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There are a lot of drones that can do pretty much all of these things already, or you can build your own using an open source flight controller like ardupilot.

The main job here (which they have done well) is turning it into a mass consumer product, easy to use package. DJI has done a pretty good job for prosumers on it but this is another notch up.

Like the waterproofing!

Video suggests a higher level of autonomy than I think they have right now (obstacle avoidance, automatic landing on your hand) but a year might be enough to cram it in there.

I think we will see many more consumer drones like this.
Don't know or don't want to invest into such a fragmented platform ?
One motor suddenly failed

Maybe drones need to start to incorporate parachutes to slow down the fall in case of problems like these, or maybe even airbags to ease the crash. Not that it would make it 99.9999% reliable, but it should be better than nothing. And also won't completely thrash your drone when it crashes.

edit seems nine_k already commented with a similar idea
Ask HN: Disk Encryption for Mac OS X
Hello,

I have a Mid-2014 13" Retina MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Intel Core i5 with 8gb memory + SSD hard drive running 10.10.3 Yosemite.

I was using FileVault 2 included in OS X by default for full disk encryption, however, the performance was absolutely abysmal. Does anyone have any alternative suggestions or suggestions on how to make FileVault actually a reasonable option?

kernel_task was consuming 80-150% of cpu power on a regular basis and was simply slamming my otherwise rather powerful machine.

Thanks!
Very cool. I always thought mounting a camera on a drone is the way to take photos when out but this is totally amazing the way it follows you.
Yes this is what I was wondering. Some brief searching on similar devices suggests it's a combination of precise sensors and algorithms to tie everything together.
What if you throw it off a bridge only to realize that its out of charge.
Exactly what I do too. I suspect it's pretty common. I've never felt that I missed out because I didn't read a paywalled article. If anything, I probably found more interesting info in the comments.
Wouldn't another city just adopt similar systems and over time start to attract billionaires? I'm sure that this effects their decision of where they purchase real estate.

I am assuming having rich people in your city is a good thing, but I genuinely think it is overall.
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Hard to say what is best without knowing what your requirements are. However, I use Amazon S3 99% of the time for anything I don't store on a local server. There are apps out there that can allow you to mount as a shared drive. If you are a Mac/Linux user you can use fuse s3fs to mount as a filesystem.
I hope this moves into a collaborative space. A whiteboard would have a URL that could be "read only." Other users of the app could collaborate and edit.

I am almost never in the same room as clients.

`vagrant --share` is a tool(ala very different) that gets this so right.
If you're going any slower than 40 km/h the only thing you'll be doing in a terrain park is falling on your face. This [1] cable-driven terrain park "for children and adults" pulls you at 40 km/h. If you're looking at landing anything bigger than a 360 you'll need to be going closer to 60 km/h. Ski racers are not happy until they're going (a lot) faster than 90.

[1] http://www.al.no/en/html/aktiviteter/vinter/ski_snowboard_ca...
> WSJ certainly deserves to set whatever price on their work that they wish, and they also deserved to be compensated according to the value of that work.

Don't you think we should also have the option to decide not to pay using these "dirty" tricks of the trade?
I like this concept, but i so had the name first. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/16/okcandidate-snags-okcupids-...
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... so apparently we are in rabid agreement? i was speaking specifically about the microsoft ecosystem, not about anything capable of running a general-purpose operating system. i am myself typing this on an apple laptop. i haven't participated in the microsoft ecosystem for decades, and this is one of the reasons.
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The method is not unique. See some of the work of Schmidhuber's group. They are doing a lot of reinforcement learning for recurrent nets (LSTMs) and also via evolutionary algorithms. Eg see Evolino.
According to the article, the second part of Price's efforts was to apply game theory to evolutionary biology.

So probably, the reason why you think the answer is in game theory is because of his original work.
Now shipping in mobile phone size - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2907352/intel-shrinks-realsen...

Shame the dev kit only has Windows support.
Agreed. I should have been more specific and said "maintenance jobs from a mainstream market". COBOL is different in that it was used to develop niche software for rather prosperous organizations. Naturally, they didn't mind paying extra to get the necessary skills. Somehow I doubt many of the currently hot web frameworks will enjoy the same fate. Some might last longer than the others but for the most part these are the commodities with a relatively short life span.
Life and business is all about 3rd parties and working with and against them. It's quite easy to say that things should just be better but it's not like all these publishers are stupid and just sitting around not trying to come up with better solutions. This is actually the best we have at this moment without a massive shift in how the web works.

