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Fourth time lucky - I wonder why the previous submissions have got no traction at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780967

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7779411

As alphakappa[0] says[1], it's just a one-off demo that doesn't show solutions to any of the real problems. It damn near hit that lamp-post, bizarrely flew under an arch, and, all-in-all, it didn't seem automated in any real sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alphakappa

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788395
People often worry about future visual/noise pollution due to drones. It seems realistic to assume that drones will eventually be as common of a sight as cars, or at least as common as seeing a plane. They're very useful in a variety of contexts, and history has shown that useful things will eventually become widespread.

Personally, I'm undecided about the visual/noise pollution issue. On one hand, I can't wait to live in the future. On the other hand I can see how it might become a problem, especially if they're very noisy and the drones are flying at night.
E-commerce is pretty big if you consider all of those normal retailers that have customers checking things online before they get to the store. If you sell specialist goods or expensive home electricals then those people coming through the door have invariably checked you out online first. However, those sales are recorded as High Street sales, from walk-ins, not 'e-commerce sales'. It is the bricks and mortar stores that dominate e-commerce with the exception of online-only Amazon.

A lot of suppliers don't want to deal with online only stores. To do so upsets their other retailers so you have to be bricks and mortar to get the suppliers. Plus you have to sell at their prices. There are exceptions, the out of date, end of line overstock items can go to 'flash sales' sites but not the new model year stuff.
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In my experience Viterbi training alone is often enough to get reasonable accuracy, at least in speech recognition.
Instead of doing the more costly Baum-Welch training you can spend your time better elsewhere, e.g. use deep neural networks instead of GMMs or collect more data.
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I've never heard this complaint before. I would have never guessed it would be a problem. Anyway, for the clone, you could just use a different command (such as rsync) to download the other Git repository to your HD, and use git clone on the local path. There is little difference since git clone grabs everything.

Subsequent pulls can be done directly to the remote repository.
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The choice is still or rent. What you're saying is that renting is better than buying in these cities because housing prices are high. This calculator demonstrates this; if you put in an extremely high house price, you'll find that renting is better (or moving somewhere else where housing prices are cheaper of course).
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Yikes. Something about the privilege of the auto-technocrati as expressed in this zeitgeist video gives me the willies.

That drone means more starving people (because its one less human job to do). But one less hungry person, because .. pizza!

Cognitive overload, must shut down ..
I'm not sure why this ever got downvoted, because it's a key point. Unless you've got some kind of exclusive check out/check in type facility, working with unmergeable binary files is going to prove a pain. It's no fun having people find out once they come to commit/check in/merge/etc. that they've got the unenviable choice of losing their work, or losing somebody else's... or losing both.

(The disk space problem is far less of an issue - disk space is cheap, and networks are pretty fast, so up to some medium repository size of (I suppose) hundreds of GB you can actually just let it build up. This doesn't scale completely, but for many projects, possibly even most of them, if everybody has a copy of absolutely everything, it's no problem.)

For whatever reason DVCS users often have a bit of a blind spot in this regard. Because DVCSes are good, the thinking often seems to run, if DVCSes handle something poorly, that must be something that revision control simply isn't to be used for. ("You must be using it wrong. Try storing everything on a shared drive and take daily backups and coordinate access using physical tokens.") Which is wrong, because revision control is for everybody, not just the programmers. People who work on unmergeable binary files need it too.

But fortunately, even if git/etc. and their users doesn't care about you, you're not completely stuck. if you have lots of binary files your needs are fairly well served by Perforce, and you can probably get on OK with SVN and its locking facility.
Hi I am Lee Cheng, Chief Troll Hunter of Newegg.com. AMA
> it didn't seem automated in any real sense.

From the GPS/Compass mount and the flashing LED I think its a pretty safe bet that it's a NAZA flight controller, which doesn't offer any autonomy (beyond stabilisation and GPS assisted position hold). So someone is flying it by remote control, like any RC aircraft.
Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you so much for your reply. I'm going to sleep soon, so I'll need some time to study this, but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your comment. And welcome to HN, by the way!

Do you happen to have an email address I could reach you at with further questions? (If you don't want to post it publicly, please feel free to email me if you'd like: sillysaurus3@gmail.com)
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I think both can easily be addressed by having flight corridors - much akin to virtual roads in the sky. It does take away some of the freedom / versatility / ability to go as the crow flies; but would ensure a degree of safety / sanity.
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Straight to the point my friend. I completely agree with you!

Also there was no demonstration of they input their data in an automated system that guides the drone through a GPS... It could just be them guiding it with a remote control just to create the Ad.
No, its called being precise.

