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> Yeah, it's an example of government as envisioned by the founders working as intended - when someone at the state level overreaches, a federal court strikes it down

Jeffersonian democrats certainly were against that idea, as evidenced by nullification, which was in issue up until the civil war.

Maybe the federalists, but it sounds extreme even for them.

It sounds like something that the northern politicians had in mind in the late 19th century or maybe early 20th century.

i know its OT, but could you expand on that idea?
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I'm experiencing extreme envy at these private room stories.

I had my first child in a great hospital with the same room all to my family for our full two-day stay.

For my current pregnancy, I switched care providers, but I chose the new midwife based on her ability to deliver at the great hospital where I had my first child.

Last month (when I was seven months pregnant), my insurance company decided they no longer cover the awesome hospital. My midwife said insurance companies almost never let you stick with the hospital you'd planned in these situations. So unless I want to pay for the whole thing (despite being insured at great cost to my employer and me), I can spend my first days with my new baby sharing a room with some random family of strangers and their new baby, at a hospital where there's a high likelihood that the other family's new baby will be enduring significant medical problems.

Hooray for privatized health care, right? Clearly better than any other possibility.
According to the spreadsheet, there was one posting from Bejing and another from Singapore.
To be clear, this is more about inertia than it is some nefarious cabal erecting barriers to Tesla.

But, if the regulation was a big problem for the corporate interests? The regulations would definitely not still be here. When it comes to money and regulations, I like to picture water acting on rock over time -- they get carved away a little bit at a time.
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Greetings from Texas! I tried to be friendly but was modded down, so I'll just be straightforward: Your insult of our state is unkind and inaccurate.
Not very friendly to visitors who have a less-than-firm grasp of English.
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oh hey so it's closed source and could disappear just like google reader, anytime, right?
IIRC auto manufacturers are prohibited by law from owning dealerships. So Tesla would be introducing a dependency of variable quality between itself and its customers.
> the primary thing you're paying for on the train isn't comfort, it's being transported

Depends how you define "primary", and also depends on how tickets are priced.

I don't know enough (or, indeed, anything) about public transport costs/margins/etc. but let's say second class costs $5, first class $10, a nicer seat costs $100 more than a cheap seat, and seats last for 20 journeys before needing to be replaced. In that scenario, the extra cost for first class seat is purely spent on the actual upgrade cost, nothing to do with the fact that you are traveling somewhere.

Of course, in my random price list, the upgrade price (i.e. difference between the two options) covers 100% of the actual cost - in real life, maybe it covers 200% and is therefore subsidising cheaper tickets, or maybe it covers 1% and is being subsidised by cheaper tickets. But wherever it falls there, at least some of the cost is going towards the actual, physical cost.
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e.g. some fields I've done some experiments lately were realtime feature tracking in video-streams (webcam), image vectorization, ... it's always like that: I see interesting new technologies/algorithms, I want to create something combining the algorithms and JS
> What's stopping Tesla from partnering with Toyota dealers?

My guess is Tesla not wanting to slap a bunch of dealer costs on top of the cost of the cars.

> Tesla could build 10 very nice dealerships for 1% of its valuation.

As I understand it, Tesla owning those dealerships would be just as illegal. If Tesla doesn't own the dealerships, they're either going to share the profits of the sold cars with the dealership or deal with the dealers markup and dealers fees increasing the costs of the cars.
Looks like you can use STM in Haskell: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5879128/a-way-to-form-a-s...
This article is somewhat misleading. This is not a "Texas vs. Tesla" issue, this is a "car dealerships want a monopoly" problem. This issue has been around long before Tesla came on the scene.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/why-you-cant-buy...
Please. Tesla will sell it over the internet and ship it. How many models do they have? They can have showrooms that don't engage in any sales. Where people can just go to look, test drive. This is such a non issue for them. Hope TX is forcing every one that sells over the internet to her citizens to pay her tax or else they will be missing those tax revenues too.
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I live in Minneapolis, which is a hub city for Delta airlines. It is quite often MUCH cheaper for me to drive to Chicago, and get a flight that connects through Minneapolis to my final destination, than it is to book a flight from Minneapolis to my final destination. Yes, it makes financial sense for Delta and Intel to do this, from their perspectives. As a consumer, it sucks, and you can't convince me it doesn't suck.

Intel is offering to sell intentionally disabled hardware at a lowered price, because they want the opportunity to up-sell the more advanced features, later.

And I'm perfectly within my rights to say, "Hell, no. And no one else should buy that product, either. If we all reject it, they'll abandon this ploy."

