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The host is (well, was) a journalist. His mission is to ask searching questions. Scoble was being ridiculous and Paxman pointed it out to him.

Google is an advertising company, everything they do is about advertising. Google Glass is not a computing platform it is at worst a ludicrous vanity project and at best a proposed vehicle for selling advertising space.
Move to Salt Lake or Atlanta...depending upon your social likes/dislikes. Atlanta has a very large 6-18 month consulting community. Better than anywhere else in the US vs. cost of living. 100k here is equivalent to 175 in New York or San Fransisco. Consulting because you can move/learn every 6-18 months.
Another DRM idiocy shoved onto the oblivious consumers. Users should know to avoid these GPUs now.
It was all good until I got to the one about keeping your mobile on for Twitter.

Take a break from the dull monotony of 140 characters, please!
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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There's already a Tesla store in Houston. How did they open that store, and will they be able to keep it open? I've seen a couple Teslas driving around Dallas, and am hoping to see more.
I get that you can expire it, and that helps, but it's not the same as use-once. Of course, just using a timeout is probably fine in many cases, especially if it's used with SSL. But replay attacks are still possible since there's a windows where it can be re-used.
Sounds great for the ego, but wouldn't it be harder to learn things if none of your coworkers are allowed to be better than (or even as good as) you?
I'm Canadian. Nonetheless, his approach is very similar to the type you find from Fox hosts, so I find it odd that you think this demonstrates some sort of American/World divide, when really his approach is similar to the worst American style.
Great article. I'm actually in the middle of building out a new API. I've built many RESTful APIs but I'm starting to rethink of a couple of things with this new one. Does anyone have any good resources on when it's NOT appropriate to use REST? Or is the assumption that 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. 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. Some endpoints also need to return very large and deeply filled entities in a single call.

I've started to investigate JSON-RPC, is that a good option?
It's not a GPU.
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All too often, the media as well as average people mistake support for corporate interests as support for "free enterprise." When large corporate interests are essentially writing bills for lawmakers, "free enterprise" is precisely what is not being practiced.
I think that his argument is that, as the job of CTO becomes more of a management/connections role, it's better to have someone else in it.

I actually agree. The right people to build a business are often not the right people to maintain it at maturity. I'd want the title of "CTO" if building someone's product, but I would agree to abdicate it if I agreed with the choice of successor, and was genuinely convinced he'd do a better job than I could. I just wouldn't be happy not to have a say in it. I want to be able to say, "if you hire him above me, then I leave and you just had a CTO quit".

Titles make it hard to demote or fire someone because if they punt you, they just "fired their CTO". You want a title because when millions (and potentially billions) are on the line you can't trust people in power, even if you think you've known them for years.
Well just as long as you use the right paradime REST is not always the best model to use.

I built a tool to use a third partys restful api for a when they should have built it using message queuing as that suited the application.
Break? There is always - and will always be - the analog loop.

This is a silly invention for media executives that do not understand (1) their customers or (2) those dedicated to pirating their content.
That manifesto completely contradicts itself mostly. I'm not sure which of my contentions (that OWS was protesting against the huge bailouts or that they are of the same ideological bent as the Tea Party) you're referring to but there are enough points in the linked manifesto to support either including :

We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world´s population (if, indeed, they ever were). A world where we are told ‘there is no alternative’ to the loss of rights achieved through the long, hard struggles of our ancestors.

Yes, point 1 is clearly socialist in nature but point 2 is clearly democratic in nature. This is the inherent problem of trying to singularly define a movement that is made up grassroots organizations, each with their own agenda. But the theme behind all of them is the social and economic inequality that resulted from the bailouts. The societal themes that brought both OWS and the Tea Party to life were the same. How they went about addressing them may have been different but the underlying hopes were very similar.
Are you simultaneously arguing the Guardian is bribed by the government and that the UK is a "small country"?
Another commmenter hit this, but it deserves underlining.

You can't ask the question of whether certain statements, to the people giving them, are matters of fact or political opinion, and then have "correct" answers which are provided by others. If you have correct answers, you already know that certain opinions are based on error. The only thing you can do with such an experiment is measure how well people can guess what the judges think to be true. As it turns out, they did fairly well.

I could care less about this example, but let's take the WMD question. Old WMD was found in Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destru...

A partisan wouldn't argue the facts. He'd simply point out that, depending on how you phrase the question, the answer could be interpreted either way. The questioner has to rephrase "After the second Gulf War, were WMD found that were created in between the two wars?"

