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Do keep in mind that if you move to TX, your children will learn creationism IN SCHOOL. Also, they will likely learn about a white-washed version of slavery. This is a really big deal to me, and it should be a big deal to more liberals who move out there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-monroe/how-texas-school-...
I want to buy a Google.
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This is what I believe is the single biggest advantage TX holds over NYC. It's hard to underestimate the power the Historic Districts Council and Municipal Art Society have over the future of the city. Despite the fact that no one elected organizations like these to govern, they have a huge impact on what gets built and what does not. The Municipal Arts Council, for example, is railing against a proposal to upzone Midtown East because it might change the look of the skyline [1].

NYC is already feeling the pinch of a housing shortage, and is so behind in building that the 2030 population projections had to be revised to account for the serious lack of housing [2].

Texas on the other hand, as bad as urban sprawl can be, keeps building. People move there, housing gets built, and supply meets demand much better than it does in NYC.

[1] http://mas.org/urbanplanning/east-midtown/
[2] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/04/85286...
That would have been frustrating. I bet after that it was quite easy compared to the first 30 hours :)
An OS is a naturally intuitive thing to use if you've been using one (the same one) for 20 years. People are adaptable but you can't just throw them off a cliff.
Austin is great. Except for the traffic.
Devil's advocate here: You can't charge up your car when your power goes out for a few days. Wheras gas stations have generators and gas rolls in on time, supercharger networks and home power drink from the same power grid.

There's a word for all this: stranded and on-the-grid more than ever before.

When power goes out, the city of electric cars also grinds to a halt. And heaven forbid all the people have their cars plugged in ready to charge when the grid comes back on.

Does this mean I need to have a hefty 2 stroke generator with 8 gallons of gas ready to go to charge up the car when the power is out for a few days? You'd probably need a $1000 generator to provide the watts and amps.
Any function changes the state of your machine, and you have to pretend your computer doesn't have memory or registers in order for this pure function side effect free stuff to make sense. When you said "know 100%" my ability to accept abstractions like that turned off.
We use this book for statistical models and data mining, combined with econometric models (GMM, 2LS)

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Manag...
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I like the idea, and it could work in many cases, but it's hard to make it truly universal. For example languages like Lua, Java and C# have finalizers, and JavaScript GCs do not, so you can't reuse the outer GC. Other possible issues are weak refs, etc.

So even if we duplicate by compiling another GC, we are enabling new types of GCing, it isn't an exact clone.
Searching for what you want to do seems to work pretty well on Windows 7.
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Actually, I think putting them into gas stations would be a horrible idea. When was the last time you wanted to sit at a gas station for 20+ minutes to fill your car? They need to put them in places that you are willing to spend a little more time (and quite possibly money) while you charge. Grocery stores, restaurants. I guess they have mostly been putting them in rest stops which also makes some sense along those longer stretches between cities. But while 20 minutes is a great charge time... it sucks to have to sit for 20 minutes if you have nothing to do. It doesn't take me 20 minutes to stretch my legs and have a piss.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't all of the various the creative commons licenses require author attribution if the author requires it? If so, that makes cc images much more difficult to use and find. I've had this issue recently where I could not determine if I had to add attribution or not and, if so, I would have to edit the image or place some text next to it which is a pain in the ass for dynamic images because now you have to store that information somewhere. This page: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ doesn't show any option where attribution is not required, although this page: http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ which is linked in the OP page, seems to say you don't need attribution. If I use the wizard on http://creativecommons.org/choose/ I don't see a path that gets me to a license that doesn't require attribution. It's easier to just buy photos for a reasonable price than to deal with the uncertainty. Maybe someone can explain to me how it's supposed to work.

For example, here is an image from the link in the parent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamestemple/312325101/sizes/o/

and here is the license

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

which says: "Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
"

Ok, someone tell me what manner is specified by the author.
Yeah but 242 of those days are too hot to do anything. So it's kind of a wash you know?

EDIT TO ADD:

Look I'm not saying that Seattle's weather is perfect, nor that there is a perfect location, but whatever Austin is doing with its weather, it sure as hell aint winning.
Growing up in Austin it was a shock to learn there were places where you would not have AC.
You're missing the point. They're not trying to beat Flickr. This is great content marketing by ooomf, a startup that's all about helping designers/developers connect with great short term projects.

