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>> Roth 401k or IRA - Post tax money. Pay tax now, and none later (you suspect your taxes will go up)

This is a really good point. I pretty much expect taxes will go up for everyone at some point so it seems like it's a no-brainer to open a roth IRA now. I have never heard of a Roth 401k though.
I like the Monte Carlo algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_algorithm
There's an invisible Unicode U+200E left-to-right mark at the end of the URL, probably picked up when the parent cut-and-paste the URL into HN. This in UTF-8 is E2 80 8E, which gets misinterpreted by the server as Windows-1252 character set: E2 = â, 80 = €, 8e = Ž. (It could be iso-8859-1, except that doesn't include €.) Interestingly, Chrome's DOM inspector shows this character as the HTML entity &lrm; while view-source has it as the actual invisible character.

I think the poster of the URL originally mangled it, but it would be nice if the HN software filtered out invisible characters from URLs. There's not much the destination server can do about it.

(Yes, I've dealt with too many character set issues in the past.)
It would have been interesting to see how the model S compared to the Aston Martin around a track. Everyone already knows that electric cars accelerate quickly in a straight line.
> Apache with mpm-prefork - which is the default out the box

No, the threaded worker is the default, not the prefork.
I don't like this question. It's akin to asking a startup, "What is your revenue model, and how will you be cash-flow positive?" Eventually every startup will need to answer that question, but asking it too early is more likely to stunt important and creative ideas that don't come with cookie-cutter business models than it is to reveal a winner. Much better to ask open-ended questions that get at the same thing: What's the potential impact of your idea? Why are you going to succeed where others failed? And if the answer is "We're smart and we have these advantages and everyone seems to like what we do" then it may be OK not to have the cost-effectiveness worked out in detail yet.
possibly the most amazing thing about the tesla is it turns computer-guys into car-guys.
Microsoft has been ahead n a lot of things. I had WebTV back in the 90s way before all of these internet connected TVs came out.
Huh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese#Vocabulary

Apparently I've never actually been taught written Cantonese. I wonder if my mother is familiar with the difference. I find it odd since she's fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin (whereas I'm only fluent in Cantonese).

That may also possibly explain some instances where I saw unfamiliar characters and simply assumed that it was my vocabulary that was lacking.
definitely true... If you're doing CPU intensive stuff in node, you should consider the following... worker script(s) (generic-pool helps too), with .fork(), refactoring the loop to use an async response with setImmediate, or converting to a binary module.

Example: https://github.com/tracker1/node-js-scrypt/blob/master/lib/s...
pretty expensive given the specs..
You need to put a bit more care into filming to build confidence in the offering. YouTube's auto-stabilization at 1:30 really puts me off. Especially since you're featuring HD video. The screen is washed out and blue-shifted at that point as well.

A few high-quality pictures of the PC in good light would help too. The video features the monitor more than the PC itself.
First time i've seen this. Must have missed the announcement?
I don't see any value add... are you just reselling SFF PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled?

What makes this Kickstarter special?
Sounds like something isn't right. You might have a setup where everything is enabled (at least from a high memory consumption point of view). You can get the Apache child processes down to ~2MiB (still a bit high by lighttpd and nginx standards) by disabling a lot of the modules. How many child processes started by default? Check your mpm settings, as you could be using the configuration for a beefy server environment.
I quit reading TechCrunch/CrunchGear after they published an article about how human rights violations in China were a good thing. I forget what their argument was. I used to check their site multiple times a day. I decided not to give them ad revenue after that.
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The issue is related repetitive motions made by the same muscles on a continual basis causes fatigue and damage due to the fatigue. You should examine your posture, change the motion and take appropriate breaks.

Personally I use a different style keyboard and mouse at work and at home to change my movements and posture. I also make sure I take appropriate breaks but I tend to have attention issues so that's not a problem for me.
Wow, Apple is good at their marketing/brand loyalty. Reminds me of the Apple brand loyal friends I had in the late 90s. He would go on about the build quality but had to point a fan at his laptop to keep it from overheating.
How much of the German economy is dependent on auto industry? Sure, it's the most visible but it's not the backbone of the economy.
Sure is. The runtime for desktop apps is in desktop Firefox, but Mozilla has been focusing on mobile and hasn't really given enough PR to the desktop story. Expect to see more about desktop apps in the next year.
Shades of this story, linked to from HN a few days ago: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg.html
They can. My wife dropped hers in the bathtub once. We put it in a sealed container with uncooked rice overnight, and the next day it was fine (other than the piece of rice that ended up in the microphone jack somehow).