The fact is that the internet makes things very easy to take without repercussions. Physically walking into a store and taking something has consequences but a quick hack on the browser is basically unnoticeable. The abilities and democracy of the internet architecture facilitates the extraction of content without compensation. Just because it's easy though, doesn't make it "right".
Couldn't the same be said for any technological advance. Waiting until anything is perfect is waiting too long.
So cool! This is almost BitTorrent, but the dependency on the server for client coordination is still a weak point, and makes it more like Napster than BT.

It would be an interesting project to try something similar with WebRTC, to allow (as I understand it) actual P2P communication.
> Wouldn't another city just adopt similar systems and over time start to attract billionaires?

They're willing to pay $100 million for apartments that'd probably go for a tenth or less of that in any other city. Let's not pretend having to pay a bit more tax is going to drive them to live in Tulsa. The prestige of living in NYC is the main draw, I'd imagine.
True dat. But then the lamp part is just extra weight that also drains electricity from the batteries.
I would take that to an apple store. I have a mid-2012 retina Macbook Pro at home with full disk encryption turned on, and I never see anything remotely close to that kind of usage.
Are there lightweight drones that can fly continuously with just solar power? If not how far off are we?
Bleep by BitTorrent
Related to that, I got really frustrated with the site, I went through all the site (though I didn't watch the video), I read it all, watched the animations, all the way down to the button, where they casually (by ommision) inform me that it's only for ipad, not even a coming soon, nothing, great! I'm not saying build it for every device, but at least try not to totally frustrate me.
that is because apple is the only company that makes iphones, ipads, and macs. apple sells hardware, not software, like microsoft does, so "commoditize your complements" means something entirely different to apple. (it means that they are trying to drive the price of software to zero, through their own gated app stores. but that's another topic entirely.)
so I have gzip compression specified in my nginx config and I use SSL for everything.

Is my server vulnerable to this?
&mut pointers ensure that they are the _only_ reachable alias to a given bit of memory.
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Excellent point; that 10 years can make you a specialist.
Ok, thanks! Let's stop.
It's not hard to make a quad fly 150km/h - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO85qrlUqkw.

Obviously gets quite dangerous in populated areas like ski slopes.
Traffic flowing through one discovery channel is free, but traffic flowing through another isn't. While technically separate from net neutrality as it's happening in a different place in the networking stack, it's the same principle: if it flows over the network, it should be equal.
The 2000 and 2015 AOL merger press releases: compare and contrast
I have actually made a bookmarklet that allows you to do the same without installing an extension.

https://umur.io/paywall-bypass-bookmarklet-come-from-google/

Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9134118
Your scenario already has the malware running with the user's privileges. This means that the malware already has more privileges than sandboxed GMPs in your scenario.
The price of oil went from $100 a barrel to $50 a barrel right before we saw the u3 unemployment level drop. Yes, it hasn't been removed but its grip has lessened.

I think we will see the labor participation rate increase now that we are just starting to see some nascent pressure on wages to increase.

Solar isn't meaningfully boosting gdp now, but I'm following the trend to its logical conclusion.

Lower energy prices do fuel growth, and solar is poised to to lower electricity prices globally. Our future is one of abundance and prosperity.
Right, GC is hard to embed and inlining is a powerful optimization. But the runtime that both JIT and GC require makes things hard for JIT on its own.
I believe that now you can use the HTML5 player on Netflix if you're on OS X or Windows. Linux still can't however.
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Whatever tools/technologies/systems large enterprises are using is usually very slow to be decommissioned or to become obsolete.

These often could be more boring but longer lasting entities.

On a side note communication and good personality skills will never go out of fashion.
People will give you abstract answers to a question like this.

For something concrete, I suggest sticking to C syntax like languages like c#/js/java and even python to some extent. As history would show, the most popular languages seem to follow this syntax and it's fairly easy to pick up new languages based off experience. I went from c++->delphi->c#->js relatively easily.

