skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those ideas which wins hearts at a conference like TC but I don't get in terms of practicality. Aside from the issues already stated, let's consider:

Keeping the key in the car (if you want to use their preferred auto-key-box-thingy) - I can't believe that wouldn't adversely effect or void my insurance. Certainly the part where I get a discount for an immobilizer is going to be negated (because the immobilizer is in the key, now in the car). And parking a car in SoMa with the ignition in it seems totally dumb - insured or otherwise.

It may come with insurance but that still doesn't cover someone driving the shit out of the breaks, clutch, drive train etc. How do you account for fuel - you can't say bring it back with a full tank because you may not keep a full tank in there. How do you account for the extra miles the car is run for with your own insurance?

How much are car owners really going to make a month after they have taken their cut? If you own a decent car, is $100/month really pushing the needle and making it worth your while?

I still wonder about the premis - how many people REALLY want to share their car with others. I won't let me best friend drive my car (or anyone else for that matter).

Finally, from the renters side, I'm not clear what benefit this has over ZipCars. I don't pay an annual membership with ZipCar, they're ~$6/hr, fuel is included (which it isn't here), they have distribution and choice of car, they're a known quantity, etc etc. Sure renting a Tesla or Porche is nice but again, I wonder why someone who can afford such a vehicle wants to rent it out to others and expose themselves to all the risk.
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1. A lot chunked, a lot - not.
2. It will be based on statistics. Same way as it works on Digg, etc. With a karma, with a minimal number of votes (vote=mark) to show mark to everybody. The last thing was implemented in Kindle readers (255 people marked this fragment).
3. -
4. So - you will be perfect marker in this service :) It's like in Wikipedia: low percent of editors is creating the content.
5. It's a good idea, but it's not so useful, as to provide people an abstract of an article. It can be the minor feature, as many others (like a social spellcheck, for example).
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Wow amazing timing, just started reading the course materials at http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/CS652/CS652+Home and finding them very informative. Also just purchased the PragProg book of the same author.

This seems really informative and timely for me.

Thanks a ton fogus!
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Check out maptail (https://github.com/stagas/maptail) for a node.js implementation that tails logs
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Einhorn should be careful what he wishes for: Microsoft is an enormously profitable company, and Ballmer is raking in the money. For this, he has at least decent understanding of that business. It would be tough to find a replacement, other than Gates, who would understand the present business nearly as well as Ballmer. Someone who didn't understand the business could seriously hurt it.

If Einhorn wants Ballmer to do better on some projects, then the result could be one or a few new VPs and projects within Microsoft.

Net Einhorn should be talking about maybe some new VPs, not a new CEO.

Actually, likely Einhorn doesn't know even as much as dip squat about the astoundingly successful parts of Microsoft's business. People who do understand Microsoft's business might want to see Gates return or some new VPs but will be very, VERY careful about getting rid of Ballmer.
By that logic interviewing people in person would put you in jeopardy of violating EEO laws. How does doing an interview over the net instead of in person change anything?
Why would that be a problem? Products become obsolete all the time, especially in the gadget world. The answer would be to add a new model for newer hardware / OSs.
> This isn't the first time Italy has reduced itself to the status of reactionary backwater by attacking scientists, Galileo being a case in point.

There was no "Italy" at that point. Galileo spent "the happiest years of his life" here in Padova, where he was given pretty much free reign by the Republic of Venice to do what he wanted because they were not nearly so much under the influence of the church, which was, and and still is a problematic influence on Italian society.

This is another "wtf" science story in Italy that's still quite current:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2011/04/23/crazy-science-i...
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But there's no bubble.
I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.
Here is another: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/places
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and following his hilarious translation of the greek seems to him the Australian actress could be a comedy in the future if he decides to leave the TV drama.
The problem with the problem is that it just... is. You can't consume all the information you possibly can come into contact with. You must filter it somehow. All filters will induce biases. Any filter that claims to somehow be unbiased just means that it matches the biases of whoever created the filter so thoroughly they can't see it, but it's still a filter. If you decide to periodically randomize things, that's part of your filter. If you give up, that just means you're filtering everything.

You can discuss desirable characteristics of filters, but you rapidly run up against the twin problems of how your characteristics are subjective, and the fact that you don't really fully understand how filters will affect you anyhow so it's all speculation. Perhaps that later point will go away as we have more experience but it's going to be hard to share those experiences with each other; they serialize into English poorly.

