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> Either way it could have done the skier quite some damage

Not either way.

If it was the pilot's mistake then yes, but if power was lost then the blades would not have had much force anymore. They can cause very serious cuts when propelled, but half a second after losing power they hardly have any momentum left. Tripping the skier over would likely have been the worst of it, if a loss of power was the case.

Either way, safeguards may be necessary when flying so close to fragile objects...
Actually, I take it back -- you are probably wiser than me, pre-empting the systemd battles that always ensue :-D.
Thanks for the feedback. We're considering bundling a kanban board into the GitLab Omnibus packages to make it easier to install, see "Software to ship in the Omnibus packages" on https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
I'm pretty sure it was capable of this; I just don't think many units have this enabled and running, as opposed to the always-on recorders mandated for commercial aviation.
The most common syntax mistakes from SQL newbies
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This is a pretty good list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
What Do We Ask in Stackoverflow?
>it's so long that I can't really recommend it.

Tell that to the teacher who made us read it at the age of 14. A masterpiece nonetheless.
A huge community and installable packages does not mean you need to use all those packages. The smallest container I've built is about 90MB, using Ubuntu. That is pretty lightweight. Of course, the container doesn't actually do anything....

Another thing to consider: if you software works inside you self-built Ubuntu container you can be pretty sure it works on any Ubuntu install anywhere. Even if your company does not use containers everywhere, your developers can.

Edit: typo and sentence finishing.
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" - Nietzsche (French Translation) - 5/5 An absolute Must read.

"1984" - Orwell - 5/5 French law on surveillance made me want to read it again

"Fahrenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury - 4/5

"La zone du dehors" - Alain Damasio - 4/5

"The name of the wind" - Patrick Rothfuss - 4/5 A great fantasy story. It's a big book, there is a lot of details, but very well written.

"Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert A. Heinlein - 3/5 Awesome concept, but very slow

"The Inverted World" - Christopher Priest - 4/5 Great short book
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Ask HN: How to create a remote development environment?
I have a lot of laptops and desktops that I want to be able program from, and I have found using a repository like Github to be super frustrating. I have a couple of desktops that sit unused at my house that I could install Linux on to make as the development environment, but I have no idea how to make them accessible to the internet, so I can remote into them from anywhere.
Very cool! Why does it stop at 10,000?
Dozzie, Africa is certainly on the list—it has the "advantage" of not being broken to the extent that western healthcare is, so in this case a clean slate might be the answer.
The skier could have easily hit a parachuting drone head-on in this video if the timing had been different. You're not exactly paying a lot of attention to parachuting objects from above when downhill skiing.
I really like lists like this. I get updates daily on which of my github friends (is that what they're called?) have starred and there is no real reason why they're following a project. I can look at the README and guess. I did see someone start following this project the other day https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py, which seems pretty interesting. Has anyone used it?
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Parachutes create additional failure modes. What if the parachute caught the athlete's arm or leg or ski? There's lots of ways it wouldn't work perfectly (sadly, I know from experience).
openssh-server will allow you to connect to the computers from anywhere. This will give you command line access, from there you can do anything.
Yes, but they also share a history and a set of syntax and ideas... Well, except Dylan, syntax-wise. But ultimately this is an argument about terminology. And the majority of people would say that scheme is a lisp. A lisp. Not a language derived from lisp, that is independent. A LISP. in the LISP family, because that is a thing. And if you want proof that that is what most people think, you need only check Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lisp_programming_lang...
Some of the books I enjoyed the most and found most helpful:

- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - Helped me better understand myself and others, highly recommend

- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey - Advice on mastering the mental part of doing anything, not just tennis

- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo - actually maybe the most important book I've read in a while, helped me throw away a lot of stuff I didn't need

- Models by Mark Manson - very helpful and ethical advice on attracting women for people like me who never really quite figured it out

- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine- discussion of a philosophy of life that seems like it would work well for modern living
I imagine we'll see more of it as time goes on. Management without a technical background depend on the expertise of their workers to get things right. They can only manage work so far but if there's bugs they can't understand or don't know how to find root cause of they'll have to point the finger eventually.

Besides, if a whole industry of software devs are going to insist on calling themselves engineers I hope they adopt the ethics and responsibility other engineers are required to undertake.
that's a unofficial site. and weaselly worded. "in some circumstances" which may be falsifying documents to get hold of the material, using the material to defame someone, or something else, we don't know because they happily omit. and then next phrase is already about criminal liability, which may or may not be because of copyright infringement.
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I few days ago I made a related question, but I got no answer. I'll link it here, maybe somebody can answer it.

