skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confirms my thoughts, it really is a miniature Kinect-like kit.
One parachute-for-drone is already being Kickstarted (at least).

But the issue is the effective minimum height for a parachute to be any use.
Nobody lives in these condos for the most part. They are money laundering/tax shelter vehicles for the uber-rich, especially foreigners. The same phenomenon is common in south florida.

A lot of the content of the article is FUD. There is no relationship between income and property tax levy -- it's based on the adjusted value of the property. In the case of an apartment building, the value is easily computed as a factor of the revenue generated. Obviously, the process in NY is prone to corruption, as the leaders of both houses of the state legislature under Federal investigation for related issues. There are lots of stakeholders here with different interests -- unions want construction jobs, lawyers get to bill for title and other work, etc.

What has changed during the last 15 years is the importance of property tax in NYC. Unlike the rest of the state, other revenue sources were more prominent. Now, in addition to high sales tax, city income tax, special transit payroll tax, and other costs associated with NYC, you get high property taxes too.
Maybe, but the FAQ states the current battery isn't replaceable. So it seems more likely they'd have to come out with an entire new unit in order to have external batteries.

It doesn't seem like something they're interested in for the launch.
You don't think a device that weighs over 2lbs falling from 40' could kill someone?

And that seems like it's being pretty generous. In most "quadcopter crash" videos I've seen on YouTube the drone was much higher. Sometimes even hundreds of meters.
Well, I would imagine a lot of your speed is downward right? Then it's a matter of a controlled decent really. I'd guess that would increase the top speed of the device as it's really just falling out of the sky and steering.
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What are both of the "ways"?

The content is the same, it's the business model of the publisher that's different: ads vs subscription.

Google is just serving as an index, you can't read it on Google itself so why should they be able to discriminate content providers based on business model?
A lot smart folks are trying to figure out the AI space > http://www.wsj.com/article_email/artificial-intelligence-exp...
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I read the title as "fast mobile waterboarding" during my first quick scan of the main page. I was very confused there for a second.
'harmless' drone blades are the exception, if they even exist. Note that drones designed to operate indoors have some form of protection for the blades (Parrot drone, for instance).

In addition, 'cheap' blades have sharp edges due to the manufacturing process. Some drone owners recommend sanding them to get rid of those, to minimize injuries.
Hmm, the link is no longer valid. Has the site moved?
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Jesus, that article took forever to describe the problem. Inverted pyramid guys, come on.
> What if just opening the link does a destructive action, like unsubscribing or posting a comment on your website?

Then whoever created the link that does that is doing web wrong and needs to stop.

GET is, by definition, a safe method. (See RFC 7231, Sec. 4.2.1; RFC 2616, Sec. 9.1.1.) Doing destructive actions via a safe method is plain wrong.
This brings to mind the central premise of "Humans Need Not Apply", which I'm happy to bring up as worthwhile viewing whenever the discussion trends towards dramatic lifestyle changes from automation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
here's a port i cobbled together from some firefox addon demos in 15 minutes. tested to work on wsj

https://github.com/zethraeus/wgsm-ff/blob/master/gglsntm.xpi...

(consider reading the source instead of just trusting it)
Are you willing to take a propeller to the face?

The cool thing about sidewalks is that they are elevated and it takes some effort to hop on to one and run over pedestrians (especially when there is a protective lane of parked cars). Drones, on the other hand, are poised to fall on people, with no barriers.
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Pretty cool..! You need a british guy in your team that can pronounce Aluminum like Johny Ive and you sell like crazy.
Actually, in the CHICKEN Scheme community, this is done quite often, though you don't see it nearly as much because of how transparent it ends up being. Mostly stuff is written in Scheme / R5RS when possible, and C bindings to a faster library or implementation are exported using the bind egg when speed is of critical importance.

This is obviously not the norm, as the bind egg is very good, but it's definitely out there. Makes me wish that there were other languages which offered something similar to bind, but alas CHICKEN is the only one I know of thus far.
This is fascinating. I've only ever really though of antimatter forming in the early universe, at the edges of black holes, and in particle accelerators. I love the thought of them forming in thunderclouds as well, and I'm quite curious to hear about the followup investigations.
> Protocol Relative URLS are now considered an anti-pattern

Sorry to sidetrack, but what's wrong with protocol-relative URLs? The only info I've found is a quote from Paul Irish relating it vaguely to the China/Github DDOS incident...

