skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a surprising number of Model S's driving around uptown/ downtown Dallas. I believe the closest "dealer" is in Austin (195 miles away).

Interestingly enough, there should be a supercharger between Dallas and Austin by Q4 2013.

Edit: there is a service center in one of the burbs just blocks north of Dallas proper: http://www.teslamotors.com/service/dallas
> Softlayer customer profile (small to medium) seems the exact opposite of IBM (very large to huge). Does IBM take the Softlayer expertise and apply it to large accounts or do they try to service a class of customers they know nothing about.

Doesn't that make sense though? They are trying to use the people and experience of SL to enter the market of small businesses. It didn't work for Cisco/linksys, but it does make sense to broaden your market if you think you can make it work.
why you didn't say like electricity
Clojure has excellent support for hot swapping functions and data; which in my experience is far ahead of anything that Java has. The system introduced in this article is for reloading code but with a consistent state.

For example, if your application includes some state from previous actions. Then you change a function that acts on that state, but with a different protocol (e.g. data structure expectations changed in the function). Then your application would not work, as the old state is invalid for the new function. With techniques like explained in the article, you can quickly "reboot" your state to be consistent with your new code by reseeding your system.
Allows using an encrypted video stream not accessible to the user without any means of disabling this obscuring?
Interesting point - but not sure that I agree 100%. I think sometimes things are successful despite a certain lack of commitment.
How and why to teach your kids to code
Of course, Jason Scott already won at this. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
You would call their technology and application great? I use it every day as well, and for me it's one of the worst pieces of enterprise software I have to use. Unusably slow, and what should be very simple makes me jump through multiple hoops.
DFW has much more than energy. Corporate HQs, semiconductor, banking, technology, etc... (Although the traffic is starting to suck worse than ever with all the folks from the coasts being lost and construction going on...)

There's a large number corporate data jobs in the area needing to be filled. (Analyst, programmer, DBA, warehouse, BIG DATA superstars, whatever...)

The Dallas Morning Snooze is not exactly a great source of any business info or news in North Texas. There's a variety of other sources that try to fill the voids.
> Nobody buys IBM or Oracle products, they become 'partners' and negotiate license agreements.

A former employer bought IBM licenses without partnership. Boy, IBM software is lousy. :-/
When Patents Attack Part 2
Is there a way to maintain conversation? At least we all know a behaviour pattern of chase / movement repetition :)
Wearable Devices: The Next Big Trend in Mobile
You can actually run static web site from S3. Its really easy to setup, you can point your domain at a public S3 bucket. I put together this small website (http://www.de-encode.com/) to play around with it, seems to work well.
A major problem with this experimental setting, and the proposal that bets signal belief, is that they ignore the system the bets are placed in.

As students observe, "the right answer" depends on who's doing the judging. Most students have learned to answer not what they believe, but what they believe the examiner wants to hear. This is a fairly important skill, as many examiners are incapable of asking even unambiguous questions.

On the other side of the equation, information signalled in a bet is tainted by the signaller. The answer they give is not necessarily their "honest belief", but rather what they wish to signal as such. Much of high-stakes information, such as in politics, commerce, and warfare, is valued opaquely, for the purpose of enticing onlookers to act on the bets that they do see, which can be counter to the interests of the bettor.
I will buy it as soon as it is available in bigger quantities...
The statute you refer to was overturned five years ago.
They are covering it now.
Funny how similar it is to the alcohol situation. Its illegal for a brewery to sell beer directly to the public in Texas, they have to go through a middleman (distributor) that doesn't really provide value.

Although in the last legislative session the rules got relaxed somewhat ( especially for brewpubs ), its still pretty similar.
I'm in a very similar boat as you, but I live on the coast and loathe front end over some back end. I have been employed at a very small company for coming up on six years now, and the only way I can see increasing salary is to jump ship. The owner of the CO isn't particularly interested in growing, its just a face for a one man band. This means I do everything- code, docs, support, sales, shipping, manufacturing, hiring/firing, etc...which is awesome and has me 5 years down the line still in love with coming to work.
BUT I feel I deserve more and my dream is as yours- (and most everyone else) more dough.
As of recently I have decided that until my quality of life drops (pretty up there right now) then I will not focus on money.
How is the quality of your life?
I don't see it that way. Scoble fared quite well, but Paxman always interrupted him after a few seconds for no particular reason, so Robert basically wasn't allowed to explain himself properly.

