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I think research funding in general could take some cues from the Y Combinator funding model, in the sense that if you give smart people money and time, they'll discover/create amazing things.

You would think the value and return you get from investment in science would be apparent to anyone living in the modern age.
Nope. How is “subtle, with a V for a U like the Romans” so hard? It does seem very apt for an exclusive blog network.
Thank you for calling out the negative stereotyping in these comments of frat bros. I realize that "won't somebody think of the bros" isn't going to get much sympathy in these forums, but stereotyping is stereotyping, be it against women, or another group of people just enjoying their activities without harming other people (in this case, the fraternity crowd).
Until I forge your QR code and enjoy your delicious tacos.
You do know that's fake, right?
Wouldn't it be impossible for them (assuming proper PKI implementation) for them to regenerate the signing key once lost?

ie, you lose it, it's gone... the way it should be.
Where I disagree with you on "colour blindness" is that your statement assumes that gender and race are reasonable and obvious ways of categorizing people. How often do you group people by whether or not their earlobes are attached? Or by the curliness of their hair? We have made gender, race, etc important constructs. It would be difficult, but not impossible, to make them unimportant.

Accepting differences is a good thing. However the magnitude of the perceived difference can make accepting it either easier or harder
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Does anyone know if something like this would be legal in Canada? That seems like a really cool startup idea.
Nothing to discus, I just agree
Oddly, the technical challenge of sending a ground robot through an unknown dynamic environment is even more difficult than a flying robot. There's very few obstacles in the sky. Another thing to consider is petty theft and vandalism. Maybe I'm jaded, but I think a ground robot would not last very long. With an aerial vehicle, packages can be dropped with parachutes. (though, I'm pretty sure some will be shot down before they're generally accepted)
Proper PKI doesn't exclude key escrow... but Google would have little interest in trying to support the process to keep that secure.
I agree with the general sentiment (more money to NASA) but I'd point out just because it pays doesn't mean it's the best use of that money. There might be better investments.
I repeated this about a thousand times and he seems to have fixed it ;). Also, he seems to have reverted the count on his unkudos page. Not the actions I would have expected from someone who thought nothing of it.
I'm probably going to be the sore one out when people from better schools start posting replies, but at my school which has a very small computer science department (so small that I'm not even doing the CS major even though I'm a professional) only requires:

- Calculus I

- Calculus II

- Introductory Statistics
I'd guess that close to 100% of women in tech are offended by sexism. There is a group--almost certainly a subset--which is offended by brogramming. They have said so.

Now, you can try to go convince them otherwise, but I strongly recommend against it.
> It would be akin to the government can forcing you to pay for them to prosecute you.

Taxes?
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I would agree with you, but this is a blog. You're taking it too seriously.
> People said that about keyboards, and many can type fine on a smartphone after a little practice.

I'd say this is plenty of evidence that touchscreen smartphone keyboards aren't "fine": http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/
I agree. But still, for that much money, they could put up a youtube video of the experiment :)
They are already here.

http://kmkeen.com/tmp/wikireader1.jpg

I think this weekend I'll release the image view for the wikireader I've been working on. It can smoothly pan/zoom images that are thousands of pixels wide.
It is, but we run into the barrier of expected utility. What is a better thing for me to learn: how to scale rails apps, or how to construct a solar panel from iron age technology?

Don't get me wrong, both are awesome. Absent a working time machine or the ability to leap into a novel or Z-Day, however, only the former will have any benefit for me.
I wonder how many already do that....
Personally, I'd say misleading rather than clever.
From my recent experience (past month or so), TortoiseHG is definitely more polished than TortoiseGit. The thing I miss the most is the "Workbench", a single window that contains everything you'd need to do (commit, view history, sync, etc).
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Whoa! I was daydreaming about this exact same thing (Except it was pizza instead of tacos). I thought they should have a small box that hangs from them so they could drag the box down with a small thread in order to avoid accidents with the propellers. Anyway, awesome idea, hope to see this legally in the near future :-)
I know usability is a subset of UX. Thanks for the explanation. Breaking discoverability makes sense re: usability.
Aren't all search results manipulated if you think about it - that is what the SEO "experts" do. And I think the right word is "gamed".
What would you like to see in terms of regulations? (this is a sincere question)

