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Except you missed the point, which is that solar PV systems have been posting compounding gains in terms of power output per $ for 35 years. No other energy source I am aware of is becoming ~15% cheaper per year. I'll assume that most of the people here are familiar with compounding interest and its implications.

The point isn't that solar energy is disruptive today, it's that it will be in the not distant future. It's sort of like cellphone technology. It started out as a niche technology that hardly anybody used (even in San Francisco circa 2000, I know eons ago, people outside the tech industry didn't use them, now everyone has a smartphone).

I put my money where my mouth is on this, and retrofitted my pre-WWII home with solar some eight years ago. Even then, the amortized cost of the solar array was 50% less than what I paid to PGE for grid power, and I basically have a net zero electric bill.

Maintenance? A couple times a year I go up on the roof and hose the panels down to wash the dust and pollen off (no moving parts, etc). That and I make a point to double check that a meter reader hasn't flipped the safety cutoff switch. Other than that, I don't do a goddamn thing and my house generates about 75-80% of its power.
You and your parent comment are exaggerating. The pay (with a masters) starts in the low 40's for 40-50 hour weeks. There are exceptions, but they are not the norm.

Pay progresses decently over a career, but no one gets into it for the money. (On the upside, all of your coworkers are passionate for the right reasons.)
Ask HN: Dividing Equity with H1B Investor?
(Posting anonymously to not divulge anything).

Hi community! Two friends and I are launching a startup with the goal of manufacturing and operating a custom compute farm for a very specialized HPC market in the biotech industry. We will self-fund the startup with our own capital (total of $450 thousand):

- Friend A will bring $50 thousand of capital. He is technical. He has some experience designing PCBs, and will help co-ordinate the manufacturing of our PCBs with assembly shops. He has a few years experience in the industry.

- Friend B will bring $150 thousand of capital. He has 10+ years of industry experience and is more of a sales and marketing person. He will be crucial to negotiate contracts with components suppliers, and data centers.

- I will bring $250 thousand of capital. I happen to have very relevant experience, having assembled and operated a similar compute farm at a previous employer (no custom hardware though). I am technical and have helped correct some of my friends' early decisions and plans. I have unique experience with all the "gotchas" that we would encounter while running the software stack on top of this hardware. I have the ability to acquire very quickly thousands of the specialized chips we will need, without which the company would lose a lot of potential revenues.

There is one problem: I am currently on an H1B visa. I plan to keep my current job (I have to, since my employer is in the process of sponsoring me for a greencard), but I want to act as a "passive investor" (two lawyers advised us this was possible) while my two friends will work full-time on the startup.

How can we fairly divide equity between us, given that I plan to bring most of the capital (more than half), while they will do most of the day-to-day work? We talked about each of us having a share equivalent to the percentage of capital we bring in. But this seems too naive: friend A = 11%, friend B = 33%, myself = 56%.
I don't see the big deal.

Right now DRM depends on proprietary plug-ins. If this is allowed in HTML5, DRM will still depend on proprietary plug-ins.

What is different?

edit: also, browser vendors don't have to implement it if they don't want to. Really, I don't like this DRM thing that much, but I am kind of indifferent to this.
Then it would only be a matter of hacking one browser to claim to support drm scheme x and then not to get it to work. Since we have to distribute the run time in at least one browser, this shouldn't be a problem.
Try dropping CloudFlare in front of it. That should help a bit: http://cloudflare.com/
The part that I find the most repulsive about this – aside from the fact that the school got itself into debt by borrowing money to gamble it, and then lost it – is that its board of trustees went from a visionary model of free tuition, and against the advice of the professionals it hired to analyse the decision, opted, on purpose, for a sliding scale.

Schooling in america is not fucked up because it charges tuition; that's fine. It's fucked up because it charges tuition so unequally. Often, half the student body does not pay a dime, while the other half gets itself in massive debt because of bureaucratic technicalities. In my case, I paid full $50k/yr tuition, by myself, because not being a US citizen made me ineligible for all scholarships, whereas many of my peers got a free ride even though their families were much wealthier than mine. All around me, and throughout the academic culture of the united states, I see this. Students struggle to battle for the few scholarships schools offer subsidized by the financial hardships of other students.

We'd all be much better off if we abolished all scholarships and dropped tuition to a price much more reasonable for everybody. School ought to cost 5-10k a year, not 50. And everybody should pay it, or take out a loan for it, because at that price, it's a no-brainer.
The left edge of the bird (falcon?) image you use on the front page doesn't fully go to black. And I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the bird is other than being a cool image, but I feel like if you just had the texture in the background extend the full way or something similar, that area would be more effective.

