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I don't know if you are advocating for a zero sum view of the economy, but you are definitely describing one. The thing about those middle class jobs that New Jersey is losing, is that they didn't need to exist. The only way they did was by stealing through coercion a little bit from people who chose to buy cars in New Jersey (mostly state residents).
High-end car service, even routine service, is certainly pricey. The general storyline I've heard is that you either 1.) Don't care what it costs, 2.) Lease, 3.) Buy with an extended warranty and plan to get rid of it at the end of the warranty, or 4.) Either have an indie mechanic you like or do it yourself.
Ask HN: What sci-fi movie most resembles our future?
I thought this might be a good topic for a lively discussion.

My bet is on Elysium or some sort of "Inequality 2.0" model: Super-wealthy, ultra-healthy genetically engineered elites living apart from a vast underclass policed with drugs and robots.
Is there any statistical/probabilistic explanation of why the answer is almost 100'000 ?
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> Issues arose when the Linux OS users tried to work with those outside the city and they were unable to share files easily with those on other applications.

Hmm...I wonder why that is. Oh wait, I know - because they are all using proprietary formats from Microsoft, and Microsoft makes sure to modify even the almost-standards they have with each new iteration just to break previous compatibility with other apps.

So how do you treat such an abusive company that does it best to abuse you and keep world governments hostage to its software? Why you go back to it and give it even more money, of course! What else could be the solution? A national enforcement of open formats to ensure everything is nice and compatible? No, that's just crazy talk. Decades-old beholding to a single monopolistic company sounds so much easier...just embrace it.
I'm concerned that your machine guns have the potential to harm others. The rest though, by all means...
One of the other articles referenced, about De Bruijn sequences, is much more interesting http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/october22013/index.html
If the good people turn the reins over to other people, then it's a cycle that goes on happily until the reins have been passed over to people who'll do anything to stay in power - it's nice but not sustainable in the long term.
There is absolutely justification. Local laws are unnecessarily causing harm to consumers. Uber is blatantly ignoring those laws to get consumers on their side. This leads to the laws changing.

Seattle's broken ass cab system proposed creating a ride hailing app a few years ago. They were stopped because no one was willing to update laws. Then Uber and Lyft came in. Those laws have now been changed and the old, broken system is being allowed to update to become slightly less shitty. It's still awful though.

Uber plays a dangerous game. They know the risks. They're willing to take them. I have zero issues with this. I do have issues with anti-consumer regulations that primarily exist to protect entrenched business owners.
seems pretty cool. looking forward to join. Anybody interested to travel from SF together?
A translation of their post is "Don't work for us if you want either adequate compensation for your time and effort, or reasonable work hours."

People who fully invest themselves in their work should be compensated accordingly, and this company is at their own admission not doing so. They are not looking for dedication, they are looking for cannon fodder.
Why is it a great idea?
Because that harms the established companies who donate money to the politicians.
Maybe we could create a law that makes harming others with machine guns illegal...
I think this is the first time I've seen a person on HN be told "oh a product already exists with this name, maybe change it" and they actually have.

Props :)
Only that we're not talking about a 15 lines JS helpers, but about quite big parts that should be in the core and instead they are some 3rd party plugins.
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6716 confirmed most secure 4-digit PIN.
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/19/legislation-would-let...

Texas is talking about doing a similar thing. The bill here would allow Tesla to open "as many as 12 stores in Texas".
Blockai:

https://angel.co/blockai/jobs/32805-back-end-engineer

PRODUCT

Blockai is the first universal blockchain browser. A single platform for using the best blockchain apps, with a bitcoin wallet and social identity to make it simple to use.

We’re making it fun to explore and publish on the blockchain, visualized as a filterable stream.
The same way that Netscape took people into the world of the web, and built open-source technologies to support its growth, we are doing the same for the blockchain. Unlike Netscape, we have a clear path to revenue with a bitcoin wallet built right in.

We anticipate 1,000s of amazing applications will be built on the blockchain that will change the status quo of everything on the web. We want Blockai to become the main way people experience those applications.
aha! not anymore now that we know ;-D
Nobody is saying the government can not collect intelligence (and pass it to their allies), but that it should do so lawfully.
Please see the other replies I made. I'm aware of all those plugins, but I'm concerned about the official support they (don't) receive.
"Something you can be proud of when you're old and reflecting on your life." Yes, I would love to look back at my life and reminisce about all the hours spent at a desk and how my pension is now unable to put food on the table.
Rather than fight over the name, it may be more productive to choose a new name, trademark it, and get out a new generation under that name from an existing friendly manufacturer (Sparkfun?)
Why even vote at this point then?
No might indicate negligence, which isn't as horrible as recklessness.
Did you actually watch the entire 55 seconds of the video and understand what Schäuble meant? Namely that the traditional meaning of sovereignty, "we can do whatever the heck we want without asking for anyone's approval" is something not worth having that Europe as a whole has abandoned, because it led to two world wars.

