skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might even be the sort of thing where you tap the video of the street ahead to tag the bag as passable and the car then slowly drives through it. No remote guidance per-se.

Considering these are car companies doing this, true remote control is not a good idea. The industry response to the car hacks was pathetic. Only Tesla reacted properly. (And probably Google...)
First of all, limit the risks. Do runoff elections and split electoral votes in all states (or just don't have per-state elections it makes almost no difference). The risks now is that a 1% error can sway 100% of the votes in 5 states. It's just an unbelievably broken constitution.

If that's "too hard to fix" then there must be at least a fraction of people who don't think this is broken.

The time to fix it is right after elections.
No, I think the author is using the full range of a 32 bit int. So read could be any 32 bit integer, even if the size of the ring is 1.

(The trick is that SIZE has to be a power of two, or else when you increment from 2^32-1 to 0, your pointers will jump to a different position in the array.)
Uh, you're totally right. I'm completely losing my french, not using it :)

PS: remark, not remarque ;)
well i was just curious. im kinda wondering if anything among hbase, Cassandra, Mongodb etc are equivalent in performance at your scale. i see that you mentioned rethinkdb below.. but after their collapse, im wondering what are the options you are looking at.
I was expecting a story about changing a coal fired plant for a gas turbine plant to reduce CO2 and particulate emissions. I was not expecting using old jet engines to blow away the coal exhaust!

Guess this is a opex vs capex thing?
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I had a chance to see Brandon from Kickstarter talk about their functional approach at the Functional Swift Conference in Budapest. I highly recommend watching it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM
A major vice presidential candidate (2008) claimed she could "see Russia from her house". So I think we know it's pretty close-by.
Modulus by a power of two is cheap. Modulus by a constant is a multiplication by reciprocal and a shift. And if your argument is in [0..2N], mod N is just a conditional subtraction that doesn't even require a branch.
I imagine these amazon drones are at least quieter than most consumer drones just based on their larger propellers. This is operating on the assumption that a larger propeller can spin slower to generate the same amount of thrust as a smaller propeller spinning faster, which might not be 100% accurate.

Motor noise in general seems like it's kind of an overlooked issue though.
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Technically I don't think it is an SDR, as it's not using software to generate arbitrary modulation schemes. The chip is capable of transmitting data through certain modulations.

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/cc1111/ - is the chip they're using.
which is what it should do

If you want the caller to "block", then it needs to await or .then() what it's calling.
This seems solvable. As a rider, you have the option to select "This car is too dirty to ride" or "This car needs cleaning."

If you indicate it is too dirty to ride, the car reports for cleaning. If the cleaners agree with your assessment then your ride is free, paid for by the person responsible for the mess, who would also pay for the cleaning. If the cleaners don't agree, then you pay for the cleaning and your own ride. If you indicate that the car is dirty but want to ride it regardless, then the car could just check in for cleaning after your ride at no expense to you.

If you don't want to send the car away, perhaps you have an urgent appointment, you could just ride the messy car and have it cleaned after your ride. If adding a few extra minutes to your trip isn't a big deal, then the reward of having it be free may compensate you for the inconvenience.

A system like this would provide an incentive for customers to report dirty cars (saving money on their ride) and to leave cars clean (avoid paying for car cleaning). Those incentives are hopefully at least as strong as the incentives in place now.
> It doesn't matter if you want the sea levels to rise or are just in denial of the facts and think they won't.

Then it doesn't matter what I write, or say, you can divine my true beliefs?

Sounds a little bit like...the clergy! :)
It's The Hard Problem.

Suppose we eventually know everything about the body and mind, that some day science can simulate and predict the motion of every atom in your body. Thus, all your behavior is deterministic. That still doesn't explain why there's an "ego" there to experience it all.
Zipcar and Reach Now don't seem to have an issue with this, I would be surprised if it's any different when you don't have to the move the steering wheel yourself. If they can make a car that drives itself they can surely figure out a way to keep it clean.
You're overstating the dropping thing. I've had shipments with plenty of rough deliveries and rougher trips in the truck on the way to be delivered. Being carried in the air and lightly dropped from 10 or 20 feet off the ground isn't going to hurt my Blu-Ray copy of Captain America: Civil War.