Your footer doesn't stick to the bottom on pages that aren't as long eg I'm using a 1920 x 1080 monitor and the about page (http://www.appraptor.com/about/) isn't long enough. Google "sticky footer" and there should be plenty of articles about fixing that issue.

Other than those issues and the ones that other people have brought up, I think it looks great!
Minor comment on the domain name: "Appraptor" might confuse potential customers into thinking you are an iOS/Android developer. For most non-technical people (potential customers) "apps" are the things you get from the App Store.

On the "hire me" page I suggest including a few pieces of info about the way you work: Do you only work remotely, or are you willing to visit clients on site? If so, where are you prepared to travel to? It also sounds like you are outside the office a lot (good for you!), so how can you be reached? Do you work full time or part time? What size project are you after? What happens after those two months are over, will you be around to support your work if necessary after that time period?
Thanks for the firefox heads up. I'll look into that. I'm embarrassed about the grammar issues. Two people have now commented about that. I have been writing a lot of the copy late at night. (part of me was expecting nobody to actually see the site for a while, too. A "launch" of a consulting site is usually 10-15 visits, in my mind)
It's a gamble along the lines of "I bet I can invest money better than the bank". Often turns out the bank can invest money better. I wonder who convinced them to invest, er, gamble.
Why not kick out the board and open an investigation?
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Pardon the off topic and probably downvoted-into-oblivion comment, but

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Off the top of my head; looks very nice. A few things jump out:

* I hate the bird

* copy editing:

"it's got" -> "it has" everywhere;

"in a beautiful way" -> "beautifully" (but really, "... It's got a pinterest layout to show the pages in a beautiful way" doesn't seem to add anything except the word 'pinterest' for SEO).

"Sign up and see what perks merchants are offering to members. Simple as that." makes no sense; so... I sign up, and then you'll tell me what I get for signing up?

edit: agree with other comments that you should not use a gmail account; use the domain.
In the short term I'm sure it's true. But in the long term, banks have a major advantage over us mortals: they get bailed out. So I'd imagine they tend to win in the end.
I'm not sure what precedent there would be for either of those actions.

All of the major universities "gamble" with their endowments in the various markets. There's the corny adage that Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.
PlanetOnline has had their accreditation revoked since the middle of last year[1]. Since this is a .mn domain, the NamesBeyond notice would not apply, however this is approximately the time which they ceased doing business. Assuming you have valid whois information which can be externally validated, you may wish to contact the registry[2] directly and explain the situation.

You will almost definitely make no progress with Planet Online.

[1] http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-27ju...
[2] http://www.nic.mn/
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Does someone slinkingly use your computer? Does your kid visit websites that contain negative information at home? Does someone enter your computer when you are out?
Anykeylogger is a type of computer screen monitoring software which can help you to solve those problems. It runs hidden in the background, users in the foreground cannot find it. And the function of computer screen monitoring lets you know about use case of you computer by saving screen pictures.
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You read it exactly right. I've had project managers tell me, in that same tone, that they disagreed with my six month estimate for a project, and said they could do it in a weekend. I tried offering to swap jobs for a while, but they never went for that. I'm not surprised; more often than not I wasn't just the tech lead and architect on my projects, but I did most of the project management too.
This is fantastic. It's easy to set up and use. I can share folders without having to rearrange anything. I love that you don't have to make an account. Awesome for privacy!!
You can thank the compiler writers for that. You know, people who work in "lower level languages"
>I don't think it is a minor issue at all. My biggest complaint with flash has been the security vulnerabilities, and I trust Google/Mozilla with web encryption WAY more than I do Adobe.

Why do you think Google or Mozilla would be the ones to implement the black box in the DRM? Firefox is developed by a community. The process is public and anyone can identify or patch vulnerabilities -- that's why the security is good. You expect Mozilla to devise and implement some DRM scheme? The actual DRM would end up being created by someone like Adobe again and have all the same security vulnerabilities, because the wider developer community couldn't be allowed to be privy to how it does what it does or it wouldn't be DRM anymore.

One of the problems with DRM is that pretty much anyone who understands security will laugh at you for thinking you can implement effective DRM, so it ends up being built by snake oil salesmen who don't know what they're doing. I don't see how putting it into HTML would change any of that -- all it would do is pollute HTML and encourage the proliferation of more bad code.
Check out PCI DSS regulations for storing credit card numbers, they're pretty strict.
I'd say the truth is somewhere in between. Closer to a comedian using another comedian's joke.
Yeah, good call. I wasn't expecting this kind of surge so I didn't plan ahead.
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I used annual averages from the EIA. This smooths out short term variations (I am looking at a 30-40 year trend). Also be sure whatever price history you're using is adjusted for inflation.

