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I don't think you read my original comment. I think you skimmed it, concluded that I was arguing for abolition of all price caps to allow "free market capitalism" to solve all our problems, and wrote a philosophical response.

In fact, I don't believe we should abolish all price caps. I simply think the cap we've chosen is foolishly low. We have empirical evidence that a dense western urban area can survive on prices >300% higher than what they are in NYC now, and yet we've capped price increases at 10%. Fixing prices on a good whose intrinsic value is rapidly increasing, as gasoline's value clearly is in NYC, amounts to declaring a state-managed fire sale on gasoline. How can that possibly be a sensible response to a crisis of scarcity?

If you want to think about it from the other direction: price fluctuations in the gas market of 10% or more are not altogether uncommon, and empirically they do little to alter people's behavior. The 10% cap therefore amounts to a declaration that the market will not be allowed to alter people's behavior, despite the obvious fact that people are not behaving optimally --- and you can look at any gas station near NYC to verify that.

Finally, I just think you made a very flimsy argument upthread: that "jacking up prices", as you put it, serves no objective purpose. Well, no. Not true. At all. The knowledge that rising prices aren't an intrinsically bad thing will help in all sorts of situations where we have actual judgements to make in our lives.
My sleep data is not granular since I lack a zeo, so it's literally time I go to sleep and time I got to bed. Blood sugar is basically measured with a gulcose meter.
What about for IDE features that are 'non-intrusive'. A lot of the editor features Visual Studio (+ Resharper) or IntelliJ provide don't get 'in my way'. To be honest I can't think of many ways in which tools get in my way to be honest, except perhaps initially having to define a 'project' that the IDE understands (versus just files on disk).
> His contributions to science are negligible if not entirely detrimental.

I'm not a linguistics expert, but from my vantage point as a computer scientist, it would be hard to conclude that. Chomsky essentially founded the field of formal language theory, and was the first to propose many widely-used constructs, such as the context-free grammar. They may or may not explain how English works, but pretty much everything on the Chomsky hierarchy has been put to productive use in computers.

In a much more general sense, his arguments against blank-slate learning are pretty mainstream in machine learning as well. Chomsky's specific approaches aren't too widely used (though there is some work on grammar induction), but the idea that inductive bias is key to machine learning is widespread, though perhaps in a weaker sense than the very specific and strong inductive bias Chomsky proposes for language learning.
Temple in Perfect Dark was the best multiplayer game ever.

Tangential to OP's article, http://console.fm is awesome.
>Generate a GPG/PGP signature of the install ISO and that's it, you're done.

And you are getting that signature from the same place you are getting the binaries you are worried about being tampered with? They don't bother with security theatre because they aren't interested in being performing artists.
The one-in-four statistic is for miscarriages after the sixth week of pregnancy. In the general population, the percentage of miscarriages is 15%, or about one-in-six.

One thing to keep in mind is that a miscarriage is not the end of the world. Heartbreaking, yes, but it's not too late to try again.
Im more worried why they are using my password in hidden form fields in the clear on signup.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12035718/after-signup-source.jpg

It seems after the initial signup the server responds with with the question/answer form and pre-populates hidden fields with my entered password in the clear, which kind of make me wonder how my password is stored. Im hoping my password isn't stored like this and they are just passing it back as a response param, or perhaps the initial signup isn't hitting the server at all??
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Celebrate Ney Years in Bali Would have been nice. There will be a lot of fireworks, and festivities everywhere.

http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games...
I've always considered Norvig's position pretty much self-evident for anybody who has dealt with real world problems. At the same time, Chomsky is still way more interesting to read, even if he's wrong. And he's wrong mostly for assuming that unsupervised learning has to be the end result when in fact it could be an intermediate step to more refined symbolic theories.

In any case, this kind of antagonism between the two approaches might be useful as it keeps the field more vital, preventing yet another stagnation.
So charging more for a temporarily scarce resource is what 'ruins societies'?

Thoughtless adherence to an academic principal ruins societies.

it would be much better for the government to give the poor person $60 to purchase the more expensive gas

Why do you think that doubling the price will level supply and demand? It would take at least an order of magnitude, and the seller would have to conduct an auction in the presence of a representative sample of buyers in order to determine pricing. Also you're arguing for setting up an effective social program in the middle of an emergency. It's far more practical to suspend the free market for a week.