In my opinion, Glass is an useful device, which also helps google to collect more personal data about the user wearing them. I don't see anything inherently "ludicrous" about it.
Why don't they chop up the US in 60 Finland sized bits, if it's so much easier to have success in a small country?
I have not been able to find anything other than marketing material; maybe I am just looking in the wrong places. Can you provide a link to some technical details?
The new, white, limited-edition Nexus 4 in pictures
Or exist, for that matter?
Total tangential point: I noticed something while reading this otherwise good explanation. I can't speak for others, but for me it explains why I often had a tough time with math in school and possibly also why pure functional languages have had slow uptake.

The thing I hate about math (and mathematical functional coding by proxy) is how it is explained.

This article contains an absolutely perfect example. Go to the heading entitled "Church Numerals," which explains how numerals are declared as functions. Above we've been introduced to lambda function notation, which is fine. Now he throws this at you:

0 = λs.λz. z the function s is applied to the argument z zero times

1 = λs.λz. s z the function s is applied once

2 = λs.λz. s (s z) the function s is applied twice

What the bleep is 's'?!?!?

I spent several minutes trying to figure that out. What is s? (bang head on table) What is 's'? (bang head on table more)

OOOOOOOHHHH... there it is in tiny f'ing print:

"(the names s and z are short for successor and zero)"

It's in tiny print so you won't see it, because knowing what symbols mean evidently is not important to understanding them.

Mathematicians do this habitually. Every math class I attended in college would consist of a mathematician who threw symbols and notations at you, proceeded to do stuff with them, and then maybe got around to defining them after he'd already expected you to get it. Maybe. If he feels like it.

It's like teaching a foreign language by beginning with poetry reading, progressing to literary theory, and then oh by the way -- as an unimportant aside -- visiting the topic of words' meanings and their grammar.

Why do mathematicians do this? Are they working to make their subject impossible to explain? Or is it some weird artifact of how the mathematically-inclined think-- do they think nonlinearly and so do not grasp that people learn things by building up ideas hierarchically?

If math were taught by beginning with symbols and operators and their conceptual meaning and then progressing to their use, I think people would have far less of a problem with it. It would be like learning any other language, followed by learning the "literature" that is expressed in that language.

Edit: I sometimes see programming languages explained this way too. Some code will be thrown at you, followed by some higher-order language concepts, and then oh by the way the symbols % means ____ in this language. The example, of course, was utterly incomprehensible prior to that little detail.
Yes, it's called "streaming". Like in XML, you can also used a mixed approach. See e.g. https://sites.google.com/site/gson/streaming
I have to say, I love some of the principles of Haskell. I am a novice though and I currently don't stand a chance of picking up and hacking on a project without serious amount studying.

However, with a cursory glance at Go, I was able to be productive in it and hack on the go compiler and runtime itself.

Maybe this is more a statement about how little I know about functional languages or some of the theoretical techniques used in Haskell.

Whilst my mortal brain comes to grips with Haskell I am being quite productive in Go. I have learned a lot on the way, too.
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Get ready for crappy service once the bean counters at IBM start outsourcing everything...
I think you pay the sales tax when you register the car, just like you would during a private sale. The only difference is that when you buy a car from a dealer, they probably help fill out that paperwork.

I could be wrong, I've never bought a new car & my current vehicles were both gifts from a family member which only carried a flat $10 tax.

Texas auto sales tax info: http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/mtr_veh/mv_su.html
But it is working so "well!" Is this a cultural mechanism or just the poor way that the PRC handles it?
Why exactly do you consider Robert to be "naive"?
I'm not sure if I should start worrying or not... We've just moved our infrastructure to SoftLayer. I'd hate it if they start to change for the worst and I'd hate it even more if I had to move to yet another data centre.
This is a video decoder IP block that is simply compatible with the security architecture of the rest of the system. The only reason you think "the DRM lobby" is pushing for it is because Torrentfreak wrote that. Torrentfreak is a laughable source of technical content.
I start a company. You start a news company and report on me. Over time, I notice that a lot of people are reporting on me and I don't really control my image that well, so I start a press office. And the press office is mostly honest with you, because so many people are reporting on me and no-one would listen to what I had to say if I wasn't mostly honest.

So, there's no advantage in investigative journalism, which is relatively expensive. So, your media company hires less people to report on me and more people to just redistribute my press releases.