That said, even with short term price fluctuations, the decrease in solar energy costs (100:1) trumps the variation in conventional energy commodities (5:1). The point of the article is the long-term "moore's law" trend and how that will play out over the next 10-20 years.
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Paypal payment is implemented only using paypal website. It is pointless to add it because no website/app can register as a handler for that URL scheme to implement it in any different way.
Bitcoin payment is not centralized and processed by one agency.
Wordpress maybe very easy to use but it can be a big performance hog. Maybe you can try to use a plugin like supercache[1]. I hope this helps.

[1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Here's some friendly advice from someone that's done ads for one of my start-ups before.

1) If you can't get top-notch talent, just do the ad yourself.

Why? You can tell when amateur actors are just "reading lines." They don't seem excited about the product, all they want to do is get through the script. The had has some brilliant ideas (the best friend cheating on your wife bit is quite funny) but the execution kills it.

If you don't think you can pull off "acting" by yourself, even describing your business (like you do when trying to get into YC, for example) will go a lot farther than amateur actors reading off of a script. Something like "Hi, I'm Jim and this is what Lawdingo does. I'm excited to introduce you to this new blah blah" simply shows excitement (bonus points for being the co-/founder -- viewers get a warmer feeling).

2) If you really want to go the funny route (I don't think I would), do something ridiculous.

An 80s eras commercial, a song-and-dance; something that has the possibility of going viral. Law advice is a relatively ubiquitous subject. Consider how GEIKO sells insurance. In your case, I'd say you went half-GEIKO. Go full-GEIKO. Be ridiculous if you want to be funny. The ad makes you seem sorta-kinda serious, so I can't help but get mixed feelings.

If you want to see what a great example of the above is, consider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI

3) Diction. Diction. Diction. Have some. Or your actors should have some.

I remember we paid this one chick god knows how much to shoot an ad for us (sex appeal, etc. -- another dumb idea). I wrote the damn script and I could barely understand what the fuck she was saying. The indian dude has no diction. If that's you, I'm sorry, but that's the truth. Take a speech class or get someone else to do it. As your grandma always used to say: E N U N C I A T E (or at least mine did).

4) The fist-bump at the end is lame. Seriously.

The ending of an add should be the equivalent of the ending of a symphony: loud, fanciful, memorable.
Is this the InkScape tutorial you refer to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852611
> Parnia is currently working with a number of hospitals on a project to investigate out of body experiences. One of the components of the study is to place objects on high shelves in operating theatres, which are only observable from above.
You can't have safe DRM. I'd say producers aren't within their moral rights to push preemptive policing on people.

It's hardly preemptive. People have been illegally ripping off content since forever, and they've been doing it on a potentially business-destroying scale since the Internet became popular. The official law enforcement bodies conveniently sidestep the whole issue by making copyright infringement a civil rather than criminal offence in most places, which also transfers the burden of enforcement onto the copyright holder in most cases, and then the costs of actually bringing a case to court over someone ripping off a $10 movie are prohibitive. The normal mechanisms that are supposed to protect someone who has been wronged under the law have failed.

The content producers are now saying that if you want their content, you have to let them include technical measures to protect their rights because the legal system mostly doesn't. What other choice has society left them? You are still free not to consume their content and the accompanying DRM by buying something else... assuming, of course, that there is a viable business model to produce that "something else" instead.
Excellent points. I've mainly been working remotely, but I am also willing to travel to the bay area to visit clients (might even move there soon). I will make some changes to that page to include my skype contact as well.
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I think the point is more nuanced than that. It's not that DRM doesn't belong on the web, but it doesn't belong as an integral part of the web and web components. There are already well-specified mechanisms like <object> and NPAPI/ActiveX plugins that you can use right now to ship encrypted video if you want.

The cost of every single feature added to the Standard Web is tremendous and we pay that cost forever. By that standard alone, adding a feature like DRM video to serve the demands of an enormous, incredibly powerful, incredibly rich lobby is ridiculous. There are simply much better problems to be solved with less downsides.

So, to try and rephrase it: The question here isn't whether these people should be 'brought into the fold' on the modern web; DRM is intrinsically at odds with the modern web (and the web we've had before), both in concrete purpose and in the more nebulous philosophical ways. A major strength of the web has always been its ability to open doors and put powerful tools in the hands of everyone, and encrypted/protected video limited to certain platforms/devices just fundamentally runs counter to all of that.
No. Evernote, dropbox and flickr are all services implemented by a single organization each. You could just to use HTTP to link to a flickr profile. Bitcoin is decentralized. It is like a protocol. Each user can have his wallet stored in a different service, or even in his computer.
The spec allows a wallet service or an application to add itself as a handler for bitcoin: links. Similar to mailto:, the user can choose the application which can listen to those links. It could be gmail, or thunderbird, or outlook.
Just imagine how I'll feel if he says we/us on his site and then I discover in our introductory call that he is a loner. Only say "we" if you can justify it. If you tell me you're networked and have a working relationship with ux/designers/programmers maybe that will fly.
This image[1] pretty much sums up why I can't stand pages/websites/blogs like i fucking love science.