Why can't Android run the full Chrome browser? Why can't Android's Chrome run Google Docs and Sheets?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716287
The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - It was 3000+ pages all told, and I LOVED it. His writing has always enthralled me, and I was hooked from the start

Every Discworld Novel - Terry Pratchett - Not much can be said that hasn't already been said a million times over. If you haven't read them yet, start now

The Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Helped out my poker game tremendously. I'm much more ev+ now
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The rule of thumb on newspaper statistics: common risks are boring, therefore not news. (Note that "car hits car" is too boring even for you to mention ;))
Handmade Quake: first two videos on making your own quake are up
unfortunately not yet, just tried it yesterday. There has been some progress but it looks like it might still take a while [1].

[1] https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/263
> the decision part is still a problem.

"How s plan becomes policy"

http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html
Just started Seveneves (still in part one), and, as usual, I am blown away by Stephenson's world-building and character development. I freaking love his stuff.
There may be some irony in your choice of example.

Showtime allowed Dexter to be rebroadcast in NZ on a delayed schedule (sometimes close to a year) on free, broadcast TV.

That means any viewer with a little patience could watch Dexter without paying anything. Also, sometimes these American programs are shown on an accelerated schedule. Viewers can watch a new episode every night instead of having to wait for a week.
When does another language then become a case of premature optimization? I'm serious. If performance is an issue, you can profile Objective-C code and then either deal with the runtime directly, or rewrite critical portions in C. But I would think that there is a lot of Objective-C code out there that runs just fine without any fancy tricks like what I'm describing.
You're right, it's not obviously true. In fact it's quite complicated. But you can prove it mathematically.
Yep, the FAA does not distinguish between an RC aircraft and a drone.

There's also been accidents with larger UAVs:
http://www.suasnews.com/2012/05/15515/schiebel-s-100-crash-k...
We've transitioned our local/dev/prod instances to use conda on Heroku, and couldn't be happier. It was a tiny bit of work to get it set up, but now everything is consistent, and we can set up new local environments in seconds.
There are several books I read, still want to increase my reading amount:

1. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", nice bio about Feynman

2. "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future", inspiring biography and business book.

3. "Apollo" by Catherine Bly Cox. Awesome book about Apollo Programm. Goes even in some technical details.

4. "Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies". Very good and thorough book about bitcoins, the author implements most import concept in the book.

5. "F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts". I seldom don't recommend a book, but this one is hard to tell. It is interesting read about a lot of failed dot-com era companies. But the layout and writing style looks like an automatic rip-off of some blog articles (I read on kindle). It's not totally bad, but be warned before buying. Try some free chapters.

6. "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down", good layman general introduction into static. Nice overview why all the buildings/bridges etc around you don't fall apart.

7. "Never Eat Alone", Classics of networking. Actually basic stuff that people probably already know about networking. But still good to read, and author always shows examples on successful persons or himself.

8. "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", reading this at the moment. Very nice and simple introduction to relativity theory and quantum mechanics. I finished around 100 pages and like it.

I read 8 books this year. My aim is around 2 books/month.

Reading can make difference.
Spotify during their early years. This is pretty well known.
My group switched from Mumble to Discord and it's been such a great upgrade. I really am enjoying everything Discord has to offer so far.
Why would you want to do that? I'm kind of curious. I mean, I'm sure you have an application, I just can't think of one. Blub effect, I guess.
It takes precedence in the path over everything...and in the last version I used (before I upgraded to OS X El Capitain and wiped out everything), things like `curl` were provided [1] ...which I completely understand for Anaconda's use case, but it caused a lot of confusing grief to me when I hadn't expected that and OpenSSL was having its rough times.

I don't know if that's the case (curl being part of the package) now, with Anaconda 3 2.4.0+? It certainly isn't so when installed via pyenv, so I'm happy with that. But there were other issues in the past build...BeautifulSoup was inexplicably broken. I mean that it simply did not correctly parse non-trivial HTML pages and yet threw no errors. The results could be replicated for all of my students but I never could isolate the issue... I installed Python 3 and the same version of BS4 from scratch and had no problems, but I can't imagine where the Anaconda build would have gotten wrong. It ended up being OK since I just switched to lxml which I now happily use over BS4 on any day, but it was frustrating to not be able to diagnose the problem (I didn't get a response in the support forums either). I'm assuming this problem has gone away in subsequent versions of Anaconda though I haven't tried since lxml is perfectly fine to me.