I think when you guys say "cities," you're talking about some kind of nonexistent arcology of mile-high cyberpunk buildings where each tenant lives in 50 square feet. I live in a city, mere minutes from downtown, in a town home that is neither big nor fancy nor isolated. There is ample space to fly right up to my door step without ever coming close to any person or vehicle that could conceivably be close to my front door unless someone were standing in front of my front door, and even then, I'd probably lay out my special RFID-enabled chartreuse drone delivery area designation mat on my back deck instead or whatever. It's not a hard problem. All the hard parts have been solved. It's mostly legal now.
It's hard to pin Musk down as a libertarian when his companies rely on fat government subsidies and contracts. There probably isn't a real label for someone like him other than pragmatist or opportunist.
to be frank, conservatives only changed their tune on this when it was so painfully obvious that they had to. creative backtracking to still be against any action while looking less like a neanderthal != delightful open-mindedness. and many, like my dad, still call the entire thing a hoax.
When would you want Jupyter notebooks that you'd want to run, rather than just pre-render?
Considering shooting down a drone would be a federal crime I can't imagine more people would be willing to do it when compared to robbing a truck.
Suppose you were actually developing a muslim registry.

You'd be at a government contractor. They are required to post notice of the "fraud, waste, and abuse" hotline. They are mostly prohibited from making you do unpaid on-call time and mandatory unpaid overtime. Everyone would attend yearly ethics training.
If you're interested in the question, it's probably worth writing the essay even if you think you have no chance of winning.
How do you have more privacy in an Uber vehicle that knows your identity, everything about your trip and can bill you for any damage? You're anonymous on most transit.
I ride a motorcycle in SF daily and frequently "split lanes". I saw one of the Ubers all decked out with spinning radar and wondered how it would react as I passed through at 10-15mph. There was a person at the steering wheel, I am not sure who was in control. Thankfully it was uneventful. I thought the car might brake or veer away from me.
> voting day before 6pm (Voting closes at noon).

As a late sleeper, I find this voting system biased and unfair.
Are there things these drones can't deliver, because only USPS can legally deliver that class of item?
Really great to read more about real world large scale Haskell use.

I'd be curious to find out if the success FB has had with Haskell for spam filtering means they might consider Haskell for different parts of their stack too? Does anyone have any insight on this?
> You're talking about stills. The data requirements for video are massive.

The vast, vast, VAST majority of war photo journalism is stills. This may change in the future, but in general video journalism in war is handled very differently, has different operating parameters (for example tends to be conducted further back from the front lines, involves way more people, etc), and doesn't typically use SLRs at all.

> Also remember that what you're replacing here is the transfer of pre-edited footage, of which there is likely to be a huge amount. You refer to files of "a few MB or less" elsewhere, which suggests you haven't really thought about what's required here.

For some reason you appear to be shifting from photo journalism in warzones and other hostile and hazardous situations to videos taken in London... I'm not sure how this is related to the previous posts in the thread, and trying to completely shift the discussion then claiming that I haven't thought about what's required seems somewhat disingenuous at best.
If Italian is not a race, it surely is a tribal identity that transcends the borders of Italy the country.
That's why you have multiple officials and observers.

In most countries parties or volunteer groups nominate their own observers. UN can send their own observers.

Electronic voting is by far most vulnerable. It's not the algorithms, it's all other tings around them and verifying them.
Yep. Donation based systems are quite broken.

A number of years back, I wrote a small utility app for typing Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks (https://www.pinyinput.net) that I made available for free, with a 'Donate' button and exhortations that people could donate if they found it useful.

Despite 10s of thousands of downloads over a period of about 5-6 years, I could count on two hands the number of donations I got.

Then I changed it to pay what you want (including $0) with a default price of $5. And you click a purchase button rather than a download button.

Plenty of people still download it for free, but now it also gets a payment every day or so - sometimes $1, sometimes $5, sometimes more, but it's a consistent trickle.
On the other hand, I imagine there will be lots of locations where Uber and Lyft won't serve with their own fleet, either because it's too small, or because it's too sparse. Having a program, or a separate competitor, that allowed people to submit their own vehicles and do their own upkeep might help those areas get served. Then again, those areas might be geographically small enough that you don't need a car (depending on weather). Who know, maybe there's a long tail there which is hard for the big players to capitalize on completely, given they need fleet servicing facilities if they are running their own cars.
I was doing this in 1992 so it's at least 12 years older than the 2004 implementation

Try late 1960s. Generally known then, widely used.

For an interesting proof about tokens in ring buffers, check out https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD426.PDF, which, for 1974, has an interesting bit of multiprocessing.
You have a seperate blockchain that is used to verify a citizen. You can put many things there (marriage status, SSN..not needed anymore with this, any other info), which would include a voting key. The voting blockchain would check the citizen ID blockchain, to verify that citizen and all ensure the same voting key would not be used twice and that the citizen has proper status (like...is the person alive...legal...not a current felon, etc.)

