skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Tesla, but another consideration is that this is a brand new model splash. The 2014 results numbers will be more telling, given that the newness will have worn off a little.
Can you describe precisely which provisions Apple took advantage of that you think are "moronic" in specific terms?

There is a lot of crap in the tax code (accelerated depreciation schedules for farm equipment and whatnot), but that's not what is at play here.
This is great for the so-called "photo-enthusiasts." I'll probably sign up on that basis. But I'm not sure I understand the mobile play. Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality and when I take a photo with my phone 100% of the time it is with the intent to share with others, either via SMS or Facebook or Twitter. I would be happy to share on Flickr. There's only one problem. That of course is that none of my friends use Flickr.

I think they are putting the cart before the horse in thinking that upping the storage and redesigning the interface is going to increase their user base. That said, kudos for trying something. I think that Yahoo! continues to struggle with a singular product strategy and that is ultimately causing them to hemorrhage billions of dollars chasing ill-conceived product acquisition.
Three words:
Economy of Scale.

Governments and large organizations has it. You do not.
And just like the platypus, vi/vim will still be there as the counter-example to intelligent design.
Right, but if you're printing and putting people to work with it, inflation is much less of an issue (more money chasing after more goods & services).

It's only when you're at your production capacity and still keep printing that you start seeing more money chasing after the same amount of goods.

Japan's unemployment is ~4%, low compared to other nations, but still high historically. Their labor force participation rate is about 8% below the U.S., though. There's lots of room to put people to work.
Hmm... do you think a SaaS web store could charge $100/mo for 50 items for sale today?

----

Small Store $100/month

For $100/month you can have up to 50 items for sale (plus as many additional information pages as you want). You can upgrade to a large store at any time.

Large Store $300/month

For $300/month you can have a store with up to 1000 items.

Larger Stores

Larger stores cost $300/month for the first 1000 items, plus $100/month for each additional 1000 items. So a 5000-item store would cost $700/month.
I'm 2 years into a photo service and disk space has never been the determining cost factor. Space is only used to get users to upgrade to a paying account. I don't downplay the importance of that though, it's critical to figure out how you're going to make money today and not once you have a few million users.

In Yahoo!'s case it's about getting more engagement and users.
Embedding Python, Ruby and Lua compared (part 1)
From what I'm reading, existing Pro users will be grandfathered and have the ability to continue with their existing subscription.
You're right, I do tend to be a bit harsh in that regard (maybe that's why I was downvoted), but I'm also trying to cover all of the general public, not just the considerate HN reader.

And creepy is a strong word. It's just that it's tiring, having to fend off guys that may not be creepy but they're just not interested in. We really don't have any reference for what that's like (unless you're a celebrity, I suppose). But I've heard enough about it to have developed a strong bias against unsolicited/unwanted behavior.
> If enough of the right people in Texas... they'll just get them out of state.

It's very unfortunate that the state is Texas and not a state like Rhode Island. They (dealers) have 15 hours of protection in Texas.
As per the new plans, there is no 300MB/month upload-limits on free-accounts.( please don't see Google search results, was that cached? )

Here are their newer plans --

Free-Accounts:

+ 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage

+ Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo

+ Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each

+ Video playback of up to 3 minutes each

+ Upload and download in full original quality

Ad-Free accounts: (older pro-accounts are gone!)

+ $49.99 per year

+ All the benefits of a free account

+ No ads in your browsing experience

Doublr-Plan(extra 1 TB space):

+ $499.99 per year

+ 2 Terabytes of photo and video space

+ You get all the benefits of the free account
Nice move Marissa!
Audi's blog post said the headline was misleading, not "Tesla sales". Could someone edit HN's headline?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

Whats up with the Countermeasures section lol.
I don't think I could ever come close to even 10GB with my residential cable connection. It would take months to upload that much.
From an electrical engineering standpoint, that makes no sense. Thermal runaway starts when too much power is being drawn from the batteries and they begin to overheat until exploding or melting, their promixity to each other may limit the damage of an overloaded or malfunctioning cell, however the core problem remains, why are 787 electronic systems overloading the batteries?

If one cell explodes or melts, you still essentially have a fire in progress. Protecting the other cells buys you time, but how much time do you have when there is fire on a plane?

Obviously its a design issue, probably very complex that Boeing simply doesnt have the time and money to investigate thoroughly.

So this is a patch. Nothing I have read indicates an engineering approach was taken to prevent the previous result.
For single page applications, take a look at applications like Zoho Creator or Wufoo or Weebly.
Or QuickBase, Knack, Grubba, probably dozens more.
Action Replay. First line of the story.
Mayer is a pro. She understands user experience. And Yahoo has a solid pile of cash, so they can clearly afford to spend some of it wooing users and repairing their image. Whether Yahoo can ultimately be rehabilitated remains to be seen regardless.
True. But you're competing with Foursquare and GoDaddy websites for $ 1 / month.
I don't recommend people use those services but in the end that's what you're competing with. Compare that to setting up a website with Drupal.
It's time they take some responsibility for the laws they make..

