astrocat

>You do not exempt the basic income from the normal taxation rules

I have a really hard time understanding the logic here... "Let's give everyone 11 dollars, then spend a bunch of money (enforcement does cost) to make sure all those people give 1 dollar back to us before the year is up." What am I missing?

What I think what most people count on is the inanely fast ACCELERATION of technological progress. The amount of advancement between 1930 and 2015 will be orders of magnitude less than 2015-2100.

Can someone elucidate why existing defamation laws don't cover this already?

Careful now, there is a BIG difference between conspiracy types and cynics.

I use Lyft exclusively. I've never touched Uber for probably the same reason as others - the brand/culture just feels... icky. I want a ride, not a chauffeur.

To be fair though, almost every Lyft driver I've had says they also drive for Uber, it just depends on demand. And consensus seems to be that out-of-towners use Uber while locals use Lyft.

I'm not entirely sure just how much Larry can do - it's really the 2% of the island that's state owned that includes the public roads.

Hawaii in general seems like a great place to start a lot of "infrastructure 2.0" (if I may carelessly make up a term) projects geographically, but the logistics are tough because so much of the population is desperately poor, there's already a lot of class/ethnic tension and to top it all off, local government is a mess.

You've basically made cash.me - which is run by Square (squareup.com). And I have to agree with patio11: pat yourself on the back for being as smart as the bright minds Square, have a beer, then pick a new weekend project :)

I certainly don't doubt there will some, but a battery stuck in the wall of your house isn't nearly as sexy and show-off-able as a sporty car.

It'll be interesting to see how this is pitched and what it's price point is... I'm still not convinced that energy arbitrage is profitable enough for individual homes given the current cost of the storage.

I completely understand the sentiment - 40% seems like a lot to be "burning" for the sake of the other 60.

But it's helped me to think about this in a different context: think about the time you spend with your spouse. How much of that time is taken up with "life's necessities" like doing laundry, dishes, prepping meals, cleaning, more cleaning, driving places, even arguing and getting hurt are all part of relationships... And all that stuff takes time and it's not a nice meal out or a walk on the beach or an impromptu dance session. There's a lot of the mundane in our most treasured relationships, and the only people who have a problem with that are teenagers.

Should work/life really be any different?

>Personally I find the increasing emphasis on work as a way to derive personal satisfaction troubling. It looks like a subtle trap to me. A way to convince people to forgo time with their family, hobbies, side ventures and anything else you might possibly derive happiness from in favor of just working more and trying to convince yourself that that is enough.

Extremely well put. This entire concept has troubled me for a long time and you've really nailed it pointing out that we're increasingly advising people to get their joy in life from their work instead of the literally MILLIONS of other things they can enjoy. Thanks for that.

> On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work

I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. We, the elite, get to cherry pick our work and do what we like. But I bet 9/10 people will never feel they have this luxury, and 8/10 will be right.

> Most people pick their career fairly randomly...

And in the truest sense of "most people" I would bet that "most people take whatever work they can get, and sometimes something sticks" is probably more accurate.

I know these sentiments are a bit cynical, I just can help but feel sometimes that it's irresponsible to dump the "you can be/do anything!" sentiment on our youth when the reality is nowhere near that for most of them. I understand we need ideals and motivation to make them a reality, but more flowery advice doesn't seem to be the best tactic.

Regardless, Sam is an amazing individual who has done an enormous amount for others and the startup community. This isn't meant to disparage his views or advice; ironically, I think it's just hardest to give truly sage advice when you're trying to be sage.

As a designer who's been attempting to pick up some basic ops proficiency with apache over the past month or so, this looks brilliantly simple. Thanks!

Completely agree - it's an incredibly easy first step in understanding the abstraction of code -> results.

I've actually had the privilege of walking a recently released inmate with 0 computer skills through the process of writing their first lines of html. The excitement he experienced seeing "hello world" transform just by changing it to "<h1>hello world</h1>" was incredible. I think it boils down to realizing the power of - to put this in the simplest terms possible: "typing some jargon and making things happen."

Batteries are to devices what rockets are to space...things.

So there's a trend here.

Might want to check some facts here. There is an Amazon Cloud Drive app for Windows and Mac that does syncing. It's not as advanced as Dropbox but it's about on par with the Google Drive app.

Their online interface isn't terrible either - it's actually surprisingly modern for an Amazon product. There's actually two views - one for files and one for photos (just like Dropbox and Carousel). Again the file browser is about as bare bones as it gets without document preview etc, but the Cloud Drive Photos view is pretty decent.