Theoretically, we have figured out the entire thing pretty damn well, we just need someone to try it ;)

Also, explaining blockchain to the general population and "assuring" them will be the hardest part. People will revolt and think it's rigged and have no understanding of how it works. Even politicians are clueless...so, yeah, not sure how far off we are on this hah.
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> they're used to more diversity than will ever be found in SV/Tech or stereotypical business in general

He literally started his career by refusing to rent to black people. Richard Nixon's justice department went after him for it!
I didn't see any packages dropped off right at the door, did you?
I'm pretty sure that shooting down aircraft is already illegal. IANAL, though.
Exactly what I did for my spouse's computer. ifconfig /renew and /release didn't work. Said there was no interface that could be released.

Shook my head and set it statically up rather then spend more time on DHCP I don't need. Luckily it was a desktop not a laptop. But... they have a laptop so maybe that's coming.
I found that in order for links to an offset into a video to work I also had to add:

* googlevideo.com xhr allow
* *.googlevideo.com xhr allow
> Running at a 2N (or more) configuration 24/7 is a great way to light money on fire.

Till DynDns goes down for 8 hours and you're the only player left in town.

Then you profit the whole day and afterwards you check the revenues you've not lost + the new users and revenues that came in with the circumstances + the support calls and the engineering emergency that were avoided... turns out all of that cover the yearly datacenter expenses by tenfold 8)

YMMV.
Interesting, technically don't home owners own the air above their house up to several hundred feet? What if I don't want it flying over me, can I knock it down?
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but you seem to be talking about situations where concealed camera equipment is more suitable, or even just your run of the mill phone.

bit strawman?

what they are asking for isn't technically difficult or even that expensive to develop.
A fatality involving one person rather than two drivers, more than two drivers, one driver and a pedestrian, one driver and multiple pedestrians....
Are you serious? I've never been to a hotel that wouldn't get rid of something like this right away on request.
Adding more smaller trains without a fixed schedule over a broader area is exactly what they're doing. These smaller unscheduled trains are called "cars."

Running empty high capacity vehicles over a really large number of routes is immensely wasteful, much more wasteful than on-demand vehicles.
Yes, IMO.

Remember that your IMO is not what the consensus among security experts is. There are many things that you and me missed.

The worst problem with electronic internet voting is that depending on country, something like 5-40 percent of voters loses the secret ballot and the opportunity to vote independently without coercion. Husband, brother or other family member will be behind their back to watch how they vote.

Here in Finland I have a friend who has been election official and he says that it's not uncommon common for family member trying to squeeze into ballot box or try get behind. Especially if the ballot has been cast in post office with small space.
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Delivery trucks are way more quiet for each ton of goods they deliver. I’d rather have two trucks filled to the top on the road once a day instead of dozens of delivery drones delivering goods around the clock. It means the customer won’t get his toothbrush 30 minutes after ordering but at least the rest can live in peace.
Seems that's a self-inflicted problem by corporate IT.
This happens with nested .ZIPs.
Also PandwaRF runs on a battery and has a simplified user interface
I've flown in an area with 15 or so of 4/6/8 rotor UAVs in relatively close proximity all about 250-350ft up and not only could you not hear them at all, you couldn't really see them either (the octorcopters looked vaguely like a bird). That was kind of the point of the event, we were all FPV flying and cooperatively calling out maneuvers to avoid hitting each other.

(Edit: I'm obviously talking about it not hovering directly over your head at this altitude, in that case you will hear it. I'm talking about it passing over you at a fast horizontal speed at 300ft above you that you won't hear it unless your in near dead silent environment with no background white noise).
>The only thing happening is pragmatism in the form "Let us see, maybe it will not be too bad."

>The scientific and technological approach to these problem is pragmatic

Which is it?
As an example of this, Zoxc has been trying to get stack probe support into LLVM for two years to no avail [0]. This is important to make sure that stack overflow or buffer overrun actually trigger the guard page and cause termination.

I admit it's not really fair to LLVM to pick on one patch like this but it's frustrating to me even as an outsider.

[0]: https://reviews.llvm.org/p/Zoxc/
bye evernote
As stated, the privacy policy is to legally protect ourselves because we have attorneys working on the project.

Also, there exist free SSL certificate providers.

Yeah, we've actually tried open SSL on some other projects. We think it is still lacking in real usability.
China seems to have acknowledged, through action at least, that the state of the environment is a concern. They are certainly putting their money towards renewables. [1]

[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33143176
Your logic is off. If you spend a lot of time around goats then worrying about a goat attack is valid. Similar to how people in North Dakota do not worry about hurricane but people in the Florida Keys do.
Thierry Coquand is the creator of CoC and co-creator of Coq, so they're definitely related. :)
To be clear, I don't really give a damn about the noise either way. I care about reducing the risk of loss of life in automobile accidents.
Of course it matters what you write, it's just your motivation for what you write isn't really relevant. I don't know if you are just some edgy guy hanging out trying to rile people up, some true believer who's sincerely thinks climate change is a hoax, or somewhere in between. The great thing about science is things are true or false on their own.