As for the notion that German intelligence services are "run by the CIA" - nosense, it's of course directly run by the Illuminati, just like the CIA!
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That is interesting. Thank you.

I found this whole thread very exciting, I as down-voted into oblivion very quickly so I stopped sharing my thoughts but my mind ran on for a while...

Self-healing machines, buildings and devices also sprang to mind.

Basically, if the printer is small enough to be a part of the object and there were a way of determining what it needs to print then the object need never be broken (for very long) in fact: the object doesn't even need to be defined as a cup, a pair of trousers, a bicycle. If the printer can embed itself into anything it prints then it could literally morph according to a given requirement.

...I'll stop now.
This sort of behavior drives down every developer's wages.
You're absolutely right, of course. I was talking about the "time-gravity" component they subtract in the article to circularize the orbit, not all of gravity.

During an orbit, gravity is of course stronger when you're near the planet, and weaker when you're away from the planet. So they equalize the gravity by subtracting the relative time/gravity differential and calling it a separate dimension.

This leaves a constant gravity force and velocity, making certain calculations and transformations more natural in this model.
Why haven't you posted about your startup on hacker news before?
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Yes doesn't indicate anything except awareness. They usually will follow it up with "How fast were you going?"
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If dealers would all go out if business if they had to compete fairly, then doesn't that suggest they might not be providing customers with much value?

While I do think market interventions are sometimes justified, in this case it seems we are protecting dealers for their own sake.
JPEG usually wins over PNG compression-wise, but in some use cases it makes sense to use PNG.

The same thing with animation/video.
The safety concerns are that working as an Uber driver on domestic car insurance invalidates the insurance, so if they do hit anyone they won't be able to pay for the damage and injuries.

everyone with a drivers license should be able to get through traffic safely "which is why there have been no car accidents at all involving licensed drivers since the introduction of the system!"
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No i18n? https://github.com/TAPevents/tap-i18n
because car dealerships make a lot of money
Doing astronomy at the bottom of the Earth. [video]
Fred Saberhagen got there decades earlier with his _Berserker_ novels. AFAIK every "alien machines that wipe out intelligent life" story is descended from them. Greg Bear's _The Forge of God_ / _Anvil of Stars_ (which are both excellent, IMO) followed similar lines in the late 80s.
I like how SQL is becoming cool again.
> Dealerships are market inefficiencies, as they create no real value or "wealth"[1].

This is very surprising complaint to hear - the whole capitalist economy is filled with inefficiencies! (and Paul Graham is hardly saying something novel here).
The Angry Birds brand is in big trouble
I assumed quote meant a fee. But signature requirements are even worse. In the US, a lot of jurisdictions require fees and/or signatures just to run for local office. Higher level stuff probably does too, but you need millions of dollars just to have a shot at them.
Europe could elect politicians that cut ties with the US but they don't. As long as they don't the status quo will remain. Maybe they are too scared, who knows, they certainly complain a lot but that doesn't change anything.
Not if those guys are laying fat stacks of sweet cheddar.
> We’re making it fun to explore and publish on the blockchain, visualized as a filterable stream.

Few things are as fun as exploring the blockchain.
Congrats (so far)! The truth is that the route to a successful startup is often circuitous, and takes a lot of unexpected detours. I bet that a lot of the experiences you had along the way have made you stronger, shrewder, and better able to deal with the twists and turns. It's almost like, by not doing a startup right away, you were actually able to train individual muscles rather than just attempting to lift the boulder onto your shoulders. Once you got to the point where you were actually ready, it started to happen on its own.
I would say Yes, the framework provides a great core of tools to start building your applications.

Then they are plenty of packages, some officials, some supported by the community, to answer most of the common issues you will face.

It's very modular, and could fit many different needs. From a small hack, to an MVP, to a bigger project that scales.

There is a growing number of dev shops who are working with Meteor.

Personally I am using it to maintain http://apis.io as well as http://speedhack.io.
The (private) insurers. Yes, insurance is mandated by the government, but that's to make sure drivers can actually cover the damage they might cause.
the same logic applies though. we don't expect suspects to consent to incriminating themselves.
- Have you had an employer allow you to move and work remotely?
Yes, we have remote employees from acquisitions but it was a challenge to convince my manager's manager that I could work remotely. I was surprised there was resistance in asking because my team is spread out globally so in theory we are all remote workers. When I did become remote, it was more like a trial/probation to see if it works out.

