skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting compare-and-contrast. I don't think the standardization thing is quite right, as the connector is pretty much standard aside from Tesla's, and it doesn't appear that adapters are hard to make (Teslas come with one). The fact that a Leaf can't connect to a supercharger is mainly because Tesla is trying to make them exclusive to move units. Charging stations that aren't actually owned by an electric car manufacturer will use the standard connector.

Ubiquity is being solved rapidly. Electric has a huge advantage here because the necessary infrastructure is almost zero. A charging station costs a couple thousand bucks, and plug it into the grid and you're ready to go. This isn't just theoretical. In my area (fairly affluent but not incredibly techy DC suburb) there are already a bunch of electric car charging stations available. The local Walgreens has one, for some incomprehensible reason. I've never seen it used, but it's there, ready and waiting.

I think recharge time is by far the biggest factor here. If recharging was fast, the rapidly growing network of chargers would make it practical to own an electric car with a Tesla-level range even for someone living in an apartment or similar. You'd have to recharge more often than you'd fill up with a gas car, but on the other hand you could just park in a recharging-equipped parking spot while you go out to a restaurant or go shopping, making it part of your regular routine.

In terms of practicality, it seems that the question is whether hydrogen can attain ubiquity before electric can attain fast recharging times. With only a couple dozen hydrogen stations in the US currently, and at $500,000+ for the necessary equipment, I doubt we'll see ubiquitous hydrogen anytime soon. With Tesla superchargers already providing an 80% charge in 40 minutes, I'd put my bet on fast battery charging winning the race.
3,000 gallons per cylinder * 6 cylinders * $4 per gallon = $72,000

5,000 gallons per cylinder * 6 cylinders * $4 per gallon = $120,000
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You must have never had the "I'm not touching you" game played to you.

Surely you all are not imaginative enough if you think that the union of the set of behaviors one can form that are within their rights are all desirable behaviors.

I mean, strictly speaking the NSA was well within its legal rights to do what it did. But what was that quote by Jon Stewart, "I think you're misunderstanding the perceived problem here, Mr. President. No one is saying you broke any laws. We're just saying it's a little bit weird that you didn't have to."
Excellent piece and must-read for all wannabe entrepreneurs
Well, except for the idea that it should be packaged and marketed like an appliance, which arguably is what brought it to the mass-market.
sorry. (upvoted your reply to cancel out my downvote.)
What about the cost of losing the trust and energy of the same people that helped build the business?
really cool. Something to help the mood http://www.noisli.com/
So I pay for 40Mbs downloads but comcast creates clogs where it "can't" provide me full 40Mbs on my netflix stream?

Fix your shit crapcast.
This is really great, amazing to see that things like this are possible on a common users browser. What was the inspiration behind creating this?
No problem, just wrote a tool for that:

waitport [-u] port [timeout (float)] # -u = UDP instead of TCP

go get github.com/steakknife/my_init/waitport
go build github.com/steakknife/my_init/waitport
# creates waitport bin here
Well,that's a problem for Google,not the users.
Double-check your math: it's $4 per gallon, not $4 per mile.

If you're putting 5,000 gallons through each of six cylinders at $4 per gallon, that works out to $120,000 of gas. Certainly outweighs the cost of the engine by a decent factor.
You keep saying that Netflix is saving money. Please provide a reference for this.
I actually didn't get that. Building a saas platform which solves real problems for real companies seems a lot more interesting than making yet another social app.
> you have to scroll past the 2 large paragraphs of legal matters

Yeah, I love the fact that the boilerplate disclaimers are well over twice the length of the actual post.
Looks pretty cool but the heavy aliasing is a bit distracting.
Maintainers either will or won't accept that forks are the sincerest form of flattery.
The point is that it's not aspirational, it's not original. It's intentionally mundane. His point is that the life of an average start-up founder is kind of crappy with no sexy outcome ("no-exit"), working as a deluded serf on behalf of VC aristocracy (attending miley cyrus parties in vegas).

