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If anyone buys Tesla it likely would be an established car company because Apple buying Tesla would not solve Tesla's second problem.

Their first problem is money. They don't have the money to ramp up their car building ability to support the III. They have delivery and market issues with just the S

Their second problem is, they don't have the supplier network large enough to support the III nor the expertise to get it out on time. Apple buying them won't fix that.

Apple's problem is that they are sitting on too much cash to make a good decision. There really isn't anyone worth buying, Tesla surely isn't.

I would have thought Apple would be better served by making self driving cars simple through software and hardware that goes into other manufacturers cars.
Apple has 178 billions
http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/hey-big-spender-apple-has-178-...
So one can't install other applications or build upon the resulting OS? Is it just for light shell scripting then?
Right, Apple bought them so no one else could do the same type of touch fingerprint reader. Having to instead rely on the older swipe style which doesn't work as well.
Could you link a feminist discussion of the expendibility of males, skewness of male outcomes, or a critique of Baumeister? I read Baumeister's essay a little while ago, and went looking for critiques. All I found was name calling. I'd like to read an actual response.

(for anyone reading, I'm actually very interested in reading a critique. I'm not just passively calling out the parent post.)
This is only part of the picture, though. With a 700B market cap, they have access to the debt market.
TL;DR the most interesting part

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The cultivated carrot is believed to originate from Afghanistan before the 900s, as this area is described as the primary centre of greatest carrot diversity (Mackevic 1929), Turkey being proposed as a secondary centre of origin (Banga 1963). The first cultivated carrots exhibited purple or yellow roots. Carrot cultivation spread to Spain in the 1100s via the Middle East and North Africa. In Europe, genetic improvement led to a wide variety of cultivars. White and orange-coloured carrots were first described in Western Europe in the early 1600s.

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Purple carrots are even higher in antioxidants than orange carrots, and they also possess anti-inflammatory properties. This could make them very useful in the treatment of arthritis. They have been found to be antiviral, antiseptic and antimicrobial, and they also contain anticarcinogens and betacarotenes. They also contain phytochemicals including carotenoids, polyacetylenes, isocoumarins, phenolics and sesquiterpenes. Phytochemicals have antioxidant, anti-bacterial, and other disease preventative and health enhancing properties.

Anticarcinogens help to reduce the risk of cancer and also help to fight against any already-present cancer cells in our bodies. Purple carrots are also excellent at fighting against viral as well as bacterial infections, such as flu, measles and internal infections of the urinary tract, mouth and stomach.

Purple carrots contain high doses of Vitamin A, which helps to prevent clogging of the arteries and thus helps to prevent strokes. Along with that, they also contain vitamin B, C and E as well as calcium pectate, which is a very good source of fibre, and they help to lower cholesterol levels. They are also very useful in the prevention of macular degeneration.

Studies into the health qualities of purple carrots have shown that they give us extra protection against various forms of cancer and heart disease. They contain purple pigments called anthocyanins, and act as anti-oxidants that protect the body.

There are up to 28 times more anthocyanins - the antioxidant that creates the purple-red pigment in blueberries and raspberries - in purple carrots than there are in orange ones.
This model is fundamentally flawed. It assumes (highly) exponential increases in hash rate with time but constant energy efficiency. However it is nearly entirely increases in efficiency that have driven the higher hash rates. If those efficiencies stop increasing (and we've probably picked the low hanging fruit already with ASICs), then hash rate growth rate will dramatically slow.
I used to think like you, before I experienced the inner machinations of tech m&a.

Somewhere out there are a handful of big companies who sell billions of dollars worth of collective research data. I don't know the market but maybe these are companies like Bloomberg, Gartner, etc. one day an exec at one of these companies will want to add startup research (or whatever MM's product is) to their product suite. They will evaluate the cost of building it internally versus buying someone like MM. Keeping in mind that if you build internally, it takes time (maybe a year to replicate), and has significant failure risks. So they do the math and all of a sudden $100m to acquire MM makes sense. Keeping in mind it isn't the exec's $100m and that spending $15m and failing looks a lot worse than spending $100m and doing OK.

MM's job is to keep growing/pivoting until one of these big fish bite. If no one bites, they have to hope they end up with a lot of independent value.
Apple has $179B in cash. And that's after paying +$10B per year in dividends.
> It's not even inflationary

And that's exactly the whole point, and is the very reason it's working.