I find protocol-relative URLs very helpful for running without HTTPS in my local environment.
What about an hexacopter with opposing rotors (Y configuration)?
CSS doesn't even have a way to select all h1 elements that contains a div with a date class so I strongly question the assertion that it has "extremely powerful CSS queries" (if you think you are about to prove me wrong with a one-liner, please re-read the phrasing).
I understand that everything in json could also be represented in another format. But if your master data is in json, does it always make sense to convert the data to static html just for the sake of it ? Would you build a server component only for that conversion ?

The answer to these question will depend on your priorities and use case, and the choice can easily be between no site or a js rendered site.
They are clearly flawed, but these flaws do not prevent their extremely successful practical applications.

The same is the case with Newtonian mechanics: it's quite good when you need to construct a lever, a house, an automobile, or an airplane. They start to slightly squeak when you need to build a rocket or predict an orbit of a planet close to a star.

This is where you detect the flaws, find a better approximation (SR/GR and QM), and it allows for vastly more interesting practical applications, from atomic bombs to GPS devices, and also turns your idea of cosmos upside down.

So when a refinement on GR and/or QM is found, we should expect some quite interesting practical applications, along with another upheaval of the idea of cosmos.

This makes studying the incompatibility "in some extreme" a very practical thing.
There's no taking going on here. Taking something implies a transfer of possession, leaving one party no longer in possession of that thing. My browsing a web page does not result in such an outcome.
> Idempotency of HTTP GET requests is not a theoretical concern.

That's true, but the relevant feature here is safety, not idempotence. (Though a safe method is also idempotent, not all idempotent methods are safe.)
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What's the over/under on the number of people this will get laid? I'm putting it at 1.
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I wonder how many of these flats are occupied. In London such flats are investments for a balance sheet and remain unoccupied.
You're probably right with regards to the specific user, and you're probably even correct in saying that most people who bring up this point do it to advance racist ideology.

That said, there are a few points I feel need to be made:

1. Your first argument is an insidious form of the "slippery slope" argument, in effect if not by intent. Just because individual difference eclipse racial ones doesn't mean we can't explore the latter. Just as the handicapped are protected by law in civilized countries, so too can racial minorities, even if it were proven that they are less intelligent.

2. The motives of the original poster are irrelevant. He can be both racist and correct, as unpalatable as that thought may be. The subject is that of scholarly discussion, and what you're doing, knowingly or not, is lowering the discourse by imposing guilt by association.

Before I'm accused of pedantry, I think these two points are critical because in my experience there are two forms of racism:

1. Die-hard, ideological racism, i.e.: "there is a hierarchy of races and the lower strata barely qualify as human".

2. Racism born out of frustration. I find that the overwhelming majority of racists end up identifying as such because they raise valid concerns about (typically Black) culture, demographics and crime, but find their honest (if not valid) points rebuffed with ad hominem attacks. In the end, these people end up saying "Fine. I'm racist. I also have a point."

If we're going to have an honest discussion about race then we need to stop plugging our ears and chanting "racist!" Much of the reasoning behind "Type II" racism is flawed, but it's much more productive to calmly explain why this is the case, than to respond with a knee-jerk "that's racist and therefore wrong". Contentious though it may be, there are many criminal, academic and sociological problems that fall along racial lines, and we need to be able to criticize racial groups in order to move forwards. Denying this, or vilifying those who are frustrated by this state of affairs, creates racists.

If I can't say something to the effect of "[Insert Race Here] generally does [insert thing here] and I think it's a problem because [...]", then we're not having a scholarly discussion; we're having a circle-jerk.
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Yeah, those blades are NOT harmless. They will cut you up on the thinner skin bit and do some serious bruising on the thicker skin. Also, anything around the head is asking for losing any eye or something else.

I've been building and flying quads for years now and Anything over the tiny indoor ones commands a LOT of respect from me due to experience.

The idea of these things autonomously following you is cool but a HUGE liability.

Unless they have some major obstacle avoidance on board they you basically could never safely use this around other people and honestly you shouldn't even use it around yourself.
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I like how both "prize" and "categories" are in quotes.
Why does it have to be an Indian student? Your point would be equally valid without racist generalizations.
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Looks like at least for the last few years, the patent office has spent approximately the amount it takes in as fees:

"estimated base fee collections for 2016 of $3.207 billion. This forecasted amount of fee collection revenue continues a trend of year over year increases in fee collections from the 2015 estimate ($3.142 billion) and the actual 2014 collections ($3.024 billion).
The total budgeted program level for the USPTO during the 2016 fiscal year has also been growing incrementally year over year. The total estimated obligations of the PTO for 2016 are $3.499 billion, over $150 million more than 2015’s estimated obligations ($3.331 billion) and about $500 more than actual 2014 obligations ($2.997 billion)."
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/02/05/usptos-budget-increases...
You'd have to be able to generate some pretty fantastically unique hash collisions!
That is pretty slick. I prefer something lightweight like this.
Cars and bikes are directly controlled by humans, and in the case of an emergency, then can perform necessary maneuvers to reduce the damages. Not saying that always happens, but for the most part it does.

