skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying the tax credits won't die out, but it's unfortunate that they will.

I've seen some people saying that these subsidies are unfair, but the US government heavily subsidizes gas too.

Some very rough calculations put the average gas subsidies paid by the US government around $4350 per driver per year.

I dislike subsidies in general, but it's too bad the credit will phase out sooner rather than later. Getting plug-in electrics on the road will save the US tons of money on gas subsidies.

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1.49 gallons/driver/day * 365 days * $8/gallon subsidy = $4350.8/driver/year

Gallons/day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_p...

Using an $8 subsidy based on some quick googling, which places the true cost of gas in the US from $12-$15/gallon. Assuming an average price of $4/gallon, that puts a conservative estimate of the subsidy per gallon around $8.

Federal credit phase out info: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Plug-In-Electric-Vehicle-Credi...
Not to mention the H1B hire -> underpay -> keep them underpaid and shackled with the H1B/Greencard combo.
There's a so-so TED talk about the pleasant/passionate/meaningful life distinction. http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psy...
This is not a criminal case against these lawyers, though. This is a continuation of a lawsuit that they filed. The judge essentially said that he was summoning them to court to explain how the business arrangement that they had set up and the suits they were filing was not an attempt to defraud the court and abuse the legal system. Since they declined to explain anything, they may be subject to such consequences as being disbarred or being fined for court costs. Since it is not a criminal or even civil trial against them, the rules are different, but there is no direct possibility of jail time or punitive fines.

Now, the judge could very well refer the case to the US Attorney, in which case criminal charges could be filed against any or all of the attorneys/employees in question. In any trials ensuing from such charges, pleading the 5th cannot be used as evidence against them, but there would presumably be plenty of other evidence to demonstrate their guilt.
Except for the fact that the 'monthly payment' is a lie based on fudging the numbers Groupon style. My opinion of Tesla has gone down after reading this and the fine print.
Ah, so Alerts and Reader is like healing the impoverished. Clearly, I'm against all those things too!

Nice strawman there.

Google is a company, and if you read the post, it was specifically about "how quickly would VC firms throw MILLIONS at it to scale it up".
yeah, tools built in-house to test specific apps, not commercial apps
| It's extremely bad. The fact that ISP monopolies
| are not regulated in favor of consumers is slowly
| going to destroy the openness that has made the
| web so successful.

This is a little over the top. Whether or not to use this to notify users of time-sensitive information could be a question posed at even a small ISP without such 'evil ambitions.'

It's probably more useful to discuss the pros/cons of this approach to notifying users than it is to decry over-arching problems with the entire industry. These (over-arching industry issuse) have been discussed ad nauseum, and action is more useful than discussion at this point (at least on technical forums such as this).

| But the federal regulators of the monopolies
| are asleep at the switch

Look up regulatory capture.
Open Source: Exploitation at its finest (c. 2010)
Am I the only one who feels like the web is making a transition from being more like a library to being more like television?

The more content is sliced up into little digestible chunks and spread across multiple pages the less useful it is. There will always be great content online, it just seems like it might get harder and harder to find on sites whose layout is driven by pageviews.
I think you're right, but I think it also shows that the service will always be niche. That's fine, but it's not "regression".
He's not paying everything out of pocket, therefore he is not a great entrepreneur? My understanding is that great entrepreneurs find ways to distribute the risk.
That was my exact reaction when I looked at that photo.
Here's a lively discussion on male privilege:

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/

Aside from my opinion on the disclaimer, the link above definitely articulates "male privilege" in a more substantive way.
How about offering people the option to upgrade? If they decline or don't respond, they remain free users. If they accept, upgrade them.

Am I missing something?
We've been hiring for a little while in Los Angeles.
The problem is that there are some Rails developers, but most of the ones I've met are pretty entitled.
They expect 100K+, benefits, telecommuting, etc.
The problem is that most of them are fairly incompetent when it comes to everything else.

Ask them about database design, sockets, parallelism, map/reduce, memory allocation, etc. and you'll get blank stares.

This is good though, because it makes people who know those things that much more valuable as well they should be.
I think this is still well within the spirit of the tax laws. The point of the tax credit is to get people to use green technology and this is doing just that.
There is no consumer risk, there is only the price, since Musk is cosigning the guarantee.
Many big American companies receive government subsidies - either directly or via military/gov spending. Its the smart market to be in.

