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How likely this went on as long as it did without the collaboration of prosecutors?
I suspect the more they pin on her (and the news articles so far have been very much "witchy"), the more they will deflect from the lax oversight in the lab and the collusion of the prosecutors.
So, the're planting their flag in the ground and saying the've almost solved autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance in suburban areas? Amazing.
LinkedIn comes above tumblr in this list. I'm yet to meet a teen interested about connecting to friends on LinkedIn. These are net market adoption rates, and not specific to teens, hence clearly flawed.
And they don't read HN either, for the most part. You're not getting anything like a cross-section of opinion of the population here, on any topic.

I'm among those who don't see any need for Dropbox, but readily admit that obviously millions of others do.
Hmm, possibly this: http://adambard.com/blog/what-your-datastore-says-about-you/

> MongoDB: We haven’t picked a database yet.

So much truth. :)
Next up, Amazon Mass Driver - next day delivery to any continent and 7 day delivery to the Moon!
The truth is, drone delivery was discussed already here on HN. A lot of the details were already envisioned and suggested.

A lot of the commenters on this thread think it's a new idea or its's new here on HN. This is a good PR move for Amazon(edit: equal to Google's self driving car in PR power). It's likely they got inspired by some of the HN discussions. I hope they don't invent silly patents around it, such as "one flight delivery".
This means that the Mexican drug cartels might already be using drones to traffic illicit drugs across the border...
> It seems those problems are now mostly cleaned up, and there is no particular implication here that a similar problem exists in the state crime lab

Except that the incentives are still massively perverse. It doesn't take an organizational dynamics genius to know it's a safe bet these are not the only two state crime labs with this problem.
There used to be an (Australian) Standard on Toast colour: http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?ProductID=...
I'm trying to avoid carbs.
The first estimates I found on Google show 130,000 homeless in California with 500-1,500 sent here via "greyhound therapy". It's not a small amount, but it's still only ~1% of the homeless population.
Amazon however, is not particularly profit motivated...
"It will only take one child seriously injured by one of these motorized carriages though for Ford to be slapped with a major lawsuit"

To be more nuanced about it, there's a big difference between this being a good or bad idea for humanity and this being an optimal or suboptimal move for Amazon. That there might be lawsuits and backlash even if it actually reduces the number of accidents might make it a poor play by Amazon, but it doesn't make it a bad idea in some ethical sense. For example, perhaps you're saying that even though it might save lives and improve efficiency, the current regulatory framework and public disposition make this kind of advance impossible (compare to cars hitting the streets in a different era). So there's a sort of normative versus positive question here. Perhaps you're talking about the latter, which is fine (and of course debatable), but I'm interested in the former. Especially so because the normative stuff is an input to tech policy debates and the positive stuff is its output, so you inform the debate by figuring out what the end result you want is.

But maybe you're not saying that; maybe you're saying "well, we don't know how risky drones are and maybe, safety-wise, it's a big step backwards" and the part about lawsuits and stuff was sort of a separate point. That's true enough. The reason I gave the Fed-Ex crash example was just to point out that it does not follow from an RC helicopter accident in Queens that drone deliveries are a bad idea. But it's true that the relative safety of cars and drones is unknown (and, as you can tell, I have a guess about it). Now the issue is that you need some way to find out. Or resign to never advancing at all. Human studies of new medicines encounter this problem too, yet few people are saying, "I don't want any medicinal advancements."

The reality is that if you want to improve society, you're going to have to take some risks with some unknowns. Perhaps you try it in some select cities in some limited fashion and build from there. (Think it's unethical to experiment on humans? What about the hundred-year, totally uncontrolled experiment we've been conducting using automobiles? I certainly didn't sign up for it. The status quo is not a special case.) Look at it like this: what does the world look like in three hundred years? I'd like to think it looks like something from Star Trek. So what, schematically, are the steps to get from here to there? How do you draw a line from 2013 to 2313? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve "we don't have flying robots, so we don't know if they're dangerous, so no flying robots."
I'll second that motion. I have not had a single issue with my RT-N66U and Tomato.
Yeah, Korean monitors are great if you're on a budget. My only complaint is that they are ugly as hell. Every single one I've seen. But hey, you can buy 3 1440p monitors for under a grand!
Because the political climate allows it.

Court rulings made crimes used to arrest homeless people illegal. That's why a ranting maniac can soil himself in the public library and not be booted. Back in ye olden days, the cops would arrest him and sober him up for a day or two.

