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Completely retarded idea. The question that remains unanswered in the video is: why would someone wants to go to live on Mars for the rest of their life?
Probably they will setup a 'Idols' kind of competition because many retarded people will sign up. And many retarded people will watch this kind of sick entertainment, I'm afraid.
"the value of the data about the collection of the data" A powerful idea.
One big hole in the logic:

Street view cars all work during the daytime. There is no nighttime street imagery on streetview, and anecdotally, I've never seen a streetview car at night.

Having self-driving cars during daylight hours only is still an ambitious goal, though.
Both the App Store app and Facebook had hiccups on my iOS devices before - the stylesheet for their webviews failed to load. Looks terrible and unprofessional. This is a problem as soon as you even embed the tiniest remote web view. :(
I disagree, it's a horrible service. I have a powerful up to date ICS android phone and their website totally denied me access to a document the other day due to incompatibility and crapness. Just give me the pdf, or even the ppt, I don't care, I don't need a middle man.

If people can't host those files there needs to be services to do that, i.e. Scribd needs to be killed by dropbox/google drive like services with a "public" folder or documents, not some intermediary. There is no reason for this crappy service to exist and every time I encounter it I am literally swearing under my breath it generates so much frustration in me. I can't wait for them to go out of business and for the employees and founders to do something productive with their lives.
The only way scribd can be used illegally is by uploading pirated ebooks. I maybe wrong but I think the amount of illegal content is very less there, and they try to filter them out. However other file sharing website, like rapidshare or megaupload had almost every pirated stuff you can think of.
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The icons look awful at small sizes
> The real problem isn't reproducibility, it is extensibility

I think its both. Extensibility is obviously an issue. But so is extensibility, I will give two reasons for it:

1. Easy reproducibility is necessary for extensibility. Firstly, academia is not very good at publishing their tools or their codebases. We have given so much weight to the concept behind the implementations and not the implementations themselves, that most people skip publishing implementations. What it means is that the next research group now has to start from scratch in implementing the concepts before they can think of extending the work. Reproducibility is not only to verify previously reported results, but also to create a starting point for further work. Secondly, given that the tools that the researcher is using is proprietary, the trend is to make it closed source. It may be because the tool is not ubiquitous and hence the researcher sees no point in distributing his/her implementations - or because he had not followed any guidelines (or in case of Matlab and Mathematica - they didn't exist/were-not-popular). He might not be sure about his implementations, and hence cannot publish them.

2. Reproducibility has always been the base for science. I don't need to trust the work a random researcher that I don't personally know. I can just verify his/her findings myself. The requirement of commercial software creates a huge monetary barrier in this. It is wasteful of me to buy a licence for a simple verification that I am not planning to extend. Given that non-academic licenses of most of these softwares are insanely expensive, it makes this verification to be confined to researchers from big research groups in large companies.
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Nine times out of ten I'd say you could probably just install from the AUR. If not I doubt you could do so programatically, because the names might not be the same.
Interesting, I've noticed that alot of sites I read started using them as well. I dont know why, because IMO its a giant step backwards compared to pdf's, at least you can always search and copy-paste relevant sections from those. Not so on a few documents I've encountered on scribd.

As an example: http://www.scribd.com/doc/91764042/April-2012-TEF-Commentary
When I try to copy-paste some text from that document it comes out gibberish. And I cant search in it either.
I saw the headline and thought "Oh (expletive) I let update run last night!", but it turned out to be the revoked cert update.
Did you hesitate before sending this out due to the fear that such a letter might itself push the market closer towards a vicious cycle?
I don't know. I've always operated under the assumption that UHNWIs[1] are the people that have "Fuck You Money". The kind of money you are talking about is billionaire money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-net-worth_individual#Ultra...
This is true, but if that means python isn't strongly typed, then neither is Java or c++, since they too will convert for you.
So, what widely used language is strongly typed then?
I can't run Mathematica code at home without paying a licence. I can't run it at work without convincing my employer to pay the licence. Actually, I can't run a single line of Mathematica code right now. I can't share it with my friends (to edit, modify, etc).

