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The self-driving airplane pretty much exists. Assuming perfect conditions, an airplane can climb to a desired altitude, follow a GPS course, switch to a nonprecision VOR/DME approach, and follow a precision ILS approach (and descent) to within a few hundred feet of the runway. And that's a Cessna 172 with a mildly recent avionics package -- a modern airliner can take you to the runway surface in zero visibility. (Taxiing and takeoff are still manual operations that require more than zero visibility, however.)

The reason a self-flying plane is easier than a self-driving car is because there is much less stuff in the air than on the ground, and everything in the air has a transponder that tells you its exact location and speed. (Not true of small VFR planes, but transponders are becoming more common and if we really wanted to, we could make them mandatory.) Compare this to a car, where there are kids running into the street, traffic lights, other drivers, loads falling off the back of trucks, and so on. The number of things that can suddenly change the driving conditions are dramatic. In the air, that's not the case; the environment is very controlled and you have an extra dimension to navigate in.

With that in mind, we're still a ways away from untrained people getting into an airplane, pressing a button, and arriving at their destination. But honestly, that's details and risk management rather than a fundamental lack of technology. (What happens if the engine fails? What happens if there's a thunderstorm? The corner cases are why you have trained pilots there to assist the computers. If you're willing to die because of a simple mechanical or software failure, then self-flying planes are a reality today. If you're more cautious, then not quite yet :)
In other words, Yahoo is becoming AOL, a company with no real assets.
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My point is that, this is indeed a cool concept, well written and does well what it intended.

The problem I see, it that at one point you my start using CSS for something that will eventually (without you prior knowledge) grow bigger and more complex outside of the realms/possiblilies of CSS, now you will have to re-write.

Call me a purist, but when you start using CSS for more that styling, you might want to re-evaluate.

That said, again, I think this example is awesome for showing the new feature of the CSS language.
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> The deal, announced late Sunday in the U.S., will see Alibaba Group buying back the stake from Yahoo Inc.for $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba preference shares.

I'm sure there's a sensible rational for it, but it sounds hilarious for them to be selling their stock in exchange for a bit of cash and some more stock.
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Now that we have YET ANOTHER Turing-complete language in my display-and-rendering application, where's my button to switch off CSS?
I agree as general points. I'll disagree as it applies to Chess. The only way to escalate the ranks in chess is to become a living database. That transforms people. I've seen it and it's ugly. The chess you learned as a kid was a game. This chess is a very different animal.

Off the top of my head, a profession that requires people to become a human database is something like pharmacology. These folks have to know a lot about a tremendous number of medications. The difference between pharmacology and chess is that the former is actually useful and has a purpose. Once chess becomes "who is the better database" it stops being intellectually or practically useful as far as I am concerned.
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I have similar experiences. I feel that degrees are only relevant to employers as a means to thin the pack of applicants and only relevant to students as a way to better network and fill that check box putting them into the thinned herd.
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For reference, here is a photo of Alibaba's HQ in Hangzhou [1]. In addition to the B2B part that others have discussed, they also own Taobao (the eBay of China) and Alipay (the PayPal of China).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alibaba_group_Headquarters...
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Not sure what you're trying to say, but hstore's querying most definitely isn't "only string matching" no. hstore values, written in queries, use string-serialization for embedding in SQL. Which is very different. And this serialization is only needed when adding content to an hstore or performing set-operations on hstores, you can perform queries on hstore fields pretty much directly via the `->` operator:

SELECT id
FROM Table
WHERE (hs->'size')::INT >= 42
AND (hs->'name') IS NOT NULL
And when that time comes it will be fun.

BTW, by far the best tool I have found to teach kids Chess is the Chessmaster game on the Playstation. It is very, very well done and has a nice progression of tutorials and exercises. Best time to start is when your kid can read as not all prompts are verbal.
> Thus, he owns the legal rights for his sexual intercourse to be considered lawful.

What? Since when do you need to "own the legal rights" to perform sexual intercourse? Are you saying I cannot legally have sex unless I'm married?

I'm having a hard time following what you're saying, because most of your post is just rambling. The Mazdakian? Nothing to do with us. Abrahamic religion abolishing sexist doctrines? Are you kidding me? The Bible is full of extremely sexist views. It treats women explicitly like objects.

None of your post has anything to do with my parent comment, nor the original. I feel there is a pattern here, because all of your other posts in this thread have been the same. Right now, in 2012, a man referring to his partner as "his woman" (or a woman referring to her partner as "her man") implies ownership and has a negative connotation.
And if you have an extra hour, its well worth it to listen to Thiel in this more recent debate on the broader issue: Peter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc
All the same, I don't think playing that much really does much for your chess skills either. There's really only so much information you can absorb in a day. As an analogue, Richter, one of the greatest pianists of all time, regularly only practiced 3 hours a day.
Thank you so much for a video without christian music... I could actually watch this one.
> Does Ruby have a cool interpreter?

