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Why not? Are you taking issue with their use of the word "personalized"?

The implied statement that I take from what they are pitching is "I can request my pickup and destination" vs. having to head to the airport where I pick up a fixed route flight. That form of personalization.
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I don't think there's anything harsh about living off of hundreds of millions of dollars of income after taxes.
You could just use nested classes for that, with the added benefit that the test framework will reflect that organization in its UX.
Their useful range is almost nil.

300km cruise speed with 300km range = 1 hour endurance. General flight planning guidelines call for at least 45 minutes of reserve fuel in case of things like weather or landing holds.

So really the useful range is more like 50km.
Why does that prevent you from using it?
Helicopters glide or 'autorotate' tolerably well after engine or driveshaft failure, at least enough to land controllably.

In the R22 two-seater the best glide ratio is about 4:1 ( 4ft horizontal for 1ft drop ) and those at my local airfield practice autorotation to landing all day long.

Apparently the worst helicopters for autorotation are those with Kamov's superimposed coaxial rotor system, which struggle to reach 2:1 for some aerodynamic reason I don't know.
I don't understand what you say. You think it is something amazing that they invented a message format? The UX continues to be more-or-less the same, doesn't it?
Because fundamentally thats still less convenient for the customer. In a perfect world, you want to be picked up from your front door and dropped off at the front door of your destination. And if you can avoid highways and traffic, even better. This provides the infamous 'last mile' solution to transportation, instead of forcing everyone onto mainline routes and artery networks.
He lives in California. 9% of that was to the state.
I think the idea is sociologically interesting, which is a shame this article's conclusion is

> how can you resist those dank eyes anyways?

It's hard to take the article seriously when it doesn't even take itself seriously. the whole thing has a very jarring tone.
> The kind of exceptions that unwind the stack until some part of the code up the stack catches the exception.

Rust panics result in unwinding the stack:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/unwinding.html

try!/? is preferred for handling errors, but if you "know" that a Result or an Option has a value, you can unwrap() or expect() it, and you'll get a panic if you're wrong.
Hi Hacker News,

Several people in this thread have pointed out the major reason that this airplane design is not viable, which is the weight of the batteries.

I have developed an alternative that I would like to patent. I asked for an introduction here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/65cazg/i_need...

But I did not receive responses. Subsequent to this, I reached out directly to patent attorneys I thought would be qualified. Here I ran into a big problem. I will quote my reply email:

>"After speaking with the partner who handles our firm’s major aviation client, we have determined that taking you on as a client would likely result in a conflict of interest. This is more than just a matter of potentially overlapping subject matter. The fact that you wish to license your IP to other aviation companies would actually mean we couldn’t represent both you and our other client in those negotiations. In effect, we’d be on both sides of the discussion, which is by definition a conflict of interest."

This is actually an issue with any qualified patent attorney who might take on this case.

I would therefore like to work with an aviation engineer. I believe we could draft the patent language ourselves.

I don't want to include a terrible amount of information here, but I want to list one benefit of the invention:

- Solves the distance issue.

jacquesm's analysis in this thread is absolutely correct. This is what motivated me to ask if there were any aviation engineers in this thread. The cost to entering the aviation market is extremely high and the only viable means of doing so is via the patent approach, so I would like to work with someone who has had patents in their own name.

Please let me know if you would be someone who might be able to collaborate with me on this project, and I will get in touch with you. Thank you!
> It's also impressive that it can each 300KM already.

That's a target, not what they've demonstrated.
D compile times alone are an advantage. I should probably point out that D can actually do some (More than anyone else) C++ interop.
I recommend taking frequent looks at your access log for the URLs you're serving up. One day you may discover you're part of something you don't want to be part of.

This doesn't enable anything that wasn't already possible; it would be trivial for a bad actor to put up a redirector like this, after all. Still, at least when they do that, it's something they did and you have no responsibility.

I don't even know exactly what it is you don't want to be part of. It's just the possible range of URLs you probably will eventually start seeing come through will cross some sort of line for almost any given individual.
At some point, theft becomes a more suitable word for it.

No, because confounding usefully distinct concepts makes them less useful.
Running a rail line point to point is cheap? More like impossible.
There was no income tax in the US prior to 1913. Did people go around murdering and stealing? Was everyone poor?