Even with that, there are more homeless in San Francisco, and I'd say that it's a combination of opportunity, a sympathetic environment and the fact that it's a real life city! (Vs a car suburb)
>Tax is a big deal, of course, but even nations can't always compete with the popular sentiment tidal forces enabled by the internet.

How has the Internet outrage about NSA spying affected the US government?
JIRA can a great tool, but that has nothing to do with mongodb nor the quality of the code the team produces.
My first thought when reading this was Amazon selling this as a service to local businesses as well. Allow them to use this to sell & deliver products.
Your monitor's electronics may be doing more processing at 30Hz (like frame-doubling) than at 60Hz thus adding latency that is not inherent in the lower refresh rate.

I used the T221 at 30Hz in a multi-monitor system with the other two monitors at 60Hz. I could drag a window so it straddled the 30Hz monitor and a 60Hz monitor. The DPI was severely mismatched so it wasn't very useful to straddle like that, but movement across the monitors was not obnoxious, not terribly fluid, but not annoying either.

I'm sure different people have different tolerances for latency, but I tend to think my tolerance is pretty low.
Async, await, and yield return
I'd rather see pneumatic tubes deliver packages.
#4 is less an issue since one truck can carry all the packages for people on its route. With Prime Air, it looks like it's one drone per package/person/destination. If the tradeoff is between vehicles per package (A) and average time to delivery (B), trucks choose A and drones choose B.
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Curious what you recommend for a large project? I also don't love JIRA but wonder, really, if there's any perfect solution...
So you assume apple is simply lying?
Flying drones would offset the number of cars and trucks that are roaming around our streets, highways, and bridge by putting them into the sky. Would it be better or worse to replace all of those cars that come in/out of a Wal-mart, Target, and Safeway with drones? I have no idea, but I'm excited to find out.

Regarding your other concerns, there was an interesting episode of Freakonomics with Clay Shirky about the Internet, and how it gets regulated (or doesn't) by the fears of what it could do. A relevant exchange with the host starts here [1] at 20:08. The audio transcript is also available and Ctrl-F to "Let me ask you this kind of more." Shirky says:

"... there’s a large class of problems that you don’t solve until you have them. Right? You hear all of the ethicists saying oh the technology is outrunning ethics, to which the pragmatist answer is that’s exactly what we want. If you and I were to sit down right now and say well let’s draw up regulations for time travel and telekinesis we would, it’s a ridiculous question."

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2013/11/14/who-runs-the-internet-a-n...
Which perhaps should highlight why nationstates aren't going to buy it?

Because the money levels being talked about are large enough that you could trivially destroy it. Which means your entire foreign exchange rate is subject to whether someone wants to screw with the blockchain.

Which means at any junction, some third actor can hold the entire currency hostage - unless the governments invest in huge amounts of hashing hardware to protect it. Which is (1) a colossal waste of money and energy and (2) would, in turn, give them the capability to do the exact same thing.

Bitcoin will never be a currency held or traded by governments.
> The workflow I ended up with was to write a function without any type annotations. Ignore all the red lines of the IDE’s confusion. Compile the code. In the output look for a warning about (Long => Int) return value being ignored in a function returning Unit. Copy (Long => Int) into my code as the return type annotation of my function. Compile again.

That sounds like the most stupid way you could do things.
True, but resolution so massively outweighs every other consideration (for me) that it might as well be the only.

In this new high-res world, virtually all desktop monitors are just broken. Ugh, I am typing these very words right now on a 30" Dell 3008FWP, and I want to gouge out my eyes...
That looks similar to a house favorite, "Marlboro Man"-inspired sandwich, which is much quicker to make:

1. Sauté mushrooms, red pepper, onions, garlic and butter, reserve.
2. Cut meat into thin slices, brown and season with salt, pepper,
worcestershire and a little soy sauce.
3. Put the vegetables back, add a dash of whisky, flambé.
4. Cut french bread / baguette open, stuff with meat and slices of
a strong cheese like emmental or edam.

Eat immediately.

/posted on Hacker Foods (the mods must be asleep)
I am always a little frustrated at the Salon articles, I dont even know why I read them anymore.

There is a few choice sentences I'd like to rebut:

"And while there is much to dislike about how Silicon Valley is rewriting the rules based on little more than the authority of its own arrogance"

While I get the sentiment, the problem here is that blind appeal to authority of existing laws and figures is a well known civilization anti-pattern. It causes real problems in even the medium term. The "arrogance" judgement is also subjective, since it presupposes a mindset of "Silicon Valley" (which is hardly a singular entity) that may or may not be actually there.