Dropbox is miles ahead of Amazon in their UI and other features, but I think for many very basic users, Amazon's offering will be sufficient for simple backup/sync operations.

I've always wondered this myself. The claim of "we're open source so you can trust us" has always seemed a bit off to me for the exact reasons you give - sure, you publish this codebase, but who says that's what you're actually on your servers?

And from the answers so far, it's disheartening to hear that there doesn't seem to be any great way to guarantee fair play. But I suppose it generalizes - we don't have any way to guarantee that the people we interact with on a daily basis have our best interests at heart, and we do a lot of trusting just because it makes life easier.

as automation increases, cars will likely become more computers than cars. And at that point I imagine the advances in computation and sensing will drive product refreshes. Even battery tech. Which all sound familiar...

Sure some of it can be over-the-air as Tesla has already shown, but the same happens on our current tech yet we still update the hardware pretty frequently. A new, better autopilot may not be able to run on a 3 year old car processor. Could you swap out the cars brains? Sure. Would that be lucrative for the car manufacturer? maybe not.

I think the biggest argument against what I'm proposing is that computers/phones have huge form-factor constraints that favor tightly integrated components - it's why RAM is no longer user replaceable in new, thinner macs. Cars, given their physical size, will likely never face that constraint making the modular approach you suggest much more feasible.

the average car ownership time is somewhere around 6 years[1]. It feels like 3-year leases are becoming more and more common so I wouldn't be surprised to see this number drop significantly in the future.

[1] http://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/average-length-of...)

While that's certainly part of the dynamic, the overall picture is more nuanced. New tech became available - smartphones and tablets as well as much more performant laptops - that replaced desktop purchases. Every two years a new laptop/tablet/smartphone is purchased, if not less.

I doubt this is the case. If anything, the reasons you give boil down to: "the core of the car - the moving vehicle bit - will become commodity" and when this happens, cars will become "cars" like phones are now "phones," as in, they're not so much phones anymore as tiny computers that can also make calls. And this will definitely NOT increase their lifetime. If anything, it will decrease it... just like we replace our phones every 2 years.

I've also heard that there's service-quality expectations at play: if the wifi is free and it sucks, you're still happy while the hotels that charge for wifi to simply reduce demand (congestion) in order to have a better experience (speed/bandwidth) for those who actually pay.

And it's further complicated by the value of ppv entertainment to the hotel - if Netflix/Hulu/whatever works just fine on the hotel wifi, the hotel is losing revenue. Cheap hotels with crapy free internet don't have to worry about that, but hotels that charge are also trying to recoup lost ppv entertainment revenue.

I completely agree. I'd guess at least 50% of my email is deleted immediately after reading and not because it's unwanted, but because it holds no long-term value. Inbox assumes that all email is better archived than deleted which is simply not the case.

Not my domain of expertise; can someone explain why this is problematic?

Saying things like "Now Techstars has lost complete credibility in my mind" is taking things too far and just being petty. Techstars doesn't market itself as some bastion of credibility to consumers.

Yes, this a great example of what not to do when you know your company is doomed, and the founders are killing their long-term prospects of future ventures with all this bad karma, but there's no need to drag Techstars into it.

This seems like something that's going to become more and more of a problem as services attempt to create ever more seamless integrations to create better user experiences.

Has anyone seen anything in a spec or recommendation that addresses a browser-UI solution to verifying the authenticity of iframes or other embedded objects?

Their point is entirely valid though, and it all boils down to: there is no such thing as a secure backdoor.

The fact that this is at the top of HN and has been for hours is phenomenal. Despite the often insular nature of the HN crowd, it's things like this that reveal ta deep respect for the hacker in everyone. Imagine being so badass that you hosted a national tech-support call-in show and solved people's problems random computer problems: "Tom: Sounds like you've got corrupted memory... Ray: Don't listen to him, all his memory's corrupted. [minutes of infectious laughter]"

Completely agree that VCs and others should not be pushing for this to be the norm. Not only because it's unhealthy but also because it discourages a talented and mature group of people from attempting to create great things.

I kind of wonder if the current startup scene of chatty app clones and services for asshats etc. is partially a result of the startup landscape being oversaturated with individuals who meet the young, kidless and immature crowd precisely because they're the only ones who are perceived as being capable to "give what it takes" to start a startup...

All this is true, and very understandable. But the question remains, why is it NOW more common to stay put rather than relocate? What is it about the modern environment that makes people so much more reluctant to pick up and move? With all the benefits of modern communication and technology that makes maintaining social connections over distances and receiving financial support from anywhere so easy, you'd think it'd be easier to move than before when leaving really meant "leaving."