If your tax laws are full of loopholes, start by fixing them.

If it got so complicated that loopholes can't be avoided, try simplifying them.

Ranting about companies exploiting loopholes make no sense. But then, it's politics. So, I guess it's not meant to make sense..
This is a pretty meaningless statistic. It only indicates that college majors don't line up neatly with current career paths, which has been widely known for some time (how well it is internalized by incoming freshmen and their advisors is up for debate).
It looks like the android app uses a custom browser to render the third-party login pages, putting them in a position to trivially grab your password.

I can't think of a reason to have done this. Sure, I would have liked for the "log in with Google" button to pop up the system account chooser, but at the very least, just fire off an intent and let the user's browser of choice take care of it.
It's a real shame that Google Checkout never really was what was promised, we've integrated it into our shop and we have more GoCardless payments than Google Checkout, it was a horrible system to deal with and I won't miss it when it goes (and if I ever get a response about the Stripe UK beta I'll be swapping that quick sharpish)

We've had more declined transactions on Google Checkout than PayPal + GoCardless put together.
I wish people wouldn't downvote others for simply reporting on what they see. It's not your fault Fickr is live editing their page.
You should check out Views for Wordpress, which does exactly this only the queries actually work inside your application. (Like Drupal views.)

http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-y...
"No one would guess"

really? because my first assumption was that they were comparing sales of Tesla's only model to sales of Mercedes, BMW, and Audi's equivalent models. that is, comparing the sales of one high-end luxury car with the sales of other high-end luxury cars. it seems blindingly obvious that the Model S isn't selling more units than Mercedes' entire range.
How Shor's algorithm works
Yeah, but I'm less interested in the type of place that's usually associated with pro-athletes and more into neighborhood / family type places. When I say "club" I really mean music venue.
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

-Clement Attlee
It stayed with the overall color scheme and felt like a progressive update. This is far more intense and dramatic.
enough for a lifetime...as long as it's up.
> But we're not discussing historically. We're discussing modern first world economies where the poor have been incessantly squeezed by 'free market' ideology.

Yes, let's ignore the past because it doesn't fit our current narrative of the future.

My main disagreement is your assertion that your opinion is fact.
The stock price is up, I'll give you that, but in terms of actual user/profit/revenue growth what are the numbers to suggest that she is turning the company around?

Flashy product acquisitions and page redesigns a turnaround o not make. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just interested in seeing the hard numbers.
Did they Photoshop the image of the Android app[0]? I don't think a Galaxy S3/S4 would have those three on-screen buttons at the bottom. It looks like they took a screenshot from a Nexus device and then put it on top of the screen in a stock Galaxy S3/S4 image.

0: http://media.tumblr.com/d5fe504880017bde458c113a94094cbc/tum...
I agree, but as I said, voluntary contributions are not that easy here. Besides my friends are in immediate need, I don't deduct anything from my taxes in order to help them. It's both private and public. The best of both worlds.
Wow, I can't believe Audi is actually scared of Tesla and practically admits it on their blog...
The google link was just for the calculator feature, noone here's been looking at cached pages.

When I looked at the limits page it was updated to list all the new plans, but it also mentioned a 300MB/month upload limit for free accounts (in two spots, I seem to recall, but at least one, and then it was gone.)
Extrapolating his comment about "not witholding taxes" to "you should give 100% of your salary in taxes" is needlessly pedantic. Reasonable people can guess what he meant.
It's a self-referential link, as stated in the article.

"And, to be clear, we here at Fortune are certainly part of the editorial imbalance. So far this site has already published three posts about Yahoo's (YHOO) purchase of Tumblr, and none about Actavis buying Warner Chilcott (save for this one)."
Well I guess that answers how marco is doing RE: post acquisition
In Canada we've had debit (Interac) email transfers for a while now. Supported by all major banks (and some credit unions).

It has a $1.50 fee.
Google I/O 2013 - How to Go from Weekend Hack to Funded Startup
I never caught the [case] thing. Amazing.
Check out Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk - it handles the provisioning/deployment side of things - setup your environment with "eb start", update your app with just a "git aws.push".

Quite configurable via scripts too (install additional packages, etc). Under the hood it's basically the same - Elastic Load Balancer and EC2 instances.
> The traditional dealer franchise system is best for car buyers, Wolters insists, because it preserves competition between dealerships selling the same products.

I'm not sure I understand this argument. If I follow this argument to completion, what they are basically saying is that when you have lots of middlemen selling the same product, that "preserves" competition between them, limiting the amount of additional cost they add. Wouldn't removing the middleman also remove that additional cost?
> And while Tesla does only sell one model at a time, they are able to produce cheaper models and sell more of them.

