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> the auto dealer franchise laws were originally put in place for a just cause and are now being twisted to an unjust purpose

... and Christie can argue that allowing Tesla creates a slippery slope whereby Ford and GM and other companies end up crushing the franchisees that the law intended to protect.

Musk is trying to find a middle ground that just doesn't exist unless you accept governments creating one-off laws that specifically recognizes individual corporations.
I hope people don't forget the profit motive of Mr Musk. It seems technology entrepreneurs have adopted the rhetoric of "just trying to make the world a better place" while conveniently ignoring their own profit making motives. I am no friend of car dealers but I am also not going to be suckered by a self-serving sales pitch.

While I don't necessarily support the NJ move, I think we should start asking questions about economic value flow. If people live in one place yet all their economic activity is directed to some place on the other side of the country, what is the long term effect of this on their local economy?

I don't exclude myself, we all use these web services that are highly concentrated in SV, what is going to happen to our local economies?
Your example companies are working at huge scales compared to most companies that go through distributors. The big difference there is that those companies are selling consumer goods. Many companies that deal exclusively through distributors are selling to businesses, it's a much different environment. When you're working at a huge volume the difference in price makes a much larger impact than if you're selling to a smaller number of companies and the cost of setting up the handlers is dwarfed.

> It just takes an immense amount of resources that smaller manufacturers simply do not have.

Requiring less resources is a form of efficiency for the manufacturer. Being able to simply ship to a single distributor vs shipping to many individuals and having the infrastructure to process those packages, is more efficient to the small manufacturers. It may not be on the wider economic scale but for small companies it saves a lot of work.
I'm absolutely certain it'll get forked and live on under different maintainers.
while "superior" is subjective, i agree it's best to let the market decide naturally, instead of putting up barriers...
There is an odd disconnect between what I'm saying and what you're hearing. One can either be an effective communicator and respond to what people actually say OR one can assume bad faith and spend one's time trying to ferret out what failing in others prevents them from understanding your wisdom and taking the conversation in the direction YOU want it to go. In this conversation you consistently chose the latter approach; I rather prefer the former.

I have actually deliberately AVOIDED using the term "Marxist" except in response to you using it. I do this because I'm not sure I understand Marxism and I'm not sufficiently interested in the topic to want to argue over the subtleties of who or what is and isn't considered "Marxist". That's why I went with "Marxian" to unambiguously describe terminology that is "related to Marx and/or Marxists" and "pseudo-marxists" to mean "people who seem motivated by concerns related to Marxism, whether or not they themselves are actually Marxists".

I don't understand why it's so threatening to YOU that ONE point in the original article seemed to miss the mark and make a universal claim that from my point of view doesn't universalize to me or the people I know. Is your worldview so fragile that it can't withstand that? This all seems very odd.

Unlike the Idiocracy context, my comment about your tone was objectively valid; I am positive any jury of my peers would agree. (And apparently did agree by downvoting your response when another corespondent called you on it). ALL you have to do to avoid being perceived as pompous is leave out your usual preamble and meta-commentary. In short, the next time you find yourself writing a response that has this format:

> paragraph #1: "Regarding YOU: Something is wrong with your reasoning abilities and you should be ashamed of thinking the way you do. You made a basic error. You weren't charitable. You're not trying to learn. I'm not surprised you made this elementary mistake. You have not done your homework."

> paragraph #2 "Regarding what you SAID: Here is some actual information and argument that responds directly to your stated concerns, leaving out all ad hominem attacks and attempts to analyze underlying motives"

...just LEAVE OUT that first paragraph. You can still write it if it makes you feel better, but then leave it on the cutting room floor - delete it before you post. All of it. Because even if it were all TRUE, it would still tend to poison the resulting discussion. If you want people to read charitably, lead by example - read charitably yourself.

Oh, well. It's been real...
>it's somehow lost access to all its mount points

How could that happen and leave your system in a state where it is still accessible and can be fixed by a reboot?

If you think you might face that kind of trouble you should keep a copy of Busybox and whatever other tools you might need on a RAM drive. You'd have an opportunity to figure out if rebooting would lead to a usable system.
Could you explain the reference please?
These app stores are stifling. They're injecting arbitrary non-functional nonsense and technical hurdles that just hold developers back.

I'm not saying HTML/CSS/JS development is a panacea, it's all painful awkwardness with occasional sublime moments. But at least I am my own master when I deploy my apps to the Web.
Unfortunately on Twitter and other infinite scroll pages the back button doesn't take you back to where you were exactly. The position gets thrown off based on the new tweets in the timeline.
Student loans are effectively nationalized right now, so it has become a national issue, but your point is well taken.
Tesla: Accelerating the Advent of Electric Cars
How does the distribution mechanism in itself affect the quality? It's just a way of getting new software on the car. You can have the exact same standards of quality for an update installed over the air as one installed at a service centre.
> Censorship, brainwashing, media control and years of religious dogma turned them into cowardly bombers to start with.

