skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Flying anywhere near aerodromes is illegal just about everywhere."

This is simply not true. It might be illegal just about everywhere without permission, but there are countries, where you can get permission to drone shoot legally at or near an airport.

One example is Switzerland:
http://tinoscherer.ch/air-14-payerne-mera-drone/
http://tinoscherer.ch/project/air-14-remo-masina-bazl-drone/

You're right about the "potentially" in this case.
It's not that they see a few colors that no one perceives, it's that for them color is a 4 dimensional space instead of a 3 dimensional one. So it's a whole new world of different colors.
Are you familiar with the local law in Fiji?
Rob a man, and you're a criminal. Get half the people in some arbitrary geographical region to put your name on a piece of paper and rob a man, and you're a statesman.
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That's why America was founded as a republic. Rule of law, not rule of man.
Would you mind explaining a bit more? This is really interesting to me.
(2) Maybe it was faster for him to build that way, due to experience, etc..
(3) strawman argument, perhaps he chose his technologies for other reasons besides premature optimization. You're essentially accusing him of making a design mistake IMO.
(4) The fact that right click is disabled doesn't tell us anything about the software architecture, your statement reads as if its a critique.
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> no polygon can encompass all colors.

But I suppose that a polygon could encompass all colors if it was big enough to include also wavelengths of non-visible colors.
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I thought you meant the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Thinking back though, I think both need debugging..
I can't read any puff piece anymore without feelings of envy and cringing.
If the technology that Walmart is backing only requires a software update to existing phones then it is not nearly as secure as apple pay.

A lot of people are comparing Google wallet and apple pay like they are the same thing - they are not. A phone with compromised firmware could leak sensitive data with Google wallet but not with Apple pay.
Btw, is Scala still relevant with the coming of Java 9?
We've had exactly this experience over the last year, trying to use Rails Admin as a cheap way to build a content management system for a moderately large site with diverse types of content where we didn't really have budget to invest in building our own CMS.

Rails Admin definitely excels at getting you running very quickly by providing a simple interface for CRUD actions around basic models. Where it falls down - aside from dealing well with relationships, as you mention, which is arguably hard to get right - is when you want to extend that basic functionality and provide a better or different experience for your users. We've had to create custom views for letting users control the layout of certain content types, including various drag-and-drop operations, and that was pretty unpleasant to achieve (one of those horrible times where you just end up hopefully copying from other people's projects because figuring out how to do it yourself from the documentation is just impossible); and we've ended up writing a lot of CoffeeScript to hack Rails Admin views to do what we wanted in various circumstances - much of this ended up very fiddly due to working with a quite weighty Bootstrap DOM.

Lastly, the custom DSL, while clever, suffers from the usual pitfalls that plague these types of DSLs - your code can become quite bloated and re-use is very difficult to achieve. We have half a dozen models that broadly have the same customisations in Rails Admin, but we mostly ended up copying swathes of code from one to another because there wasn't a good way to re-use any of it.

The documentation is also a bit hit and miss, and issues on the GitHub issue tracker are pretty much left to fester, sadly.

In summary, I'd use Rails Admin again if I wanted an interface to allow experienced users to get a quick appraisal of, or make small modifications to, the data in a project; if I were doing something involving regular users again, I can't really say I'd consider Rails Admin a good option.
It's worth noting that Gravit.io is a JavaScript rewrite of Stagestack project [1] which was an attempt to create commercial clone of Macromedia FreeHand from scratch [2]. Stagestack project failed due to lack of funding from FreeHand community.

[1] http://www.stagestack.com/

[2] http://www.freehandforum.org/news.html
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I'm from Australia but hadn't heard of the Rainbow Eucalypt before (the tree that the featured tetrachromat painted). That's not so unlikely as there are a lot of Eucalyptus species.

Still, I was curious and so looked it up and was very interested to find that it is a Eucalypt from outside Australia and, more than that, the only one whose native region partly lies within the northern hemisphere. Another name for it is the Mindanao gum, as it is native to the tropical rainforests of Mindanao in the Philippines (north of the equator).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_deglupta
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Scale is completely separate from the legal ban of commercial drone operations. I can legally build a dozen quadcopters with 26" propellers and set them flying formations for fun. I cannot legally charge $5 to take extremely low quality photos of a field with a 20 gram.
I didn't think he was criticising anything.
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What you're saying is reasonable, and there are lots of people attempting to make RAD systems. Unfortunately, they always place severe limitations on the kind of software that can be created with them, and hence none of them have become particularly popular.