It's a crapshoot though. Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're not.
That's the trade you make when using cookies. Nothing new there.
According to Twitter we drink a lot ... at the same time.
Apparently uninstalling apps is only easily available currently for Windows and Mac. You have to go through a somewhat manual kludge currently for Linux varieties.

edit: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Mozillian_Preview#Unins...
I think I am missing something.

349 is pretty big price tag, I don't think it is low-cost.

I had a lot of examples and reasons lined up in here, but I think I am missing something. But what?

EDIT: I think I am missing the part where you are making it black and white clear what makes your system different and why is it good deal for that kind of money. At the moment, I can see it why it would be worth the money.

Good luck anyway:)
I'm making introductory level samples for C++11 features. Feedback please.
We wanted to price it below $300, but were a bit nervous since Indiegogo/Kickstarter take about 10% including the payments system (Amazon/PayPal), so we're pricing it safe.

We'll certainly try to provide the best hardware we can at the price we can get it - who knows, maybe we can throw in an i3 processor or 128 GB SSD!

Also, we are pricing it below most of System76/ZaReason offerings - I think if you look at Dell/HP offerings at the same price range, they provide similar specs. But if we get the volume we need, we should be able to get much better hardware.
I always will see the "Phillies" P.
Shame they don't offer an easy way to get files into the iPhone.

But that would get in the way of lock in.
Good point, will see if we can do better with the video.
I love the 3 Raspberry Pis I have, but this thing would eat them for breakfast for general computing tasks where size and power consumption aren't huge issues.

Having said that, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo and others make "nettop" devices that are very similar to this one. Generally theirs are cheaper but with 2GB RAM standard and no SSD... for about the same price as this one you could get one of those others plus the extra RAM and a (small) SSD today at the advertised price... just with slightly more work in upgrading the RAM, swapping out the drive and installing Ubuntu yourself.

The extra work seems like a small price to pay though for getting a system right now instead of putting down money and getting a system in 2014. That sort of long lag time to delivery without any sort of associated price break is what killed the Ubuntu Edge phone for me, and I can't see myself investing in this thing either (sorry @shanpc).
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I can't tell if you're being serious or not.....

Reddit discourages people who don't participate in the community from just posting links, to prevent spam. The more active you are, the more frequently you can submit things.

And a lot of people won't click links from new accounts, under the (usually correct) assumption that they're just spam.

There is a particular dislike for blog spam.

You can certainly become a new member of Reddit. It just takes some work at actually being a member, and not just self-promoting.
I plan to cover all additions that C++11 brings to C++ and am writing samples aimed at beginner, beginner-intermediate level programmers.

I am doing this to help myself learn and to have a single repository where there is sample code for every single C++11 feature.

The articles are going to be alternating between core language and library features.

Please send your criticism, corrections and hopefully some praise my way.

EDIT 0: minor typo fix

EDIT 1: I announce the articles on twitter with the username CacheLatency
I fear the price tag is much to high. A tag around $10k or $20k would be much better, as payout is only done for successful campaigns, iirc.
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...what things about the Z-80 would you guys like me to write about?

Undocumented instructions! The MOS 6502 had plenty of these and I understand the Z-80 did too.
We're pricing it at below what most of what System76's base models come at. We were unable to find any systems with Ubuntu pre-installed at this price point, which is what motivated us to do this.
Oops! Thanks for catching that, will fix!

EDIT: This was NOT done on purpose, I assure you. ;)
Why does the video say "If you get funded on Kickstarter" this is indiegogo... am I missing something?
For a long time I've thought that rather than absolute up/down votes, collaborative filtering might work better.

I've tried to drum up attention to it before now:

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...
Not with the same HN account, but if you have two founders you could submit separate applications under each account.
Whoops. Sorry, I was lumping it in with Spanish-speaking countries frequently in the news for similar reasons and forgetting my elementary school geography.

In any case I would expect the cost to be similar to the estimate given for Central America, but that oversight should probably be reported to the calculator's developers.
It could be what the distros decide to bundle. I've seen mostly prefork.
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Same here. I would also be very surprised if Tesla touches Top Gear again with a 10-foot pole (and I can't say I blame them, either).

