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> Me, I love mountains... my iPhone is a terrible companion. Battery life is poor. Interface sub-optimal as I wear gloves, sweat, am in motion, etc. What I want is an AdventurePhone. Replaceable battery. Sturdy. Waterproof. Dual SIM. Easily mountable. Great camera. Solid grip.

I see the author's point, but I'd actually approach a solution in completely the opposite direction.

The whole reason the phone has become the all-in-one do-everything device is that the vast, vast majority of the time, most people aren't doing some highly specialised activity like skiing. Rather they're going about their daily lives, in a very predictable, stable environment. In that scenario, you want to optimise for convenience, which means portability, which means a small, light, touchscreen device that does everything well enough.

In the specialised activity usecase, you want precisely the opposite of the 'all in one convenience' approach - you want specialised tools that each do one thing really well. So you absolutely don't want to swap out your iPhone for an 'adventurePhone' which packs a load of features behind a specialised 'skiiing' interface - that's an unnecessary and almost certainly wasteful mix of specialised and generalised tools - what you do want is a set of specialised tools, each with its own ski-friendly interface, to give you exactly the feature set you want for your highly specialised activity.

Camera? GoPro. GPS? Garmin watch. Music? Ipod shuffle. Phone calls/SMS? extremely cheap Dual-SIM solid-as-a-rock dumb phone. Occasional use of chat app? Cheap, light dont-care-if-it-breaks android device.
That was the best thing I've read all day.

When I was younger and had time to spend on anything I wanted to, I did. I wanted to make a game. So I started making an OpenGL game, but I realized that any game worth a damn would support DirectX as well. So I set about abstracting out the functionality of the two graphics libraries into a standard interface. I didn't finish a game. I realized I didn't want to create a game. I could have used any game engine to do so, if I were sufficiently motivated. But, I did learn so much in the journey that I can't call the time wasted, simply spent.

So, I guess it comes down to whether you want to engage in thought experiments or create something. You can build castles in the sky all you want and there is a definite satisfaction in that. You can build a log cabin on the ground and live in it and see what it is like to live inside a cabin you built and maybe feel satisfaction that way. What does your heart tell you when you consider these paths?

Now that I don't have all the free time I once had, I am more focused on completion than conception, but every so often, I let my mind follow a path to a place that I will never go. But I am honest with myself about that.
How is it different than a hosted Nominatim then?

Edit: I see they're using https://github.com/pelias/pelias .
It's built on open data sets, including OpenStreetMap and OpenAddresses. In populated areas coverage is really good. Thanks to OpenAddresses, several countries have full address coverage. You can see the coverage map on openaddresses.io. New data gets added as these open data sources grow.
Do you really think everything the TSA does is literally 0% effective?

I'm not sure why people here keep referring to everything as security theater, to be honest.
The general public cannot assess the risk of riding in a Taxi, bus, uber, etc. any better than taking a flight with a private pilot.
to not explain that Nat McHugh's image collisions were chosen-prefix attacks.

In the paragraph right before those images, it says:

"This was cleverly demonstrated by Nat McHugh, who used a chosen-prefix hash collision"
Fatal Accident Rate (Table 5 [1]):

Commercial Aviation (per 100,000 flight hours): 0.022
General Aviation (per 100,000 flight hours): 1.11
Motor Vehicle: (per 100 million miles): 1.5

General Aviation (which Flytenow falls under) has a fatality rate 2 orders of magnitude greater than commercial airlines (Delta, Southwest, Skywest, etc)

1: http://enhs.umn.edu/current/injuryprevent/aviation/magnitude...
but muh muh freedom of market
Probably not. That clearbit form tells me that they don't have my email address, but my information was pre-populated into Svbtle when I used that same address.
In the Opinion of the Court, Judge Pillard held that pilots sharing expenses on Flytenow were engaged in common carriage, making them the only common carriers (i.e., commercial airliners) in history to not seek a profit.

Profit seeking is not a requirement to be considered a common carrier. The FAA and the Court are quite clear in that all that is required for a common carrier classification is "(1) a holding out of a willingness to (2) transport persons or property (3) from place to place (4) for compensation" and that all four are satisfied by Flytenow. Posting an itinerary to the website qualifies as holding out, the flight is transportation, the individuals go from place to place, and the cost sharing is compensation. Flytenow's response to this is just needling and attempting to spin.

The current state of the law is extremely deferential to regulatory actions, at the expense of innovation. The Court relied on that regulatory deference, and the result is less choice for consumers, and less innovation in general aviation.