Censorship turns people into suicide bombers? I think the fact that the rest of what you listed is actually transmitted over things like Youtube completely negates your point.
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Cookie-cutter rants are rarely published by people with skin in the game.
Perhaps it went through an editor or two

I 110% percent guarantee it did. No CEO of a decent sized company would not.
Just last week, Elon argued against a different legal monopoly, for national security launch services by the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture. [1]

It's amazing how much building a new company in a supposedly free market requires arguing against politicians who claim to champion free market economics, but who actually use government to give cushy monopolies to incumbents with big lobbying budgets.

"Crony capitalism" isn't an accurate term for this; it's more like economic central planning by way of lobbyists instead of communist bureaus.

1. http://www.spacex.com/press/2014/03/05/elon-musks-statement-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-05/musk-makes-washingt...
Show HN: My app, displays any web page on a ChromeCast. Great for dashboards etc
My take on Good vs Bad managers is very, very simple:

"Good managers are like sea captains. Bad managers are like a slaves overseer."

The last pearl from my manager was:
"If you can produce 100% in 6 hours/day you would for sure produce 150% in 9 hours/day (Together with a puzzled look after I pointed that no, we are not a screws factory)."

I don't need to mention that the entire team is aggressively looking for new positions on other companies (BTW a it is/was a VERY nice team).
You did not read the parent comment. They cannot (or should not) be able to forward the login to Google's real form and trigger SMS 2FA because the real form should be protected by CSRF tokens.
love the app! but getting a 404 on the chat link. maybe because i don't have organization privileges for solvers on github?
An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service

I am old enough to remember what owning a car was like when things were changing away from mechanical devices one could understand and tinker with and becoming nondescript hunks of plastic you had to buy from a manufacturer. (I'm talking about the ignition system, as one specific example.) There was always a bit of a sinking feeling for me along with a sense that the world was being dumbed down and manipulated for profit. As programmers and technical people, we should be able to see many parallels!

That said, dumbing down the world in some ways is not necessarily a bad thing and can be exceedingly positive. One might miss the twisty, dusty country road in leisure time, but curse it when it's raining and the road has turned into an impassable morass. Reliable, boring, convenient transportation is great sometimes, like when you're driving someone going into labor to the hospital.

Maintenance free electric cars that drive themselves will be one of those positive simplifying things.
> a poorly tested OTA update will brick your car

This is possibly true (though I'd be surprised if they didn't have serious precautions in place to prevent a total firmware brick, even fairly cheap electronics are difficult to really brick these days, with multistage/multipartition bootloaders and such).

However, given the amazingly large amount of costly meatspace work they would cause themselves by sending out an OTA that bricks cars, I'm sure they are well motivated to avoid that possibility.
I think the question the article is asking is "Why did did Node stop at abstracting the event loop away, when it could've also abstracted the execution context?" There are languages that do this - Go, Erlang, Haskell, and Python 3.4 all provide a sequential process/coroutine abstraction on top of an implementation that's fundamentally asynchronous.

The question the author has isn't about implementation, it's about programming model. Programming languages & frameworks are ultimately made for humans, and most humans find it easier to reason about "Do this thing, then this thing, then these other things, until you're finished" than "I'm doing all these things at once!" We have computers to organize all the events, stack frames, wait queues, etc. that take us from the machine to the editor window.
> The one in FF does not use a master password by default, so anyone could look at an unattended computer and see all stored passwords with a few clicks.

Or, in its absence, take a look at the stickynotes and see all the password the person is using for everything. Or guess that the user's password is 'password' or something stupid like 'secret'

I mean I agree that it's a bad call for public computers to have it enabled by default. But among people's likely options I'd far sooner have them using even a bad password manager than what I perceive them to be likely to do in its absence - and from that perspective pretty much anything that lowers the likely adoption of password managers seems like a bad call.

I don't think that the larger population are going to find that FF's password manager doesn't work with a site and go running off to download KeePass or Lastpass or something like that. I think they're just going to shrug and type in 'password', (or some other dictionary word and a couple of numbers on the end - but in any case something re-used and simple,) for that site.
Team looks like a pretty awesome tool. Do you guys have any plans to release it publicly at some point?
Why are researchers, who are supposed to be pushing the boundaries of what is possible, so averse to taking risk? or failing?
> That is, assuming they really only block it inside the UK. They certainly can't make the video unavailable for everybody or we'll soon have a Youtube that is filled only with the intersecting "this is acceptable" sets of all governments.

