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> This issue reached its pinnacle for us when we were unable to figure out how to replicate the magic response composition syntax used by Spray to abstract away the addition of CORS headers to HTTP responses.

I'd just put any kind of application, whether built in Scala, node.js or Go or ruby on rails behind a nginx proxy and use that for setting the headers. That simplifies a lot of things. I hope your HTTP headers aren't really so dynamic that you need to build software that changes them so much, especially not for a RESTful application.
I've been using the Asus RT-N66U 'Black Knight' for well over a year with DD-WRT and have nothing but praise for it.

Dual-band N900, three detachable antennas, 256 MB RAM, rock solid stability.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N66U

http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66U/
Parallel construction is the NSA informing local cops of crimes that they actually have evidence for, albeit obtained illegally.

This is just straight lying. Trading hundreds of years of others' lives for a modestly higher paycheck.
> ...approved by some of the best profit-motivated, liability-averse lawyers in the world.

You can be sure that on the other side of the equation, if and when a delivery drone causes damage to property or causes bodily harm or death, some of the best profit-motivated, liability-sniffing lawyers in the world will be eying the bank accounts of Amazon and its insurance carriers.

By the way: attorneys don't "approve" anything. They advise clients on risk and can try to help clients mitigate risk to the greatest extent possible based on the courses of action clients pursue. Companies do stupid things that create liabilities, some huge, all the time. The attorneys make just as much (if not more) cleaning up messes as they do trying to prevent them.
That's not the point being made by the people who say a single killed dog could nix the program, in fact, it's the opposite. The point is that the public responds irrationally to new minute dangers like this. Commenters pointing this out aren't rooting for failure, and they're not making an argument about the danger. They're just observing that this thing has failure modes because people are dumb.
The racial and class disparities in sentencing is well established.

Also, the fact that you say she's brown shows you don't understand how race impacts sentences. Its not a matter of being light or dark. Its a matter of being black or Hispanic and the economic and social status of blacks and Hispanics and how voters react to the kinds of crimes endemic in black and Hispanic communities.

Why is the sentence so light? First, its a white collar crime. Sentences haven't been inflated across the board for white collar crimes the way they have for "poor minority" crimes (that is, crimes endemic in poor minority communities). The high sentences for crimes like drug dealing are tied up with both race and class issues, and as a result 3-5 seems like a particularly light sentence.

Second, she's a sympathetic character in sentencing. All sorts of factors can be used in sentencing, and they disfavor people from poor minority communities. Have a wife and child? That's more sympathetic than having an out of wedlock child and baby momma. Grow up in the hood where gangs are pervasive? Well it'll be easier to dig up unfavorable bits of your past than if you grew up in a middle class community.

The root of the outrage is that 3-5 seems so light in comparison to the sentences of the people this chemist helped convict for drug crimes. A big part of that is that the latter sentences are so high because of the race and class issues mentioned above.
So around double what you would expect.
What merit is there in rooting for failure for failure's sake?

I don't think everyone that expresses skepticism is rooting for failure. I think there's a very strong feeling of cynicism about the bureaucratic, anti-intellectual, regressive culture of the established corporatocracy.
Once they have tens of thousands of these operating, i'd imagine per unit cost will fall below $2000 within few years, even accounting for R&D. If it can deliver 10 packages per day (accounting for charge time), that's 3600 deliveries per year. Even if you have to replace it after 1 year, it's 50-60 cents per delivery.

This will be perfect for suburbs nearby metropolitan regions.
It's like the levels of caching in a computer.

(just using orders of magnitude for an example, the actual numbers for best efficiency probably aren't quite so nice)

The 1000 most frequently ordered items in a warehouse near your neighborhood.
The 10000 most frequently ordered items in a city-wide warehouse.
The 100,000 most frequently ordered items in a regional warehouse.

Amazon already has the regional warehouse part.