Unfettered capitalism in an emergency creates a divided, third world community of normal and desperate. If you want to argue anything, argue that.
A "fuck you car" should have "fuck you money" to back it up.
Considering Samsung's undeniable expertise when it comes to the domains you listed, IP and brand strategy are two damn important fronts to fight.
Partitioning in OpenBSD seems a lot simpler in OpenBSD compared to to FreeBSD, but that might just be me. Not a huge problem in any respect, you don't do it that often.
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You are correct it is difficult. There is a strong push on now for new underground parking to be constructed with 240V electrical service roughed in to many of the spaces, to accommodate future charging stations.
Are you a troll? Because all you did was just repeat yourself, nitpick something I didn't even say and ignore everything else.

Go watch the 4.2 announce and note how every feature is about enhancing the experience and adding core features that iOS will probably not seen any, anytime soon.

I mocked "Facebook integration" because it is mockable, that's what you're going to argue is "experience enhacning"? Android had it from it's very first release via Intents.

Again, I didn't even mention spec lists in that last post, you are really desperate to keep trying to attack me with that, aren't you? (Also, did you watch the iPhone 5 keynote, all it is is specs. Are you paying any attention to iOS and Android or are you just repeating stereotypes from 2 years ago?)

>Every time someone has tried to hype an Android phone in a discussion I've been a part of, all they do is throw out a bunch of buzzwords and acronyms made up by companies like Samsung to try and market their phone. They don't even try and explain what these damn things are, much less why I should care about them.

Vague. Ambiguous. Completely void of a single example. I can't even think of an acronym in Android that I could use as a feature. Also, what, now you admit that Android has features but you can't be bothered to learn what they are because iOS will never get it? Jesus.
Haha thank you, it's a really great project to work on.
Do you really think that raising (e.g.) gas prices by a large margin will somehow redirect resources to getting more gas into those areas?

* The gas stations without electricity aren't to get electricity any fast because the price of gas is higher.

* Gasoline shipments aren't going to come any faster.

* New gas stations aren't going to pop up as entrepreneurs move into the area to capitalize on increased demand for gas.

A disaster isn't necessarily a 'market force.' No one is going to get supplies into a disaster zone faster because they are trying to turn a quick buck. Especially since it isn't like they can setup shop and expect the increased prices to persist.
Yes, this is absolutely true in my case (similar though slightly reversed from what you describe).

I did the military thing and later college, but switched directions a couple years in college to pick up programming. Even if I reach master skill levels, I'm afraid that my career is stunted because of a short military stint and several years in warehouse/factory jobs before heading off to college.

People see that I'm in my mid-30s with less than 3 years experience in my field and automatically shuffle me out of the candidate pool (so it seems to me anyway).
Some background: Postling was founded by an ex-Amazon product manager, David Lifson and the two original technical co-founders of Etsy, Haim Schoppick & Chris Maguire.

It was originally developed at Dreamit Ventures, the accelerator program in Philadelphia, in 2009. They worked alongside my startup (http://parse.ly), Jack & Russ of SeatGeek (http://seatgeek.com), Matt & Burak of Tidal (http://tid.al), and a few other early-stage companies.

After the summer in Philadelphia, they relocated to NYC just like we did. They are some of the nicest guys who worked tirelessly on their company for several years, building up a customer base and strong following in the market. They took a methodical approach: built an MVP, launched it to customers, and iterated it in response to customer feedback.

This acquisition is a nice, soft landing for the company and the founders.
We (Beeminder) just made a tool to force yourself to spread the writing out over the whole month:

http://blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo

Would love to hear what people think of it!
And as for the military, cashing out at twenty years of service with a $47,000 annual pension (starting immediately and inflation-adjusted over time) plus the G.I. Bill is not a bad deal at all.

The downside is that you have to be in the military for 20 years.
> Where in mobile can you live-debug an application both
> visually and functionally like you can with Web
> Inspector?

Visually? Interface builder in Xcode. Functionally? Instrumenta, lldb.

> coding in JavaScript and CSS so the time it takes to
> iterate between various solutions is a fraction of the
> time of Objective C or Java.

You are vastly underestimating the capabilities of Cocoa Touch and UIKit. And tell me, how many iterations will it take to reimplement something like reusable cells in UITableView with comparable efficiency in CSS and JS.