Anyone who's built side projects that could use a little pizzazz would be well served by this. It's really useful to the community.
Pressing the power button will do one of three things: suspend, hibernate, or power off. Do you know which one it does on my machine? Because I don't.
As a long-time veteran of DC traffic wars, I have to say Austin is rapidly catching up in terms of pure automotive misery. It's horrid. Geography plays a cruel trick there (the river combined with the environmentally sensitive hills to the west), and it's only going to get worse.
How can you say for sure it has the second type of value?
Points at his own comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5795016

Essentially: surely that depends on your notion of value?
One quibble: the author at High Scalability refers to the authors of the paper collectively as "Google," but the lead authors, Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars, are professors at UC San Diego. Of course, they must have collaborated with Google and they may have done the work while doing summer internships in 2011 (CVs are at http://www.lingjia.org/ and http://jasonmars.org/).
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Probably all the Aggies.
What's important to remember is the dynamic nature of these improvements. I wouldn't do any development around these short of the standard gas station models. As time progresses I suspect these cars will get greater range and shorter charging times.
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No, see https://twitter.com/paulg/status/338702876744482816.
The fact that the page itself says 2009 is even worse.
There is only so far A/C goes. 100F is likely to still be 85F except in new construction.
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Just a question...Doesn't TCP confirm the data sent, UDP doesn't and has a lower overhead, right?
lack of gasoline is also a problem periodically. especially during disasters like hurricanes and massive tornados.
If you're looking entirely for the gameplay (or if you also enjoy Japanese themes, art, and humor), try the Disgaea games. Vastly better gameplay than FF: Tactics, though the art and tone are almost polar opposites.
My brother bought a 6000 sq. ft. house in Frisco, TX (an hour from Dallas/Fort Worth) for $650k last year. That kind of house in SF/LA would probably cost around $2-3M.
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so if you could get a $2500 product for $400 you would buy it?
I'm impressed that you are breaking it down like this in a way to encourage people to think about the problem in a way that will let them identify potential issues you might not have thought of.

I personally would have jumped on the most obvious problem, which is that your potential customers have no idea where to find you. See https://twitter.com/TheTacoTruck for a software solution to that. There are much better possible solutions from the customer's point of view.
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Billing and provisioning. Please oh please let us provision new Heroku accounts. :-)
What's stopping you from keeping your own generator?

I suppose you'd be effectively limited to the max range of your vehicle from the generator, but if there's no power for 200-300 miles then there's probably bigger problems.
That's a good point, and a shame as well. Hopefully they both get added to the language at some point and we can move towards something like this.
I see. Cool idea, but would work nicer if done client-side so it could update all those images at once.
I live in Los Angeles and commute to work on a weekly basis to Houston via Southwest. I would agree that there is more money to be made in Texas.
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This is pretty great. I've just started using D3 and it's pretty powerful stuff.

For those interested in data visualization - also take a look at Vega (http://trifacta.github.io/vega/) - it makes creating the simpler charts easier than using D3.
or better yet... lots of people are getting solar panels from elon's other company Solar City.
For me it wasn't learning the terms, I didn't have an issue there. The problem was how limited Angular was in comparison to Ember, particularly the idea of directives. I actually spent a large amount of time on freenode discussing in the Angular chatroom how I might construct a directive to replicate a common jQuery plugin like Zurb's Joyride. In short it couldn't be done in anyway that seemed remotely non-hackish.

Ember has jQuery included, so using existing plugins is generally easy or at least possible. Beyond that, it has a far more powerful router (try doing deep routing with Angular. Angular UI's router may be changing this, but you would still have to include outside code to get the power of the standard Ember router) and in the future much more powerful REST support with Ember-Data (currently volatile, but still very powerful).

I started building a large application with Angular using FuelPHP for the REST server. Angular simply didn't have the power to do the things I needed it to at that time. Hopefully that's changing, since it seems to be the dominant framework these days.
Really? When I hear self-indulgent I tend to think of your average American couch-potato lifestyle. This type of self-indulgence where you engage your love of learning for learning's sake doesn't really seem so bad in the grand scheme of things.
Today I read an article that said Honda is now offering the fully EV Fit for $259 per month as a lease over 36 months. That is unlimited mileage, includes car insurance and a home charger (!) Tesla's whole model was to eventually create a mass mileage car for $25,000 to $30,000. I'm now convinced that by the time they get there the market will be hyper competitive and they'll be squeezed out or marginalized. They may become the Apple of the car market - high margin, great brand, small marketshare %'s - which is nothing to sneeze at. But I'm worried now they've missed their opportunity to really make it as a stand alone brand. Perhaps they'll become a service supplier to the overall industry with charger stations and batteries etc.
I might be misinformed, but wasn't the purpose of stuffing version/format into the URL so that it is easier to develop with? I.e. setting only one URL to make a request is easier than having to set an URL + Accept Version Header + Accept Format Header.
The big game publishers are probably foaming at the mouth over GoG taking off with no DRM and mostly decade(s) old computer games. I can only imagine it's a huge kick in the balls to EA, Blizzard, etc.
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So, ironically, your version of the joke would apply perfectly well to Apple today.

