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There are some interesting prices here, but to get to the economics of the situation, I'd want to hear an economic rationale for car companies to participate, not just prices. It seems really expensive for them. I assume they're in it for the marketing? But would that money be better invested in Research & Development for their products on the road or for car commercials?
B&Bs are dedicated businesses though. AirBnB's tenants don't really meet that requirement (on average, though I imagine there are people who just rent out their place on AirBnB).
Even the space shuttle (well, especially the space shuttle) had four redundant computers.
Taxi drivers are professionals, Lyft drivers are amateurs. I'm not being rude, but that's what they are. Taxi's are under strict regulation and guidelines, and require a medallion to operate. Lyft drivers constantly get lost, take the slowest routes to get around, and have taken me to the wrong place multiple times.
How much context do you need for code review?
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<100 mile range and needing to be able to plug it in at home are the obvious drawbacks. It certainly sounds like a great deal for anyone that these aren't problems for.
You've still got bills for the gas burner, unless you're willing to give up long distance capability.
This has been posted dozens of times.
Isn't cloud medical image sharing a "first-world problem" too? I can't imagine it being one of the top 10 things a doctor in a 3rd world country would ask for.
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I spent the last year developing a web application in my spare time and now I'm ready to market and sell it. Of course, I realize I've done things completely the wrong way around and have no idea if there's even a market for my product.
I even have trouble describing exactly what it does because it seems to clash with loads of other web applications in a crowded marketplace. Not the best use of my time you might agree...

However, I'd hate to have wasted the time spent building this product, and therefore am tempted to try selling it for a while. The desire to do so decreases when I realize I could be spending time on some other, more promising product rather than wasting it on a lost cause.

I've been going back and forth on what to do for a while now and so have come to HackerNews to ask for help and advice.

What would you do in my situation?

PS. It might help to add that as of next month I will be unemployed and able to focus 100% of my time on selling the old product, or developing a new one.
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I don't think that is random sample. All the colleges in Southern state of Tamilnadu come under Anna University and most of the colleges (about 15 - 20) I have had a chance to visit and interact with - they were using Turbo C! Unless the student has good exposure or he/she take it upon to learn, they will not be employable.
Have you tried anything offline?
> Kindles are better for books

Better in that they're worse, you mean?
Clothes dryers and electric ovens are usually 240 volts in the US, so much of that infrastructure in the home is already there.
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The article is partial to a very western view of education.

Lecturing from a book, or from notes, is sometimes the right thing to do, especially when teaching to students who will have trouble following the class otherwise (by lack of discipline, by just being unused to that way of teaching or simply if they can't afford the references book you are asking them to read, or don't have the time to do that).

The most important is what the student get from the class, not how elite or interactive the teacher is.

If most students understand better after rote learning some dictated notes - why not do that?

After all, it is a good way to ensure the majority of students will have a proper base material to learn from, without too many mistakes thrown in, especially if they can't offer books. If they can "do better", don't worry, top students will use their notes as what they truly are - base material, a list of keywords to build their knowledge from, with the help of google or books.

professor told us the entire Mahabharata epic from memory ... this professor exemplified passionate teaching.

See, memory can be helpful.

One needs both memory and understanding. The US system seems to overemphasize understanding. Other systems may overemphasize understanding.

I would not call either system "balanced".

real education being one that challenges the intellect and questions paradigms, not one of rote memorization and conformity

That's biased. How can you challenge the intellect and question paradigms if you don't know them in the first place?

There is a time for everything. Maybe a 3rd year college is not the best moment to question paradigms.
"Number 2 will not work without ample advertisement."
I disagree, if people already want something bad, there is no need for ample advertisement, it will advertise itself on social media, word of mouth, free press articles etc (other people will talk about it, if it really is a promising solution).
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if you are looking to do unit tests, jasmine is definitely worth looking at.
https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine
Because we have so many blips we fade old ones or items that we feel are no longer worth highlighting. We like Rails but most of our readers know that and so we no longer include it on the Radar.
It's a weird sort of effect, yes: how can people forget so much that a blind commitment to previous choices was a good idea? I tend to prefer the exploration vs exploitation paradigm for explaining sunk cost thinking: the additional investments purchase you information (see http://www.gwern.net/Sunk%20cost ).
There is hardly a wrong path, though the only advice you should follow is this:

- Release early with feedback from customers.

