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The only concern i have is the propellers, can they be encased to avoid accidental injury? I remember having this conversations when "taco copter" made HN front page, i am assuming by now there is a way to make the propellers collision safe.
Reads like a synopsis of a over the top drama. Except that it is real and even more ridiculous.
How far can they fly in 20 minutes?
How does cynicism equal rooting for failure?
All suspects a guilty, period. Or else they wouldn't be suspects, now would they?
Actually, it's not bloody at all!
Considering that veterans make up 8.9% of all US adults [1] and that both veterans and homeless people are overwhelmingly male, 14% doesn't sound very high. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if veterans were actually underrepresented in the homeless population as compared to the general population with similar demographics.

[1] http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
> I take a similarly strong position for such strong typing.

Why not add a weak checking for k-v strings? Something like during compile time:

if not k in LIST_OF_WELLKNOWNS
warn('Bad header maybe?')

You don't have to use types to check this.
The bigger impact would be on smaller retailers, that don't have this service. This service is an absolute killer, making it faster to order a toothpaste from Amazon compared to picking it up at a shop outside your house.

This would be an incredible benefit to human economy. Imagine the millions of retail jobs completely obsoleted by drones. Consider the price difference between wholesale and the corner retail shop -- a cost this could largely eliminate. Consider all the hours wasted in retail-facing interactions.
The author of the post was importing videos from a vendor. How can she swear to what the contents are? Well, in this case there's a basis for confidence that they're training videos, but she may not have seen them. If you ordered, for example a fictional film on the basis of a recommendation, or someone sent you a data disc, you might have little idea. Will the government refuse it admission if you can't swear that its content is within the guidelines?
Is 'legalese' really a high-level language? It seems to contain a ton of boilerplate. Signal-to-noise ratio is quite low in reality. It could much more succinctly be encoded in a formal language.

Also, I think you exaggerate the 'Scala is bad because DSLs' point. There are indeed a lot of libraries which overuse symbols but you are not obligated to use them. I have found the Scala I've written and read personally to be both concise and readable.

And, Scala isn't the first or the last to 'reach for the expressivity goal'. See: Haskell, Scheme, F#, & ML.
I can already buy a little quadcopter, attach a camera to it, and fly it around; the relevant regulations here are just about commercial use, right?

That's actually a minor quibble with your argument, though. My real problem is this: you're skeptical that they won't be regulated enough, so you want them regulated out of existence? Your solution is a bit like saying, "well, the NSA will be able to spy on our network connections, so let's just not have an internet." If you want good tech policy, you need to support good tech policy, not just throw your hands up and say, "there could be adverse consequences, so no new technology!" Otherwise we'll never get anywhere.
Of course googling you will find multiple fatality accidents with current drive and drop delivery methods. As of 2007 there were 254.4 million passenger cars registered in the US alone. That number has most likely continued to increase since this.

Until someone does some real quantitative risk studies; the risk is uncertain in comparison. It will only take one child seriously injured from one of these copters though for Amazon to be slapped with a major lawsuit; worse than the lawsuit though will be the public backlash from angry and indignant customers should something like this happen.
Agreed. Although, I don't understand why they didn't provide "shim" .so files. I think this is what linux does, though in practice these days I just use ubuntu packages... And at the time to do the same thing in linux, or FreeBSD (which is what I migrated to when I left BeOS) you had to - or were encouraged to - recompile everything from source.
Why would a small store serving a local population not be able to offer this? There is a lot of open source drone stuff out there, so the technology should be readily available. At least available within a year of Amazon putting it into service.

If my local mom-n-pop store has an app and a drone, I would shop there.
Amazon has warehouse robots already. I think it's just often cheaper to pay people.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/amazon-s-robotic-workforce-no...
> This seems fraught with problems that a human on a bike wouldn't have.

The problem is, that human would insist on being paid for their labor.
i think you interpreted the question in the least favorable light.

i read it as "why didn't you take care of her yourself?" not "why didn't you call for big burly men to stuff her in a box?"
My main concern is the last sentence of the section you quote. There's tension between headers which are well-known and standardized (either formally or through de-facto wide use), and so are amenable to being properly modelled, and headers which are not well-known or which may not even exist yet. Hence, I think, his comment about CORS.