> Plus the whole 30% cut

You get a lot for that: including hosting, payment processing, automatic notification about upgrades and access to millions people with credit cards a click away from your app.
Apple increased R&D spending by $1 billion in 2012
Rejoice - a 13" tablet does exist already and will be on the shelves soon:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/25/toshiba-excite-13-review/
The issue I have with seeing life advice posts is that I've begun to see this dichotomy between "follow your heart" advice and "follow your head" advice. And I personally have a split between the two: my degree is in CS and my current job is in programming, but by "pie in the sky" dreams involve writing and performing music. I happen to have more knowledge in the former as a consequence of my degree, but I didn't really passionately pursue any major side projects. (This hindered my job hunt slightly, but I still managed to circumvent it via personal connections. It does pay to know people, in my experience.)

As I was closing in on the end of my college degree plan, I felt torn between these two seemingly divergent ends. As a result I crept into a disillusioned depression fueled by the realization that it was too late to switch degrees that wildly and by firsthand experience of the job hunt as a CS student from west Texas with little heart in the industry.

So I'm just taking solace in the fact that I'm working a job with a really short commute and a good environment where I can go home at 5:00 and pursue music as a hobby. I might even notice eventually that my life's passion doesn't land in either music or programming, and to be honest I'd be okay with that if it gave me a direction to point in. But at this point, having only graduated from college this year (turning 23 next week), it feels like I just need to to something. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm coasting now that I've "made it" out into the world relatively unscathed.
That published statement 'dispels commercial uncertainty'? Not to a lawyer, but to the consumer who is its target order? How does it do anything except increase commercial uncertainty?
Chomsky is agreeing that it's making a map. He just doesn't think that map is very useful on a scientific level, but is useful on an engineering level.

You're responding that he's wrong, because it's useful on an engineering level.

Right? I'm reading many comments here and they seem to keep boiling down to this notion. Am I wrong?
Sure, 1:1 threading is in fact very old technology. Which makes it all the more astounding that the *BSD's haven't managed to get that technology implemented in their systems until now.
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With the word "execute" I also associate the word "ship".

So if there's an big push to "execute" as quickly as possible, why did they go with a physical book when they could have shipped a finished book in digital format exponentially faster?

I would love to read the book, but I don't buy physical books anymore.
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It's not throttle response, it's torque at 0RPM.

When you're racing, you rev your engine before the light turns green and pop the clutch when it turns green.

You don't do that when you're not racing, because it's hard on clutches, and the vast majority of daily drivers are automatics.

When you're racing an electric car, you mash the accelerator when the light turns green, the same way you start the car moving when you're normally driving. So you get race-track start feeling every time you drive your car.
A good text editor with intellisense and refactoring is all most developers need. Unfortunately this beast don't exists so we're stuck with VS/Eclipse/etc for static typed languages.

At least they should try to make IDEs more modular so they can be "stripped" to editor + intellisense + refactoring. But no....the innards are too twisted together for this so you're stuck with the entire beast :(
I did not reference linguistics literature, but philosophy literature (a distinction worth making because they are approaching the problem at different levels). I've never been good at the 'language problem' elevator speech, but how is it possible that we can capture the full power of language while using language to describe it? Language is a technology that allows for the production of concepts like 'probability' or 'apple'. Language as a tool is so fundamental to cognition that it becomes difficult to separate the two. Heidegger's Being and Time explores that line of thinking, and Derrida loves to play the game of "well that means you can't say anything!" Both have provided me with insight into what "magic" is referencing here (rather than your fairly pithy absence-of-evidence reference).
Burning coal to make electricity, then transmitting that electricity all over the country, wasting some of it along the way... Then using that to charge a battery, then using that to power a motor.

I'm not sure it sounds particularly efficient unless you completely ignore all the work that goes into making the electricity :/
Oh, hey, this is JM from RAD. Didn't see your user name at first. :)

Re: 220V outlets, it's surprisingly hard to find the true average power consumption by a dryer, now that I just tried. I do know that the heating element in a dryer is usually rated for 5000 watts+, but you have to keep in mind that it doesn't run at a 100% duty cycle, even on high heat. (I can't find anything that talks about what the typical duty cycle on high heat is, so maybe I'll measure mine the next time I dry something.) I'm pretty sure it would more or less nuke your clothes if the dryer dissipated over 5000 watts all the time.

Point being, if an EV charger really does draw 40 amps at 220 volts, that is about twice the real power consumption of a clothes dryer. This is a non-trivial amount of juice. It would be a massive problem if half the automobile-owning households in the US started charging their cars all night long at those rates.