This easily goes to extremes, and questions end up being extremely detailed in order to resolve matters of "fact" This is why the role of fact-checker is a waste of time. Most all of the time, politicians aren't lying, they're simply phrasing things in enough ambiguity to create the desired impression. (This actually works for me as "bullshit", but it's not lying, and it's not giving out factual errors)
What is it exactly? An optional chip that you can unplug? It comes as one package in the GPU.
Using Python for high performance computation is also a flaw, if you ask me.
This is far from unique to social programs. In the US defense spending is ridiculously over the top stupidly high because in large part because there is little cost benifit analysis just how much can we increase it. The same can be said for targeted tax breaks, capital gains being taxed at 15% shafts everyone that does not have significant investments.
Giving people a chance to save face, with "I don't know", deflates partisanship. USA cold learn from eastern cultures about this.
You can't trust a device which has DRM.
If it's so easy to copy, how come no one else in the world has actually managed to do it?
They also have one in Austin, but the greater issue here is that the stores can't help customers as much. Specifically, in order to comply with state laws the stores can't talk about the purchasing process nor help with the registration. Tesla's site has more details on what they can and cannot do: http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas
I remember reading some time ago that Tesla's loop-hole for opening storefronts is that they don't actually sell cars to people there... they just inform people about the cars and answer their questions. When it's time to actually buy one, they sit you down at a internet terminal and you order over the web just as you would if you were purchasing from anywhere else.
How can I get an idea for a business?
Guys, I have a problem.

I knew that I wanted to start a business ever since I was in college. But I just kind of got stuck in this rut. I don't know what kind of business I want to start. I keep flipping and flopping from ideas to ideas, and never know which ones to stick with. I've gone from eBook ideas to dropshipping to consulting... there are a million possibilities to make a million, but I just can't seem to stick with one. I really want to start a business. I wouldn't even mind if it covered my cost of living (which is around $2000 a month). I want to just start already. But I'm afraid of picking the wrong idea, and losing a lot of time, effort, and money into something that will not turn out right. Maybe at this point, it is better to just do __something___, without even caring about the success. I just want to pick ONE idea, and dedicate my ENTIRE BEING into it. I just want to live and breath my own business and not think about anything else. But the initial start is killing me. I don't want to get into a unprofitable market. What should I do? I want to start a business by the end of this month. I want to give it my all. Can somebody just give me a business idea?
It's a video decoder IP block; it's one of a large number of IP blocks you can assemble like lego pieces to design an ARM system.
Can you tell me more about the job? I know a Python developer who is originally from London, so he may be interested.
Wondering how effective is the following sign plastered all over Dublin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37488984@N08/3738757617/
I really like what the guys at Nuesbyte have done in terms of interface, but the site has frustratingly many bugs (and some weird issues adding feeds from certain sites). It has so much potential but I wonder whether they are going to keep on going (I was a subscriber but they recently reimbursed). I have filed a lot of bug reports though.

If any of the Nuesbyte guys are listening, please let me help you fix your broken site. I want to use it. At the very least, get rid of the "onclick=event.stopPropogation()" on all the anchor tags inside of stories: I middle-click my links, and for hacker news I always look at comments first. It's frustrating.
How about the weather? I hear it is really hot in summer. Is it comparable to Pheonix?
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And you would do that exactly how? Be as specific as you can.
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Most languages have the concept of arrays and hashes, which map unambiguously & idiomatically to JSON via generic serializers.

Creating idiomatic XML, on the other hand, is a little more tricky. Should something be a tag or an attribute? What should it be named?
Great concept, but it's a bit ahead of it's time. We'll get there, but consumer-grade 3d printing is nowhere near unattended operation like this.

Stereolithography maybe, but additive 3d printing tech like the one shown in this video suffers from all sorts of issues requiring operator assistance - like the object unsticking from the build plate, and the head needing frequent cleaning. Unless this "vending machine" is manned, I doubt it could be useful/successful until technology improves.
A python script allows you to enter the name of the show, scrubs it from a tv guide website and adds the release date of each episode into a scheduler. Then, the scheduler fires off and searches for each episode on a torrent aggregator (like torrentz or something) and downloads it from the best seed/leech ratio result. All without your intervention since torrent RSS is not very reliable in the public tracker scenario.

What would be the legality of distributing that script? (depending on legality, I may or may not write or have already written such a script)
My guess is Indian HNers would expect to be paid reasonably well. Most startups in India (Mumbai and Bangalore, in my experience) pay their engineers quite poorly.
Remember that IBM got its start by renting you a mainframe with software on it. I've always been struck by how similar IaaS/PaaS type companies are similar to that model. In many ways a data center becomes just a really big mainframe that you're renting out.