One of Mathematica's authors offers an unexpected non-solution to that:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7gue5/the_incre...

"You know it's only $139 for students for the full Mathematica, and if you're not a student you can always pirate it."

Wolfram is aware of that issue, they haven't found a solution.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tmutz/stephen_wolfram_...

"But we're still trying to figure out the best ways to make Mathematica as a language be as fully open as possible"

When given the tradeoff between keeping their company running and risk losing language integrity, they rather keep the company running. That's fine for me, but that means that in the meantime I'd use something else. Mathics might change that.
The use online link is 404 ing, not sure if it's just for me, a pitty I would have liked to have seen that page.
Yea, that would be cool.
No, not crash at runtime. Raise exception in runtime.
You know, like NullPointerException in Java? Or ClassCastException? Or OutOfMemeoryException.

You'll have more of the runtime errors in Python, but you're not free from them in other languages either, static typing or not.
I'm not so sure you need to be so worried with your heavy heart, Eric. I know you and MemSQL will be just FINE. Certainly with all of your YC connections, you must be able to make something happen? You must have at least one strategic friendship you gained say... six months ago that could be of some tremendous value to you? Sometimes you need to socially climb and never look back in order to get what you want. I learned that from someone I used to respect. To me, a man without integrity is nothing. He's worthless. And so too is the value of his pursuits.
The order of evaluation is a bit different than Lisp. It's perhaps more like programming mostly with Lisp macros.
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Am I the only one thinking that Facebook's IPO was actually a success? The point of the IPO is to sell your company shares at the best possible price and Facebook did it.

Compare to an A/B/C round for a startup. If you know investors are willing to pay $50m for the round, but you settle for $25m, then you just lost $25m and gained nothing.

I think the main reason FB is falling now, is not because the stock was not worth $38, but everyone that expected it to quadruple overnight is now selling.
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I think they're preparing in case Windows 8 does do well. If Microsoft can put a working app store into Windows 8, and require it for delivering everything signable to run on Windows 9, Steam's toast.
Anyways, at least pg's making more founders angry with FB & Zuckerberg. Only good will come of that. ;-)
Not only are the names not the same, but the way the packages are split differs. For instance, Debian/Ubuntu will give the end-user "somepackage", but the developer needs to also install "somepackage-dev". In Arch, the -dev stuff is included in the end-user package.
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I commented on your blog too, but I just want to let you know that I've pushed a quick fix for the mobile browsers, and I'm looking into making a proper mobile version now. Thanks for reporting this.
If you have ever used street view to catch a glimpse of your destination at an unknown address or to look for key landmarks at important intersections, you'll notice right away that the Street View data is the last thing you would want powering an autonomous car. Many of the mapped roads only show the view from one lane, and if the road is more than one lane wide, you're missing data on the positions of the other lane(s). I can't count the number of times the view I wanted was on the other side of a median or divider, with no data for that side. Following a pre-mapped course on a multi-lane road using only Street View data would be a nightmare. Reminds me of the stories of people pulling U-turns in the middle of a freeway because their GPS told them to.
I think only a fraction of existing games will be ported. However, now there will be a much stronger incentive to use cross-platform engines in the future. It used to be "windows + mac port" for a lot of games. "windows + mac port + linux port" sounds silly, so the obvious solution is to start with something that already is cross-platform.

Wasteland 2 chose Unity engine because it's so cross-platform. It even has unpolished Linux support. The Linux port of Unity hasn't been released, because developers were doing that in their spare time and it wasn't up to Unity creators' standards. Now, InExile has been given Unity source for purposes of creating a decent Linux port. It's a single anecdote, but it illustrates what I'm saying above. Makers of Unity will probably want to get the most out of it, so Linux port of Unity will be contributed "upstream" and it's very likely that Unity will support Linux from now on.
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I think you misunderstood the point of machine learning. The cars don't drive by memorization/knowledge of each street but rather the knowledge of what has been done in similar situations thousands of times before.
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Yes the word would work in both, but saying someone has an amazing live still isn't the same as saying that somebody is amazing.

