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As someone who has worked at Tesla and a couple startups, there's never been anything in their contracts about other jobs as long as it's not with a competitor.

I encourage everyone to push back against wording that is more restrictive than that. In fact CA (and I believe WA as well), it is unlawful for employers to be more restrictive than that[0]. Employment shouldn't make an employer the owner.

Tesla had no legal leverage whatsoever to ask for a cut.

[0]: https://californiaemploymentlaw.foxrothschild.com/2015/03/ar...

$300 an hour is about 600k/year. In many cases, this is actually probably a good estimate for developer opportunity cost for the company.

My working career is only a couple years old at this point so I'm more junior but in both of those years I can point to contributions that were worth more than 600k to the company. That being said, I personally don't even make a third of that $300/hour. But that's the whole reason a company decides to hire you -- they think you'll make them more money than you'll cost.

I've been thinking a lot lately that, given the general complexity of building software/hardware and our ambitions for what computers ought to be able to do, there should be a much larger percentage of the population working on building software.

I don't know whether that's possible given the difficulty of building software/hardware today and the general (lack of) interest of the general population but 3.6M software engineers in the U.S. (1% of the total) and 18M in the world[0] (0.2% of the total) seems way lower than optimal.

[0]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/ind...

I should have been more precise in my language.

It’s legal to rent out a room for less than 30 days in NY if the owner/tenant is also occupying the place.

Illegal to rent an entire apartment. Renting out a room for less than 30 days is fine.

I like the sentiment of this but Elon isn't the right person. He hates all things mass transit.

I don't think SO questions is the best way to gauge the popularity of a language and especially not a package.

I big reason why Pandas is so popular is because its API is so complicated. I probably have 10x more experience using Pandas than Django. And yet, when I'm doing something in Pandas I'm visiting the documentation far more often than Django. Let's compare the top level APIs:

>>> import pandas as pd

>>> len(dir(pd))

177

>>> import django

>>> len(dir(django))

11

Also, I find the data manipulation Pandas provides is far inferior to the R Hadleyverse and is one of the few things that R does better than Python.

Developers have a lot of power here. Encourage others not to use anything that's BSD + Patents. If, in 2 years time, Vue is more popular than React and Facebook perceives PATENTS is the reason why, it could well vanish.

This is a great demonstration of the danger of BSD + Patents. First it's Facebook using it for a great frontend framework. Now Github is using it for an IDE. It truly a threat to open source.

Is it a Facebook project though? The announcement says in collaboration with Facebook. That's an unusual definition of the word collaborate.

This seems to also have the BSD + Patents beloved by Facebook[0]. The virus is spreading.

[0]: https://github.com/facebook-atom/atom-ide-ui/blob/master/PAT...

That was really interesting.

I'm interested why he's so pessimistic about the simulating a brain approach. Yes it's the boring and obvious approach but it also seems the most direct.

Also found this quote interesting

> Might have to make it illegal to evolve AI strains or an upper bound of computation per person and closely track all computational resources on earth.

Yes. If a similar scale thing were to happen in the U.S. banking system, 1% would be 160 billion dollars, not 16.

I'm amazed that otherwise intelligence people really believe this is a better system than fiat currencies + banks.

What a strange comment.

Why do you think this has anything to do with racism? Is anything claiming an Asian country is doing better than a white country Yellow Peril? If not, why is this an instance of it?

This looks really cool! It looks much more feature rich and UX-friendly than any similar tools I've ever seen.

I can't wait to poke around this a bit more. It also uses the same stack I'm planning to use on my next personal project (Django + React).

This makes sense because the last day last year to file on time was the 14th or 15th whereas this year it was 17th.

Returns will probably be higher this year once you account for that last weekend + Monday.

I guess the way to benchmark browsing to get most realistic numbers would be to record normal browser behavior of a decently-sized sample of people (say 1000) and automatically repeat the behavior of a representative subsample (10-50 may be enough).

