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They could (and have), POV cameras in R/C planes have been a thing for a while now. It was just more expensive and so people didn't do it without consideration. It was more complicated to fly an R/C helicopter. (search for 'learn to fly an R/C helicopter' some time :-) ).

Now however you can put a camera on a quad-copter (or buy one with one) on an image stabilized mount, and take HD movies of areas you couldn't get too before. That has really irked / woken up some people. All without any training and only a bit of practice. That is what changed that people have asked the FAA to "fix."
>you should be happy that a rich person can single-handedly give more good than most other donors taken together

How is that supposed to make me happy?

>It's results that matters.

What results beyond Zuckerberg having even more power and influence than before?
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Don't forget the indirect costs of tax deductions. How many man-hours does the IRS spend auditing deductions? How much revenue is lost to uncaught fraud?
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I don't think Facebook is different from any other publicly traded company in that regard. No publicly traded for-profit company is going to pay more taxes than it is legally obligated to. Also, Facebook's taxes are not the same as his personal taxes, and the LLC will still be taxed, since it is not listed as a non-profit.
How does this have 73 points (at last check)? What does this contribute to the Hacker News community? There are typos on the front page, and I'm not sure what a "proxy checker" is. This seems extremely sketchy.
EDIT: This user just keeps submitting this site, can an admin please ban them?
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This is great! I recently went through the same lightbulb moment on CIDR blocks and was looking for a visual like this. I just wrote some examples on a piece of paper, but I'll definitely be sharing this with some coworkers.

Thanks for sharing!
> Palpatine has real support of the public.

They showed many planets at the end of RotJ [1] where massive celebrations occurred, including Coruscant. I think these celebrations speak to the rebellion's support.

>It's just that arguments that you choose to prove that are not working.

There's nothing to prove. The belief that a people have the right to topple their dictators is subjective. I can only prove something if we share the same axioms.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiM5zEEI_Jo
Sure, but they can't - and it doesn't matter (obviously, because we still all get in airplanes in spite of an identifiable but uncontrollable risk).

Just because they _can_ write a FAR about drones, should they? Does it matter any more or less than the risk of birdstrike? What _is_ the risk? If there were a real quantifiable and indisputable number there, surely we'd all know about it and be able to look it up and evaluate it in comparison to other risks we accept?

Is allowing my neighbour to fly a drone in the local park more or less dangerous than riding a bicycle? Or climbing a ladder? Or riding a horse?
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No... there are recruiters who are a lot more invasive and pushy (and a couple employers I've run across).

"Proof of previous income" was required at one place I applied years back, and I've heard similar stories from colleagues. No, of course, I don't bother going forward in those situations.

"What are you making now?" is crass. The good recruiters I've worked with phrased it as "what are your salary expectations?" or "the range is $x-$y - are you OK with that?"

I've taken it literally in situations where they actually meant it literally. "We will not pay you $80k until you can prove you were making $80k at your previous job". Insane, but it does happen on occasion. How those companies ever manage to hire anyone... I'm not sure.
> The 'charitable work' feels to me like it's primarily an exercise of power.

All uses of wealth are uses of power; wealth is a form of power, after all.
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Buzzfeed called; they've got a list for you.

In all seriousness, this type of writing - sprawling as you call it - is important. It lets the reader come away with a sense of the nuances of the situation, instead of a bullet point abstract that leads to misunderstandings and overlooked issues. This type of writing - commonly called "the essay" - is important precisely because it does take time to read it. Its meant to teach you something, not just give you a little factoid you can regurgitate throughout the day.
You can argue all you want about whether it's a good metric for surgery quality or not, but if you're being discharged soon after surgery, the idea is that your surgery went well enough that you don't need to be around $50mil worth of life-saving equipment 24/7. It has a valid place in the system, with pros and cons like any other metric.

Hospitals are full of all kinds of hard-to-kill microorganisms. They really are not good places to stay after a major traumatic event (e.g. surgery) if you don't need the resources of the system; staying will only increase your chances of getting a life-threatening infection. When I get home from the hospital, I try to change out of my clothes as soon as possible for this very reason.

As for pain medication, well...one only needs to look at the enormous rise of opioid addiction and prescription medicine abuse in the USA to see that moderation of these very dangerous medications is in the patient's best interest.

The medical system is far from perfect, but don't operate on the assumption that the people working in the field are ignorant of the problems you're pointing out. There are many things we could be doing better, especially on the transparency and patient education side of things, but it's a huge industry and big ships turn slowly.
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> This was a major concern at the time, but wasn't publicized.