And finally...well, I have to admit it, but I use Python like a goddamned moron in that I still don't know how to use virutalenv/venv to do proper dev isolation. And from the brief research I did, I see that Anaconda has its own conventions, or work flow...something with the conda utility. Again, I can see why it's necessary for Anaconda's use case (people who want to do data science and not hand-tweak their environment every time they upgrade a package over pip), but it added too many layers for me at the time.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaco...
Sure. I'm still paying it once per box lifetime, which really isn't too bad. And given I'm orchestrating stuff etc etc, I can use fairly large boxes and get quite a lot of work out of one lifetime.
This even helps as a parent.
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"The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"
by Jonas Jonasson
(Love it -- hilarious, witty, a pleasure to read)

"Kafka on the Shore"
by Haruki Murakami
(Strange good -- but I'm not sure if I liked it as much as liked "The Wild Sheep Chase")

"One hundred years of solitude"
by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
(Very slow, had a hard time honestly)

"Gone Girl"
by Gillian Flynn
(A fast, exciting read but found the ending unsatisfying. But would recommend)

"Still Life with Woodpecker"
by Tom Robbins
(Fantastic prose, fantastical characters and situations. Will read more from him)

And for technical books, I read "The Art of Agile Development". Was alright.
i can imagine the same being found at YouTube emails.

the Google purchase discussion included talks about the liability because of pirated material. and i bet if some user complained about play back issues about any video they would fix it too.

it's just a matter of how the lawyer taking to press wants you to feel. and we usually fall very easily.
Right, of course I understand that - but two points.

1) The whole original post appears to be worded for the layman to try and dispel myths around what orbit is. I don't think the layman is going to think about inertial frames of reference, rather I genuinely think the common misconception that there's really something 'pulling' the astronauts up will continue, much like many people think a car is throwing them out of a bend in the road, rather than the vehicle pushing them away from a straight line.

2) In any case, even if Musk implies the frame of reference, there's a reason a 'centrifugal force' is also referred to as a 'fictitious force' [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_force
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Launching and landing rockets: A comparison between Blue Origin and SpaceX
He was taking part in a slalom race. These guys hit ridiculous speeds. "Tripping the skier over" could have had absolutely disastrous consequences.
An interesting observation related to this is posture.

The posture that show higher status, straight back, looking to the front and not down, relaxed muscles, etc.. need less energy and is better for your health.

Another interesting though is how good food makes you bigger an taller.

So, however is low in the hierarchy, is always less strong and in worst shape, what makes them to get less food, and so on.. It's easy to see how a feedback of this kind begins.

Of course, all this is carry on to the next generation by several dynamics.

I try to remember all this when I hear how some communities are hopeless or just 'don't want to work'.
Philip K. Dicks's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?": Liked the movie (Blade Runner) better, but not bad.

Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": While reading it I found it extremely boring, though there was this feel to it that still made it pleasant to read. I can't really describe it.

Plutarch's "Lives" from the main figures from the end of the Republic (Penguin Classics collection): By far the best books on Roman history I've ever read.

Livy's books on the Second Punic War (Penguin Classics collection): A bit extensive, very detailed. I liked Plutarch's better (even though he's a bit more imaginative according to modern historians), but nevertheless a great read.

Various books by Machado De Assis (Quincas Borba, Helena, among others): National author, I just love his books, even though they all share a common plot.

A book on Alexander the Great. Can't remember the author. It was a summary of his life and conquers, very short but entertaining reading.

This year I'm planning to read some more Ancient History narrated by the classics, some Shakespeare and maybe Nietzsche or Dante (heavy reading I guess). I'm just as fond of history as of fiction, as Livy puts it:

I shall find in antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absolved in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world...
Yeah, I noticed this at the time when I was looking for users resolving recently-registered domains (to try to find hacked systems). One of my users resolved & then went to ahhhhhhhhh.com, which had only been registered a few weeks beforehand.

Had my attention for a few minutes, but was ultimately not interesting (at least not from a security point of view).
I can strongly recommend The Baroque Cycle - the loosely connected "prequels" to Cryptonomicon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle

[Jack Shaftoe is probably my favourite fictional character]
They may have taken some lessons from Uber and figured that uninsured contractors are a good option :).

I guess we'll find out as the investigation goes forward.
Community service results in massively lower recidivism rates than custodial sentences (even when the original crime was the same). We're not great at reforming people (though there are a few cheap targeted interventions we should be doing at every opportunity - namely ensuring mothers are well fed during the last few months of pregnancy, and avoiding lead exposure), but replacing most prison sentences with community service would most likely massively cut crime.
Interestingly enough, it appears that the statistics are calculated badly (hopefully not on purpose)

A recent peer reviewed study shows that just 1/3rd of offenders ever go back to prison, and 11% of offenders go back to prison more than twice. THat's far lower than we've been told.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/1...
Of all the things that can go wrong, falling out of the sky is one of the least of the problems. A bulky parachute is extra weight so people are going to avoid building it in, and besides that, I doubt it's going to help in most situations.