If Intel can manufacture a chip capable of X, Y, and Z, then that's awesome. Don't go out of your way to disable Z, in an attempt to squeeze more money out of me. It doesn't COST THEM ANYTHING to have Z enabled on my chip. It does in fact cost them to add hardware to artificially disable Z.

Intel has figured out how to mass produce Mustang Shelby GT 500's and sell them at the price of a Ford Fiesta... with the ability to "unlock" 600 horsepower.
> people shoving their politics

How is pointing this out politics? If pointing it out is politically conservative, ignoring it is politically liberal? I don't get it. It's one of the few economic absolute truths we have.

> "it's not really their success, since they used public roads

That happens already. You didn't build that! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
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That may not matter -- in fact, most companies that take on VC money are not profitable for quite awhile, with the expectation that in the long term, the business will be enormous.

Before making the judgement that "psh, they're not profitable", be sure the vectors look right. For example, have they been making that margin smaller and smaller, and is the revenue getting larger and larger? If so, then they're fine in the long term, and it's a sound investment.
More like if you opted out of paying the extra $20, the steward would come by and put stiff boards under your butt to ensure you cannot derive any utility from the cushion that's already there.
See my sibling post for more on my own opinion on the matter, but that all hinges on whether or not you consider IP property rights. Is the exclusive right to use an idea an inherent, basic human right, like freedom-of-religion or freedom-of-speech? Or is it a government granted monopoly?
One of the main reasons there are many startup founders who dont really care about being entrepreneurs (making money or closing value/profit loop as Daniel says) is a great desire by VC community to profit on the tech startup boom.
Look at the majority of new startup accelerators out there and the message they are transmiting.. The fact is that all these groups are funded by clever investor money to play the numbers game. Simple as that. And in this numbers game majority of scalable startup founders are being left hanging in the air. This creates virtual reality of some sort..
Check out this interview with Steve Blank, he wraps it up nicely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYCE3980kPA
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Thanks for pointing that out, that sucks. I'm glad I'm not much of an overclocker. Also a shame that they don't seem to have plans for any chips with >4 cores, and they're still disabling hyperthreading on a lot of models.

It probably won't stop me from buying a Haswell, I'm drooling for all those new instructions...
I'm interested in how technology can bridge the gap between the developed-world latent willingness to give and developing-world needs.

There are a lot of people out there who are looking for a more meaningful purpose in life. The problem with traditional charities is that the giver feels the downside, through a lighter checkbook, but can't really see the specific upside their donations perform, even in the case of a charity that allocates its resources efficiently.

One way to mitigate this is through transparency in giving. We're more likely to give to a specific disaster relief fund than a general "humanity in Africa" fund, even when both may do just as much good, because we see where the money is going. Watsi expands on this model by bringing transparency in giving down to the level of the individual.

Without internet penetration in the developing world, Watsi's approach wouldn't be logistically possible. As that penetration expands, it will be easier to connect to people in need on a personal rather than an abstract level. I hope that makes us, on average, more charitable givers. :)

EDIT: This was in response to, and as a partial refutation of, the following quote from the article: "If your profoundest interest is dying children in Africa or Bangladesh, it’s probably best to go to Africa or Bangladesh, not to Wall Street." There are many, many people with an interest in global humanity who can't realistically drop everything and change continents.
Why do we need analogies? This situation is not that complicated to understand. Let's skip the inevitable argument over whose useless analogy is better.
True, but it's rare to see a sign saying you can use your phone. Almost always it's telling you not too.
"Social" evolves. Part of that is the society it attracts and part the society infused in increments by the creators of the walled garden.

But here's the real kicker: "Social" is just a badly made forum with an attachment feature. It's just that instead of the focus being on replying to threads, it's now new thread creation with a provision to vote, bookmark and subscribe to others' bookmarks. The more users you have in this forum, the more it gets used (the snowball effect; or rather the opposite of the "Empty Restaurant" problem mentioned by Spolsky).
Yeah, we were totally unprepared when we applied it to our wall... it ended up horrible.
Exactly. Not a whole lot in the way of consumer web / social media startups going on here. We have a lot of B2B and consulting companies, many of which feed off either the Microsoft or Amazon or perhaps even Boeing ecosystem.

There is a lot of tech talent in Seattle, and even more demand for it, but there seems to be a lack of VC money looking for startups to invest in. It just isn't really the model here.
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> Or is the assumption that it should generally work for anything if you model it right?

It should generally work for anything if you model it right.

> I ask this because the API I'm building is for a B2B product and lot of the "actions" are not state change requests.

How can anything both be an action and not be a state change request?

> In fact, they are a lot of verbs which fire off lots of business logic and don't really map well to a single entity.

A "verb that firest off lots of business logic" sounds like a RPC-style metaphor.

