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I'm helping take care of a preschool-aged kid with a brain injury and an unstable family situation. He has a lot of behavioral issues.

The most success we've had has been through "Positive Behavior Intervention" ( http://www.pbis.org/ ). The basic philosophy is to identify the value someone gets out of their negative behavior, set positive expectations for behaviors that provide the same value, and then provide immediate positive feedback whenever you see the positive behavior.

The adversarial approach, by comparison, tended to lead to escalating problems. It made me his enemy instead of his ally and advocate.
I think most people are troubled when they think the government is engaged in political activism or campaigning -- in fact it's illegal. So it's a difficult questions to answer, and you didn't directly answer it: "to what extent governments should be in the business of building solidarity and shared values?" You just identified the results of shared values or lack there of.

If the majority of voters do not want the government to build solidarity, or to build it against the status quo, then the only way the government can legitimately pursue such an agenda is to label it a constitutional or human right. And that is indeed the language we see used by some to promote universal health care or a living wage.

My pet theory is that homogeneity of culture makes it easier to share wealth.
It's only an "opportunity" if he stops interrupting you long enough to answer him.
Here is also a good round-up of the Tiananmen '89 at Epoch Times: http://epochtim.es/s9Nz

What I didn't know is that according to the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, the "Tank Man" life ended that day, when he ran out in front of another column of tanks from a different unit, which didn't stop and smashed him...Wei got this information from his former classmate, who was a commander of that tank column on the iconic photo.
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It should be considered a "special rule" because an exception would be made for Tesla, and no one else (including other small car manufacturers). Either let every car manufacturer sell directly or don't.
Look if you guys are even goign to argue this is a good thign , ive already given up the war on DLC has been lost and it was won by the stupid.
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He could make a much bigger difference if he simply saved a large portion of his earnings over his career, invested them (if he's working for a hedge fund he should be able to get a great return), and then invested that much larger chunk into 3rd world entrepreneurs/businesses.

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.

A much bigger impact would be to invest in those 3rd world countries (conscientiously), and provide jobs and livelihoods for those people. Build infrastructure, enable access to capital, machinery and technology, security, etc... That will make a much larger difference than any amount of money poured into charities and feel-good causes.
Check out Sickbeard. It basically does exactly what you're describing, plus searches Usenet indexes.
Yeah but assuming that works out as profitable, those customers (assuming they all stay with them) would have to start spending 10x the money they're spending with ExactTarget now on Salesforce products. That's a big stretch and risk, but again, maybe it'll work out for them. :)
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To be fair, it's not the same people on both sides of each of your examples. I suspect every politician ever will be subject to completely opposing criticism from both sides.
The problem with Intel's tiers is that you can't even buy the top of the line device: the concept doesn't exist due to the artificial market segmentation.

For Haswell, you can buy the 3.4Ghz one with TSX (4770), or the 3.5Ghz one without TSX (4770K).

You cannot have the faster speed and TSX. Why? No reason. Well, someone at Intel figured that people that want to have fast multithreaded software must be business users that don't care about clockspeed. Or something. Don't ask me, I think it's the most bonehead retarded thing ever.
I like this model. It makes a lot more sense to get people used to the technology without a huge upfront investment.

The biggest reason that I don't have a 3d printer is after the first week of making things, I have no idea what I would possibly use it for. Having a setup like this would be perfect as parts would still be rapid (compared to having them made & shipped) and it would save the large upfront expense.

Sure there may be some quality & operational issues to address, but that's fine.

A webcam might be useful for both the end user to watch his part being created and for the operator to remotely check for jams, clogs, messes, and other disasters.
That's strange. They're the #1 dedicated hosting provider used by YC-funded startups. They have a reputation as the best facilities, best private network, best control panel and best support staff you can get with rented hardware. They've swapped failed hardware for me in under an hour at 3AM their time, recovered data from a corrupt disk for me at no charge, their reliability and network is generally excellent... what are the complaints you hear?
I am reading a good book by Daniel Pink called "To Sell Is Human" at the moment,

Hey, I'm reading that same book! It is very fascinating so far, and I recommend it to, um, pretty much everybody.

makes the point that many people who do not think they are working in "sales" actually are. It sounds trite, but he does go into a lot of useful detail and advice from there

Yes, exactly. The premise might not exactly be an earth-shattering revelation, but the book is fascinating nonetheless.
Off the top of my head—have a BlogPost and a BlogPostVersion resource. BlogPostVersion has all the content, and BlogPost simply has a canonical URL and a link to a BlogPostVersion.

