skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how they plan on keeping her safe from the other inmates, some of whom will undoubtedly accuse her for their sentence.
I'm pretty sure it is a crime to damage or steal people's property. I'm failing to see the regulation crisis that so many drone skeptics are claiming.
I was under the impression that Amazon fought to have the servers in Amazon data centers, but eventually relented. Amazon employees will be constructing servers inside CIA facilities. Other AWS services won't be running on those servers.
I've used (Python library) http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/ in the past with an internal API to interface PDF generation between two systems.
What's the major difference, may I ask?
That wasn't a toy helicopter either.
Many bugs reported in CentOS summarily get reported back upstream too, from what I understand. I imagine this helps improve overall quality as well.
Question - the job/hiring post on hen for November has many positions for clojure and one definitively for Scala. Here, I see references to investment banks using scala.

Has scala become a readable alternative to java, while most of the future focus is on clojure? Does anyone know how real life performance compares between both.

From my viewpoint, scala is in use at several banks and Twitter - clojure doesn't really have a big name advocate behind it. From a startup standpoint, isn't talent/hiring an issue?
Deflation is the easiest way to turn a recession into a depression.
Sad day to realize that Wikipedia, the bastion of all knowledge, has no entry for a Wish Sandwich.

A kind of sandwich where you take two pieces of bread and WISH you had some meat.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wish%20sandwi...
You've just described a classic ponzi scheme - it's just decentralized.

The flock of people looking to buy in allow the last group to get out of Bitcoin. Eventually you dry up the well of people who'll be able to bankroll each successive generation of "investors".

There's no commerce going on with Bitcoin on any significant scale, which means it's hugely overvalued. It's just a question of how when the next group looking to buy in on a crash is significantly smaller then the people exiting due to it.
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No, the frontage road is slower and has traffic lights, not to mention cars moving on and off since the frontage roads are lined with commercial businesses. The toll roads can go up to 85mph (theoretically, not sure any allow that yet) while frontage roads rarely go above 55.

I lived in Houston for quite some time, plenty of people out in the suburbs are willing to pay the toll to avoid traffic and get downtown faster. Houston is also getting rid of its cash lanes and moving towards EZ-Tag only which doesn't require drivers to slow down at all.

In Texas it's quite standard to have a highway (toll or not) with a frontage road. Land isn't exactly scarce here, it's not uncommon to have a highway with 3-6 lanes on either side and a frontage road with another 2-4 lanes on either side again.
Is the current model better?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/1-killed-after-bus-deli...

That's just a story I found after 10 seconds of Googling. The broader point is that having your packages delivered fast-moving multiton machines controlled by fallible people and sharing space with pedestrians and other people-controlled machines is a very dangerous state of affairs. That there are risks in alternative means is true enough, but it's important to measure those risks relative to the status quo and not just assume they're purely additive.

But because we're human, we're bad at that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias
Note that Oracle is/was doing the same thing (repackaging RHEL) with "Unbreakable" Linux, and they are selling support for it.
They also offer their "own" kernel.
I agree. Without knowing much about penology, punishment for the sake of punishment seems overused in the US. Her prison sentence is short relative to all those given out because of her acts, but I think prison sentences in the US are too long to begin with.
If anybody really wants to learn Scala, I'd recommend starting with the video lectures on Coursera for the course Functional Programming in Scala.
They don't need to know what it means. They just need to notice "with ads" = slow, "without ads" = fast, and even if the visual presence of ads doesn't bug them, they still see a win with AdBlock.
Thanks for the link, that was awesome. I think autonomous, helpful drones will be in our future one way or another.
Or he wants to create public demand for this service to use as leverage for getting the regulations through.
It's a good decision to try to stay on the right side of history. I wonder how many people were certain that it would be ludicrous and impossible to roll people around at 70 mph on smooth paths or thrust people through the air at hundreds of miles per hour.
Having made this a few times now, I can't recommend it enough - so awesome.
> Actually, I think what you're really asking for is the ability to write sequential code and have the compiler work out if it could be parallel.

