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I don't have anything to say- but just wanted to post to say that you have no requirement whatsoever to defend your life circumstances to complete strangers on the internet for whom it is very easy to judge you, comfortably behind their screens.
But what practical problem is such a scheme actually solving? If I write

response["headre"] = ...

I have a bug, sure, but an obvious bug that will be fixed very quickly. With this type system I am now limited in an annoying way. I don't get it.
The garbage truck does something similar with a mechanical arm...
Capitalism fetishizes growth, not revenue. If the business isn't growing it will not attract investment dollars, and will quickly have a hard time staying competitive.
C++, programmed well, is a language with decent semantics... mixed in with heaps of cruft, reused keywords, backwards compatibility, and sharp pointy corners where you can hurt yourself.

A language that starts over, with the same or similar semantics, and cleans up everything else, seems like a great idea. Hopefully they resist the temptation to throw in too much unproven but cool-sounding experimental stuff. (Maybe it's just me, but a couple of years ago, it seemed every new language had to throw in STM willy-nilly...)
I also have no problems with a fresh install of Mavericks and VB 4.3
I kind of also wonder why not a more traditional articulated rotor helicopter design. The point of the quadrotors is they're cheap and simple, despite being much less efficient. Surely the capital investment in a full fleet of these things would favor a true helicopter rotor.
On kind of a tangent to the actual topic of the article being discussed, but I saw you mention how you think slavery has been abolished worldwide. I'd like to correct that thinking and let you know that slavery is still a very active thing, with millions of slaves around the globe, and people being captured even in the USA as sex slaves to be sold around the globe. The nearest count I know is at least 27 million people still exist as slaves.

http://enditmovement.com/
How do you define "Javascript libraries"?

I just tried Forbes' front page, and I got 108 scripts being pulled + [all inline JS of top page combined] = 109 scripts.

Just for ad.doubleclick.net, it's 30 external javascript files pulled.

And I got this result without the 19 iframes which were blocked, and which certainly would have raise further the script count.
You must live nowhere near anywhere. My sky is plenty filled with buildings, airplanes, helicopters, and even the occasional hot air balloon.

You keep your taxes to yourself. I have a package that needs delivering in under 30 minutes by drone.
Just so you're aware, Disconnect actively breaks some sites, even when they aren't trying to be forcefully invasive.

I have a site that logs AJAX requests to Google Analytics (since that's essentially the only "page views" on the particular site). I was doing a test for if (_gaq) before trying to push into the array, because I wasn't more concerned with giving the users a good experience than tracking page views, and that did work if Google Analytics was being blocked from loading at all. Unfortunately, I eventually learned that Disconnect was causing that test to throw a JavaScript exception instead of just blocking GA from loading and leaving _gaq undefined. As you can imagine, narrowing down that it was Disconnect causing the problem from a few random users' "the site isn't working" complaints was a lot of fun...

It's not a huge site, but I do spend a couple thousand dollars a year keeping it online. I'll be damned if I'm going to spend that to keep a free site online and then feel bad about running some advertising and analytics to make sure it doesn't end up in the red.
Exactly: the most interesting thing here isn't the 4k, but rather the 183.5ppi.
What if your car, networked with all of the other cars in the immediate area, came to the conclusion that a fatal collision was unavoidable unless one car (your car) purposely veered over the side of a bridge... The good of the many outwieghs the good of the few, and you're the few?
Or really, Satoshi's laptop died and he couldn't be bothered anymore about Bitcoin
I think you're right. Then the next huge $bn+ company will be the ones who are able to solve the mathematical challenge of optimizing the symphony of orders, autonomous vehicles, drones, and hindering variables such as traffic and weather to maximize system throughput (and thereby profit) in near real-time. If there are multiple competitors and one figures this out better than the others, they will ultimately win.
I recently found myself looking at contemporary styled letter boxes, including some at $900ish that were quickly ruled out. It felt utterly stupid to be spending even $100 on something used to receive letters, all of which might be bills, advertising or invitations too formal to arrive by email.

It's interesting that we aren't being pitched package boxes with one way delivery and security keypads, etc.
Err ... color resolution was never really the problem with CRT technology.
Plus free tracking device leading investigators to your location.
> Why would we turn off our critical thinking skills when contemplating claims of a leap in technology that transcends what many of us understand to be possible currently?

Because it's Amazon, and they're one of a few companies able to choose the technology, location, and customer base for the system, and willing to operate a service at a loss. If it's only possible to deliver this to suburban homes in Little Rock, Arkansas, and they lose money on each delivery, then they still can do it.
The "Why" has to do with increasing market size for Amazon.