At the moment, a 13 yr old could fly a radio controlled F-15 legally, so long as it was for recreation and not for commercial usage.
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If this were to happen, I'm imagining tacocopternapping.
Makes me think of an article I read many years ago (in, I think, Mathematics Magazine) titled "Confusion Rings" which parodied abstract algebra papers. About all I remember now is "heterocococomorphism".
I was considering their claim that it's easy to turn on but difficult to turn off to be a design flaw.
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I hate to uh "pour cold water on this", but if you follow the link to the NASA site: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2011/ps_5.html

What it actually says is "HMA incorporated elements derived from ORBITEC’s propulsion work into its design for fire suppression, and the improvements significantly enhanced the performance of HMA’s UHP systems. For example, the company studied how to better manage the flow of a liquid to create an energetic blanket of fine water droplets."

It does not actually justify the claim that the vortex flow of propellant has anything to do with the firehose optimizations.

Science people are always so hypercritical when it comes to surprising claims made by non-scientists. They shouldn't give a free pass to Discover magazine and NASA to make such a stretch.
You are linking low number of CS freshwomen to being harassed by male colleagues. The problem of that argument is obviously that the earlierst most people would be exposed to such an environment is _after_ college.

So maybe its not culture in programming, but culture in society that is to blame here.
Thanks for putting me in check, remind me next time I dream about the future.
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My advice - do your own PR for as long as you can, don't hire a PR firm. I fell prey to the persuasive tactics of one firm, which over charged, over promised, and delivered nothing.
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It's a good name, conceptually, but it's hard to hear and speak. It's also a fantastic product.
Never thought about that. So effectively, QR codes are useful for automation, robots, not humans.
Game design tip: careful to design your electric field so that the ball doesn't get stuck in the middle.
I'd just like to quickly point out that the pie charts for "What gets talked about on the inside" are somewhat useless because they not only don't add up to 100%, but the sum of percentages for the facebook charts doesn't equal the sums of the corresponding google chart (e.g. cons: sum of facebook percentages: 26%, google: 22%)
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sorry, was stuck in hyper-literal programming mode :-)
Stack Programming is the worst at Scope Gerrymandering. They go to some pretty insane lengths to keep stuff "on topic".
It all seems really snooty and lame. Not digging the attitude, dcurtis.

Sidenote: The judos thing is annoying and the design is mad plain.
"While I don't object to releasing it in principle, the code prep required is not high priority for me and I'm reluctant to accept responsibility for maintaining an open-source project."

Open Source, not "free" and in "free beer", but "free" as in "free puppy"…
I'm just getting a redirect to local host for that article. Other articles on arstechnica.com work fine. Broken link?

Edit: Going directly to the comments works (no RST or redirect): http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/drug-resistant-m...
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Have the DENIED any requests from law enforcement? No. Perfectly happy.
I agree. I think though that you have to be more clear. I believe when you say "for the survival of the race" what you mean is that woman want to be with men whom they respect. I feel like that is true. Certainly woman are also different. However, when it comes to being in the workplace, I think what the OP and most of the people here are trying to get at is using better judgement. We are not animals here. We treat woman with the same respect that we treat men, while simultaneously recognizing that we ought not act the same around them as we do around men, or maybe specifically of men we are friends with.

PC is drivel. agreed. being respectful: definitely not.
Nested parentheses: necessary in lisp; kind of a bitch when trying to read a comment.
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It does have, and you're seeing them right here and now.
Some law enforcement officers are not bad people. FTFY. Just like some of the general populace are not bad people.

Given that the police is a profession that enables the use of deadly force, they absolutely need to be held to higher standards. But at the same time, it's almost a fundamentally flaw premise. Look at it this way, police have incentive for crime to continue (hence the neverending war on drugs). It allows them to get paid more, argue for more budget etc.

Unfortunately, expanding accountability at this point is far too little too late as organizations have been pretty much doing whatever they want in the name of security (Exhibit A: TSA). The system really needs a major reset in order to get back some semblance of actual balance.
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At Carnegie Mellon, the following are required:

* elementary discrete math
* intermediate discrete math / intro CS theory
* calculus I
* calculus II
* linear algebra
* probability
* an "algorithms and complexity" elective:
combinatorics, graph theory, automata, etc.

I might be missing one or two.
Maybe GPS coords and a QR code that matches.
I would expect controlling of propellant flow into a combustion chamber has many lessons that can be applied to other fluid dynamics problems. And it says right there that is what they did:

"HMA incorporated elements derived from ORBITEC’s propulsion work into its design for fire suppression."