"48 companies that have received more than $100 million in state grants since 2007."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/01/us/government-...
Word choice makes it very difficult to determine what the original comment means, which is why I brought it up.
Are startups and enterprises really that far apart in how they operate?
I generally agree with the suggestion that the line managers who know the work rather than whatever HR department a company has should have the lead role in hiring. The supposed rationale for an HR department is that hiring and firing are hemmed in by various laws that not everyone understands, and a capable HR person can prevent a company from doing something illegal that exposes the company to a lawsuit or criminal penalties. But most of the time, HR departments really keep companies from hiring capable workers.

Definitely learn the law, and don't do anything illegal, but help managers learn how to develop work-sample tests for hiring,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

and make sure that the main focus of hiring is getting each job done right by new hires who have a capacity to grow into more responsible positions in the company over the next few years.
I don't have a profile, but i do remember reading a pretty interesting OKCupid blog post correlating response rate to the quality of the camera taking the photo.

Here it is: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
Signed up maybe a month back, but still awaiting any "offers" to review. I'm excited to see if this works, only because I hate the archaic process in place. Good luck!
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How large will interface pointers be? It seems like they'd have to be at least as large as an auth cookie since that's basically what they are.

Also, it seems like in a cluster, you'd need the ability for any server to generate many auth cookies that will work on any other server when the client makes its next request.
Specsburner
We call ourselves inventors, but many of us are really just innovators.

FRFY, Jeesh.
They are matching their class of competition (luxury cars) not enticing people to upgrade from Volt.
OP here. (Well, not "original poster", but "guy who wrote this".)

If anybody's interested: this is not an essay, it's my notes for a speech I delivered at Inspire, a monthly talk series put on by Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness project here in Las Vegas. The talk itself was filmed and you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moO2EfWQOTE

It looks like an essay because I'm a writer, and I write my talks like essays and then kind of wing it when I'm on stage.

I am aware that bits of this aren't especially subtle, but I had eight minutes to do the talk in.

And I apparently need to clarify what I mean by "innovation" versus "iteration". What I meant, basically, is that the Valley right now reminds me of Hollywood in the late 80s, where everybody was trying to pitch their new movie as "Die Hard in/on/with an [X]". Die Hard on a train, Die Hard on a submarine...taking some existing idea and trying to just twist it slightly enough to capitalize on it. So we do "It's like [X] for [Y]".

Instagram for animated GIFs.

Facebook for payroll managers. (I've actually heard that one.)

Evernote for illiterates.

These are jokes, but I hope you take my point. That's what I meant by "iteration" versus "innovation". Imagine if Jobs had said "The Apple is like the IBM 1620, except beiger and smaller." Or if that's how he thought of it.

Personally, I think a lot of the most-hyped stuff we make in this industry is just silly, useless bullshit that doesn't solve any real problems, or problems that are worth solving unless you're a lazy, pampered, entitled asshole who genuinely has a hard time with the notion of picking up one's own dry cleaning. (That example in my speech was something featured on HN, by the way.)

I guess if those are the problems you want to solve, go ahead, but I just feel as though there are more pressing issues in the world...provided you can see outside of your own circumstance.

I'm fortunate enough to have lived rich and lived poor, and while rich is better, poor is far more prevalent in the world. I feel like poor people's problems are more useful to solve.

But hey, I could be wrong. And I won't deny I'm being judgmental, but who really gives a shit what I think? :-)
FERPA http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa

I can't give information that would identify a student or allow someone to make direct contact without the student's prior consent.
You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQSAEMq5ko
great work!
BIG like!
You might try out Facebook or Google Plus logins - users are accustomed to these flows and both platforms are quite tight now when it comes to real names.

Another way would be using credit-report sites, or having them submit a scan/photo of their ID card/driver license. I do not know if this is legal in the US, though.
The problem isn't filling the rocket scientist shortage with brain surgeon retrains. It's finding the unemployed shelf stacker who's really just 6 months of good training from being you rocket scientist. Otherwise you're just creating a shortage of brain surgeons.

It's VERY hard to find quality developers. I agree with the article that HR is a huge problem, but I'm a hiring manager and I still don't see a great deal of quality.

While it's not as extreme as shifting industry, I recently took the advice from a few HN threads I'd spoken up on and while I'm looking for a PHP developer, I didn't insist that PHP be one of the languages you already know.

