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By default all code/RIP addresses are <32 bit, no harm no foul.
I don't think there's any problem with citing an official Census Bureau report. Certainly they are the definitive source for statistics on the U.S. population. And I imagine the numbers in the report give a correct overall impression of commute times. However, I suspect the conclusions in the report as to the accuracy of the data are a bit overblown.
Towns do that too. Pretty much all of them.
> With that in mind, Ohm is focusing on the performance car market first. Those are the guys that’ll rip out their passenger seats to gain a tiny performance gain on the track

Give me a break. With 10 amp hours my car will probably not be able to make through a single engine start.
Yup! People complain that the bay area cost of living is high, but for me it's a quality of life issue. I'm able to bike to work 30 minutes each way. Sure it takes longer than driving (which I do on occasion), but it's a good workout. I can do it year-round, and it's not so warm or humid here that I show up at work dripping with sweat. Put the bike away, toss a hoodie over my t-shirt once I've cooled off a bit, and I'm set.
We have this policy too. We went so far to build a browser extension that HIDEs the big green button.
Yup, I've experienced this.
Your example doesn't demonstrate that having a 1.3x increase in salary with a 2.4x increase in rent is necessarily a losing deal. And of course you can find a place for $2,400 in SF right now. Maybe you have to have roommates which is fine to many people.
OK, then, let's go tease out every iota of causality we possibly can from the statistics for various energy technologies. Let's start at the top. Hmm. "Global climate change resulting primarily from fossil fuel use has already caused tens of millions of deaths via famine, flooding, and extreme weather and stands a reasonable chance of killing every single human on earth over the course of the next hundred years". Well, that's not going to work.
I have a 2015 VW Golf that has no keyed entry, just the fob buttons.
Oh, one other thing I wanted to add: The 3-4 year lifetime of lead acid batteries is the average lifetime. There are certainly outliers, but if you go to the store and buy a lead acid today, the warranty is about 3 years.

The BMW thing is interesting. The reason they do that little "ritual" is because they want to program the ECU to use a particular charging profile for your battery, and it needs to know the age of the battery and the type (AGM or not). That's to try to extend the lifetime of the battery. We don't really need to worry about that, since we handle all the charging profiles internally. One of our testers drives a BMW, so we're making sure that we can handle that and similar cases.
Amiga 30 and the Unkillable Machine
It's usually the latter, which is that 3rd-party code just gets pulled into what the developer is actually trying to protect. Nobody tries to hide all their dependencies, as far as I can tell. Occasionally, they're trying to hide one particular extension, for example, a banking auth framework.
Could you elaborate on the supply of quality VCs? What are some examples of high quality vs low quality VCs? How would you suggest ranking different VCs? Do you have any rough count of quality VCs in the top 3 cities?
You're missing the point: in a city where a cup of coffee costs at least $3 and a small condo runs close to a million dollars, the numbers I'm talking about aren't arrogant, they're just life.

The top-end engineer salary of $160k doesn't go very far here, right now. I'm sure that the distance it goes feels like a lot when you're 23 and one foot out of the dorm room, but when you get older and start wanting to have an adult life (children, saving for retirement, maybe buying a place), it isn't even remotely enough.

$250k, in San Francisco, will rent you a market-rate, one-bedroom apartment ($4k, until they raise the rent next year), and let you live a pretty good lifestyle as a single person: you'll have something like $10k per month after taxes. If you're frugal, and don't go out much, you can get by on maybe $2k a month in expenses. That leaves $8k to save, invest, spend on children, etc.

We aren't talking about big, glamorous lifestyles here.
> What large cities have mass transit that is not astonishingly bad, stupid, and/or short sighted, in your opinion?

I'd guess any European city is better than NYC, which is the best that America has.
Just bought one of these for home last week $593CAD + sales tax (~ $457USD)

It is certainly good value, and a fraction of the price of the one I had for work a few years ago (different brand totally). It can feel a little flimsy/wobbly when raised, but certainly not dangerously so.
It looks like a wormhole and a couple of the edges are hard to read, but it does display in an interesting way which libraries are sucking in all the crap.
I'm sure Reddit has a way of telling. :) I don't know if they make their stats public.
I was mistaken on the ZigBee, thanks for the correction.
I will also agree that the setup is a pain in the butt for most of these things. I think that's why the Chromecast's and Dash's ultrasonic methods are interesting. Perhaps a low cost NFC one touch setup would be really cool, but any method I think of requires an extra app. But maybe that's not a bad thing?
Saving is not the issue. The issue is trying to retire on low incomes.