Traditionally, all the things you mention are NOT paid for by income taxes even now.
There have been efforts to change state/federal law so that tax agencies can send you a bill for what they think you owe, potentially saving you a lot of work. Unfortunately tax-prep companies have lobbied against it.
> "Rockets, balloons, most military aircraft? Shove a ballistic parachute on it."

As far as I know, no rocket or military fighter jet has ever been certified to carry paying passengers for exactly this reason. We're talking about shuttling people around, not highly trained test pilots.

Balloons are actually far safer than fixed wing aircraft for other reasons. It would take a complete loss of the canopy for a balloon to fall out of the sky. When they run out of fuel, they just drift slowly to the ground.

Ballistic parachutes are a last resort option, and add a large amount of weight and complexity to the aircraft. Not to mention that they do not scale up to larger passenger aircraft. It's not even comparable to the safety afforded by a stable airframe.
In a helo you can attempt auto-rotation, which while tricky at least gives you a fighting chance.
That $5 trillion figure isn't actually spending at all. It's entirely an invented figure, meant to supposedly cover all estimated environment damage for example. Really what it's meant to do, is be massive enough to enable people to throw it around when arguing in favor of obliterating the fossil fuel industry.

Why does the invented aspect matter? Because it's comical. It leads to the premise that over just the next 10 years, the subsidies are a likely cumulative ... $56 trillion or so (about 20%-25% of all wealth on earth). Aka, greater than the combined profit of every oil company in world history going back ~140 years.
After you look at the tax rates of the 1950's, go look at the tax code. The nominal rates were higher, but there were many more ways to shelter your money.

In 1958, the top 3% of taxpayers earned 14.7% of all adjusted gross income and paid 29.2% of all federal income taxes. In 2010, the top 3% earned 27.2% of adjusted gross income and their share of all federal taxes rose proportionally, to 51%

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324705104578151...
Most big companies do get some form of subsidies. Tesla is nearly 30,000 jobs in the US alone. 5 Billions is not much for such a big company.
This may not work for you, but I honestly didn't understand calculus until I worked through Knuth's Concrete Mathematics. There's a portion of it detailing rules on summations, which were (I realized at the time) the discrete equivalent of integration (summation of functions over integers versus integration which is summation of continuous functions). With my (stronger) CS than math background, it just "clicked" for me. You could check out the book from your university's library and see if this material helps you. I can't put my finger on which specifically now (too many years later) but various calculus concepts just fell into place as I worked through those portions of the book.
>How is the glide profile any worse than a helicopter's?

This is a common misconception. Helicopters can glide to a landing just like airplanes.
I'm not sure if the figure in the piece is only federal tax, but if so there's another 13% for California state taxes.
Not bad, but doesn't that come with social services like free medical care and greatly subsidized education?

Here in he US the middle income pays taxes and receives almost no directive social benefit, as most social programs are geared towards lower income and the rich can afford accountants and lawyers to keep their tax burden very light.
> This service works by providing a hidden form that is built on page-load and uses javascript to 'click' the form submission. This means cookies will work correctly for the site you've submitted to, but you need to have a javascript enabled browser to use the service.

So, with cookies.
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I keep trying to imagine it, but I can't get past the part where I'm excited about having hundreds of millions of dollars.
Then you'd end up having a fairly stupid argument about the semantics of "better".
Is this dissimilar to a helicopter though?
You run a compute pool, you don't spin up EC2 instances on demand for this kind of application. You scale the pool based on target utilization metrics.
Don't wait until the 18th? I always file my taxes in January. It's REALLY simple.

Also, being late isn't that bad. You'll likely get a notice in the mail detailing out any late charges. Which for being 1 day late will be extremely minor relative to your income.
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Alternatively, if someone wanted to protest, they could make as much money as they like, then just donate it to their cause to avoid taxes.
What did they do in February?
>But you don't ask that when they extract peoples' money on the upswing.

I always ask that.

>You want scientific and fair? We the people should own the proceeds from public lands.

The proceeds of public land is not sufficient to pay for a sizeable welfare state. All land in the US is worth $23 trillion. Assuming a tax equal to 3% of its value is levied per year, that would raise a little less than $700 million.