"This is our emergent culture: an onslaught of newness, disrespectful of status quo, law and propriety. "

There is a lot to dislike about this sentence. First off is the negative judgement of 'newness' - we KNOW from neuropsychology that novel inputs to the brain are an essential ingredient to neural plasticity. New isn't just always new, but it's part of what it means to be young in the brain.

The second part of this sentence is problematic to me. This almost reads like the author is advocating that respect to the status quo, laws, and propriety is a major virtue. Again, this is another strong civilization anti-pattern (well the same one basically). If the author isn't saying this, then what is he saying?

Look I get it, change is scary. But the reality is we as a species have wedged ourselves into a weird place. We must proceed technologically to solve our problems. That is what Silicon Valley is about - moving tech and science forward to solve problems. Yeah not all problems seem essential (snapchat), but there is plenty of people who are doing way more interesting things. But also the pro-rationality, pro-new things, pro-science culture of the bay area is one worth extending and expanding. Because the alternative truly really is fist-bumping while rome burns. Certainly don't look at Wall Street to solve these problems for us.
You managed to say you really like Scala several times, without mentioning a single concrete thing you like about it.
Revenge is useless. Deterrence is not.

Go after the prosecutors who were involved. Conspiracy is often thrown at "peon" types, from those emails it makes sense that at least some of the prosecutors knew what was going on. You want to hammer these wastes of oxygen and make it clear that corruption will not be tolerated.

Never going to happen, of course. It's easier to just kill someone, and who's going to prosecute the prosecutors?
Hilarious, but not the link I was thinking of. In the link in my brain, you were asked to pick the database. I remember distinctly having to click through to find out what the error was for each one.
And merged.
It seems like such a massive optimization over the driver-and-gas-truck-around-town solution, that when I think more long-term, it just feels inevitable that this technology will be everywhere, even though I had the same reaction as you. "Terrifying".
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It's kind of interesting how HN admins removed a string of posts yesterday relating to the Node.js sexism issue without any explanation, and yet this remains. It's also a bit sad that a post like this gets way more attention than 95% of the "Show HN"s.
Since executives such as Eric Schmidt are happy to quote numbers about Android or Google+ in opaque and misleading ways, it seems entirely reasonable to believe that some other teams within Google may act to preserve the general message out of esprit-de-corps, whether or not they have android team members breathing down their necks.
Or just run OpenBSD so you get the current pf version with new stuff in 5.3.
Robotic sewing machines, 3D printers, downloadable textile construction packages, and motion sensors paired with modeling software to try on virtual clothes will someday end retail clothing as well.

The need to sample things by taste (or other senses) could also conceivably end in the near future through downloads of software packages consisting of instructions for chemical synthesis of tastes and appropriate output settings for the sensory simulation hardware. [1]

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029444.500-electrode...
its just a feature
Engineers from Yelp had prototyped an Amazon-drone type device months ago
It's there because old laws require it, and customs enforces the law. You can't amend the law in Congress, because changing immigration or obscenity laws are opening Pandora's box to all sorts of nonsense. It happens all of the time -- New York had a law on its books until a few years ago that affected auto leasing that was based on an 19th century problem... Rented horses whose poor training or health caused accidents. Because of this law, you could hold a car company liable for an accident -- which made it impossible to lease cars in New York! Changing the law was held hostage in the legislature for many years.

If you declare that the shipment doesn't contains "bad" things, and it does, and it's inspected, than yes you'll be guilty of filing a false instrument or lying to a federal agent -- serious crimes. That's just the reality of life, not a conspiracy as others have implied.
The thing is, if this idea proves viable, there are going to be (or at least there will be demand for) many orders of magnitude more of these than there are traditional types of air vehicles... And because of the very short range, much of that will probably be in dense urban areas (so it won't be anything like evenly distributed).

So... I dunno if traditional approaches to avoiding airspace contention will work so well...
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Can someone clue me into the underlying message here? This is a little vague even for HN's off-topic wikipedia standards.
I don't disagree at all. Meanwhile, I'm convinced that the more they don't pin on her, the more it means that they're giving her lenience so that she doesn't roll over and spill details on those institutional failures that they might all have been a part of.

FYI, this post is egregiously oversimplifying, and I deserve ridicule for that, but I'm going to bed -- on a normal day, I wouldn't respond to this for some time.
Any speculation on what the cost of delivery with this service will be (I'm guessing very few people currently take advantage of the 1-day delivery option, let alone same day, so I would guess this will need to be cheaper than those to be commonplace)?