- Charge money.
Yikes, Angular can't generate semantic HTML at the server yet? That explains why http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/faq is such a trainwreck. Letting crap like

<a href="{{page.url}}">{{page.shortName}}</a>

go out on the wire to be uselessly displayed by arbitrary clients (even ordinary browsers that don't blindly trust your scripts) is a really severe failure mode.
Angular's jQLite does the job just fine. If you're writing directives, and not putting all your DOM manipulation in the controller, then jQuery is no longer necessary / useful IMHO. Why pull it in at all? The only thing it lacks is DOM wide selectors, but again, if you're writing a directive, you're passed the element, and you can do selectors on that element and it's children, which is all you should need -- otherwise, it seems the abstraction has started to leak, and requires re-consideration for your design.

I don't use any jQuery transitions / animations. Angular's own $http service does all the Ajax I need. YMMV, but I like the fact that I can avoid library bloat by learning one useful toolkit very well, and applying it effectively...and I happen to like all of its other features.
Except for perhaps a few extremely rural homes, everyone has 240V in the USA and Canada. The Mexicans without 240V probably aren't the market for electric cars because they don't have cars or electricity. So that covers North America.

Also, you only need 120V for daily charging.
Yes, I don't know the first thing about doing customer interviews. I don't know where to find my customers in the first place to get them to rent my product, let alone ask them questions regarding the development of it.

Then there's the market research aspect of what I'm doing. I know there's a market for VPS Instances, which is what I rent. But I haven't done any specific research for the specific niche I'm targeting, which is the financial sector who needs low latency access to New York City's financial district. I just know there are people who will find value in that my servers are colocated in a data center close-by to Wall Street, so I make that a selling point.

I know I want to eventually target big data customers when I ever get the opportunity to reinvest revenue & buy additional servers that I can build a cluster large enough to handle big data workloads, but I don't know if there are big data customers in the financial sector, I guess there ought to be, and it's a specialized enough market that if there is I could be a monopoly in the field. Maybe, I haven't done the research to find out. I don't know where to begin to do so.

It's not like I don't want to know, I just don't have the budget or the contacts to find out. For christ's sake my daily Google AdWords budget is less than $2. I don't even know if that's going to work at all.

I'm totally self- funded, so there's been no real need to show anyone a business plan, and as such I haven't bothered to write one. I'm not too good at writing projects, I stick to building servers which I can do.

I might need to seek outside funding, even as small as I am- I only have 1 server- albeit a real fast one, just to be able to manage a marketing plan to find customers that will fund expansion beyond server #1, and to finance operations expenses like colo fees. I read on the net that atypical Google AdWords campaign is $1,500/month, which is far beyond affordable to me.
I think your opinion is at least a decade old. Research-wise Indian institutions are moderately productive now and especially so if you count the research budgets they have to work with. There is a challenge in finding high-quality graduate students because of course the likes of MIT and Stanford have a lot more to offer. But this is no different from, say, the best undergrads at UMass going to MIT. My point is there are good students and good work does happen.

Part of the reason why the best students used to go abroad was because there were a lot more job opportunities in the US after a graduate degree. This is changing now with MSR India, Intel Research India, GE Research, TCS Research and so on becoming well-established labs in their own right. The job scenario for academic jobs in India is way better than it is in the US and a moderately competent candidate can easily get jobs now at an IIT/IISER/ISI.

As someone who is keenly following higher education in India, I think the state of higher education is better than ever and rapidly improving. An easy way of judging this is to look at where our students are ending up. The best undergrads in India today invariably end up at the best schools in the world. This wasn't true 30 years and there are many examples of really high quality IIT graduates who studied in mid-tier US schools. Even students from second-tier schools like, say CEG Guindy or NIT Surathkul, now end up at very very good universities. The situation is less good in the humanities and social sciences, which btw are struggling the world over, but some of the newer IITs have social science and humanities departments and some progress is being made [1].

[1] http://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2013/01/sukhdeo-thorat-on-so...
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Chevy Cruze (turbo) gets 46mpg (non-hybrid).

