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A lot of the problems you bring up can be solved and will be, I've been working on long range multicopters so trust me I speak from experience.

At 200ft with low KV motors and big props they are nearly silent or at least quiet enough that they blend into the background. If you fly following surface streets you remove a lot of the "drone falling on someone possibility" and insurance can handle damage to cars if something were to go wrong. Keep in mind they can also be fitted with parachutes and airbags that can be deployed for safety.

Right now the biggest holdbacks are losing GPS lock (flyaways are not fun) sense and avoid (don't hit stuff) and battery life.

You can easily build a multicopter with current tech able to fly 5km+ and back in under 10min (I've done it) the issue is that due to the weight of the batteries you don't end up with much payload left to speak of. As better battery tech is rolled out and other stated problems are solved drone based logistics will be viable, I give it 5 maybe 10 years max and am very bullish on it.
I think it rather mean that if you consistently come up with and fixate on ideas that are so misaligned with your company and product that the boss has to step in and say "No dude. Please don't." than it's probably not the right company for you.
> Before you ration drinking water, you ban or ration washing cars, watering lawns, and laundry.

In the Sacramento region (and I believe other parts of the state), that's already happening. But its fairly light rationing for now, and we're very far from rationing drinking water.
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Well, on the web, I'm looking at content, and the ads are just distracting and annoying. On the bus/subway, I don't find the ads that annoying.

As for AdBlock, they don't actually charge you - you can get the extension for free. The donation is purely voluntary.
> Well put. 80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture.

How else are we going to grow rice in a desert?
As someone who has spent the last 3 days resolving dependencies, I found your article especially interesting. I was building scripts that would allow the team of developers to transition to a different OS with minimal time and effort. It sounds just like a "dependency management engineer" job, I guess :) But I certainly wouldn't write off this time as wasted — learned a big chunk of info that would allow me to feel more confident and independent on this new platform. Quite a bonus!

As for the code simplicity, I think your approach is very mature and solid. Like a joke has it: expert developer says "this doesn't work, let me remove something"; novice developer says "this doesn't work, let me add something".

Cheers,
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I suspect this is a big part of why Google invested in Uber.
Is there a reason that these use batteries rather than combustion engines?

Are you expecting the drones to use hardened GPS modules resistant to hijacking and not get DDoS'd by someone broadcasting fake GPS at their take off area?
I think people in California should adopt an alternative to the "Ice Bucket Challenge." Make it the "dirt bucket challenge" or __<something cheeky>___ challenge to save water.

Is there any connection between the increasing smog output of China and the lack of rain/show in California?
An operator can't do anything they like, their UAS has further restrictions which would rule out automated parcel collection:

- flown a sufficient distance from populated areas

- should be kept within visual line of sight of the operator

Source: https://www.faa.gov/uas/faq/
That's because you're a white, privileged, disgusting, racist, heterosexual, misogynist cis male. If you were as open minded as the rest of us, and aware of the enormous privilege you have, then you would keep quiet and only open your mouth to apologize for your existence.

It's because of people like you that poor, oppressed women and minorities don't work in technology: they don't want to be surrounded with people like you who wave their erections around wanting attention for being born into nobility and living in luxury, taking a new Rolls to work each day.

In other news: some woman or minority will get affirmative actioned in to this job, do a worse job than the privileged person who got looked over in favor of the woman/minority, and yet be immune to getting fired because it would look like misogynism or racism.

The person looked over will then be a few steps closer to moving to a hut in the forest, ready with pen, paper, envelopes and explosives. But that's no problem of the EFF, they were politically correct in hiring someone inferior - and being politically correct is what is important in today's society.

Political correctness is the best type of correctness!
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The rise of the personal car involved a huge amount of corruption to accomplish, with municipalities basically gutting the better alternatives you propose on behalf of the emerging auto-industry.

So yes, I think sans massive government corruption, we don't see these kinds of technologies that are intrusive and inefficient rising to prominence.

Also, trucks hit a technological sweet spot that I don't think drones sit in. They have predictable and easily controllable failure modes; they're always traveling at eye level where they're relatively (easier) to spot; they have relatively high transport capacity, enabling multiple visits; etc.