GP was talking about the life he has, not the talent he has, so the "insanity" isn't comparable between his life and that of a child who is talented but has a normal life.
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Wow, I feel like a child writing this. I realize this comes up too often, but I'll be darned if I could find it off-hand.

About me: I used to know a little C++. I attended a CS program (made a bunch of simple games and shmups, and with friends made a Rampage clone and an abysmal 3d action shooter) but I didn't graduate. That was in 2004, so you can imagine how it's all faded from my head with such disuse.

Now, like many, I've got an idea or two itching at me for a few site ideas and I'd like to cut my teeth making them myself. I have little knowledge about doing so, aside from the simple HTML we've all picked up in forums and chats since... 1996? I'd love any suggestions as to the quality people are finding in online courses and what they've done with what they've gained there.

For what it's worth, the (more recent) similar questions I found to this seemed to concentrate on "what avenue should I take? Make a site myself?" I know I want to do that. I'm just curious how do I find out which languages/tools would be best for me to learn? What site will help me learn what tool will best serve my functions? To tell when I'll need HTML/Javascript/PHP/oh-God-what-are-Rails?!/etc to cover this task or that in running a site and make tools for chatting, forums, profiles, etc? And then where do you recommend learning it?

I know a lot of stuff can be installed and ran out of the box. I have a Wordpress blog for instance. But, this is about learning, so any good course recommendations are truly welcome.
You're setting up a false dichotomy. DRM isn't required for game developers to get paid. It's not "DRM or developers don't get paid". Games sell even without any kind of copy prevention mechanism. If you are worried, you can still use Kickstarter (or grant) model. In that model, it's irrelevant if the game is copied out of control after release. Devs have already been paid.

In my opinion Kickstarter (or grant) model is infinitely better, because it doesn't insist on treating a game like a physical object. The "selling software" model is horribly flawed. Writing software is like research - a big cost and effort once, then very little cost to benefit from it. It is fair to have effort of research/software development proportional to reward the researchers/devs are getting. With "selling software/drugs" it's not proportional.
>Probably because that's the paradigm of the most popular languages, the first paradigm everybody learns in college and university and likely the first language a person will encounter?

That is just a rephrasing of "they are used to imperative programming". The question is why.

>Consider the actual research done in this area, classes have demonstrated that whatever the language, there is always the same distribution. Those that excel (small group), those that succeed through hard work and do good (most of the group) and those that just don't get it and fail (small group). This has been shown to be true for C, Visual Basic, Pascal, ML, LOGO, Scheme (SICP!) and even Coq!, which is a proof-assistant. Probably Prolog, too, but I haven't looked at that. You can easily google this, just search for things like "lecture/semester findings" and "student reactions/performance" and insert your language of interest.

How does that work in real life though -- when pragmatic issues get into play that are absent from "implement this algorithm in whatever language".
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I didn't look, tbh. Python 3 already has type annotations, but what interests me if how do you nail down types whilst preserving duck typing, or dealing with a method that is already passed duck typed objects.
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Yes, my point being that even after five years of mapping, they still don't have those thousands of similar situations to use as reliable data set.
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I thought Google's Street View cars couldn't drive very fast to be able to take those pictures

Google Street View cars can be seen overtaking other vehicles sometimes, so they go fast enough.
I worked for a company that made the first two street view systems. They also contributed a lot to the robocar project and eventually got bought by google to work on Chauffeur.

The sensors and math that provide the perception component of chauffeur are, for conversational purposes, identical to those of street view. But the two teams are not working together. The demands of each project are too different.
I don't logout, but try to open any links from within FB in 'incognito' mode.
Oh yeah, sure, blame it on the Belgians!
They can scale, but not every code base is well written. Operating from the assumption that best practices is always implemented isn't necessarily true. Sometimes you work with sub-par code or code that was written by someone skilled but due to time pressure; misunderstanding the requirements; or a poorly planned architecture means that it does not lend itself to scalability. That's the problem. You can refactor it, but refactoring code in Python can be a nightmare compared with tools like Visual Studio that make it a breeze -- plus you get the benefit of having a compiler catch errors for you.