> a pyramid scheme

Then every other successful investment is a pyramid scheme. Gold is a pyramid scheme! Storing food for catastrophes is a pyramid scheme! Paintings are a pyramid scheme!
All of this boils down to one word : GREED. Most people starting startup in bubble by definition greedy. They are not there to change the world per se, like Elon Musk. They want to have more equity when they sell the company. Period.

I believe first 5 people in the company should be given double digit equity.
PFSense has a note about that choice in their FAQ: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_was_FreeBSD_chosen_ins...

Another lover of PFSense here. I started out with M0n0wall, but there were a few items that drove me to pfSense ultimately (the slightly strange way setting up rules/port forwards, and the need for different IPSEC encryption algos for a corporate firewall connection.) I have pf humming along on an older Alix2d3 kit, and have had ZERO problems. I now see that there's a more powerful APU board that will be my upgrade path when this box dies, or I upgrade my internet beyond ~50mbps -- whichever comes first.
RSU: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/restricted-stock-unit.as...
I like that my wages are high, but I don't like that lots of other people don't have good economic options. If my wages go down because more people learn to code and it becomes less of a sellers market, I'd consider that a good outcome.

Organizing to keep new coders out would just help existing coders relative to everyone else, and as a whole we're a group that's relatively well off.
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Riiiight :)
That information is way off Apple had $178B as of Jan 2015 http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/investing/apple-cash-178-bil... The 32B is probably just the profit for a single quarter.
If you kept planting and burying trees you'd be taking oxygen out of the atmosphere in addition to carbon, which would cause other problems.
"It's only wasteful if there is a better alternative, which there isn't so it's not."

The alternative is to get by without it. There are fiat currencies, proof of stake and much more.

Capitalism of any kind always seeks to exploit externalities. The cost of producing electricity is currently not reflective of the true future cost of the pollution. That is the externality. Every metric in a capitalistic system is designed to reward the exploitation of externalities.
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> Elon Musk as the CEO of Apple? Wow. Doubt he would want to do it, but I could see him being the Chairman — and that would be kind of special.

That's the ONLY reason why I would want Apple to buy Tesla - if Elon Musk can become its CEO let's say in 5-7 years. I can't even imagine what Elon Musk could do with Apple's money, but I'm pretty sure he'd at the very least take on fusion research, and other stuff that would accelerate the arrival of a new "space age".

Otherwise, Apple buying Tesla just as another profit-center and to make fanbois happy that they only have to buy their products religiously from a single company? Screw that.

Put Elon Musk on the schedule to become CEO and then we're talking.
Then perhaps you also ought to have a friend and some weapons to guarantee your personal safety too. Alternatively, meet up in a relatively safe, public, conspicuous area where that is unlikely to happen.
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I am humbled :)
Yeah, there are also bottle caps which can be used as currency!

But seriously, don't call those "alternatives" if they are not secure. There is no known replacement for PoW.
I only know London, but senior people get more than £50k. It is slightly confused by finance, which pays much more, and people who contract - lots of companies pay little for permanent staff but pay £500 a day for long term contractors, which makes no sense, as if they upped their permanent rates they could hire good people instead.
Another related article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1991768.stm

There are even reports that as long ago as 2000 BC, temple drawings from Egypt show a plant believed to be a purple carrot.

It was not until the 17th Century that they turned orange, when patriotic Dutch growers favoured the colour - as used on the national flag.
I think startups have become too much of an industry unto themselves, and they are developing their own versions of many of the same issues that the big companies of the past inflicted on themselves. They are living on the (fading) memory of how well startup employees did 15-30 years ago.

When I saw a really positive reaction to YC posting a template sales agreement the other day, that's a signal that it has jumped the shark. Venture companies are supposed to be taking big risks, but it's a big deal to have a "best practices" based sales form? Sounds like when my big enterprise CIO looks for validation from Gartner, etc for any decision making.

I worked at a late stage startup in the dotbomb days and walked away with a decent equity position that based on the "best practices" discussed today would have been somewhere between 75-90% lower. If you look at total lifetime compensation, my decision to work for the government is financially much smarter than one of these startups. Salary is the midpoint between startup and a bank, but benefits are very rich. Add in the future value of pension & benefits, and it is a bad deal to leave unless I was a co-founder.
Elon Musk is able to do what he does largely because he made himself rich off a startup. If you want to be Elon Musk, you have to be rich.
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I agree with the problems but am curious how you would solve the non-terminating code problem?
In a normal ghci repl, you would be able to use the syntax "let name = expr", but this repl doesn't seem to support that.