- If so, when did you let them know? Months in advance? Weeks in advance?
I started the process in Fall and told them I would be moving in Summer. My manager's manager dragged their feet on making a decision until I told my team I would be putting in my 2 weeks notice in Summer. My coworkers sent emails to their managers that it would be a huge loss for the team if I had to quit. I didn't plan on using this as leverage but it worked out.

- How did you enjoy working remotely in a new location?
I am a very social person, but I love working remotely as I get more done than in an office. The local office was an open office design so noise would force me to put headphones on. Now I can play music out loud and not be distracted by side conversations.

You need to define a space that is your office and have rules with your family, e.g. if the door is shut do not disturb me. You need set working hours too. I rarely have to sign in at night to assist with global team members.

- How often did they need you to commute to the office and for how long was your visit?
I usually visit the office twice a year or more if I am in town visiting old friends. Usually I visit when other team members are visiting the office.
Six vulnerabilities in the X509/ASN.1 code! Inconceivable!
"table change" looks to be changes to the table's data since it only mentions table or row locking.

If it were about schema change, I don't think there's any way to talk the result into a tie, that's really one of the things MySQL is absolutely terrible at.
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At least they're coming out and saying it.
Writes through a null (or low valued) pointer can actually be easily exploitable on some embedded systems.

https://cansecwest.com/csw07/Vector-Rewrite-Attack.pdf
Can every company really act like a startup?
Why would anyone ever take a job like this when there are tons of interesting jobs that actually do have work-life balance and pay a hell of a lot better? Hell, you could still work long 6-day weeks if you wanted to, but at least that way you would have the option of taking a break.
Suggestion: go to Amsterdam Schiphol.
Take a Tesla Model S to the city.
Then make up your mind about the "Apple of cars".

The consensus in NL is that you're better off with a Porsche Panamera than a Tesla, most likely with a less painful (although still painful) amortisation.

Certainly, if you're taller than 180cm, drive before you buy into the hype.
I think the "client" here is the application server, not the web browser.
The title sets us up for contradiction! If it's correct then the answer to this post is Yes, which contradicts Betteridge's law, so the answer must be No. :)

edit: I didn't think this was controversial or anything, it was meant to be playful, sorry HN, I'll take my downvote lumps I guess.
"innocent until proven guilty" is both a legal and an ethical doctrine. in the legal sense it establishes that the burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defense. in the ethical sense it informs us to avoid persecution, ostracism, or other extra-judicial punishments of a person who is merely accused of a crime.
Well, just like the other user who answered you (hi, lifestyle clone!) I'm married, One kid, one on the way.

Like I said, I love the choice it brings me - I don't have to work form home (I can use a coworking space for instance), but I get to decide every morning. I tend to go to a coworking space or to friends/friendly startups/friendly companies to hang out about one day a week, but it can be much more.

One tidbit: almost the whole company is remote (600 people!), so we're all organized around that, and it probably makes it easier.

So my personal take away: it's about the choice it gives you :)
RoboCop predicted the fall of Detroit before it happened, with Google piling money into Robotics seems like a short distance to a corporate branded police force stepping in where local assets are too thin to cover...
This is good, because there is some hurdles that will have to be overcome and it will start out not working well until a few things are figured out. For me the biggest is that we typically communicate in the office face-to-face or over chat. When people work remotely, they give up the face-to-face and rely only on chat which doesn't work well for some things. It's important to learn to pick up the phone, use a virtual white board, screen share, etc.
Any attempt to "be careful" would likely show up in the form of unconcious micro-expressions, so it's probably better to not be careful.
I'm curious to know what is this company that is a "once in a decade" opportunity "to change the world for the better".

Is there a limit to this ridiculousness? What's next? "Join our company because it is literally the only path to salvation. Seriously, your life is worthless if you pass this up." Boom... now your company is a cult.
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I don't understand this logic. Are you saying that if ethnic European people are exposed to Africans or Arabs they will by default become racists? Or that if people are exposed to communism they will by default become Nazis?
There are great packages available that handle these items for you. the Meteor Development Group is dedicated to maintaining the sub-projects that make up Meteor and equally dedicated to supporting community packages by not stepping on too many toes. Just take the the routing snap-fu with Angular as an example of how not to do things. Meteor is focused on making a framework with as little friction as possible with their community. It is a real joy to work with it.

* There maybe no official support for reactive joins but they are very easy to make with packages like Publish-Composite: https://atmospherejs.com/reywood/publish-composite , plus you get the freedom to build your data and denormalization how you want. I think it just requires a dedicated dev to study Mongo data structures with Blaze&DDP. Some devs are just not dedicated enough to learn how to do it right.

* i18n, I cannot speak to that, never had a need yet.