I'd guess that this might be worth doing even if only the 1,000 most frequently ordered items can get there in 30 minutes, and should definitely be worth doing if you can get the 10,000 most frequently ordered items there in 30 minutes.
haha awesome, sweet video and a great project. Its kind of like the refugee camp pill delivery quad we prototyped at MHacks. 2 big questions: 1) how do they handle motor failure, drones falling out of the sky? 2)How do they auto land? Its too soon for some sort of real time obstacle avoidance / image processing / auto landing without heavy lidar, and a lot of compute. What about range? These drones only fly for max 20 minutes at 20mph so you'd have to live within 3 ish miles.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK there are 'sky lanes' that helicopter pilots must follow.

And in all honesty, this would benefit Amazon, because then they don't require drone pilots. Just programme the 'lanes', rudimentary GPS and proximity sensors and keep the speed down so that collision-avoidance can be activated with sufficient time.
I prefer the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_bean_sandwich
I feel the opposite regarding Clojure and Scala -- Clojure just makes sense to me, whereas Scala gives me a headache.

As an aside, insofar as you have some sort of willingness toward C#, you should check out F#, which is functional with really nice type inference and none of the syntactic woes that I have come to associate with Scala. (Not sure how portable it is, I have heard stories of people using it with Mono, but I haven't tried it myself.)
Yeah. I hope that I'll live to see non-CRT consumer displays with actual 5->10 ms response times and real blacks, but I'm not too optimistic.
MongoDB's limitations have been well publicized over the past few years, but if you need another reason to avoid using it, take a look at which bug tracker they use (https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-3110). JIRA. You simply can't trust code coming from a team that uses JIRA as their bug tracker.
catapult.
Funny thing about that are the people selling the shovels. I had no idea BFL was selling firmware upgrades to increase hash rates on existing ASIC miners. Simply brilliant.
no, all suspects are innocent until proven guilty - the problem here is that the proving has been done in error so they are still innocent until proven guilty
What makes you expect such a thing?

"Hope"? Sure. But "expect"? In what world?
A month ago by the author himself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6533997
If an individual or group were to purchase the computing power to "take over" the currency Bitcoin would lose all of its value.
Why would it be strange or surprising at all? The most expensive part of the delivery truck is the driver.
If she were sentenced 1 day's prison time for each of the occurrences, it would add up to ~40,000 days in prison, or ~109 years.

I don't disagree that there's an institutional failure, and that perhaps there are others to blame, but she has negligently affected countless lives by disregarding her oaths to uphold the law, and I believe that sort of thing should carry more penalty, not less. Also, we really, really need to start making our civil servants accountable to flagrant violations of the law, lest we have more of them lying before Congress without fear of actual penalty.
When you are the victim may be the only exception; police everywhere is "overly-selfish" in the sense that they score by getting criminals; meaning anyone perceived as such by most judging figures.
A significant additional problem is that universities are operating more and more like for-profit businesses and less like actual non-profits, even though they are provided vast ranges of legal opportunities and labor sources unavailable in most of the private sector. In the last decade, education and tuition costs at places like UC have often quadrupled or more, and many times that money is going to administration and licensing salaries rather than what they're supposed to be doing - educating students. All with guaranteed loans and significant write downs.
I heard a good few years ago that Denmark had 16 homeless people. 16.

I think these are probably the few that don't want to be helped. "Many don't want to be helped" is probably an overstatement.
I was thinking more about the killing of people than the inconveniencing of them.
Have you ever had to deal with a large number of international transactions?

They are - in fact - difficult and expensive.
Human-driven delivery trucks hit and kill dogs, cats, men, women and children every day

And gasoline-powered vehicles of all sorts catch on fire all the time in collisions, yet one or two of Tesla's catch on fire and all hell breaks loose. Our mass media has an extremely regressive, anti-intellectual, pro-status quo bent.
He's not a cop though, he's a district attorney.
Sure, but it's a leaky abstraction. Downloading 30 .js files (and thus wait for 30/x HTTP roundtrips, where x is the number of allowed concurrent connections) before any javascript on the page can run is problematic unless you're adding extra complexity by using JS minification etc.
The comment he's referring to is one of my all-time favorites.
Only the actual district attorney is elected, and the DA is seldom responsible for the actual trying of cases. The DA is usually pretty far removed from the minutia of actual casework.
>It must depend on the company. Where I work, we have a "no assholes" policy and acting like one would make it very very hard to get past the interviewers.