Never thought about it till now, but that is reminiscent of Apple's product strategy. It'll be interesting to see if it remains this way in the future even after Tesla grows significantly.
How do they authenticate the other guy to get his money out ? all you have is his email address. What do they do, hope someone can't see the auth-code you send him via email?
> Yes, let's ignore the past because it doesn't fit our current narrative of the future.

Could you please explain how funding the NHS, a system helping millions and costing less than the average American already pays in taxes, is somehow immoral or wrong or warned against by history?

Can you suggest some strict lessons that show how the NHS can't possibly exist as it does?
It is not. Some id^H^H guy saw the old limit posted before the page was updated, and tons followed to comment without pausing to think that such a limit does not make sense with the new announcement.
There are so many articles on the Actavis merger already that we don't really need Fortune to write yet another article about it. Here's a sampling:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
I can name a few former Yahoo CEOs who would beg to differ.
So they must be editing those pages in real-time then! All those pages and occurrences across their site. ;)
"...developer's disinterest in cheap housing"

Developers want to build profitable housing. Housing that is currently legal to build is less expensive and less risky than pursuing zoning changes. In any expensive metro, developers build exactly as much as legal to build, and use excess capital to pursue speculative re-/up-zonings of unbuildable land. That option is only available to the biggest homebuilders.

Developers were happy to build NYCs slum tenements when they weren't quantity-constrained.
So you're either severely constrained by a cookie cutter CMS, or completely overwhelmed by a more flexible platform like Drupal. Ultimately I'm not hearing anything convincing about why web development has become obsolete.
Maybe (eventually) crowdfunding, assuming it ever gets through the rulemaking process of the SEC. And it's not just the $1M from unaccredited investors, you can raise unlimited amounts of money from accredited investors, so the amount of capital you need wouldn't be a limiting factor. Given the numbers of investors who are looking for large returns, plus those that have an affinity for a particular technology, idea, or solution to a social problem, this could be big competition for VC's and maybe the only route to funding for some ideas/industries/technologies.
I feel I'm beyond the age where I can get away with saying/writing things like

"Almost every line is something I want to print out, frame and then take a shit on"

but by golly if it isn't entertaining to read someone else do it.
How many images am I able to upload before Flickr locks my account?
I just reached the limit on my account and am just too wary of Paypal to give them access to my bank account.

Guess I'll have to find other ways. I am surprised that Square didn't at least send out invites to their current customers. Funny I had to read about it here.
> It is trivial to show that individual people helping each other out is more efficient than paying a government worker to do the same thing.

Go on then.
Have you tried Braintree in the UK?
Or you could go to some place with high bandwidth and you know, upload them from there...
There are two types of people under the current system. The creators of wealth vs the accumulators of wealth.
Why wasn't I consulted?! http://www.ftrain.com/SiteLaunch.html
They could work like Google+ which automatically backs up your photos.

So everything you share could be safer at flickr vs spread out among 100 services
How Apple Used Shell Companies to Save $44 Billion in Taxes
It's exactly the same as when GMail gave away a gigabyte of space for free. Some people said it was financially ruinous, but of course few people used anywhere close to that much, and storage prices continued to drop.

Terabytes are the new gigabytes.
Is anyone else having trouble signing up with a Google account?
The fact that Audi had to write this says that they feel threatened.

That's the way I have felt about several of Elon Musk's responses to the press. It remains to be seen what consumers will do with their hard-earned money to bring about sustained profit for which automobile manufacturer.
you can only process a refund if you have the authorization code for an already existing txn on that card. you can't just issue one just by knowing the card details.
Regardless of your skepticism, Tizen is being pushed by Samsung as a potential successor to Android and is being shipped well within the 3 years you estimated on.

However if we're talking about our personal thoughts, then I'm not convinced by Tizen either. Not because of the web-apps aspect (remember, Palm's / HP's WebOS is also powered by similar technologies (C++ for performance demanding apps and HTML/Javascript rapid development) and that seemed to work well (or at least, I never had a problem with it). Plus a lot of the time, mobile apps are essentially just frontends to websites anyway (albeit with a few features bolted on to get them past Apple's vetting procedure). And let's not forget that Tizen does support Dalvik as well.

The reason I'm not convinced by Tizen is because people don't really care what Tizen is. They just want their old phone but with better hardware. So Samsung would have be careful not to make such a big deal about Tizen being different to Android and then Samsung would need to make their Android support near to perfect otherwise there could be an uproar from disgruntled consumers claiming they were mislead into buying an incompatible handset. I couldn't see how else Samsung could use their Android market share to leverage a new OS.

But as I said before, I've been wrong in the past when trying to predict how consumers shop. So I'm no doubt wrong again here.
I'm hoping to offer a bunch of features other than unlimited photo uploads to entice users into subscriptions. More features, such as being able to share private collections (albums/sets) with others, or increased control over what they see on the site.

