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By the same token, rent-controlled apartments are unjust to the non-techies who are not in them.

To me it is plausible that the average price of an apartment would actually drop if they were no rent-controlled apartments. You would have more supply etc...
The FB IPO sends a signal that certain exits are about 35% less lucrative than the most enthusiastic might have thought. And, the IPO wasn't the 'starter pistol' for another frenzy. I think the memory of 12 years ago hasn't faded entirely yet, and there's so much other uncertainty in the economic world no one can be a runaway optimist.

But the IPO results might actually boost certain kinds of deals. For example, would you rather sell your company to FB for $X million of FB stock when that stock is at 45 or when it's at 26? (Of course X is larger when FB is flush, but I doubt X goes down linearly with FB market-cap when there are other bidders. And psychologically, it may be easier to think FB grows 50% back into its peak, than 50% more above its peak.)

If there had been an indiscriminate frenzy, everyone knows that ends in a crash. When everyone's instead been reminded that companies are different -- FB isn't GPRN isn't AAPL isn't LNKD -- and the particulars of value and model matter, that's better for a sustained boom at a more measured pace.
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I believe investors and startups that are / were looking for Facebook as an easy exit were not building a company / business anyway. Such a situation is better overall for everyone - only the teams that are focused on building a real business survive and create value for everyone involved.
So that cars can drive with the 80-90% success rate that voice recognition has achieved with similar methods? If you can model your entire surroundings several times a second to cm precision, you don't have to settle for machine learning and "just about perfect".
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Penrose's position boils down to him being uncomfortable with the idea that Gödel's theorems might apply to himself. His books have received criticism from the majority of the academic community and his suggestion for where the non-algorithmic nature of the mind may come from has not seen empirical confirmation. Simply put, it is just wishful thinking.

Regardless, Penrose himself dismisses the role of any supernatural factors; this leaves us open to the possibility that a non-algorithic but nevertheless synthetic intelligence could be created (and in theory wedged into my roomba). Orch-OR does not require 'meat'.
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This article is flat out wrong. Google's autonomous vehicles do the data collection for Google's autonomous vehicles.

They drive ahead of time around every environment in which they want to operate, with a bunch more sensors and more accurate localisation than the streetview vehicles. The lidar on the streetview vehicles is intended to provide a 3D surface model of the buildings lining each street. I find it very doubtful that they'd attempt to do supervised learning of human driving behaviour from the streetview vehicles, rather than the actual automated ones.
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It isn't really linkbait. I doubt adrian is worried about getting traffic to his blog.

A sheep follows the herd, but the wolf drives itself. Pretty good analogy if you ask me.
I'm guessing - and I could be wrong - but based on the fact that its a real world thing - its likely the game where you get a bunch of people to play at hunting/assassinating each other as they go about their daily life.

The objective is to tag enemy players and become the last player standing.
So, the "Five Whys" analysis came up one short, eh?

Just kidding, this is a great level of detail and much appreciated, to understand CloudFlare's process and how to protect against or recognize these tactics elsewhere.
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Has anyone read the motion (available from an economist.com server)? This what the Rolling Stone article is based on.

Is the issue whether and how GS makes money from the practice of naked short selling? Maybe the issue is that feeding the market with info about short sales that are never actually cleared (but which the market assumes will be cleared), can destroy the value of a company's stock.

Obviously if you can sell something without ever having to own or deliver it (is that really a sale?), you can do a lot of selling; and you can exert considerable influence on the market for a stock.

Maybe what happened here is a company, Overstock, believes they got screwed by naked short selling.

I need to read the motion to get a better idea of what happened.
Ah yes the old "You are so good at building things people want we will throw buckets of money at you. Oh, all that stuff you built nobody wants that shit, throw it away." reason.
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Rent control is screwing things up in the first place.

For example, without the option to end leases landlord's can't empty a building, demolish it and rebuild with more units. This imposes an artificial constraint on supply. Demand isn't particularly elastic so prices rise.