E.g.: Who decides to deploy it? The pilot? In that case, signal loss or interference might get in the way. Or does the multirotor decide for itself when to deploy? In that case it could decide to do so at the wrong moment, which can be just as dangerous. You'd need safeguards against this safeguard.

The main danger of these machines are the blades, not it falling out of the sky without inertia in the props.
That or join the military, I hear.
The bell guys are so much with me that they created plan9, the system I'd rather be running. It's very elegant, but garnered no support, and it's following is INSANE, in that they are incredibly strict in their interpretation of the UNIX way, and think that anything that isn't is awful. I like composability and small systems as much as the next man, but sometimes, you just want LISP.
"The Long Earth" - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - First in trilogy about parallel worlds; the combination of those two authors makes it both fanciful and grounded, which is a bit odd.

"Clockwork Rocket" - Greg Egan - First in the Orthagonal trilogy; An alien story where physics is different.

"Seveneves" - Neal Stephenson - Goes great with the recent hard sci-fi space movies.

EDIT:
"What-if" - Randall Munroe - Saw this on another list and need to make sure is shows up as often as possible. This is the thing to hand every kid as part of their back-to-school pack.
> The majority of the content on my Facebook feed is links to external websites.

Not sure if you are joking, but with features like "Instant Articles", Facebook has every reason to keep people on facebook.com rather than sending them to external websites.

When you are locked down in a walled garden that allows messaging (within the garden) and every other service is blocked, people will simply believe that walled garden is all there is.
That's exactly how I would describe my experience reading a Hemingway book.
Not-technical

"The World's Toughest Endurance Challenges" - Very nicely illustrated

"Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words" - Extremely enjoyable. People here certainly are aware of xkcd and it's type of humor.

Technical

"Functional programming in Scala" - good read for Scala beginners, especially after "Scala for the Impatient"

"Learning Spark" - the best book on Spark so far

"Assessing and Improving Prediction and Classification" - couple of interesting ideas for ML and Data Science

"Neural Network Design" - Quite basic, but I like the flow and introducing mathematical concepts just before they're needed.
> Please stop using Ubuntu as your base images people!

I think Ubuntu images are a symptom of a much more serious disease: Ubuntu usage in general. Ubuntu is not really concerned with software freedom (its origin was Debian-plus-proprietary-blobs), nor does it strongly care about privacy (although it can be shamed into doing the right thing), nor does it care terribly much about getting along with everyone else (c.f. Mir vs. Wayland).

As a distro for my family, it's fine. But I expect my fellow developers to run something which indicates more technological prowess than does Ubuntu: Debian or Arch or Gentoo or Slackware are all good choices for different reasons.
More like facebook denying an enormous number of people the same opportunities that allowed their company to flourish, and then whining "not fair" when anyone points out the hegemonic extraction racket they're trying to set up.

Why not help india set up their own services? They could easily contribute to infrastructure and compete with indian startups on the free market. But no, they want to abort the baby before it grows powerful.

You're comment is an interesting inversion of reality though, good job Goebbels.
Is there any concept of international double jeopardy? I understand why we want to avoid this within the same country, but if someone commits a crime against both Country A and Country B simultaneously (one act) and they are sentenced to N months in prison or a $Y fine in Country A, I don't immediately see any reason why Country B shouldn't be allowed to pursue a case against them as well.
Yeah I think it's a book that you pick up when the time is right for you. Thus, I too think it is a great book, but at the same time, I wouldn't exactly "recommend" it to anyone. Same with Great Expectations.
my employer has a data center there and neighboring countries, and i can guess we don't pay much attention if out edge servers are hosting any entertainment news pictures that are death offenses there.

same with China. i bet right now our edge servers are pumping out lots of state censored topics that are also possible treason death sentences.
I loved the Dark Forest. The whole series is awesome.
A drone like this that has lost power is essentially a flying brick. If you get hit by a brick, you generally suffer damage. Add to that the fact that the guy had accumulated some serious momentum, and getting hit by this drone could easily turn into career-ending, or even life-ending injury.
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If you think landlords in New York aren't factoring in a profit margin, I've got this great bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you.
Why stop at 60?
You may find it much harder to bring any organized healthcare there than to
convince already established structures to follow the idea of tracking
metrics on human body. It may not be as simple as throwing bunch of gadgets
and applications at the problem, which is what I understand you're proposing.