Nah; the ability to write parallel code and have the compiler work out how to make it sequential-when-necessary would be better. Like JITing an agent-based system into bits of single-threaded procedural code.
I think it's fair to say that Latin lives on in English, although one might quibble over the definition of "lives on". Old English was derived from a number of closely related Germanic dialects. The English language, however, is a fusion. It was influenced by Old Norse, and borrows from many languages. It has a more-than-significant number of words with Latin roots, beyond, I think, merely borrowings. Latin is used particularly heavily in scientific and legal domains, but Latin roots permeate English vocabulary, and Latin phrases are peppered through common use in various forms -- e.g. "i.e" :-)
>Size is irrelevant unless you're putting it in your entertainment center (why?) or live on a sailboat.

No, it's not. If you're using *DSL (including FTTC) then how much space you have available depends on where your phone line enters your house, for instance.

My lines comes in, from a pole in the alley behind my house, to my kitchen and the master socket is by my kitchen door in the hall. I certainly don't have room for a large box there, but a typical router fits nicely.
>> "Bottom line – we build spaceships and explore asteroids. If you need any other motivation to apply, don’t bother."

Interesting message. Does that mean they only want crazy space nuts? And don't want regular engineers, who are in business of building things for money?
Not all things are statically checkable. If you want to take in some runtime data and treat it as a Vector[A, 3] then you'll need to include a dynamically failing check like (List -> Maybe (Vector n a)).
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What are other good alternatives to GPS?
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Cakephp,
Is there also a chance that whoever Satoshi is asked Nick to write a paper, since he would understand the content and technology?
Operate on this mother so that we can take her baby
Yes. An it will be awesome.
Christianity is a massively-multiplayer alternate reality game, is it not?
Who says amazon won't also deliver pizza?
Maybe this is what they need:

http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/products/baxter/
Yes. Actually, I'd be excited about a UHD e-ink display (which is basically what you're describing.) It'd be perfect as a second monitor to throw documents up on to read at my desk, while I kept the primary for more interactive stuff.
Pretty awesome results for step completion, especially the 77% on step with 12 drop downs. "Payback" is a cool idea, being compared to Clint Eastwood after giving a bunch of mundane fit information is totally a feel good moment. I've definitely seen additional conversion steps perform quite well depending on the product. Sometimes longer funnels act as a filter for cohorts that are harder to monetize/macro-convert, but I would suggest leaving them wide enough so you can work on optimizing for everyone, not just the super-motivated customer.
no, but having the sort of background that allows you to get a PhD probably would.

I think this is the crux of my point. Generally speaking? if you have a PhD you are pretty bright, and come from an upper-middle class family, and have a certain level of togetherness and work ethic.

You are gonna do okay.
Holy crap, you're right. My eyes skipped completely over that. I wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything. Upvotes for you, shame for me.
They had lard? Luxury!
In all seriousness, there's no reason that homes or apartment complexes couldn't have fairly standardized drone landing pads. Clever people could probably rig up some sort of simple elevator to bring the shipments inside. Incidentally, the landing pads could also be marked in a standard way to assist in computer vision controlled automated landing.
"90% of the time they're right"
Humorously, fetching a small package with a well-defined size and shelf location and putting it into a standardized box on a conveyor belt is by far the easiest step of this process to automate.
Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Soars on Kickstarter
Correct. In the same way, this isn't a toy rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket1034040.jpg
Evil is an ambiguous word. It doesn't look like she did this out of malice. But greed or even fear (of saying no to hot shot prosecutors) - aren't all such reasons equally unwholesome?

Maybe, overcome with self-interest, she didn't view her victims as actual human beings. For example, if someone wanted to cut down a forest to build a strip mall on top of the land, they'd be dooming or displacing the animals (squirrels, insects, etc) that lived there, but most people would be comfortable with that.

