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It sort of already exists (just without commentary): http://layoffs.fyi/

Haha, pretty sure the author doesn’t expect anyone to take this post entirely seriously.

Ah that makes sense, I forgot about power usage.

I mean, the cards are selling at 3-4x MSRP right now. Won’t halving the hash rate just cause the price of the cards to drop to 1.5-2x MSRP and miners just buy twice as many?

Possibly good for NVDIA I guess (selling twice the units assuming the can make enough), but I don’t see this helping gamers get cards in hands.

The parent is saying that the council members themselves are the property owners - that they are profiting directly, not the city.

Also don't forget to add the ~$10-$20k in legal fees for sponsoring an H1b on top of that.

PlanGrid co-founder here. It's definitely useful for a project of any size, but the value definitely scales non-linearly with the size of a project.

If nothing else, if you have a construction project that has paper plans, PlanGrid is the best way to make them digital, shareable, usable by multiple people.

I really wonder what 'average' means in this context since the average venture backed startup is a total failure.

I imagine there's also a huge disparity between the salaries of executives at companies across the seed->A round->B round->...->IPO spectrum as well.

What's so bad about being based in Texas? Isn't Neiman Marcus also based in Texas?

There's several different models and prices of the S:

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options

There's also tons of up sell items and tesla is discounting all the listed prices by the $7500 tax credit you are entitled to for buying an EV.

They actually have been trying to move the government functions to Sejong City(which is 120km south of Seoul), but the courts stopped it from happening:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18670195

I don't follow Korean politics, so I don't know if the motivations were to escape NK artillery or some other reason, but it seems like organizing a massive move is just one of those things democracy is bad at.

One scary fact is that one chemist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.) is largely responsible for the development of both Tetra-Ethyl-Lead and CFCs. Scary to think that the things you're working on can have such huge unintended negative side effects.

I think one of the most compelling stories as to why 23andme (and other genotyping services) is amazing is Sergey Brin's:

http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html

Because of 23andme he found out early that he has a high chance of getting parkinson's disease. He now has the chance to prevent (or at least prepare for) it.

Nice, pretty good for a first game!

Now that you've started writing some code, you can start talking to users!

Here's some quick feedback I've got:

-It's a little hard to tell where on the screen I can touch to move the miner vs. where I can shoot. Perhaps but a line on the bottom demarcating where touches will move instead of shoot?

-Perhaps the game would be more fun if the movement was faster? If you sped it up, it would make it easier to grab 2 pieces of cheese on the same row. It's up to you to decide how to balance control responsiveness vs. difficulty, but it's worth testing it out.

At any rate, good job and congratulations!

Someone also made an iPad app:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-typer/id435837770?mt=8

Great acquisition for Facebook. People are wondering what kind of monetization strategies Facebook will use to make them worth their post-IPO valuation, and Karma is now one good example.

People spend a LOT of money on gifts.

Actually, we just added the ability to attach iPad taken photos to project drawings in our last version.

You're right that people really wanted the feature - we're getting amazing feedback on it from our users.

All of us at PlanGrid agree that the in-field use of 3D bim models is still a ways away, which is why our solution is focused on 2d drawings.

Basically, what we are trying to do to paper plans what HTML did to paper documents: Make them digital, make them linkable, make the centrally updatable. This should have been done years ago, but just like HTML had to wait for the personal computer, PlanGrid had to wait for the tablet.

Two of the four co-founders of PlanGrid were construction engineers, so we know how important usability is and have made it a major focus of what we've built. Please download it and give it a try, I'd like to hear what you think about it.

Two of the four of us have extensive backgrounds in the construction industry: http://www.plangrid.com/about

Also, we've had dozens of users for several months and none of them to date have broken their iPads. You'd be really amazed at how good some of the ruggedized cases are. I particularly like this one: http://www.gumdropcases.com/drop-series-ipad-2-case.html

Yeah, except for the fact that both Jack Dorsey and Keith Rabois are both already horrendously wealthy and almost certainly have no interest in being acquired.

It’s funny, people often ask about whether the guys in the field are willing to trade their super high-resolution paper drawings for a smallish iPad screen, but if you think about it, it’s basically the same situation as with paper maps vs. google maps. You don’t see too many people using those old fold-out maps any more. They are too cumbersome, you always have some out-of-date version, and you never seem to have the map you need.

I agree that BIM is totally transforming constructability reviews and massively reducing MEP conflicts with clash-detection etc.

The problem is, after all this 3D BIM work, how does that information get to the field? What are the actual workers building off of?

Paper. Outdated, expensive, paper. THATS the problem we are solving. Big projects, little projects, they all use paper, they all pay waaaay too much for paper, and they all have trouble keeping it up to date.

For us, the ROI on any project - but particularly large projects - is pretty simple: An iPad ($800) plus 3 years of PlanGrid ($1500 for the big plan) is almost always cheaper than the initial half-size set of thousands of drawings (a hospital project Tracy was on spent $2700 per planholder set of 3000 sheets), but when you add in the printing cost of MEPF coordination drawings, fabrication drawings, point-load drawings, deck-insert drawings, seismic bracing drawings, P&ID drawings, submittal shop drawings and the constant deluge of change order and supplemental sheets it's a huge money saver.

We are cheaper than just the printing costs alone, but our real value-add comes from the huge reduction in document control hours we bring. This, combined with our ability to mitigate the risk of building off outdated information, makes a huge win for almost every project if you do the math.

Yeah, they made a really strange decision with the way the headlights pop up 4 inches or so above the hood.

I recall hearing somewhere that Nissan did for aerodynamic reasons to make sure the slipstream goes over the side-view mirrors, but boy does it look ugly. As an engineer, I usually never find myself arguing in favor of aesthetics over effectiveness, but in this case even I think they should have done something different.

That said, I'm not a car designer, so there might be other factors going on there.

6500 sales is actually pretty significant. By way of comparison the Nissan Leaf (which is much cheaper) has only sold 7217 cars in North America since launching in Dec 2010.

To be fair though, Nissan originally had 17,000 pre-orders but had trouble filling them due to production issues. It remains to be seen if Tesla can actually deliver their first run, but let's hope that Tesla is able to get some magic done in that NUMMI plant.

Amazon is listing both Andrew Warner and PG as co-authors.

For what it's worth, they still ask on the YC app if you are applying in response to an RFS.

Hard to tell, but that's probably a good indicator that they still are interested in them.

I switched from BOFA to Schwab about two years ago (after them nickle & diming me for years with spurious fees) and I couldn't be happier. Like Ally, there's no physical bank branches (but they do have physical brokerage locations), you get interest on your checking, and they refund all ATM fees.

They also have an iPhone app that can scan checks, and their integration with their brokerage account/trading is really nice as well.

My favorite part by far is the customer service. They always have very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable people picking up the phone and I've never had to wait in a phone queue.

I don't think their interest rates are as high as some of the other online banks, so if you run high cash balances rather than high brokerage account values it might not be for you.

As cool as this sounds I still can't imagine using it in public at all.

I felt like I got enough unwanted attention as owner of the first iPhone, I can only imagine the sense of embarrassment I'd feel when using this.

"Siri, please remind me to pick up more preparation H when I get to Walgreens..."

Wow, and they took $1 billion in VC funding with them. Think of all the startups that could have helped.