When someone posts a new javascript lib, they don't explain what the for loop does.
The thing that will unseat youtube will probably not look like a competitor originally. I don't know what it will look like. Twitch seems like a possible canidate.
I understand now. that is a clever idea; I like it a lot.
Animal rights seem like a predominantly ethical issue to me that has little to do with science.
> As an ad for the pizza company, it works well though given how much this video seems to have been shared.

I was exhibiting at a UAV conference back in November, at there was a guy from Hootsuite exhibiting for the conference next door.

He spent quite some time trying to convince me that we should be working with pizza companies on an advertising campaign involving UAV delivered pizza. He was right, it's a good 'viral' ad idea.
We need patent reform now.

"their patented technology related to the registration of websites on search engines" — this right here is conclusive proof the patent system in the US is broken. Lets fix this now. How many legal/government resources have been wasted because of trolls like SUS? Leave the judges to put real criminals away.

Thank you for making a good example for the rest of us NewEgg. There are too many people that are unable to defend themselves in situations like these, it is great to know there are companies out there willing to fight (even if it takes years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to win).
It was not a choice between give phone and life. I view her story as she initially had a choice between give phone and scare the mugger off by the fact it is a middle of a day in large city.

Yes, the second option did not work as planned, and it is the main point of the article.
Ahh, the Eternal September...

I sincerely believe we need two Internets, or we need two Googles.

We need what started with ARPANET, but this time never let it commercialise. PageRank works for that network.

We also need the commercial network that works like a better Yellow Pages but actually gives valuable local focused information on businesses and services that can't be gamed and has different rules.

Trying to apply the same ranking rules to both types of searches pollutes the academic and destroys every local small business who are unlucky enough to not make it to the magic first page - because nothing else counts and the winner takes all.

Google has taken on a lot of responsibility dictating what they think we are looking for and they are failing us (and especially small business) big time. Maybe they are thinking about this? Maybe Google Local will factor more than PageRank for commercial. Maybe they will change the layout so more than 10 lucky links get to page one and you never get to have multiple listings for the same company. But right now it is bad and only getting worse.
That site has been watered down too much...

Here is what needs to be seen: http://web.archive.org/web/20120211235808/http://w3fools.com...
this later changed to http://web.archive.org/web/20130501070306/http://w3fools.com...

And after May 1, 2013, all details disappeared from the w3fools.com main page, thus reducing its credibility to zero.
> If there's one thing I've learned in my 35 years on this planet,
> it's that telling someone they're irrational is not diplomatic.

Well, you did it first, I just pointed out that we'd all do better by listening to each other and having less certainty of our rationality.

> I wonder if that diplomacy should also include men, and if so,
> how do you feel about the way feminists have been vilifying men?

I feel like it's a bad 'weak men' argument as stated by my two paragraphs I wrote on it referring to the article by @slatestarcodex.

* * *

I also feel that some aspects of feminism in technology can be neatly framed as rent-seeking behaviour. But, I think anybody that gives their wealth over to another because they have been guilted into believing that they should not truly own it (privilege narrative) are fools who should be parted with their money.

Also, I think that many in the MRA community are just too whiney to attempt to defend men. I could barely mount an argument for men like that.

I'm not a feminist. I listened to the article because it wasn't shouted at me, and I responded saying that some of the behaviour annoys me, that the normal lack of diplomacy normally makes me stop reading after 5 seconds, and that diversity is a problem because of the social interactions it creates but there isn't much misogyny to see. There's enough shared belief to be tapped here, and I'm pretty good at not jumping in with my own strong opinions when I can see a benefit in solving an underlying problem with others.
Can you share any more on this project?

We're currently working on a project for an environment agency to determine viability / produce a proof of concept for monitoring methane levels over landfills using UAVs.
The private label strategy, though appearing as a last resort, does make some sense i.e gross margins improvement. I think this serves as a lesson to those folks operating with primarily or even just operating partly in ecommerce. That is, if you're selling other people's stuff it's an efficiency play whilst if you're selling your own stuff, you've got more room to maneuver with margin.
Cheng did a "AMA" on reddit -- here are all the questions & answers in a convenient tabled form: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/2693ur/table_iama_hi...
> Even the smartest, most generalizable ideas right now, like cancer vaccines, depend on your immune system to make the final push, and the immune system is just as fallible as any other organ system.

I'm still waiting for the nanobots that we were promised two decades ago.

Imagine a billion nanobots swarming inside your body, networked [1] and analyzing every cell they come across. Over time, they build a gigantic database of your cells. Then they'll be able to use some heuristics to determine whether any given cell is a menace to your health. If it is, they either tag it for apoptosis or terminate it with a micro laser, depending on how reliable they think each method would be.