It seems that there's something missing from all the existing implementations of your suggestion. Perhaps it is that the UI and data flow primitives that we have aren't flexible enough to express a lot of business models, thus requiring custom implementations.
> From what I understand, a modern monitor is capable of displaying the entire range of colors perceptible to the human eye. Am I mistaken about that?

It kinda depends on what you think as a color. Computer monitors rely heavily on that (normal) human vision can not distinguish from eg. red-green and "true"[1] yellow, even though they are completely different from physical perspective. So a typical computer monitor does not bother to create "true" yellow and instead cheats by outputting red-green when asked for yellow.

If we had an hypothetical tetrachromat with additional cones sensitive for yellow light, her color vision would span the same range as normal (trichromat) color vision, ie cover the same piece of EM spectrum. But normal computer monitors would not be able to reproduce for her what she sees in real world.

Then there is the somewhat related discussion about violet and red-blue which is quite curious when you begin think about it.

[1] I'm using "true" color to refer light with specific wavelength
> Needing to apply for a government permit to operate a drone?

Are you talking about commercial flying? I certainly do not think I should need to apply for a government permit to fly a 15 gram quadcopter that could not cause injury or property damage if I tried.
Lots of laws are only there because established companies of lobbied for them. A large chunk of laws are anti consumer and anti worker
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There's an intro to the app on their blog. Sounds like they were going for Freehand/Fireworks rather than Photoshop :)

All saving also disabled for me, guessing the back end isn't quite there yet.
> These must pass strict scrutiny

In my opinion, restrictions on electioneering spending do pass strict scrutiny.

> The government's interest has never been in "remedying" the problem of people speaking about politics, regardless of money

Money is all that is at issue here. Like many others, I categorically reject the notion that money is speech, and have done so for a very long time in the face of far more detailed and principled arguments to the contrary than have been presented in this thread.

> (it does have an interest in stopping bribery, but that's a different issue.)

Bribery is not a different issue -- campaign contributions, direct or not, are bribery.

> allowing associations of people

I will never consider "associations" that shield their members/owners from personal liability to be entitled to speak or do anything else without the permission of society.

The alternative to CU is not frightening. The alternative to CU is recognition of the obvious: Limited liability entities are not entitled to any rights, political campaigns should be publicly funded, and individual spending on electioneering should be strictly limited.

Notice I keep saying "electioneering", not "politics", because the conduct at issue is expenditure of money on electioneering, not speaking about or spending money on politics in general. This is just one example of the vast disconnect in evidence here.
As I understand it apple pay works with the standard NFC payment tech that visa paywave/etc use, so apple isn't providing pos machines at all?

Regarding the "Google did it first" part - the devil is in the details. ApplePay will provide secure card less transactions while maintaining customer privacy - apple won't know (and don't care based on comments from eddie cue was it) what you are buying or from who.

With google wallet the worlds biggest information gathering ad delivery company gets a complete record of what you buy, when, from who, for how much, how often etc.

I know a lot of the tech industry treats google like some kind of benevolent uncle who can do no wrong and has nothing but good intentions, but for some people privacy still carries value.

Given that google wallet only works in the USA 3 years after it's launch, I don't really think its anywhere near to a competing service in the grand scheme of things.
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Taking vitamins is not always harmless. The "antioxidant" stuff is mostly bullshit; vitamin A is toxic in overdose; some vitamins make some cancers worse; etc.

It wouldn't be so bad if the raindancing was free, but it's expensive and pushed by massive corporations making a quick buck off ignorance and fear.
I'm a Scandinavian in my mid 30s and haven't bothered getting a driver's license either. I could certainly afford a car, but it's just too much hassle.
I agree. I read that comment last night and could almost not sleep due to the insights it gave me. I'm going to spend the whole weekend re-reading about Functors, Applicative and Monads now. Maybe this time I'll grok it all.

Thanks Chris!
Among the people I see in my office probably 80% or more have significant sleep disturbances, common is "night owl" syndrome, people who can't get to sleep early enough to get adequate sleep when having to arise at 06:00 to take care of kids, dogs and get themselves ready for work.

The problem is often not lack of tiredness, but simply feeling "not sleepy" when one is "supposed to be". Their minds are active, they feel activated and can't settle down. Can be a tough problem to solve. Morning bright light treatment sometimes help. Melatonin before bedtime might help. Talk to you health care people find out the options.

But of course, anxiety and depression are top causes of insomnia. Various therapies are often quite helpful.

Worth pointing out that there are a huge range of conditions that cause sleep disturbances, and many are impossible to determine without specific evaluation. Some conditions are downright weird so don't be embarrassed if you feel freakish on that account. Believe me, I've heard many strange sleep histories, but I've not considered a single one of them to be unbelievable.