The problem with drones that replace trucks is that I'm not sure we've actually gained much by having flying trucks all over the place - the increase in delivery time (which I'm not sure would actually be very high in the average case) would easily be offset by the danger of many low flying trucks.
> Despite California's attempts to "crack down" on the ALS challenge

I don't think any such challenge exists; the only thing I've seen from the state government relating to the ALS challenge in the context of the drought is a public information officer for the Department of Water Resources responding to questions about it by saying that the Department hasn't given any thought to it and redirecting attention to the ongoing water uses that the Department is trying to get people to cut down on.
For something quirky i use python with BeautifulSoup. Or lately node.js with phantom.js and server side jQuery.

And shameless plug - for anything more trivial and on-demand or websites that have good structure (which is the most of them) I use http://redpluck.com. It's easy and fast to setup, supports scraping behind login walls and powerful deep scraping.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210251
More detailed report from the researchers: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/handsoff-20140731.pdf
So... agile?
"Currently Azure Search does not offer configurable analysis modes" ( source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798920.aspx )

The configurable analysis is the cornerstone of the search functionality and is a huge portion of Apache Lucene (and therefore both Solr and ElasticSearch).

So, in my eyes, this offering has not outgrown the pure web-search domain yet.

(edit) Which is strange, because in another comment they do say they use ElasticSeach under the covers. I even thought that the API interface looked somewhat similar to ES.
For those who want to try it out, some binaries and videos are found here: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=611c3830c430d4e3&id=611C3830C...

The user perception results are very impressive - round trip times of 250ms were not significantly noticeably different from the control fat client system.
Looks nice, kudos for offering it for free - 5$/month is still not nothing. It would be grand if you included "US" somewhere besides the domain, because the service geolocates US zipcodes, not international zip codes.
http://clui.org/ludb/site/crystal-geyser-olancha-plant

The Olancha Crystal Geyser bottling plant is on Highway 395 right next to the dry bed of Owens Lake. The Owens River used to run into Owens Lake but the water was diverted for the Los Angeles Aqueduct and now it's an Alkali dust bowl. Every time I drive past the facility (usually twice a year) I'm reminded about how much of a mess Californias water policy has been since at least 1905 when the projects were first started. In 1930 LA started a project to siphon water away from the Mono Basin and that's had a very detrimental effect on the area including Mono Lake as well. You can see some changes in the area since courts have ruled that not as much water can be taken, from Mono at least, but the drought has made it look pretty insignificant.

I don't know which states are supplied bottled water from that facility but at the very least it's bottled and trucked into LA, and for some residents it's essentially the same water they are getting from their tap.
Developing various cartoon superpowers is mostly used in the context of being denounced as being of inferior value compared to that tradition's idea of spiritual salvation. So I am not sure if that can be taken as promoting asceticism.

Leaving mythology aside, different spiritual traditions strive towards different goals.

Sikhism rejects outward asceticism...
"Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring, nor in the shaven head, nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities."

Buddhism advocates a middle way, and is against too much asceticism as well as too much hedonism and in mahayana a vow working to benefit others...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_way

Hinduism is a very mixed bag. A one of the most popular ideals involves working towards outcome in a non-attached way...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_yoga

Jainism probably has the most ascetic spiritual ideal among the indian traditions.
Probably, though also probably a more depressing/less glamorous version of Uber + Amazon. Having people run around in cars is going to be horrifically non-economical, and at a commodity level delivering packages is going to be far less profitable than driving people around.

More likely we'll see companies hire scores of underemployed former-members-of-the-middle class and put them on mopeds/bicycles (as density dictates). They are cheaper, and unlike machines scale up/down as seasonality requires. They are also highly flexible and capable of things like ringing doorbells, opening doors, climbing stairs, following notes on doors, and all the other details around delivery that "drones for everything!" acolytes tend to gloss over.

This is already the reality in places like New York - you can already get a huge array of things delivered within minutes by people zipping around on e-bikes.
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I see this explicitly argument being made more and more recently. A language is better because it’s more explicit and hence easier for people to understand. I think it’s completely wrong. If you want to be really explicit, use assembler. But everyone would argue that this is too explicit and harder to understand. So definitely explicitly in itself in a language is not intrinsically better.

What I think this whole argument is about is levels of abstraction. By saying language A is more explicit then B and hence easier to understand, what he really means is that language A is on exactly that level of abstraction that makes most sense to him. It might even mean that it makes most sense to most developers and he does mention the bell curve, but I think that discussion is still out.

