet.
There is no slippery slope here if the law is states something like: "contracts between existing de-facto oligarchy of car manufacturers and dealers remain as is, new entrants are free to set their own terms".

Everyone is talking about how we can't trust Elon Musk since he is acting in his rational self-interest. Yet why should we assume that Christie is acting out of the pure goodness of the heart? Politicians too act in their self-interest and that kind of self-interest often involves maximization of power. The currency of politics is not just cash (that helps too, of course!), but also favours: you can be sure that in return for this favour, he'll ask something from the dealership industry which would beneficial to his political career (e.g., the first thing that pops would be to accept additional vehicle taxes, which would help Christie carry and receive donations from environmentally conscious voters in a liberal state susceptible to flooding)

(Edit: remove an incorrect assertion. Laws regarding specific individuals are constitutional, just not "bills of attainder")
I gather from the suggestion at the end that the only option available to Tesla is through the court system, so it probably doesn't matter what he writes about the governor. If the only remedy is legal, you've lost political lobbying as an option. Save for votes, but the midterms are still 8 months away. Voters are forgetful.
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Having bought a Nissan LEAF, I can say with confidence that traditional auto dealers are where electric vehicles go unsold. Numerous members of our electric auto owners group share the same exact stories.

You go to the dealer specifically asking for an electric car and the salesman tries to make you change your mind to another vehicle. Considering the bonus structure at most dealerships, there is no incentive to sell an electric vehicle.

First, the dealership may choose not to participate in selling electric models at all.

Second, there is usually only one or two people allowed to sell an electric vehicle because your salesperson was not trained. Who wants to lose a customer and a bonus to another salesman?

Third, it takes longer to sell an electric vehicle because you have to explain everything that gas car owners already take for granted. You make less money by spending more time. This also leads most salesmen to push for 10% over MSRP, harming sales.

Finally, some very corrupt dealers go so far as to deliberately discharge their vehicles and leave them that way so they won't have to try selling them. Dealers have little incentive to sell the entire lineup of manufacturer vehicles if they have to train and hire more sales staff for one model. Some dealership owners may even may be politically opposed to the idea of electric vehicles.
> Thinking like this is why we have a gigantic, anti-Constitutional federal government. Why can't he work on infrastructure in NJ at the state or local level? Why can't he work on jobs programs and economic incentives for businesses in NJ?

Because nobody else does. If your state's legislators aren't bringing federal money into your state while all the other states' legislators are passing federal programs funded by your state's taxpayers, you are going to alienate your constituents and lose your seat. Nobody is interested in less federal funding unless it also means lower federal taxes.

The problem is fundamentally that some states aren't pulling their weight, paying substantially less in federal taxes than they receive in federal funding, and those states' legislators (who incidentally are largely Republicans) have absolutely no interest in turning off the federal spigot. So if you're from the North East or the West Coast, you can't really do much to keep Uncle Sam's hand out of your pocket, at which point it becomes extremely attractive to put in for your own boondoggles to try and claw some of it back.

It's not ideology, it's political arithmetic. If you don't like it, figure out how to prevent the South from diverting such a massive quantity of federal dollars into their defense contractors.
I'm the son of a parent who died well before I graduated high school. I hate to say it, but $500k isn't nearly enough unless you're in a very low cost of living state. Even if the surviving parent makes a good wage, you will have a surge of childcare expenses. And if the surviving parent wasn't the primary earner that's when you really need the insurance. The thing lots of people don't consider is that you may not die from a car accident where shit just happened. If someone should be unlucky enough to get cancer, you may face several years of illness with not only reduced income or disability pay but an astounding amount of money spent on medical treatment. Just for starters, insurance will not cover eg childcare for young children while parent #1 is sleeping at the hospital while parent #2 is recovering from surgery or chemo or radiation or whatever it may be.

From my experiences as the oldest of several kids, $1mm is really the minimum and it's worth a quick talk with an attorney to not only have (1) a will; (2) a written discussion ahead of time of what you want to have happen if you or your SO should ever be severely injured (see eg the Terri Schiavo debacle); (3) a discussion of who you would like to have raise your kids should both parents be injured; (4) tax avoidance strategies should someone die early.

These are all unpleasant things.