Also why is this better/faster/cheaper than just hiring someone to deliver things on demand ala TaskRabbit?
This is a very nice mod of the flying drone delivery idea: flying in the long range, over safe zones like highways, and then scooting down the last mile in densely populated regions.
Let's see how Rails people respond to gender equality.
I wasn't joking. This is how software patent creation works. Before something can be made in practice, make all the algorithms you might need to implement it.
Ask HN: How much should a startup pay for a .com?
How much should a startup be willing to pay for a .com address? I'm currently bootstrapping a project that's entering private beta. The domain I'd like to get is currently owned by a "domainer" who is asking for way more than I'd like to pay.

I'm thinking <$1000 is reasonable for a pretty good domain that has no natural traffic flow. (think snapchat.com in 2010.) Am I way out of line? Should I be willing to pay more? If it matters, the domain I'm seeking has no existing trademarks.
I will second RoboMongo being my go-to frontend. (Half the frontends recommend in the mongo docs are defunct!) It's really quite hard to be PhpMyAdmin as a very useful universal db tool.

I will also unabashedly plug my own budding frontend, which I strongly encourage all of you to take a look at and help flesh out! https://github.com/classicspecs/Flask-MongoMyAdmin
Oh, I get it now. I looked up the toll amounts in Houston. Compare:

http://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/tolls.html

Also, if you want to see a Bing Maps bug, tell it to give you directions from Newark, NJ to New York, NY and check the "avoid tolls" box. It spins for a few seconds and then says "Driving directions are temporarily unavailable." Most of the other map websites when you check the avoid tolls box it just says it couldn't avoid the tolls. I had a GPS at one point that would actually plot the route but it makes a trip that would take less than a half hour instead take more than 6 hours because to avoid a toll you have to cross the Hudson River in Albany. Obviously they've had to remove that route from the maps lest the tolls be raised a little bit more and it become cost effective.
That sure is fancy, I just mix some ground cinnamon with some sugar and put it back in the cinnamon shaker. And yes it goes remarkably well on buttered toast, also diced apples and pancakes.
mingw-gcc deprecated? What's the replacement, mingw-w64 -m32?
Two guesses: cellular location services and custom radio telemetry systems. Maybe that's one guess.
"the Canadian government is working on their own"

is there a citation for this?
Re: #2 - Vendors need to pay rent, suppliers, and employees - all of whom presumably don't accept BTC. So that's probably why you see Coinbase, BitPay, and others that default to converting BTC to fiat the moment of transaction.
Wikipedia (and other anthropological databases) standards for citation and notoriety means that it underrepresents the culture of the poorer classes, which is maintained through oral history and not published documents.
Good. Glad to see there is some common sense here. The last couple of times this came up, some said even in an emergency you should stay silent, because for example if you tell the police the kidnappers drove north in a white Honda, and it later turns out you were mistaken (it was a cream Toyota and they drove northwest), you might be suspected of being an accomplice purposefully misdirecting the police!
I can use rsync and git, and use it for some things. But I'm perfectly happy to use Dropbox too. I like it because it Just Fucking Works on every platform I'm on.

The way I look at it, I've got limited time. I can spend it fucking around duplicating infrastructure, or I can spend it on something that matters more to me.
there is no evidence hacker news had anything at all to do with this idea. Also, just because people are excited about an idea doesn't make them naïve about it's freshness.

I'm certain drone delivery has been discussed by many countless people, most of whom the acronym HN means nothing to.
It's interesting, though. I've watched conference talks from about 5 years ago where Yammer is commonly referred to as a medium for internal communications by SMB types (Business of Software, I think? Sorry, can't find a link at the moment.) Those same recommendations now go to Hipchat. Is their marketing the only difference? (ie. was Yammer once more palatable to small businesses for their marketing, and have they now changed that, with Hipchat filling the void? Or is it more than that?)

I don't know the space well at all, these are just observations from a distance.
That's essentially what I was doing previously, but the if (_gaq) test was throwing an unusual reference error when Disconnect was installed. I ended up finding that doing an explicit if (typeof _gaq === 'object') was safe (and then wrapped that in a try/catch for good measure).
How'd you get past the split stack not working properly on SP... oh... I guess this means Illumos still isn't running on SPARC yet. ;)

Nice work BTW.
Hell, CmdrTaco on iPod...
Just remember that dropbox started out as getdropbox.com, istock.com started out as istockphoto.com. As long as you are free and clear on the trademark, get something close. Also technical start-ups are having great luck with .io
That is EXACTLY the one. Thank you. :-)
> I used 140lbs of weight and let it sit for 4 hours

O.o
Agreed. Apparently though, that SnapChat guy didn't get the message. To be fair, I'd love to sit around and get money from successfully executed ideas that I contributed absolutely nothing to. So I suppose I can appreciate the angle at some level.