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One doesn't necessarily have to move to the safest country, where naturally the competition to get in is higher.

One only needs to try to move to a safer country.

As a species, we've become very tied to our original locations. Stability had its advantages in the early days of agriculture. Today I wish we'd make our borders more porous, legally and bureaucratically.

Why should a remote worker be paid less for the same created value, simply because they live in a "cheaper" country?

Most people did not have that luxury during WW2, yet they did. Safety is safety.

That office could be in the programmer's own home.

I believe IKEA offers that locally through partners. That being said, someone on Fiverr might be willing to help.

Well in this situation, the hypothetical "you" are held accountable for your choice of automated car. Evaluating which programming group to trust seems like plenty of responsibility to me.

Just like every investor is fully aware of all variables when picking a stock, thus fully accountable in case of said stock's crash, correct?

I'd agree with the parent commenter: the car company would be responsible, financially. Legally, they would have to recall or disable all instances until a fix is pushed.

Human life, in this case, will get a price tag, instead of a (jail) time value, as is mostly the case today.

Sounds like an extra layer of card fraud protection might be a use case.

Automating some shopping cases might be another.

What's "Trello" about Trello is more than just movable notes, as the GP mentioned.

It's customer support, it's the silly but engaging "power-ups" and all the additional work put in after making movable notes.

A more accurate title: How to make the movable notes feature of Trello (not as catchy, though).

Caveat emptor. There's no native desktop apps for Google Music, nor do they have an API for future integrations. On OS X, give Radiant Player a try.

I tried switching to Spotify but had a hard time moving playlists. More than half my songs were not found on Spotify.

What's illegal and what's enforceable are two different things, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Uber just launched in Romania and it's having a hard time getting off the ground. I asked a taxi driver why he wouldn't join. He said he'd be scared for his safety from other taxi drivers.

Anecdotally, getting a cab from a major hub (airport, train or bus station) in Bucharest, without calling dispatch, entails a fixed price and the meter turned off. Illegal? Surely.

The main advantage of western countries, culminating in the U.S., is that laws are enforced regularly and predictably, most of the time.

Germany is doing just that. They're old laws, sure, but they must be enforced until they get a change to revise them.

One question (also asked on Twitter): if it's free, why do we need to sign up?

I appreciate the service, but there must be a better way to measure traction than user accounts!

Granted, the title and tone is a little sensationalist.

In fact, you're right. The main point is invalid, the author only saves face toward the final paragraphs, when mentioning iOS.

The poster's point still stands, though. The user should decide whether to allow that permission on a case-by-case basis.

Sadly, that's a problem with Android, not Paypal.

At last, some good debate :)

You're right that long-form as a means of communicating complex, impactful ideas won't go away. However, you are assuming that the average audience tends toward the ideal (being on HN for a while certainly influences that assumption).

In my short experience, I found that most people outside HN can easier express their thoughts and ideas on the spot, and will rarely take the time needed to craft a thoughtful long-form missive. This doesn't necessarily mean that their ideas are not worth our time. It does, however, point toward a less than ideal conversation partner and to future communication issues.

Although we'd all love to live in a world where communication is held to the highest standards, we have to adapt to what's available (within reason), even if that brings us down to bullet speak, Top 10 lists and click-bait titles. How else will we find a broader audience for our messages?

Your last point on lasting impact is, however, valid. I can't remember the last time I've re-read a tweet, but I constantly refer to old emails for clarification.

That's a good point. We still require and enjoy direct interaction, as well we should.

However, as "multitasking" becomes more popular, the ability to communicate asynchronously becomes more important. Of course important things should be discussed face to face (not by phone or webcam either), but meetings should not always be confused with actual work.

I can't believe I'm saying this at 28, but that's a really young-person point of view.

You have to understand most of us younglings grew up with the Internet and have adopted text as the de facto mode of relaying information. Sadly, most of the business world is made up of people who've learned to communicate (in their formative years) before the Internet was a thing.

These business people cannot easily change their main mode of communication, and will have a hard time adopting email the way a newer generation has.

The generation following you (and me) has already moved past email, to instant messaging.

I believe there was some scandal on this exact topic in South America, a shop was making unbranded, identical body copies of exotic cars and had the law come crashing on them.