We should check out what's going on. I refer 2 or 3 people every week for sleep evaluations, afterwards almost all say, "hey that wasn't a bad experience at all."

Poor sleep can be lead to bigger health problems--it's a long list I won't go into it now, but a good part of the time helping sleep helps alleviate other conditions.

Basic healthy sleep rules: give an hour to wind down and to wake up. Avoid the "blue light" body snatching phones, computers and all the rest of those evil things ;) Especially in that PM winding-down time.

In any case, if you have frequent or continuous sleep disturbance, don't suffer silently, talk to your primary care doc, just describe the trouble, don't try to explain it, that's the doc's job. Don't underplay the problem, it may be serious. It's just taking good care of yourself, and since it is your top priority job, don't wait do it.
> The crux of Jordan’s argument lay in the fact that the gene for our red and green cone types lies on the X chromosome. Since women have two X chromosomes, they could potentially carry two different versions of the gene, each encoding for a cone that is sensitive to slightly different parts of the spectrum. In addition to the other two, unaffected cones, they would therefore have four in total – making them a “tetrachromat”.

Why couln't this happen for either of the other cones?
The idea of producing new codecs every 18 months seems to fly in the face of the idea of getting broad hardware support.
The page also shows that sometimes what you think is hard is easy and what you overlook is the really difficult bit:

> The problem with SPH in realtime is it’s really really hard. The simple explanation of the algorithm is: “take all the particles near my particle and perform some force exchange between them”.

At this point I was expecting a long discussion on all the clever tricks they have found to calculate the force exchange between thousands of particles in a snap. And instead...

> The force exchange is easy; the “all the particles near my particle” is a bitch. On GPU it’s even more of a bitch; and in 3D it becomes an order of magnitude more of a bitch.

> [...]

> The problem is simply the neighbourhood search. You end up with a variable amount of fast-moving particles affecting each particle, where it’s hard to pick an upper bound – so the spatial database is hard to construct. If you solve the neighbourhood search, you can solve SPH.
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10^14 bit error rate is false or routine ZFS scrubs would produce documented read errors. I'm inclined to believe the entire math here is wrong as well.
According to the bower file [1] they only use jquery

[1] https://github.com/quasado/gravit/blob/master/bower.json
No links, no evidence ... citation needed. Evidence is how we decide whether something is an idea or a cult.

> Just because he has a 50 cent vocabulary doesn't mean that what he's saying makes sense.

Yes, that's true. It also doesn't mean the opposite of that -- not without evidence.
Now I'm intrigued to see what P2 looks like.
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Ooh, a combined monitor/tanning lamp/heater! Great idea! /s
> a certain amount of, umm, aggression is needed to make any forward progress

They added a slight "aggression" back in 2011, if other cars aren't letting it out it starts pushing forwards a bit:

> Sometimes, however, the car has to be more "aggressive." When going through a four-way intersection, for example, it yields to other vehicles based on road rules; but if other cars don't reciprocate, it advances a bit to show to the other drivers its intention. Without programming that kind of behavior, Urmson said, it would be impossible for the robot car to drive in the real world.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

I really don't understand why people think small behavioural differences like that require decades of work. Things that humans find difficult and stressful are likely to be the things that are significantly easier when you have a reaction time measured in milliseconds and full 360 degree vision.
My new UI for a game: flat, simple, minimal. Suggestions? Too minimal?
wow, that's some hugely complex build mechanism. A lot of the cost of building it is going to go into the design, and manufacture of scaffolds, and custom struts etc, just for the conveyor belt.

Would it have been cheaper to not have the assembly done in such a fashion?
Will definitely read your thesis, complete or not, if you choose to publish.

Right now I am very much into Roberto Bolano, and he is the first South American author I have read at all. Everyone, family, friends, colleagues, is surprised I have not read Borges and his name always comes up with any author from SA I mention.

So, that's it. Ficciones is the next book on my list. If his viewpoint is what you describe, I am going to love him.

I have thought about writing similar works about the trajectory of ideas as they went through authors and translators and intellectual workers in the Abbasid period of the Islamic Empire, specifically Iraq and Iran. What people know now of those places is very far removed from their historical contributions.

Now I need to learn to write, program, and everything else. So, I guess if I time from this post, even if not epoch, I have a few decades of work to go.