Movie material today, reality tomorrow. When this happens, I'll finally welcome the combination of "cure" and "cancer" in the same sentence.

[1] https://xkcd.com/865/
A few people mention operation mincemeat.

> letter from Ernest Whitley Jones, joint general manager of Lloyds Bank,[7] demanding payment of an overdraft of £79 19s 2d (£79.96).

This amount of money seems incorrect. A £56 ring would cost £2000 today, thus a £79 overdraft would not be £79 today, or someone would not have a > £2000 overdraft.

I do not edit wikipedia.
The article was not about not following basic hygiene, but was about allowing certain very specific epidermal bacterial cultures to survive.

And I have zero idea how you made the leap to menstrual hygiene, which is a completely unrelated topic.
It would help if you already Tier 1 network capacity. Several large and geographically distributed data centers.
Access to black ops computer processing and storage technology. Billions of dollars. And about 8 years.
Andy's article mentioned Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara. Are there any books about their story building Diapers.com? I'd settle for a well-written longform article.
I loved the slug video. In my mind the slug is making broom brroom noises as it 'speeds' along the wheel.
It seems to me that they simply destroyed everything that contains the word "programmable" in it's description, including switching regulator that is "programmed" by choice of external resistor.
If what you're thinking is the so called Design by Contract (using preconditions and postconditions), there are plenty of languages with that feature:

The original one is Eiffel, if I'm not mistaken:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precondition#Eiffel_example

Clojure:
http://blog.fogus.me/2009/12/21/clojures-pre-and-post/

Ada 2012, apparently:
http://www.adacore.com/uploads/technical-papers/Ada2012_Rati...

The slightly lesser known Cobra:
http://cobra-language.com/trac/cobra/wiki/Contracts

(of these, I only ever wrote Clojure, and I've used a couple preconditions in production, I definitely like the concept)
I think it shouldn't be impossible to establish a protocol for drones nearing each other to avoid collision and restricted zones. Of course, they'll all need to be equipped with a parachute and probably other forms of emergency damage control as well.

EDIT: the important damage to control would be that of citizens on the ground. I'm not suggesting drones should prioritize their own safety.
Well it could be misdirection but id argue that they have better ways to spread misinformation than doing it on exactly this OP.

Also they most certainly dont want people to speculate if they use such methods or not, especially on possible stock hardware on a large scale, therefore I dont see much logic in that scenario.

What we do know thanks to the Snowden files is, that they indeed install stealthy espionage equipment in seemingly uninteresting components (by intercepting mail orders for example). Not just to monitor keystrokes, etc but also to manipulate the PRNG (looking at you power converter).

The fact that some of those destroyed components are actually related to espionage relevant parts (such as keyboard, touchscreen, etc), rings some alarm bells at least.

Maybe they were indeed afraid that the systems were compromised but if so, why only destroy specific components and not just the whole thing?

Its top secret material after all and the protocols for safely destroying it are ridiculously strict. How could they be sure that there are no further compromised components which might survive?

The way I see it, I would tend to your first scenario.
The problem is SEO in general.

We have omnipresent and omniscient Google (or so they think) with high priest Matt Cutts bringing the tablets down from the mountaintop.

The SEO crew are on the ground busy reading chicken entrails and tea leaves and coming up with the best guesses they can but they really don't know.
If you can afford it (both financially and regarding math background), Bishop is a really great choice. Almost everything you need to know is in it. I have it and just love it!

But he goes quite deep in the mathematical explanations (which is a great point, there is no better way to learn and understand) meaning you have to be willing to work on your math for this book.
How do you take into account the initial fees? (Taxes, real estate agent fees). It would be nice to have that configurable.

It's important to have it separate from the price you pay to the owner because you shouldn't include them in the resell value of the house.
It could be as simple as a mouse being able to discriminate white from black or low tones from high tones. Sometimes I think the culture in some areas of science has become twisted. It really has to be experienced to be believed.
That wouldn't work in Finland since all of the pizzas would be stonecold by the time they arrived for the hangoverish fins.

:(

Anyway I think it's a great success and great example for the public of how these things could benefit the daily life in a real world.
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Right, so the value of the simulation is somewhat questionable. Exponential slowdown is enough to kill all intuition about what works and what doesn't. You only get some correctness gurantee and that would be for very small problems / test cases.
I am not saying researchers should live in poverty. However, the Forbes article is peppered with distasteful quotes from CEOs salivating over the billions they stand to make from cancer treatments. Imagine a real person saying "Sure, I could help you with your cancer... if you make me rich" -- they would be called a psychopath. But corporations somehow get a pass.