It reminds me of stories about the American middle class - not tragic, not great, a lot of hard work without much payoff. I think that's his intention.
The barrier to entry for writing an app has been lowered because of money+innovation in tech. Hoping for same in medicine. Human simulators would make it so easy to test medicines.
Nah, they'd be charging all of those Teslas.
No, he has had partial paralysis since he was a kid, and then more problems once he was an adult.
Techcrunch took the article down.

It is now available here:
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/maidsafe-wildly-successful-crypto...
That was immediately preceded with the qualifier, "So long as it's kept within certain charge and temperature ranges...."
The problem as per the Phusion blog article is that the runit and possibly daemontools equivalent commands don't set all env vars: HOME, USER, GID & UID, it only calls setgid() & setuid() IIRC. (envuidgid only sets UID and GID[0]) This causes breakage for lots of apps that end up inheriting root's env instead. :(

Here's the go version I wrote, so there's no need for dep on Python/Ruby/etc on the target system:

setuser USERNAME COMMAND [args...]

# how to build it
go get github.com/steakknife/my_init/setuser
go build github.com/steakknife/my_init/setuser
# creates setuser exe here

[0] FR issue submitted as https://github.com/bruceg/daemontools-encore/issues/18
This is a bizarre series of comments.

(Q1) Regulators should encourage competition? True/False

(Q2) All government services are monopolies? True/False.

(Q3) All municipal services are either (utilities, monopolies)? True/False.

These are all absurd formulations.

Public Services are a thing. Some examples:

Ex 1> My public library is an ISP.

Ex 2> My public library is Tax Filing Center.

Ex 3> My public library is a copyright depository.

Ex 4> My public libary is a copy/fax location.

Competitors:

Ex1'> Comcast

Ex2'> TurboTax

Ex3'> Netflix

Ex4'> Staples

I don't think the solution is to allow municipalities to do more things that undermine competition.

Again, this is absurd. Public services do not undermine competition by implication. This formulation is akin to saying: "a good competitor undermines competition by being good." Or, "a new competitor undermines the competition, by entering the competition."... Um, no.

This is not to say single payer healthcare would not change the business/policy landscape in the USA.

But to even suggest that any municipal provisioning of communications services (public radio, public TV, public internet access) would be aking to "single payer healthcare" in scale/scope/completeness etc is simpley a rhetorical exaggeration.

I think its interesting to debate the pitfalls here, butnot with such extreme poles as a starting point.

Limited scope incremental services are fine, IMHO. Feasible, cost-effective, and market & competition extending.

And the existence of national parks does not make the government a "land monopolist" or what not. =D
Very nice. I was a bit surprised to find that the closest one to my native culture (Ireland) seems to be Bulgaria.

BTW, 'hygge' on the Danish one is a Danish word for (something like) cosy or convivial, a kind of comfortable intimacy. Dutch people have a similar concept (gezellig), but not until after the deal has been concluded.
It's not about turning down a potential 100k. It's about the commitment of the investor, i.e. to avoid the tip toeing. A potential 100k investment is not a 100k investment.
I am a guy that is probably an aspie, but recently I decided to stop using that label (or any other label).

There is a sort of "aspie boom" and now everyone is a aspie, and claiming (rightfully or not) to be one makes people think you are a narcissistic or egoistical liar instead.

What I do is just try to fix my social problems as I can, and say sorry when I do something bad (that happily, is becoming more and more uncommon after I learned that Asperger's existed, plainly because it helped me become self aware of what exactly I was doing wrong that piss off other people).