Everyone says that. Even people who end up hiring me over my shorter and less loud compatriots. Maybe I just don't make it to "asshole"? but there is a huge advantage to being tall and loud over being short and quiet.
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so basically everyone except a small niche group
multiple usb ports
Ideas are cheap. It's execution that matters.
If nothing, at least i completely agree with complete disregard to compatibility point. Be it Scala itself or driving frameworks like Play.
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Languages like Ruby and Python allow for expressive, high-level customization, metaprogramming, and DSL creation. However, especially in the latter, the potential chaos is curbed by a strong culture and encouragement of self restraint, readability, and simplicity. From the sound of it, this is not so true for Scala.
> Windows Phone OS isn't really a profitable business for Microsoft

Microsoft has always had decade long plans for certain products. For an example just look at XBox.

I would say Windows Phone is just such another long term project and it is just starting it's next stage with their purchase of Nokia's phone division.

> but they can make users stick with Microsoft products.

The mobile space is one of the most fluid of any business.

For that space I don't think any company has much control over their user base.

Samsung has shown this only to well with their ability to woo iPhone users away from Apple. Who would have thought a company like Apple, with some of the most loyal users, would find themselves loosing out so badly to the upstart Samsung.

> Look how Google has been getting advantage from Android users who are using default Google applications installed on Android devices.

Google gets most of it's income from advertising, Microsoft from selling software. Unlike Microsoft, Google can give away free software and it does not effect it's bottom line.
You dont have a [dead] so you are not.
Guess what? There are millions of people that can't use rsync + git.
Status quo bias is a condition of humanity, not just the media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias
I can't help but think of the Domino's video[1] from about 6 months ago. This would be pretty cool, but I don't understand why everyone is so amazed by this...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXuGQRpvs4
That's really unhealthy.
John Resig talks about a similar problem and a potential solution - http://ejohn.org/blog/fixing-google-analytics-for-ghostery/
"the moment it kills a dog" applies to everything, not just a new technology. Horse carriages killed more people than cars, and cars still kill people every day... so I'd say that doesn't count as intelligent skepticism, it's sort of... cherry-picked?
don't forget "export" from other states:

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021804212_mentally...

"The state of Nevada and its primary psychiatric hospital “intentionally and wrongfully” foisted the cost of caring for indigent mentally ill people onto California cities and counties by issuing patients bus tickets out of town without making proper arrangements for their care, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Francisco charges."
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I think maybe Santa Claus has had this technology for years ... it is the only feasible way he could do what he does.
Corporatocray is a weird word to use in this context. Amazon is a corporation wanting progressive regulation here, not resisting it.

The fact that the FAA is in charge of the regulations gives me reason for optimism. Having a consistent policy across the US will be a lot simpler than if each state, or worse, each municipality, were creating its own regulations.
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Hi HN,

long time HN user here and multi-time startup founder. I sold my first company several years ago after grinding out for a couple of years and I was fortunate as a young kid who owned the entire company to walk away with a seven figure pay day, but barely.

I've spent a few years in between startups and done some interesting things, Went through YC with one startup but couldn't get along with those co-founders so moved on.

but recently (about four months ago) we decided to take the plunge and work full time on this new startup.

After about two months of working on this full time we(my co-founder and I) met a very high powered executive who we saw as a potential investor but we've since found out he saw us as a potential acquisition target to run the technology side of a startup he'd been dreaming of starting.

As it sits, this guys is a wealthy guy with several committed customers already(huge names) and absolutely no product, he wants us to come on and help build out this new company, myself as CTO and my co-founder as CMO/Bus Dev type.

We still believe in our idea and know it could be worth something, but the other reality is that we're running out of company money (we got a very small angel investment of ~20k) and so we're about to be living on our own savings and grinding out since we've not been fortunate enough to find investors yet and its not clear we will though we have revenue in the pipeline.

So given that the other party is wealthy and well connected we feel like he has more leverage than us even though he has pursued the acquisition much more than us.

We're finding it hard to value our startup since we have no paying customers yet and though the IP is useful it's not useful to the idea he wants us to work on.
I have another good example. Please see this thread I posted to the Go mailing list a few months ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/s3/go...

