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As much as I love UAV technology, we live in a nanny state where even the slightest risk of injury is outlawed to prevent citizen stupidity.

The second someone gets within three feet of a UAV rotor as it tries to land, this gets banned.
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Lack of proper respect for the laws of physics.
Tonx seems like it is more for people who like to try a lot of different coffees, because you get whatever they send you, and there is no possibility to get more if you like one in particular. I don't think that would work well in an office where consistency is more important.
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See this: http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/planning-an-apmcopter-missi...

The flight is manually pre-planned. You also need to consider obstacles (and other aircraft).
Upvoted you because you do have a point there. But I still think it's flawed because I litterally was a 5th grader at that time.
In my opinion coding is about understanding the concept, everything else is syntax, and for that you can just memorize keywords.
At least I feel like my coding skills are very much decoupled from my reading/writing skills though I really don't know, so YMMV.
When reading a book I have to read it linearily and hope the author wrote it in a way so i can understand everything at a point in a book if I have read everything before but I probably won't understand much by just reading the last page.
When reading a large codebase I find myself wildly jumping around often ignoring stuff because it doesn't matter right now or assuming stuff because it's obvious or just not that important.
For me that's a very different skillset than reading written text.

Last but not least a very provocative analogy but I don't have a better one right now.
But for me "they shouldn't learn to code, they can't even spell everything correctly" sounds very much like "we shouldn't try to stop HIV in africa, they don't even have fresh water".

Again sorry, but nothing better comes to mind right now.
Well at least he made it out the other side in one piece look at what happened to Micheal Jackson who didn't have a normal childhood
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Yes, if you're an idiot. No, if you're not.

EDIT: okay, I'm getting downvoted. But the truth of the matter is, its highly dependent on if the developer understands what they're doing. In both the cases where the developer knows, or the developer doesn't know, either way - accessing variables off the stack in this way, with a flying pointer, is pretty idiotic. Its not going to result in great software, people ..
As far as I can see, HN already has randomized algorithms. I just had to create a new account because my six-month old 3,000+ karma account just got slowbanned and silentbanned for apparently no reason.

Out of nowhere, anywhere from 6 to 14 seconds to load the front page (or any other HN page) when logged into that account.
I hoped they would fix line wrapping - which should be a relatively simply task - by now.

This is a very needed feature for projects that work a lot with text files (such as markdown) that do not automatically break on set widths (e.g. [1])

I've already contacted Github support with this request months ago, but no one's stepped up with a fix. Maybe this can get escalated somehow? Heck, I'd even submit a pull request if it was possible for github/github.

[1] - https://github.com/cryptoparty/handbook/pull/72/files
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Wow. This is totally cool! I like how simple your implementation is. I can see this is not only useful as timeline of important life events, but also in recording company milestones.

Congrates, man!
Simply adding "code" to the current grade school curriculum would change nothing, I'm afraid. Programming would be taught the same way that all of the other subjects are currently taught: memorize for the standardized test, then promptly forget. Maybe the subject will reach a few kids with the aptitude to be a programmer that wouldn't otherwise be exposed to it, but I think that most kids that would be interested in programming find their way there regardless. I got my introduction by creating games on my TI-83 while bored in class.

And frankly, if the rest of the world needs to learn programming in order to function in society, then we haven't done our jobs correctly. We create programs to automate tasks that we don't want to or can't solve manually, with the idea that people have other stuff they want to do.
You don't think that the media has covered (and exaggerated) other kinds of vehicle failures from non-electric vehicles before? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...

It would seem like many on HN has a very extremely regressive, anti-intellectual, pro-status quo bent as well. See old threads about Dropbox and the comments on this story about Prime Air. It seems like a large number of commentaries here are just looking for every excuse to complain or find fault, yet those same folks would think Bitcoin was the cat's meow, despite a myriad of potential issues with that.
Sorry to not share the enthusiasm, but this looks clunky, bulky, ugly, and disgusting.