Personally I would argue that Scala, Rust, D and at the very extreme Scala are not too high level, it’s just that most developers nowadays learned programming in something like C, Java (pre 8) or C++ (pre 11) and hence are used to that level of abstraction that feels natural to them. I’m confident though that a next generation, learning early on more functional constructs that are more and more pervasive in newer languages and also newer version of “old” languages (Java, C++) will feel natural to them and the “right” level of abstraction.
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It's really not that bad. Click the "mute" icon in the top-left of the screen and go on with your life.
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If you want to put faces to names mentioned:
http://www.pressherald.com/2013/04/09/north-pond-hermit-susp...
Photoreceptor proteins, such as rhodopsin (typically the first GPCR [1] you'll study in a biochem undergrad program), each have different characteristic absorption spectra. But it's much more complex than that--each of these proteins exhibit different absorption spectra given different isomerizations and even different conformers [2] .

Here are some absorption spectra [3] of crystals of various rhodopsin isomers. I'm not sure if any of these are biologically relevant isomers, but it's interesting that these were not in solution. (I suppose that since they're membrane-bound GPCRs and might be difficult to study in solution? This isn't my field of study.)

Check out some bacterial absorption spectra [4]. Visual perception isn't limited to organisms with eyes. Or even eukaryotes, for that matter. It's actually pretty ancient [5].

On that note, pigment chemistry is pretty fascinating.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_protein-coupled_receptor The GPCR family is really cool. A ton of our sensory perception arises from class A GPCRs. Here's a really beautiful diagram of the 7 transmembrane regions of rhodopsin: http://physrev.physiology.org/content/physrev/81/4/1659/F1.l...

2. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210271X13... Just to cite an instance, though this one isn't vision-related.

3. http://www.pnas.org/content/103/44/16123/F1.expansion.html

4. http://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/ormosgroup/abs/abs.html

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaearhodopsin
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Having read the article, I'm still very sceptical of the feel for games that receive a high frequency of user input. It's precisely when a sudden, radical change in input is made that lag is most noticeable from my experience. I'm also curious about the extra resource requirements when it comes to physics of which many modern games are heavily reliant. That being after actually successfully modifying a the physics system on a game engine you'd actually want to use to be able to support such a technique..

All of the methods and applications mentioned are really cool, but I'm still EXTREMELY sceptical of practical "cloud" gaming.
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Lighting does a lot to improve a scene, but unfortunately I'm almost certain that it's pre-rendered lighting, which isn't all that interesting since any dynamic objects present ruin the effect.
True, just as Europe was civilized waaaay after the Orient.
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A tropical coastal city with high winds, heavy rainfall and multiple monsoon seasons doesn't seem ideal, despite the small area.
There is zero issue to have a flat file database that's all multi. MySQL InnoDB, the transactional one engine, can be a single file database. [Small exception - part of the schema is stored on two separates files for easier access, there won't be a big deal to store them in the big file. Transaction log is also not in the same file for obvious reasons]

If you want a full serialization of the memory to the 'flat' file - then no. It just makes no sense.
Yet, a single file databases that's multi-user, mulch-threaded and mult-transaction is all viable.
Genuinely impressive.
I can't imagine the scope of a project that would move water 1500 miles over a mountain range. From the Missouri valley to western Kansas is a 3000 ft elevation change. You are literally trying to get water to flow uphill.
Democracy need not be about declaring itself the most efficient way to pass the best laws. Even its strongest advocates would hesitate to fully endorse that. What democracy is, or at any rate what it's supposed to be, ideally, is a mechanism to act as a check on those in power. It's a way to formalize the power of mobs, and (hopefully) to channel it into something useful that doesn't involve burning down half the city when the ruling class goes too far. Namely, voting in a different government, which would still serve mainly the interests of the ruling class of course, but in an effort to keep its own power will make some concessions to the rest of us.
I love the idea of Amazon Prime Air, but there's one concern I have. I know next to nothing about the FAA and airspace regulation, so I'd like to hear from someone who does.

The common argument to raised concerns of drones buzzing about is "well, we have cars and delivery trucks!" That doesn't quite sit well with me because we have designated specific areas to the use of automobiles. It's easy to stay off the road. We can consciously stay out of harm's way, even if it's an asshole driving recklessly.

How is this accomplished with drones? How is the airspace structured in a way where drones are in designated areas that either avoid or are avoided by humans? How do you prevent an asshole piloting a rogue drone from dropping a heavy item on someone in a balcony? One can make the argument that these concerns also apply to planes, but I'm assuming both the airspace and ownership of planes are heavily regulated and monitored. Will we need a similar system to manage drone use?
Forth might be a better fit for this kind of thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008974
It's a good tool. If you have a thinkpad, there are extras that can be installed to support battery charge thresholds, etc.