Maybe she had dependents to take care of, and she felt that everything she did, she "did it for the family."
> Interestingly enough, the country that is likely to allow the use of delivery drones into regulations is also the country with the highest number of guns-per-capita.
- FAA roadmap mentioning Cargo transport via drones: http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/media/UAS_Roadmap_2....
The correlation is absurd and doesnt make any sense.
Regarding the flight time/capacity issue, I'd be quite interested to see how a system like [1] would perform.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/ir...
You're the product, not the consumer.
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No offense, but the degree to which you're focusing on the color of Dookhan's skin is, frankly, creepy.

And your remark about an "NAACP award" reads awfully petulantly, to me.
Everyone has ideas, actually it's very likely your idea already is being worked on or exists in some version. Successful companies are all about execution. Here are some articles that cover this question in detail:
-http://cdixon.org/2009/08/22/why-you-shouldnt-keep-your-star...
-http://blog.foundersguidebook.com/2013/02/why-you-should-sha...
-http://www.natsturner.com/post/20257121566

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thats not the point. The point being, there could be other alternatives which could deliver in the same time and be actually developed faster without waiting on FAA regulations to get approved
I think that's a misplaced concern. I'd rather have them in the skies than on the streets, competing with personal automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
Not negativity for the sake of negativity. While the link I posted is a large single rotor helicopter, I was trying to show a worst case scenario. If Amazon Air does get off the ground then I would imagine the program expanding to delivering heavier packages over time, which would require larger quad copters and thus larger rotors and higher risk of more serious injuries.

I have built and fly hobby planes and copters in my spare time. They are dangerous. Once, after one of my planes crashed near me, I picked it up without giving it a second thought and sliced my hand wide open on the still spinning front propeller.

I don't necessarily believe this is a technology that will result in fatalities, but certainly injuries, especially to children and animals.

On a less dangerous note; I fully expect some shenanigans from people shooting these things down to get free goods.
How to forward ideas?
I have been trying to get ideas up and running but i'm not sure how to go about it. Do I find websites that say they will fund me if I am chosen out of their applicants as someone proficient or do I run up to colleges and universities screaming my ideas and building from scratch there?
cynicism is not skepticism. A lot of people seem to get these mixed up nowadays.
Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
San Francisco native here. We have homeless in San Francisco for the same reason that Burning Man is in the Black Rock desert and we have the Folsom Street Fair. We want to make it a little uncomfortable for the fussy intolerant people who tend to show up in this great city on a regular basis. I'm kidding, but only sort of. :)
You really wonder what the penalty would be? Do you regularly consider shooting unoccupied cars?
Considering the amount of money I pay in taxes, I wouldn't consider it free. More like return on investment.
Im working with UAV's in Afghanistan right now and just saw the video for this. Im just wondering where i need to apply to get into this job as soon as i can. Anyone know where i should try to contact or look for the job listings?
I agree with the parent that the author should investigate Go, but add that the author will get all of those benefits plus a dependency management headache.
Digital preservation is definitely a problem, but relying entirely on the cloud seems misguided too.
This is the next soylent
You laugh, but I've heard of people making the same with Crisco.
You mean the free drone that will be streaming video and telemetry to Amazon and will be nearly impossible to fence?
And gas powered cars are a lot louder than electric cars.
A terrible puff piece. First of all, A New Kind of Science is mostly controversial (in scientific fields) not because what it says is controversial, it's not - actually sometimes trivially accepted as true - wait, what there are emergent phenomena that can be described by simple mathematics who'da thunk it? But rather because it almost attempts to redefine "science" which is somewhat dangerous.

Search engines aren’t good at that, Wolfram argues, because they’re too messy. Questions in a search engine have many answers, with varying degrees of applicability and “rightness.” That’s not computable, not clean enough to program or feed into a system.

“We want to be right,” Wolfram told me. “Making the world computable is a much higher bar than being able to generate Wikipedia-style information … a very different thing. What we’ve tried to do is insanely more ambitious.”

