skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably worse:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

"Electricity is a significant source of energy in the United States and is used to power homes, business, and industry. The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest single source of CO2 emissions in the nation, accounting for about 38% of total U.S. CO2 emissions and 32% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2011. The type of fossil fuel used to generate electricity will emit different amounts of CO2. To produce a given amount of electricity, burning coal will produce more CO2 than oil or natural gas."

A lot of people don't realize the amount of CO2 that electricity produces.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2013/08/21/with-the-...

"The Tesla’s state-of-the-art materials, particularly that $30,000 battery, take a massive amount of energy to build–and that energy comes from fossil fuels, particularly coal. In fact, some studies argue that the Tesla battery takes so much fossil fuel energy to make that the car over its lifetime emits more CO2 than a gasoline-powered car."
Regardless of your Nginx vs Apache Web server war here, Igor Sysoev contributed to Apache a lot: mod_accel - (first?) reverse proxy, mod_deflate, mod_realip.
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The idea that "low percentage of admin costs" = "high efficiency" in a non-profit is, well, naive. The resources you devote to making sure the other money you spend is effectively serving your objectives and researching more effective ways to meet your objectives is admin costs -- its trivial to minimize admin costs, but its foolish to mistake minimizing admin costs with increasing efficiency.

Certainly, having an objective measure of value produced and maximizing the ratio of that measure to total dollars spent is a good thing, but "dollars spent less admin costs" is not a good objective measure of value produced for most non-profits.
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Unquantifiable qualia are always the last refuge of arguments like this. I guess a "panel gap" can be measured, but I can't even begin to understand how "clunky" and "hand crafted" are defined (or why they should be in opposition for that matter).

All that stuff is fine, I guess. There will always be luxury markets, and that's where the Rapide is aimed, and I'm sure the purchasers like them just fine.

But that's not where Tesla is aimed. I think there was a Matthew Yglesias post a few days back about exactly this: look at Tesla's stock price. They're looking to be another GM or Toyota or Daimler, not just another spit-and-polish luxury vendor (or Ford subsidiary in this case, I believe).

The real point here is that there's an existing market for performance sedans, performance is something that can be measured objectively, and Tesla's offering competes very well.
Just like we shouldn't have to trust the cops not to bust my door down, right?

It sounds snarky but it cuts to the core of the peoples' relationship with government. How much do you trust the government? How much can you trust the government?

That's why libertarians are generally logically consistent when they oppose the NSA, and entitlement programs, and giant government services, etc., because they're the ones who will tell you that a government big enough to give you $FOO is big enough to take it away from everyone else.
So you would also be very interested in a shootout between a Tesla and a dirt bike? They don't compete, but if the Tesla can go round a *pavement track better, I guess that's useful?
This is a game-changing equalizer for non-profits! Thanks YC.
At the price point of all these cars they damn well be better amazing. Honestly I could care less about how great cars that cost as much as some homes do. For pete's sake we are talking about cars that cost upwards if not more than 100,000.

Now, when Tesla starts slogging it out in the 30 to 40k range write me, until then they are just skimming off the crowd that with excess money who expect the same in their cars.

Hats off to their accomplishment, but maintaining quality and luxury at that price range is baked into the price.
Consider a graph of electricity sources[1]. About 70% of US electricity comes from fossil fuels, so statistically emissions related to cars would drop at least 30% (I don't know exactly how much cleaner coal and natural gas are compared to petroleum, but they are cleaner).

One reason it would be cool to all switch to electric powered vehicles is that we'd centralize practically all consumer energy to one source (not counting the relative bit of natural gas used for home heating). This means that we'd only have to worry about energy reform of one source.

[1]http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/
I want to love socrates.io but the fact that it doesn't support Markdown tables is an issue:

Socrates.IO Table: http://socrates.io/#YtM088D

Working Example: http://bit.ly/JbtMarkdownTable
"I wonder: what if a substantial number of Americans started using strong crypto on a routine basis?"

They already do! Everyone who makes Amazon purchases, or sends Facebook messages, or does online banking is all using some form of strong crypto.

Does our government treat all e-commerce shoppers as "bad guys"? No.
I would also add that using encryption online is much more of a norm than walking around downtown in black clothes and a face-covering balaclava. While both activities are perfectly legal and acceptable, the former is performed by millions on a daily basis and is essential to the successful continuity of businesses and personal lives.

