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Is it wrong to not be bothered by this? I'll be disappointed if fully autonomous vehicles haven't started to hit the market by 2015. Stricter enforcement of manual driving rules should probably be a part of that.

I'm not saying I'm down with the idea of a government robot following me everywhere to see if I'm breaking the law, but I'm not very sympathetic to the idea that we have some sort of right to violate traffic regulations without consequence.
Isn't there an increase in cattle rustling in the prairie states?

Not saying the military should be directly involved, but I can see some org dedicated to finding rustlers using this technique as an option, if it's effective.
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Our society is awash with capital, but would you invest $4000 in exchange for 2% of some kid's "company" (unincorporated) for him to lease more hardware to complete his mission with the project? Of course not. "I'd need to hear a lot more" is the response here. There isn't "a lot more" (powerpoints, prospectus, business plan, market research, social proof, etc) unless the kid starts producing it - instead of working on his project.

If he chooses coding his project versus producing bullshit for you, the same kid has to go work at a grocery store or something and do some coding in his spare time. If he were serious about raising money, on the other hand, he basically couldn't work on his project at all while he does. Which is the same as raising money with no idea.

It's awash with money, but not to the people who have any immediate use for it to generate return. You will invest in a kid's powerpoint, his "team", his business "plan", no code, no project, but you wouldn't invest in a project, no powerpoint.

So "our society is awash with capital" to whoever learns to say the right things to get it - which is pretty much the opposite skill of doing something that actually requires any.

Hence the importance of "super-angels", who go against this grain, who will invest in and mentor the kid while letting him actually code instead of making him refine bullshit instead!

Every day we hear of teams who have raised $50-$200k, where neither of the cofounders is capable of producing anything but bullshit. They literally can't make anything. When was the last time you heard of a kid who made a project and scaled it by continuing to work on it instead of learning to spew bullshit?

Honestly, there is almost no money for anyone who is working on something, unless they quadruple their investment of time and personal risk to bring the project failure rate up to 95% as they jeapordize working on it it in order to 'raise money' instead. Our society - and, specifically - you, reward people who say what you want to hear to get money, and finding out what you want to hear takes a lot of time and has nothing to do with working on anything else.
I would leave immediately if my boss handed me a plastic toy and told me to take pictures with it to prove I'm having "fun." That is controlling, manipulative, and degrading.
In fact, that seems to be the whole point of the article.
Why is paging here so broken?
I should never see "expired or unknown link" because I stayed on a page too long. often when I refresh the articles haven't even changed.

paging should be kept simple, but not to the point of being a broken user experience.
An extreme example does not disprove the whole theory. The people inventing stuff are usually the enterprenours who have the means of production and labour in their own hands.

Most people employed produce things which are valuable. Most things produced are valuable.
They can't really do any harm, unless the unthinkable happens, and someone hacks them.

Thankfully, that won't happen: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/02/drone-hackedwith-....
How is "Partnerships and corporations" different from capital gains?
Why do you use a web server (Nginx) in front of other web servers? I'm pretty new to this. Thanks.
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You get used to them, but they do have a tendency to look like someone from another planet wrote them, don't they?
I am not trolling. I am frustrated. My websites exist due to interest in the information. I am making inroads into getting more traffic. But it is too little, too slow.

I wrote a longer version of this on metafilter but I am on a tablet so was unable to copy and paste it. People there are taking the question seriously. Here is the link: http://ask.metafilter.com/219448/Please-dont-tell-ME-you-thi...

However, have an upvote for replying as that is more respect than most people bother to give me.
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"If you think otherwise about that set of people, you don't really know them."

I don't disagree with that at all and I've experienced that behavior.

For me personally I'm happy with what I've achieved and how I am mainly responsible for it and that it wasn't handed to me. I did have advantages of course (I didn't grow up in the projects for example and had parents who were middle class) and I don't think I would be happy if I didn't have to work hard for what I have achieved. (No desire to marry rich or anything like that.)

Not saying you are "whining" by saying this but I don't feel there is anything productive about whining about the advantage that others have. It's a given like memory and hard disk space. Just do the best you can to your benefit given the game and any unfairness. After you achieve your goals you can work toward changing society if you want.
Facebook profiles can be expected to contain information about one's religion, sexuality, and other factors employers aren't allowed to ask about, and can get sued for trying to find out. At worst FB could create a sanitized version of your profile to share with employers.
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How do you work when you have two or more of those depending on each other?