Meanwhile, the price ceiling encourages overconsumption amongst the rent control population. Kids are off to college -- why downgrade from a 3-bedroom? There's simply no incentive to do so. This further limits supply.

If you want to see rents fall, repeal rent control, repeal Prop 13 and allow construction.
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> Also the link says they get to "know every road by definition", but you could read that almost entirely from TomTom's maps as well. Roads change, weather conditions change, etc.

'Know' here doesn't mean just knowing the road as in a map. OP meant 'know' (I presume) in the sense that: the data on how the street view driver drove through that road and under what conditions (including weather, traffic, et al.) is learnt by the machine learning algorithm.
The driver-less car seems like just a side-project of Google's primary business goal: to steal Social Network marketshare from Facebook in the form of shoving Google Plus down our throats. I mean, what's more important, innovating and giving people a technology which will improve their lives, or forcing them to use a website in which to show them cat pictures and click on context-aware advertisements?
The general problem with proprietary software in sciences (not just math) is that it cuts the chain of replicability and confirmability. Unless you have the source (in a human-readable form) and have the right to compile it on your own, this is a shaky ground to rely scientifiy results on.

This is not an issue if you use that software for dicovering stuff. But it is a huge problem for e.g. mathematical proofs, or statistical analysis in other fields.

Note that I'm not saying that proprietary software has more bugs. But it's a problem if your result depends on using a black-box whose creators hide their implementation from you. Also, even if your may read their code, this is worthless unless you are allowed to compile your own version from that.

Also note that the same issue exists with hardware, but the question whether your processor adds and multiplies correctly is on a totally different level than whether complex algorithms have been implemented correctly.
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Porting is not really so bad issue, problem is that all sound and input port code will not work after year or two because of libraries changing, forgotten and deprecated. What I really do hope that Steam will choose libraries which might concentrate development effort around those. That would be good thing for everyone, not just for game developers.
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You read "genocide" too narrowly, and write "homicide" too broadly. To annihilate a city and its people is genocide in my book.
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Bumblebee solves the problem of using them together, and doesn't allow you to actually get 3d acceleration on the Nvidia chip. I just want to be able to easily switch between the two cards, but that won't happen, so the Xorg file moves will be necessary.
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I've never been able to understand the legality of Scribd. Apart from the reputability of YC and the focus on written documents, what makes them different from other file sharing sites?
A key concepts beyond Mathematica are pattern matching and rule-based programming, but not a functional programming.

Yes, it has lambdas and first-class functions, but that's it. What about closures, for example? Therefore one would better not call Mathematica "a real functional programming language".

BTW, rule-based paradigm and pattern matching is a standard feature of languages from Lisp family, e.g. Scheme. From that point of view Mathematica is not something unique.
Why not Java for web development?
People do use Java for web dev. Google uses it almost exclusively as far as I know. You will find that Java is in fact very prominent in large companies.

What's wrong with Play?
Nothing is "wrong" with Play
You just don't hear about it as much because you read HN. HN is about startups. Startups like to be on the bleeding edge and boast very rapid development cycles. Java is just not conducive to this. (I would like to note that I have never personally used Play) As far as I know, Play has not gained the traction that other event driven frameworks have. This has a lot to do with the fact that Play didn't really start to come to light until after Node.JS started to explode and server-side javascript became heralded as the second coming of Christ (by some, not most).

And why are all these companies ignoring the fact that there is a shortage of Ruby and Python developers because most college students are learning Java?
Because it doesn't matter what the college students are learning. Java is a good language to teach OOP with. But that doesn't mean it is always the best tool for the job.

Very few of these colleges have a single class that teaches web development. For someone who wants to pursue a career in web development, this is highly discouraging because I feel I am not learning the technologies I need for a job (such as Ruby and Python).
You aren't learning them. Just like you probably won't learn the technologies you need for the next job you want at your current job. Welcome to development. Never stop learning. You stop learning, you're dead. I'm serious. Who knows what the cool thing will be five years from now? Doesn't matter, you're going to have to learn it anyway.