Did that work? No. I still didn't get an influx of quality applicants.

I also said in the ad that I was more interested in a cover letter than a resume that shows where you've worked or gone to school, and I'm interested in your Stack Overflow or HN profile. In other words: I'd love to hire a hobbyist.

But none of the 5% of this country's unemployed applied.
I agree. Correct me if I'm wrong, but using Google Reader seems to cut down on the number of ads a user sees. And seeing as Google is at its heart an advertising company, why would they put effort into maintaining a tool that reduces the number of delivered ads?
It's clear that popping on everyone's radar gets you a lot of attention, but really, how many would follow through all the way?

The article mentions that none asked for any sort of online presence (Linkedin, Github, etc). Perhaps it's because they weren't serious to begin with.
This may be semantics, but I think of software engineering as the slightly larger scope of building real-world solutions with software and hardware. Civil engineering is not (just) about mixing the right cement and letting it cure at the right temperature for the right length of time, nor is it strictly about building a bridge, it's about building a bridge for the right price in the right amount of time that will last a given number of years, all parameters which were determined through a careful process and making decisions with stakeholders, while applying scientific principles (geology, materials science, etc.) and good people management skills. Oh, and the successful bridge project leaves behind the documentation of the bridge as built and a structure to assure its proper maintenance.

However, I do agree that handling the huge and complex range of inputs, not only the expected ones, is a great beginning to the process, one that is often overlooked. And same goes for internal monitoring, to make sure your system is still functioning as designed.
I agree! Geography is very valuable to some individuals; Especially with the tools available at this point, it seems strange to value being physically co-located for work.
More likely they should change the loophole so that lease is treated like a sale (with some reasonable pro rating), since it basically is.
And Chrome Version 23.0.1271.95
Nice design! And finally an app that allows me to work with the text immediately. Really looking forward to next versions.
Here's the how-to to add your own keys.

http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/owning-your-windows-8-uefi...
"They remain free users"? That is an option with unlimited downside for Instacart.
Even if Tesla couldn't take advantage of the tax credit, they can find a bank who could. Leases are riskier than loans for banks for a few reasons:

- The bank has to place a bet on the value of the car 36 months from now--a huge risk. With a loan, they only have to bet on the credit-worthiness of the borrower, and they can ask for additional collateral, if they wish.

- In case of a lease default, there is no equity in the car, because lessors, by definition, only pay for depreciation. On a loan default, there is usually at least some equity in the car.

- Usually the down-payment is less for a lease than for a loan (Tesla's program requires 10% down, almost unheard of for a lease).

All of these factors taken together mean that the bank is much less likely to take a bath on a loan than a lease.
> "I don't understand why poor kids, ghetto kids, don't do startups to get out of poverty."

This is mostly a cliché

The short answer is: because they have more important troubles about to think. Poverty, lack of opportunities, drugs, drunks or the ocassional abuse of members of your family or even from the police.

But the "maybe not so obvious" answer is that in fact young inmigrants are one of the people more focused, and more pressed by family and environment, into the creation of small business in your new country. And a lot are sucessful doing this. America is, probably, one of the countries with more cases of "the small grandpa's store". Now we all live in the supermarketzoic age, so things are very different currently.
That's what "over diagnosed" means: more diagnoses than actual incidents.

No. "Over diagnosed" simply means that it is diagnosed when it shouldn't be. There is nothing there about how frequently it is correctly diagnosed. If the true prevalence is 6% and 9% of kids are given the diagnosis, then it is over-diagnosed. See http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/prevalence.html for the geographic variation on the diagnosis rate. Clearly there are places where it is over-diagnosed. There are others where it doesn't seem to be.

I do not know why the ICD-10 has different criteria. The US classification is broader on that because a much wider variety of symptoms looks the same in brain scans, and reacts the same way to medication.

Regardless, before medication parent-teacher conferences were elaborations on the theme that my son required more attention than the rest of the class combined, and yet still was behind everyone else on a long list of things (starting with handwriting skills) despite his obvious brilliance. After medication we simply get a note that he is a joy in the classroom, and she wishes that other kids had half of his curiosity.