I think it seems like an interesting problem at first, it's something you should know about and it's worth upvoting the occasional mention of it... but there is really very little to say that isn't really about some other topic entirely (epistemology, ethics, validity of other philosophical or political viewpoints, etc.). There's not all that much interesting stuff to say about it, in the end.
Ah, but you can. :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjn...
I can tell from experience that snake-owners is a pretty good niche. It's under-targeted in the mainstream, the community around it is very enthusiastic and generally has no problem spending money (for example, when a snake is a slight bit different it can be hundreds more expensive).

But yeah, I agree that a facebook for snake owners is probably not going to be a great hit... there's a lot of free snake online communities already, also on facebook. He's got to be somewhat more original on what to market.
I think citricsquid is referring to this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/ashton-kutcher-twitter-app/
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I think it's weird how there hasn't been more press coverage of celebrities getting into business and tech. Ashton Kutcher, 50 Cent, Chamillionaire, and other actors and musicians could be a pretty big inspiration to a lot of the teenagers out there.
Drag him anyway, he'll probably settle. It's what all the latest patent companies are doing. I see no reason why it can't work on a smaller scale.
It says he's a long time shareholder, but the title here on HN says "lead investor", which indeed makes it sound like he owns a big chunk of the whole thing.
Bitcoin could be to quantum computing what Sputnik was to NASA.

Could you elaborate? Does mining bitcoins become easier with quantum computers? Is there some other connection I'm missing?
Are there any similar videos? I could listen to PG coaching for hours.
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Donald Trump does that all the time with properties, this is just the Internet version of that.
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Looks like Wordpress and some kind of classifieds plugin.

I think it looks pretty good.
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I think you mean "Pope Urban VIII's beef with Galileo...", not Cassini.

For what it's worth, Galileo made two critical observations with his telescope - specifically, his discoveries of the Jovian moons and the phases of Venus. The former demonstrated that the universe contained more than one center of gravity. This served as a fundamental contradiction of the Aristotelian metaphysics that anchored the Ptolemaic scheme, and which the Church had, by then, adopted as canonical. The latter phenomena made no sense in the context of a terracentric cosmos, but was perfectly consistent with a heliocentric model.

In other words, Galileo was not "saying that he was right and everyone else was wrong and they should just believe him because he was right." Rather, he was offering observational proof of the Copernican theory. His own theories about gravity, and specifically, WHY there could be multiple centers were - at this stage - irrelevant. The mere fact of these other centers' existence was enough to upset the intellectual status quo.

Indeed, the real bone of contention had nothing to do with the Church insisting on evidence in support of theory. The evidence was right in front of them. The problem was the inconsistency formed between the the revelation that Earth is a orbiting planet, and the (repeated) Biblical assertions that it wasn't. For instance, “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.” (1 Chronicles 16:30), “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...” (Psalm 93:1), “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...” (Psalm 96:10), “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...” (Isaiah 45:18), etc. The obvious solution - a concession that the Bible made heavy use of metaphor, and should not be taken literally - presented intractable political problems for an institution that had amassed formidable power around interpretations that treated large amounts of the Bible as actual history.

Really, the notion that "the church was on the side of the scientific method" could not be further from the truth - not least of all because the scientific method depends on the freedom of consciousness, and the ability to change one's mind based on observable reality - regardless of contrary views based on scripture, fiat, or tradition. This degree of liberty was - quite literally - anathema to an institution that claimed something approaching a property right in the laity's souls. To say they were supporting it is flatly absurd.
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If Scala can give me a way to abstract all the wacky Activity/Intent/Service stuff, get around incompatibilities between Android 1.5/1.6/2.1/2.2/2.3/3.0, work around bugs in various hardware platforms, provide me a usable GUI layout tool, and maybe even make my simulator start a wee bit faster .. I'm yours pal. Otherwise I'll be sad because I'll just be pretending that I'm programming in the future.
Google has a ton of private data that should not have been indexed, in their index. It's just that no one has thought to search for it yet. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Long)

A single public index would expose this data to stronger analysis (or even plain reading), not just Google search queries.
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The question is, which will be the more stable currency 5 or 10 years from now, BitCoin or the US Dollar?