I would like to elaborate further, but don't have the time at the moment. Please feel free to ask me anything else you're curious about.
People can have peculiar opinions without having an identifiable psychiatric affliction. I doubt you are a psychiatrist and even if you were, you wouldn't be capable of diagnosing someone over the internet on the basis of a single text.

I am thoroughly dissatisfied with this being the highest voted comment at the moment. It does not make any argument at all. It just casts some aspersions on the author and his writing, judging it as 'schizophrenic' and 'awry'.

The comment can be summarized as 'the argument does not make any sense', without actually explaining why it doesn't make any sense. That summary would be a better comment, because we wouldn't get into this stupid irrelevant discussion about the author's mental health.
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A post like this probably only helps push along the vicious cycle :) Not saying it shouldn't have been posted, but it's ironic.
Is the author seriously implying a car loaded down with lots of cameras and doing an average of 30MPH is Google's ultimate vehicle for training driverless cars?

If he's right, God help us all.
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You mean in place of <i>? That's what Bootstrap uses. Also the meaning of <i> has been shifted in HTML5 [0].

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I'm sorry no. The expression of "preying on parents fears/anxiety as marketing a device" is not literal. It is about drumming up those fears at the time of the sale, not at the time fo the use. In short, if I make no claims about making the motivator of your fears go away, but I do make claims about helping you manage the fears themselves, that isn't preying on your fears and anxiety. I believe the technical term for that is "helping".

The obsessive loop is, "maybe my baby isn't breathing <-> check on baby <-> it's breathing <-> go back <-> maybe my baby isn't breathing". If you can go right from, "maybe my baby isn't breathing <-> of course not, this idiot box would tell me if he/she weren't" (and sure it's fair that that is far from certain), that's huge progress and it can deflate obsessive compulsive behaviour, anxiety and fear. It's the equivalent of giving a kid a stuff toy so they aren't scared in bed at night.
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Interesting seasonal trend. Must be more than just students, though.
> As far as I know, the best drivers on Linux are still not on par with their equivalent on Windows in terms of performance.

Forget performance, ATI drivers are so unstable it's barely usable (eg. Gnome 3 restarting regularly, like once per hour), and that's just plain desktop apps (Vim/browser), trying to run some version of VLC from default repo instantly crashed the PC (needed to restart), when I tried to play games random graphics bugs were everywhere (texture artifacts, framebuffer not clearing properly, etc.) All distros I've tried so far have problems with closed source drivers, and the OSS ones don't have HW 3D I think because it's slow as hell. Also - you can't alt-tab from full screen games. I looked it up, found a post that started with "you need to modify your xconfig" closed the tab. I think linux needs a lot more polish to be viable for everyday use as multimedia/gaming desktop OS, I would love to ditch the windows partition and rebooting but I don't think it's going to happen soon.
Is there any information on browser compatibility? I see ES5 getters/setters in use for fastfix as well as CSS animations, so I'm assuming there'll be a compatibility matrix somewhere.

Also, swipe doesn't seem to work on Chromium 17/Fedora. Otherwise, great work!
This is an interesting graph. It looks like the mid-point of 2011 to the mid-point of 2012 was ~80mm visitors (2011) to ~90mm (2012) which constitutes 12.5% YoY growth. The largest delta between some 30-day interval in the last year and this latest 30-day interval seems to be ~30mm visitors (~90mm - ~60mm) which is still only 50% annualized growth.

I find Scribd to be a very valuable service but this chart makes me wonder if monetization rate is growing more quickly than visitation. If not, perhaps the monetization potential of content publishing is lower than with other kinds of user-generated content.

Great that it's profitable, though, gives the team indefinite time to figure it out, or identify an acquirer who values it strategically.
Just 'cause it is a solution, doesn't mean it doesn't create its own problems. ;-)

I do agree that we may be ready to have something cleaner than the old shared library model. Just don't suggest it was a one trick pony.
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Have either of them been the first investor of something that succeeded yet?
I know the guy is an Apple user, but on the Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0, you can select as many photos/videos as you want from the gallery to share.