The other thing you may find shocking is how long it takes to get a death certificate issued / the challenges getting access to accounts held only in a single name. Maybe our experiences where unusual but you should not be surprised if it takes 3-6 months to get some of these things sorted. Not to mention the surviving family are usually an emotional wreck.
That's an easy statement to make when you aren't risking a battle with the full legal force of corporations like the MPAA.
For one thing, an OTA update mechanism is obviously more subject to third-party spoofing than an update delivered by physical ethernet from the dealership.

(BTW, do Teslas apply OTA updates while the car is underway, or store them up for application when parked? If the former, then applying even a correct update to a car in motion could have all sorts of nasty consequences if it resulted in a sudden change to, say, response characteristics of the suspension or brakes.)
You don't see any difference between not needing some types of service and building some types of service into the price?

Wiper blades are what, $30 a year if you really care about them?
That's a good idea. I've written a few letters before, but never felt like I had the skill set to argue about these points on the phone, I'm also an introvert so cold calling is not something that I choose to do very often.
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You might want to turn off updates during road trips.
that is a pretty good example of something never to write in a letter that you want to positively influence a situation.

Right. It does close the door to Christie deciding to do a turnaround and adopt the issue as a crusader for the people. Actually, considering that Gov. Christie is a politically powerful man with an apparent history of underhanded retaliation, I think it's really the last thing you want to do.
I agree with the idea in principle, that electric cars are a net positive for reliability and minimizing service costs.

However, when you talk nostalgically about the good old days of cars being "mechanical devices one could understand and tinker with", and then turn around and talk about the new generation of electric cars being somehow equivalent, it seems a little logically inconsistent to me.

Make no mistake, a Tesla is just as much of a "hunk of plastic" when it comes to fixing or modifying it yourself. Expecting any complex piece of modern electronics to be similarly hackable to a car from the last century is a little unrealistic.

EDIT: sounds like we're basically in agreement on this. I misunderstood the previous comment.
Proof that their intimidation 'services' work will sell more intimidation services.
Yeah, he was always a leading favorite Republican candidate among non-Republicans. Primary voters? No way.
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I'm a premium newsblur user and it feels slow and sluggish (with +/- 800 feeds and about 10k unreads right now), and I really wish it had search, but I'm sticking with it for now.
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seems like catchafire focuses on actual organizations and requires an interview with volunteers.

i'd really like a platform where i can just practice my skills and learn new things on someone's open source project, rather than committing myself as a volunteer of a nonprofit.

i have skills i'd like to improve on in a practical application with guidance. there are people who need, or dont want to do, that kind of work. we just can't find eachother.
"Actually, regulation was part of the problem - specifically the Community Reinvestment Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act"

He then goes on to demonstrate an argument regarding how CRA loans had virtually nothing to do with the crisis. How on earth do you feel he isn't addressing an argument you made?
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No, it was not. The law, which has been on the books for a long time in New Jersey, prohibited direct sales.

It was possible to read part of the law as being written in a way that would not apply to Tesla, but would apply to nearly all other current makers. (I mentioned this in a Reddit discussion, and someone pointed out that another part of New Jersey law made it so that reading was clearly not correct, and the law prohibiting other makers from selling direct did pretty clearly cover Tesla).

The new rule is basically clarifying that yes, the current law does indeed also apply to Tesla, and anyone who issued any permits or otherwise had approved Tesla's sales was in error.
"That's why I think that if anyone should actively be against terrorism, it's the UK"

I hope that the one lesson that we as a country learned from the Troubles in Northern Ireland was that the strategy to deal with terrorists is actually to sit down and find out why they are so pissed off.
If only! Here's where I'm at now:

- Raise the national minimum wage and index it to the cost of living increases

- Extend unemployment benefits to workers who have lost their jobs and haven't been able to get back into the workforce

- Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire long-term unemployed workers and prohibit discriminating against the long-term unemployed when hiring

- Establish a work-sharing program that allows workers to collect unemployment assistance when employers choose to reduce hours instead of layoffs

- Provide incentives to employers for hiring unemployed veterans

- Support workers' rights to organize through the Employee Free Choice Act as well as trade laws that protect labor

- End tax incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas

- Fund school construction and modernization projects including urgent repairs, energy-efficient upgrades, and wiring for high-speed internet access

- Establish a National Infrastructure Bank to invest in infrastructure repair and expansion projects that will create millions of jobs nationally and open new economic opportunities

What do you think will work?
> Company has an average team, maybe even bit worse + 1 good person. The managers are not that great either. Everything is average.