Side question: Is there a good place to learn about major structural engineering fixes that were kept secret until the work was completed?
> They showed many planets at the end of RotJ [1] where massive celebrations occurred, including Coruscant. I think these celebrations speak to the rebellion's support.

Not at the time the Empire was formed, though.
This is very obviously a faulty analogy. Ads help you rank for specific pages with very high ROI per paid click.

Transferring a domain is preserving rank for all pages including those with (comparatively) low value per user.
If I was to try to take steps to try to avoid this the next time around, it sounds it would be, if moving an HTTP site to a new domain using HTTPS:

# move to new URL but keep using HTTP
# wait for search rank to reach parity, maybe leave it for some buffer
# upgrade site to use HTTPS

This sounds like it might prevent the issues with migration in GWT.
In addition to other reasons, it can also be beneficial for any side to postpone this discussion for a later phase.
> How is that supposed to make me happy?

Because significantly more good is being done? It should make you happy if you care about the particular issue being solved. If not, that's fair, but it means we're not complaining about philanthropy anymore, but about rich people being rich.
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to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish
to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even
integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be
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Sure google hate it as it games the system. You pay for links and your site rises up the natural search. This eats into their AdWords service and pollutes natural search.

But big websites that aren't ad driven use paid links to fund the site. We were paying big sites (think three letter domain names, top five newspaper sites, etc) for links. Say a paper writes an article on car insurance - wouldn't it be nice if they linked to our customers site and 'forgot' to mention a big competitor. Money will make that happen.

So how can google punish these big sites? They are put in an impossible situation.
This is naive. Incentives matter. No matter how much you try to ethically spin it, actors generally perceive taxation as adversarial. Any country implementing a tax policy is fully aware of the risks they take from noncompliance and avoidance.

(Avoiding or resisting taxes is also not always a purely self-interested endeavor. It's a tried and true political protest technique.)
Will this apply retroactively to RC model aircraft, or only products that are marketed as "drones"?
Yes, they are that dangerous, and that is why FAA regulations already make it illegal to fly a model airplane around an airport. When Moffett field was an active Navy Base you couldn't fly your kite at Shoreline without getting hassled by the MPs.

Those regulations have been around for a long time and have been effective at keeping planes safe. When people violate them, they do selective enforcement to remind folks the regulations are there. A good example of regulation that succeeds in its goal.

Adding the forced identification thing is the red herring here.
Many PR departments can ward off an angry mob. But an angry, hungry mob...
A good case to use code generators, I guess...
when you change your name, you lose a lot of brand recognition, search engine or no. If ford decided to call themselves "Johnson" next week, next time you wanted to buy a truck, you'd have no idea who these Johnson people were, right? (I mean, barring some huge advertising campaign, or you being the sort of person who follows Ford in the news.)

Yes, there are automated ways around that, if everyone depends on the same search engine for brand recognition, but... I guess I fail to see why the search engine would really care that much. Yes, yes, I know that as a brand owner you spend years trying to game a search engine for your brand, and that has huge value for you, the brand owner.

However, supporting that activity doesn't make the search engine better for the users or for the advertisers, the two groups that a search engine cares about. a search engine has some interest in a user getting a result that isn't too far off from what they want, you know, so said user doesn't leave for another search engine. They have a conflicting (and much stronger) interest in the user getting a paid ad that is similar enough to what they want (and possibly better enough than the organic results) that they might click on it and not be unhappy, because that's how search engines make money. (there's a conflict because the user wants the best result possible, while the search engine wants the organic results to be bad enough that the paid results are relevant enough to warrant a click. Of course, but not so bad that the user goes to a different search engine.)

A search engine has no interest in helping businesses preserve their "organic" search rating. Either enough other people talk enough about the business that the search engine thinks that the link is worth something, or they don't. If you have a good reputation, and then you change your name and nobody knows who you are, well, that sounds like a pretty bad idea, doesn't it? and while yes, it is a problem that the search engine could solve, there's no reason for them, really, to do so.
I should also point out that Philips owns Color Kinetics, the biggest player in commercial RGB LED lighting. It's very much not a market they need to break into.

http://www.colorkinetics.com/

Much to the rest of the industry's chagrin, CK holds a couple of fundamental patents on colored lighting by mixing red, green, and blue. Not that color mixing or PWM were new in 1997, but I guess they smushed together enough ideas that the patent office thought it was novel.