See The Future of Money: http://pragmaticpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com/2010/03/future...
I clicked your link and it still works just fine for me:

test/test/
Verb: Take measures to check the quality, performance, or reliability of (something), esp. before putting it into widespread use or practice.
Noun: A procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, esp. before it is taken into widespread use.
I wonder what kind of value Ashton could provide through simply tweeting about AirBnB once a week to his audience - whether or not he had one half decent thing to contribute tech wise. That seems like a real big benefit for AirBnB if he chose to do it, because his influence and reach is so huge, and there is no marketing cost for him to do so.
He made a wise move, and I think AirBnB rocks, but I wish the guy would just go away.

He's not worthy.
Is this really a good thing? What does he offer?
I think it's a bit too long, yes. I prefer around 10-15 characters for function names. Also, you've lost a lot of readability with that camelCase. Also, the "Check too many lines." part wasn't superfluous -- I had a separate check for too many total lines before I count the number of lines without a comment -- and that part of the comment has been lost.
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In that case, I can't wait for Kevin Trudeau's trial.
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It strikes me that both in the article and in most comments people have no idea of what they are talking about, and yet they boldly carry on.

"The index"? Feature extraction is the most complex part of almost any machine learning algorithm, and search is no different. Indexing full text documents is a really difficult task, especially if you take inflected languages into account (English is particularly easy).

I don't see a way to "open the index" without disclosing and publishing a huge amount of highly complex code, that also makes use of either large dictionaries, or huge amounts of statistical information. It's not like you can just write a quick spec of "the index" and put it up on github.

FWIW, I run a startup that wrote a search engine for e-commerce (search as a service).
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PG: Please do this again at the next Startup School. This is seriously useful stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm
Even more so, if he made a documentary, or even put some short youtube clips up off him staying at places listed on AirBnB.
The comments are interesting. Tufte alumni are starting to network.
All these issues are ongoing issue when starting a new business. They got a good response, fast adoption already and its just the beginning, and investors are lined up. I believe they'll go ahead and now tackle those other issues.
Laying listings on a map more than solves this problem. Padmapper is great.

The biggest flaw with Padmapper is that so many places don't list their address, so they can't be mapped. Solve that and you're way more useful.
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Owners will charge what they are comfortable to cover all these prospective costs. It is a market.

The main benefit from a borrower's point of view is that Getaround is both cheaper and more convenient than conventional rental. In fact, an owner could still charge more per hour, given that many rental needs are fractions of days.

It may turn out that owner's acceptable fee is high enough that it does not compare well with conventional rental, but from a pure market perspective, this seems unlikely -- rental companies all these costs you point out, plus the cost of idle inventory. An owner has already accepted the bargain of their idle inventory, and only sees upside in rental against the existing costs. Note that Zipcar also bears this idle-inventory cost on their fleet. Getaround has an advantage in harnessing idling capacity at no cost to themselves.

It may also turn out that the cost of acquiring users (both owners and borrowers) exceeds revenue per user, and so is not a feasible business. I think this is a real risk, considering the markup of 40%. I rented from Getaround in their earlier phase; it was an excellent deal, far better than ZipCar. The cars were closer (read, more distributed than zipcars) and cheaper. I think the 40% margin might move them into the range of more directly competing with common rental rates though. We'll see.

It's hardly crazy, though.
What freedom do you have if you can't deprive others of theirs? Indeed Mr. Thiel.

If you are making statements like this, you clearly know nothing about either libertarianism or Peter Thiel.
That's a very contrived example which certainly falls apart in Haskell as soon as you do anything relatively complex (Python I would agree is a perfect language for learning to program).

I think it's also safe to assume that one of Scala's design goals was to make it accessible to Java developers, not beginning programmers.
I've heard good things about the Kutch from people I respect.

This blog post is really bad poorly wrought though. I wonder how many different pens and motives went in to crafting this monument to celebrity PR garbage.
My work MBP is a little big at 15" and has a 1680x1050 (nonstandard, but the only option for the matte screen). My 12" personal laptop has 1440x900 and that's pretty nice at the size, the pitch is almost the same as the MBP.
The hype and gold rush mentality is still abound, but this time not about the internet itself, but about (social) applications of it and how much potential it still has to change our lives. Which is completely true, so this hype is not without fundamentals, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the current crop of companies will profit from it.
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I've been meaning to write about the absolutely horrible experience I had using AirBnB in San Francisco recently. It was a nightmare.