If something happens then finding a good job when your older and have not worked for a while is hard. So, IMO your better off trying to get a significantly larger nest egg than you think you need. That way compound interst works for you and you don't risk poverty while your old.
Odd. Just last year I was renting a 2/1 house in Belmont for $2k, until we bought a house. My buddy's renting a 2/1 in San Mateo for $3k. How close is "close"? I'd expect 1bd apartments to be cheaper than entire houses.
Really should let us roll to see if we have to get off your lawn.
When this submission was posted several days ago, it did not include the year the paper was published in the title, which is common practice for older submissions. The title was subsequently edited, making my comment redundant.
Some places have lots of off-road bike trails. I live in Minneapolis and bike to work most days in the spring, summer, and fall (on a bike trail). The ground is flat, so it's easy to go 12+ mph without breaking a sweat.
You would choose the Ohm because Ohm is a startup, and... startups! YEAH! Tech! Oh yeah! And stuff...

Like so much else out there, they want you to think it's better when in reality it's at best a niche offering that's going to be worse for most people. But there are a lot of people out there who are happy to spend 2x or 5x or even 10x on something that a "fellow startup" is making, just because it's novel or made by another small company, regardless of its actual merit. As they've said forever, a fool and his money are soon parted.
I recently looked at moving from SanJose to Mountain View (aka closer to Google). The rents fell off approximately linearly with distance to MountainView. If you put a dollar amount to the falloff for a 2 bedroom... it corresponded to approximately $50-75 per hour of daily commute time. So you're "paying" $50-75/hr to live closer to work.

Using Oakland as an example (2 hours of commute daily * 20 days), that's ~$2000 less in monthly rent compared to a comparable place in MountainView. Which is about right...

[Assuming you moved into areas that weren't themselves local hotbeds such as SF, PaloAlto, or Atherton.]
Once the universe has cooled to absolute zero, that is a corporate non answer. "Go away" dressed up in a party frock.
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The article makes frequent use of the term Sixth-former, which I hadn't heard before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_form

It appears to be the equivalent of 11th and 12th grade in the US.
Why I Like Beme More Than Snapchat. [Medium Blog and Invite Codes]
Herd mentality. Work in the same kind of startups, with the same kind of people, drink in the same kind of bars, live in the same trendy neighborhoods, date the same kind of chicks/guys.

It's kind of amazing that every once on a while something original actually comes out of all this.
Are there dev jobs paying, say, $150k in Chicago? If so, I don't see much advertising/discussion for them...

Yes, there are. Not as many of them, but they exist.

My experience is that base salaries in Chicago are comparable to the Bay Area. It's probably harder to get a $75k+ per year RSU package, because the people who are at that level are more likely to be older and to work in finance for cash rather than RSUs of an illiquid company.

If you're in Chicago and look for good programming jobs, you should reach out to me (claes.bergryn at gmail) because I have some ideas.
There's plenty of evidence. Just look at glassdoor:

Google senior eng total comp is $252k annually: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

Google Staff engineer is $350k annually with base salary over $200k: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engine...
If your device had an equal market share, what fraction of it would be recycled? What core charge would a new buyer be expected to pay for that recycling cost?
Coming in the near future! Anything in particular you want to see? I can make sure it's included.
> While controlling the ESP8266 is great, the raw chip itself lacks an analog to digical [sic] converter (ADC)

The ESP-12 and a few other models have an ADC integrated.

> and only a few I/O pins.

Again, with 9 GPIO pins on the ESP-12 (and various numbers in between on other models), I wonder how many are required to qualify as more than a few.

> [Philips Hue Bulb] A $50 light bulb that requires a $60 base station, proving my point entirely

As another poster mentions, Philips Hue uses ZigBee Light Link, not WiFi.
All around, a sloppy blog post, but slick web page.
Expanding on #1, if you already have multiple offices remote/home workers are less of an issue in reality. You already have to make coordination efforts. As long as people show up as available in link/hangouts and respond during regular hours it shouldn't be as much of an issue.

In addition to this, you can save a lot of money... paying someone 80% more in SF or NYC, vs letting them stay in Phoenix or Austin and splitting the difference is a great option... you get very senior people for mid-level pay (vs in office). I'd much rather see $150k in Phoenix, than $190-210k in NYC, or $215-240k in SF... especially given Sr. positions in Phoenix tend to cap out around $110-130k.

Of course I'd love to keep east coast hours on the west coast ;-)
I know Javascript/HTML/CSS makes it very easy to develop something, however it is really sad to see people are struggling to get 60fps to show 20 boxes with images scrolling, where games can show thousands of polygons smoothly.
HN needs a way to tag users, and a way to stop seeing comments by specific users.
> One of the most powerful ways of getting people working on the right things is to have them hang out with each other

There are blatant examples to the contrary: Just look at most large organizations. Getting people to work on the right things isn't a matter of spending time together, it's a matter of company culture! In a company that's constrained by processes and pointless bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake hardly anything ever will get done, much less so the right things.