And I'm not sure there's a good solution. The obvious approach, as you already know, is to separate headers into two groups: one group is "properly" handled, and the other group gets tossed into an "other" bucket of key/value string pairs. But it's going to be awfully tempting over time to have "proper" support for the most common non-RFC2616 headers, especially those which have widely-accepted standards of their own.

But that's a bit messy and much less than ideal, as you've also discovered. And I don't know of another way to approach the problem that still lets you have the stuff you want from the type system, and doesn't cut people off the minute they start using extension headers your library doesn't know about.

And that's without getting into all the completely stupid things it's technically legal to do in an HTTP header, and the even more stupid things that aren't legal but that people do anyway. My usual torture test of an HTTP library these days runs through things like non-ASCII content in header values (legal if properly encoded, and not everything in the wild properly encodes), looking to see how large a value a library will accept, whether it will let me throw newlines into headers, etc. etc.
> I don't see how Prime Air is any less safe or efficient than sending thousands of five-ton metal boxes barreling down residential streets.

Here's the difference: there's a person directly controlling that five-ton metal box.

Even if you assume that a) the person behind the wheel of a delivery truck is arguably more fallible than a drone following a flight plan and b) a company operating a drone will have the same potential legal liabilities if the drone causes harm to property or an individual, you should not underestimate or ignore the comfort that being able to "blame" or hold a human being accountable provides.

> The response to Prime Air goes far beyond skepticism. It's incoherent, fanatical pessimism, and it's really dissapointing.

There are many commercial applications for drones that I don't see a whole lot of opposition to. These include agriculture, construction, mining and oil. Many if not most of these involve the use of drones in areas that are sparsely populated or where access is limited to authorized personnel.

The only thing that's incoherent and disappointing here is pretending that there's no difference between these "industrial" applications and applications that would inject drones into highly-populated areas, particularly those that are residential.
> California accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire homeless population in the United States

And, just for reference, 12% of the US population lives in California.
Ask HN: HN completely empty
Not sure what happened, but logged in, I can't see any post, setting, etc. on HN. I can only submit... I know HN takes the rule of hellbanning for blocked users, but:

(1) I don't believe I did anything to deserve hellbanning/blocked (at least I hope not)

(2) Hellbanning means I shouldn't see a difference. But the difference between a normal HN page and one with just the orange toolbar is glaring

I've already emailed info@yc but was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue.

ps. this issue is non-existent when I'm not logged in or on a different account.
At the risk of painting with a very wide brush, DAs aren't incentivized to make sure people get due process. They are incentivized to convict as many people as possible. In multiple cases here in Texas where later DNA evidence overturned rape and murder charges, the DA argued right up until the moment of reversal that they believed totally in the guilt of the accused. They have to, it's their job and to have public doubt in the people they are trying will only result in them looking for a new job pretty quickly.

Not saying it's right, just how it is.
Yes: Michael Franz, one of Wirth's PhD students, now a professor at UC Irvine, implemented such a system back in the 90's: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_4_5/open_standards_beyond_java/Fran...
I don't see why this is a problem. Any private service today can host CIA, NSA 's service. You'd think herkou is not used by NSA, digital ocean or Aikamia or Cloudflare are not used by government agency? If Tor has been used by the FBI and the police for years to take down criminals, why is this news surprising? Building a cloud for CIA is also like CIA using the public cloud infrastructure anyway. It probably relies on the same technology, except, with a strict firewall access control sits in front of the proxy.

To make my point clear: business is business.
Next Android OS name should start with the letter "L", not "T". That's how you know ;)
Dropbox is for people that can't use rsync+git. For the unix-competent, it's not particularly difficult and we managed for many years with the previous tools, rsync+svn or even rsync+cvs
Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you
The lack of these in big cities is especially perplexing, since theft is a larger concern than in the suburbs. Why doesn't my apartment in NYC have a one-way drop box for delivery?
Correct, but hopefully they'd fit. I have a couple of yak wool sweaters from Khunu, and they run really small. Luckily my first one ended up fitting my girlfriend well enough for her to keep it. The replacement I got fits very well, and is generally amazing (as sweaters go). Now I office out of the same space as one of the co-founders too :)
It's illegal in parts of the US to film the things going on inside factory farms. That are real events that are actually happening, so I don't think the fact that what you mention is actually happening will make a difference. If they don't want you to know about it, they'll make it illegal.