This would take forever and cost quite a lot of money, however, so the much more reasonable solution is to simply turn off the cache for everything.

I don't agree with Apple or Techcrunch that CR's methodology is wrong -- pretty much anyone would make that same decision because the alternative is too much work for too little reward.

I feel like this is a new golden age in being a blackhat. Back 5-10 years ago there was no IOT and all databases were password protected by default. Now we have:

1. IoT with basically no security

2. No(Auth)SQL.

Also, dev time has become so expensive, the InfoSec teams in the companies I've worked at have had shockingly low head counts for all the responsibilities they have.

Original Version:

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/armut-in-deutschla...

It is an interesting question how far AirBNB could go to reduce racism on their platform.

An email reminder won't work. Someone who is uncomfortable having a particular ethnic group will not be swayed by an email reminder not to be racist.

Furthermore, unless racism is widespread in a particular area, it may not be possible to identify racists with statistical analysis and threaten racist hosts with banning. I can imagine this working in a relatively racist place where >5% of hosts refuse service for a particular (and relatively common) ethnicity but it's likely rare enough in most parts of the U.S. to avoid reliable detection without false positives.

No it isn't. Amazon owns the majority (although not all) of the products sold on its platform.

Airbnb owns 0% of the houses put up for rent on their platform.

There's not much reason (and even less empirical evidence[1]) to believe that U.S. stocks should follow U.S. economic growth rates.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2014/02/growth-and...

I think you're right in that Amazon Machine Learning and Azure Machine Learning will never be drop-in replacements for eachother.

However, I would argue that VPSs are already drop-in replacements and I bet (though I have no proof) that VPSs are the majority of the market. The cloud providers may not have a viable way to provide even the perception of vendor lock-in when it comes to VPSs.

Now it could be that prices and profits stay high anyways as the market is an oligopoly. The U.S. has experienced the same thing with mobile operators. This is also far from obvious though because entrance barriers for VPSs don't seem steep.

Yeah I also thought the ~115k bonuses he was getting was completely reasonable for someone who has been coding.

You and I were both wrong. He's evidently worth 2x that.

Pretty interesting story.

Not sure if anyone did anything wrong other than mishearing. A passenger thinks she hears someone sign off of a conversation with "martyr" and reports it. Given that information he's thrown off the plane which is also reasonable.

The guy who got kicked off also did nothing wrong. He was just talking to his uncle.

I suspect the same thing would happen to anyone regardless of race or nationality should the words Allah and martyr be uttered in close succession on a plane.

I really don't understand the cherry picking of arguments. Someone posts 6 links and you have a problem with one. So what?

Anyways south Africa is definitely not a first world country. Gdp per head at ppp is 13k[1]. This is substantially poorer than countries like Turkey and Thailand that are often considered third world.

Middle income though? Sure.

[1]http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=...

I really recommend reading the article. I was surprised how small the quantities in this segment of the market is. Given that they're selling 50-80k cars a year at the moment, competing in a segment where the average car sells 45k units/year doesn't sound like a different game at all.

That's amazing. I had no idea things were so bad.

It is true that this is magic for the majority of the population.

However, for most of the members of this forum saving half your after-tax income is perfectly reasonable. I would wager that 90% of the people on this forum makes at least 2x the median income for their location (unless you're based in SF).

So for most people on Hacker News, saving half your post-tax income means just means living an average lifestyle at worst.

In most U.S. states (even WA) [Law here](http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140). Employers often still make you sign something saying that they own your soul and blah blah but they aren't enforceable.

Now, in some states (WA but not CA or NY) your employer can fire you for moonlighting if they want to but that's about it. You also have to watch out if you signed a non-compete and are arguably competing with your employer.

This is a classic case of "Nobody ever comes here anymore; it's too crowded."

It is hard to make the argument that people are fleeing silicon valley when real estate demand keeps reaching new highs.