In a REST architecture -- and they don't necessarily map perfectly so with more description I might characterize this differently -- I'd characterize that as most likely a entity creation (HTTP POST) action (the entity being a particular invocation of the underlying logic, and containing all the necessary parameters.)

> Some endpoints also need to return very large and deeply filled entities in a single call.

How does this conflict with REST. REST has nothing against "large and deeply filled entities". (Remember that HTTP is itself a RESTful API, and obviously is designed for a use case where "large and deeply-filled entities" are frequently returned.)

You may want to define specific media types for each of these types of entities to do REST properly, but since in practice you are going to have to define the structure of the entity returned no matter what application architectural style you are using, this isn't really a substantial extra workload for REST.
I don't think you've read my question.
For the love of Thor, please provide a few code examples illustrating the content, hard to get an idea of how to simplify things with Go with mere words and ideas.
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That was a very well written explanation of what the dealers are doing (and why). Thanks for laying it out so clearly.

| [F]loorplan isn't free, and it's a significant dealer cost
| (which is why you should always buy the oldest car on the
| lot (measured in # days it has been in dealer inventory)).

I realize this is a little off topic, but can you go into more detail of why this matters? If a dealer has N cars taking up space, why do they care whether I take the one that came in yesterday versus the one that came in a month ago? Selling either seems like it would free up the same space, so how is it different? Are there financial incentives that are at play for them, or is it more that they tend to consider the sunk costs?

More importantly, is that information I can find out and use to my advantage when negotiating?
In response to the "why should Tesla get this when other automakers don't" angle:

Nobody is saying the law is at all fair to Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. It's not. They should be able to sell directly to consumers also. The law was lobbied for by dealers in Texas, and signed by America's greatest president, George W. Bush, when he was still governor of Texas. Bush was a true conservative who believed in free market principles, except for when he wasn't.

Let's not pretend this is Tesla vs. Ford/GM/Toyota. This is Tesla vs. the good old boy, rent-seeker network that is the auto dealer lobby.

Car dealerships are some of the last dynasty busineses. Ever wonder why most family run businesses eventually fail when an incompetent son/daughter takes over, but dealerships just stay around for 3 or 4 generations? Its because its a rigged market that requires no skill. The profits don't come from adding value. They come from gouging consumers.

Tesla is just a new reminder that we are being screwed, and they don't have the inventory to support the network of the dealership mafiosos and their fratboy progeny.

"Dude, my dad owns this dealership, so I totally know business bro......" (overheard at every frat party ever)
Presumably AMD has all their chip engineers engaged in trying to make their chips more performant.
"The unfortunate truth is that most money that goes into charities that operate in 3rd world countries gets spent on logistics, bureaucracy, and gets siphoned off by corrupt governments or stolen by thieves. He'll save someone from malaria one day, and they'll die from another cause later."

Self-serving selfish unsupported claptrap.

I especially like the line "He'll save someone from malaria one day, and they'll die from another cause later." Hard to argue with that point since we'll all die from some cause later.

As if, for example, funding the inexpensive operations to relieve the suffering of women with untreated obstetric fistulas (http://www.fistulafoundation.org/whatisfistula/faqs.html) is just a waste of time and money. Sheesh.
Missing a word here:

> [...] basic accommodation and a fairly allowance.

A fairly what? allowance?
What if the improved upbringing opens up more opportunities for the child -- in other countries? So now instead of an average taxpayer you get nothing at all?
I'm of two minds. Is it really OK to have fundamental decisions about a system as large and complex as Texas' state government ultimately be decided by so unserious a group of people? Or would they just do more damage if they were around more?

I don't live in Texas, so I have no dog in the fight.
You won't, because there does not appear to be a related chronic misunderstanding with that one.
Ugh, the horse he seems to be beating: "Don't try to do something good, because it might not work!"

Depressing read.
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Seriously, this demo is amazing and quite informative.

I think the original title is a bit bland though, something like "WebGL: How, Where, and What to Draw" would have explained what the slides are about much better.
>>You can't get an "unlocked" cpu with virtualization, but you can get the same chip locked with virtualization extensions

The 4770K has the core virtualization function VT-x and VT-EPT, just not VT-d. I believe this has often been the case for desktop vs server CPUs; Intel needs to distinguish its desktop vs. server offerings after all. The 4770 is locked and gains VT-d and TSX-NI.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Proc...
I define "primary" by observing that practically nobody (save for a very few enthusiasts) ever get on a train or a plane except because they want to arrive at the destination. Riding on a train or a plane to enjoy the journey itself is very rare.