My how the tables have turned - everything old is new again!
I would love to do that. Bookmarked the site for later reading.
Knockout's documentation I find severely lacking. It has no API reference whatsoever (short of reading the code, which I do not recommend). It just has a set of really comprehensive tutorials. Which is great when you're starting out. Not so much when you're trying to work out if ObservableArray.prototype.remove takes a function like removeAll does. (Or was it the other way round? dammit)
Not the OP; but you are even more obscure than in the previous comment. I am sure there is something zen in here that I am missing.
Thanks for pointing out the error Scott. It should be fixed now.
As discussed below, it still affects the transferability of those games. I.e. you need Steam to install those games anew, since they don't provide you with a standalone installer. Therefore even those games are DRMed.
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Than keeping memory accesses chip local (I guess via thread pinning). The comparison was done on the same hardware platform.
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> 5 lines of .NET code

Yep.

> very little processing power

Not really. Those 5 lines are hiding a pretty big chunk of smarts. Simple scale/rotate transformations are an O(n) operation. That's not so bad. However image encoding/decoding is a bit more expensive.

JPEG encoding, for instance, utilizes an O(n*log(n)) frequency analysis algorithm called a Discrete Cosine Transform. Good JPEG encoders will also do some expensive analysis to maximize precision while minimizing size during quantization (edit: though most just use a set of standard quantization matrices). And then there's I/O. It seems fast when you're only processing one image at a time, but to do this as a real-time service for a number of high-traffic websites is very nontrivial.
I ALWAYS find the survival stories of college WAY more interesting than what you did to get your masters or what you majored in.
Never thought about it like that, but I agree.

As a person (mini-corporation?) I have expenses; rent, food, etc. It would be great if I only had to pay taxes on my "profit", because my tax burden would then be much lower. Conversely, it would be great if corporations had to pay tax on revenue (more tax money for things we desperately need, like education and healthcare).
It's a leak from /r/atheism[1], just yesterday. That thread at least points out all the problems if you scroll down.

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1fb282/these_7_stat...
What if part of the renters agreement was for access to one of the cars? You have 20 journeys at can be going on at any one time. If more than 20 people go to work, or wherever, in the me period of time then the system stops working. Granted the maths isn't always going to be quite that simple since you're really looking at something being out of service for twice the outgoing journey time, but the limiting factor is going to be peak availability and that is going to stack up around rush hour.

I'm not sure NYC is a good example for the personal space one - do the people there really have the practical option of doing otherwise?
Billing is definitely on our todo list as we progress with the beta. Provisioning new accounts is a little trickier as it could potentially open the door to abuse. Which isn't to say we'll never do it or that it isn't possible, just that it is more complicated.
> The bluer states are trending down population-wise and the red states are where the most economic and population growth seems to be happening.

"Seems" perhaps, but, not more than that when it comes to economic growth. [1] Its closer to (but still very far from) true in population terms, in that many of the most rapidly growing states are redder states and few are bluer states (but many of the slowest growing states are redder states, too!) [2], and to the degree it resembles truth in population terms, that underscores how far from true it is in economic terms, since the handful of redder states that are growing the fastest in GSP are also the ones growing fastest in population, which means that their GSP per capita growth rate isn't actually that good (meanwhile top-quintile GSP growth bluer states like California and Massachussetts are more in the middle of the pack in population growth.)

[1] http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/gsp_newsr...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...
I could see how taxing standard of living rather than a high income could be a good thing.
Very cool. Could I suggest that you display the total balls dropped somewhere as well?

Edit: just two niggles - (a) 13 bins would be better numbered 0-12 or 1-13. (b) I would round the percentages to nearest value (not down).
This isn't the central limit theorem. This is a binomial distribution. Nice animation though.
Turn that into something I can gamble on and I'd play it all day.
In the 1st world I think very few people would ding you for building a business model that relied on a predictable steady supply of electricity. Non issue.
SemanticMerge now supports Java - language-aware merge tool
Is anything really established in PL research? Is goto really considered harmful?