My x220 idles at around 6.5 Watts with wifi on, bluetooth off.
You mean Circuit City?
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It is shocking that there isn't a better service.

I've been looking at the untorch data for some insight on the referral links: http://untorch.com/js/untorch.js
There's a pretty cool gallery of images here, including a recent one of the Grand Canyon:

https://www.planet.com/gallery/

This one showing recent changes in reservoir levels is pretty neat:

https://www.planet.com/gallery/represa-de-tres-marias/
I have a gun to my head right now, and so do you. Try missing a payment for your phone, rent, or mortgage. If you think capitalist states don't rely on violence and the threat of violence to maintain the social order, you're not thinking clearly.

But "I loathe capitalism" doesn't imply "I advocate communism."

Capitalism and the kind of communism you're talking about are both violent impositions of large and complex legal systems. Why do I need to like either of them?

The world is run by powerful people, and I generally dislike them. It's structured by systems of bureaucratic power, and I dislike those, too.

Libertarians tend to frame capitalism as being equivalent with liberty and freedom, which makes me laugh out loud.
ZIP codes are the name for US-specific postal codes. International postal codes are not zip codes.
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The need to estimate highly depends on whether you are developing a project or a product. On a project, the customer always wants to know what will be done at which date, and how much that would cost.

A product however, can be released "when it's done", so there is no real need to estimate. The additional benefit is also that it can be released when the developers feel that the product is ready for release, unlike a project, where there is a lot of pressure to deliver things.

My personal view (and experience) is that developing without estimates saves time and creates a higher quality product. But other (smart) developers that I know like to work within estimates because they think it pushes everyone to deliver things.

We probably are both right, because there is yet another factor that comes into play when choosing to estimate or not: motivation of the developers. Highly motivated developers who love their job, rather work in their code instead of goofing off on the internet. But when the project/product is not that special, and not everyone feels passionate about it, estimating and follow-up is probably preferred to put a little pressure on getting things done.
In California, you do have access to some pretty spectacular national parks and such, though, I suppose?
Why should you be concerned about using Facebook messaging for work?
Yeah, my older brother is also quite "sensitive." We had to take the first bus out of Vienna because he couldn't handle it; it made him nauseous. There was a lot of quiet in our household, and we're both moderately introverted.
I just added the currency selector into plan settings. So you can display in dollars, pounds, or euros now. Intended as a first step.
>>And "flat" implies there is no special data structure involved.

Flat files doesn't mean neither text file, nor human-readable.
Text format, human-readable format is a terrible one to store data, esp. numbers.
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Water Rationing is not necessary. When it becomes a life threatening problem, people who want water will pay for desalination projects to be quickly completed in order to supply water for people to live. Forward thinking politicians are already putting these things on the fast track to get ahead of the game.
Under 500 feet is unregulated, (FAA claims 400) the FAA is trying to regulate it since a reform law that was passed in 2012. Under 83 Feet is owned by the property owner due to some lawsuit back around WW2 involving some chickens.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/30/317074394/drone-wa...
The maze game is awesome. Unfortunately it seems the game has gone over quota...
What really allows airplanes to fly?
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Radiometric dating is very reliable. I would be interested in seeing this "different analysis". Can you provide a source please?
Ease of use, complexity and reliability. I'm referring to drones < 10kg. There's a point in large systems where gas becomes a more competitive option but for smaller multicopters it's not.
I have been working on my quads since 2011 and have three.

Aside from their main downside (energy density), which is improving each year and now reaching 265 Wh/g, electric batteries provide many improvements. First of all, electric motors are more efficient than gas-powered motors. Secondly, gas-powered motors are fairly heavy, so you need a bigger and thus more expensive quadcopter. Thirdly, it is difficult to control a gas-powered quadcopter at the speed of an electric quadcopter.

TL;DR It's possible but difficult to make a gas-powered quadcopter, since it'll be heavy and difficult to control. At that point, it doesn't make much sense to use a quadcopter, since two of their biggest advantages are how easy they are to control and how light they can be.

Also, it would make no sense for you to "DDoS" a GPS module. DDoS = distributed denial of service. You're probably thinking of jamming (broadcasting garbage data so the GPS can't receive anything) or spoofing (broadcasting fake data.)
Isn't this synchronicity, rather than serendipity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
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