This is true. And it's for good reason. Flying is dangerous and should not be subject to the race to the bottom and rent-seeking behavior that is the "sharing economy".
Did Flytenow ever even "make it off the ground"? Was there ever a single flight? I'm not sure that there was.
But in the end , long term, don't this low-brow content means the brand is diluted , and than it's a "run to the bottom" between low-brow content makers, with little left to spend on non-profitable activities?
Guess who is using lol@lol.com
mmwave scanners run about 100 GHz, but the effects of THz are still questionable.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...
Maybe? I've been felt up more than 20 times.

I think perspective has a lot to do with it. I try to make a point of getting eye contact with people mindlessly going through the cancer scanner [0]. So I'm thinking more "bring it on", and if they do anything I reflexively react to, all the better for illustrating the modern state of USG.

And as I said, having to completely unpack my backpack and separate myself into 4 or 5 bins is violating enough. Their net function is basically to destroy security.

[0] Standard operating theory of the machines likely doesn't add to cancer risk, but I don't see why I should take on liability for unknowable malfunctions that may. And boy those goons sure do get hyper defensive when you ask why they're not wearing dosimeters.
Redis has been used by at least a few people using Hadoop.

We've used it for caching intermediate results during a Spark job.
Writing more code doesn't make you productive or a better programmer. Also, i'm not sure how you get a use after free in C++ these days given the libraries and tooling available
To your example, I work on a CAD app that runs on web and even we don't use MVC. :-) (Similar concepts, sure, but no buzzwords or worry about being MVVM or whatever)
Read their older blog posts. It was 16 months ago that the FAA told them that, effectively, they couldn't operate under their model.
It's part of the data in the barcode on the boarding pass. If the boarding pass says Pre-check you're good; my GF also gets it consistently when we're on the same PNR but on her own (same booking that gets split or booked individually) she never receives it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vwkc9VIxE
Apple is first to a bunch of things: Apple Pay, Force Touch, Touch ID etc.

They're also so much further ahead on dimensions like performance, battery life, build quality, camera, apps, etc. Those things are so important, I think they're similar to "being first"
That link doesn't seem to provide opt-out, it just provides a way to request the deletion of specific records. But you have to find the page for the record before you can request it to be deleted.
I now feel somewhat smug over refusing to fly whatsoever since hearing about the body scanners. The security theater is indeed a serious issue, but if the body scanners are physically harmless (not certain about that), then I am not sure why I should be concerned. Perhaps those who are disfigured, have to carry around a colostomy bag, etc. have a good reason to not be seen naked for some bogus security theater, but I suspect that that matches relatively few people.

Don't get me wrong, I still think the body scanners are terrible and that the security theater is a problem. However, my reason for not flying is a moral one, namely that some people are being paid to look at the naked bodies of thousands of people throughout the day. Perhaps if the TSA could provably (1) match the sex of the scanner-operator with the person-to-be-scanned, (2) match homosexual operators with the opposite sex, and (3) prevent all images from being recorded, then I would consider flying again.

However, I can't trivially prove the second and third before entering the scanner, thus I see the body scanners as a reason for me to avoid flying altogether.
Yea, when I was going through pilot training it took me a while to realize why it was so dangerous compared to cars. The biggest reason, in my opinion, is that in a car, you can stop and get out and you're ok. In a plane, you can't stop and get out, you're trapped. If you bail out, now you have an unguided missile.

Private pilot licenses have much lower standards than commercial operations. Commercial has tighter maintenance and training requirements, and is consequently much more expensive to run.

Until around the 1960s to 1970s, air travel was very very dangerous. People died quite regularly. It was the implementation of serious safety practices and regulations that changed the risk to be safer than riding in a car, and public perception. Since aviation makes the country go, and people have an innate fear of flying, the FFA is both concerned for the increased loss of human life and the loss of trust in flying that would translate to the commercial sector if this went through.
I don't think you meant to say "snide" [1] which means "derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner" but I can't for the life of me work out what you did mean to say instead before autocorrect (or typo) took over?

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/snide
Yep. They also have no system for it. I believe they intentionally don't create an area for you to wait in, so you feel awkward standing there. Your stuff often gets sent through the scanner WAY before you actually get a pat down, so you end up constantly searching for a line of site to the end of the scanner to make sure your stuff is still there.
Here is a nice quote from the relevant wikipedia page:

"However, other radiation authorities, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Energy Agency recommend against using ionizing radiation on certain populations like pregnant women and children"

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

So it just depends on who you think has authority. Presumably the people from the institute did in fact read a physics book at some point in their career.