Also, when a data value changes do you re-render the whole thing, of just the affected node?
Unlike other video games, Second Life is full of actual people. Sure there is a screen and it is easier to self-select, but it is not virtual in the sense that most "addictive" video games are. Second Life addiction makes as much sense as claiming someone is addicted to the telephone, or to painting, or to Martha-Stewart-style homemaking.
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How was that an illegal search?
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> Now, programmers "like" Obj-C because they are told to by Apple.

Not accurate in my case. I tried Objective-C because I was told to by Apple. In fact, as a Smalltalker of 15 years, I found the addition of the header files and everything from C and the square brackets quite distasteful at first.

I now find that Objective-C is a powerful and elegant language on its own merits.

If eero is to Objective-C as Coffeescript is to Javascript, then I suspect I'm going to love eero.
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I've read several times about people using the Go language's (golang) web server in conjunction with Nginx. Apparently Nginx provides some benefit that Go's web server doesn't, but I haven't seen that thing called out. Can anyone tell me what it is? Thanks. (I'd also love to see a performance comparison between these two.)
looks like redis is getting improved support in this release. Anyone using redis instead of rabbitmq?
It is nice to see someone poke there head above their prejudices and habits, if only briefly, and appreciate the size and shape of the world as-it-is. That's a good thing and people should make an effort to do more of that more often.

I'd argue that it's even more useful and important to do it along the axis of "personality", "intelligence", and "situation". That is, can I make an attempt to see the world as a pitiful fool? As a greedy scumbag? As a religious fundamentalist? As a drug-addled single mom? As self-righteous millionaire? As a self-righteous cancer sufferer? As a brave 5th grader doing the best they can with neglectful parents, not even realizing they are being neglected? As a middle-son of some local priest-class? As a teenager desperate for a Foxconn job? As a thirty-something bone-weary and contemplating suicide from the Foxconn job? As an angry, French speaking Quebecian? As a Mexican schoolteacher constantly affronted by wealthy, oblivious American tourists? As a cruise-ship tourist, angry with the poor service at dinner?

The human experience is vast and deep, and often deeply unpleasant, but it is joyful to contemplate it in its full richness. And if only because this post reminded me of this, it deserves an upvote (and probably a cat meme, if I was clever enough).
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A drone costs more than a helicopter. The FAA has ensured that the price isn't going to fall too far since their avionics has to be DO-178B class A rated. I.E. the same rating that passenger aircraft need to get.

That's _expensive_
Among the 10 email addresses I have, only 6 are linked to an smtp server and exactly one implements spf.

This makes me think that today, defaulting to using one smtp for all accounts is saner than bugging the user and having 8 out of 10 mail accounts that cannot send mails.
The A-10 warthog pilots used to practice on my employees' vehicles as they'd drive to visit a customer. The pilots work in pairs, each working back and forth over the vehicle from a different direction. It seems the strategy is that while one is wheeling to return the other is in mid attack.

You certainly feel you have their undivided attention. It helps if you pretend they aren't carrying live ammunition.
They're larger and typically deeper than the height adjustable ones.
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Perhaps they called the number listed in the box on the right hand side of the article?
I don't get the title... I know what it is (it was mentioned on the other topic about face.com shutting down free API), but the title of this submission doesn't make any sense to me. I read it maybe five times and still can't understand what it means.
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I can't see him doing it for the show "Louie" itself, since it's already in a good position.

But I could completely imagine someone else in a similar position doing, perhaps even with Louis CK's help and the same platform. Imagine if Chris Rock wanted to launch a new crazy-experimental TV show. Funding via the Internet, with Louis CK's help, and then license it to a TV channel as well. I think it would be a huge success.
It should be obvious the desks aren't actually made from real doors. When's the last time you saw a door that was only 4 or 6 feet high? Unless they're imported from the land of midgets...
Being pro property, primarily in the form of land, in the US is linked to virtue.

The US is a post-apocalpytic nation. Literally. The indigenous people and cultures were so badly wiped out by a variety of factors (some with European fault, some without) as to leave a sense of an untamed wilderness (actually, there were probably advanced agrarian societies over every inch of the US at one time) and an abundance of land. I think much of the appeal of zombie/apocalyptic fiction in the US comes from a longing for a future (like our semi-imaginary past) of open land.

When land was (or seemed) effectively free, the "obviously virtuous", positive-sum thing to do was to find unused land and bring it into productivity-- rather than to squabble for allocation of an existing resource as people did in the cities. Hence the association of the rural frontier with positive-sum virtue and urbanity (and Europe, at that time) with zero-sum congestion. So more specifically, it was a rural style of land ownership (in "new" land) that was associated with virtue.