Now, at some point, I'm going to notice no-one's really reporting on me any more. And what do you think is going to happen then, once I've got you all over that barrel - you think I'm going to keep talking about myself honestly? Even if I will, someone won't, and that someone will have an advantage over me in the marketplace so, over time, she'll win.

That wouldn't be a conspiracy, at least not in the classical sense. You can get there with everyone starting off reasonably honest and if you shoot all the conspirators, then you'll just be right back where you started with the same underlying problem: Investigative reporting has to give you an edge in the marketplace that can't be eroded by the person you're investigating.

I'm not saying that's the only factor at work - though many news companies do seem to be more about second and third order content aggregation than they are about investigative reporting, especially when it comes to their relationship with organisations like the police. But - it's not necessarily about giving people what they want, or about a conspiracy, the news agencies can evolve into situations where they're going to be wrong. No-one needs to conspire, and no-one, at least on the news agency's part or the consumer's part - and very few initially on the part of the initial provider - needs to want it to be that way.
I tend to work with agents. It turns out a bit more expensive for the clients, but I'm garunteed to get paid, and it's often how I find out about the jobs.

Do you find direct clients from avenues other than word of mouth?
They can show the demo car and the skateboard model (i.e. wheels and battery pack) they have in the store, and they can answer technical questions about the car, but they are not allowed to discuss prices with anyone nor are they allowed to facilitate the purchase. There are further frustrating restrictions in Texas around the service of vehicles. The Tesla service center cannot directly handle a request for service. The customer must call a department in California and make arrangements with them, then that department forwards the request to the Texas service center.

This information is based on what I remember of reading various posts in the teslamotorsclub.com forums.
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Programmers get very attached to their favorite languages, and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, so to explain this point I'm going to use a hypothetical language called Blub. Blub falls right in the middle of the abstractness continuum. It is not the most powerful language, but it is more powerful than Cobol or machine language.

And in fact, our hypothetical Blub programmer wouldn't use either of them. Of course he wouldn't program in machine language. That's what compilers are for. And as for Cobol, he doesn't know how anyone can get anything done with it. It doesn't even have x (Blub feature of your choice).

As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

When we switch to the point of view of a programmer using any of the languages higher up the power continuum, however, we find that he in turn looks down upon Blub. How can you get anything done in Blub? It doesn't even have y.

By induction, the only programmers in a position to see all the differences in power between the various languages are those who understand the most powerful one. (This is probably what Eric Raymond meant about Lisp making you a better programmer.) You can't trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs.
I read "work for free" as doing open source work, at least by contributing to projects you make use of regularly, which I whole-heartedly recommend. This alone has probably accounted for 50% of any success I've had in my career, in terms of making connections with other talented people, having publicly visible code (which has brought opportunities to me I was never even aware of), and of course honing my own skills.
Me too... it is actually distracting if you want to really read carefully the article.
Taming the patent troll - is cracking down the wrong approach?
Content types and HATEOAS are orthogonal properties, I'm not sure how you made the latter work using the former?
The reason I use google reader is because it is best supported by iphone apps for offline reading. Does anyone know of any iphone apps that will allow me to read my rss feeds while underground?
What part of the sentence do you think is ungrammatical?
I thought that was changed about 6 years ago? Prior to that you could sell things that were almost completely like dildos, but they were called "demonstrators" for educational use only. Interestingly enough, they were only illegal if marketed for vaginal use and not for use in other ways since the other ways weren't considered "sexual."
For the 99% of Startups That Didn’t Get Into TechStars? A reason to continue…
That's a minimal demo.
But implementing a chat is rather easy: history is a "set" (like mice list in the demo) and a message is an "object" (like a pointer in the demo).
You can be an entrepreneur today and a startup founder tomorrow, or both at the same time, or just a startup founder.

I don't exactly agree with this distinction between "startup founder" and "entrepreneur". What I mean is, I think "startup founders" are a subset of "entrepreneurs". So while you can clearly be an entrepreneur without being a startup founder, I don't see how you can be a startup founder and not be an entrepreneur.

That said, I think I agree with the overall point that I think swombat was making, regarding the different "paths" a business can take: take VC money, plan on being scalable, go for the moonshot, etc., versus looking for profitability early on, and choosing organic growth, and a slow, steady progression.