It's not your child. You get to decide for your children and he gets to decide for his. If we all had to go and study physics in order to decide whether or not a certain risk is worth taking or not the whole circus would grind to a halt. We'd all be making maximally informed decisions - once we finished studying. And even then, after studying that physics book he might conclude it still isn't safe.
Can't go through x-ray, can't carry it through the scanner (I presume) -- a true catch 22.
They're doing that for everything at IAD right now as well. Seems to be a new procedure they're testing.
Their suggested two-phone solution makes sense. Carriers should offer plans where you can have two phones, one of which might be a tablet, with the same phone number for the price of one, as long as you don't use them both at the same time. For incoming calls, both ring, if turned on. You shouldn't need a "cloud service" like Grand Central/Google Voice for this, just an arrangement with the carrier.

This is a solution to the "fat phone" problem - the things are just getting too big.
Because Googling is arduously hard here is some sauce and some commentary to the sauce:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/more-peopl...

Also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/opinion/The-Dangers-of-Pri...

"""The National Transportation Safety Board found that in 2011, 94 percent of fatal aviation accidents occurred in what’s called general aviation. That category includes private small planes flown by amateurs as well as professionally piloted corporate flights in high-powered aircraft, such as the Gulfstream IV jet that crashed in May in Bedford, Mass., killing all seven people on board. By contrast, commercial aviation had no fatal accidents that year. Statistics from the N.T.S.B. show that general aviation aircraft average nearly seven accidents per 100,000 flight hours, compared with an average of 0.16 accidents per 100,000 hours for commercial airlines.
"""

Sauce straight from the horse' mouth:

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/AviationDataSt...

It is actually 100x more dangerous than commercial aviation. Is that what you meant by "showing me the danger"?
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What do you mean by rent-seeking behavior?
> Do you really think everything the TSA does is literally 0% effective?

Yes, for the purpose of "protecting American at large", it's approximately that.

And it's very simple to see too! The most effective way to prevent airplane terror is to stop everyone from traveling, are we gonna be safer thank to that, even disregard all the downsides of not being to travel? You know the bad guy can just plot their scheme elsewhere, right? What's next? Millimeters scanner at Taylor Swift concert?

Also, since this is HN, I believe your maths is incorrect. The effective rate is (100 - (100-x)(100-y)(100-z)...)%
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Well, I would like to have more control over the floating windows (that will never happen), for example.

One of the things I did like in i3 better than bspwm, for example, is resizing. Another big advantage is it works out of the box very well. Oh, another thing I remember now is i3 is more intuitive when moving things around the screen, especially when trying to switch between vertical and horizontal splits, at least in my experience. I can't really recall all the reasons. They were all small things that build up. I do run i3 straight from the git repository (next branch).

That said, in my experience, tiling wm are way ahead of other wm, especially if you are a programmer. I'm a big fan of vim and tmux (and vimperator for firefox, which adds vim-like behavior to it) and I have no mouse. I have a trackpoint, for whenever I need it.
Nominatim, which I worked with at MapQuest Open when it launched, is a great geocoder for purely OSM data. We built Pelias (https://github.com/pelias) at Mapzen because Nominatim is not built to handle autocomplete. We also wanted to start with a fulltext search engine -- Elasticsearch in this case -- instead of Postgres with search logic on top of it. We also wanted to search other open datasets like the fast-growing OpenAddresses.

We host Pelias at Mapzen and you can check out the autocomplete as well as fulltext search here: https://mapzen.com/projects/search
retina displays, personal assistants, fingerprint scanning, 5ghz wifi, sapphire camera lenses, a separate chip as a cryptographic enclosure, Apple's approach to waterproofing (individual caps at each internal connector, instead of a sealed case), app permission fine tuning - these are all things that came first on the iPhone (or were commercially successful for the first time on the iPhone)

I do get your point however, Apple hasn't been leading the market with a multi year gap like they did when they originally introduced the iPhone.
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On-pad airbags to cushion a toppling rocket that's had an otherwise near-perfect approach?
Called it 549 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7923297
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> When it comes to maintaining and evolving these systems, the lack of explicit static typing becomes a bottleneck.

Assertion without evidence.

Lack of static typing is awesome in evolving a system: you can convert a part of it to some new types as "proof of concept" and still load and run the code to get usefully far. You just avoid stepping on the parts which aren't converted/refactored yet.

Having something Working Now (tm) is a great motivator for some developers to keep going; it reduces the "activation potential barriers" against creativity.

The trick to using dynamic languages is to have a ton of static experience. The typing is in your head, where it doesn't get in the way. What we are seeing a lot of lately is a crop of developers who have never worked in anything but some dynamic language.