Of course, the frontier closed, and over time we became urban (suburbia is extremely-low-density and often dismal urbanity) like everyone else.

Land doesn't matter as much as it did, except in major cities. A landed gentry has been replaced by an educated (sometimes in name only) and connected one, and urban land is only worth so much on account of the people it is (implicitly through locality) connected to. That's why Manhattan and Silicon Valley real estate are so ungodly expensive: because ambitious, smart people move there, so they're good places to set up a business and tap local talent. We are the reason for the value that justifies the price, and for thanks, we get royally fucked-over by the landlords for it.

I have no issue with small-time landowners and the notion of owning one's own home, and any land reform policy that I'd support would have to have an exemption (around $500,000 seems reasonable) under which it doesn't apply. However, I definitely don't think the association of land ownership with virtuous stewardship applies to large-scale urban housing ownership. It's classic medieval rent-seeking, nothing more.
There has never in history been a company quite like Facebook. Its wild scale, its international reach, its years-long user engagement.

They're in entirely uncharted territory. The potential models are numerous and they're not getting any younger. I'm not sure what else they can be expected to do besides try a lot of things. No one else has the opportunity, so why not explore while they still can?
That's what silent mode and voicemail is for. For the caller, there is plausible deniability that they were interrupting anything, so it's up to the recipient to manage phone availability.
If you sail, you'll often be buzzed by military rescue helicopters too, practicing their approaches. Which is absolutely fine, if I ever need a helicopter to come rescue me (or a gunship to shoot the crap out of someone who's trying to shoot me!) I'm happy to have helped them train.
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You don't need a warrant to tail someone's car, especially to write them a speeding ticket. From Wikipedia, "In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that a search occurs when 1) a person expects privacy in the thing searched and 2) society believes that expectation is reasonable."

Society does not believe that it's reasonable to expect your speed to be private on a public highway, and so a "search" never takes place. (You're not being charged for a misdemeanor or felony anyway, so the Constitution is even less applicable.)

Personally, I think that stricter enforcement of speeding laws would be great. Eventually enough people will complain to get freeway speeds bumped up to something reasonable (how about 75?), and people driving fast on surface streets deserve what they get anyway. (Cities are extremely car-friendly with respect to speed limits; you're allowed to drive 35 on my tiny little side street in Brooklyn! 35!)
I wouldnt call that a flying car, I would call that a car that can turn into a gyro/helicopter.
... it's an SGI Workstation.

"Good choice sir! Do you have a support contract with us?"

SGI's were such cool machines I might actually talk to that person and explain what they are and why you can't help.
Actually, I'm saying that if the 200+ Americans with >$2 billion in wealth consistently generated more than 4% return on capital, then at least 50% of the top 400 earners should stay relatively the same year after year (since those with >$2 billion usually stay billionaires). The fact that only 27% have appeared more than once suggests that those with more than $2 billion in net worth are reporting returns less than 4%.
I've been staring at it for a while and the best I can do is: 'Face.com: Free "Detect Faces in Pictures" Alternative', which is still a barely-syntactical Markov chain of press release words.
I have read your discussion of the Objective-C runtime three times to try and understand it. Your criticism seems to boil down to "The ObjC runtime is insufficiently complicated." (For example, you say several times that it lacks features X and Y, for many values of X and Y.)

There is a school of thought that says simplicity is a feature. That C++ is an example of "language gone wrong". That the C hackers in the 80s and 90s had the right idea.

It is not reasonable to compare Java and ObjC because in spite of the marketing material, they have very different performance characteristics. For the most part, garbage collectors are not efficient enough to be comfortably used on 5w computers. If you need a non-GC native-performance language, your choice is C++, C, or ObjC. Clearly you're in the "Features are good, use C++" camp, but the people who are not in that camp are also in pretty good company.
Here's the IRS pub that's the basis for the article: The 400 Individual Income Tax Returns Reporting the Largest Adjusted
Gross Incomes Each Year, 1992-2009 http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09intop400.pdf

The Tax Foundations take (http://taxfoundation.org/article/fortunate-400) is a little different. Interesting that in the 18 years that the report covers none of the taxpayers were on the top 400 list for all years. & only 4 (1%) were on the list for 17 years. 73% were on the list for just 1 year.... Their take was that most folks were on the list due to one time event...sale of assets, etc

Also wages were flat for all 17 years (as a % of total income). Partnership & S Corp income was up ~400%, which could be because of the growth in publicly traded partnerships.
Looks like it would be possible with a formatter and the data-html binding.
My idea is launch a SaaS face detection like face.com forking the OpenCV code initially. better now?
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im using redis instead of rabbitmq - have had zero problems so far. great work, this project is awesome
Driver-less vehicles are also on the near horizon. This will effectively negate police drones as issuers of speeding-tickets.