This is so similar to the Chinese people not being educated about Tienanmen Square it's eerie.
3 decades back ,in the state of Kerala in India,the govt built houses for the poor, under a scheme called Laksham Veedu(hundred thousand houses).Now, most of these houses are in a pathetic state due to lack of repair.Here is what the govt agency website says http://www.kshb.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&v...
Or you could go even further and incorporate workout into your leisure time: play a sport!
Completely agreed. I think a workable compromise would be to sentence her to 3-5 years for each count -- or even, hell, let's be generous... 1 day for each count of tampering.

That's 40,000 counts, 1 day per, continuous -- 109 years and change.

Those entrusted with protecting the law should have far more obligation to uphold its tenets than the hoi polloi, lest we start conceding that there really are two classes of citizenry and start a class war.
Yea - this was more of a quick write up and this is a good excuse to jump into the PhantomJS world to see what's actually happening. Once I get to that I'll do a follow up post.
soup not food
I can see this post, so presumably you aren't hellbanned. There is probably some sort of bug...
> So, need to fill in dates on a resume. So, if have years in grad school and some more years in a Ph.D.-only slot as a prof, then how to account for that time on the resume? If put in the truth, then won't get hired. If just leave a gap, then won't get hired. If fill in the gap with the jobs before and/or after the gap or something else, then that's resume fraud.

If you put in a job or experience you didn't have, or lie about the dates, sure.

>Likely if just omit the Ph.D. in the section on "education", then that's resume fraud much the same as claiming a degree don't actually have.

This is the part I take issue with. Me? I leave off the "education" section entirely, as a high school diploma from a not very good high school with a poor GPA isn't going to help me any. It takes up space in that valuable first two pages, and doesn't convey anything that helps me.

But still, you /did/ get your BS, right? Putting that on your resume is no lie. if you put your BS on your resume, then have a five-year gap before your next job, I don't see how that's fraud, I mean if it's true that the PhD really isn't relevant to the job, for all the boss cares, you could have been making paper airplanes for that time, or reading about Napoleon.

From what I've seen? resume gaps are /terrible/ if they are current; e.g. if you have been unemployed for the last five years? yeah, you're gonna have to work for someone like me for a few years.

But if you were unemployed for five years, but were employed in the field for five years after that, and now you are looking for a new job? the big blank spot from way back when is not a big deal anymore, because the more recent five years shows that you are able to do the job.
I can't wait for the parody videos to show up on this.
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> The woman wasn't evil.

What the fuck makes you say that?
New York - Software Engineer (two positions open)

VFiles is the hippest and foulest-mouth fashion startup around. Our shop[1] is the most relevant fashion destination in New York today, our YouTube shows[2] are insanely popular, and we want you to help us bring our social media site to life.

We are looking to add two more engineers to join our team, doubling our current two (in a company of about twenty). Every engineer here will be full-stack, though we're happy to have someone who leans to one side or the other and is eager to learn. Technologies we use include Ruby, Haskell, Angular, Coffeescript, Redis, and more. As part of our team, you will have both a strong voice in the vision and direction of our product and a good deal of autonomy and control in the specific projects you work on.

As for fringe benefits, we throw the most talked about parties in town (hosted by A$AP Mob and crashed by Kendrick Lamar), we have company trips to Montauk, we organize funky Soul Cycle rides with famous designers and models, and we're invited to pretty much everything happening, culture-wise, in New York. You'll work with a diverse group of people with a number of skillsets, all of whom - editorial, video, design - are at the very top of their game.

We can only consider candidates eligible to work full-time in the US who live or are planning to move to New York City at this time.

You can write the Chief Engineer directly at tim (a) vfiles (dot) com to express your interest.