As far as I know, they do have some competitors (Lumenpulse comes to mind) but aren't under any significant threats in that market because every competitor pays them royalties anyway.
> equally advantageous to both parties

There ain't no such thing. Salary negotiations are pretty close to zero-sum.
Not to mention the Hood Canal bridge collapse. Washington really has had a hard time with their bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal_Bridge
This got me wondering about other companies that own branded vehicles. I found this on the UPS wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service#Vehicles

When UPS ground vehicles reach the end of their useful service life and are no longer roadworthy (typically 20–25 years or more, but generally when the body's structural integrity is compromised), they are almost always stripped of reusable parts, repainted in household paint to cover up the trademark, and then sent to the scrapyard to be crushed and broken up. The only exception to this policy is when a package car is repainted white for internal use, usually at a large hub. Prior to scrapping, UPS trucks and trailers are assigned an ADA (Automotive Destruction Authorization) number and must be crushed under supervision of UPS Automotive personnel, which records the vehicle's destruction, as UPS does not re-sell any of its ground vehicles.
I noticed the difference but thought that maybe it was a parody, like Paul In Graham...I honestly did not expect to see "Paul Ingraham", even though that's not a wildly rare surname.

Reminds me of the "Michelin Guides" and "Michel In Guides" [hilarious] fiasco. [1]

[1] http://www.eater.com/2013/2/7/6483963/michelin-guide-obvious...
I proposed integrating FLINT ML compiler and VLISP in some form for heightened correctness argument, ML safety, and LISP power. Kind of several copies of the software that corresponded with the strengths of each catching various problems and assuring correctness of tool itself.

Never occurred to me to embed ML in LISP. Looks so obvious in hindsight. You might be onto something there. Integrating yours with mine, if I get back to using those, might embed CakeML or Ocaml subset in VLISP with it emulated in Racket or CL knockoff of it for fast, day-to-day development.

Btw, what's the expression problem? I've either forgotten or not got that deep into PL design yet.
That was the whole point of the article ;) how that didn't work and how it fucked his site.
How did you choose this place (and country)?
My brother broke his leg horribly in Australia when he was 17. It was the worst break they'd ever seen at the hospital.

Ambulance ride, first surgery. Helicopter ride, second surgery, a month in hospital and third surgery and then another month or so in hospital to ween him off the morphine he had become addicted to, and to get walking again.

Of course, there was never a bill.
Thanks to the HN mods for letting me repost this. I'm very keen on hearing your thoughts on this tool and how I could make it better (especially if you do research in DNNs).

I'll follow up soon with a more interesting LSTM layer visualization.
You actually often can (or at least, could -- not sure how Obamacare might have changed this) -- you need to state that you are uninsured; you may very well get a lower price for your routine than you would have to pay out of pocket with insurance.
My understanding is the accounting for services process happened prior to GCP, and isn't about GCP resources.
Antidepressants take a while to take effect and take a while to go away. The people talking about dependencies are almost certainly horribly wrong.

That being said, if you feel that decreasing your dose makes you more alert and energetic, take it up with your psychiatrist. You may end up being advised to try a lower dose. (IANA psychiatrist, etc. etc.)
Folklore.org has plenty of other great stories from the Mac team. I remember reading some of these long before the Steve Jobs biography was released.
Agreed. I quite liked the level of detail in this article, but probably because I'm already interested in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

In general this rambling style is a complete turn-off for people who (1) aren't already familiar with the topic and (2) don't have 40 hours a week to spend reading. It boggles the mind how many supposedly tech-focused articles are pumped full of human interest fluff. For example, any article that starts with someone's physical description ("John Smith was hunched in front of his computer, his messy brown hair almost completely obscuring the screen.") is almost guaranteed to be of this ilk.
Effects in the range of 0.5-1.0% of pregnancies (and higher for certain high risk groups) are worth paying attention to.
> It's different in different countries. I'm in Australia and we have laws that limit the influence drug companies have over our doctors here, and we don't have pharma ads on television.

Is there a difference in prescription rates between Australia and countries with less strict rules? i.e. does it actually change anything?
We actually DON'T know that. It could be every person gets almost the same result.
I can see Eric Schmidt's point when he was CEO at Google which was being criticised for not paying tax in the UK. Basically that Google paid the exact amount stipulated in UK law and it that was too low it was up to the governments to change the law. I kind of agree - the situation is not good and should be fixed by the governments not the CEOs. After all the CEOs main duty is to serve the shareholder which they are doing in this case. The governments main duty should be to serve the people which they are being slack at.