When I'm working in a dynamic language, my concept of type is consciously coming from all the static experience. That keeps me from doing totally scatter-brained things which are possible. I write code such that most of it could statically check, but with the freedom that some of it doesn't have to. Moreover, I am aware (hopefully!) of which code that is.
Would seem trivial to itemize the costs and have them paid directly by the parties so as to avoid 'compensation'.
They've paid off in the sense that they're clearly on a good path for the future. Both Rust and Servo have earned praise for their approach in their respective fields, and should give Mozilla an edge with the next generation of web browsers.
Reminds me of something I heard once. I don't remember who said it and I'm paraphrasing but...

> "In the scientific community, eyewitness testimony is the least credible evidence there is; in the legal community, it is the most credible."
Are 100K flight hours comparable to 100M miles in a car?
Near-100% of the public owns a driver's license. 100% of the public has logged thousands of hours on the road, be it at the wheel, or in the passenger's seat. If you feel like your life is in danger, you can always ask your driver to stop, and let you out.

Near-100% of the public wouldn't have the first clue about what it takes to fly a two-seater aircraft, how dangerous the conditions they are flying in are, and most definitely can't ask the pilot to pull over half-way through the flight.

Your claim is farcical.
> Never go flying to a destination with someone who isn't IFR qualified. The weather can always change.

This is an absurd statement.
This is still too wedded to the idea of "apps" and a modern smartphone environment. Try something really different:

A seawaterproof, dust-proof, shock-resistant aluminum-magnesium alloy cylinder. A lanyard hole on top and another on the bottom.

No display.

No headphone jack.

No SMS, no wireless data system.

A USB port under a lid.

A camera with a physical viewfinder and one button: when you press it, it takes a picture. No review, no fancy filters.

A speaker and a microphone.

A big battery. Three or four days of moderate use.

Two more buttons: GO and STOP. No keypad, no directional keys.

The interface is voice based. Tap GO, say "Call Fred". It slurps your contact database from your iPhone or Android, whatever you use the rest of the time. When it rings, you can hit GO to accept the call or STOP to send it to your other phone, where it can go to your normal voicemail.

It doesn't play games. It has a few minor features, all under voice command: "Set alarm 6 AM", "Timer on" "Lap", "Timer off", "What time is it?".

You can recharge it via the USB port, you can mount it as a drive and send off the photos, you can upload a new contact list. The battery is replaceable. Four band GSM with a SIM card next to the battery. You can use it anywhere except Antarctica.

Selling points: it keeps working, longer and in harsher conditions than you want to take any black mirror. You can use it one-handed without looking at it. Take it with you jogging, rock climbing, or SCUBA diving. It doesn't look like a phone, so it's not an automatic theft target. In a rough situation you can hit someone with it and expect it to work afterwards.

James Bond would carry one, if he and it existed.
You're misreporting that data.

From the same table the overall risk of death (Fatality Rate) is the same for both forms of flying:

Fatality Rate (Commercial Aviation): 1.9

Fatality Rate (General Aviation): 1.91

The reason the "Fatal Accident Rate" is so different is because when a jetliner crashes, dozens or hundreds of people die. So a single accident is very deadly.
> the paper ignores the reason why people kicked and screamed for the functionality to begin with

No it doesn't. The explicitly talk about this in section 7: "The acceptance of Typed Racket in the commercial and open-source Racket community suggests that (some) programmers find a way around the performance bottlenecks of sound gradual typing."

> Reticulated Python is still an order of magnitude faster than Ruby

Are you suggesting that a slower variant of Python is ten times faster than Ruby? That doesn't match my experience. For what it's worth, Ruby outperforms Python in some benchmarks: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/ruby.html
attempting to profit (off others) when doing adding no value to society
perhaps you can get a bit more creative if you discard the constraint of "job" and pick some other objectives not commonly valued / pursued by society
> Writing more code doesn't make you productive or a better programmer.

True, but also irrelevant. I have never seen a reasonable metric of "good programmer" that correlates negatively with the number of exploitable memory management bugs they introduce.

> Also, i'm not sure how you get a use after free in C++ these days given the libraries and tooling available

Search the Chromium and Firefox bug trackers.

Whether use after free actually happens in large C++ codebases isn't something that can be debated. It's reasonable to have different opinions about how to fix the problem, and it's even reasonable to say that it's not worth fixing. But it's not reasonable to deny the data.
Is this... are you serious or is this some weird rhetorical gambit? Do you really think driving in a motor vehicle—which most passengers are also qualified and certified to do—usually on surface streets less than 40 MPH, is actually equivalent to flying in an airplane?
Ohhh, that mean old grinch Mr. Government. Always telling entrepreneurs their dumb ideas are dumb.
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