That is to say the likelihood of a random encrypted message on the internet being malicious is infinitely smaller than the likelihood of a person wearing all black with a facemask in the vicinity of a crime perpetrated by someone also wearing all black with a facemask.
Really? Which algorithm have you invented?
I think the temptation would be too great for the respective governments to resist, and given that surveillance against foreigners would not even cause a significant public backlash, those would be compromised even quicker. Right now the whole story blew up because NSA is spying on Americans. If Snowden revealed that NSA is mass-collecting information on Chinese or Russians, the only response would be "keep up the good work, guys!".
While I like the Arduino movement very much, I don't see what's so special about this.

It's a breakout board for an ATTiny, with some vreg and an usb port on board. So what?
Green Mountain owns Keurig.

I agree, there's no reason to put soup mix in a K-cup, because you don't need the normally included filter. It's expensive and wasteful. However, it's probably a great idea for both Keurig and Campbells to cash in on the huge install-base of these machines.
And if they wanted to extradite him, they don't need him to be in Sweden first. This is the problem with conspiracy theories; there's an excess of path-dependence which leads to absurd conclusions. If Assange's attorneys are correct and the US has prepared an indictment against Assange, they could just ask the UK to extradite him directly to the US, since the US and UK have rock-solid treaty relations. There is absolutely no need to get him to Sweden first.

Believing in the conspiracy theory also involves ignoring Assange's tweets saying things like 'Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism' as opposed to simply denying that anything untoward happened.
Perhaps I am cynical, but my bet is on "Yes, let's collect that too Just In Case".
The difference in price between fully charging / fueling is particularly striking

Yes, but 60% of the cost of petrol in the UK is taxes & VAT.
Im curious who is so heavily flagging this article? Fell off the front page in minutes...
> Though it is tempting to try to capture the entirety of the "efficiency" of a non-profit with a single number, it isn't really helpful.

Even when it would be, "ratio of total spending to administration spending" probably is almost never the right single number.
Sorry about that - you're right, I should have gone through to the original source. Didn't realize it was already posted. Thanks for clearing up!
All the "forum" software that I have seen (opposed to more "ephemeral discussion" software like HN/Slashdot/Reddit) provides such a goddamn awful reading/browsing/discoverability experience that any benefits it may have over mailing lists are completely lost. Just for starters, mailing lists allow the discussion to thread (as do sites like HN, Slashdot, and Reddit) and don't force you to use a shoddy web interface that shows you only a few dozen posts on a single page. If I have to scroll to the bottom of a page and click a link that says "513", I am having a bad day.

I have never seen a large open-source project that uses "forums" in a way that doesn't impose massive overhead. Without fail, forums for open source projects are dreadful while mailing lists are, with a few notable exceptions, pleasant. When I am looking for information about a project and discover that all the project officially has is a forum, my heart sinks; it ranks up there with finding out the project is still hosted on sourceforge or a mega/rapidshare/whatever clone.
Nausea and not having any idea how to move around effectively in space probably mean a space love hotel wouldn't be a good idea, despite Pournelle's hopes.
Please re-read my original comment. I did say cars.

I wouldn't buy an AM because I need a 4 door sedan for my lifestyle. Yet, isn't it useful to know that it is as refined as a high-end sports car?
Well, you may have legit reasons to wear a balaclava. You may have a facial scar which you don't want people seeing. You may be doing a film for a director friend of yours. It may be freaking cold outside.

Either way changing the labels you use doesn't significantly change the point.
The Tesla probably also didn't have to shift. You can hear the Aston had to shift at least once.
This is awesome and encouraging. I hope it sets a trend.
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The strangest part of the ABC's story is why the original was dismantled. From John Gustafson's paper on the reconstruction:

> It was constructed in the basement of the physics building at ISU, which at the time was an open area interrupted only by support pillars. The basement was later finished with poured concrete walls and standard doors; the standard door width is 0.84 m. Hence, the computer was boxed in. After Atanasoff left ISU for Maryland, the ABC was seen only as an orphaned device taking up otherwise useful space. Since its frame was welded angle iron, the only way to remove it from the room was to cut it apart with a hacksaw. I feel we have most of the answer to the question: Why was the ABC destroyed? The answer is that it was 0.07 m too wide to go through the door. In reconstructing the ABC, we made one practical modification: we narrowed the frame enough so we would be able to go through a standard door.
The Wrong Kind of Education Reform
I would say a large percentage of people who work in the non-profit space are already paid very, very low salaries and have accepted that as the reality of working for a non-profit. There are surely a lot of people who would choose to start their own non-profit and receive the same low-salary in exchange for the added benefit of having ownership over their work.