Car makers are suddenly figuring out how to make high mpg cars now that they have to meet tightening minimum averages.
And if anybody is looking for more photos, http://www.rackspace.com/blog/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rack...
Series 3. Admittedly, there are a few applications that I use that won't run on ARM, but there are also plenty of alternatives that do. I would imagine that will change pretty soon though.
That's true. I hope cities will start to dedicate spots to shared cars at some point. It only makes sense that a car used by many people would get some precedent over a car that only serves one person. I can also imagine shopping centers providing free spots to encourage foot traffic.
I too have built a reasonably sized Angular app in the last year [1] and echo a lot of these thoughts. I'll add a few of mine:

1. For CSS, honestly for any project it'd be hard for me not to simply use Bootstrap and be done with it and then do the minimum CSS possible (I say this as someone who has been doing CSS for years). Bootstrap really is the de facto CSS for the modern Web;

2. Organization: I agree the angular-seed project (which I started with and still use) isn't suited to organizing large projects and I agree separating into functional modules is the way to go;

3. Directives are awesome but to get all the two way data binding working requires a fairly deep understanding of how they work (to get the correct combination of scopes, transclusion, etc);

4. Directives also have limits that are sometimes annoying. You still can't generate definition list items with an ng-repeat, for example (a template has to have one top-level element). A solution to this is coming;

5. There's no good way of both just including code and using the parent scope plus some extras. This is done for reasons of code separation but there really is a use case (IMHO) for includes vs imports for templates;

6. $resource has no HTTP PUT method;

7. I'd probably avoid $resource altogether although it looks attractive. Use rich objects [2] instead;

8. Angular allows you to use a bunch of different other frameworks but it doesn't always play completely nice with them. Take the popover in Bootstrap. The way this works is by moving an element around in the DOM. This doesn't lend itself to a "nice" Angular directive (my version at least is kind of a hack).

9. Underscore.js is awesome. Use it;

10. Try to limit yourself to using jqLite that Angular comes with rather than full jQuery. This isn't really possibly with any reasonable part of Bootstrap however;

11. Isolate scopes in directives results some weird and unexpected behaviour. For example, if you reference something with an attribute, it'll work if it's an object (including an array) but won't with a simple value, requiring you to put such values in objects just so the directive can get a reference to it. This tripped me up a few times;

12. Scopes aren't always truly isolated either. For example, you can get tripped up by this if you have two attribute directives on the same element.

[1]: for those who follow IO, I am the Tech Lead of the Open Bidder project at Google (http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/05/announcing-op...)

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11850027/18393
Get out of the echo chamber for a bit, SF did not "solve transportation". Some startups (of questionable legality) have allowed upper class people to more easily move themselves around. Frequently in luxury cars. It's neat if you're one of those people, but it didn't solve much of anything.
Also keep in mind the $7,500 in tax incentives will most likely differ from state to state. Some states may not even have incentives - but a sub $30K EV is still pretty sweet.
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If I'm reading this correctly it says you just park the car at the other end and get out? In SF I'd pay a premium not to have to park a car. Parking, in my limited experience, often takes much longer than the actual driving part.
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Ah, sorry. I'm suspicious by nature, and I've seen comments similar to yours in the past implying some kind of shill activity or other stupidity.

No idea why. Maybe these things tend to go in spurts - one good article leads people to read the site, leading to more exposure and submissions.
I don't think that's true. Tesla took in $68M from ZEV last quarter but only made $11M in profits--thus, 600% of their profits came from ZEV. This is a bit of a hand wave, though, because if you know you have ZEV income coming in the door, you might spend more on future R&D than if you didn't.
Just dropping by to say:

You are going after your dreams. Sleeping in a car is not something to be ashamed of. Its rather awesome. Few people are willing to sacrifice in such way for their dreams.
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I strongly disagree that Evernote has too many features, but I think the main disconnect is I don't consider a feature synonymous with a use case. Sure there are a million use cases some of them better than others, but that is because they give you near total freedom to use Evernote and structure things however you want. Underneath it all the only real features are notebooks, notes, tags, and a powerful index. Admittedly this ability to do anything is kind of hard to market, because you have to be somewhat of a power user to structure things efficiently. If they built an app that was singularly amazing at storing files and photos for reference I think that would somewhat go against their ethos, and if you chose to use different specialized apps for all the use cases, it would naturally come at the expense of fragmentation.
I'm unfamiliar with Lyft -- do Lyft drivers only pick people up on their way somewhere? Or do they go out of their way to pick people up?

If it's the latter, then it's not really helping the environment much more than cabs, correct? For me, that means taking a cheaper option (and supporting someone's profession, rather than someone who's just making extra money on the side), is better.
> If the rain hits it's usually spectacular.