Also clergy don't think they can magically divine people's true beliefs unless you are talking about D&D, so you really need to work on your metaphors.
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I see many valuable feature, such as the highlighting and the tooltips.

I wonder if these could have been expediently implemented as VIM plugins - perhaps each feature could have been a VIM plugin so that people can pick and choose which feature set they wanted.
Yea, a blu-ray movie isn't hurt by a 20 foot drop. A blu-ray player is. Most packages are not made for shocks, just constant pressure (think the difference between someone punching you and someone sitting on you).

Also, I'd bet that what you consider a safe range for drone operation and what a federal aviation safety official (or non-US equivalent) considers safe are two totally different animals.
Hypocrisy means he is bad for country but sense he is now in power I'll join him to make my business better and now Trump is not so bad. Saying one thing and doing another is definition of hypocrisy.
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I guess it's hard to say for sure that it's completely unambiguous, but that's definitely the intent. [The spec][1] even says:

> This document attempts to specify Markdown syntax unambiguously.

So if you're aware of any ambiguities in the spec, those are bugs which should be reported and fixed.

[1]: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.27/
But not in parallel.
One problem with APUs is that they make it so difficult to rank offerings by performance. A convenient benchmark blend is a reasonably useful approximation of actual utility for conventional general purpose CPUs. But when GPU becomes part of the mix, you get a lot more uncertainty if you do not investigate the details. For an entry level system, where APUs are at home, few people are willing to invest that much effort into their buying decision.

AMD marketing tried to put GPU performance in the spotlight. The unfortunate effect was that a moderately informed consumer then had the choice between a somewhat predictable level of graphics performance paired with whatever CPU that came with it if buying AMD, versus a somewhat predictable level of CPU performance paired with whatever GPU that came with it if buying Intel. In most market segments, uncertainty about graphics performance has much less impact on buying decisions than uncertainty about general purpose compute. The (involuntarily, given their portfolio) focus of AMD's marketing on the graphics part of their APUs made it close to impossible to successfully communicate value-for-money advantages in their price range (assuming they had it).
If you could knock a drone down at 400ft up, I'd really be impressed. Your accuracy would have to be incredible.
I imagine they'll mostly fly over streets. That would also reduce risk of catastrophic failure killing a pedestrian, since a typical car roof can certainly survive impact of one of these things.

It would also mitigate sound issues since road-noise would easily drown out a 400ft high drone.
Isn't that was bountysource does (it worked for neovim AFAIK) ?
Yeah, this. UPS/FedEx/USPS just leave packages in the lobby of non-doorman buildings. People tend to respect other people's packages and security cameras help enforce honesty. In years of living in Manhattan I've only had one package go missing -- turned out that it was stolen by the UPS driver (new iPhone on release day in a Verizon branded box).
Who here or in the article is trying to stop discussion on sustainable energy? Or do you think that somehow talking about Arctic ice melting is somehow impeding energy research?
I accept that your argument is more reasonable if you're talking about stills, but the article is about video, and presumably that's what everybody else here is talking about.

> For some reason you appear to be shifting from photo journalism in warzones and other hostile and hazardous situations to videos taken in London

My point was that the measures you suggest for worst case scenarios do not even make sense in best case scenarios (London being a highly developed first world capital city).
How loud is a drone at 400 ft? Louder than cars driving down a road?
Climate change has been the "asteroid" heading to earth for a 100 years, directed here by our own doing. We're all at varying points of the grief spectrum. Personally I'm in the acceptance stage. It's going to happen, it will likely lead to societal and economic collapse to some degree, and that is the only thing that will maybe change the way we do business.
Oh, I don't disagree.
Community engagement's a big part of it, though. I can define my own, extremely thorough and well-documented standard for Markdown, and get, say, all my friends to use it and provide feedback; that wouldn't make it popular enough to be included in a browser.
What proves that the published code is the one that is actually running?
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I've seen banks do this, and I agree it's incredibly annoying. KeePassX's autotype function bypasses copy-and-paste restrictions, since it emulates the keyboard as it types your password.
The 286/386 didn't have a cache so that wasn't a worry at that time.
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Why does the drone have to be wheeled out on tracks so far away from the shop for takeoff? It looks like this center may have been used for early testing where they were less confident in the drone's ability to takeoff

Also, it's interesting that they rely on fiducials placed on the ground to track the drop off point. I'd expect them to be using GPS + vision to figure out a dropoff point. Humans are really good at that, you'd think some algorithm would be good enough for 99% of the cases and save the customer time (with fiducials as a decent fallback for tricky buildings/houses)