I don't know if it's cool, but I know of at least one alternative to irb: http://pry.github.com/
Even if one doesn't hope to start their own company, a college degree's value is mostly in its sheepskin effect. Forgive me for not citing sources, but I've read polls that suggest that up to 63% of college graduates are in jobs that don't even require a post-secondary education.
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ipython is very, very appreciated in scientific python communities.

It might be less so on the "engineering" side due to being perceived as more heavyweight?
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http://verticalpower.com/vp-400/ In an emergency it'll automatically calculate the best airport to land at (factoring in rwy length, winds, terrain & distance), fly the approach and land the plane - all at the press of a button.

The software was written by the same team that make the X-Plane flight sim (http://x-plane.com/)
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Well, it might be cool for the first several times, to demonstrate turing-completeness of CSS3, but are there any practical advantages over using js?
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Firefox > View > Page Style > No Style

Safari > Develop > Disable Styles

Opera > View > Style > User Mode

It doesn't look like Chrome has an option by default, and I don't have IE on hand to test.
Yeah, very true. It's probably best this sale went ahead then. If there is one thing you don't do, its mess with the Chinese especially in the business world. Yahoo! needs the cash anyway.
590,000 lines of changes is 30x as many lines as Lua's entire source distribution.

Just thought I'd mention this in light of yesterday's discussion about simplicity/complexity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995185
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What's happening are CNC machines are starting to be sold as consumer devices. You can attach a lot of tools to a CNC-like machine, be it a laser etcher, a plastic squirters, millers, etc. It's kind of like kitchens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 addresses some of these concerns.

Since Deep Blue beat Kasparov, it's also worth considering that playing chess could be likened to poorly reproducing the output of existing software; wouldn't writing that software be a more meaningful challenge?

There may be lessons to be learned from chess beyond what one might derive from a short stint of it. Achieving a higher level of mastery -- in many domains -- reinforces an appreciation of the extent of one's ignorance in others.
bandwidth overage after posting on HN i guess?
I appreciate your perspective. I can only speak from personal experience. I am a PhD dropout passionate about entrepreneurship and computer science (I must admit I gravitate more to hacker culture than valley subculture).

I think graduate school is actually a pretty good selector since many people attend graduate school because they are passionate about academia. I think Stanford is a good example of a source where graduate students have gone on to lead successful ventures in the valley.
Your comment about the human database is exactly why I prefer the game of go to chess. I'm good enough at chess (B-level player) that to improve I'd have to become more of a database.

Your comment about game vs life is why I have not studied go very seriously.
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It's ok, the tracking cookie they leave on your machine while you're logged out will eventually correlate to a login session and they'll have your browsing history anyway.
me too. I got through at first, but now nothing but that.
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> Has anybody here actually bought anything from them?

You don't really buy from Alibaba, you buy through Alibaba. The amount of money we've spent to the Alibaba owned TaoBao is getting very scary indeed. It's like eBay and Amazon combined, filled with a crappy ActiveX plugin (Alipay) to pay - usually combined with a security token from either of the four dozen or so big banks that one may be a member of - and any question you may have pre-sales answered. Or post-sales too. It's what eCommerce should be in the Western world.

To say that TaoBao is the eBay of China is under-exaggerating things by about hundred-fold.

And it's a shame no one in the Western world has heard of it. It's Alexa rank is... 14. And it's crazy to be assuming that Facebook is supposed to be worth $100 billion, but Alibaba just $35 billion. It should be the other way round.

Also, if TaoBao ever decides to launch in the US, it's game over for eBay definitely and beyond any doubt. It might survive as an exclusively craigslist kind of thing. Amazon should be able to compete, but they will lose a lot of market share.
Lovely stuff, but I'm mostly impressed with the website that's used to demonstrate it - I love the live-coding playback feature!
Oh yeah I get that now too. Bummer for them, must be a shitty webhost
The preferred shares are likely callable at the option of Alibaba -- that is, they have the right to buy them back at some defined price at any point in time. They will likely exercise this as soon as they have the liquidity. It's basically just a "we'll pay you 7.1B, some now in cash and 800M later", without having to put debt on the balance sheet.
Yeah, but Facebook has a way of magnifying those cultural issues and causing narcissistic behavior in people who would not otherwise be narcissistic.