I think a lot of people join startups for the same reason, just with the added benefit that they could end up cashing in.
Ah I see; that makes sense. I don't know much about mechanics. I just like pretty cars.
This is a nice one that still behaves like a bike and does not look like it was made for the elderly.

http://www.electrolyte.cc/de/technik/einarmiger-bandit/

But seriously, there are many many contenders. It's an interesting market, but there is no "Tesla" out there.
Those "databases and other systems" make up a significant portion of their code base, and in many cases Facebook either contributes to their development or created them internally. To claim that Facebook is written entirely in PHP is false. Examples:

- Cassandra (Java) was created by Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra

- Giraph (Java) has significant contributions from Facebook and I believe was founded there http://giraph.apache.org/

- FP (Erlang IIRC) at Facebook http://cufp.org/videos/functional-programming-facebook

- Facebook's page listing some of the open source projects they contribute to https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
IVV is very solid. IVV is competing fiercely with the new competitor VOO and SPY (the 3 funds are effectively identical). Vanguard charges the least (0.05% per year) and SPDR charges the most (0.09%). 3 years ago IVV had an expense ratio of 0.09%, now they're charging 0.07% and I expect their ratio to go down to 0.06% in the next year or two. Vanguard is trying to steal their lunch.

So if you get IVV without commission you're benefiting from this price war.
An indictment which the U.K. could extradite him on without having to worry about Sweden, yes.
"Thousands of Americans have fought and suffered and died to preserve freedom over our history — does it make sense to sacrifice freedom now because the state tells us people will die if we don't?"

This.
Thanks for these inputs. :-)

Of all the things you mention for complexity in the workplace, the hardest I find is understanding business processes since they are often industry-specific (specialized) themselves.
> 1 flight per day across the country

Don't we already have same-day delivery? So the next tier would have to be quicker delivery than that, which would necessitate more than one flight a day. Is it still economically viable in that case?

Does this same economy math apply to passenger transport? Or could one flight per day of mail to the other side of the world be worth it?
Quora: examples of great new user experience flows
> Also, there's no real reason Lenovo, Dell, etc. can't start shipping higher quality displays, keyboards, etc. While Apple's products are apparently solidly engineered, most of it is perception and design.

I disagree with this statement entirely, for one big reason: you're leaving out Apple's mastery of the supply chain.

There are certainly component makers out there that will build stuff and slap it together for you, but Apple is the champ of running the whole stack with a relentless eye towards quality control. Think about the design and manufacturing of an iPhone, iPad or MacBook Pro. These are not things that you can compete with easily.

There is a massive amount of effort involved in order to build a machine of comparable quality to an Apple device, and that remains one of their key advantages in the market. This is also an advantage they are dead-set on keeping. Most competitors don't have anywhere near the supply chain controls that Apple commands, and often don't even design their own devices (Dell).

Finally, quality is a very important component of design. The prettiest laptop in the world is bad design if it falls apart or feels flimsy. Think less about design being the way something looks - instead, add how it feels, sounds, smells even, and every other part of the way you interact with it. That is design.
I'm a native speaker, and the first one sounds like an incorrect correction to me.
Welcome to the internet ;)
It varies by the company. I did a little bit of research and found this quora article. http://www.quora.com/Mergers-and-Acquisitions-2/For-a-public...
I'm owning a geeksphone keon. Will try this tomorrow. :o)
"Worst, we rarely got out of the building."

Reading that line made me buy the "Get Out of the Building" t-shirt: http://lean-startup-machine.myshopify.com/products/get-out-o...
Sketches for your HTML5 slides
A small library I built for use in my HTML5 slide sets.
> But Zend shows up and folds back in some great stuff into PHP once in awhile.

That's kind of the exception instead of the rule, really. Andi and Zeev are very, very infrequent contributors to php-internals.

They proposed releasing the thing that became opcache after Rasmus finally convinced everyone how much of a pain in the rear end maintaining APC was.
So next they need to film them chasing each other in a Bond movie and stick lasers on the wheels, or something, and have lots of explosions. That's how you sell high end cars, right?
Hadoop on Mesos at Airbnb
I did say cars.

Fine. So you'd be interested to see the Tesla compared to a WRC car, and you would find it useful to hear that the Tesla can pull higher g's on an asphalt skidpad and has a nicer interior?

isn't it useful to know that it is as refined as a high-end sports car

You got that out of this video? They barely even mention fit-and-finish. The main focus between the two is the acceleration comparison, which says zilch about refinement.
You and I disagree with Greenspan on the basic "should" here. The point of neoliberal policy-making, remember, is to maximize capital growth and minimize inflation by suppressing the price of labor.
I'm sorry, and you are right. What I really meant was that I dislike them not giving enough credit, thus making them look smart with Vasily's knowledge. This kind of marketing feels immoral to me.