My personal opinion as well is that now is the time to start getting into security software, pentesting etc. The proliferation of new languages, frameworks and api's is a pandoras box waiting to be opened by the security community. We've barely scratched the surface, as today's security community is really, really far behind. Once they catch up, and more automated tools and exploits start showing up that target these newer applications, these hipster startup companies will be forced to start spending. Right now it's mostly financial institutions, and companies using legacy stacks like php, wordpress, drupal that are being attacked.

That or data science/parallel programming.
This:

>> Truly, just pick whatever you like the most, and try to be the best at that. Being a generalist just lumps you in with all the bootcamp grads and hobbyists. Being a specialist lets you offer skills/services that other's cannot. That kind of scarcity is future proof.

As Zig Ziglar used to ask: "Are you wondering generality or meaninful specific?"
Drones of this size are cheap enough that the extra weight and cost of engineering of safety devices generally isn't worth it. It's easier to fix or replace parts.
http://linux.die.net/man/3/exec

Not a Go thing. "Shelling-out" is different.
Does it continue to learn when I take over control, eg: learn from me, or is the learning done at the time I can play?
Publishers are all for-profit, they just choose different monetization models. Whether it's ads or paywall, content is content.

Why should it be ok for Google to discriminate which content is shown by the host's business model instead of the relevance and quality of the content?
It would be neat if you could have it know nothing, and learn from you over a series of games.
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$50 for a stylist? I just can't do it.
Remember that real estate is about three things: location, location, and location. You bribe your way into tax abatements for luxury condos basically anywhere, but there's currently no way to bribe someone to move Central Park, the museums and arts centers and all the restaurants and other New-York-specific stuff that actually attracts people to within a few blocks of your cheap-tax-rate tower in Wyoming.
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the UK has FAR better worker protections than the US. These two countries should not be mentioned in the same sentence when it comes to worker protections.
What's the difference between this and Redis To Go[1]?

[1] https://addons.heroku.com/RedisToGo
If you look at the page now, it's been changed. JavaScript is now one word, university is no longer in caps, the "learn AI" bullet now has been formatted properly, and they've now properly capitalized GitHub. Looks like Google is listening to the suggestions made above (in parent post).
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Line 60 of slimevolley_pro.js contains the "learned" behaviour in 140 floats:

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These are the weights on the connections between the inputs, neurons and outputs.

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Either Uni. of Wisconsin or Baylor (at least the graduate application stuff) was one of them
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Why would you use this instead of AWS Elasticache w/ the Redis option?
It would get left behind. It looked like there is a little handheld GPS/wifi beacon used for follow me. My guess is RTL (return to launch) as a failsafe once you get outside wifi range
There is a tripod that automatically tracks you. I get ads for it on YouTube all the time. http://www.gizmag.com/soloshot-automated-tripod/25453/
I think the author should look at other countries before declaring the Finnish system an outlier.

The only "major" difference I've managed to find with the Dutch system is a slightly bigger emphasis in individual candidates due to "unsorted" party listings (although the article isn't quite clear about it, if the Finnish parties can sort their own list on the ballot, the systems are pretty much the same).

Other than that, it's mostly minor cultural differences. These kind of "election engines" are all over the place in Dutch elections, I doubt whether that is any different in any multi-party democracy.

Edit: Just looked it up for fun: these things pre-date OkCupid by almost a decade (more if you count the offline versions).
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/djis-dropsafe-parachu...

In order to make flying aerial drones safer, DJI, maker of popular quadcopters like the Phantom 2, is currently developing a parachute system called DropSafe, which can be deployed instantly in a case of emergeny
It is what region I live.
There are some valid use-cases, e.g. in web-apps with an user-admin section. It's useful that when adding user 2 (or N) it won't auto-fill with details from the previous user (that you just added).

If anyone has that issue, a workaround is to add multiple email/password inputs (dummies) around the real-one, and hide them. In Chrome, this causes it to 'give up' and not try to auto-fill the fields.
For software that runs as non-admin, authenticode is very much about checking delivery-time integrity. If you have admin-level malware, it can replace signed software (that gets run without admin privs and doesn't have UAC at launch) with unsigned lookalikes.
Man I WISH i knew about this hackathon! Does someone know a good resource to keep up to date with upcoming hackathons (in SF or just by city, or even global and i'll filter)?
Maybe she'll actually get around to paying all her bills in Santa Barbara this time.
I agree with most of your other posts on this thread but why is it ok to just remove ads from other competing publishers?