Also recently I started to think that maybe almost everyone of the MBTI type INTP (and some INTJ) are aspies (not that they have a disorder, but in their sense that their normal behavior gets labelled as a disorder symptom), but that idea is too new on my head for now, I did not dwelled too much on it.
I thought this discussion was whether it's reasonable to expect Comcast to peer for free, which it is. (AnthonyMouse's answer is exactly right.) But now somehow this discussion is about the distribution of costs across Comcast's customers? Er, OK: Comcast does have a problem there in that it charges its customers flat rates for access instead of charging them per byte. That creates all sorts of weird incentives both for those customers and for Comcast. At some level, that's the root cause of a lot of this; as an ISP its incentive should be to route as much traffic as it can as efficiently as it can, and weird stuff like this comes up because it isn't.

That's messy and Comcast should fix how it distributes the cost of its customers using the internet, but what does it have to do with Netflix paying for anything? Similarly, you don't pay Comcast to route the packets from your website to your visitors, even though only a subset of them use your site, thus asking everyone else to take on those costs. How is this different?
What about something seriously horrible like watching someone hula hoop?
The Netflix article that's also on the HN front page right now has a good diagram showing how they work with all other ISPs vs. how Comcast insists that they work with Comcast:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7642545
Elegant know the compatibility of HTML5/CSS3(Can I Use offline plugin)
![screen](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b1fe4e870b932ac67d4a37fa45a204d8d1dc99ec/687474703a2f2f646c2e6f6f78782e6f72672f6f75747075742d6d696e692e676966)

Watch video:

https://vimeo.com/92709999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpe_R35nvk8

Project url:

https://github.com/leecade/caniuse_local

Installation:

With Sublime Package Control:
Run “Package Control: Install Package” command, find and install caniuse_local. Restart Sublime editor (if required)

Manually:
Download the lastest releases into your packages folder (find "Browse Packages" menu item to open this folder) Restart Sublime editor (if required)
Fuck crapcast.
> The partner didn’t want me in the meeting, so I told Nick and Chris I was going to drink my body weight in Odwalla.

I wonder what impact (if any) having a journalist tailing them had on their meetings. Interesting read either way.
Tesla, fast charging and why it’s getting inconvenient for future EV drivers
So Hell isn't other people, it's being a startup founder?
![screen](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b1fe4e870b932ac67d4a37fa4...)

Watch video:

https://vimeo.com/92709999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpe_R35nvk8
Talented technical teams can raise money fairly easily (presuming a somewhat plausible business idea), so yes, it is remotely true.
Maybe you should check their policy [1]. Clause #13 states that you should use "the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you". Their support page [2] very clearly states that your account may be suspended for violating the policy.

Google may have softened their line on enforcement, but unless you're willing to risk having your whole account randomly suspended (along with who-knows-how-many other Google services will go with it), that doesn't really do you much good unless you are treating it as a throwaway account in the first place.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/content.html
[2] https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271
eng-misc is the area for the most cynical of employees. you really don't know anything if you expect them to be experiencing cognitive dissonance as you stated.
Somewhat related: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-ebook-...
Ebola-Type Infection Passed Thru New York City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmO3hU2_QYc
Yeah, I mostly see blinking pixels. Maybe it is better on a retina display.
>I ended up at private nationally accredited program

"Nationally" accredited is scam school code for "not accredited."
Defining Luck Mathematically
Try LinkBubble also, if you haven't already. I agree that we're finally starting to see talented devs really take advantage of the extra freedom Android gives them to extend the platform. From where I sit there's a lot more innovation happening in apps on the Android side now and the quality gap has closed in most cases.
Now I just need to build myself an ultrasound device that temporarily disables my amygdala, and I can be Paul Muad'Dib.
So I ask this only half-jokingly - at this point, what self-respecting engineer would continue to work at Google, Apple, or these other firms? I mean, these guys conspired to illegally suppress your wages, but you're essentially a bunch of suckers who get paid off with a comfortable living, "interesting work," and a bonus check for a couple thousand dollars and you're happy. Meanwhile the people behind this are making literally billions of dollars of profit.
Schmidt, like any good CEO, will always always sell anything his company outputs. You'll never find him criticising anything Google does, maybe in retrospect but never upon launch.
Deeply chilling sentences
I have also experienced the problematic client you describe. The client had neverending revisions. He could never present me with a final list, even after all items in the contract were complete. He then refused to pay, unless I added additional features not included in the contract. Even after adding some of these, he was never satisfied. He made a long list of false claims against me and threatened to sue unless I added more features. After this, I immediately halted work and (successfully) pursued the rest of the money in court.