A sandwich has always been and will always be half a fresh baguette with butter and parisian ham and/or gruyere. Everything else is a fake.
The Bond girl ideal is uncomfortable for women because they are only objects: they exist for a single purpose, to be gazed at. Maybe they have a cheeky few words but they are one-dimensional. Real sexuality is 2-way: both people are involved. For a really good look at how frustrating this is for women see Helen Mirren's famous interview with Michael Parkinson, where he tells her she is "projecting sluttish eroticism".

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Sell for $16.000. Go build something else. Repeat.
I would still be interested in maybe a weeklong trial run and see how I felt it went.
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Wow pretty cool product, really helpful
Some more stats about American's understanding of various concepts:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/c7/c7s2.htm

74% of Americans could read a simple chart correctly and 66% understood the concept of "mean" in statistics.
I thought the primary argument was kinda weak.

Allocating resources to teach coding will take away from teaching the fundamentals ... hence leading to worse outcomes and greater inequality.

Something about that argument doesn't sit right with me. It doesn't seem like the answer is to say 'we can't teach literacy well, therefore we shouldn't teach coding'. Seems like a better answer is 'fix how we teach literacy'.
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I believe the idea that people never change is probably somewhat misguided. Right now, as a culture we reward people for doubling down and never admitting to being wrong. And no matter how wrong a person is, if they are loud enough, they'll always have supporters.

That culture would probably begin to change with the advent of life extension, because you no longer have to make your life about one thing, this one card you have to choose once and then play until you're dead. I admit it's somewhat idealistic, but I hope we'd be more rational in the long term. Being alive does mean constant change.

But even if it doesn't turn out that way, there are certainly a lot of important voices we have lost over the centuries, a lot of ideas and thoughts that we never even got to hear about, and people who would have contributed great things if they had lived long enough. I for one would gladly live in a world where some ancient philosophers are still alive.

Let's go with the worst case and pick, oh let's say religious bigots, they'll somehow muster the intellect to extend their lives, remain prolific spouters of nonsense, and never change for 10000 years. It's a small price to pay to live in a society where I and the people I care about get to live 10000 years! I could just filter the bad elements out, just as I do today, and everything would be absolutely fine.

An argument could be made that those people are bad for society because they hinder progress or steer it in destructive directions. But on reflection, those people carrying 2000 year old ideas in their heads are here and active in our society right now, and we're still moving forward.
This isn't occurring for me.
>> We learn math at school. I used trigonometry last week to create some cool android interaction mode, but I bet most of my classmates forgot it at 18, and only wish they remember it when it comes up on a TV quiz show. It will be the same with code.

Good. Maybe 90% of people never use the knowledge again. Maybe 99%. That still leaves 1% who learned it, absorbed it fully and use it to improve the world.

Computers run so very much of the world around us now, not giving people the chance to be educated to the level where they can meaningfully contribute is just plain wrong. Without this happening in school, most people will never have a chance.
I've been on stage when there's been an inappropriate response from an audience. In one case it turned out that a phrase I used had a specific and completely unexpected meaning in that geographical area. I looked it up later, and I'm not surprised it got the response it did.

But having got that at an unexpected moment, when you're on stage in front of a large audience, working out the exact correct response can be difficult. Really difficult. To the point where you need not to respond immediately, and give it time.

I'm spoken with the author, and he's used this exact presentation in the past with a variety of audiences and had no inappropriate responses before this one. There was no a priori reason to believe this occasion would be different, and I think his response was perfectly reasonable.

You, speaking in hindsight, will have a different point of view. For me, as a speaker with over 150 engagements every year, having given presentations to various audiences for the last 25 years, I think your assessment is misguided.

Yes, there are serious issues here that need to be addressed, and no doubt there will be many self-appointed experts about what should and shouldn't be done, shown, and said. Personally, when something like this happens I think it's brave for a speaker to put in the public domain the choices made in the moment, in front of an audience, with no time to choose your words.
Which does make me wonder how much better this plan would be than using, say, motorcycle couriers.

If the story had been - 'Amazon to deploy motor bikes to deliver packages within 10 miles of their distribution centre' it'd have received a lot less attention.

Packages are routinely delivered quickly, accurately, securely and cheaply in urban areas. I do think Amazon are solving a problem that doesn't exist. Nice bit of PR though.
Side-by-side diffs would be superior.
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"yes and no" is a poor way of putting anything. I prefer a nice clear statement like:

You can access a local variable from outside its scope if and only if your code is not actually valid C++.
I think the article makes a true point well.