I think they both had wildly different expectations of what was appropriate in that situation. Neither came out looking very good, IMHO.
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Tesla Model S is revolutionary in the sense that it's very ordinary. Everything in there has been done before. Once it becomes a popular choice, Tesla can make down-graded release of the same technologies at even cheaper prices. The average drive range in Asian cities is a lot shorter than in the US. Think of the possibilities!

If only Tesla manufactured auto-rickshaws which is popular in cities like Bangalore. We would have green, silent and "cool" mobility. We would be still stuck in traffic jams but hell, it would be a walk in the park compared to now.
Fair point, I've only played with Debian and its decedents, they all default to the threaded worker.
For us it has just become extremely fragile. We often lose executors and the Jenkins processes tend to leak memory.

In general we probably restart executor machines quite often just due to the above issues alone.

Also our Devops folks have complained about the lack of automation around Jenkins. If they could monitor it better, we could probably be a lot more proactive about dealing with our problems around it.

If you're looking at CI for your next project, I would look at either a hosted solution like CircleCI or TravisCI Pro. Don't jump straight to self-hosted CI until you outgrow these solutions.
> I fear the price tag is much to high. A tag around $10k or $20k would be much better, as payout is only done for successful campaigns, iirc.

I think that's Kickstarter's rule, but this is Indiegogo; right under the funding progressbar it has this note "This campaign will receive all funds raised even if it does not reach its goal."
you may say that French and Italian are "dialects" of Romance Languages. Just like how people wrote commonly in Latin, people in China share a similar writing system but differ when spoken.
Elon had a Mclaren F1 as a daily driver after he sold PayPal, so I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a supercar down the road as their tech evolves and batteries get denser. Ultra low center of gravity, flatter torque curve with no transmission, order of magnitude less parts than a Ferrari engine...

They could murder it on the very top and low end of the market.
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The Arduino platform has already largely solved that, though. Almost all of their products (besides a few "Pro" models which are TTL-serial only) have USB ports on board.
Sorry, we made one video for both and forgot that detail. :-/ (We opted for Indiegogo in the end.) Will try to get that updated.
I noticed that as well. There's actually quite a few apps in there that have screenshots of a Chrome tab. I think whoever submitted them just re-used an existing screenshot they had sitting around.
it's simple. yahoo's new logo is just bad. it's exactly what too much thought and group think does.

the logo isn't even aligned properly on their homepage
> not to give them ad revenue after that

You can use adblock and other tools. In fact, on TC it's essential: ghostery reports 15 different classes of trackers and ads on the site
Thanks! :) Am copy-pasting a reply posted to another comment about the price point...

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We wanted to price it below $300, but were a bit nervous since Indiegogo/Kickstarter take about 10% including the payments system (Amazon/PayPal), so we're pricing it safe.

We'll certainly try to provide the best hardware we can at the price we can get it - who knows, maybe we can throw in an i3 processor or 128 GB SSD!

Also, we are pricing it below most of System76/ZaReason offerings - I think if you look at Dell/HP offerings at the same price range, they provide similar specs. But if we get the volume we need, we should be able to get much better hardware.
Compression is fixed by the engine design

The maximum possible compression is, yes, since it is determined by the size of the cylinders and the piston stroke.

But retarding the timing amounts to reducing the effective compression--basically you are wasting some of the compression that's available by delaying the spark until the cylinder has started expanding again. I should have made it clear that it was effective compression that I was talking about.
Death by a thousand cuts is still a death (and a slow and painful one at that). I'm hopeful that this is just the kick in the pants the project needs to get its act together.

It's unquestionably gotten better in recent years, but it still has a long and seemingly never ending list of warts. I don't see PHP getting forked anytime soon, but I do see developers moving to other languages routinely. And that's a shame since PHP is still, for better or for worse, the easiest language to get into for the novice.
Does anyone know what the financial motivation of YC to do this is? Is it to diversify the types of companies they invest in? As much as I love to think that venture capitalists give money to nonprofits out of the goodness of their hearts...
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I probably should have stuck to cities I have worked in (as opposed to those friends have lived/worked in):

Stockholm
Helsinki
London

Yes, I was extrapolating to Berlin. I lived in Frankfurt for awhile with my then girlfriend (now wife) and though she wasn't an engineer (she was a project manager in tech -- an individual contributor, nothing special), the money she brought home allowed her to afford an apartment, travel, and quality of life actually better in some ways (equal in others) than the same position here in the Bay Area would have allowed for.

