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Why think flat? I remember in an early demo of aerobatic drone maneuvering at Georgia Tech, they were able to get drones to land on Velcro surfaces, even at partially inverted angles. If they could do that precisely enough, you could have drones that never have to land, they just have to latch on to a power station.
I wish Loic and his team the best of luck. It's never easy to lay friends and colleagues off, and I know that it's taken an emotional toll on Loic.

This is a reminder that even somebody of Loic's stature (he created LeWeb and is a very successful angel investor) can fail. Hard work, great product, good timing and luck -- you need them all to succeed.
I guess the PR scenario has become more complex with the popularization of social channels, social intent and social influence tools. Also, the fragmentation of communications means the PR manager needs to keep track of more campaigns, people. Indeed, not easy to do if you want to do it well.

Just think about the recent PR scandals: AirBnB, the Path contacts-gate, etc. It's very easy to deal with promotion (proactive PR) but very hard to deal with mishaps (reactive measures).
I'm not sure but its possible people have downvoted your comment because of heavy feminist bias on some of the links.
There are people that see a lot of hatred of man in feminism. This link might help explain why http://www.womenagainstmen.com/media/feminism-is-a-hate-grou...
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Bureaucrats are just not ready for robots. If you thought it was funny to watch an old "powerful" man reduced to a fumbling idiot by simple computer technology, you're going to love the robot revolution. I just hope they don't do too much damage bike-shedding a world where even the simplest precepts are impossibly far beyond them.
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We had standard def camera live streaming video via an L3 video transmitter. Also had an HD camera that recorded to onboard media.
That makes the most sense to me.
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I think this only proves that you didn't hire a good firm. Great PR firms can actually do incredible things, but the tricky part is knowing which firms are great.
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I searched for brogrammer with Indeed, simplyhired, startuply and craigslist and haven't found a single job opening. The "brogrammer" buzzword does not seem to be a trend.
Good catch!

I'm not trying to make excuses for them, but maybe they just forgot to add a wedge for "other".
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This is assuming you don't count the algorithm design and analysis class as math, or any of the "logic and languages" (Intro PL, constructive logic, Automated program verification, basic logic, computability and incompleteness) as math.
What percentage of the total number of human beings do you think use Google? I'm not even off by a single order of magnitude.
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I might buy one of these someday for the sheer enjoyment of developing something silly for it.
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Yes, I saw the page. I'm not sure how you test that the video is getting more responses, but could it be that this is the case because you don't have your one-sentence pitch in text on the site? This is the pitch from the video, which isn't on the home page:

Liveloop is a simple powerpoint plugin that lets everyone work on the document at the same time, seeing everyone else's changes as they type.

That alone could be why the video converts better: it tells (not shows) what you do in a way the text doesn't. To do a fair test, you'd need to have text materially similar to what's in the video.
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>a fake rape accusation is about as easy as it gets.

And yet, if it had really been planned, it appears they would have made lots of mistakes. I would think it would be much easier just to take someone out than it is to do this kind of alleged framing. Framing involves too many variables and too many lose ends. Taking someone out, I imagine, is a lot cleaner, from a plan execution Pov.

>It's hardly improbable. People have used sex for blackmail, intelligence gathering, and character assassination for thousands of years.

Yeah, the thing is, you are comparing two very different things. I implied that the whole series of events ending in framing, as it unfolded, was improbable --not that framing in itself was improbable. That's a strawman.

DSK had enough stuff in his closet that this kind of framing is unnecessary. I know the French are ok with politicians and their peccadilloes. He seems to have had a penchant for this behavior --moreso than say, Mitterand.
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I'm all for failing quickly and pivoting into something better, but how does Loic Le Meur expect to attract future employees with such a track record?
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Exactly. Whenever I read about one of these projects that are distributing Wikipedia content offline, my first thought is - How do they check all the content for vandalism? They most probably neither have the time nor the expertise. On the WP site, such things get detected and rolled back quickly and that is one of the reasons the whole thing works. Once you take that out, it is shaky territory.
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This isn't a problem, its the 'perfect moment' for a frighteningly ambitious, disruptive startup, per HN speak.

I think its clear that this would be a problem in an industry where the most used tool is a bookshelf of various common interpretations of law. It just doesn't scale.
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It's probably be worthwhile as a paper (journal article or peer-reviewed conference paper), but it doesn't seem enough for a competitive PhD dissertation.
me too! I've thought a lot about when would be good times to do great things and which paths would be easy and which would be hard. Unfortunately it usually ends up with me realizing that going back to 2004 and starting youtube would be the greatest reward per time and difficulty. :(
You're absolutely right. Gravity is a force similar to the Coulomb force in this regard. If I were to swap the electric potential for, say, a hilly landscape where the ball is free to roll, then the ball would behave in an identical manner where its acceleration is proportional to the gradient of the height (i.e. it tends to roll downhill); just as how in the electric potential it's proportional to the gradient of potential.