[1] https://www.vfiles.com/shop and http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/building-blocks-al...

[2] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/05/model-...

[3] Our "user-generated" fashion show for fashion week http://www.thefader.com/2013/09/05/nyfw-vfiles-made-fashion and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJsRvjAQULc
That's an emergency, one of the few times when you should say enough for them to be able to execute an immediate action; specially if you care about such action being performed. Further unrelated questioning should be avoided under the pretense that you need to talk with a lawyer.
Cynicism is not very constructive, interesting, or challenging, so rarely does it make for high signal-to-noise ratio in comments, which hackernews was so appealing in the past for.
This is amazing.

I was reminded of the Back to the Future movies watching the video for this.

This looks to be the first steps towards that dream.
I was relying solely on the Ghostery numbers. In theory I should use a headless browser that executes to the JS to track everything it's doing but that's still on my to do list.
Strongly typed headers are great, but for the love of God please give us a back door. And I don't mean just a dictionary for every "unknown" header, but we should be able to override every "known" header as well.

I'll give you a real-world example. Mono. HttpWebRequest used to store the Content-Size value as an int32. What about files larger than 4gb? Oops...

That was a big problem for us. Thankfully Mono is open source, we were able to peruse the code and come up with some magic incantations using reflection to work around the fact that the framework libraries would not allow us to set the Content-Size header without going through the int32 property.

Now, normally you would file that as a bug, however, it (A) took years for a version of mono to be released with that fixed this and (B) could easily have been some misunderstanding in the implementation of the HTTP spec that was overlooked. You're implementing a spec right now. Can you guarantee that the your implementation is 100% correct? Can you guarantee that the spec is 100% correct? Can you guarantee that the spec is implemented 100% correct everywhere?

No, you can't.

So, don't limit me. Help me, but do not prevent me from doing what I need to in order to do my job.
You could also have an issue with your neck or upper back. Try reading a somewhat heavy book in much the same position as you read an iPad.
The economics ARE different. The costs associated with a delivery truck are 1) gas 2) a driver 3) the truck. The drone has no driver, runs on electricity, and could probably be made for a fair sight cheaper than a delivery van can.

I agree, announcing it now is probably a publicity stunt: look at the theatrics in how they announced it. But that doesn't mean it isn't also the future of delivery in some higher density areas.
Don't forget that browsers will wait for the CSS file to download before rendering the page.

Far better to let "unnecessary" image files load later via separate HTTP requests than to delay everything just so that you can save one or two HTTP round-trips.

This is a big issue on mobile.

I'd advise comparing both methods on https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Your first sentence blew my mind. I've read lots of incredible things on HN (billion dollar acquisitions, drones that ship products, self driving cars), but for some reason this comment steals the show.

Too many questions flooding into my head... for starters, how are you online right now?
No family, no children, living with parents and someone able to live with almost no money. This position is for you!
Your response really isn't helpful for 2 and 3.
Altering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
Actually, contention for air space wouldn't be that bad.

Modern airplanes have a pressure transponder which announces your flight id and the air pressure at your location. From which you can determine a direction, id, and altitude.

Create an automated ATC, some simple separation rules (100' vertical, 500' horizontal), and order that drones flying east are on odd multiples of 100', westbound flights on even multiples. You know where thing is and where it's going. Maybe add in some prohibited zones around airports or tall buildings and you are pretty much done.
Yes, the relevant regulations are about commercial use which is COMPLETELY backwards from a privacy standpoint.

To answer your question, no, I don't want drones to not exist and it would not be worthwhile if I did. Since they obviously do and will continue to exist, we should be thinking about the privacy considerations first with regards to how you would restrict the government's use of drones and THEN go on to the commercial considerations with those same restrictions in mind.

There's a little known set of 4th amendment jurisprudence attached to technology that says something along the lines of "if the public can't generally take advantage of the technology (have it be readily accessible to them), neither can law enforcement when executing a 'search'" - think super-accurate heat sensors that can essentially x-ray the interior of homes, etc...Well we are about to just hand an entire domain to them!

In short: law enforcement is salivating at the thought of commercial drone use because they won't have any regulations applicable to them.
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