Long commutes are not a sustainable way of living and working. If we don't have the tools for making remote work a realistic option for most companies we simply need better tools.
Any plans to expand to other states?
It's also easier to find a company's twitter handle than the correct support email address (if they even expose one without requiring you to sign into an account or fill out a form).
The other way to do this is basically a 100% remote company that owns coworking offices, and only lets employees cowork from there.

To rephrase, think if WeWork closed their doors to non-WeWork employees, and let their employees work from any WeWork, or from home.
A lot of people can easily get by with a bike, especially if they're taking Bart / Caltrain to the city.
> The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market.

It certainly is. But I wonder how much their strategy can really serve as a model for others.

On the one hand, the Economist might be seen as saying, "Here is how to do it." Others can follow and similarly prosper, with increasingly large markets being served.

Or, on the other hand, the Economist might simply be meeting all of the demand for a publication like itself. And the only way for another company to do as well using the same strategy, would be to produce a publication that is convincingly better than the Economist, thus putting the original out of business.
$4k a month can get you three bedroom apartments in multiple cities next to San Francisco.

$250k is easily enough for a family of 4 to live a reasonably affluent lifestyle.
> Shouldn't a new business therefore start with companies that are still smaller and faster at approving expenses?

Yes, that's a valid approach. But only you know what the right market for your product is, however (aka "Product-Market Fit".) Not everything can be sold to every company. Plus you will also realize that your product changes depending on the size of the company.

> How do I get a conversation going? Do you start by giving a general idea about your service?

That's a very broad topic. You may want to start following B2B sales and B2B Marketing blogs to get some best practices for these things. There is absolutely an art and science to these things and it can be learned.
NYC is the only city in the world with a 24 hour subway system every day. Many people enjoy not having a car: especially the very poor (can't afford car anywhere), so NYC is full of very poor; and they very middle (can't afford car in NYC), so NYC is full of very middle and everybody fights for the same resources.
> People around here have lost their minds -- they all want to crowd into the same 20-ish blocks of trendy real estate

It would help if more than ~20 blocks of San Francisco were conveniently accessible by subway. BART, MUNI, and Caltrain are woefully inadequate.
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I think that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I know that whether something is dangerous or not depends entirely on the concentration, and/or the form of it (ie solid metal lead isn't too scary, any type of its compound is). Unfortunately, I can't know the concentration(since packaging obviously doesn't mention it), and I don't know what's the threshold I should be careful about either.
I've experienced this too. On a year 2000 Toyota with a couple hundred thousand miles on it, battery removal literally makes the car not know how to move for 10-15 minutes. The manual says that the car adapts to "driving style" and engine age/performance; it apparently gets to relearn all of that in a hurry after a reset.

TL;DR: The car wakes up with amnesia and has to discover for itself that it's old.
Exactly, comes from this Urban Mobility Report linked in the Medium post:
http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...
That said, with remote work, you can choose any city. I'd rather live in Boise, Denver or Portland than Seattle, SF or NYC. For reference I'm in Phoenix, and I mainly stay because pay:cost-of-living is better here for developers than most cities. Most of the work is very business centered, but still plenty of options.

If there was more remote work that split the difference in pay, and allowed me to work in a slightly smaller city farther north, I'd really prefer that. But the income:living ratio in most of the places with more tech jobs just isn't as good.
Indeed, but it's not so bad now. Rochester is still among the cities with the greatest number of patents per capita. The technical skills and infrastructure that fueled Kodak and Xerox are still around; many engineers operate at smaller shops or do consulting. RIT and the University of Rochester are still graduating quality students. Optics is still prominent in Rochester, and there's a good deal of defense tech you don't hear about (Harris RF, Exelis Geospatial Systems, Pictometry, TeledyneOptech, Tyco, et al.). Though I'm more in Cambridge, MA now, I'll put on my Rochester emissary hat and expose a secret: quality of life in Rochester is fantastic. It's affordable; the median house price is <$75k (maybe triple that in the affluent suburbs). There's no traffic, there's abundant water, energy is cheap, food is inexpensive and local, and people are civically-involved. There are bike trails and there is Wegmans. The geographic location is not one prone to natural disasters (except blizzards if you count those). The parks are beautiful, and there's a festival every other weekend during the warm months. Unlike cheap places in the midwest, it's a short hop to NYC, Boston, or Toronto. I think Rochester is poised for a comeback as people and companies look for more cash-efficient places to operate. My Rochester house even has gigabit Internet; that's not something I can get at my apartment three miles from MIT.
It should be closer to 2h per day off the cuff, I'm sure you can find better sources than my memory.