* Forms are freakin' amazing in Meteor with the Autoform package: https://atmospherejs.com/aldeed/autoform

* Routing is freakin' amazing in Meteor with the Iron:Router package: https://atmospherejs.com/iron/router

* Courses, docs and resources are freakin' amazing for Meteor examples considering it's age. That said, all docs for all software could be better, it is more of a personal thing.

Just curious @alexandernst are you a .net dev because it sounds like you are not an Open Source dude? Instead of gluing awesome things together and being creative it sounds like you want a big company like Microsoft to come in and offer everything to you, tell you how to do everything, and box you into their ways. Packages do not have cooties, haha. And Meteor is built on Node. You have access to NPM as well.
I'd have to imagine that the number of jobs created at a Tesla franchise wouldn't dramatically exceed the number of jobs created at a Tesla direct showroom...
Gotta give them credit for being "honest". Of course it plays off on people wanting to appear as eager and not workshy, but this is pretty sadist and I imagine the company is being a bit masochistic in this job market.

Who in their right minds would work for people who openly espouse overwork and aggressive work environment? I'd like a follow up on their ability to retain workers, provided they don't get "reeducated" in the process.

I can't see how this could appeal to anyone beside new male graduates in a bit of a bind and have some latent sadist tendencies. Or people looking for sponsorship and might put up with this ridiculousness.
nice ! thank you for this
"since we know of no way to travel between stars."

We don't know of a way to travel between them _quickly enough to be practical for humans_. That's not a problem for machines. They can be patient and take thousands of years.
Of course not. But if they aren't demanding something for their efforts, they are misguided.
I can understand why they would have needed to limit this bill to only the exclusive manufacturers of ZEV just to get it through legislation, but I'm curious whether it would allow the other manufacturers to spin off the ZEV portions of their businesses into subsidiaries and then be eligible to sell directly as well.

It is a very contentious subject, but some people argue that part of the reason the existing big manufactures don't put enough effort into making and offering ZEV is because they can't rely on the dealers to actually sell them. Reasons given for this is that the ZEV compete directly with the hybrid and gas vehicles on which the dealers have far greater inventory and profit margins, so they have little to no incentive to sell the ZEV.

If ZEV subsidiaries of the manufacturers could be guaranteed a chance to sell them then that might be cause for them to spend more effort on making them work.
I thought a salary was... you know... the primary thing that separates "a job" from "doing whatever the hell you want". But I guess I'm just not passionate enough to be a slave to other people's enterprises.
How about to try to cure the proprietary software disease?
Between a violent Russia and an arrogant US we might actually get a strong united Europe. As a European I can't help but feel that this is a very good thing.
Wait $100k salary with 6% equity at max sounds not bad at all if you believe in their idea. Although I highly doubt they're a once in a decade opportunity that will be changing the world in a better way.
Exactly - I know someone who tried to go the smart-arse route, and the police ended up spending 45 minutes looking into every possible detail of the car, right down to "the lights have the wrong pattern on them". Ended up costing them far more than just accepting a speeding ticket.
>MSBuild was originally designed as a file format for Visual Studio solution and project files, generally intended to be managed by a GUI.

This is its biggest failure. Like, if you use wildcards in a reference inside of MSBuild, Visual Studio (which just parses and loads MSBuild, not saving the semantics of the file) will happily turn those into a list of files and save the list, rather than the wildcard.

> Unfortunately, because of the all too common insistence of many .NET teams on being spoon-fed by Microsoft, a lot of projects stick with MSBuild for their entire end-to-end build process regardless, simply because they believe That Is How Microsoft Wants You To Do It.

This, however, is totally and completely unfair. People stick with MSBuild because there's no other option that works with Visual Studio. Whatever solution one uses must, must, must work with Visual Studio, or it simply won't get off the ground. This is why psake and FAKE are so underloved: because to actually Do Your Job, you need MSBuild, and those don't help with that pain point.

And that sucks. Maybe the kproj stuff will help. But while loads of issues with .NET come from that expectation of spoon-feeding from Microsoft, this really isn't one.
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What if you stay past 6 because you don't roll out of bed before 8?
Depends on the app. If your app is server-side intensive & should be scalable, GAE is better. If it is client side intensive & time-to-market is important, Parse gives you lot of those out-of-the-box.
We pushed an update on CloudFlare. This wasn't anywhere near as bad as some of the previous vulnerabilities.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/openssl-security-advisory-of-19-...
>"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"

"How can I help you officer?" / "What seems to be the problem?"

etc
I think you misunderstood the meaning of the sentence in this context. Not zero limitations of sale, but zero limitations on direct to consumer sales. I.e. there are limits, but you are not forced to go through middleman just because.

So even drugs or guns producers should be able to sell directly to customers as long as they meet all requirements.