Golang also differs from Java in some obvious low level ways.
Is 100f 30 days in a row worse than 7 months in a row of mostly overcast and rain? Not so assured.
I'm excited to try this! I started down the Stella path but stalled out pretty fast when I found out how much I take for granted from Foundation classes that aren't available and had to rewrite myself in C (like simple file I/O).

I'm hoping that resolution support just kinda works, even if letterboxed, and that AdMob integration isn't bad.

Downloading now...
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At least you'd have some pleasant contrast. Walking into your apartment in the summer to be met with air at least as warm as outside is not very cool.

Temperature contrast is vastly underrated, and almost impossible to get in Seattle either way (never gets cold enough in the winter to be that different than a comfortable indoors temperature either).
In the same vein, here's my JS interpreter: https://github.com/mgoeppner/brainfuck.js
You don't necessarily have to install DRM-free software; you can often copy it into a directory of your choosing and run the binary.

Steam also provides the ability to generate installable backups (though IIRC you do need to sign into an account that owns the game to restore a backup), and to run in offline mode.
That's not necessarily regressive, if a billionaire buys the same house someone making $70,000/yr doesn't make it regressive. It's not linearly progressive (ie 1:1 ratio of taxes to taxable amount), but is still progressive. Current income taxes (federal at least) are more regressive even though quantity of money might still be higher for higher income individuals.

I could be completely wrong, tax stuff confuse the hell out of me...
>> I've found it to be challenging to find professional-quality stock-like photos on Flickr amidst the millions of pictures of vacations.

If you need professional quality stuff, you should be paying for it from one of the many stock agencies around. The agencies have lots of rules and safeguards that are designed to save you the headache of worrying about whether model releases were signed, etc.
In many cultures children take care of the parents in their old age. Is that not practical value?

In farming cultures, the more children you have the more workers you have. That seems practical as well.

I think his analogy is flawed.
Check out [UIScreen setCurrentMode:] extensions if you want to get the resolution looking reasonable quickly.

http://docs.apportable.com/uikit-extensions.html#uiscreen
I don't see how you make the jump from "Is there even a decent IDE for Go?" to "If you want a language which requires an IDE ...". For many people IDEs make the experience of programming more pleasant, even if the language is perfectly usable without an IDE. It hardly requires "a vast and complex standard library" for documentation tooltips or auto-completion to be useful, for instance.
We first launched C# support, a few weeks later we went for Vb.net and now we step out of the .NET framework to release Java support.

Semantic is a free beta and we're giving unlimited licenses to coders sharing feedback.

We're now starting to work on C and then C++ (both using libclang) and hopefully able to handle the Mac OS GUI request soon too (http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/196398-mergebegins)

Thanks!
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As others pointed out, they still can be called "good old" in a sense of quality. I.e. even if the game is new, but it has the values of classic games rather than mass market junk approach, it can be loosely called "good old" :). GOG is known to pick really good games in general.

See http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/continue_to_add_more_good_o...
And existing gas stations will just grow chargers. These things don't really require a whole lot of infrastructure as I understand it. A standard industrial electrical drop is probably already present (my math says a single charging station will draw 600A). Just drop the station next to an existing parking place and plug it in. The cost is borne mostly by Tesla in producing them as I see it.
incredibly self indulgent

How? There are people who spend thousands of dollars on shoes, clothes etc. Heck, how many of us here spend tons of money on the latest gadget? Compared to these, spending money learning something just because he wanted to, is way better. And in any case, it is his money (well, it was a loan, still..), so he can spend however he wants (same goes for people who spend tons of money on the latest and greatest fad - it is their money)
Yeah, I can't remember when TF2 started for under 5 mins... :(
I play like 3-4 times a month and every single time I've got steam update, tf2 update, long logging times and apart of that the steam client became really heavy on my (probably above average) machine.
I use KnockoutJS, would there be anything in particular you feel React has going for it over knockout ?
> A poor person in India who has never used the Internet and has probably never heard of the Internet is not in any way affected by people who use the Internet.

Anyone in a money economy is deeply affected by the Internet.

> No offense, I think people trying to say the Linux kernel is as important as the moon landing are suffering from delusions of grandeur.

Nobody is obligated to acknowledge people whose mode of communication includes insults.
I agree with you in principle about the necessity of needing something to do in the meantime, but a huge number of gas stations already have convenience stores attached to them. Perhaps not in bigger cities, but pretty much anywhere where space is not a concern.
Ah, I'm using the 1.25 "classic" edition. More native ports, it seems.