You could then PATCH the BlogPost with the link to whatever BlogPostVersion you want to update to.

Curious to see what others would recommend.
I find this line of argument very unconvincing. Would you apply it to the question of whether inflation and/or unemployment went down during Regan's term? Do you really think this has anything to do with the precise definition of those quantities?
The UK government had a Behavioural Insights Team, also known colloquially as the "Nudge unit".

> When the unit advised the HMRC to change the wording on income tax letters, for example, it resulted in an extra £200million being collected on time. Another experiment with the British Courts Service used personalised text messages to remind people to pay their fines on time. The result? Bailiff interventions were reduced by 150,000, saving around £30million.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9853384/Inside-the-...
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Not a bad idea. Best way to encourage projects to add better shipping support might be to purely ask questions to their project page! I know I'd add better shipping if I knew I had a backer waiting on me
That's a good example, yes.
I guess the way I think of REST is that you make requests of different kinds to resources, some of the responses containing documents that contain references to other resources - and all you need to start is the "root" document for the service and an understanding of what the contents of each document mean.
I'm in Ohio and I can (and do) buy directly from the brewery, from single bottles to full barrels.
I agree with #1, but I don't think the also/too redundancy is ungrammatical. It's superfluous but syntactically valid.
It would be the car dealers protesting... I'm sure other car manufacturers would love to be able to sell their cars direct to consumer again.
Aside from the weird link expiration issues, I wouldn't call HN a bad design.

It's simple, efficient, and information dense. Page load times are quick because it's not having to load CSS and JS frameworks. Simplicity isn't a bad thing.
I respect the right of those who can to downvote me, but I hope it's not in defense of Glass.

I love the product, I can't wait to get my hands on one.

Objectively however, the 3 speakers really offered nothing.
That is taking "part time" to the extreme.
For the record, I've already achieved this. It is not difficult.

1. Reduce the attack surface, i.e. total LOC. My base system is super small. More complex things can be run on top of it (e.g. via chroot), but the system I boot into is only about 16MB. With some effort, it could be shrunk to about 1/4 of that size.

2. Use only open source software; and refine your methods for searching through code for suspicious things. There's no shortage of open source solutions and folks right here on HN (e.g. Russ Cox) have been kind enough to share some decent methods for efficiently searching through code.

3. Boot from read-only external media, use a memory disk for the root filesystem and use tmpfs for all writable directories/partitions. This way boot times are fast and consistent, more so than with harddisk drives. And with the rootfs in memory, you can remove the external media after booting, freeing up the USB or SD card port for other things. It's very easy to replicate (clone, image, whatever you choose to call it) this system and transfer it to more external media. It takes only a short time to compile from scratch, even on underpowered computers. There is no "software installation". You insert the media and boot. That's it. You get the same pristine system every time you boot.

To anyone who injects doubt and insinuates that such an approach to evading malware as betterunix suggests is infeasible or unachievable: I'm happy to prove you wrong.
Yes, I agree that the law is a shoddy law but that shouldn't allow Tesla to sell directly. Would small car manufacturers get special rules too?

Laws are laws. Either change the law or enforce it. That's fair. Not cronyism.
I'm pretty sure the 'emerge -pv' performance is IO bound and would not be significantly improved by writing it in C.
I don't believe Texas even allows for in-store internet sales. Last I heard Tesla couldn't even inform people in the store how much the cars cost. Tesla also cannot deliver the vehicle to the customer, the customer must provide arrangements. Oh, no test drives either. It's absolutely ridiculous. I assume they opened the store just to have a better argument against the dealership cartel.

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2013/04/24/tesla-has-eyes-f...
Well, your current governor is Rick Perry so your recent track record on electing non-morons is pretty bad. Austin != Texas.
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Glad to hear it. Just consider this poor bastard, who was recently sentenced by said morons to 50 years for the entirely non-violent act of shoplifting a package of ribs.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/willie-smith-ward-rib-theft_n_3365554.html

That's "justice", Texas style. Better than the Taliban's, I suppose. But not by much.
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Correct. They do not sell cars at the Houston Galleria store:

http://www.teslamotors.com/houstongalleria
The difference is that Texas isn't actively writing these laws today. States like Cali and Mass are passing new laws to create barriers to entry.

