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There are some misconceptions in the article (imo):

The claim that game is already over is wrong, major car manufacturers like BMW, Audi, Mercedes, GM, Ford, PSA, are working on all possible approaches at once. They tested and tried any possible power train technology you can think of (except fission reactors and fusion reactors).

They are offering integrated services, even if they are moving slower than SV inspired companies, u should not underestimated their ability to move faster than expected. The automotive market is extremely competitive, companies that are succesful their, are succesful for a reason.

Cars are extremly complex, far more complex than an iPhone (there is a reason why they cost much more than an iPhone).

Teslas advantage is mainly that it can make money with selling certificates in California. This is good, but can not be applied worldwide.

The automotive industries supply chain is vast, they do operate globally, their relationships are much more complex than the electronics industry.

The devil is in the detail, Teslas much admired agility is no match for a Porsche or an i8. Building engines is an art.

Sales channels, selling a car is an art in itself (I do know something about selling cars, because my business idea is about selling cars, better of course than anyone else;-)). The sales channels are established and deep in the markets. Tesla has some trouble in China.

After Sales, a car needs after sales support.

Regulation, global car regulation is complex, wild and full of wonders.

Tastes, u will not believe how different tastes are globally. A Tesla looks like a Japanese Car to me as a German (which is a malus). A BMW, or Audi has it's own design language which is full of character and sophistication.

The hill to sell a car here is really really big.

But if Tesla and Apple bring some new ideas on the table, it would probably good for all participants.

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Nice, when I started using docker and came across fig I wondered how suitable it would be for production. Will check this out later.
1% equity in a company that exits for $10M or less probably isn't worth having. Since many companies exit for $10M or less, that means getting 1% equity usually isn't worthwhile.

1% equity in a $10M exit would net you $100k. Given a four year vesting schedule, that's $25k/yr. Since you're working for a startup, your salary might very well be much less than $25k/yr of what you're normally worth at other companies. Aggressively negotiating your salary at a non-startup company can get you that much and then some.

So it's about whether you believe the company will make a >$10M exit, knowing that most companies die and many exit for $10M or less.

It's also about other factors. For example, whether you get paid depends on liquidation preferences, and how much you get paid depends on dilution and taxes.

Also cost of living. I've heard that decent apartments in SF can go for $3k. (Zillow seems to confirm that many apartments are around $3k.) Compared to a $1,500 apartment in a place with reasonable cost of living, that's an extra $18k/yr that you'll need to pay just to live there. Actually, that's $18k/yr of post-tax salary, so more like $36k/yr of salary.
Can you consider sharing your Mnemosyne deck about Ruby and other technology? I am currently making something identical and it would be pointless energy on duplicating something already done.

Note: I am posting here as commenting on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8184615 expired.
Under U.S. law, that doesn't seem like a stretch to me at all.
While it's a fun idea, I'm skeptical (though it would be cool!)

I think it's far more likely that Apple ends up either designing a car for Tesla or, less-spectacularly, "powering" a car (which basically means expanding CarPlay to a bigger role than v1 will have on the dashboard.)

I still think it's ridiculous that car manufacturers essentially create their own OSs (yes, I know they get them from 3rd parties and some are QNX-powered, etc.) but in essence, every car has its own UI/UX, most of which are terrible.

CarPlay is step 1. I think the evolution of that is a car that's run entirely on OSX/iOS/CarOS -- with a real UI, good UX, and the joy of well-designed electronics. Modern-day cars are vastly more computer-controlled than they used to be, and it makes sense that Apple wants to be a part of that action.

I don't think we're going to see Apple The Car Manufacturer, but I do think we're going to see "Powered by Apple" soon.
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Tendermint proposed a solution to the 'nothing at stake' problem with the concept of bond deposit. Check out the whitepaper at http://tendermint.com/
The one that Apple bought are the best in the tech and so not many want to go with a sub par supplier.
For all that is great in the world, I hope this isn't true.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/...
Agreed, but still, for a major historic landmark building one would expect it to have movement detectors etc
Tesla's current market cap is $25b. Isn't $75b too much of a price premium?

To be fair though, Tesla's share price went up by 100% over the past 18 months, so a 200% increase over the next 18 month isn't unimaginable.

[0] http://www.google.ca/finance?cid=12607212
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Looking at the list: http://yclist.com There are not so much YC companies that have exits. Having equity in bigger ones like airbnb, dropbox or stripe is worth peanuts until they either go public or get acquired

YC company or not, taking a lot of equity for a lower salary it's still a gamble. At the end it's a matter of you believing the team you're joining can make it big or not.
Just like 'ninja' is a marketing word. It probably means the person loves their job and makes it their passion and others think that person is so good at what he/she does that they admire him/her. I wouldn't read too much into it. The wording is often chosen so the job ad sounds young, cool and hip (and the same founders might present themselves in suits in all public photos to appear more serious).