The place was filthy (the pictures online were taken on their best day ever), the people were unfriendly, the room was small and dank- with no way to even lock the door. It was really, really bad.

I suppose it would be worth a gamble if you have the means to change plans on a dime and pay for a last minute hotel- whatever the price. That's what I had to do. But then, those aren't the people AirBnB is catering to, right?
It doesn't matter how much money they make, it's their potential for making more money in the future. It's not about their current business or where they are sliding.

The market hasn't seen that potential in Microsoft in 10 years, pretty much corresponding with when Ballmer took control.

MSFT: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...

IBM: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
He wasn't saying Netscape (or LinkedIn was a bubble companies. Rather, looking back, it is simply a marker signifying the beginning of the inflation of the bubble.
I think a lot of the new anti-intellectual property thinking is deeply flawed in that it seems to ignore a huge elephant in the room, which is that participation in the copyright regime is voluntary. If you don't like the license don't use the product. You can do this. What is happening now is that there are all sorts of compelling things floating around that were only ever produced because the producer understood that he would be able to profit off of it (because the law would stop people from being able to simply take the results of his effort without paying. Kids say "Hey I like that...but wait, I don't want to pay for it...oh, look it's digital so it's easy to take ...[insert some inexplicable leap of logic]... it must be moral to take it, too." Yeah, I think a lot of us do grow out of that, actually.

You think the Lord of the Rings movies would ever have been made without copyright law? What Kinsella is arguing is that we have no business setting up rules such that a project like that can be economically feasible. (That, I suspect, is likely because Kinsella is an anarchist. He realizes that his preferred system of government (that is, absence thereof) could not support IP; ergo, one must argue that IP is not a desired thing, cuz it sure ain't going to exist in utopia.)

It seems really poorly thought out. If you want copyright-free material, produce it! If you object to copyrighted material, don't consume it! If you're right about it being abhorrent in the digital age, then let all the abhorrers not buy it. It's so easy to just opt out.

If you buy Kinsella's argument, you don't need anything to change about the laws. Just don't participate in the copyright regime. If you really believe in his theory, the moral thing to do is boycott it all. If you say you believe in Kinsella's theory, but go ahead and copy and use stuff the author thought he was going to get paid for, it seem really, really likely to me that what you're really doing is just using intellectual blather to salve your looter conscience.
Continuing the tradition of http://jqueery.com I see...
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The best idea that came out of something like TechCrunch Disrupt is an "X of Y" (AirBnb of cars). A ton of people struggled to come up with Internet companies and that's the best we can do?

To me, that's a clear sign of solutions looking for problems. In other words, "there's gold in them hills".
Definitely an edge case, but I believe it is because of cases like this that AirBnB holds your payment until 24 hours after you've checked in. You were refunded, right?
They're separable in theory, but if you take out 'mining' you'll need to find a different way to create the incentive to maintain the network which also needs a solid proof of work to prevent people from cheating.

Also you'll need a different way to do the initial currency distribution which is also cheater-proof.

These are very hard problems.
Precisely. Perhaps most famously his total failure to foresee the successes of iPad, iPhone and then iPad. Ballmer laughing these devices off rather than seeing the future in them was painful to watch.

Another tangential favorite is when Mossberg asked Ballmer about the, at the time, new fangled "post PC" devices at the All Things Digital interview. Clueless is a very apt description.
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Yes- the refund policies vary. This place had a liberal refund policy, so I got everything but the first night back. So, to be fair- not a big loss.

It all turned out OK in the end for me, but I can't say I'm a big fan after the experience. I'm sure that there are plenty of great experiences others have had to counter balance my poor one, tho.
Its already built in. Once all the coins are mined (or it is no longer profitable to do so) one can still run bitcoin but charge transaction fees for processing transactions.
For starters, they could overhaul the concept of "safe files". This is the vector that allows auto-downloads and installer execution.

MacDefender is relatively tame. Next time it could be a rootkit packaged in a trojan.
Sorry, one more -- I think rates before national deployment were artificially low due to extreme early-adopters -- probably ideologically sympathetic. $100/mo is absurdly low, I think, given a rate. Rental agencies charge, at minimum, $30/day; I'm not sure how much a given car on Getaround would be utilized, but I think 80 hours is on the low side.
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