Nonetheless, I like electric potentials. The idea for this game came from my earlier attempt Electric Potential Golf (www.dllu.net/em), which was in turn inspired by Electric Field Hockey (http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/electric-hockey).
DDT is already back in use in many places. In fact, it's been in use so much (mostly to protect crops) that there is significant DDT resistance in some parts of the world. Now, it's not as simple as DDT doesn't work anymore, but it's also definitely not the same as 'if we just used it, it would fix everything'.

In fact, most 'bans' on DDT are actually primarily bans on agricultural use of DDT. Use of DDT as malaria vector control (for example in the United States) is allowed (as well as controlling other disease vectors). The problem is primarily the countries who haven't banned DDT for agricultural use, as it is that usage that has most greatly contributed to DDT resistance.
I think you're referring to the grasp lab at UPenn, they did stuff with quad rotors landing on Velcro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM&feature=youtu...

Georgia Tech did more with the larger Yamaha Rmax helicopter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBhgF5rEIg&feature=youtu...
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Good point. I've tested and all the levels are beatable eventually, although some are quite long and difficult. The ball gains some speed with each hit, so eventually it will have the kinetic energy to overcome the potential and behave like classical Pong. If I create a more polished version of this, I will likely design the potentials manually; here I was rather lazy in making this proof-of-concept demo so I generated all the levels randomly.
Ok so, how could they protect a UAV from thieves? Anyone could jam the remote control signal or use a net to block it on the ground.They could add an effective gps based alarm and insure the drones,this is a real problem though, only while UAVs are still quite expensive imo
As I see it, this is similar to food safety or mass-produced vehicle certification processes.

Unfortunately, modern markets are empirically fairly poor at optimizing for long-term outcomes with all externalities accounted for (example off the top of my head: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill).

When a major malfunction or accident does happen, no penalty or fine is really sufficient to bring about any meaningful sense of justice. (Think again the oil spill, or a tainted staple food poisoning tens of thousands of people, or to use a really cliché example, a malfunctioning UAV crashing into a group of kids playing at recess.) As the accidents are often due to incompetence or attempts at cost-cutting rather than outright malice, the deterrence factor of the penalty doesn't really apply – to those guilty, it just looks like they're taking the good kind of risk optimizing their systems until it's too late. The guilty corporation simply can go bankrupt and out of business, and finding and then charging personally responsible employees isn't always easy.
According to the wiki article on the WikiReader: The device can also run programs written in Forth, so you can write WikiReader 'apps' also.
My understanding is that if the public key is transmitted from the receiver to the sender through our server instead of directly, that should be secure to MITM. This assumes that peer connections to our server are secure (SSL).

Does this meet with your understanding?
>Taking someone out, I imagine, is a lot cleaner, from a plan execution Pov.

From a plan execution pov, perhaps, but not from a political pov. Even if a smoking gun pointed to Sarkozy, many people would likely chalk it up to political roughhousing and blame DSK for getting himself in the mess by not seeing the trap. If DSK had been killed people suspected Sarkozy, people would react differently.

>I implied that the whole series of events ending in framing, as it unfolded, was improbable

In what sense? That he was charged? The legal reaction itself was quite extraordinary: an international figure denied bail, put under grand jury investigation, and in court two days after being arrested. Maximum humiliation delivered with the utmost efficiency. DSK did have a history, of course, that complemented this kind of setup. One could be relatively sure that a sexual favor offered would be well received.
In this specific case merely forging a POST request externally does nothing as the user has to be signed in for this to work. Thus, restricting actions such as voting to POST (and restricting to same-origin) does constitute adequate protection if there is no XSS vulnerability on the site.
Imagine nginx spoke SPDY. Now replace nginx with this new proxy. Now imagine that its talking keep-alive HTTP on the inside.

The gateway can even send the incoming requests between many servers and aggregate the results and send them back to the client out of order, as per SDPY
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There are torrents for NeXTstep 3.3 as well. I'm downloading it right now, let's see how they work. :)

Any more suggestions for VMs of other classic systems worth pursuing (and available for download)?
Yes, but that's here on HN, which doesn't correspond to a group of Google engineers.
Seeking controversial postings makes sense.

But why do you downvote controversial stuff then? Why not give upvote for interesting postings and downvote for boring postings?
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Is there a relation between visuospatial ability and programming ability?

You should check out Top Secret Rosies documentary (its on netflix). They were the pioneers of computing.

As for the reason there are less woman in tech... This article might be interesting http://blog.jolieodell.com/2010/09/07/women-in-tech/
They don't curate it at all, they just load snapshots.

In practice, it's no shakier than before. Whenever you load a Wikipedia page, there is a certain probability it's vandalized. I'd be surprised if the probability were going down, since as it is more widely used it attracts more trolls. If the probability is staying relatively constant, it doesn't matter if you are looking at the current data or a snapshot from six months ago, the probability of a random page being in a vandalized state is about the same. And of course, if the vandalized page rate is going up, a snapshot would be better than the live site.