Why can an Internet store convince its investors to operate at a loss, while a pharmaceutical company cannot tell its investors: "Hey guys, we're working on a freaking cancer cure for humanity, this is way bigger than space travel, so we're not going to be profitable in the near future, a'ight?".
Ask HN: Anybody got a piece of software to split an MP3 by speaker? (or output list of times where each speaker is speaking)

I've got an audiobook with a particularly obnoxious commentator interjecting dumb things every couple of minutes and I'd like to slice those out.

I'd do it manually if it were only a couple of edits, but there are easily 150+ comments spread through 6 hrs of material. Should be easy for a speech recognizer, just two voices with different genders.
This is an interview with Paul R. Ryan, former Forbes CEO and now the guy behind Acacia Research, the firm behind the Newegg patent law suit. Was surprised he is not as slimy as I expected: http://vimeo.com/57723958
Ah, are you saying that scientists had trouble accepting the idea that a mouse could discriminate white from black? It seems like a repeatable test would be pretty convincing evidence. What justification was there for ignoring it?
This is going to come off as abrasive (out of context it sounds pretty bad), but:

I've never understood why progress should be sacrificed because 'someone loses a job.'

Idealistically, this indicates a problem with society - that people have to keep toiling away at automatable jobs for the sake of earning enough to live on.

Practically, this is going to happen at some point sooner or later once it becomes commercially profitable to do so and enough players are in the market.

Some of the greatest inventions have come out of the most meaningless original intentions. To play devil's advocate, maybe using drones for food delivery could eventually lead to finer-grained drone control - surgeries might very well be drone-assisted in the future!
Ask HN: What mouse?
Looking for some suggestions as to the best mouse to use with my MacBook. I have an apple magic mouse currently but I'm finding it really uncomfortable for long stretches. For a guy I think I have pretty average size hands.
I would prefer a bluetooth mouse so that I don't need any extra cables or dongles.
Thanks!
Both keyboard and trackpad controllers are microcontrollers with embedded flash, third chip (LT3957) says it is "programmable" in it's datasheet (although in this case it means that it's characteristics can be changed by values of external components, not that it contains any kind of non volatile memory).
The program in this case is the FHE virtual machine and indeed we cannot obfuscate that per the result of the paper. The "plaintext" input is the encrypted program along with its data. It is implicit in the definition of a program is the fact that the input to it is "plain".

Additionally, you should keep in mind that when doing the weird virtual machine thing you are not dealing with a single program. There are in fact 4. The actual program, call this P, you want to run on your data, the program to encrypt your program P along with its data, call this E, the virtual machine to run this encrypted program on the server, call this V, and finally the program to decrypt the result from running V on the output of E, call this E'.

Clearly, if we compose all these programs and run it on some data D, we get E'(V(E(P, D))) = P(D). However, the server doesn't know E, D and P and certainly doesn't know E'. The only thing the server knows is the value of E(P, D) and what V is. I haven't looked at the paper to deeply but I suspect it's vitally important to their result that you have some type of oracle that given a D, tells you the output of P(D), but the server cannot have that or else it would be pointless wasting your time with this FHE thing.
I don't understand why the general consensus seems to think this is gross. I ran a similar experiment where I stopped washing my hair, after I detoxed from shampoo/conditioner, my hair stopped smelling. It only smells for a few days and then the natural oils take over and do their job.

My fiance who is currently becoming a registered nurse said her teacher ran an experiment which concluded that if you wash your hands properly and long enough (at least 30 seconds) using water, it does as good a job as soap/antibacterial handwash. To prove this he swabbed students hands and also ran them under a light to inspect for anything foreign. He of course also made sure to mention that in a hospital using water would not fly, but I thought it was an interesting result.

What did we use before shampoo, soap and conditioner? Nothing. Mankind has lasted this long without buying antibacterial products, hasn't it? I think if anything, antibacterial handwashes, shampoo and conditioner have contributed to our unhealthy society, especially when put into combination with our zero nutritional diets and pollution-led lifestyles. I think we all get so sick because we don't expose ourselves enough to the common bacteria and germs that lurk in our everyday lives. At the end of the day we as humans are nothing more than bacteria. Look up a video of what happens inside of our bodies when we digest food, we are bacteria ourselves.
I can't really say much more than that its in the planning stages, and the software challenge I'm going to solve is principally dealing with fleet management .. 'drone is low power, return to base', 'replacement 2-of-3', &etc. The hardware guys have all the fun challenges: field-buildable/replaceable parts, autodocks for charging, etc. I'm just making a pizza app, basically. ;)
It could be heated up for you by a Predator drone.
So why are they so favourable to plaintiffs in patent troll cases in East Texas? Is it as simple as "favourable outomes for patent trolls = more patent troll cases in East Texas = more money for us"?