My best guess is that it's because it's implemented as an HTTP service that happens not to retain the ghci process between expressions.
I don't see you complaining about these:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunbar_armored_car.JP...
AFAIR Jonny Greenwood (from Radiohead) said in an interview that he himself wrote a lot of the synthetizers that the band uses.
I completely agree with your market forces answer to the salary compensation numbers. So it's not interesting why YC companies are offering salaries like that, rather its more interesting to wonder why they are willing to accept the developers salaries like that filter for.

The developers who would accept those salaries either are a) worth less than the median salary b) don't know their value in the industry c) are naive about the true value of the equity part of the compensation or d) are happy to not maximize their earnings.

All of those filters seem to bias towards inexperienced developers without others who rely on their income (ie young developers from relatively financially stable backgrounds) or those who have no other choices.

So that seems to imply one or more of the following:

- software is the first craft ever where experience does not improve performance.

- writing good software is not important.

- neither is long term team cohesion, as that is very difficult to maintain in the face of chronic underpayment.

So the most likely thing this implies, is that the successes YC companies are shooting for on not predicated on writing long term sustainable good software. Again, there is nothing wrong with that. But I worry that when that isn't explicit it has negative ramifications in environments where writing good software is important for success. If people confuse success as a YC company with success at writing good software they may take the wrong lessons away.
Can I assume they knew they could check this and just figured they could take him for a ride? Or are dealerships really that hands-off?
He said "economic value", which is much easier to quantify than the subjective value you seem to be evaluating.
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The article doesn't show that the Cybersyn experiment actually influenced the modern big data movement (or anything for that matter). I think that "The socialist origins of the Big Data nation" is much more accurate, since even though the article didn't show any influence on current government big data initiatives, at least there is a lot of similarity.

In spite of being a free market supporter, I think that command economies have been useful at times, e.g. the PRC and the USSR in their early stages. Both these countries practiced something similar to what Chile tried, in the 70's and early 80's. My theory is that before communism these countries were practicing a a very corrupt state capitalism. So a logical step before capitalism, was to rationalize state capitalism by making government decisions based on utilitarian goals instead of corruption.

EDIT: modified my request for title change after I read the original title more carefully.
disingenuous usually implies intent, it's not a great word choice where you aren't certain of that (I think on discussion boards being misinformed is at least as common as attempting to mislead).
A teacher teaches a class of 30. An engineer at an education startup will create a product that teaches millions over its existence.
Well, one can still blame the press for trivializing that with articles like this.

What happened to the CRITICAL press?
The new web site looks better than the old one but it also makes everything harder: finding documentation, downloading the compiler, explaining the environment and tool chain, etc... All these very important tasks are now hidden behind links to links to links.

I wouldn't be surprised that the average time that users spend on haskell.org goes down as a result (assuming the Haskell team even cares about measuring these things).
Skip applying or just answer truthfully. Trying to hide it is an indication that you haven't accepted responsibility for your actions and is more of a warning sign than what you have done since then to make better choices. (BTW, are you doing volunteer work to help others avoid DUI's -- doing so would be a good thing to mention to anyone having a problem with this)

If there is nothing in the application process, tell them that you want to see all of the paperwork you'll be required to sign before you accept anything. You should do that anyway -- for example, they might have an unacceptable non-compete in their employment contract.
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When something is unmeasurable, it's more properly placed in the realm of "magic" or maybe "philosophy".

If people have unmeasurable low self-esteem, than the original theory is unfalsifiable, which means it's outside of the realm of science.

Or, we can talk about reality. We can treat people like black boxes, and correlate their claims with their actions. This is called "psychology".

The human mind is nowhere near opaque.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

With some work, a computer can determine the video a person is watching in an MRI. It's not perfect, but it's amazingly close.

Saying "the human mind is opaque" is wishful thinking. It's magical thinking that somehow people (and thought) is different from everything else in the world.

It's not. We're meat puppets.
Don't you ever wash your hair, at least with baking soda + vinegar?
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Well, if you're based in the UK, you should be alright with an 8 hour battery to make it through those sunny days without recharging.
First of all, I took that example from the webpage. And it works in ghci (if printing ? back to me "works", then I guess it works)
The odds are hilariously against your startup being a $100MM company. They are not hilariously against your company being shitty, exploitative, and--my favorite--promising to prepare J. Random Engineer to "found their own startup" while instead leeching their free time and their weekends for your dream of socialmobilelocal.