You're right, in reality the companies are looking for humble 10x programmers who get their job done without much fuss. Bonus points if the person is cool to hang out with outside work.
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AngelList has a page where you can explore startup salary data and filter by location (and other things): http://angel.co/salaries

Full disclosure: I work at AngelList.
Curious what effect this will have on comment upvotes.
I'd like to see examples that start with a Java or JavaScript program, then try to translate them to Haskell and documents the thought-process of figuring out how the Haskell solution is and needs to be different.

Haskell aims to be a terse language, right? That's one reason that makes it difficult to "read" it and if you can't read it it's hard to learn it.

Think about learning to read and write Chinese when all you know is English. The only way to do it is to have a text-book that shows you sentences in both English and Chinese. I don't think it is necessarily "difficult" to learn Chinese, but you need learning materials targeted to an English-speaker.
busts out the Korzybski - any time you get Aristotelian with equivalences you almost certainly step in a pile of truthless crap, so let's become a little more respectful of language. Housing and rental prices roughly approximate demand. "nicer" differs from demand by virtue of passing through the filters of averaging and composition with myriad factors, which an individual may never fully comprehend. Preference often significantly differs from average. Complexity accomodates deviation. NYC far exceeds the complexity of the bay area, thus accommodating a far greater range of deviation from any such single metric :P
Oh dear, now the Wolfenstein guys are getting excited and uploading this sort of thing!

http://www.angelfire.com/games4/guns/wolfenstein_3d/wolfenst...
Establish a solo 401k and SEP (I believe it's too late for 2014, but hopefully you will have this "problem" in 2015). You can sock away money pre-tax, which will lower your bill now.

I am not an accountant, but my wife is, and she thinks you could do a SEP for 2014 (but this is not accounting advice). http://www.irs.gov/Retirement-Plans/Plan-Sponsor/Simplified-... -- if she's right, you have until 4/15.

You could also max out a Roth IRA.

Go through your expenses for 2014 very carefully and think about what is a business expense.

I very much doubt that forming any kind of corporation will help you tax-wise, especially if you make a decent regular salary. Most of the benefit comes from avoiding FICA on a portion of your salary, but you might already be maxing FICA in your day job, so this is meaningless. It's also going to be hard to claim that the "reasonable salary" for what you do is less than you make in your day job (rate-wise).
I hope not! We don't want crazy patent wars spilling in there too. So far Tesla were quite positive in avoiding that:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/12...

If Apple buys them you can bet their crazy obsession with patents will poison Tesla as well.
For me this tells that we as a species are still horrible at producing electricity in an environmentally balanced way. Especially stuff that's on the grid (like stationary computers) should be easy to run on regenerative energy and as Bitcoin is a global currency, it should not be a problem to do so 24/7 (the sun always shines somewhere). On a related note: why is fusion still 50 years away? Nobody seems to put proportional effort in that sector.

ps: I think a satellite that is dedicated to compute Bitcoin with solar energy (no atmosphere/night to bother out there) would be awesome!
You're being disingenuous, Apple buying AuthenTec prevented the N6 from having a fingerprint reader but not for the reasons you're implying (ie. patents). It prevented the wished design for the reader (touch instead of swipe) on the back dimple but the N6 could still have had a fingerprint reader. AuthenTec does not have patents that would prevent other companies from making touch-based readers they were just first to market, in fact there are currently devices that have similar sensors (Huawei Mate being one of those: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/huawei-ascend-mate-7-fing...)

In anycase, Apple has put out specs for a handful of standards and freely licensing the IP for them. It is in Apple's benefit to make open standards that become adopted by everyone else. They get the market leader hype + guaranteed accessory market and, in some cases, royalties.
I was approximating of course. Yet the $50x20 is a $100 million valuation, not $1 billion ($1 million is 1% of $100 million, not $1,000 million). This isn't that unheard of.
Well deserved bounty for the researcher.

Direct link to the post http://www.7xter.com/2015/02/how-i-hacked-your-facebook-phot... (made the frontpage in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040090 two days ago).
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Not to mention that you'll probably have to pay for those options at a strike price equivalent to a valuation of $3M+. You only make money on the difference. You'd end up with a sub-100k pay day.
This post could do with the title being prepended with 'I think...'
A programmer that is also a member of a really successful rock band. No person possessing both of these attributes walks the earth, yet. It is widely rumored that Steven Tyler might be interested in HTML, however. We will have to see how this develops.
I agree that the risk is high and isn't for everyone.
Back in the Windows CE days, I used to own a Toshiba smartphone with a fingerprint reader on the backside.