Intelligence of the type that is approximated by IQ (pattern identification, relationship modeling and whatnot) is like most things just another ability.

It's a useful ability in that you can use it to mimic some other useful abilities if you so choose, but it is just another ability. Any implications of it being something else is just outside expectation applied by people who want to further their own agenda, goals, world view or values etc.

Expecting someone with that type of intelligence to conform to any specific set of values or goals is like expecting someone who is tall to conform to the idea of being a sports star etc.
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According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States]

"Schooling is compulsory for all children in the United States, but the age range for which school attendance is required varies from state to state. Most children begin elementary education with kindergarten (usually five to six years old) and finish secondary education with twelfth grade (usually eighteen years old). In some cases, pupils may be promoted beyond the next regular grade. Some states allow students to leave school between 14–17 with parental permission, before finishing high school; other states require students to stay in school until age 18"

This Wikipedia page also happens to conflict with the article on our literacy rate, claiming it's 99%. Would be interested to see why the difference exists.
13 years is not multi-decade.
I'm sorry you had such a terrible time with school. Some of learned a lot, and not just parrot fashion.
Thanks :) Haven't really thought of company milestones... but I guess you're right!
Good job lol
You've made a good point, and one that often arises in research. I've just finished my PhD in microbiology over the summer and am in a post-doc now. I cannot tell you the number of experiments I've done that yielded negative data (showing a hypothesis is false but not proving a counter hypothesis) that I could have avoided if other researchers had been able to publish their previous negative data.

I've never heard of that journal. You have to be careful in scientific publishing. There are a lot of very good, respected journals and then there are ones like this that will accept essentially any paper, without peer review (sending the article out to a panel of other experts to determine the validity of the data). Where you publish, even if it is a low impact journal, is as important as what you publish.

The other problem with publishing negative data is that there's already so many papers in a given field that its already extremely difficult for a researcher to read and keep up with them all. If you start adding negative data papers to that pile I think it would become utterly impossible to keep up with it.
He believes that the number of comments correlates with how controversial something is and wants to select against controversial topics. Anything with greater than 40 comments gets an automatic penalty.

I think a better way of doing it would be to get a large number of articles which are known to be controversial or uncontroversial and then use features from them (not just the number of comments) and try to develop a good predictor of how controversial something is. It would probably be a lot more effective than just arbitrary penalties for articles with 40 comments.

Though I kind of object to this stuff being done automatically at all. There aren't that many articles on HN that human moderation is impossible. As cool as automation is.
I can't believe that Apple doesn't advertise this more. It is rather powerful http://i.imgur.com/3LN7o.png and extremely easy to use. It is especially useful for introductory college-level Math given its 3d graphing capabilities (calc 3) and ability to plot slope fields (diff-eq).
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High latency's hardly going to be the end of the world for a slow-moving, low-mass n-copter that can just sit where it is during a lag spike.
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My quick web search didn't show anything without caveats, but if there's any decent javascript that can be used to make the mouse wheel scroll the page sideways, that would be a really nice addition.
I am not trying to be obstructive or distract the discussion - but it occurs to me that anyone can shoot down the drone and retrieve valuable artifacts that are being transported.

How would you safeguard against that?
I gather from the article there was a lot of contact between the chemist and various prosecutors. That should stop. Maybe we should consider evidence-gathering a judicial function instead of an executive one.
I committed for a different reason, to fix long waiting issue in rails. Not to fix it on Github.
He's definitely right about the timing of the announcement. Well timed for sure.
> This presentation was given at
> an all-boys adolescent school.

No, it wasn't. It was a mixed audience at a large, central (non-school) location. Schools had brought students to the event, and some of those schools were single-sex schools.