And let's be very clear about something: "making six figures" does not mean you are not being exploited. The magnitude of that exploitation certainly differs from that of economic underclasses, but the attitude does not. And I am mostly out of startups these days because of the attitudes expressed in your post. I cheer for a bubble, because it'll wash some of the toxicity out--and you espouse a lot of it.
It actually got better for me after the 2nd week.
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Cars used to be mechanical miracle, today they are controlled by 'computers' and 'softwares'. Above all, their pricing is rip-off for high end cars esp., I am not currently sold for electric-only car, but I am more favorable for hybrid and I hope Apple make one too.

If you can read, computers and software above while you do know skills of Apple for both industrial and software design, perhaps you could find the missing piece of the puzzle.

If they re not working on a car, they should. And we do know, Apple can bring down the price of 'high-end' to near affordable. That's where, the current leaders in this industry need to worry.
It's a petty comment, I know, but:

for count in range(0, 10):
print count + 1
sleep(0.5)

makes me feel sad.
No, I think there is one unified market. It's startup owners who think there are two markets and try to get away with paying so much less than what's competitive.

This is, by the way, why they're having such trouble filling these positions. You can't just see what salaries are offered and say "that's the market salary." Companies actually offering the market salary don't have the level of hiring difficulties that startups paying $75k in SF do.
The authoritative sound of the title bothers me like click-bait titles.
The salary range is the standout. That price range is in line with a junior agency position (read: someone who makes banner ads) in this area. Run of the mill lead design positions are typically in the 120-175 range at a small-med org.

Beyond that, no one piece is particularly offensive, but the post overall paints the picture that they're trying to hire an entry level, mostly visual designer and then put this person in charge of a significant part of their product, in what should be research-driven role with a senior title.

This happens often, because engineering driven companies don't always know what to look for and demand from a high level design hire, in the same way that lots of cube farm companies are bad at vetting developers. The problem is that for this sum, they're not going to attract the kind of candidates that know about that, know what the position should actually be, and who will realign the company in a sensible direction. They're going to end up with an entry level candidate who delivers what's asked for without knowing what's needed, and the world will have one more mediocre product to show for it.
> On a related note: why is fusion still 50 years away? Nobody seems to put proportional effort in that sector.

Why is P=NP unsolved? Nobody seems to put proportional effort in that.

Oh wait, they do, but J. Random Citizen doesn't know about it...? Huh!
Perhaps the Valley should figure out it's housing problem before exacerbating the issue.
I will just keep trusing my bank.
Probably the part where he electrocuted animals?
It's pretty funny because everyone told me that big companies like Google are bureaucratic and slow, while the startups are fast and nimble. In reality, I was interviewing for 8 weeks and places were asking me to come back for second and third on-sites. Google was the last company that I on-sited with, the only company that let me skip a phone screen, had incredibly professional and responsive recruiters, and told me they were preparing an offer a week after the on-site and had the offer a week after that. The interview was interesting and had creative questions. Even though I had no competing offers to show them, they still crushed the offers I was asking for and didn't get. When I expressed interest in Product (even though I was interviewing for an engineering role), other companies told me that engineers are not involved in product decisions, Google told me the opposite and had a few interviews questions where we talked about product. Yet the VC startups are still complaining that we go to Google for the free lunch.
The point is: are those who accept those salaries good enough? The first hires at a startup that does something technically challenging can be very important for the startup success.
I would think that they don't care, because they don't need to. Such a small proportion of their clients has enough understanding to clean up connectors to batteries, that there is no expectation of having this kind of competence.
groklaw.net was close enough for me.
> 110k is double the median salary for California

Bay Area is not California. You can rent for less than $1K in Sacramento, and life is cheaper there. But generally you can't live in Sacramento and work in SF.

TODO: find out the median salary for Bay Area
The HR department.
Why fight it? Visiting a technological/intellectual inspiration source definitely goes in my list of positive habits.
I'm sorry, I can't click on titles like this anymore. I just can't do it. Is the article actually good?
Seems like a bug to me.
Terms like rockstar, 10xer, or ninja are meant to flatter people and not describe attributes. Employers want to filter workers who will work to their own detriment for several reasons. They want people who are susceptible to flattery and are not very experienced in employment. They want people who will work nights and weekends as well. So I guess those are two attributes of a rockstar or 10xer. Most people on HN already know this because they're true rockstars and 10x'ers ;).
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Prior to their communist revolutions, both the USSR and PRC were actually practicing something not very different from feudalism. In fact, one of the reforms of the last Tsar was to unbind (legally, if not in practice) serfs from their estates.