Apple were not the first, but definitely their solution is the sexiest.
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I just went through a long period of job hunting (thankfully now employed) and this post rings 100% true, especially the part about being rejected for inexplicable reasons. The "gotcha" question about Fourier transforms that you last worked with for half a semester in college 10 years ago? That question cannot possibly be a serious qualifier for a full stack dev position. Instead, i suspect it's meant to either (a) make the interviewer look smart to their (possibly nontechnical) startup founder bosses and (b) provide cover for rejecting you for some other reason that can't be spoken out loud, like "cultural fit".

I think you're right. They set salaries low and the bar insanely high, reject a bunch of candidates to make themselves feel like they can be the next Google, then ultimately settle on a lucky person who just happens to be there as they've gotten acutely desperate and given up hope of finding a mythical 10x engineer.
The main reason why it doesn't seem totally crazy is that Apple just has so much money and has been so successful in their current markets is that they're arguably going to have to do something radical at some point if they're going to continue to grow. It's unclear to me that an Apple Watch or TV-related tech of some sort is radical enough or big enough.

That said:

- Everything stephanfroede wrote about the challenges of the automobile market and the level of competition there.

- Modular auto displays/electronics are definitely somewhere Apple could play. But partnering is arguably the more profitable approach there. Look at Bose for example.

- The article makes the argument for totally self-driving cars arriving within just a few years. I don't see it. (Although the case does apply to some degree even if you have autonomous navigation on some freeways within an interesting time horizon.)
His criticism of feminism is terrible and nothing new at all. I wish he would just shut up and try to draw inferences from his data instead of speculating on a movement he hasn't made any actual attempts to understand. Feminism deserves competent critique from outside its own movement, but it's sure not coming from him. Feminism has more than enough explanation for the expendability of males, he just doesn't know that because he's working from a caricature.
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And definitely agree with experience and knowledge that benefits a career for the future.
I often see people refer to employee/founder risk as a reason for for employee's getting less stock in the early days, but I think this is the wrong way to think about it. As an employee or a founder, your risk in working at a startup is very low. Both of you experience some degree of opportunity cost, but you're mostly "risking" the possibility of having to go work at a significantly higher base salary with more benefits, perks, and possibly the same expected value in terms of stock. So, what gives?

The answer is that we don't pay people based on risk. Fire fighters truly have a high risk job, yet they typically earn less than many skilled white collar jobs. Rightly or wrongly, we pay people roughly according to their economic output, and probably not even their fully captured economic output (see: teachers).

The reason people use this risk language when it comes to startups is because there's a place where there _is_ some economic risk being experienced, and these people talk about "de-risking" the business all the time: investors. Investors are risking capital, typically all of it, for the chance of an outsized return. As a company de-risks, meaning as it becomes more of an actual business vs a business model search engine, the return an investor might expect for their money is naturally reduced (from 100X to 10X to 2-3X over the course of funding a 'typical' SV startup).

Founders often put capital into a business as well, in the form of maxed out credit cards, deferred salary, and sometimes actual bootstrap $$$. Their monetary contribution is typically quite a bit smaller than an investor's, though, so why do they get such a huge share of the ownership? Again, it comes down to economic value. A founder is producing a huge amount of economic value simply by taking an idea and turning it into a real thing that people can evaluate, invest in, work for, etc. An employee isn't creating nearly as much value, although I think it's pretty obvious that the first employee at a YC startup is probably creating more than %.01 of the value in the company so an offer like that isn't fair.

I do find it fascinating that so much of the investment language of risk gets used when speaking about employees. I think some of this is just lazy thinking, but it's also partly psychological -- you want employees to feel like investors vs having them feel like contractors, for instance. And honestly, if a company gets really big, an employee with 1% stake in a company is still filthy rich, even if the guy he had beer with the whole way is now going to Davos on his private jet.
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>Google is another likely buyer, but Google can’t compete with Apple’s war chest?

I always thought Google had more cash than Apple...this sounded off, so looked it up. Google's at 64B cash + liquid assets, Apple at 32B. Oh, no, how will Google ever compete with that?
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That's where the options vs RSUS comes in. There's a high chance of RSU at early stage start ups
That list is not accurate for what it's worth - several notable exits missing (justin.tv a huge one). Also bear in mind the data you're missing on that is how fast the "dead" startups died. Startups that died quickly didn't have a big impact on the employees lost opportunity cost.
My experience with equity:

$20K into a startup, which was sold to midrangeSoftwareCompany, which was in turn sold to Oracle. Wound up with 17 shares of Oracle, worth about $2000 at the time.