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2) Click share

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Kind of surprised the iPhone doesn't already have that built in for multiples.
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> A sheep follows the herd, but the wolf drives itself

I doubt that the author is using 'sheep' and 'wolf' to refer to the herd behaviour of the former versus the self decision making ability/nature of the latter.

I cannot give a very well analyzed comment on the seriousness or the _wolfiness_ of this initiative by Google, I haven't given it a deep thought yet. I am, however, unable to understand the arguments of why what Google is doing, is bad. The author elaborates the possibility of Street View feeding Driverless Project and the latter increasing efficiency of the system. The reasoning behind this being vicious is missing.

"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is an idiom of Biblical origin. It is used of those playing a role contrary to their real character, with whom contact is dangerous." - Wikipedia. Role contrary to real character, possibly. Dangerous, I can't see how.
You can improve things a little by flying in an elliptical orbit. Some of the KH8s have listed orbits with perigees as low as 125km -- but they're not that low for the whole orbit. They also didn't have particularly long mission durations (weeks, not years) and may have used their attached Agena stages for some reboosting. Still impressive, though!
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Can it be used with some other database like MySQL? I mean the main database is MySQL and in the offline mode PouchDB can collect data.

Also, what about security of the main database? How does the syncing take place?
Actually, Postgres has had an Array data type since at least v8.0. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/arrays.html

But yes, you're right that maps require a join table.
Do you think the world would be better off if Mathematica, Matlab, SPSS etc didn't exist?

In reality, they make experiments more repeatable, not less. The real offender is the in-house, proprietary software developed by individual research groups. It is almost never open sourced. And it is far more likely to be riddled with bugs.

Computer experiments are just that: experiments. Any real researcher employs multiple methods to confirm their results.
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I think Google Drive is less likely to ever go down like this. Its google, they know their shit.
DRM is the games publishers' choice, no matter what distribution platform they use.
Steam doesn't force DRM on publishers and there are plenty of games there without DRM.
This looks neat, but isn't it contributing to the fragmentation of the python numerical ecosystem? We already have Numpy/Scipy/SAGE/SymPy and probably more, do we really need yet another package?
Many ebay users also use FB. And a lot of FB users use Paypal. Think about it.

Ads, movies, music, even games aren't really what will help then make huge amounts of money. Transactions will.
Wow, this guy has a bone to pick with Americans.

Why worry about an AI humanoid delivering weapons, when we already have so many humans who do that already? The groups sending people on suicide missions certainly won't spend money on androids, and suicide missions are much more common than just 9/11. Hint: for the most part, it's not Americans sending people out to deliberately commit suicide by delivering weapons to targets.

It's just as naive to be so one-sided about the issue.
Google should definitely buy ICQ next.
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It is a feature of those systems, but not the foundation.

Mathematica is a term-rewriting system. This is a fundamentally different model of computation from the lambda calculus.

There are many practical consequences of this, in terms of the design of individual language constructs, and in how the language is used generally.
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Maybe the city planning commission that decides how many apartments can be built, shouldn't be stocked with current property owners whose wealth is tied to the artificially low supply of apartments in SF? Just a thought.
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There is a shortage of willing people, but as you demonstrated there's no shortage of people that can be tricked into doing something.
I thought Google's Street View cars couldn't drive very fast to be able to take those pictures. When not driving at full speed, it's not really a good learning set.

I'd argue that the vast majority of the roads where one drives faster than 50 km/h are very simple. This is especially true for highways; they have to be, because humans are bad at thinking at 120 km/h and even worse at surviving collisions at that speed. There's an overabundance of signs and road marking, and an incredible effort has been put into making it relatively hard for drivers to behave irrationally. Compare that with, say, a multi-lane roundabout in the inner city.

Once you've got enough data to reliably survive that kind of situation, you're 90% of the way there.