You could argue that, if you discover a vandalized page, you can't do anything about it on the Wikireader. You could argue that once you find a vandalized page, it's going to stay vandalized until you load another snapshot. But those are consequences of the tradeoff for the size and network independence of the device.
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I believe you'd need a rooted device for it to access another app's files, and even then you should get a popup prompting for access.
I agree it's pretty stupid - my best guess is that it could be % of total respondants, not % of total respondants that selected cons. Said another way - 74% of Facebookers didn't list any cons, 78% of Googlers didn't list any cons.
Yeah, that's a great one - good point. If you're developing a portfolio of apps, they can serve as your inbound marketing channels for new/other apps. Thanks!
Maybe - some of this stuff isn't as relevant for the internet, due to the fact that you have the device with you all the time. But, yes, there are a number of shared characteristics. Never hurts to point out good tips right?
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It's not general reader macros. He's talking about "tagged literals". See http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Tagged+Literals
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Oh wow, this is the same guy behind Metalosis Maligna. That was a fantastic faux-documentary.
> Creativity is destroyed in academia.

Nah. Grant committees just don't fund its full expression.
>Why is “brogrammer” offensive, anyways?

Because it denotes retards trying to pass themselves off as qualified. Just as "humbers" would denote unqualified plumbers trying to ply their trade, or "barpenters" would denote something similar. "Brogrammers" isn't offensive because it's sexist; it's offensive because it's idiotic.
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One reason for brogramming is that our society (not everyone, but overall in various peer groups or subcultures) provides substantial social rewards for men who:

- like sex
- like beer and other alcohol
- like to party
- are "fun"
- like to "hang out", "socialize", etc
- various other stuff kind of along these lines (it's really not my scene, hard to give good examples)
- demonstrate their strong commitment to these things. roughly: the more dedicated, the larger the social rewards.

So, brogramming is stupid overtly, and causes some problems, but if you tell people to just stop, a lot of them aren't going to want to. They may not know how to explain why, but one of the reasons is that brogramming provides them social rewards (ones that programmers in general are a bit starved for compared with athletes or even chefs).

You want social change? It needs to be broader. Brogramming is a symptom of something much larger. It's basically a coping mechanism for lonely people.

The most important driver of societal shifts are good ideas. Really high quality ideas. One type of idea that will help is changes that make things better for some and don't create any losers. Those are pretty easy to get everyone to agree to and like. But they are hard to come up with. They require a really good understanding of the situation and incentives and how people benefit from the behaviors you want them to stop (which normally gets into even more complicated, larger social structures, which normally touch on sensitive issues affecting most people).

I might be inclined to try starting somewhere else entirely if I wanted a large scale societal change. For example a lot of people feel shame regarding being alone. There are problems with being alone, plus social costs, but then there is this extra emotional cost that isn't from any actual concrete problem and even goes beyond the social costs. Help people be more proud of living alone and spending time alone, and feel good about it instead of bad, and that will be a step towards changing romantic relationship dynamics. Making standard romantic relationships a little more optional will enable people to question them a little more. And, very indirectly, that is a step towards less sexism or brogramming.
I don't think Google's company-wide 10% raise starting in 2011 hurt either.

Approval ratings aren't as useful, as say compared to something like the US Presidental approval ratings: unhappy employees can easily leave (clearly evidenced by a few recent high-profile HN posts), so only the happy remain.
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From this very article it seems the author of the blog is taking its design pretty seriously. Why shouldn't we?
Stop wondering and get a browser or extension that will somehow explicitly notify you when a connection is active.
Normally I'd prefer to be shared a Google Docs document by a coworker, but if they'd rather write it in Word and email me a .doc or .docx file, I have no problem with that.

Gmail makes it extremely easy to view those files online, and it's equally easy to convert them to Google Docs format for further editing (all taking place within the browser, no need for Office.)

Anyways, it's extremely futile to stop this phenomenon from happening by means of a blog post.
Nope. I will, entirely unironically, draw from a recent reddit post on this:

"Announcing 'I'm offended' is basically telling the world you can't control your emotions, so everyone else should do it for you."[1]

There are legitimate sources of offense, but "bro, you're totally harshing on frats" is not one of them.

[1]http://i.imgur.com/LQGwx.png
Generalizing 25-35 males working in the industry as manchildren can be seen as misandry (hatred of man).

Misogyny does not justify misandry.
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The allies wanted one to be written, so yes quite likely their constitutions where IMHO looked at during the process, espacially since they are pretty good. But it is also important to note that
a: it's not realy a constitution, only basic law (Grundgesetz in German)
b: The guys who wrote it were democrats who saw the fall of the monarchy, a doomed democracy and the rise, reign and fall of the Nazis. Some of them even were part of the resistance. And that shows.
That current politicians are maybe following the words of it and definitly not the spirit, well thats a different story.
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I'm not sure I see how "subtle, with a V for a U like the Romans" or even just "subtle" is very apt for an exclusive blog network, can you mention why you think so? Certainly the positioning and marketing is everything but subtle so far.
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