I think the application of the OP here is "fire the bad/mediocre managers, put that 1 good tech person in charge". Couldn't they do that?
It's amazing to think that even with all of this horrible experience at Nissan dealers, the Leaf is still selling so well. Imagine how strong it would be if they had real retail support.
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whats the difference? 20% of Americans lease their cars from manufacturers right now, when you lease something by its nature you don't own it. Another 60% make use of financing when they buy, in which case the bank owns your car.

If you are trying to make an argument about control then make it and maybe give us some more information than just the conclusion of your thoughts.
What's stopping the attacker from reading the user's browser data and replaying it to Google?
"Whether you are recognized for that or whether credit gets usurped by your manager is a separate question."

Seems pretty tightly coupled to me. Losing individual contributors capable of implementing million dollar AdWord campaigns, for example, is going to have a big impact on the manager's team's productivity. So I think recognition and productivity are very tightly coupled.
Roguetemple thread: http://forums.roguetemple.com/index.php?topic=3961.0
How about registering your "garage coordinates" with your car's computer so that it can detect when you're on a road trip and give you the option of installing an update or not? (When you are stopped and have parked the car, of course.)
"ps" will show the effective uid ocspd is running as:

% ps aux|grep ocspd
root 534 0.0 0.0 2442712 2036 ?? Ss 3:53PM 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ocspd

I don't know how to show the sandbox a running process is contained in, but it's easy enough to show that launchd runs ocspd directly, without sandbox-exec:

% grep -A3 ProgramArguments /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ocspd.plist
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/ocspd</string>
</array>

It's possible for a process to programmatically place itself in a sandbox (see /usr/include/sandbox.h), but a quick look at the source to ocspd and a quick disassembly of what actually ships with OS X 10.9.2 shows ocspd does not do that.
Bill Gates is not "reviled" by HN. Some of Microsoft's practices in the 90s are, but it seems that most HN users have great respect for Gates as a hacker, founder and most of all thinker and philanthropist. Just look at any BG related thread here, you will see this (well deserved) respect.
Sorry, you're right. I replaced the url with that of the original.
Thank you! I've actually recently befriended a voice coach and am going to record my first demo reels this weekend (on my iPhone, lulz). I'll be sure to look at YourACT and see what's up there.
Here is a short tutorial on these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrDeC2Hb2I
Like the 30 pin before it lightning is their de facto standard. Which is nice because the cable I got with my air fits my iPhone and will fit my air 3 electric lightness too.
I wonder if the solution here is to simply not grow the company that large in the first place? Usually what happens is a company gets a new product idea or a big surge in new customers and does not have a process in place to deal with it through automation and existing systems. The easiest solution is to just hire new employees and let them work it out - it scales very well at first glance as the original employees can continue to work on improving and automating what they already have. Is it the best solution though? If the product is good, slowing down on features or customers seems fairly acceptable until you can cope with them. It's obviously not going to fly with a VC funded firm. For a bootstrapped or lifestyle business it might be the better long run approach, and I believe most people really want a lifestyle business even if they think they don't.
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Acting in favor of individual businesses is usually orthogonal or antithetical to acting in favor of the free market.

Big businesses and the politicians who love them often rely heavily on erasing the perception of that difference.
Wow, that really gives me pause! A multi-billionaire says Snowden is no hero. Don't know about you, but I often let Gates, Trump, Buffett, the Walton heirs and the Koch Brothers dictate my opinions for me! Just because they're rolling in it!