Good, maybe it's time for me to do something useful with this personalmainframe.com domain I've been sitting on.

We just need to get Matt Smith (of Doctor Who fame) to be our spokesperson... I can just picture him standing there, adjusting his bow-tie and saying "Mainframes are cool."
What's not very clear in this article is that Texas has always been pretty good about keeping politicians out of office.

So depending on your view of government, that's either a really great thing or really terrible one.
I wonder, do they allow Louis CK to sell his own tickets? :-)
> Google and Amazon are playing the ultra-thin margin long game and the result is that they hope to destroy the competition with an aggressive pricing floor.

Could you explain this a bit? I found Amazon and Google overpriced and slow compared to other hosting solutions.
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What metrics / standards would you use to vet a potential hire? (someone with no previous professional work experience). Personal work portfolio, strictly interview questions? The benefit of a degree is an implicit sign off from a reputable institution. How would you think about replicating that comfort for someone who is self taught?
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Doesn't Fox News have a particular political slant, whereas Paxman is pretty aggressive with everyone.
"But you can't trust a device on which the video decoder silicon understands the TZ bits".
wow - the workflow mgmt hacking Stuart has done seems much more in-depth and hacked on than any Clojure I've actually written.

I mainly play with Clojure for little things, but still, . . . I'm impressed. Heck, I barely use two or three commands out of nrepl.el
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Human interaction is hardly worthless, regardless of the 'quality' of said interaction. We are social creatures, and the vast majority of people have an innate desire to share their lives and thoughts with other people.

Instagramming the trail when I went for a walk last night^1 didn't make anyone smarter, but it allowed me to share a piece of beauty from my day that could quite possibly have made them feel happier.

That said, I disagree entirely with the idea that people are not more informed because of social media. The first reports of the raid resulting in the death of Osama Bin Laden came from a civilian in Islamabad who was live-tweeting about the sound of helicopters overhead^2. Say what you will about Twitter/Facebook, but they were both instrumental in the Arab Spring and helped revolutionaries topple numerous oppressive regimes.

The news is being broken and made on social media. It's a communication tool unlike anything humanity has ever had access to, so some people will continue to swing it wildly like a child who has just been given a toy hammer, but that does not negate its efficacy in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing.

1: http://instagram.com/p/aHyO-UgngM/
2: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/02/osama.twitte...
What are the benefits of doing this instead of just requiring authentication with every request?

Is it because the authentication part is a lot of work for the server or client?

Is it for the negligible (in this context) security benefits of not using the same secret-key for all traffic?
ARM doesn't make anything physical--but neither do most software companies. ARM makes products that their customers actually want. Patent trolls don't.
I don't think any of the people who think taxes are free money post to HN.

Constantly reminding HN posters that "free" government programs actually cost money, like every single other thing in life, just derails the conversation. It serves no useful purpose, because we already know. It's just political grandstanding.

Imagine if every single post on HN about the success of some company included comments like, "it's not really their success, since they used public roads and electrical infrastructure, oh and that whole Internet thing started out as a government program!" You'd probably get annoyed pretty fast at people shoving their politics in your face where it's unnecessary.
That's a good question and I was asking myself that I after I wrote that comment. I think my objection is more to the 'Bayesian' and less to the 'methods', if that makes sense. That is, I think constructing and updating models using Bayes' theorem can be (as people doing spam-filtering have shown) a good way of making predictions, but that it is the frequentist properties of the models that actually matter (cf. the ubiquity of cross-validation: 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'), not the fact that they let you maintain a probability distribution over parameters.
But you (as a user) can't make it optional, once it's there, right?
It is amazing the lengths the PRC takes to cover up this issue[1]. You would think at some point the party would disavow the actions of their predecessors or try and marginalize connections to the past event rather than keep sweeping it under the rug.

Next year will be the 25th anniversary, that will be interesting.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-censors-block-big-yel...
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What exactly do you think this piece of technology does? I'm having trouble articulating how optional it is. I think you might think this is something that infects your operating system and watches your keystrokes.
You didn't read the whole thread. The thread was initiated by someone who works at Google, and says ""Frankly I'd hesitate in working for any company backed by the same VCs that let this happen.".
This is a great idea, until you remember Finland has a population of about 5 million. LA itself has a population of almost 4 million.