The car dealer, alcohol and sex laws are all from a long time ago. The alcohol and sex laws are being changed rapidly here.

If only place Texas politics gets really weird is with education and schoolbooks where a small, vocal group concentrates its effort.
This is an additional complicating factor, but it's not some fundamental problem with these type of studies. There are facts that essentially all people agree to be true when provided with all the information ("objective facts"), and the question is how people's subjective beliefs about these facts are correlated with political party when these people do not have ready access to all the information (as we usually do not).
That actually makes sense, I think. Imagine how simpler and more cost effective it would be to make a single processor tiered at 4 levels via this method versus having the entire fabrication chain for four processors. If the prices are right, then I could buy the lowest tier, and a few years later pay the upgrade and get nearly a whole new processor. As long as the pricing is fair, and some cost savings are passed on to the consumer, this could be win-win, right?
IBM has been doing this for Mainframes and pSeries/RISC boxes for a long time. Other mainframes did this as well.

On the pSeries boxes, you buy a base level of CPU cores, and you can buy licenses to unlock additional cores for a period of time. It gives you cloud-ish type features (pay for what you need, when you need it) with on-premise hardware.

It was a really common licensing model when "data processing" was all about batch workloads. Now that we're building virtualized scale-out systems versus client/server systems with fixed resource requirements, it's a model that can make sense again. If you think about it, EC2 is another way of accomplishing the same thing.
It's a natural fit.

Startups use Mailchimp & Sendgrid, etc. for email marketing, but then as they mature & grow, they see the need for more mature (although, yes, more expensive, complex, & slower) tools like ExactTarget.

Very similarly, how do startups track their customers & leads? Often, with no CRM other than spreadsheets or in-house tools. When they scale & have >10 sales staff, they realize they need a more mature, slower, more expensive CRM, & SalesForce is there.

So, yes, the acquisition price seems high, but the complementary fit is solid.
I summarised his technique a few years ago like this:

JP: Jon, don't you think it's morally inexcusable that you
molest young boys?

Jon: Jeremy, it's not true that I molest young boys, that's
misrepresented by the...

JP: I asked you whether you think it's morally inexcusable that you...

Jon: That's not the point, I haven't done it in the first p....

JP: Please answer the question, is it morally inexcusable or not that....

Jon: If I molested young boys it wouldn't morally justifyable that....

JP: Is it or isn't it morally inexcusable, Jon?

Jon: argh
I think the real risk is that your radiologist might get a false positive condition that leads to you getting a dangerous procedure you don't need.
They shouldn't. ALL manufacturers should be able to sell direct to their customers. We have this same problem here in NC, and I'd be somewhat opposed to a bill which carved out an exemption just for Tesla. But I'd wholeheartedly back a bill that approved "direct to customer" sales across the board.
>Once ramped up, they'll want that Texas market. And at that point someone will have to bend.

My money is on Tesla coming out on top here. Musk strikes me as the type of person that would rather give up sales while holding a huge "Fuck Texas" sign than to give in.

Edit: Added the parent comment I was responding to. Yes, Tesla is playing nice right now. That puts them in a better public opinion. But eventually they'll either step up their game or walk away from Texas. I don't see them giving in. But only time will tell here.
"Salesforce has done this extremely effectively, from salesforce automation, to customer relations management, to customer service, etc. In many cases now it is virtually unimaginable not to use Salesforce, since the feature set is so extensive."

This is the same strategy that Microsoft has pursued for years - and it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't - MSFT going after Intuit comes to mind, as does their own Salesforce.com competitor.

ExactTarget is a good large-scale email tool, but it is a very below average marketing automation tool. Now, they purchased Pardot, which is a decent, if basic marketing automation tool - good for small business but nowhere near an Eloqua or a Marketo - more comparable to Hubspot. So the question is how integrated they can make all these various tools. To date the Pardot/ExactTarget integration was rather weak - probably more to come on that front. I could see a world where they use Pardot's front end and ExactTarget just for scale email sending but the existing user base won't appreciate that move.