Every spring I wish it rains in Monaco. There are few things more spectacular than an formula car racing the streets of Monte Carlo in full wet conditions.
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The thing I've never understood is how people apparently manage to stay productive. There's no way I'd be able to get anything done sitting in a booth of a busy coffee shop, tapping away on a laptop and fighting with the congested wifi. Definitely prefer working from home with my three monitors, comfy chair and DSL line. I'm not a big coffee drinker though so maybe that's it...
Low-skill and knowledge worker are at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
NewsBlur is good, but I don't care for the dashboard opening each time I visit. I'd rather have it remember what I was reading last and open there the next time I login or visit.

I switched to netvibes for now, but I don't like how netvibes wont pick up youtube embedded videos.
It depends on a very hefty government subsidy (> 36% in CA) that will not be around forever.
That was a well written article. The following quote from the article shows the situation in India :
"If 7 Cabinet ministers, 19 Members of parliament, such a lot of IAS officers, many writers, artists, actors, media personalities and so on came from a single college in a vast county like India, it speaks more about the limited circles that monopolise different kinds of capital in the country than about the training they receive in college. "
It's true, it's true.

Holding startups to the criterion of helping the poor, unwashed masses is, however, rather unreasonable.
Recent sold on one single medallion in NYC was over $1MM.

In government eyes moving people is a business of making money, not giving people convenience. Said that once the companies like Uber of Lyft grew enough to be impossible to ignore them, I am more than sure Gov will step in and limit them severely in what they can do, most likely through expensive certifications and fees. Then it won't be a difference between calling Uber or Yellow Cab.
Perhaps MOOCs can save India.
DVD players can play movies, if you plug one in.

Chrome can play movies, if you connect to a site that has them.

Standard end users don't give shits about built-in apps in Chrome. Standard end users use web applications like Google Docs, Flickr, Facebook, Smugmug, and on and on...
It is interesting to notice that Gandhiji is on every currency note. No one else is good enough to be on it?
OT, but I'm working on a modular Evernote-style system based on MultiMarkdown files: https://github.com/seagreen/baudelaire

Here's the first thing built off of it (it lets you make a notebook public): http://pensieve.housejeffries.com/

I love Evernote and think it's a great service, but there should be a simpler way to get most of the same functionality. MultiMarkdown files let you do this while still being able to use vim, grep, etc.

Criticism would be very welcome. So far this has just been a fun practice project, but would anyone find it useful if it was more developed?
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Not just this tactic but way worse too. Mass pollution, tax dodging, promoting war for profit, etc. Kim Dotcom is like Mother Teresa comparatively.
Ever heard of the Tucker? It was the Tesla of its day. So Detroit sued them out of existence.
I'm pretty cynical as a rule, but I'd be careful about classifying startups as trivial or first-world. Facebook was a startup based on the notion that ivy league kids wanted another exclusive place to themselves, and it's obviously put a dent in the world.

The amount of visual information we're collecting nowadays is vast, and I think the idea that it's cute but that it's value ends at individual nostalgia might be shorting it's potential quite a bit.

Further, I'd love to see sharing of medical information get easier, in fact that's literally what I do at the startup I work for... but a big part of what makes what we build possible is the enormous amount of technology in the form of other people's ideas and software (most of it open-source). Loads of that tech came from people working at shops taking shots at problems you might consider first-world.

Yeah, it'd be neat if more people were geeked about working in healthcare. (I'd sure love it if we could find it easier to hire!) But to suggest that everyone else is wasting their time is ridiculous.
This idea fails because we had the resources to feed everybody today yet it doesn't happen. In the future, when techno-baron A sees that techno-baron B is getting ahead, techno-baron A consumes more resources in order to defeat techno-baron B. If people are in the way of that, and they are of no use to any techno-barons they are pushed aside.

There was "post-scarcity for basic survival needs" for millions of years already. When life first formed on earth, there was food enough for every organism. That didn't prevent organisms from fighting each other.

Competition and the extinction of the losers has been a central theme of life since it began. Being at the top of the food pyramid, and in a first-world country has made us forget that fact. The idea that humanity can rise above this, formed from living in this social-economic bubble for far too long, is just hubris.
It's almost impossible to drive an EV so much as to go over the lease miles, due to range restrictions and charging times. A LEAF can be had for $200 a month.
That was almost an answer except in how it wasn't remotely an answer. Are you trying to say that plutocratic authoritarianism is the only reasonable way to run thing?
To each his own but that thing is ugly.