If they can deliver small items to you in 30 minutes with no delivery fee, all sorts of things you need in the very short term stop being a trip to the store and become a drone shipment from Amazon. This opens up HUGE markets for them.

I also think people are thinking of the distribution network a bit wrong. They can keep a large number of items in a small space, particularly if the warehouse becomes sort of like those old magnetic tape storage robots you used to see. You could condense an entire Wallgreen's (almost every item of which is drone-able) down to a large room. So the practicality of having a number of them in a city becomes more and more viable. Of course you'd have software optimizing for the most common items on a per-distribution center basis (I bet Amazon already does this on a macro scale).

Add in long-haul robotic trucks feeding the distribution centers and you can see where this is going.
How did she justify these things to herself?

1) Most of the people probably were guilty of the crimes they were accused of. A technically faulty conviction means legal innocence, but not actual innocence.[1] Everyone deserves due process, obviously, and "probably" isn't good enough to convict someone, but it is something that can help someone like this rationalize their actions. "I'm just helping get a conviction this guy deserves anyway."

2) Like most people involved in the criminal justice system, these are not sympathetic people. Prior convictions, prior jail time, gang affiliation, etc. You can imagine her rationalizing by saying that even if the accused weren't guilty of the specific crimes against them, they were guilty of something.

Obviously I'm not trying to justify the actions of the chemist here. The criminal justice system has due process and protections and those things are important. But the fact of the matter is that most people who are brought through it are not "good people." That's just the nature of the system. The police don't arrest random law-abiding middle class people and pin crimes on them. For people who work in police work and prosecution, it's a constant parade of various degrees of unsympathetic characters. That's the psychological environment in which this chemist was working. And again, without justifying her actions, if you're trying to understand her psychology, that's where you need to start.

The Nietzsche quote is appropriate here: "And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

[1] This is something I think people have a tough time grappling with. I have friends who do work on wrongful convictions and prisoners rights. It's extremely important, valuable work. But often their work involves defective convictions, not people who are truly innocent (as a matter of actual fact, not as a matter of legal determination).
They are going places where they can more easily control who sees what they share.

With Facebook, you must say something that is public or friends-only where your family can see it, or you must create a special list that shows the name of everyone in the list that can receive it, which is weird and complicated.

Given those choices, teens and adults alike are opting to share things on networks where they don't have to worry about the implications of what they say.
Thanks a lot! These suggestions are really helpful, and am glad to get some specific direction!
About validating my idea, I am not a person who follows the start up news a lot, so, I may be wrong, but is it okay to share a idea before building it? What if someone hears my idea and build it before I do? I am uncomfortable with this, or am I missing something here?

Thanks again :)
You can't fire a weapon within city limits in most (all?) cities in the U.S.

And you don't own the airspace above your land, or airplanes and helicopters could not fly.

And you don't just shoot at anything in the sky when you're out shooting.

And civil courts exist to fine you heavily for this sort of behavior if it does occur.

Why don't you just shoot at UPS vehicles for driving down your neighborhood streets?
reputable labs already have every single piece of work looked over, and the process completely repeated for random samples at increasing intervals of time.

and defendants should have their evidence retested by independent labs when possible.
I think not only Amazon is investing in this. Some delivery companies in China are already playing with drones for while:

http://www.businessinsider.com/package-delivering-drones-sta...

So why is this so surprising?
yea, I should. Thanks!
How do you return an amazon package left at your doorstep that isn't yours? How often does this happen?
Toronto has a similar problem. It isn't just Regan.
Why not just put the battery in the payload lid?
One more point: despite the fact that Rust and Go seem to occupy a similar region of the hacker news zeitgeist, I think C++ is the right language to compare Rust to. Rob Pike explained it better than I can: http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
I'm sure you've witnessed the glorious invention: Cinnamon Sugar[0].

[0]: http://www.spiceislands.com/Adjustable_Grinders/Cinnamon_Sug...
Will we see private ownership of drones that are used to do pick-ups from supermarkets, warehouses, etc?
That doesn't seem like a difficult problem to solve. Delivery isn't free, even if the customer isn't the one paying for it. If standard delivery becomes more expensive due to the weather-linked bursty nature of the load requiring additional provisioning, you just need to charge more for standard delivery. Which I'd expect a company like amazon to implement as a fair-weather discount, given the propensity of humans to be loss averse.
bezos said the current range is 10 miles on 60 minutes.
Lets assume this technology took off! With thousands of drones flying in the sky , the urban sky will look so ugly. Do we really need to use drone for parcel delivery ?
Imagine the Amazon mothership flying above your city with hundreds of drones doing the deliveries.
there was a conspicuous display of human labor at the beginning
This will be a free website and open for all, so targeting anyone specific is not possible. May be I can talk to friends/family and check whether it sounds like something they want to use.