A drone that loses an engine falls out of the sky and lands on top of anything that is below it, and as of right now, there are no evasive maneuvers that can be executed. Especially for drones that are being used to record large public gatherings, things like multiple engines or parachutes should be absolutely mandatory, at least by the organizers of the event.

Needless to say, I'd bet it'll take one or two insurance claims until they are.
Same. Also curious about the max wind speed it can handle
> Idempotence has nothing to do with it. POSTs are also Idempotent.

No, of the "base" HTTP/1.1 methods, all safe methods (GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE) and some unsafe methods (PUT and DELETE) are idempotent.

POST is neither safe nor idempotent (and safety is the key feature here, rather than idempotence.)

GET, HEAD, and POST are cacheable methods, which you may be confusing with idempotent methods. These are very different categories, however.
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None of the ideas are new.

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolino.html

Yet Schmidhuber's nets are much more complex and certainly different.

I still think Otoro's very simple RNN feedback nets are unique - especially when coupled with training by self-play.

Does Schmidhuber have any game playing agents ?
Same error with the link to MIT Mathematics for Computer Science.
> They are money laundering/tax shelter vehicles for the uber-rich, especially foreigners.

All the more reason to tax them. When I bought my house, its assessed value was the price I paid for it. Why not here?
what if you realize its out of battery after you throw it off. Starting the rotors before throwing would make the user feel more confident.
It's great! Will the client complain if it receives content that doesn't hash from a malicious client?
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I have NEVER seen a controller that would "stop as soon as they detect obstruction" like you say. In reality the flight controller is likely to do the opposite. Once it detects that the current speed of the blade is not enough to provide the desired lift, it will INCREASE the speed.

Telling people the blades are harmless is very irresponsible.
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That video was tremendously pompous. Everyone spoke so much but said so little.
Okay, a few thoughts.

1) I would love to volunteer 1 to 2 hours a week on a free site to help beginners review their code. My ideal volunteer experience is helping at a park with Earth Corp because I love yard work and can't afford a house with a yard.* But utilizing my programming skills will have more impact.

2) The title reminds me of "This stay at home mom makes $5k per week". I understand it is an advertisement for a very awesome thing but the clickbait title might have been a turn off for some.

* Apparently asking my doctor friends if I can weed their garden is socially inappropriate...
That makes sense. Thank you for your explanation.
Interesting, but maybe I'm missing something here. If I just want automatic deallocation, why would I use bdwgc instead of using "vanilla" smart pointers from standard C++?
It would be cool if the remote in your pocket had a "Call 911!" button. So like, if I was out snowboarding, and saw an avalanche coming, I probably wouldn't be able to call 911. But this little drone is a good deal above me and the avalanche/murderer/shark/whatever, it could call 911 for me, and when they recovered it, it would have video of what happened to me. It could even fly towards a preset location (known ranger station), broadcasting along the way if there is no cell signal available.
Good point. Amazon is kind of like it. But searching for a product on amazon is like searching of some info on wikipedia.

However, Google search spans a across all of web.

So, we do not have something that spans across all sites to hunt for the best airline ticket. Taking into account all of the preferences.
Tried this last night, well made, nice UI
I love this article (disclosure: written by friend of friend) and 421a is ludicrous.

However, primary occupancy in the major properties under discussion here (the three along 57th plus the Time Warner center and a few others) is incredibly low, and basically speaks to high-end real estate bubble. These are high-visibility properties that people think of as good investments, whether because they can be re-sold later for similar valuations or because they're hedges against russians or chinese having to leave their own countries for a variety of reasons.

In that regard, it's totally worth noting that NYC does a much better job than most cities at permitting the construction of new luxury units that keep billionaires from pricing everyone else out of the market while extracting concessions like low- and moderate-income housing or the building of new parks. Imagine if each of the 104 billionaires who bought at 432 park ave had bought their own greenwich village townhouse instead. Supply would be as short as it is in san francisco.

That said, we can extract a lot more from builders and billionaires along the way, and we should. NYC still needs more housing -- the small proportion of rent regulated housing that accompanies these buildings remains insufficient to build the quantity of housing needed to avoid pricing actual new yorkers out, and to keep offering the services the city deserves.
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Wow, that's scary. I imagine quite a lot of people are unaware of this.