But really, Gates isn't a philosopher, isn't a lawyer, isn't a politician, and arguably represents the very worst that the stale status quo has to offer. Why should we let him assure us that upsetting the system that gave Gates billions of dollars is bad, bad, very bad? It would be news if he said something opposite to "Snowden is no hero", if he advocated some very serious changes, and put his money where his mouth is. As it stands, this is non-news, it's predictable.
One structure that I think could give programmers a lifetime of career growth as programmers is a partner/associates model at a software services firm. In this model partners would still code, just like law partners still practice law, even if they also take on responsibilities re sales/outreach/management/mentoring/etc. I'd love to start such a firm, if I can find one or two people I trust to start it with me.
Went with a BA in politics since young arrogant me got tired of the CS curriculum (why do I need to learn java? I can already make anything in PHP!) and politics was more interesting (and better demographics honestly).

So I've brushed up on my CS via online courses and enjoy a more educated/enlightened apathy toward modern politics.
It's probably worth pointing out as well that some dealers are predominantly or exclusively "no haggle" even when it's not mandated by the manufacturer.

I'm generally sympathetic to the notion that auto manufacturers should be able to sell direct subject to whatever contractual promises they may have made to existing franchisees. That said I'm unconvinced that, from the consumer perspective, there's going to be a huge difference between a luxury brand car dealership network such as those that exist for BMW and Mercedes and Tesla-owned and operated locations that do things like: service, helping to arrange financing, take trade-ins, showroom, offer test drives, etc. Sounds a lot like a dealer to me. As you note, it's really a false dichotomy between manufacturer-operated network on the one hand and an uncontrolled Wild West of franchises on the other.
Tesla is just as much of a "hunk of plastic"

That is exactly my point. Did you actually read the whole comment you are responding to?
Let's be fair: it's a thing newbie (or newbie-minded) product designers ask for, which the web developers then implement.
Here's what FIDO says about the Login process;

1) Online service challenges the user to login with a previously registered device that matches the service's acceptance policy.

2) User unlocks the FIDO authenticator using the same method as at Registration time.

3) Device uses the user's account identifier provided by the service to select the correct key and sign the service's challenge.

4) Client device sends the signed challenge back to the service, which verifies it with the stored public key and logs in the user.

What's to stop an attacker from putting up a phishing page like this, MITM the username/password, forwarding the service's challenge back to the end-user?

I'm going to guess the trick is that the end-user browser has some way to know where the signed challenge should be POSTed for a given service, e.g. by baking that into the "account identifier" used in Step 3. So an attacker can try to MITM the account identifier, but the signed challenge would always be sent directly to the service bypassing the attacker. I'll have to check out the spec...
Perhaps they could've ended the way the Pirate Bay ended.
Is that true though? I mean, in my mind OTA makes it a given that the firmware is going to be fully signed and the channel will be fully authenticated. Whereas if a dealer is installing it, they could dismiss concerns with "we trust our service technicians." Seems the latter opens the door to a lot of social engineering possibilities.

But I was responding to a claim of the update being "poorly tested", not insecure. That's orthogonal to it being over the air. A poorly tested update delivered through a service center can also brick your car.
Another way to bypass these fields where you can't paste a password (many games are guilty of this atrocity): make an AutoHotkey[1] script for rapidly typing whatever is in your clipboard.

This line will make ctrl-alt-v type your clipboard:

^+v::SendRaw %clipboard%

[1] http://www.autohotkey.com/
"I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn’t characterize him as a hero."

That seems strange reasoning. Many heroes break laws.

Plus the NSA broke the law worse.
Isn't that what we preach here as automation puts half the US workforce out of business? Oh, what's that? I'm a Javascript engineer making $100K+/year? It doesn't last forever (i.e 98-01 tech boom, the sands move quickly underneath us).

The future is going to be not only disruptive, but destructive, to industries and people alike. How we turn out as a society will be determined by the policies we develop around handling this turbulent time in human history.
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NPR said it was due to Ford and other auto makers back in the 1920-1930 bullying dealerships. Ford threatened to cancel their business contracts with dealership if the dealerships didn't buy cars that they knew they couldn't sell. During that time, Ford kept their lines running at full capacity even though demand didn't warrant it. The states decided to step in and protect their local dealerships from the megacorp that was Ford and the other manufacturers of that time.

The auto makers of back then dug their own grave with their business practices.

Another argument I've heard is about sales tax. If an auto-maker could sell direct to customers, it could (possibly) be treated as interstate commerce and avoid directly collecting the sales tax. So it's in the state interest to keep dealerships around.
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