>Care to elaborate?
This really isn't the right place for that so I didn't bother. The right place would be a thread/forum talking about the original presentation. Also there wouldn't much to elaborate since my opinion was based on general insight, it is not a provable fact.
The Tesla should be very exciting in European countries that have very high taxes on gasoline. It makes an £80,000 a lot more affordable. A full charge takes an hour, and a full tank of gas will cost about £120 according to the video. Unless you value your time more than that, the charge time shouldn't be much of a negative. Especially considering that it's only a problem if you're on a long journey (and a trip from London to Glasgow is only 400 miles), and you can schedule it with lunch anyways (and get a really nice one with the £115.50 you just saved!) It should be a no brainer for anyone in the market for a ~£50,000 car considering the savings. It will be very interesting to follow the coming sales numbers of the Tesla in the European market compared to the US, as the gas savings will be considerably higher.
> You can create whole web app in one PHP file from scratch and it will have everything including API and DB management layer and be secure and fully functioning.

You can. But I shudder to imagine one file containing everything you just said. Also, I'm skeptical about the security claim. I'm not talking about PHP-specific vulnerabilities here. Rather, the developer of such an app might be pretty naive, and might build in his own vulnerabilities.

> And it will work on all servers and on all operating systems.

The same is true of most mainstream languages. Ruby, Python, Java, and Node are probably the big competitors in the web dev space. All of them can run on Windows.
Given the responses cited at the end of the post, I would assume that the author was previously a contributor of some significance to the project.
This guy sounds a lot like an NSA shill or an idiot. He argues that Law is preventative against physical (equated to digital) action, which it is not.
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You mistake my meaning. I'm talking about the context of the US government and the NSA in particular, the scope of whose powers are defined by the US constitution.

I find it surprising that you use the word "amendment". Does it mean you understand that such a proposal would have zero chance of getting passed under most governments ?

No, and I think you're reading too much into it. I'm talking about a constitutional amendment because it is the only way to put privacy on an equal constitutional footing with other governmental imperatives whose existence has been confirmed by precedent, and which would otherwise prevail in a legal challenge. As a law nerd, this strikes me as the most effective technical approach.
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CI system is the new ./configure and Makefile. You almost always need a new one for each of your systems.

Yes, there's a lot of common patterns that can be factored into a library/system, but the little details will end up biting you at the end.
> Assuming no government meddling, an efficient market will properly price workers wages.

The assumption is unnecessary, since an "efficient market" by definition includes no government intervention other than that which increases efficiency (e.g., by effectively internalizing externalities.)
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Ask HN: As a tech founder, how to deal with your cunning commercial partner
I am founder, programmer and creator of a product. I have two partners, one of which recently offered his shares to an external party. I was impartial to this, but the other partner - the financial guy - was against it. He is very cunning and has a large network of 'friends'. This particular time I was extremely busy dealing with technical issues for our largest clients. To my surprise I find myself in the situation having spent money (more than I cared for) on buying out the third partner - I feel tricked. I don't have a leg to stand on of course, as I did not read and understand the full implications of a cc which was sent to me. We do have equal shares now.

It's how I feel in general toward this guy. I am tied up in technical stuff, and he is in charge of the company money. There are pros and cons to this, as he only in it for the money and will do anything (anything!) to protect his interests. I feel like I have to look over my shoulder every day or he will double cross me, or force me on doing things that are not entirely in my interest, but always in his.
On other days I think he's not so bad, and I tell myself his 'devotion' will eventually bring me a lot of money. There's no way to be sure though it's a business.

What's bothering me most is that he is more cunning than me, and he is doing this stuff all day, while I am managing the programmers, so I'm always lagging behind him. On many occasions I feel strong-armed or forced, but I cannot bring counter arguments to the table.

How do I deal with this?
I was using Unicode "scare-quotes". They may not have rendered accurately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
I've being working in the non-profit sector for a time and I do think salary is an issue for non-profit leaders. But I don't think this will filter out good candidates for YC.

As for-profit founders want to go to YC to earn a lot of money later, non-profit founders will want to go to YC to earn a sufficient amount of money later. Both will be motivated by creating impact.

But I don't think you should take for granted this and an important step in any non-profit validation is if the non-profit will have enough money to pay its leaders and employees. In regular for-profits it's just assumed that, if you raise enoughs funds or sell enough product, the founders will have their share. With non-profits that can be tricky.

Finally, congratulations, I think this is a great decision. I have being noticing the similarities between startups and non-profit challenges and they are pretty much the same. I applied a lot of "customer development" concepts at my last job on a non-profit, and now I am applying a lot of non-profit concepts on my for-profit startups.
Then maybe the Bay Area, the tech industry, and the economy broadly shouldn't be run so "efficiently" that salaries and real-estate prices become locked to each-other.