Youtube makes the final decision.
Can you DOS/DDOS a pizzeria?
Probably what their initial intention was from the beginning.

1) Build something incredible.

2) Get a ton of cred for it.

3) Release it to the masses via open source.

4) Wait for the lawyers to roll up en masse.

Then simply flee the scene, avoiding any legal entanglements and with steadfast assurances what you've created will now go on without you, and most likely morph into something even more incredible.

Genius I tell you, genius.
c'mon, I thought there are enough easy peasy games out there, this brings a little more challenge.. but maybe you are right and I should soften the start. could you say at which point your player failed?
Hey this is not the end, it is an opportunity to sell this technology to some company that has problems streaming video PopCorn Time is just the proof that it works and it can be used to solve real world problems. So i hope you find a successful exit.
Not true. The attacker is the only one who actually uses the 2FA. The user never gets logged in.
The pathname "/a/google.com" means it does come from within Google.
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And that brings us to another annoying thing newbie webdevelopers do. Infinitely scrolling webpages. Hate them. Breaks all my old habits with back-buttons, or leaving a webpage open in the browser for the next day to continue reading.
I installed it 2 days ago. Was gonna try it out tonight, and now this. :(
a poorly tested OTA update will brick your car

It should be possible now to have a rollback function built into engine controllers.
Looks like day 2 happened already and had some pretty good exploits:

http://www.pwn2own.com/2014/03/pwn2own-results-thursday-day-...
Isn't that easily avoided though? Surely you could protect existing franchises or franchise regions without constraining a manufacturers ability to sell without franchise, or in regions where no franchisee exists.
Will Wayland be different?
Emailing your interviewers to ask for more deep feedback is probably more helpful than asking HN...
When was the last time you dropped off a check for your travel agent and picked up a paper map on your way out?

Software changes things a lot. Efficiencies let people spend their time, money, and energy on bettering their lives in other ways.
I think the parent is theorizing that they could emulate someone logging in through their own headless browser to see if the credentials are valid, then if they are and the account has 2FA, they could trigger the SMS.
I'd guess, much smaller percentage than in Europe, where many neighboring countries speak different languages. Why Russians should study foreign language if they are not going to use that - and that's the case for large percentage of population? It's similar to US in that regard - almost all know English, that's enough at home, and usually enough in neighboring Canada, and the primary foreign language is Spanish, probably because another major neighbour, Mexico, speaks Spanish.

Google Translate is pretty good :) but distinctively worse still than the native tongue.
It is too bad ICMP Source Quench couldn't have been repurposed to help deal with these kinds of attacks. It would be extremely nice to be able to simply send a packet to each host involved in an attack and have them (and optimally routers in between) slow their rate to the target host.
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I'll add "menu navigation that relies on mouseover".
Too late. Their database is hosted somewhere online and now gone.
The leading cause of death for people under 35 are automobile accidents. About 1/3 of automobile accidents involve alcohol. With those two figures, I'd say it's pretty likely that it's not an overblown problem.
Thanks, the article was not very clear about that part.
Not lowering the bar, changing the metrics and possibly even raising the bar.

I had some conversations with a couple professors there before I graduated in the mid-1990s, they saw it as a two fold problem. The geek culture makes it hard for anyone not within it regardless of gender, second they saw that MIT, Stanford, and some other top schools had more alumni donations and also tended to have more technology startups and such closely related to the school which also sort of affected the school's income but also affected future placement of current students which has a pretty large impact on getting the best students in the future. The thought at the time was that the geek culture was just bad for the school, period, they produced a lot of talented engineers but maybe not a lot of really successful people in the bigger picture.

I don't remember the exact numbers but I want to say something like over 50% of the SCS students switch majors out of SCS or left CMU, maybe even more. I want to say 250 students were pre-SCS and something like 50 graduated, but 250 seems way too high though. I can also say that I was a mid-tier geek, I had some experience and some chops but there were dudes who had been paid programmers when they started as freshmen, it was at times intimidating. I do personally know a half dozen folks that changed majors because they decided they couldn't hack it before things really got difficult; good smart people. It can be a very intense pressure cooker, say 50% leave SCS, of the 50% that stay, maybe 90% have had a fair amount of experience and then the 10% that don't struggle with tools and just basic things before they can even do the work. Life's not always fair but that environment was definitely self shaping. I have no doubt in my mind that some of the ones that switched majors could have made it and were maybe a bit psyched out.