Sure it probably isn't the vortex itself by the sounds of it but there are plenty of other problems they would have had to solve to get the working engine design.

So there is no stretch as I read it, though I appreciate your skepticism as often these things are blown out of proportion by the media.
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What kind of cameras did you use? Was it a live stream?
No, no... it's good to dream about the future. I suggest heading over to DIYdrones, grab some hardware, and help create the future rather than reading about "credulous" projects.

There are plenty of real efforts underway to use UAV's in a similar fashion -- for example, to deliver medications in disaster-stricken areas [1] and for building construction [2]. We all have very little time and attention. I simply suggest that we allocate it wisely.

[1] Matternet, a Singularity University spinoff -- http://matternet.net/

[2] ETH researchers use UAV's to build 6-meter tower -- http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/video-watch-...
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If you guys do start looking to pick up remote I would be interested. While I don't have a lot of direct Node experience, I have a lot of JavaScript experience and I have designed some of the largest travel exchange systems out there, so I am familiar with load. I could pick up your stack pretty quick as I am a generalist, I would really like to get in with a growth company out in the valley area, but due to personal reason I am stuck in FL for a while. Hit me up if you guys change your stance on remote, I have been doing contract work for IBM remote for 3 years now and have a really good process down for remote development. At the very least, I could give you guys some pointers on how to seamlessly integrate remote developers into your team, so you are ready when the time comes.
Minority Report used "pre-cogs" to establish probable cause. Just saying that the logic presented by said agencies are dubious at best, flawed at a minimum.
Beautiful and brilliant!
> then lat/long shouldn't matter too much as long as there's enough of them

So you are suggesting let them move randomly yes? Well if you assume a 10km range you would need 1.62 million of these to cover the earth, and since they would probably bunch up due to wind, you'd need even more of them.

And why do you assume they won't be stuck in up or downdrafts? Earth's air pressure varies constantly, so a truly neutral position is impossible. But even if you managed it, the slightest breeze would move it easily - meaning they would constantly crash to the ground or go too high and pop.
Or until I fill your QR Code target drop-zone with dog-poop in a paper bag.
You don't have any contact info in your profile. I consider myself a web generalist with experience in php. This (web) programming being my second career I'm not sure how to rate my ability but if you have a well defined spec that won't change I can provide a solution ...

Anyway, I'm not so confident that I have deleted my LinkedIn profile. In fact I am working on building my soft skills and that site has been very helpful to me lately. You can easily find me there or with google. Maybe I can help you?
Can you substantiate your claims? I can.

M. Wilson at the FAA has denied applications for certificates of authorization (COAs). Without his signature, the popo doesn't get to fly.
PR can be summed up in four words: Don't be a dick.
That I wasn't aware of--how is Deep River holding up?
Bad example: in the given scenario, you would seek a patent and license the innovation to existing truck manufacturers. You capital worries go away.

That said, I've many times been annoyed that I couldn't invest as a middle-class shmuck. Some companies I wished I could get on: AirBnB, GetAround, Occipital, Disqus, Twilio. Obviously I'm recalling w/ survivor bias, and there's no telling if those winners would have been happy to sell at a price I could afford (I don't have the juice VC/angel giants have), but I look forward to finding cos that I believe in and are happy to take my money.

Edit: actually, I'll make a few prospective calls in case they want to call me:

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Thanks him for me, this silliness is just what I needed tonight.
Something like a quadshot [0] should be more efficient for this task - use quadrotors for the VTOL ability, but convert to far more power-efficient wing for flying at speed.

I think it'd be possible to build a large quadshot-esque quadrotor -> flying wing device that would have the 1-3 mile range and ~500gr non-battery payload capacity necessary for taco delivery.

[0]: http://thequadshot.com
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I hope that thing is reasonably quiet.
My new startup - Taco Pirates. Hunting down taco drones.
It's a choice: http://desktime.com/humans.txt
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Interesting, isn't it? Our direct reactions tend to be the most honest, but we don't often want to admit that to ourselves for we know that we should be aspiring to be better.

Tolerance might be the opposite of abstraction, and thats a hard reality in a field where abstraction has gained us so much.
OnStar or undocumented GSM systems in Tesla...

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3619088 and http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-te... (under Prevention Measures).