While I think this a great idea, it's pretty easy to do with such a small population. Once you start talking about a scale the size of the US, it gets rather spendy in a hurry.
In the case where you have no control over the decoder while using the system. Is it clearer now? If you have control - then it's a non issue. Same as TPM can be used for something useful, but can be used for reducing user's control.
Please, please prioritize shared filesystems/storage with the host. I know it was hotly debated when talking about sharing data between containers, but sharing data with the host is very useful.
As tptacek points out, there's not much of a story here, this is just platform security. It does puzzle me why there is so much marketing and fuss around it though, as if a common source of leaks was "mobile video". As if somehow everyone in the world would turn into a source because they have Netflix on a Samsung phone. It's bizarre.

An effective anti-piracy system is a watermark detection routine embedded into the video decoder, so that you can't use hardware acceleration if the device detects the video isn't licensed.
Yes, you have control.
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For the record, you also cannot sell dildos in Texas. I don't know why people are always crowing about how Texas is the land that respects individual rights and free enterprise. It's not. It's the land of unlimited corporate malfeasance, unchecked pollution, and a ban on fire codes.
IBM has had private clouds for a few years now. It's not like AWS where anyone can click and spin up an instance. It's geared towards very large companies. These companies have been reluctant to use AWS, or have specific requirements (hardware requirements, licensing issues, corporate policies). So it's incorrect to say IBM cant build a cloud. IBM's cloud isnt a public facing entity.
I think you are confusing the qualities of a good public API and a good internal/private one (for application architecture purposes only.) For internal, I believe REST is the way to go, no contest. Externally is a different story. You would typically only expose a subset of functionality, use different authentication schemes and use a format that can be more easily accessed across domains like JSONP.
Would they have been collecting and paying sales tax?
Limiting power was the argument for making Java crippled too.

On the topic of generics specifically, parametric polymorphism actually makes code simpler, see e.g. Haskell.
Buying ExactTarget adds 6000 more prospects/customers that Salesforce can sell to. Assuming that it signs up a fraction of those to use Salesforce Service Cloud or Data.com or any of the other Salesforce products, that's more money and helps justify the price.

Oracle has been doing this for years (and probably where Benioff got his playbook) They buy up a company, fold in their customers and cross-sell their other products to them.
I think the layout has to look natural, because that one didn't work for me.
They choose not to, or there's no full time work for them to take so they work part time instead?

It may be that they make the choice (I admit to not having read the paper), but lets not jump to that assumption just because they're not in full time work.
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I don't claim that was their goal. I think it's just a nice side-effect.
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This really only strengthens AWS, a self service cloud that anyone can manage.

IBM is chasing a dying consulting model "we know best".
But they dont.

You yourself with the knowledge can outscale IBM using AWS.

IBM's business is profiting from enterprise ignorance.

Your mileage may vary...or be nonexistent.
Scoble - enthusiastic about everything, always all-in, naive, friendly, innocent, perfect teeth, health obsessed self-publicist

Paxman - cynical, jaded, sarcastic, hates politicians for a living, lives on tea, coffee and cereal*

This is like the cross-Atlantic friendship society! Talk about wheeling out your national stereotypes. Well done BBC. Again.

* may not be true, but he looks like it
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How do "casual viewers" clone media streams anyways? They aren't so casual at that point. Whatever hacks a casual viewer needs in order to copy a stream, they could just as easily download a DRM-stripped one. So, on the surface, it does not seem like this helps anything at all.

The only effect of HDCP I've ever seen is sometimes AppleTV can't stream Netflix because of an HDCP error.
Paxman's 'grilling' is as much an opportunity as it is a challenge to the interviewee.
Dismissing it as an obnoxious, premeditated takedown underestimates Paxman's skill and as an interviewer. It's also a well known shtick of his.
If you have control (and can disable applying this to video decoding), what is the point for the DRM lobby to push for this thing? Their usual idea is to take control away.
> Though for the same dataset, XML will be slower to parse. For performance's sake use JSON.

Loading a huge JSON file is almost certainly slower than using a SAX parser for a huge XML file. Maybe there are SAX like approaches for JSON, too.
REST only looks complicated because you're seeing it with RPC goggles. In REST, you don't call functions, you just ask for documents and send documents to the server(s). There's nothing particularly complicated in it, it's just a different approach.

That said, this article isn't particularly faithful to REST.
Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start.
ok, maybe no one will die, but it will lead to a serious problems, giving up (facebook, twitter, etc) will not lead to
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