That has to first be spent on the essentials, like interstate highways, federal courts, and national defence. There's nothing left for welfare. Even if there were, it would better serve society to spend it on general goods to boost productivity, rather than private goods for the poor that discourage it.

No I'm not an ancap.

>But there's a point that fairness surpasses when you have 1 person (or company) that owns an impressive amount of goods.

I don't see this being based on a principle of justice. It's just a gut feeling, which will be highly susceptible to our biases.
So will Holmes go to prison? A green card holder in Texas was just​ sentenced to eight years in prison for voting in a US election. Surely Holmes will go away much longer right?
> laggards

Or, you know, poor people.
That's fine. I still want them to pay more.
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If you're a new user that they know nothing about, then recommending the "popular" users from your region is a good default option.

Also they don't lock out your account because of a lack of an email or phone number - you just need 1 of those to signup.
>You've played your hand by saying you look at your stock holdings in fiat.

Are we having a discussion or playing poker? What hand did I play?

> What happens if fiat fails you? i.e. if hyperinflation kicks in or the powers that be decide to restrict access to your fiat? I realise it sounds tinfoil hat-esque but if investing to safeguard your future, these are possible doomsday scenarios... (just ask people of Venezuela)

I'll just sell my stocks for another fiat currency or even bitcoin if/when I want to. You're missing the point completely. My stock holdings are shares of companies not fiat currency. I can look at them in whatever currency I want. I can also see the value of my holdings in dollars or yen or bitcoin and it's just as valid. I'm not storing value in euros, only using them as the unit when doing valuation of my holding of companies. The same applies to cryptocurrencies, they're not valuable in themselves, only as a means of exchange.
I put together an example of how to run chromium with --headless driven by cucumber/capybara: https://dkastner.github.io/2017/04/21/headless-chrome.html
Thank you. It has just occurred to me I can use this feature at work!

lol
Helicopters glide quite nicely. Learning to autorotate is something you learn early on when getting your license.
I'm not sure that I would like to see their medical records but there was a lot of talk about medical records for public figures this past election cycle in the USA. It went so far that Mrs. Clinton offered up her records for review. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/politics/clinton-campaign-rele...

The truth is if you're going to be a public figure like a CEO or Elected Official you better be ready to give up some if not all of your privacy.
You cant dead stick a cessna in an urban environment, and current ballistic parachutes aren't that heavy.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24946/what-is-t...
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There's no analogy - what you're describing is literally a lawyer.
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Tweetdeck should really be twitter's default UI. Simplify for new people but keep all the functionality.
I think you are actually agreeing with me to some extent, that SV is based (partly? Largely?) on funny money.

I'm just pointing out that in addition to that, insider dealing and cooked books play a greater role in the funny money economy than anyone likes to talk about.
This looks awesome! Hopefully more companies build stuff like this and drive adoption.
Obligatory disclaimer: IANAL

It's completely legal to record a phone call in Canada as long as you are a party to that conversation. However I still cannot find an app for my Android phone to do this.
Let me clarify that, you can dead stick a cessna and land it outside your local bar in NYC (someone did) but its not easy.
AI is the pillar for almost everything in the future.
AI is the new Internet.
I cannot get it why people are still analyzing that some big player is investing in AI...
13.3% actually... this is why I don't understand why anyone starts a company in California when you can go to other states like WA that have no income tax
To the extent that Uber is only for rich people, maybe. At least given the prices they say they're targeting.
In the UK there are lots and lots of people from South Africa, Zimbabwe and other places where things may have been good for their 'baby boomer' parents that got rich in deeply racist times, but for kids today?

If you are in your 20's or 30's or even 40's then having white skin in South Africa has not had the same advantages as before, there has been government legislation to make the place a bit more equal opportunity, which means to the younger people in South Africa that, if you are white, it is time to claim some type of UK passport (maybe based on some grandfather that was Scottish).

I am no defender of Apartheid but the ruling baby boomer white class essentially retired and threw their own children under the bus.
http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/monad.html

Getting monads into Lisp in a useful way would require the introduction of features that would certainly make it a different language. You may consider this a feature but you'd be arguing with a lot of people who consider it a bug. (I mean that sentence very seriously; no sarcasm, no joke, it is an accurate description of the situation, nor am I implying I would find the idea horrifying... it would simply be a quite significant change to the core type system.)
Yes but twitter handles lists poorly - barely any UI or workflow around making lists easy to use and browse. Most new users dont know anything about lists or how to use them.
I arrived at the same conclusion when I realised that YouTube no longer buffers the video all the way through to the end on mobile anymore. I miss being able to buffer a (long) video for offline playback when riding public transport.
A bit off topic, but I'm going to rant here anyway.