Regardless, it could be a good idea to offer this service to the original patent holder. It would offer them a chance to recover sunken costs.

While the idea seems interesting, a quick read of this post reveals no connection whatsoever to Tesla. I'm baffled by the title.

I wonder if this idea could also be applied to other types of work-intensive designs that simply were ahead of their time and could be resurrected with today's tech, such as car design.

I think your comment is assuming that something actually gets deleted permanently from social networks. That has been proven to not be the case.

Once something is published, the cat's out of the bag. Sure, for a person with few followers trying to guard their future, the risk is smaller than the celebrity in your example.

But the risk of a bot snapping a shot of the statement before it gets deleted outweighs the reward of posting ephemerally, at least for me.

Just a question out of sheer curiosity from a business perpective, how were you monetizing the site? What prompted a buyer to pay what I assume is real money for the site? Was it a 1k, 10k, 100k exit?

In effect, Google computer vision got so good that they made their own system obsolete. This is a good thing.

I still think the only reliable way to confirm identity (or humanity) online is an email or SMS verification. Recently, receiving a 2-factor SMS code took less time than the page refresh prompting me to enter it.

We recently did one too, with mixed results. Definitely hard to get right on the first try!

http://www.doctrackr.com/blog/bid/377600/Google-Ventures-Des...

The blame may not entirely be on the framework, but it is certainly on their documentation.

If something goes wrong, a developer should know which resources to use to solve the problem. Abstracting away the lower level stuff should not be synonymous to keeping it completely hidden and inaccessible.

A good example is the AngularJS source code, which is commented enough for anyone to make sense of it after a read-through.

I'd present this to the employer as switching from a full-time employee to an almost-full-time consultant. They give you a project, you get it done, regardless of where and how you do it.

If the employer needs more convincing, propose you start with a test by trying one day per week remote from now.

Agreeing to take a pay cut would be the icing on the cake.

A HN-specific analogy would be: would you work for a startup who can't accept what you did prior to employment?

A wife or new beau who can't accept that you had a past may not be a good idea for the future.

Unless Amie Street has a patent on demand-based pricing (which would now be in Amazon's hands), shutting down just means the market is open to a fresh, nimble competitor.

Now, said competitor may just end up being bought by Amazon again, true. But until then, they will be a viable "other" choice.

The same goes for every other service bought and modified by Amazon. You're complaining about them, so there's at least a demand of 1 for a replacement service :)

I'm not sure how that trackpad was set, but I can jump across my MBP 15" diagonal with less than 2" of finger movement (more of a flick, really).

After a few weeks of using it, the trackpad and its gestures have become second nature and have made me more productive by effectively disappearing into the background. It doesn't feel like there's an interface between me and the cursor anymore. Of course, YMMV.

And slowly, suspicious behavior is suppressed.

This will have two effects.

People who are truly suspicious for nefarious reasons will gradually stop being so.

On the other hand, many will be incorrectly flagged as suspicious and harassed without reason.

The trick is to strike a fair balance between the two. But who decides what's fair?

SXSW is a popular tech-oriented conference, thus might qualify as news for nerds.

Besides, my first fear upon reading was that it would be a Uber car. I'm glad that's not the case, but saddened that such a tragedy happened in the first place.

Let's mix two polarizing subjects in the same comment:

Just as shortly after the invention of guns, a safety release was added to prevent accidental discharge, self-driving cars might be a drunk driver's safety catch. I have to agree with some of the above posters.

This can already be done by someone who truly wants to keep an eye on you, only it takes more manpower (well, detective power).

This is simply the same trend as ATMs replacing (some) bank tellers many years ago.

Will it be easier to perform and abuse mass surveillance? Sure. Will people with something important to hide still wear disguises? I'd bet yes.

My stance is that we can't fight progress, but we can start fighting the people bent on abusing the powers that progress bring. Identifying them is another issue (perhaps some form of facial recognition? :)

This post is interesting because I can't remember the last time I read a programmer's blog dealing with emotions and how it feels to program.

We're not cold, calculating automatons. We get scared, frustrated, angry, but also elated, excited and encouraged. Yet these kinds of words don't find their way into blog posts very often.

Kudos for stopping the post there and splitting the intellectual half for later.