It's not just a matter of you not personally having any use for swappable batteries. It's a matter of electricity not being quite as trivial to generate and distribute as you suggest.

Nobody that I'm aware of, including me, is trying to spread FUD. I would gay-marry Elon Musk, if I were gay. I wish him all the success in the world. But the numbers behind his prediction simply do not work... unless he has something up his sleeve along the lines of the Better Place concept.
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Ok, but why should I use your service instead of writing JavaScript in Vim?
Apart from the fact of seeing the output more or less on the fly the result is the same (but I'll never abandon my editor for that).

What do you mean by "to sandbox API workflow"?

Why should I get a script from your server in my production application instead of serving it myself? It's one dependency more.

The only real value i see is the fact of having a library that gives me some syntactic sugar to query third party apis (like twitter, foursquare, gmaps, ...) but for that I would need only a very little part of your service, and maybe I'd prefer an open source solution.
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When the hackers at MIT in the 60s mostly build tools for programming. Lots of people made fun of them, silly people tring to implement fast lisps, debuggers and simular things. Everybody know that one should fucus on developing useful things with the tools that are allready there.

Its ok to focus on current technology to do something for a time but just never advancing and trying something new is not pointless.
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Apple uses HTTP live streaming. Notice the lack of Chrome on the HTTP live streaming page. It's not "the old messed up IE days" because the Chrome devs have decided not to implement HTTP live streaming. It's not a standard exactly but it is documented and possible to implement, as the VLC team has done.
At the Seattle Bouldering Project I estimate a quarter of all climbers are from Google, Amazon or MS.
Also a high proportion of resumés crossing my desk mention climbing.
How's gasoline working out now in New Jersey? Not well.

There is currently a massive amount of land and a massive amount of infrastructure (thousands and thousands of tankers, for one) devoted to making gasoline available on every corner, nearly worldwide. If a similar amount of land and infrastructure were devoted to, say, swappable electric batteries, electric cars would have no problems in the "long trip" department.

How can we get there from here? One easy way would be for the government to mandate every gasoline station to include one alternative refueling station - station owner's choice what that might be, but you have to have one. Bootstrap using the current gasoline network.
You mean the ones that typically only last a year or 2?
I don't see any mysticism in Chomsky's approach.

You seem to agree with Norvig that doing massive data analysis on language will come to a scientific understanding, which would be a first in science.

Chomsky doesn't. If anything, Chomsky is grounded in reality, and Norvig and AI researchers are grounded in hope that this way of mapping out something will create meaningful understanding of the system.
>> It's pretty indicative of the age group here on HN. For reference, I'm 23.

I'm not sure exactly what it says, but I'm a decade older than you, and I lost countless days to this game. The best opponent I had was four years older than me!

I don't quite understand the love for the four player multi though. It seemed unplayably choppy to me with with that many opponents, but I never did get that expansion pack that sticks in the front. Also didn't care for the limited view range. But heads up multi-player... fantastic.
Because you don't have to pay for it.
Cool photo. I love the Zynga logo reflected in the windshield.
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And a little bit more info on Quartz (I was rushing earlier and on the go - improvised working from coffee-shop while NYC transport crippled)

About Quartz

Quartz (http://qz.com), a newly launched global business news site from Atlantic Media, is seeking an experienced Front-end/Mobile Web Developer. You will work with other developers on a frontend unlike any other news site - one that places emphasis on the reading experience, seamless interaction, and values content over traditional business needs.

This is an enormous opportunity to shape the news reading experience and help redefine the traditional “news site” as “news application”.

See also:

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Chomsky's famous review of Verbal Behavior was from 1959. He REISSUED it in 1967, as the document the article links to plainly and clearly states. Geez, this is a pretty stupid mistake for Katz and The Atlantic to make. They should fix it.
I think it's misleading to say 'smart', as intelligence is context dependent, so its probably more useful to say skilled.

The people we need to worry about then are the ones who don't have the motivation, environment, resources or courage to reskill.

Particularly in this day where employers hire only employees with the exact skills they need, a symptom of employer/employee loyalty both ways disintegrating, its going to become more and more important for companies to have reskilling programs, and for government to incentivise that sort of behaviour.

What will happen to the people who still don't reskill? Given that robotics is going to destroy most of the unskilled labour market, it doesn't look good