I've got my own idea how to fix the situation. Could almost be done as a start up - feel free to use the idea - we need some sort of (ideally official) global accounting body that estimates how much profit each large international company makes globally and what percentage of their sales are in each country. So for Facebook that might be $4bn global profits, 42% US, 5% UK, SomeRandomTaxHaven 0.01% etc. Then all the politicians in any country have to do is say companies have to pay tax on the larger of either their local tax return or the international pro rata figure, so in this example the UK would tell Facebook to pay corporate tax on 4000*.05 = $200m or they'll ban them.
I think an even better analogy would be:

Google and Oracle and a bunch of other companies all make cars. All of the cars have a gearshift with the same pattern, because long ago the company who built the first car encouraged other carmakers to copy their design. But then Oracle buys the company who built the first car and tries to sue Google (and only Google) for copying their shift pattern.
For creating a customized web API easily, we are considering http://loopback.io/ and https://www.dreamfactory.com/ -- I wonder how these compare to Kinto.
Ah well. I could see where that'd not have been an entirely bad thing.

However, eventually you need to provide something that works. There is some value in having a portable way to generate random numbers. I can't think of a language that doesn't define one, and I don't think that is by accident.
This probably reduces the value of stolen UPS trucks.
To be fair, I have a lot of time on my hands :). In defense of the OP, they are covering one of the oldest and most well-known engineering history lessons, not a new trend or news event. A lot of history we take as gospel gets summed up in glib paragraphs, so if someone is purporting to explain why something has been wrong for decades, I won't hold it against them if they take more than the usual amount of words to get there.
In many other countries you don't let your credit card/debit card out of your sight. When I was in Canada for PyCon the wait staff would come back the credit card machine, and I'd pay right there and then. My credit card never leaves my hands.

This is more secure against skimming too, and allows Chip & Pin to be easily used.
Even after you leave, after step 4 they still need to manually enter your tip amount.
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Plenty of places here in Germany don't even take cards, only cash.
Or macro-assembler. I think HLA's, Hyde's and the general concept, are underappreciated for this use case.
I didn't even know about Mercy ships, seems like a for profit one wouldn't be too far fetched then.
I recently tried Parse's Push Notification (which go through GCM on Android). I was shocked by how long the messages seems to take when on cellular.

If anyone has tips, I'm all ears.
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I have three neighbors, all of whom are non-technical, that use Hue lights in their home. I asked them if they used any other "smart bulbs" with their Hue bridge. The universal reply, averaged out to a representative quote:

"I didn't even think that was a thing, I only use Hue bulbs with the Hue bridge."
From the outside, it looks like you have great engineering talent, but on the product management side you seem to lack some vision other than to cover backwards compatibility. This is frustrating to witness, even at a distance.
Best features of both types of parsers? Hell yeah! Never even heard of this one despite all the research updates I did a few years ago. Thanks for the link.
I worked at a furniture company where in order to delete code you had to have the head IT guy, the IT Director and an outside consultant sign off on it. Yes, that is right! 2 people that didn't know how to code and an outside consultant that we paid to look over "IT" moves before we made them.

However, I didn't need anyone to sign off on commenting out code and replacing it with something else. :-)
Uber Economy and the Vanishing Line Between B2B and B2C
now discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730020
This underlines that the level of newly launched and already abandoned hardware is alarming.

I'm looking at companies like Motorola who almost stopped (if it weren't for a very vocal user base) updating Moto E about half a year after launching.

And many other phone OEMs who just don't care about updating their software.

Companies came to expect fidelity from customers while providing the minimum of commitment in return.

OEMs should stop wasting money on crappy addonware and invest in quality (and timely) software updates, and better customer relationship.
Dark patterns in action
Seattle passes law letting Uber, Lyft drivers unionize
Deploying Deep Neural Networks Efficiently [video]
Already submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734974
ISTM a sort of "Ridin' with Private Malone" country song could be written about this...
I think this is a natural consequence of low-level APIs. Anything deemed worthy of being configured by caller is made into an extensible interface, whether that be through flag arguments or types. Unless some lib is very opinionated on how things should be done, the extension/customization hooks have to exist in one form or another.

To satisfy the two camps though (low level control vs "give me some sane default or package up common combinations") someone just writes the higher level API on top.
I finished up a 24-month project earlier this year on a codebase of ~1M lines in which I dropped a net of almost 100k lines of code and reduced the main Visual Studio solution from 325 projects down to 105 projects. Compile times dropped from ~40 minutes to 6 minutes. If only all my projects could be that fun.
This isn't just any dealership. This is Autonation, a fortune 500 company, hence, the lawsuit.
dsl-json looks like an interesting tool.
" DSL compiler requires Mono/.NET, but only during compilation. There is no runtime Mono/.NET dependency, only JVM. "
Where can you buy a ESP8266 for $2? SparkFun has it for $6.95.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13678
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I had a nice experience with what seemed to be a NCR product at a restaurant. They printed the check and brought it over. The check had a URL and a short code. With the URL and code you could pay your bill with your mobile, tip and everything. We were able to just get up and leave. Worked great.
the moral here is not to be dogmatic.