UPDATE: Hilarious. Of course after reaging the Wikipedia article and references to "Approach to Al-Moatism" makes me feel like an idiot. I guess Borges beat me to this years ago. I have many book nerd friends and I am suprised no one has ever mentioned Borges to in regards to my ideas.
I think people should be allowed to use drugs. However, I agree that its a coin toss. People should make careful decisions about what kinds of substances they choose to consume. Drug use is not always a safe hobby, maybe not ever.
Mantis Shrimps have 12 photoreceptors, they can also see in all polarisations. They don't do paintings so it's hard to know how they experience this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
Even though our eyes detect color in 3 dimensional space, that doesn't seem to be how we perceive it. E.g. I can't tell you how much red, green, or blue is in a color, just that it's close to the cluster of colors I recognize as "purple" or "blue" or "orange" or whatever.

See this chart for example: http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png

Interestingly there is some evidence that culture and language might affect our perception of color.
Its great that it generates C but I'd worry that developers who are writing embedded code won't bother to try it - they often are trying to squeeze some code into a small amount of memory on a limited processor. Some of the things it provides - state machines, unit conversions and error logging are pretty simple to do within C anyway, and developers might not appreciate or want an additional level of abstraction.
The current system actually costs more to society, so the money is definitely available.
I'm guessing that Walmart customers are more likely to use Android vs. iOS.
This is not open source! this is free software
Thiel is correct that capitalism is more about monopoly, rather than competition, and of course the fact that innovative companies in newly emerging markets have managed to obtain locks on natural monopolies (eg in operating systems, telephone networks and so on) has led to huge success and profits.

But he's completely wrong that this is a good thing, at least not for the overall economy in the long term, as opposed to individual companies in the short term. To extend his example, if the restaurant business were like search engines, you'd have a choice of just a few big chains (maybe macdonalds, and pizza hut) which would be on every street.

Direct competition is absolutely vital, because it drives innovation. Innovation is how companies escape competition.

Companies should perhaps enjoy some limited "monopoly" over their innovations, but they should not be allowed to milk them forever, and probably, for example, the current patent system awards much too much and too long a monopoly for much too little innovation.

Introducing, encouraging, or even mandating competition by splitting companies up, is required in order to keep companies innovating, rather than dominating and then exploiting, and it is one of government's most important functions, sadly neglected in recent decades.

Of course VC fund managers like Thiel would like you to believe that monopolies are good, since that's how they profit - invest upfront, and then reap huge rewards based on monopoly valuations.
What a low level comment.

No, that's entirely not what he said. But if that's all that you got out of it then I guess that's better than nothing.
I think it's a bit too minimal. I don't know what the bars at the left or right are for. Do I click on units, petrol, or drugs, and then use the bar at the top to move the units over? Will this show in the left and right bars?

Also, I would suggest using a different font. I've seen that font too many times to know that's Calibri.

Good job though, I'm liking the flat, minimal art style youre going for.
Not if the new versions preserve compatibility. But it's true that the technology with the longer view, with fewer major changes, might prevail on that basis alone.
Instead of the animation speed setting it should have a slider (like, for instance, here http://debug.elm-lang.org/edit/Mario.elm). Otherwise, it's more like a nice animation than a learning tool.
"A cleaned up version of C99 helps avoid low-level bugs. For example, the preprocessor is not supported"

NOPE.

From my cold, dead hands.
Depends on implementation.

NFC has that "secure element" thingy, that is, a TPM, like a SIM card. Implementations may vary. I'm unaware on actual Google Wallet NFC implementation, but I heard rumors (which are not certain by any means) at least Samsung had some hardware-assisted keystore. And I doubt Visa or MasterCard would permit Android vendors to do things on a phone's base OS a manner that could be exploited with a software hack.
>I think it's a bit too minimal. I don't know what the bars at the left or right are for. Do I click on units, petrol, or drugs, and then use the bar at the top to move the units over? Will this show in the left and right bars?

- The top bar is the percent of units (or the type of stuff) to move from the left planet to the right planet;
- The left bar is the percent of units that are going to leave (the red part) in the next ship.
- On the right bar is the destination planet, therefore the green is the increment in units on the other planet;

>Also, I would suggest using a different font. I've seen that font too many times to know that's Calibri.

The font is Myriad Pro Regular (:

>Good job though, I'm liking the flat, minimal art style youre going for.

Thanks for your feedback
>> Organizations deliberately breaking the law for profit is generally called "organized crime".

You know, I actually agree with you, by the definitions of things we have in place today, that is, in fact, organized crime. And since most people violate three laws a day, and we use various corporate affiliations to do it, it would follow that we are all members of a vast organized crime syndicate.

Going to need some bigger prisons.