That bit is definitely an important distinction, and founders (of all ilks) should think about it. But I don't quite think it maps to "entrepreneur" versus "startup founder" from a terminology point of view. But that's just me and my biases.

It also strikes me that you aren't committed to one "path" forever. A company could, theoretically, start with the "slow and steady" approach, self-fund / bootstrap, grow slowly while seeking product /market fit, business model validation, etc. and then, once the foundation is laid, go out and look to raise VC money or private equity money to accelerate growth to the "big time".
Hacking Into The Indian Education System
The term "newspaper classified" has been replaced by "Craigslist".
Which was really just a skin on XBMC. It had the right idea, too bad so sad.
It is looked like unstable behavior. Or that something broken.
But it's normally not a good idea to grow by "hiring a lot of people fast". Startups outside of SV aren't really interested in the rocket growth. What happens usually is that companies with that hockey-stick growth generally just have a lot of layoffs down the road, e.g. Zynga (if they're not bought out for way too much money before this can occur).

The navel-gazing doesn't really occur outside of that environment, and the "need to scale" is really just a pissing contest that amateurs crow about while the real men and women get shit done by growing organically, turning a solid profit quarter after quarter and not caring what SV hipsters that don't know what the word profit means say they need to do.
I don't know if it's common, but what you're talking about did happen. In 2007 someone slipped an ad into the Chengdu Evening News that said "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims".

The clerk who took the ad didn't know about the 1989 protests, and so let it go through. The mainland Chinese I've brought it up to certainly knew about it though.
Inside Facebook: iOS Development
Weirldy enough, exactly yesterday I started having a look at this[1], which seems to be very related...

[1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/
A health guide for programmers. Part two: diet
Salary may be misleading and not the best indicator of how much you're really making. For a more accurate number you have to calculate taxes and cost of living at the location where you're working as well as benefits (if any).

1. don't stay at a company more than 2 years (unless they give you what you want) and ask at least 20% more every time you change jobs.

2. become a contractor and eventually run your own business
There are a number of startups there too! I've talked with a number of them. Lots of cloud-esque & analytics firms there.
Were you not looking on Google?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trustzone+arm

Read the first PDF on that page.
A fun sight is going to Tokyo and seeing huge amounts of bikes parked in front of "no bike parking here please" signs.
I've been edging towards something similar in my own code. Tomorrow, I'm going to just rip off this stuff wholesale. Maybe it could make a nice lein plugin.
you made me think that this topic is very complex. your example is nice (i mean the instagram photo), but sometimes people just post silly things, sometimes i feel it makes me stupid
Dollar Shave Club Launches Wet Wipes and A Second Video
Some parts of Germany now rank as well as the Finnish average in the PISA tests. (And Singapore ranks pretty well, too, but that was not a result of an effort spurred on by the testing.)
The PATH environment [...] is a *comma-separated* list

It's a colon-separated list.

Apart from that, nice overview of Env vars.
You're aiming way to low. By the time you're 30 you may be married, might have a child, might like a home. If you drift into Silicon Valley proper, where I live, your $100,000 will not allow you to buy a house. What were once working class neighborhoods are now filled with $2.5 million dollar homes. (But the houses are the same.) Aim higher, or learn to love to commute.

Most importantly, enjoy what you do. No matter how much you make, if you hate going to work, it won't matter.
So you are implying that it's not related to encryption of the video?
I have some background (grad student in cfd, thinking about switching to some sort of data analysis later on) but my measure theory and probability skills are rusty (on the other hand numerical linear algebra, functional calculus and complex analysis are superb). What would be a good book for my level?
A little off-topic, but could you give some (Perl) code examples of this:

> You feel initiated into an inner circle. You feel like you’ve discovered LISP in an alternate dimension (but you haven’t).
I was experimenting with integrated tools.namespace reloading in elisp as well, and I found a slightly nicer way to send commands to nrepl:

(defun nrepl-reset ()
(interactive)
(nrepl-interactive-eval "(user/reset)"))

The original elisp function:

(defun nrepl-reset ()
(interactive)
(set-buffer "*nrepl*")
(goto-char (point-max))
(insert "(user/reset)")
(nrepl-return))
Sure, by a federal court. The state, under the same governor who is still in office today, went to court and argued that Texas had a compelling interest in preventing people from having sex for reasons other than procreation.
Are the companies that new in a such tough and risky situation the usual ones hiring interns? I was under the impression companies like that would just want few core highly efficient workers.