Now, I look at the integration (or lack thereof) with existing Salesforce acquisitions, and I have little confidence that Salesforce will be able to build a world-class, fully integrated product. For reference, look at the integration of Buddy Media or Radian6. So Salesforce may have all the tools, but true integration between the tools has been historically lacking. Now they're adding a company that is strong in B2C email and has a small B2B marketing automation tool that they themselves are trying to integrate. Sounds very complex and difficult - and sounds like something that would take a number of years to get right.

The real question for me is what now happens to Marketo and Hubspot - Hubspot, for example, has an investment from Salesforce, but was probably unavailable for acquisition as they want to spin public. Now that Marketo is public, and it looks like their business is not very sustainable (based on my read of the S-1), they'll likely see their stock price dip to the point where they look more interesting as an acquisition to someone. They're valued at around $800m right now - so if they show poor financial metrics, I'd expect that to dip. If they get cut in half, then a pick-up in the $600-800m range becomes viable - about the same price as Eloqua - but I'm not sure who would be the buyer at this point.

I think Salesforce did the right thing in terms of topline revenue (ExactTarget does around $300m vs. $65m for Marketo) and customers (ExactTarget has large B2C brands, Marketo mainly B2B), but they bought a far inferior product. Maybe they pickup another company in the space for the product?
I'm a random developer/sysadmin so when I see something that is interesting I offer as much as seems reasonable to me.

Then I receive responses saying, "Sorry I was looking for £10,000".

It really does help if people give an idea of the figure they're searching, even if just a lower-bound.
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This is also something that's often seen in oscilloscopes. For example, many Agilent scopes can be upgraded by buying a key.

The impact for users is twofold. On the one hand users that don't upgrade still have to pay for a few (unused) components. On the other hand, if users decide they want to upgrade later on, they don't have to throw away/sell their 800$ scope or send it back to the factory. You can buy the basic model when you have the money and upgrade later.

It might be a bit awkward to buy something you pretty much own already, but it's still the most rational option.

If only humans were more rational...
Well, setting prenatal care as a prerequisite for the box almost certainly did.
Again, what basic services are not provided? I'm now genuinely curious about what you consider a basic service that is not provided by Texas. Believing in drug testing for the unemployed does not mean that Texas does not provide basic services. What 3rd world countries would you rather be a poor person in?
> Also, their supreme court does not hear criminal matters, only civil, because it makes the appeals process for executing people faster.

No. Texas simply has separate civil and criminal courts. The Court of Criminal Appeals is the supreme court for criminal cases. The Texas Supreme Court is the supreme court for civil cases. A convict can appeal through the intermediate appellate courts and then the Court of Criminal Appeals (and then perhaps later state-level collateral attack or even federal habeas). The criminal appellate process in Texas has as many steps in it as most states have.
Yes, they have a legal right to do this.

And we have a legal right to say it's exploitative and immoral.

I own the physical device, but you control how I use it? I'll be looking for a competing product that doesn't do that, thanks.
Sadly enough, it is hard to argue with that.
Why haven't banks created two way verification system yet???

Let me approve or disapprove a charge or money transfer of a certain amount via a text message!!!
Everyone wants in on DLC, turns out... as much as we all complain about it, we still hungrily buy it.

It's greedy, and douchey, but as long as they don't bring back the Celeron I'm OK with them trying this.

It isn't the case that your average user today can tell the difference between a computer that's brand new, or that's 4 years old. Chips aren't the bottleneck anyway.
Um, how about POST /blog/id/ and in the request body revert=version#

Seriously REST isn't a mystery. I think the problem is few understand what it is. Here is my 30-second version:

1. Identification of resources and manipulation through representations. This means a network resource should have a URL that is the same no matter what you are doing to it - getting changing, removing, modifying or any custom manipulation. For the Web, use HTTP verbs and request body data to define the actions.

2. Self-descriptive error messages. Don't return 200 OK for everything. Use status codes and verbose response bodies to describe what happened.

3. Hypermedia as the engine of application state. Expose ALL functionality in HTML using hyperlinks and forms.
Very cool information, and it's very much what I'm seeing personally. Just from the number of linked in pokes I get, SF is by far the highest city.
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