This is exactly wrong, and perhaps Wolfram is a victim of what I like to call the "Lt. Cdr. Data fallacy" that sometimes afflicts AI - that AI is something which ought to our fuzzy world and assigns a definite binary result which is always or almost always going to be correct and perfect in every way. To take the example in the text, "Where is the ISS". There is not really one right answer. You could give precise siderially defined coordinates of the International Space Station, but, maybe "10 degrees to your left, and 20 degrees off your vertical axis in the downward direction, 12790km down" is a more correct and useful answer. Or, maybe if you're at the sandy spring transit station in Atlanta Georgia, "first right after the parkway on mount vernon" is correct; interpreting ISS to mean the former "internet security systems, inc" (which is a query that google "understands"). https://maps.google.com/maps?q=sandy+spring+transit+station+...

Sometimes there just isn't one universally correct answer.

Having said all of this, I have tremendous respect for Mathematica, which really helped me get through Grad school, mostly because their systems of differential equation solver is quite nice, and their graphing package was superior to excel.
Bum soup is made from technically free ingredients:

Hot water, ketchup packets, saltines.
The Science Behind Kinects, or Kinect 1.0 versus 2.0
This is terrifying. If they successfully lobby to legalize commercial drones in low-flying airspace, the peaceful sky will be polluted with flying robots (we've destroyed the terrestrial environment already, seriously don't need to destroy the sky too), businesses would have access to terrifying surveillance, criminals/terrorists could remotely break into drones or fly their own disguised to look like commercial ones (and load them with cameras or weapons), etc. All so Amazon could be slightly faster than Instacart?

FYI I'm not a luddite and I recognize the increased convenience that faster shipping would provide and the potential other gains that would come of commercial drones. But the tradeoff just doesn't seem worth it here at all.
There is at least one of this posts every week, I'm still waiting for the one that's really satire.
Well, and most HN readers would know "salad cream" as the genericized trademark "Miracle Whip". :-)

One of my favorite memories as a kid was being at my grandma's house and having a ham sandwich with potato chips on it. Yummers.
My first thought is that knocking drones out of the sky (not necessarily to steal their contents) could become the new fun activity for bored juvenile delinquents.
Ignoring the commentary on whether or not this needs to be a true story to be worth discussion, or as something to speculate on likelihood -- I've got the odd feeling that I trust the story more from 4chan than I do many "reputable" media sources today.

It seems the more mainstream media I consume, the more I notice faults in the reporting that, even where unintentional, connote bias. A simple, throwaway example from 2 minutes ago; the Grist reported on a possible fracking-induced earthquake. The earthquake was a relatively harmless 3.something, but the illustration for the photo was a large concrete wall that had been deeply cracked[1], as if to suggest that the earthquake had caused it.

In short, it's rare that I read an article from any news source without being able to point out either an inaccuracy, a vagueness or a deliberate misrepresentation of fact. That isn't to suggest that 4chan is inherently more reliable -- clearly, trolls like this happen all the time, and just for the lulz, but I don't see it as inherently less reliable a source either.

[1] - http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/crack.jpg?w=470&h=2...
Also, it should be mentioned that the answer to those questions is that thousands of packages get stolen and thousands of people get killed every year in the current system, yet we still apparently find it acceptable. I find it hard to imagine this drone delivery paradigm being worse.
That wikipedia article seems to fully support the idea that tulips did "go that high"; it also notes that a legal change transformed tulip futures contracts into tulip option contracts, which enabled the price of tulips to rise substantially without costing speculators extra. It shows a catalog page of the time offering one tulip bulb for over ten times the contemporary annual earnings of a "skilled craftsman". If I assume that a "skilled craftsman" in the US earns $20 / hour (less than I made as a summer intern at amazon before graduating college), that puts the price of the bulb at at least $400,000. For the price listed in that catalog, you could also have bought 25,000 pounds of cheese.

It also notes that while flowers in general averaged 40% annual price depreciation at the time, tulips averaged a more impressive 99.999% annual depreciation.