My conclusion is that fixed-price bids are bad only if there is a lot of risk -- in this case, the bid amount was far lower than it should have been, the client was underfunded, etc.

Nowadays, I recommend making fixed-price bids that are large overestimates. I am taking a risk in making a fixed bid, and in return the client gets the surety of a fixed amount. If my fixed bid is supposed to literally be my average expected time times my hourly rate, then there is a 50/50 chance (or likely more depending on the client) I will lose money on the deal!
> How easy is it on average to find on the web copies of Elsevier articles that can be read legally and free of charge?

It was quite a bit easier while CiteSeer still worked, and before Google started indexing stuff behind paywalls. Usually it was easy to find a draft or pre-print.
Technically, yes - however, they stay in very separate camps. Google Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Google Inc., but as explained by Kevin Rose [1], it's a separate company. Google has no visibility into what GV-backed companies are working on: think of Google as an LP of Google Ventures.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikoQLBuIYl0#t=1920 (excellent interview with Kevin Rose on This Week In Startups)
About 72% of land in Japan is classified as 'mountainous' [1]. Some of this land is used for steeply terraced agriculture or forestry plantations but a lot is left unused. My guess, based on fairly extensive travel in Japan, is that there would be a lot of mountainous land with a good solar aspect situated fairly close to the major conurbations that could be used for solar panel farms.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Japan#Composition_...
There are people who just love hating. Back in the days, VB6 was an easy thing to pick on. Now it's PHP. And G+.

It's not that people hate it for the real name thing or whatever. More likely, they hate it because many other's do so why not.
How are fuel cell cars going to avoid these issues? They will be even less ubiquitous than solar charging stations, considering it will cost much more to build one.

Hydrogen will end up being barely cheaper than gas, too. And I don't think it will be that much more environmentally safe than gas. At least electric cars have the potential to be almost fully charged by solar power in the future.

Also, I expect hydrogen-based cars to be even more expensive than electric cars.
But why (how) would a virus evolve deadly symptoms if it doesn't already cause deadly symptoms. I always thought that the rate at which Ebola Zaire kills its hosts is actually a hindrance to its further evolution.

In general do virii tend to evolve deadlier or less deadly symptoms?
No Exit is a Sartre play. I'm only halfway through the article so I can't speak authoritatively to why the title was chosen. My money says this is a pun, combining the the notion of the "exit" of a startup while implying that they feel stuck in a very specific manner similar to the characters of the play. FYI this is a very facile reading of the play, and Sartre is my least favorite existentialist.

I'm not an expert on him but if you want to chat about his main squeeze and intellectual better, de Beauvoir, I'll have more to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
The Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle 5
I could agree with that, but later they say that it's not fair that Comcast customers without Netflix pay for the bandwidth of Netflix users.

I understand that Netflix uses a lot of bandwidth, but what about heavy P2P users that have their traffic subsidized by other customers -- or any other site that is not used by all customers. That's how it works. Everyone pays for access for everyone (except there is tiered access so you are explicitly paying more if you are a heavy user), it's the same way health care works in Canada for the most part.
>So, if I'm Netflix and I operate an AS based in California, I connect to an IXP and every customer facing ISP has to take my traffic.

Every customer facing ISP that operates in the area of that IXP yes.

>So then I send my traffic over AT&T's line to NYC where AT&T connects to an IXP

AT&T has no obligation to provide you with that transit. It just has to accept traffic at your IXP and deliver it inside their network, not to other IXPs. To make it even fairer to large ISPs you could even say that they only have to deliver it to the part of their network covered by the IXP where you inject the traffic.