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/OAGFxOJ.jpg
I'm sorry, are you seriously comparing Elise Andrew with Shakespeare?

"Picking the right words and phrases and putting them in the right order" is not even in the same plane of existence as "looking at a picture and deciding if it's remotely funny or interesting."
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The freebies button is way more prominent than the hire me button and that's not what you want I'd suspect. Try swapping them around.
To be fair, I've examined the way college admissions works in the US, and by and large those who get financial aid actually need it, and those who are charged full freight tend to actually be able to pay full freight.

Secondly, in the case of private institutions, they are private institutions and are largely free to spend their endowment as they wish. Most thus choose not to give financial aid to internationals, but some do give aid.
Removing FDIC and letting banks fail would mean that individuals would only deposit money when banks had high equity %. i.e. the bank owners/shareholders invest 30 cents of their own money for every 70 cents of the customers that is loaned out. That way if loans start to fail the customer is protected by the owners share.
Note to self: If I ever find myself a billionaire industrialist and I want to start a tuition free school, bake into the rules for operation that any administration that decides to charge a tuition anyway becomes immediately fired along with all administrative positions at that time. If they really feel its best for the institution, let them prove it with unemployment.
Both paypal and googlecheckout are implemented in one way. It is not a protocol. Only the service's website can handle the request for payment in those currencies. Bitcoin is decentralized. The user can install/associate any service/application to send bitcoins, much like emails using mailto:
GitHub Pages (http://pages.github.com/) with a custom domain is even easier.
This is because all you dummies were too busy lauding Google's services and nobody notices how "evil" they are.

This came as a proposal from Google. It was tested in Chromium first. The DRM is essential for their "World-saving" ChromeOS that nobody really cares about.
Yeah, I supposed more people would just be interested in the free stuff so I made it easier for them to find it. My rationale was if somebody liked my work then they wouldn't mind searching a bit more for the hire me link. Perhaps I should switch them, though. It is a business after all.
>What is different?

That's kind of the point. The people promoting this seem to be misunderstanding what the result would be. It would in no way reduce the amount of poorly written proprietary code full of security vulnerabilities. It would just move it around a little.

But in the meantime it breaks the web. Even if you support the new HTML5 spec, you can't actually support it without having the proprietary black box necessary to make it work. You break the ability of the web to be platform agnostic. For the web to work at all you'll soon end up needing the black box, because once it's there sites will use it. So if the black box doesn't exist for your platform or you want to create a new platform then you'll be locked out of most of the web. How can that be acceptable?
And the bank could afford to lose that $175 million. And then the bank would gladly take the Chrysler land or whatever other collateral it was promised.
They're quite partnerific with their hardware vendors (in Asia, essentially).
Relevant experience: I am you, except for native iOS dev.

This website is written for another software developer to read. Your primary customer will be a larger (than you) Ruby/Python shop that has more work than it can handle. You will be working closely with other, more trusted-by-management software developers who are sort of vetting you, and may be trying to angle for a hire. These companies are just large enough that they have better lawyers and better paperwork, so disputes can get hairy. Also, they will be protective of the relationship with the ultimate customer/client, so the success of the project really hinges on how well the people above you have captured the requirements. That said, the sales process will be easy and familiar, because you have a career of experience already selling yourself to other software developers.

Is that the customer you were shooting for? If so, good job!
I'm sort of amused at all the dropbox comparisons. This solves a totally different problem which dropbox was HORRIBLE at, which is sharing music/movie collections across my machines at home. I'll still probably use dropbox for documents and stuff, but frankly I never wanted to put my music and tv shows into dropbox because it would have taken up most of my space very quickly for the dubious "feature" of uploading all my pirated stuff to a centralized location. Yay. No way.

Sidenote, but, if Dropbox people happen to be reading this, maybe this will be a hint: PLEASE ADD MULTIFOLDER SUPPORT. (As in, multiple roots). I know you're trying to go for a simple aesthetic etc. etc., so you only have "one" dropbox, but BTSync makes doing that trivially easy. You have no excuse.
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Well the hidden meaning behind my comment was that instead of producing more things for us to consume in the 1st world, maybe we should focus our attention on helping the other worlds out there.

I know, I know, I'm a dreamer.