Another experience: $2K of "hell, I'm leaving so why not buy the shares I vested in". Eight years later the company is wildly successful (public and valued at $1B). I call them up, and my shares are worthless through some stock shenanigans.

A third: $5K investment turned into $21K. Yay. I guess I almost broke even on the Silly Valley slot machine.

Lastly: I did much, MUCH better with options and other stock-related stuff at a couple of large companies, spread out over 16 years. It's not unreasonable to make a few million on these in the course of your career.

Get a good salary. Don't trade a good salary for equity, because in general it's a bad deal and you're just going to get screwed.

If you're good and you take a low salary for the "developer class" equity that I've seen, take a hard look and see if you're getting anything else worthwhile (an education in technologies you wouldn't be using otherwise, good contacts, a possibility you'd be identified as a principal "must have" in an acquisition, with incentives to match, etc). Otherwise you're being taken advantage of.
As the price of mining goes up, the difficulty goes down. Was that taken into account?

I still think that using proof of work as a part of a consensus algorithm is terribly wasteful. The rich get richer by way of buying energy in an arms race and the externality is pollution.
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Yeah, the online REPL is definitely not very useful or intuitive yet.

As it says, you can evaluate a single line Haskell "expression" and top-level declarations (like the sieve example) are not expressions. In addition, the sieve example declares an infinite list so there's no sensible way to print it.

You can fix all the above by using a let-expression on single line and only evaluating a finite part of the list using the 'take' function.

let { primes = sieve [2..]; sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x | x <- xs, x `mod` p /= 0] } in take 10 primes
Checkout pfSense - have used it for years after trying m0n0wall. The recommended path forward, OPNSense, is a fork of pfSense. I have not tried it, and I get their reasons for forking and many of the improvements they are making are really, really needed - BUT the community isn't there yet where pfSense has a thriving community behind it.
Ford explored fission reactors for cars in the 50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
Are you asking for yourself or because you want to hire them? If you want to hire them, it's best that you completely forget about this mindset.

If you are asking for yourself, strive to be a an improving professional, and realize that many people who accomplish more also work more (at work or on their own).
Color me skeptical.

I believe the author merely looked at the mean of the CO2/KWh stats on Wikipedia for all generation. That leads to misleading numbers. For example, I recall hearing that a large number of miners have set up shop in Iceland, where the electricity is all low-impact geothermal (and cheap).

To get accurate numbers, one would need to figure out what types of electricity sources the miners are ACTUALLY using.
You need to use curly braces in single-line do-expressions:

do { line <- getLine; putStrLn line }
Tesla doesn't have Apple like margins.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=TSLA&annual

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL&annual

(I'm comparing total revenue and cost of revenue)

They still have pretty good margin there, but Apple is quite a lot higher.

They are also pretty unlikely to hold onto the margin they have as they move into the broader market.
Cost is one thing I'm not worried about. Makerbot lead the way by making an additive 3D ready-to-use printer available at <$3k. Now Dremel's got a consumer 3D printer at $1k. There are credible projects to get small-build-volume 3D printers down at $250 and Peachy's taking a reasonable swing to get it under $100 (disclaimer: kickstarter backer).

Glowforge is now tackling this for lasers. We're still a ways away from shipping, but we're already confident we can get the price under that of a Makerbot.
I believe he was being facetious - seemingly flashy perks are very commonly used a substitute for actual money, and it works stunningly well. 5k in catering and laundry will shave 20k off an entry level salary more often than it should.
First, you're ignoring all the risk a founder has already taken just to get to a funded state.

Second, many times(always?) a founder has personal savings wrapped up in the company.

Third, an employee can always just quit and find a new job. The founder is much more tightly bound to his/her company because of obligations to investors, other employees, clients, etc. To say that "the worst case scenario" for both is unemployment is true, but you're ignoring many other factors that make it far more likely for the founder to be stuck going down with the ship while employee walks away Scott free.
If this is the case, wouldn't an acquisition by Apple be against the interest of Tesla? I thought the idea behind the Superchargers and the upcoming Gigafactory and the release of Tesla's patents for other company's use was that it was a way to get the industry to shore up his own business. The Apple "walled-garden" doesn't seem to fit with that.
Apple has a somewhat significant chunk of money that is in liquid, but long dated (>1yr) debt. It is not included in that 32B number, but it is easily converted to foreign cash.
I fiddled with this myself a few years ago.
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No, deflation can also mean that the same amount of money is chasing a greater number of goods and services in a growing economy. Actually deflation meaning the price of money keeps going up is a good definition.
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