I think that not making friend counts or like counts such a prominent feature on the site would go a long way toward helping that. Even on Kickstarter projects I get to see how many hundreds of friends on Facebook the organizer has. I think to myself that if I were to create a Kickstarter project I would have to go join Facebook and start collecting friends, lest I look unpopular. This is very unappealing to me.
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Many people, especially those driven by money, don't seem to appreciate the pursuit of knowledge in itself. Our society has evolved to offer the wonderful opportunity for us to learn a variety of topics. That in itself is amazing. Every bit of knowledge need not be for applying and making money from. Schools provide a great environment to teach us a broad set of things. If the problem is that schools overcharge, fix that. Everyone dropping out of schools is not the solution.
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I thnk the modern technology the parent refers to is touch screens for writing chinese characters, not keyboards for typing pinyin.
Pry is pretty cool. It adds some debugger-like features and editor integration, adds some convenient built-in commands, and improves on the UI in similar ways to bpython.
> As someone who's young, crazy, and laser-focused on the startup game, and still so far away from where I want to be in life, that's something that's in the back of my mind all the time whenever I'm seeing someone special.

Shouldn't you keep "I should get rich first" in the back of your mind instead? You can always not marry them.
one year ago, alipay (part of alibaba group, something like paypal) said to have more than 2.6 billion rmb transactions a day;
on 2011.11.11, taobao and tmall.com (both part of alibaba group, something like ebay/amazon) got more than 5 billion rmb transactions a day;
Thiel, in this video, says that you should go to college if you have a good reason to go to college - like if you want to be a professor. He only suggests that you should think long and hard about why you are going to college, which is logic that is pretty hard to argue against.
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I can't see the code because the account has been suspended. My inner neckbeard is shouting "Stop turning everything into a jack of all trades! Can't cascading style sheets just be really good at styling?"
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Yahoo needs many things, but cash isn't one of them. They have no debt and have billions in cash in the bank already that they don't know what to do with. The only reason they are doing this is to appease shareholders. And in that sense I suppose you could say that they need the cash, but short of doing a one-time dividend payout to shareholders I don't think they have any idea what they are going to do with it.
I'm not sure whether innovation and growth is the key to success in this field. Looking at the trends it seems like there's a natural saturation point where you reach max penetration, followed by an exodus. I really doubt it's possible to keep the ceiling going.

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trend for facebook: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook
Half the stuff in your house was brokered/bought over Alibaba.
>a college degree's value is mostly in its sheepskin effect

Then how do you explain the mathematical maturity effect that most STEM students go through in a four year program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity

There are industries for which it would be impossible to innovate or even participate without this, and it's unlikely someone will develop this on their own time.
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And that's the whole point. Government has decided that there is one answer and put its financial and bully pulpit thumb on that scale. That's how it creates most of its bubbles.
It is exactly the same for competitive gaming, and for everything else that's competitive I think. At some point, I was competing at a national level (France) on Warcraft III, I realized that if I were to be in top8 or above, I had to play 50 hours / week. That's a full-time job, and the level of specialization and skill specificity you need is really high. I chose to work on my studies instead. Now I sometimes play StarCraft II (not really got time recently), but not above "for fun" nor more than 5 hours / week, or I quickly get frustrated that I'm no longer at a top master / grand master level.

Games are fun, they teach you a lot of things, they can be recreative if you're not all-in. If you don't want to make it your career though, keep focused on the main thing you want to do with your life.
Apple is adding optional sandboxing to their system without intentionally breaking backwards compatibility in their APIs. Why wouldn't this work for Microsoft?

And isn't Metro exactly what you want?
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In my opinion, up to a very, very high level, the importance of opening knowledge is vastly overrated.

The two highest rated players in the world (Carlsen and Aronian, neither of them participating in this world championship match) frequently just aim to get a playable position out of the opening and still succeed in outplaying very strong opposition in the late middlegame/endgame. This despite the fact that it would difficult to find two better examples of "human chess databases".
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I doubt it would be "game over for eBay". If that were the case, TaoBao would already be here.

What other countries does TaoBao operate in? eBay and Amazon both operate in dozens on countries.

What works only in China works there only for a reason! Government protectionism.
If you're burning out and are struggling, sometimes a break and some time to think things through without the pressure is the best thing you could do.

You know how when you have a really tricky bug that's killing you, that you really want to figure out right now. Sometimes, the best way to solve it is to step away for a little bit. Take a walk, go to the gym, and it'll come to you. Same thing.
Recent 48-hour obsessions of mine that follow a similar pattern: Starcraft 2, Minecraft.

I indulge them as long as they don't suck up more than 100 productive hours or so of my life. At that point, I chop them off and file them away.
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Antipodeans have to travel a long way to get anywhere. As a result we (Aus & Kiwis) per capita, search a lot more for cheaper airfares.
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