>and each ISP at that IXP has to pay AT&T for access to AT&T's backbone.

I don't follow. What's forcing them to pay anything? Definitely not my peering rules. If AT&T has decided to transit traffic between IXPs the ISPs are definitely not being forced to pay for it.

Here's a more descriptive version of my proposal. All customer facing links need to be connected with free peering to a regional IXP, making the last mile net neutral. To get actual global routing of traffic you need a route to all IXPs in the world. You can build infrastructure to every IXP in the world yourself or you can pay a transit provider to do that for you, possibly in coordination with other transit providers. This way ISPs can't use their last mile monopoly to extract rents and there's still competition between transit providers to create good backbones.
It's a demo page. You can see the other examples here:

http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/

(click on the images to see each demo)
I'm pretty sure you can't even post to G+ using the API. In my opinion that's not even close to useful.
I think you answer your own question :) Comfortable living, interesting work, and big bonus checks (tens of thousands for many, hundreds of thousands for some) are indeed what attract a lot of employees. Larry, Sergey, and Eric are universally loved inside of Google, I don't think people mind that they are billionaires. It's not like they're taking $500MM a year in salary.
Thanks for the feedback. Still coping with the last sentence, but I appreciate that you took the time to reply.
Get used to it! Potential clients are often no-shows and fail to return calls because they found someone else ... even when their business seemed like a sure thing.

I use this as a barometer -- if a prospective client does not respect my time/work, then he will likely be problematic as a client.
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but Netflix said recently that they will be raising their prices... and amazon did the same thing, it's odd that if this really wouldn't be passed on to the consumer as Comcast is claiming that right after netflix signed a deal with them Netflix would suddenly feel the need to raise prices. I know, I know, correlation doesn't mean causation, but c'mon!
Please read my comment again, and you'll see that it's not the "with children" part that I am talking about. My first sentence is admittedly missing a bit: "... to be weird". Describing yourself as a consumer is entirely redundant in this context, and it makes it sound like you should get special treatment for some reason.
Persian, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign#Spacing
Is it just me, or is Apache losing mindshare rapidly?
Adding to tptacek, some other things I dislike about the article:

1. Trying to use ZenPayroll as an example of a vapid startup company. That's one of the worst examples to use to try and back up the general sneering undertone of condescension towards startups.

2. All the random, vapid innuendo that's used in an attempt to frame certain aspects of Silicon Valley as essentially stupid. Like mentioning that the GV partner "apparently" went to a Miley Cyrus party. The weird descriptions of an unrepresentative part of SV: the people at the hacker house (I am willing to bet that there is a disproportionate concentration of "wantrapreneurs"). The picking apart of random quotes (the haughty picking apart of SF locales as if the author was a true SF native). Millions of other random observations that are in reality completely inconsequential.
This is just begging for some JS audio to go with it!
You don't have to apologize to me - you're certainly entitled to your opinion. I disagree with you, though given the circumstances that certainly isn't unexpected.

Please bear in mind that the Temple of Thelema (where I assume you found the quote) is one of several Thelemic groups, and do not necessarily speak for everyone. Still I am genuinely curious as to what you find offensive about that particular statement. If you take the Great Work as the perfection of the individual (which I do) I don't see what could possibly be wrong with that.

If you really think that Thelema is designed to 'erode the reason and instill faith' you are mistaken, but you can't be faulted for thinking that for a brief internet search. Any philosophy is complex, and the things that you're most likely to see first are the more sensational aspects, and those do appear superstitious.

As far as justification for my epistemology I didn't offer that because it doesn't exist. Thelema is not the basis of my epistemology, my experience is. Thelema is how I describe and relate to that experience.

In any case, I don't really hope to or desire to convince you - that's not particularly important. Just hoped to express myself a little more clearly, have some dialogue, and try to understand what you find offensive about the quote.
I will suggest that "we don't have enough people in prison" is not actually on America's list of problems right now.