Both look like they will be rolled out at nearly the same time, at least in the scheme of things.
Are you using redis with slaves? When I do that, celery throws errors when trying to add tasks to my redis queue.
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> Today, we know that our brain is capable of storying an insane amount of data (estimates value it at around 2.5 petabytes, that’s 2.5 million gigabytes (more here).

It won't be long before this no longer seems like an insane amount of data. It's less than a thousand's of today's commodity hard drives.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get SLA's for APIs.
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Using a military drone to do civilian law enforcement should violate the act, but I guess we will see as the case makes its way through the courts.
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Well, it's already running a BSD variant.
What do you do with a deep desk? My IKEA table at home is already too deep, all I do with the extra space is store a monitor that I don't use. At work, the extra space hosts a marble track. And this is with a standard desk; a door would just be a massive dust collector.

Space that you can't easily reach is essentially useless. My desk mostly exists to take up space between the wall and my monitor so my legs have somewhere to stretch out to.
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Ask HN: Is it illegal to display false metrics on your SaaS site?
I'm referring to metrics like "number of users", "number of X processed by our users", etc.

I've seen some VERY newly launched SaaS sites that claim to be "used by thousands of customers" which I find hard to believe. Of course they could have had a lengthy private beta where they got those signups but I'm still curious.

Is it illegal? Does it depend on the country where their company is incorporated? Does it constitute misleading advertising?
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Don't think you can have dependencies.

It just updates the specified part (data-value updates the value, data-html updates the innerHTML etc)
Safe driving is hardly a matter of speed compliance. It is noticing potentially tricky conditions 150 yards ahead and slowing down, or that you are blocking someone's merge and speeding up. It is slowing down in slick conditions, or in rain and congestion.

And I often find myself on empty highways in the early morning. With good tires and brakes, and a rested driver, why _shouldn't_ I go 100 miles an hour? Especially since I am off the gas well before anything that looks slightly sketchy.

Cruise control has made most drivers far stupider, as they surrender speed to the car and stop making the subtle adjustments to maintain or create buffers needed to be safe. Worse, they camp out in the left hand lane simply to avoid the necessity of those adjustments to accomodate merging traffic.

In theory, "autonomous" vehicles could drive faster and maintain those same buffers better than any set of human drivers. In practice, I expect those autonomies to be programmed to fit the preferences of a bunch of safety nannies and police departments determined to maintain ticketing revenues.
This is exactly right. The party line was "it's the addons" forever, anytime you brought up Firefox taking up 900MB of RAM after being open for 3 days. Even with no addons. I was so glad to switch to Chrome when it came out because of that.

And then years later they have the "MemShrink project". Which basically was admitting that they were spouting bullshit about it being addons for years.
I've seen situations where nginx sits in front of Apache and serves static files directly, but proxies requests for PHP through to Apache for easier setup.
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Am I the only one who thinks this would be a lot less complicated without NAT?
Are these algorithmically generated, say by characterizing the faces in some way and then finding a face that fits the characteristic of both the input faces?

Or did some human do this, in which case I'm having trouble seeing why it is here.
North Dakota didn't see the rise that other states did. That is probably from all the oil jobs in western ND.

The military is not supposed to be directly involved in civilian law enforcement. Effective is not a consideration at that point. It would cut crime a lot to have troops on every corner of Detroit, but that is not something that is good long term for the citizens of the US.
I can't agree on your first point, really.

I liked Java because it had a fairly large catalog of reusable libraries, and was decently easy to deploy back when I used it.

I loved C# because the language is really beautiful and fairly robust.

What makes you assume people can't pick tools by themselves?

On your second point, I think people (see http://rubymotion.com/) already realize that the runtime is really nice!
Indeed. The door desks were one reason I turned down an offer from Amazon. If they want their employees to get carpal tunnel, what other landmines lie lurking?
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Thank you. Good point.

This also serves to demonstrate the artificiality and awkwardness of taxing capital gains v.s. simply taxing wealth directly.