The reason I mentioned Berlin, it is held up as a startup hotbed with low costs and a dynamic city life. From the couple of times I've visited, it was certainly cheaper than Munich, London, and Stockholm for food/lodging/etc.
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I don't know why that would make you happy. My comment was not positive.
I know you're kind of generalizing here, but I've been a computer guy and a car guy for decades. I've been in numerous car clubs for the vehicles I've owned and raced. I think you'd be surprised how many car guys are in the computer industry in one way or another. Most modern fuel injected cars have custom programmable computers that allow the competent programmer to get every last bit of performance out of their cars.
They also don't need to snoop on the in-progress transaction to get all the information they want. They can get evidence via your CC records for Amazon, and in both cases they can subpoena the purchase/banking records. AFAIK the bar for getting those is a little lower than the bar for private email, which seems to be what most people are thinking of.
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I second this question. There are good nonprofits which will find it difficult to answer precisely, e.g. one which focuses on basic science research (which has, over the course of human history, contributed rather a lot to human welfare). But it is certainly a question that nonprofit founders should be thinking about right from the start, and producing vague estimates accordingly, just to get into a quantitative frame of mind; otherwise it is a very bad sign.
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> ... anyone who is willing to be on the other side of the trade at 9:55:22 is either being greedy or stupid.

Or they have paid for their own research and analysis.
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Tax-dodging seems plausible, but money-laundering seems like it would be tricky. The income is very consistent, and the buying a lot from an existing owner would be pricey.

It is much better to buy something like an unprofitable nightclub. It doesn't raise any alarms when a nightclub goes from $300k/year to $1M/year in cash under new ownership. The same can't be said for a parking lot.

Strip clubs are also pretty good. It is really hard to prove that the VIP room gate wasn't $1000/night.
I can see free with contract (we have that already), but free without? Maybe they could do it if they focused on what I've wanted in a phone recently, a small phonebook and alarm capable device that tethers extremely well with good battery life, so I can just pair it with a small tablet when I want the extra smartphone features.

I don't imagine that costing too much, so it might fall within any acceptable loss they have built in to their products. Then again, it would have less capability to generate revenue for them, unless it changed data that passed through it (replacing adds, etc), which would be pretty horrendous.
>To produce a given amount of electricity, burning coal will produce more CO2 than oil or natural gas

There are many factors that this statement fails to take into account. Perhaps most importantly, the efficiency at which that energy is turned into useful power to propel the vehicle. Further, this is speaking very broadly about these fuel sources, and so is not directly applicable to specific complex. A quick google search surfaced a DOE primer[1] on EVs that claims that they are both "Energy Efficient" since "Electric vehicles convert about 59–62% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels—conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels." and "Environmentally Friendly" because "EVs emit no tailpipe pollutants, although the power plant producing the electricity may emit them. Electricity from nuclear-, hydro-, solar-, or wind-powered plants causes no air pollutants." On the latter point, power plant technology is increasingly moving away from dirty coal generation processes in the developed world, so gas powered vehicles will be at an increasingly great disadvantage.

The EPA also uses a method for rating vehicle fuel efficiency of non-petrol burning vehicles called eMPG[2] (effective miles per gallon) that takes into account the energy potential of the ultimate fuel source/sources used by the vehicle and converts them to the MPG (miles per gallon of petrol) scale. Electric vehicles rule the top of the rated vehicles followed by a couple hybrids and deisel compacts. EVs tend to be ~2x more fuel efficient than similarly sized petrol vehicles when compared by this particular method.

Concerning the Model S in particular, the EPA rates it as the most fuel efficient large sedan at 95 eMPG. Speaking generally, the only car class (does not take into account trucks and SUVs) that is led in fuel efficiency according to the EPA is the Midsize Station Wagon class. It is led by the Prius Model V, and the class does not seem to have a pure EV option. Every other class is led in fuel efficiency by an EV.

Finally, according to the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Emissions calculator, the 2013 Tesla model S generates a US average of 250 grams per mile driven of Greenhouse gas emissions compared to the average new car at 500 gpm[3]. So half as bad as the average new vehicle in terms of GHG emissions.

P.S. Sorry for the somewhat poorly structured nature of this comment. It evolved organically along with the research used to produce it.

[1]http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml

[2]http://www.epa.gov/carlabel/electriclabelreadmore.htm#2

[3]http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?zipCode=78641&year=20...

[edit: I can never seem to remember that the editor eats up single newlines, fixed the footnotes section so that they don't all appear on the same line.]
Yessir! Developers can submit apps with the notion that they can run on Firefox Desktop, and it will work.
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