I'm looking to launch it proper in the next couple of weeks once I have the TOS finalised and the company set up. And I'm always open to any suggestions users have for features they'd like to see :)
As a sporadic user for 8 years, I like it. There will always be complainers.
There are quite a few UX issues in your detail view pages. Browsing is not intuitive, your use of whitespace is amateur at best. Your call for actions is not there.

Sorry, if I am sounding harsh. These things matter quite a deal when it comes to retention. You have a lot of room for improvement in that area. Seek professional help if it's not your cup of tea.
I'm thinking she's not as concerned about that yet. Her first step seems to be making Yahoo and it's brands "cool" again.
> In reality, the huge increases in standards of living in the past century has been due to incredible technological progress driven by free enterprise and "greed"

and gubmint R&D
Yep, it's an inspired kludge that results in a nice feature. If you design a machine never to fail, you only ensure that you can't recover when it does fail.
But they did not say "Model S vs A8", they had said "Tesla vs Audi" - which does not mean "Model S vs A8".
I looked at Braintree but I found the fee's not worth it at this stage, I've looked at NoChex and a few other providers but there is a worry about giving people too much choice, at moment we have PayPal, Google Checkout and GoCardless, I'd be looking to replace GC with either Stripe or NoChex
The answer to #1 is that Tesla's ability to do that is entirely dependent upon improvements in battery technology. Based on those projections of about 7% improvement/year in batteries, in a few years they will.

#2 will be of interest, but I think it mostly comes down to battery technology.

As for #3, the history of other disruptive innovations says that by the time it is possible to sell cars that meet the mass market need, the cost structure that Audi/BMW/Lexus etc have will keep them from developing competitively priced cars. (What did you think the whole "avoid the dealer overhead" step is about for Tesla?)
> First, will Tesla be able to manufacture profitably in the sub-$50k range (competing with the Audi/BMW/MB low end), with a car that is range-comparable to the S?

I can tell you what Musk is betting: that the supercharger network will eventually make this a moot point. Of course, advancing better batteries will result in the lowest Model S range (160mi) likely becoming Tesla's "baseline", I imagine.
The Stockholm tech startup scene is buzzing
Announcing SPDY support
I had an idea a while back to make an SMTP server that would automatically strip out attachments, dump them on a web server, and re-write the email with a link to the attachments.

I would still love to see something that does this type of thing automatically (such as through an Outlook plugin or SMTP relay) so you can use don't have to change your workflow to get the benefit.
Lack of horrible?
Not for more than 100 million years or so. But then, Earth will also become uninhabitable within the next few hundred million years.
It sounds more like an ACH. I read that there's a new API that allows sending money to any Visa card (not as a refund) but I've never seen it used.
anyone taking bets... ehm willing to speculate on what big is next dying at google? I'm thinking about google tv, or is that Q already gone? music? books? I'm happy to see G staying on the marketing garden
I'm pretty smart finance folks have learned from GOOG stock structuring and the like to prevent LBOs/corporate takeover threats. I'm reasonably sure some of them work for Tesla.
Ask HN: Upvote not working?
Hello, I have just launched my startup here and some users reported me that they couldn't get upvoting my threat. Is this a bug or is there a limited time to upvote?
The Doublr plan is a strange offer. Wonder if there's a miscommunication on that.
The Doors' Ray Manzarek has Died
I think the problem was Google's Api was very ill written compared to Paypal's. This may be an old implementation, but I think the Api didn't allow subscription services easily, and also notified it's sellers of an order immediately (regardless if the transaction was successful or not).

Beside, I think Google is investing the proper resources in building Waller to be a formidable product against Paypal, Amazon, and other 3rd Party checkouts.

Side Note: For the Google Checkout devs that read this, I'm sorry for what I did (Michael Largent).
1 TB is a lot of space for free-accounts, very generous move!

So, will they get more traffic now?
I misread the title as faster sending, rather than faster workflow. For dropbox we just use shared folders which work no matter what else is going on (network connectivity, machines sleeping, reboots etc).

I'd be overjoyed if someone could figure out faster sending. My DSL maxes out at 100 kbytes/sec upstream. Sending someone something like a mongodb dump involves a long wait while I locally compress it, and an even longer wait while it gets uploaded. I'd gladly have all 4 cores (plus another 4 hyperthreaded) plus 32GB of RAM dedicated to getting the files uploaded quicker. In theory some of the compression tools can do this, but some aren't multithreaded, or require a lot of research to figure out workable command line options and even then they consider 4GB to be an outrageous amount of memory. Often you have to wait for the compression to finish before you can even start the sending.
He didn't say that, he said that giving to private charity is inefficient under the hypothetical "the greatest good is achieved through the state." Reasonable people can guess what he meant.