At that rate, though, you save something closer to a hundred hours a year, or more than two work weeks.
> Most of them are rather inconvenient to work with directly though, not least because they aren't breadboard friendly.

You're looking for the ESP-201:

http://smarpl.com/sites/default/files/images/ESP8266-ESP-201...

Enjoy!
I clicked on my last company (Factual in LA) and the first listing was for a $18M penthouse. It also said that the buyer would get a $225k+ refund from Open Listings for buying through them - how does that work?

But seriously, it is a very neat tool, thanks for making it.
How to get things done, even when you don&#8217;t feel like it
> (2) Car batteries do not last only 3-4 years as per the OP. Car batteries can last decades. There are many variables, but the car in my battery is far older than 4 years. (lol)

I have a 2003 VW GTi. Had the battery replaced for the first time late last year. The AAA Tech was surprised that I had over 10 years of use with the stock battery.

Still, this product does seem interesting.
Global climate change doesn't have a definable and agreeable source and/or event that can be confined to definite set of parameters. The cause and effect chain is nebulous in comparison.

But damage caused by radiation is well known, definable criteria which is well studied as part of health studies. What would be more comparable would be studies of heart disease for example based on consumption of certain foods. We readily accept such studies as advice on what is health, what is not, and also what drugs work and which do not. The principle is the same.
What I like most about Magit is staging, unstaging, and reverting hunks.
Burning Coal releases more radiation into the atmosphere than all human nuclear activity. The particulates are the major killer though. I believe like 100 000 people die from the effects every year. And that's discounting the atrocious toll on the environment.
Sometimes HN seems to have an anti-interseting-topic filter doesn't it?
It's funny, I'm currently looking for a next job, and am talking to a company in Manhattan... One of my thoughts was "damn, I'd have to get rid of my car." :-( Though, I'd absolutely hate driving in that town. The same applies to SF (made the mistake of renting a car there for a business trip, the next one Uber/Lyft was better).
What does the filler text “lorem ipsum” mean?
Suppose they did offer a 7-year warranty, with strong language. Would you really expect Ohm to be around in 7 years? If they want people to take a warranty seriously, it needs to be backed by at least an A-rated insurer, not whoever is funding these guys.

There's also the problem that they apparently offer only a single size/form factor (which is roughly equivalent to 34, 34/78, 75/25, or 35), and that for many applications this device does not offer enough starting power. Never mind reserve capacity. But even if this size is appropriate to your car, there are other reasons to be skeptical.
The solution is to increase density in the core parts of the Bay Area. Density reduces the distance between workplace and housing. Especially increased density around existing rail public transit (BART, Caltrain...) There is a lot of room for improvement here: Paris is thrice as dense as San Francisco despite having a 37m building ceiling.
You don't even have to build up by much. Paris largely tops out at about 6 stories high. They just build a lot of 6 story buildings.
> that still leaves 24 million pounds of lead each year from car batteries that don't get recycled

Is that actually a lot? Similar statements are made with respect to nuclear waste, but frankly, I've regarded these statements in units of mass as deliberately misleading due to nuclear waste (or lead in this case) to be uniquely dense relative to what we are accustomed to dealing with on a daily basis.

Siri, via Wolfram Alpha, says that 24 million pounds of lead is about 33,900-ft3, or a cube of 32-ft a side. If correct, that doesn't feel like a lot considering this is framed as a the global lead acid car battery recycling waste.
There is a world of difference between a group with the integrity to state its biases publicly and one that hides them in a dozen puppet papers.
I think the problem is that most people that are in the category of people using this service: rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, housekeepers, web developers, photographers don't have the extra money to spend on this sort of service.

I just used Turbo tax and Google and it took little to no extra effort.
http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
Exactly. Erlang + BEAM vs Erlang + Java is all speculation at this point. I already told you I think HotSpot would perform better than current BEAM minus determinism. Latest updates might or might not help on that. Meanwhile, they can use what they have with diversity benefit or ride along with Oracle's I.P. with associated benefits and risks. Either is a valid choice with me favoring diversity and trying new designs.
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Awesome to see this, I've had several of these nRF24L01's (ESP8266's) for a while with Arduino Micro's and some solid state relays to create my own automated light switching system. I also managed to create a digital AC dimmer for about £10 :) Phone -> Controller Dimmer -> Winning
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Then don't start a business. All of my ideas came from my real-world experience and things I dealt with on a daily/monthly basis.
Eagle swats drone out of sky in Australia