Can you point at the part of the submission where you deduced the presentation was at a single-sex school? It needs editing if it's giving that impression, and I'll pass your comments on.
There should be some kind of ranking algorithm for "the best people on our side for talking to people on the other side." This is often very different from the people that my side enjoys listening to, since that often includes a lot of puffery about how our side is obviously correct to anyone with half-a-brain.
Can you get them to make that explicit in their documentation? I can't get the higher ups to approve it without something official.
This is really nice. Definitely going to make my own.
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My favorite part of your description:

How about Facebook timeline? Meh.
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So cool and useful, I will use this all the time now!
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I see what you did there!
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What does silentbanned mean?

I'm not sure what the offense is for which people get slowbanned on HN, but I also don't understand how that counts as a randomized algorithm.

As an aside, it amazes me that people who notice being hellbanned (which is really the ultimate way of HN telling you not to post here anymore) make 2nd or 3rd accounts and just continue. I'd want to find out why I was being banned and then, if I didn't agree with the reason, I'd just leave.
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Has he been indicted? The overall impact here is enormous, on a scale like the "cash for kids" judge. He ought to be in prison.
I think this has been featured on HN like three times since it first was created. It's a really cool demo though, really enjoy the bounciness of "fruitcake on wheels".
I thought of that too, probably using some 'mousewheel' event, but later I realise the page height may grow as well (with vertical scrollbar) depending on the number of events.
Can we trust the client not to do what, specifically?
Isn't the standard advice to not invest unless you can wait 10 years for the ups and down to average out?
Thank you for the good discussion. I try to think of it more as 'learning to walk before running'. You are right, a lot of people can learn how to code and to them it is a good skill to learn.

A much larger part of poor people would benefit greatly by learning how to speak/write/read better. When I visited the US I was shocked by the large difference in people. I literally couldn't understand some people. For us (Northern European) folks it's hard to imagine so much Americans really do live in a 3rd world part of the US it seems.
Yeah, it looks to me like it should work up until you make another function call. Of course, that's assuming the platonic ideal of a memory model, which may not actually hold after the compiler, linker, loader, and memory paging have all had their way with it.
From my experience, I have seem many cases where the "let's help api users/client code developpers save some keystrokes" mentality has brought a lot of issues.

Not sure if related to the question though, but still I think shorter is better only applies as one of the principles, among "explicit is better than implicit", "do not try to guess" and "code is read ten times more often than written".

Another example would be the hello world one liners. Some languages are very proud to have a hello world in 11 characters, but if just because of the hello world you add a new special grammar like "print to screen what is between curlies if not inside another token", then you are doing it wrong.
Thanks for explaining that.

I was using it as metaphor, but I suppose that token is negatively correlated with post quality.
Could I please get some context?
Yes - he's virtually unemployable now if he doesn't lose his job.
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pow(A2,2)

seems reasonable.

Please:

pow = Math.pow.bind(Math)

at least, as typing Math in a spreadsheet is going to get boring.

Not sure if JS is the best choice for a spreadsheet, though, JS has surprising (compared to Python or Ruby) IEEE 754 arithmetic. I don't know that much about the topic so perhaps someone else could elucidate.
This doesn't sound anything like my understanding of Warren Buffett, this sounds more like Carl Icahn.
Agreed on that, but you know, just not knowing if you are "really" #3 or not is bad, if you have your post in the home page. IMHO it would detract some from the value of the website.
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Amazon doesn't need this to use drones for 100% of deliveries. But if they pick enough constraints, could it work?

Assume it will never work in NYC, but could it work in Albuquerque, New Mexico? Assume it won't fly if the winds are over mph. Assume that only human operated landings are performed the first time to scope the landing zone, with future approach and landings to be automated. Assume that anything unexpected causes the delivery to get canceled.

In the 60 Minutes interview, Bezos was optimistic but more cautious about when it would be ready -- more like 2018+. Also, the earlier part of the segment was about how it took Amazon Fresh 5 years to expand grocery delivery to its second city. Bezos, of all tech companies, knows the value of staying with a problem for the long term. If I had to bet if Amazon could figure this out over the next 50 years, I would say yes. Sooner is a bonus.
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We're talking about delivering packages, not stealing your privacy or freedom. Now, I'm sure we can think up ways on how it can be used for evil, but that hasn't been the focus of all the negativity. Landing on small children and having your packages stolen are hardly concerns I'd associate with names like Stallman, Assange, Bradley, and Snowden.