Thanks for the suggestion!
My understanding is that the story of deinstitutionalization is a bit more complex: there was a movement in the 70s and 80s to have the mentally-ill returned to the community, instead of being treated in state institutions. However, many of the local facilities that the mentally ill were to receive treatment in were never actually established. At the same time, commitment laws were changed in many states, as part of a civil rights movement, to make it almost impossible to commit someone against their own will unless they were a physical danger to themselves or others.

Additionally, Reagan was never a legislator, but only served in an executive capacity, as Governor of California and as President of the US.
I wonder whether this might necessitate the creation of a kind of "landing pad" with bluetooth LE beacons to signal to the approaching drone where to deliver the goods, that and/or a Santa's Chimney-like chute (I'm thinking apartment complexes) that can obviate the need for the drone to "land" at human level.

One also marvels at the possibility for home-to-home delivery, say, for used items, or the ability to have returned items "picked-up" by these drones. A fascinating avenue.
I've been living on a Retina MBP, which has a comparably 4x resolution, and I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion: if you work with text, you need a super-dense screen ASAP. I don't know how Windows handles it, but in OS X, "Retina" support means that e.g. my Emacs windows look amazing -- even as Java-garbage like Intelli-J look like some sort of Motif abomination.
Well, a 4k 39" TV still has about a 12% higher pixel density than the 1920x1200 24 inch monitor I'm using right now.

Additionally, you can take that extra size and just sit a little bit further away from it.
No kidding. I was -- and still am -- blown away when I saw this. I'm definitely rooting for its success.

And it's not as if the current carrier methods have zero risk. Who's to say this won't eliminate most/all of those risks, potentially at the expense of adding less new risks?
I don't think we disagree on that. I'm not talking about the product side of things. I said and mean that Amazon is pushing for standards, regulations, laws etc. also by showing the possible demand side.

The reason why Google doesn't have a product, can be for multiple reasons, for example because they may (who knows) only want to create an Android OS-like self driving system, not necessarily building the cars. It's the same they did with smart phones.

If they want to dominate the car OS market, they might not need to present it as a product at this stage.

They just need, as Amazon, to push it enough to gain momentum and be one of the early players.
If you recast these questions according to how deliveries work right now, I think you see that we already have all those problems and we manage to live with them:

1. Won't theft run rampant if UPS drops off your package at your door when you're not home?

2. Don't drivers of cars and trucks risk getting shot or stopped?

3. Will cars and trucks travel only in good weather?

4. The highways are going to be littered with cars and trucks driving around? Won't this lead to "traffic jams"?

5. Will there be a service where you can rent a car (or taxi) to spy on your mate?

I'm not trying to be glib, but rephrasing the questions like this puts the issues in a new light. You can see the potential problems and solutions.
Yes, just like there are pirate cars that drive around looting UPS trucks.
The privileged information available only to the mega-rich...pfft.

Don't dismiss the value of insider information re: government policy.
I've got no problem at all answering people's questions, if you look at my comment history. I just think this particular question was both vague and lazily written. It's natural that a question requires more effort to answer than to ask, but a thoughtfully asked question clues potential answerers into what the asker already knows and has already attempted to do to educate themselves. Like "I know Scala is X and Y, but why would these things be useful on the browser side?" or if you don't know anything about Scala in the first place, "I read Wikipedia about Scala but didn't understand Z, could someone explain this?"
In a city, it would be awesome to see automated rooftop drone charging systems (solar powered of course).
Cars don't have eight rotor blades slapping the air, and we've gotten pretty good at enclosing all the loud bits (on expensive cars). Noise would certainly be a problem for gas-powered drones.
Why release this now ? Seems to be more of a marketing ploy to bump up prime membership to compensate for the shrinking margins/revenue.

Highly interesting and forward thinking nonetheless !
Just because it's Amazon doesn't mean you should turn off your critical thinking skills.
It's probably a joke, implying that the Netflix video quality served during congested periods is so low that all you get is video artifacts.
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Hacker News on Dropbox: Why would anyone want this? I can do this already with my home PC, all I need to do is install package xyz and let it run in the background. How does this handle duplicates, this is doomed to fail.
I have to go outside to retrieve the package? Deal-breaker.
And perhaps more to the point, the 13th Amendment explicitly leaves slavery on the table for those convicted of a crime:

"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

Does this mean that plainly barbaric things may be justifiably used as punishments? Does this perhaps suggest the possibility that "killing a man", and "killing a man after convicting him of a crime" are morally distinct? Or does this mean that a serious revamp of how we view and run our justice system is long overdue?
thanks for your input. I see what you're saying about the Closure namespaces and function system making more sense. That's what has been attracting me toward it, along with some general fondness for the elegance of Clojure.