I personally use SSL on my personal site just because I like the idea that readers can be sure the content is what I've sent, rather than because the information is private / sensitive. So I'm not personally concerned because this doesn't allow anyone to MITM the connection, just read it.
That was nice to read.
Ruby is new for me, so here's a question: is there some classy guide (like LYAH for those who start learning Haskell) for Ruby newbies?
Something similar happens to the SEC. IIRC from memory, around the mid-2000's, the SEC took in circa 600 million in fees, while Congress budgeted it circa 100 million.

For years, the SEC was/is clamoring to hire more and more qualified examiners. This budgeting has cut these proposals/initiatives off at the knees.

A few years ago, it was announced that they would be creating... again, IIRC, roughly 1000 of these positions. One of the "significant" announcements/initiatives following the 2008 financial crisis. The last I heard, a couple of years ago, this initiative was still stalled, due to... no allocated budget.

In understanding regulation (and IP as well is "regulation", of a sort), in addition to all the "politics", it is merited to apply that old but apt saw, "follow the money".
That lag is terrible.
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Yeha the puffery is ridiculous, it seems everything must be world changing these days to sell.

However the tool itself looks awesome, seems like they nailed down the interaction perfectly. I can list a million crappy diagramming apps that are unnatural and annoying enough that it's just easier to draw on paper.
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It's very unlikely to kill someone, or even seriously injure them. You should be at least as worried about playing baseball or riding a bicycle around people.
I agree with a lot of this. I have a lot of Soylent bags lying around, but I continually fail to make it in advance so it can chill, and once I do, I have a hard time eating it all before it expires. If I could just think, "I want some Soylent" and then have some Soylent, I would be eating it way, way more.
Basically, you're using the blockchain as a decentralized passwd file. But again, I don't see why this is desirable in light of existing and much more powerful alternatives to passwd files (U2F for example)?
I had to read your post several times that by 'm' you meant minutes. Without that it makes the Colorado ski resorts seem a little less impressive.
In general when you have super complex laws, the law will always help rich and powerful simply because they will be the only once who will have the resources to pass through the myriad laws.
Thundercloud, not Thunderbolt. There's a big difference.
Very nice approach. I didn't know that Google had that auto-redirect feature.

But it's not working reliably for me. Frequently, when I click the bookmarklet, it gets stuck on a blank page. Does it work every time for you?
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This looks interesting - I always wanted to use Paper for wireframes, sketches and mockups. This might come closer to that idea. However the biggest problem I still have with Paper is the fact that its canvas is always definitive and limited in dimension - even with the regional zoom option complex sketches will become crowded and busy. I'd love to have a close to infinite zoom out/in (especially out) option, thereby rendering the canvas practically borderless and as big as I want.
64 gb memory for a vsphere deployment is what you would call small?
Also I have had a hard time with bosh (and bosh-lite)
I liked the lattice approach, but still no proper support for vsphere and openstack.
As already said its simple to do something on aws and gcloud.
We run a lot of things in the cloud especially software for updating our customer software and it is really straight to deal with that.
However we still have some problems in our on-premise software, its really hard to manage that. as you said support for non-cloud or own-cloud environments is hard and thats where our toolset struggles, where everyones toolset struggles.
They did all of the above - you could connect to the open Internet from AOL starting around 1996, they started marketing themselves explicitly as an "ISP + proprietary content" around 1998, they bought Netscape and Mirabilis and several other leading Internet companies. They aggressively dropped their pricing structures to compete with flat-rate ISPs, while their other proprietary competition (Prodigy, GENie) went out of business. In 1997 half of all families on the Internet got it through AOL. [1]

They just didn't do all of the above better than the competition.

A major factor that killed AOL was the shift to broadband in the late 90s. AOL had a huge infrastructure and competitive advantage in providing dial-up access to consumers. As the Internet grew, though, consumers got hungrier for bandwidth, they got hungrier for content, and the relative share of both of these resources that was not owned by AOL increased. It was easy to justify subscribing to AOL when they were $10/month for 56.6K access, your local ISP was $10/month for 56.6K access, but AOL gave you all this extra content. It was a lot harder when you could pay $30/month for 500K/sec ADSL or Cable access that unlocked a whole world of multimedia content. AOL owned none of the infrastructure that made the broadband net possible.

GFiber, Loon, and cell phones risk doing the same thing to Comcast, TWC, and Verizon FIOS now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#1990s:_a_new_Internet_age