"After the first 500 Roadsters, Tesla added a remote monitoring system to the vehicles, connecting through AT&T’s GSM-based cellular network. Tesla uses this system to monitor various vehicle metrics including the battery charge levels, as long as the vehicle has the GSM connection activated4 and is within range of AT&T’s network. According to the Tesla service manager, Tesla has used this information on multiple occasions to proactively telephone customers to warn them when their Roadster’s battery was dangerously low.

In at least one case, Tesla went even further. The Tesla service manager admitted that, unable to contact an owner by phone, Tesla remotely activated a dying vehicle’s GPS to determine its location and then dispatched Tesla staff to go there. It is not clear if Tesla had obtained this owner’s consent to allow this tracking5, or if the owner is even aware that his vehicle had been tracked. Further, the service manager acknowledged that this use of tracking was not something they generally tell customers about.

Going to these lengths could be seen as customer service, but it would also seem to fit with an internal awareness at Tesla of the gravity of the “bricking” problem, and the potentially disastrous public relations and sales fallout that could result from it becoming more broadly known."
Somebody said it best: Only hire a PR firm when you're dealing with too much inbound press attention.
this pull request is less 'epic' and more 'cheap shot'
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My original comment re: "discussion" was based on that his post and the 50+ comment discussion on HN that followed.
Can you explain some more? You lost the keys or you didn't? If you didn't, why can't you sign the apps?
I regularly get "screen shots" and "mock-ups" as doc files that contain a single image. It drives me nuts, but I can't find a way to change people's behaviour. Any suggestions?
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Larry Page gets a 94% approval rating? That seems a bit surprising given the discontent expressed on HN over recent policy changes.
Even the 'I' looks wrong. Well done.
NSF Weak Stomach warning, the images are not pretty.

I would like to see a solution of the 'mosquito genocide' variety.
Based on various other articles I've read. I would not go to an extreme and say "this is a terrible idea," but I would assert it's worthy of serious thought on how to ensure we are not limiting ourselves to the filter we've built.

Nonetheless, my criticism was directed at this article for not providing at least a few examples of the results of a filter bubble.
Watch out for the taco bandit flying robots tho.
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> Curtis, can be as arrogant as he wants and still have a great product (or be right).

Ah, but there's the rub: Dustin doesn't have a great product and he isn't right. At best he's a good marketer: the only things he ever stands out for are his gimmicks. His best posts were gimmick posts ("watch me redesign airport passes!", "let me show you how stupid commercial graphic designers are!"); his only creations are good marketing creations ("you should follow me on Twitter here", "kudos!"). Occasionally I've seen him get halfway towards having a decent thought, but I've never seen him follow through.

Compare that to John Gruber, who's talked before about how he painstakingly selected the Daring Fireball color before he launched his blog (which has displayed his thoughts, gimmickless and unchanged, for a decade now). Greatness is a matter of finding big ideas and sticking to them; the only thing Dustin's stuck to in the few years he's been promoting himself is that people ought to remember him. But he's forgotten to create something worth remembering.

Curtis writes:

> One of my main goals for this new writing interface was to encourage myself to spend more time writing and less time presenting.

Which is admirable, and I've noticed that his writing in this new iteration is somewhat less surface-irritating. But he contradicts this in this very thread, when he says of his jackass slogan: "It perfectly accomplishes my goal: you'll remember it." He cares about being remembered; it never seems to occur to him that there's more to writing good things than making them memorable.
I have the same fantasy. I guess Ryan North does too, he produced this t-shirt http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_C...

Which is semi-helpful. By wearing it I've discovered this fantasy is not uncommon.
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I loved it, too (see: https://twitter.com/#!/temiri/status/117771875618263040) and I wish it hadn't shifted the way it has. But it has.
Warner Brothers alone contributes $12 billion to the economy and employs 10,000 questions.

So no, no wondering going on.
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It could be interpreted as "here are the thoughts you are allowed to think on this topic, according to the gods of PC".
As I've said before, in many places on this thread, this was less me sharing my feelings and more of a synthesis of a variety of ideas shared by a group of computer science students, male and female, at the University of Pennsylvania.

(We did discuss the possibility of Hogrammer, yes.)
I bought one of these recently during a sale. Picked it up for about $30.

It's really nice. microSD is easy access, and AA is awesome as a power source for this little thing. I love the idea of giving these to kids in school.

The software is open source, and you can add custom wikis to the existing software.