Subsidising:

Though first class represents less than 5 percent of all seats flown on long-haul routes, and business class accounts for 15 percent, those seats combined to generate 40 to 50 percent of airlines’ revenue

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/business/taking-first-clas...
The clarification here on the details is certainly nice to have.

However, are you seriously suggesting that 50 years imprisonment is only somewhat harsh?! Taking 12.5 years at the minimum before being eligible for parole for stealing $35 ribs and "threatening" someone?

By the way, saying "I've got a knife" and calling that a threat is both a stretch of what it means to threaten and what it means to call something a "violent act".

$35 food theft != 50 years imprisonment. That is fucking insane, not somewhat harsh.
The answer then, is to remove the "special rule" for everyone. Anyone (even companies that make cars) can sell them.
Manufacturers would love to sell directly. They're doing it in Europe and aren't trying to enact protectionist dealership laws to protect their interests from upstart competitors. Dealers are notorious for bad service, and you can't shut underperforming ones without large buyout fees.
>They'll undoubtedly bring it back up next session.

Sure... in 2015. That is between 1.5 and 2.5 years away. That they don't meet again until 2015 is really crappy. How do they ever get stuff done?
If this was framed as charging twenty bucks less for those willing to endure the hard side of the cushion, people would be proclaiming anyone sitting on soft cushions as stupid.
I can play FullHD DTS movies (rips of my own blurays kept at best quality possible) over Wifi without any hickup at all. That's fine.
The UI sometimes could be faster/smoother, but it's good enough. Moving between menu items sometimes drops a frame or two. So that's in FullHD, maybe that's better at a lower resolution.

What i learned from my previous media center (a Boxee, so basically a commercial XBMC fork): To stream FullHD over Wifi use NFS, not SMB, it is a difference. Atleast in my setup movies wouldn't play without buffering every few seconds over SMB.

Edit: also, from my experience openelec seems to be a little bit faster. Maybe because it's not booting the whole Debian userspace but only a minimal Linux.

Also: You can overclock your rPi without losing warranty (within limits). I overclocked mine to the maximum (700MHz -> 1000MHz) and it's still running without any cooling! :)
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Well, you can, it's called the Xeon 1285v3 (3.6 GHz w/ TSX) and it costs $662 (almost twice as much as the 4770K).
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Oh dear god, this is overwrought. Elon Musk is not the righteous cause, and everyone opposing him is not the devil, and this is not some dramatic showdown (to paraphrase a line from Serenity). I support changes to the dealer system, but when you start the arguement by suggesting your opponent is akin to a cancer, you're not showing any interest in that. If the dealer system changes, it should do so for everyone, not just Tesla.
Become a full-stack dev and learn to negotiate your skills. If you want to build skills quickly, you can always become a contractor. That way you learn a new skill/framework/etc every 3-6 months. Contractors also make good money, but may not always get the greatest vacation benefits.

I live in Minneapolis, and I've noticed that the bigger companies pay more. Best Buy, 3M, Pearson, Microsoft and Oracle are notable ones near here. If you don't mind giant, slow moving corps then an easy way to make more is to work for one.

100k for a front-end or JS developer is very doable, especially if you know the MVCs and a backend language. Node.js might be a good path as its growing quickly and it's done in a language you already know.

And lastly, build cool stuff in your spare time and list it all on a nice website. Use those projects as proof and reference during salary negotiations.
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Options not on coasts:
- Own your own company, sell your as* off.
- Sales,
- Management at small company then get hired at a bigger company.
- project management
- consulting preferably at a large firm willing to travel alot.
- specialized platform like guidewire.
- C# or java at a big company(banking or insurance) jump around alot.
So that one who didn't want to move to the new employer was really the one holding the company together!
The biggest problem here is that on average (as in, the vast majority of start-ups that never get mentioned anywhere outside their niche) a majority of successful start-ups don't generate any buzz or otherwise measurable data because they are too busy developing their product.

Maybe that's what the product does, tries to gather data on start-ups that produce little in the form of buzz but a lot in the form of revenue. It doesn't appear so. Danielle helped me a couple times when I was using the Twilio API, she's a nice person. Hopefully this works out for her.
Thanks for posting this. I found something similar but on first blush didn't think it was quite right as I was mistakenly thinking that you could only do this for TChans with the same type. Looks like it might be just what I'm after! When I think about it, STM seems like it makes sense here, since you probably want the ability to cancel/rollback the blocking gets that didn't return.

EDIT: Actually, this isn't right. The example linked does "if get from channel 1 fails, get from channel 2". I'm looking for "select" on multiple channels, where the result is based on the first channel to return.

EDIT again: Apparently I can't read, and this does achieve what I'm looking for, I just have no basic experience with STM. Awesome, will try this later!