It's their choice to choose a business model, whether ads or subscriptions. If they serve ads and it's not the experience you want, shouldn't you just move on and not go back to that site?

The ad model actually works well for lots of sites and is the sole reason we have the long-tail of the internet. Someone working at an ad-based publisher would have the exact same comments about your ad disabling extension, why circumvent if they're trying to make it work?
In a sense, you're right - it's meant as a quick release testpoint for conducted radio performance on a manufacturing line. Theoretically, you COULD hook up an antenna to it, but you'd have to know some substantive details about the integrated PCB antenna (impedance, center frequency, etc) to get good or even comparable performance out of the external one. Probably not to a male UFL connector, in any case - I'm 99% sure this type of connector is not compatible with UFL.

Mileage may vary, of course, but in my experience this type of connector is more frequently used to get conducted power RF measurements in manufacturing settings.
Safer maybe, but nowhere near as swift and agile as a multirotor, and much more susceptible to wind.
I'll chime in with that it's an interesting idea, OTOH my gut feeling is that most people won't come back to read article comments after this initial 6 hours or so — hence you might as well essentially make the user handles anonymous altogether.
CoreOS is S'13. One big happy family.
That's what the current energy density of lithium polymer batteries roughly is on a drone with this size props and weight. Not much that can be done aside from hoping for better battery tech!
No android app, no sale.
Podcasting has been an accepted form of media since at least 2011 with the success of The Adam Carolla Show.
>> Now, with that in mind, I heard a long time ago, and it might be utter BS that Jython is way behind JRuby in terms of community, and very fairly, not as performant or robust bc there are only so many eyes for shallow bugs. Is this true?

JRuby has Charles Nutter. No disrespect to Frank, but Nutter has really been a champion for dynamic langauges on the JVM, out in front, pushing all the time (JEP-191).
That 25 mph is not all horizontal, and any downward movement would mean less power drain from the drone. Though I'd definitely agree that the battery life is a pretty big problem.

I'm sure they will also sell a Lily branded external battery that can be kept in your backpack and used to recharge it.
Swift is so not "future-proof." At this point it is barely even accepted in the marketplace as a valid option.
Why not? So paywall content is not good enough? It's just a different business model by publishers: free access with ads or pay for access.

Why does that penalize the content itself and the discovery of it?
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Elixir is amazing. It's homiconic, like LISP, so being able to execute code at compile time can have a game-changing impact on reducing boilerplate.
And in addiction to that, it's functional, so I can get the awesome benefits of immutable programming, but without the dizzying complexity of, for example, Scala's type system. And it's based on the Erlang VM, so I get the benefits of battle-hardened concurrency and IO underpinnings.

Previously I stayed away from things like Go and Node/Express, because I felt like it wasn't as easy for the type of work I do as Django, and was missing key things like the admin CRUD interface. But when I looked at what's in the Phoenix framework[1] and read the source, it started to feel like I'm witnessing the dawn of the next Ruby on Rails revolution.
http://www.phoenixframework.org/
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I kinda hope NOT. VC money is the exact opposite thing that most podcasts need. Podcasts have sprung up as a wonderfully organic medium precisely because, unlike basically all other media, they aren't beholden to corporate interests that try to water them down, tell them what they can't say, or wedge them into some round peg shaped hole.
The fact that they are mutually incompatible does not mean they are "pretty clearly flawed". In their particular domain they work splendidly well, just as Newton's laws work splendidly well when talking about the movement of objects at human scale.

All we can say is that they are incompatible at some extreme.
Ironically that is how most of the websites and webpages exist now - been the norm for couple of years since we started dynamically showing content via AJAX and lazy loading. There is nothing novel here.
> Hmm .. May be they could have bought sbc/att/Comcast/twc?

They bought Time-Warner in 2001 for $164 billion to create AOL Time-Warner. The expected synergies of the acquisition largely failed to materialize, the AOL name was dropped from the combined entity in 2003, and AOL was spun back out of Time-Warner in 2009.
I think we should (and do) have the option to decide not to pay and not consume the content.
Are you factoring in your personal liability for killing someone in that equation?

The comment that mentioned parachutes was talking about how a drone crashed at an event and almost injured people. My personal homeowners liability policy covers things like hitting someone with a shopping cart in the grocery store and hurting them, it probably would also cover a drone, but if you don't have insurance it could expensive real quick.
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