When I heard this, in a way I felt a sense of pride, I had finished the "Real CMU" before it got watered down. I also felt a bit of loss, like I had spent the time and money to get their name on my resume and they were going to water its value down. As I've matured, started a family, etc.. I've grown to believe that CMU had (maybe still has) a fairly unhealthy emotional culture about it, I learned a lot, and I really don't have a lot of bad things to say about the place but I meet a bunch of damaged people there and some that might not be damaged so much as just not healthy emotionally. I'm not a mental health expert though, it's just my feeling, there are also some great people I meet there too. I'm in far more contact with people not of SCS though. I've worked at a number of startups, including a couple that were very much on the brink of death and I don't know that I've ever encountered any professional stress close to some of the times at CMU.
> preaches a free-market economy

Those who preach, rarely practice.

Only some portions of the electorate and politicians preach free-market economy.
Works regardless I think because it feeds off of torrents.
it's called a turtlebot, just a simple trashcan robot that you can throw sensors on for basic research
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This comment exemplifies why I come to Hacker News. The ability to be for a cause, yet still call out any bullshit is unfortunately quite rare.
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> In fact, the first 'problem' posted was also the first thing to be solved: a charity's website was running really slow and they needed help fixing it. That got fixed in 24 hours.

That was also the first item I looked at and thought, "Oh, I could do that, it should only take a couple hours tops." Everything else requires significantly more time investment -- which narrows your field of helpers down to, "smart and helpful people who have lots of free time".

Those people exist, but they're a much smaller population than, "smart and helpful people who can come up with a couple of hours for an interesting project while procrastinating on something else."

I think your website copy is very strongly commitment-oriented.

From https://www.solvers.io/:

-> "Get involved in a project below"; what about, "Solve a problem for a project" instead?

-> "Got an idea? Post it and recruit solvers"; I dunno what to suggest here, but "idea" is really broad and "recruit" is a loaded term.

From https://www.solvers.io/projects/new:

-> "Project name" and "Role": I think these are definitely sending the wrong message. "Role" might by itself by the source for a lot of the confusion. You're not looking for a role to be filled -- a position -- you're looking for a specific thing to get done. (It can also cause people to ask for the wrong thing, e.g. a website developer when they need a graphic artist or something.)

-> "Describe the project, including its expected duration and required skillset." I think "duration" sends the wrong message, i.e., "if you're looking for help for the next six months, that's OK, just say so". If that's what you intend, cool, otherwise, that spot might be a great time to tell project managers to keep it short for best results: "Describe your project and what kind of help it needs. Try to ask for specific tasks instead of ongoing commitments."

HTH. It's a really cool site, I hope I can do a thing or two there in the future.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/politics/chris-christie-bridge...
"Bridgegate" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal
If they like the public to read it, they would have used a signature instead of an encryption. ;)
Its not clear that that's true. The law says "auto manufacturers can't sell cars" but it originally meant "auto manufacturers can't renege on franchise agreements (or otherwise abuse them)". Surely there's some way to codify the second one without resorting to the first?
Yeah. I am completely uninterested in owning a vehicle which is 0wned by the manufacturer.
The easier it is to update software, the less important that it is bug-free.
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If you don't understand the consequences of your argument, people will regularly complain that your argument makes no sense.

They spent large amounts of money preparing and operating Google Reader. There is no other way they could possibly prove to you that they took it more seriously, short of throwing MORE good money after bad.

They watched the growth curves, they added features (reader.google.com/play for one), they integrated with other products (Buzz), they waited for new products to be released and integrated with them as well (Google+).

At some point, they decided to leave the market.

Or they should have shut it down sooner? Before they added those features, before they integrated with other products, before the other products were released and before they integrated with them?

Taking it seriously = more time, more money.

Shutting down sooner = less time, less money.

It's apparently OBVIOUS to you exactly how much money they should have spent on it, how they should have prioritized their new features and integrations, and the precise date at which they should have shut down.

And it's so obvious to other people, that they get ultra pissed about it, and abandon all other Google products out of spite.

I wish I had your crystal ball.
I switched from a Microsoft Ergonomic to a Kinesis a month or two ago, because I wanted my mouse closer to avoid shoulder fatigue. I was pretty fast right from the beginning, but it took me a couple days to relearn space, enter, backspace, equals, and tilda. By day three I was getting comfortable. I still make mistakes, especially around hyphen vs equals, but they are getting less and less.

Now I'm trying to teach my brain to switch between Kinesis and the old way. The first few times I worked on a laptop I was furiously pounding on the spacebar trying to make the cursor back up, but even that has gotten easier lately.

So I'd say the learning curve is really pretty easy! Maybe harder if you don't touch type. A year ago I also tried the Truly Ergonomic, and that was a much harder adjustment.