Well-thought-out code will always trump bad code; but that's a truism.
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That's true, as anybody in, say, Delphi would know, when they hard cast from one type to another.

As for the semantics of crashing vs. not crashing, that is a different argument entirely. Do you want your code to suppress a SyntaxError or TypeError exception and "keep going" - probably not? But maybe? It all depends, I suppose. You'll let the unhandled and unexpected exceptions percolate to the top of the stack and then your "main" method will decide what to do next. But putting square pegs into round holes do happen, and the question then becomes: how do you ensure that does not happen as often?

I never made the argument that languages like C#, Ada, Delphi, or Java were immune from runtime errors. Not at all.
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I think it's what happens when privileged people try to write about the real world. You get "blacks" and (my favourite) "poor" people. Then there is everyone else. Shouldn't it just be that there are "people", and some of them are high income, and some are low income?

I have met lots of different types of people through my (very middle class) life and the ones who seriously use "blacks" or "poor" to describe groups of people are usually the very cushioned, over-educated types who are totally clueless about other people's lives.
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Fatman, the plutonium implosion bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, used only 6.2kg of Pu. Also, the Pu-239 used in weapons doesn't require a lot of shielding. There are plenty accounts of people handling nuclear weapon cores that have had only a light plating of other metals or with only thick gloves.

What probably is quite heavy is all of the associated components that you need to make a bomb - the chemical explosives, tamper etc.

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This is kind of a no-duh, sherlock non-story.

Fact 1: Sebastian Thrun co-developed Google StreetView

Fact 2: Sebastian Thrun is developing the driverless car.

A lot more goes into a self-driving car than data from how drivers drive. That's maybe 3% of the problem. Nevertheless, assuming Sebastian is too dumb to make the connection would assume a fairly high level of stupidity on his part. That's a pretty bad assumption.
I could definitely get behind this. My issue with Ember and Backbone is how alone I feel when I'm trying to write something. Honestly, the convention of Rails has always been really, really nice (until you hit a breaking point, but by then you usually know what to do in some other way). I like the opinions and I like that they are trying to make it drop dead simple to get up and running with minimal fuss.
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I know them and know the other competitors. I just wonder why no one has won a large market share. Maybe people don't want digital business cards?
Samuel Goldwyn should have gone with:

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I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkspiel .
> very difficult industry to turn a profit in

1. The coupons usually can be redeemed for up to 6 months in these sites and the money is paid to the company only when the coupon is redeemed, so let's assume a 3 month average float time. With clever investing you could do much in 3 months.
2. As with gift cards, I assume, quite a significant percentage of those coupons are never actually redeemed.
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They apparently were only thinking of monetary losses, but a government malware on my computer is alot worse than credit card malware. At least we know what credit card malware can do at best (or worst).
When you're selling something you don't own you're distorting the market's price discovery mechanisms. In many contexts I think most people would consider it fraudulent to sell something before you've bought it.
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Social networks exploded because they created an interaction that previously wasn't possible.

They have now become a tax on life - like email. A set of hygiene actions you have to perform every day.

Do not underestimate how much the next generation does not want to conform to the restrictions of the previous generation.

It's entirely possible future generations do not want to be tracked and targeted 24/7 - they may choose to just switch off and drop out.

50% youth unemployment in some first world countries right now. These guys may just decide to do things differently - what is social technology doing for them right now?
Can you post some of the other competitors you looked at? I'm interested in this topic. My guess is that LinkedIn kinda obsoleted the businesscard. But on the other side you have things like Moo.com & a certain subset of people paying good money to have high-quality paper cards. What's your take on this? How would you design a digital business card?