I feel you whole-heartedly about the tangled web of OO. That's why I ultimately chose to leave Rails & start pursuing JVM languages. JVM languages seem to be daunting to Rails/Django folks because of all the "boilerplate, syntax, complexity" but I've found that a lot of the tools are so mature that it is not really such a burden. So yes, as an aspiring programmer who wants to have a reach beyond CRUD, the mystery of Rails & it's "fugly" libs eventually turned me off. Aside from things breaking/slowingdown with every version and needing excessive optimization not to accumulate at the interpreter, I came to the realization that the extra time that would be needed to understand more technologies for the different layers of the application (with Java.... Spring/Hibernate/etc.) there is a gain in that well... you actually understand what is going on rather than this tangled mess. I often had to re-factor code in Rails to kindof fit awkwardly between gems. From studying Javascript I learned a lot about asynchronous/aspect-oriented programming and am pleased to see that these concurrency issues are fundamental to most work that is happening on the JVM. I thought Scala/Play was a healthy medium between these two worlds but I'm starting to understand that maybe one needn't compromise.
Just because you can point out exceptions — and that's all they are: one-off exceptions — to the racial imbalances in the American criminal justice system doesn't mean they aren't glaringly and egregiously there.
the forensic community is pretty good about these things. the folks who do these things get whispered about like a bogeyman for years. everybody in this woman's field knows about her now, and will be googling up "massachusetts chemist" for the next 20 years whenever they get a female chemist from massachusetts applying for a position.
And social. I'm curious what sort of utility such a service could yield, but I'm not interested in filling our airspace with service drones. The low-elevation sky is relatively uncluttered by our works.
Ugh. You say this as a joke, but I vote we come up with a list of features that could be cited as prior art and stick a hash of 'em into the BTC block chain.
Fair points, especially about the commitment laws. And point noted about the use of the term "legislator" w/r/t Reagan. Good catch.
> Interception is a real problem though, especially in high-crime areas. You could reduce it with some sort of hardened container which can be opened only with a certain code.

Any container that is sufficiently "hardened" enough to stop any trivial access attempt would also be much heavier/larger (or have a smaller internal volume) - which would require a larger drone or a shorter distance. And short of carrying a safe, there's probably little you could do to prevent someone from getting at the goods.

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.
I love this one, could be written today...

Apple is being distroyed by the rumors that are being created. When they announce that they are going to have a new product, everyone thinks it's going to blow their worlds. Rumors start flooding in about even the most outragous products ( I even heard a few "sources" mention teleportion) This is getting plain stupid.

Apple is a normal company. Why does the public constantly expect them do the impossible?
Drone delivery being developed in Shenzhen, China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDnFbTL5vc (3 months ago)
The cashmere sweaters aren't custom though.
Human-driven delivery trucks hit and kill dogs, cats, men, women and children every day. On average, 16 people will die in any given day in a truck related crash. One in eight traffic fatalities involves a large cargo truck.

Driving vehicles on roads is incredibly dangerous. I don't think it's possible for drones to do a worse job.
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You don't even need to make it at home. I used to just but all my stuff on my way into work on Monday and store it in my office. Most of the stuff we put in sandwiches (bread, butter, cheese, cured meats, pickles, condiments) will last a week or more in an air-conditioned office. Just store it in an air-tight container and give it the smell test before you eat it.
It's interesting to consider that everything carries a death count. I wonder if there are stats on how many deaths pillows caused, and plastic bags, toothbrushes, laptops, light bulbs, etc. Would be helpful to keep new inventions in perspective.
Responses that I have not yet seen in the comments.

1: These could deliver into my apartment on the nth floor by coming through an open window, as well as the mentioned balconies and front yards or the roof.

2: We could not just set our delivery point up using a app on our smartphones (GPS wtc), but those phones could also broadcast over the various radios to the device and even use the camera to help the UAV navigate. Enter a few hints about route and off we go.

3: The UAVs can be launched from delivery vans to save on the flight time from the larger depot. Drive to a delivery area, deliver the big parcels by hand while the little parcels are automatically delivered by UAVs operating from the roof of the van.

4: The cost of UAVs will come down - significantly - so they may become semi-disposable for the delivery company. In 2015 that may not be true, but by 2025 I can certainly see it.

5: The UAV's could, if they are set up with the right taxi-like business model, be used by a variety of delivery actors, including individuals as well as businesses. So after the Amazon delivery I use the drone to take a parcel to the post office for delivery to an eBay buyer.