I filed using the Free Fillable Forms. They got rejected with an XML validation error. OK, I'm a programmer, I can (and did) figure it out from that. But most people aren't. Imagine that your grandmother is filing her taxes, and gets an XML validation error. What is an XML validation error going to mean to her?

Now, they've got a handy Web tool that you can paste the error message in, and it will tell you what's wrong. But why should you have to? When they email you that your submission failed, why don't they run the error message through that tool, and mail you the results?
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you mean 2003
easier to just not write the debug statements - write tests not printfs
Well Western society has, by and large.
What really made me laugh was "Are you an IP lawyer?"

This isn't even an IP question!
Using wearable technology to detect conflict in couples before it occurs
That's even longer than a phone call...
My initial interpretation of this is that work from home policies produce fragmented software. Although messaging/chat/etc might overcome this, the thought is still relevant.
It would probably have been seen as proof of aliens and/or time travel back then.
I'll preface this by saying that humans are terrible pilots[1], but the reality of the problem is much worse than just navigating a quadcopter around on GPS coordinates. Pilots are responsible for a complex decision making chain way before the flight happens. Is the weather safe to fly in (no thunder storms, winds low enough, density altitude, etc. which is not trivial when you're running such a small aircraft)? Is the aircraft in good condition and safe to fly? Is the cargo weight and position within the operating envelope?

[1]: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?E...
Or you can just post your findings to full disclosure and call it a day.
I believe that responsible disclosure is a courtesy to the vendor and its customers. Afaik, there is nothing in the law that requires it. Exploiting vulnerabilities like the one you are discussing here yourself certainly would be illegal, and you could possibly be implicated in a conspiracy if you disclosed the vulnerability solely to one person or group that you knew would exploit it (so "I told my Russian hacker friend about this..let's short the stock before he nails them with it!" would probably be a conspiracy case, whereas a press release or HN posting would not be).

But general public disclosure of a vulnerability, and/or trading on the anticipated effects of public disclosure, is not illegal. It likely won't win you friends in the IT community, but it falls short of an indictable offense.
In the 90s I spent a lot of time on my website and I loved learning how web crawlers worked. I started using a robots.txt file without really understanding it. I ended up blocking everything thinking it would make my site faster for visitors because--crawlers might crawl the site all the time.

After I graduated from college I lost access to my website which was hosted on the Computer Science department's web servers.

I wish I hadn't used that robots.txt file. I would love to find the pages I made that compared interfold vs. exterfold staple strength, or the site I made with a ranch theme with a cowboy that had humorous advice....I don't have any content in archive.org because it honored the robots.txt file.

...sigh...wish I had backed up my stuff.
But jet fuel can't melt steel beams!
Those are ways to invest in that total number. I already do that. I mean an information source for the total valuation of the world's stock markets on a monthly basis at least.
Do you know of any good articles explaining the concept of 'good debt'?

I understand the position that govt taking debt out if the funds can increase economic growth->more tax revenue. However, this concept seems to break down when debt is carried over year to year and used to pay interest expense on other debts.
Ads is the business.

You need the tech to build it.
And Gooogle is not an AI company. Google is definitely more of a computing company than anything else.

DeepMind will not reach its current stage without Google's computing capability, and Google's computing capability is literally no where else to be found.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
To be fair, until sometime in the last ~2 years, Schwab PWs were alphanum case-insensitive 6-8 characters only.
ceo of a private corporation === public figure?
I am biased, I know, but I would like to recommend my company's three blogs:
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https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering

https://www.outsystems.com/blog/category/tech-zone
I like to think that the world's view on network security has changed, even in just the past few years. Companies seem more educated on proper disclosure, network security is now seen as a part of national security and/or common good, and society seems to be shifting the blame for insecurity away from the exploiter and more toward the exploited.

For example, if you'd stolen millions of credit cards in 1983 you'd have a special session of Congress dedicated to going after you, whereas now we (rightly) blame Target.