Note, he gets plenty of sleep, eats well, has carefully controlled TV, etc. (My definition of carefully controlled = no TV, under 4 hours/week of movies. The movies that he chooses are documentaries more often than not.)
I am checking out instacart, and a popup is being thrown on my face to register/login without the option to dismiss it! Seriously, WTH? This is beyond bad design, when your design is to extort the emails registration out the users. Not impressed.
That is not a reasonable demand.
I can smell it.
Is Living in Your Car a Viable Way to Save Money?
Just because there is risk in the current state doesn't make it okay to add more risk. This gives small upside to the customer with potentially large downside. And the effect of these risks may not be linear. For instance, imagine two events: 1) There is a major recall that puts a strain on the Tesla's finances, but Tesla remains solvent. 2) Residual value is less than anticipated (for whatever reason), costing Tesla a lot of money, but Tesla remains solvent. Now imagine a situation where #1 correlates to #2, say that there is a major recall that also negatively affects residual value. That blow could be much worse than each of these events occurring independently. I'm not trying to predict the future here, all I'm saying is that being less fragile is inherently better than being more fragile.
5 Questions To Get Your Product Really Minimal
By the time Google bought Deja, Usenet was already dead.
I think OP could have used some "BloggingWithFriends". Maybe his friends could have helped proofread and tone down the perceived arrogance.

Notice how PG always thanks his proofreaders, even for seemingly short and pointed blog posts.
If you guys are talking about the pic in his post, that's not the author, that's the actual Elon Musk.

http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2012/11/23/vi...
I'm pretty sure Comcast aren't the only ones doing this. I had mobipcs for a while (when I just got new house, had to wait for DLS to get installed) and they injected js that tracked your browsing and replaced certain ads it found (as well as caused various errors because it wasn't written properly). I wouldn't be surprised if other companies did the same.
A put option for what?
I think that "is the culture that speaks AAVE a valid culture?" is a vanishingly insignificant question compared to the critical real-life problem of providing black inner-city kids the education and communication skills necessary to make it in today's world.

If you graduate from high school speaking only AAVE, you are in big trouble. Students need to learn to speak standard English, whatever else they may or may not speak. Distracting from this huge priority with intellectual arguments about the validity of cultures does these kids a huge disservice.
Another key variable in this equation is your table image as well. The big stack 8-9 hand is much more effective for the strategy discussed when you are playing an aggressive style and taking a lot of pots.

When you hit the straight or flush with the 8-9 and you are seen as an agreesor, you are likely to get significant action from an overpair, top pair top kicker and (depending how you play the hand) you will likely get one round from 2 good overs like an AK / AQ as well.

With a tight table image you will likely get one round from each (unless you flop it Q, J, 10) because the other possible cards on the board are unlikely to have made the hand of a tight player. But a sizable bet on the turn or river will begin to smell an awful lot like over pair or set and you will likely not see big action from many of the hands mentioned above.

Author mentions there are many factors which go behind each decision, but I think this strategy is implicitly relying on having a good understanding of your table image
Homejoy is growing fast and hiring a Front End Engineer
Homejoy is a platform for connecting homeowners with high-quality, trustworthy, affordable home service providers - starting with home cleaning. Started by Aaron and Adora - a brother and sister hacker duo - Homejoy rose out of Y Combinator and is now funded by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, First Round Capital, and Paul Buchheit. Our goal is to bring affordable, safe and convenient services to every home - and out of the category of a luxury service - while treating our contractors exceptionally well. We’ve got a proven business model that’s already expanded to every major metro on the west coast - and now into New York - while maintaining high customer satisfaction. Now we’re looking for a self-motivated individual to take the lead shaping and building our product.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

You’re a hacker who tells your friends you’re so much more than that because you love to understand the details of a business to figure out what needs to be built
You’re fast - you walk the fine line between getting products out the door and building them to perfection
Your peers describe you as a rockstar, but the term embarrasses you. Homejoy has a culture that revolves entirely around our customers and cleaners, not our egos.
You’ve designed and built significant web applications and can show us what you shipped.
You’re extremely proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
You are comfortable taking on backend work when needed, and are familiar with Python.
You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.
You’ve got a Computer Science degree
You get excited about hacking real-world business problems - such as how to simplify the matching process between thousands of jobs and hundreds of cleaners, creating a simple user interface while clarifying customer expectations, and reacting to customer feedback with operational changes real-time
Experience as a founder or in a seed-funded startup environment a plus

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Serious equity
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Lunches (and Dinners if you just can’t get enough of us)
New machine and other needed hardware
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House cleaning
Relocation expenses (as needed)

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