The short summary is that Amazon S3 does not behave like a normal web server and expects HTTP path's to be "url encoded". S3 is pretty obviously something you would want to interoperate with. Go's http client (which isn't very strict at all) causes friction here.
Skepticism and rooting for failure are not the same thing. There are plenty of people here and elsewhere who are mindlessly critical of everything, but not all the critics fall into that category.

The greatest challenge for radically transformative technologies (and this would extend far beyond the scope of Amazon if ever implemented) is almost always being regulated out of existence. That response requires the least effort and the least shared motivation, and it's the one usually taken when a new technology inspires many diverse fears.

Comparing this situation with that of almost any purely Internet-oriented technology isn't likely to lead to an accurate prediction. The downsides of existing delivery methods are likewise unlikely to play a part in the final decision. Pending revelations regarding Amazon's interest in political involvement, skepticism seems warranted. The impact of (well-justified) skepticism on the mindset of innovators also seems desirable.

Speaking for myself, I'll grant that the FAA has a slightly better than average track record (when making executive decisions, anyway).
The value is not wholly contained in the bits of the private key, it's also dependent on other state (namely, the state of the wallet). Consider the value of those bits once the money has moved.
The drones could hitch a lift on people's autonomous vehicles. Amazon would give you a roof rack and pay you when it rides on; they can hook in to your GPS and schedule to anticipate routing.
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It is pretty awesome, indeed. I'd say your issues aren't that big, though:

1. FAA is the toughest challenge, true that;
2. A good idea would be to use the roofs for delivery;
3. To add to that, people will buy a membership just for the convenience of getting a lot of small stuff in less than an hour without leaving the house/office. Hard drives, screw drivers, nuts and bolts, stuff for BBQs, etc.;
4. Stealing them will likely end with them being tracked by GPS, found and fined, people will learn not to do it soon enough :);
5/6/7. I think the failure rate will actually be extremely low - quadcopters are very resilient, and we've already seen how amazingly well they can handle the weather, bumping into buildings and flying with three rotors - obviously, Amazon will have to go with the best hardware design;

I think this could be big right away - as I said, many people want immediate delivery and with a subscription model, Amazon won't even have to ship all that often to start making money off of this.
Forensic science in general is an absolute joke. It makes a mockery of the very concept of science. There are a few isolated pockets where the techniques and procedures used are sound, but for the most part the scientific method and rigor are nowhere to be seen.
Agree, it could totally work for Amazon Fresh items, say, that are bound to be ordered regularly.
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The best new technology in science fiction might be warp drive. However, that's currently thought to be physically impossible.

Fast consumer delivery is merely impractical. It's so impractical, that we often think of it as impossible. But this is where science fiction is at its best: if we think about how cool it would be if this actually worked, we may find it easier to justify the kinds of investment needed to make it practical.
I see many potential problems to this- such as, what if the weather is very bad (wind, rain, ect). Also, what if a thief catches the drone?

It's definitely an interesting concept. I love it. I doubt Amazon has it all figured out but I also doubt they are foolish. Kudos to Amazon for being bold.
Heavy items or things you need to buy in bulk - e.g. building and gardening supplies. Where the cost of delivery would be astronomical.
A few years ago, I remember a site that, you selected which database system you used (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc.) and it would spit back the most likely error you were to receive when using it.

I can't find it at the moment, nor can I find a combination of terms to search for that gets me any closer to finding it -- but if somebody else remembers it, then maybe you'll get that satire after all.
Britain is probably the most unsuitable country for fascism in the world. Far too shambling, and not nearly dramatic enough. Fascism is theatre.
If anyone can pull it off, it's probably Amazon.
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Wow, such a small system, an ARM port would be nice.
> Satoshi Nakamoto uses double spaces after sentence-final; so does Nick Szabo.

So does every single person of my generation who went through the Canadian school system (and no doubt others world-wide). Double spaces after sentences is 100% standard here. In fact, it was only recently I found out some people use a single space...
I always assumed "miracle whip" was like a synthetic whipped cream or sweet mousse, never imagined it was salad cream?
Shoot it out of the sky or spoof GPS, get free stuff!
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