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This photo is surreal. I can't believe a trash filled planet is becoming a reality and we are doing little to nothing to stop it.

There are plenty of opportunities outside of coding. Consider technical sales, consulting, software support, technical writing, UX/design, project management, just to name a few. A CS degree is now a foundational degree that can serve as the starting point for many career paths. Don't stress.

Maybe this is why toddlers love to watch shows like Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube, which is just a kid playing with a variety toys with his parents.

If the same questions keep coming up, isn't this a usability issue? Can the user interface or workflow be improved to address this confusion?

I teach a startup course at a public university. We had a class on disruption, where we specifically talked about Netflix. I polled my students and asked how many have cable or satellite. A single hand went up, out of over 30 students. I then asked how many had Netflix. Every hand went up. AT&T can buy Time Warner and Comcast can buy NBC and Fox. It's not going to matter. Millennials and Gen Z aren't going to pay for bundled linear content via cable and satellite with heavy amounts of advertising. The model is in process of being disrupted. Within a decade or so, I bet traditional cable and satellite goes the way of AOL and landlines.

I don't understand how selling 88,000 phones isn't considered a success. That's $44M in revenue, assuming the phones sold for $499 each. For a startup, even one founded by a Google veteran, like Rubin, this seems like a home run for a first product offering.

KidBright USA at https://kidbrightusa.org. There's a significant hunger problem in America's public schools. KidBright USA seeks to end hunger in the classroom so all children can learn and succeed. We launched a healthy snack program back in August and are currently serving snacks to 22 classrooms and 450 children. We're gearing up to expand further in the fall.

Or Zillow has access or insight to data that general property investors do not, thus driving abnormal returns.

Or stop raiding pensions and other tax receipts to pay for other underfunded government obligations (resulting from inane tax cuts that only benefit the very wealthy)?

Hillsborough NC?

If you own a property, why not just rent it for cash flow? What's the benefit of letting a property sit vacant? So the property owner doesn't have to deal with finding tenants and property wear and tear?

We are expending limited natural resources, producing vast quantities of CO2, and accelerating global warming just to mine made-up digital coins. Think about that...

Who's the manufacturer?

A SEER 13-14 system can run $5-6K, while a SEER 22 system can cost upwards of $15K (as a guesstimate). In theory, a SEER 22 system can pay for itself over the long-term due to reduced electric/gas expenses. The issue is that higher SEER systems, above 16 I believe, rely on variable speed motors. My understanding is that they are inherently less reliable.

A SEER 13-16 system might last 15-20 years (if you're lucky), while a SEER 22 system could break down much earlier at about the 10 year mark. You can sometimes replace specific parts, but depending on what breaks, it may not be cost effective.

In short, the only way we're moving to more efficient AC systems is if costs come down significantly, we see some major innovation in the field, or the government provides significant financial incentives.

As an aside, I also think we could achieve energy efficiencies by increasing the insulation in houses. It's unbelievable how much hot/cool air is lost through windows, doors, crawl spaces, and attics.

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Edit: http://contentgems.com

For some reason, this post is being flagged off the home page. 106 points in 1 hour and it currently sits in the 16th position. Curious no?

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I would start with a skeleton crew, including volunteer contributors, and scale over time as readership increases.

This concentration of tourism is by design. They call these areas "dead zones." The idea is to create a national park of millions of acres and concentrate all the tourism into just a few select areas and roads. You assume these areas will experience significant environmental degradation but the remaining park will be largely untouched, aside from the occasional backpacker. It makes good sense to me if the main goal is preservation.

This is a red herring. Just because there are also a frightening number of driving fatalities doesn't mean we shouldn't better regulate firearms. It means we should ALSO better regulate driving.

If you're careful about hiring and put in place the right incentives, then there doesn't have to be much dead weight. And if there's little to no dead weight, then I think it's very noble and honorable for a company to cut salaries across the board to avoid layoffs. It's certainly a lot more noble and honorable than a company that provides its CEO a salary that is 204x that of its average employee (https://www.glassdoor.com/research/ceo-pay-ratio/).

Of course mass surveillance leads to a chilling effect. Personally, I'm now concerned about what I say in email, in text messages, in discussion forums, and in telephone calls. I fear that if I use the wrong words or visit the wrong websites, I'll trigger some automated system and will be put on some kind of watch list that will change my life. This is a very scary state of affairs. And unfortunately I don't see a near-term solution. The interests of government and corporations are aligned (reducing pressure to enact any serious privacy regulation). They're both looking to vacuum up as much personal data as possible for national security on the one hand and to develop new and improved revenue/business models on the other.

It's great to see a founder CEO (Hamdi Ulukaya) making a bold ethical move like this to support his employees. It's not flashy or earth shaking, but it's very real and it will definitely change many lives for the better.

This story reminds me tangentially of the time when Hewlett and Packard, when faced with a downturn at HP, decided to cut pay across the board so the company could avoid layoffs. Once HP recovered, I'm assuming they reinstated previous salary levels and then some. HP then benefited from a highly committed and skilled workforce who deeply respected their leaders and company.

Unfortunately, these stories reflect the (very rare) exception and not the rule. Today, we're much more likely to see CEOs and executive teams earning (multiple) millions in salary and options, all the while they are outsourcing jobs, implementing layoffs, converting full-time jobs to contract and part-time jobs, and so on. These CEOs are extracting as much wealth as they can, at the expense of their employees.

We desperately need more ethical, bold leaders like Ulukaya, Hewlett, and Packard who are going to shape the future of business; a future that is kinder, compassionate, and community-minded.

Well said, and in addition to asking leaders to abide by the law, why aren't we holding our leaders to some kind of moral standard? I just can't believe that we need laws to prevent executives from choosing to elevate their careers (and companies) by committing crimes against humanity.

This isn't just a matter of cheating. VW knowingly manufactured millions of vehicles that polluted at unprecedented levels. These managers and executives chose to destroy the environment, affecting their children, my children, and all future generations in order to elevate their careers (and company).

Edit: Deleted text about global warming since it was incorrect.

Yes, the defeat device VW employed for emissions is an environmental tragedy, but this is just a symptom of a much more central issue. That is, VW was actively promoting technical and business leaders that lacked any sort of moral compass. How can we have faith in global corporations and their (grossly overpaid) leaders if these are the choices they're making and the examples they're setting?

There is something fundamentally wrong with our system that "growth" is used as the main metric for assessing business success. It's growth for the sake of growth (and more $), and not deploying business to solve hard customer problems and to make the world a little bit better.

I'm in Raleigh/Durham, NC. You have great universities here (UNC, Duke, NC State, etc.), nice weather with 4 seasons, blossoming startup culture, Research Triangle Park with Red Hat, SAS, and a variety of other big tech companies with a significant presence, and relatively inexpensive housing! I moved here 3 years ago from the Bay area for quality of life reasons. It's worth a serious look. :)

Can a moderator here please explain why this post is being flagged off the home page? Immigration issues are relevant for HN and in addition a Trump presidency would seriously impact the direction of this country for startups, tech, and beyond! This is worthy of discussion/debate here.

Why is this story being flagged off the home page? And before you say it's because the story is unrelated to hacking, please have a look at the other top stories on the home page...

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