skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FAA's proposed rules [1] for small unmanned aircraft are quite reasonable. "Small" means < 25Kg. Max altitude 500' AGL. (Manned aircraft have a minimum altitude, usually 1000', so there's separation.) Visual line of sight to operator. Operation in class G airspace (not near airport, low level) OK. Operation in class A airspace (above 18,000') prohibited. Operation in class B,C,D airspace (near airports, etc.) requires coordination with air traffic control, and probably a transponder. (There are small UAV-sized transponders, which make drones clearly visible on radar and ID them.) A UAV license will be required, covering the regulations. The sky has rules of the road, and anyone controlling a UAV needs to know them.

There may be a "micro UAV" (< 2Kg) category for toy-sized drones, with fewer restrictions. That's still being discussed. A study on consequences of a drone collision indicate that large aircraft could probably survive collisions with 2Kg drones without serious risk to the aircraft.[2] That doesn't mean no damage, it means the aircraft can land safely. Any jet engine which takes a bird strike gets a major overhaul, which costs upwards of $100K.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/rulemaking/media/02...
[2] http://www.uasamericafund.com/assets/micro-uav-safety-analys...
IIRC Instacart also makes money from the price difference of products that are listed at their regular price yet are offered on sale at the store when actually bought by an Instacart shopper. That may have changed since their early days.
A bird, which is nice and squishy and falls apart easily, can do serious damage to a plane. Just search on youtube for bird strike, and you'll see lots of smashed windshields, jets losing engines, damaged elevators, etc. Now, add more weight, more density, and more speed, and you can see how this can get to be a real problem.
We use Scuba. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
I know about 20 or more people who would buy this. I love ThinkPads and really hope they bring this back.
If I was a Groupon investor, I'm not sure which of these two I would find more disturbing:

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/jumping-ship-groupon-insid...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150625005756/en/#.VY... (and this is a press release! Srsly WTF?)
Bobby Jindal presidential bid sparks Twitter mockery
My grandfather was murdered in Punjab, and my cousin who moved here who lived in Punjab for 18 years would rather be called American and moved on immediately. Rule of law is necessary for market activity, the problem is we seem to have moved away from respect of rule of law recently.

Just thought I would mention. Also a Sikh descendant who is a part of the diaspora happily living in Anglo-derived culture and also an atheist.
Wow, those photos are really impressive. Wish we had something like that in the Bay Area!
"I have a feeling that we'll solve self-driving cars to your driveway a long time before we solve getting the package from there to a person/porch/mailbox."

Covering the last 50 meters with a quadrotor has potential. With very short flights and frequent recharges, the carrying capacity could be quite high. You could also deliver to apartment building balconies or trays mounted outside windows.
If winning the bugtracking market was the goal, they probably would've taken VC money. You may notice that everyone who's in a position to claim that has done so (Github, Atlassian, etc).

They did learn from this, as you can see by the very different paths StackExchange and Trello are on.
This talk is great -- I'm re-watching now!

Anyone have other similar videos? It's always cool to hear the about others' systems and how they evolve
> time egrep -Rni remotelookup .
./toolkit/devtools/gcli/source/lib/gcli/types/selection.js:81: spec.remoteLookup = (typeof this.lookup === 'function');
./toolkit/devtools/gcli/source/lib/gcli/types/selection.js:128: if (this.remoteLookup) {
egrep -Rni remotelookup . 2.01s user 0.32s system 99% cpu 2.346 total
Alexa: is this a way of giving voice commands to your apps?
The profit motive can also keep firms from blowing money and attention on stupid things. (Example: Team A and Team B have a 50% overlap in code they're writing. The profit motive will shut this down. An overfunded company will preserve harmony, waste money and push the problems down field)
Reading about this, it really seems like a scam. Are people actually forking over these kinds of "tuitions"? I have a non-traditional background and learned on the job. There's no way I'd have paid anywhere near this.
Is this what I think it is? A way of building the voice controlled home automation system of my dreams?
Of course, there are several mathematical consulting companies:

http://www.scmsa.eu/

http://www.maths2b.fr/

etc.
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The fact that the poster here manufactured a title different from that of the article to imply some failing on Gindal's part betrays prejudice.
Npm 3 is here(-ish)
The Tennessee Valley has a lot more "clean" power infrastructure than Detroit. Lake Guntersville is just over the hill from Huntsville and all the technology industry located there because of Redstone Arsenal and Marshall SFC.
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As I mentioned PHP was pushing 10 years old at that point. They already had built a translator to it "Thistle", so they could have gone to PHP at that time, just like they mention going to C# now.

I'm not a huge PHP fan, but it would have saved 10 years of development and maintenance over their NIH solution. See the "Jumped the Shark" piece from Coding Horror... not a minority opinion.
It was in response to a comment that was referring to Firefox. Servo is touted as the eventual replacement of Firefox's rendering engine. It's literally a response to a comment about Mozilla's current practices in this area explaining their proposed future practices.

Seems appropriate to me.
Are you using Hadley Wickham's libraries in R? I think those go a long way toward fixing the problems you may have encountered -- i.e. API consistency, usability, orthogonality, naming, etc.

I also suggest reading some of his papers like "Tidy Data".

R is weird in that you NEED a large set of CRAN libraries to do work, whereas in Python you can do a fair amount with the standard library, and PyPI is relatively weak in comparison.

I'm also a programmer who learned R for data analysis. It does take quite awhile and some pain. Part of the difficulty is that R is weird and has warts, but an even bigger difficulty is that you are learning new concepts and programming abstractions (fundamental difficulty vs accidental difficulty). R passes the test of a language which changes the way you think.

R has its warts but is likely the most practical choice. It has the full set of things you need -- data preparation and cleaning, exploratory analysis, model building, and visualization.
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@encoder, to your point, this is exactly what we (Paid, www.paidapi.com) do. Definitely reach out to us if you have any questions. Would love to see how we can help you out.
Globalisation's retreat?
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Well, policing the other teams is just part of the mod team's responsibilities.

The design of the mod team can be found in the RfC[1].

The driving philosophy is to try and deescalate any situations which may crop up, either in situ or by privately discussing with the involved parties. It's easy to forget that the People on The Internet are humans too, so a technical discussion that gets heated sometimes needs a reminder to keep civil.

The purpose is to make sure that the code of conduct[2] is upheld online. Rust has had a CoC for a while now, but it wasn't enforced. This meant that users violating it in reality were free to continue violating it without much repercussions. And this had happened a couple of times; users were warned after being abrasive but no action was ever taken and it just got worse. The mod team can enforce the CoC by temporarily blocking a user from the project if warnings are ignored. Deescalate whenever possible, and if it doesn't work out, warn/act on the warnings.

Policing other teams is a part of it; the core team and subteams are also subject to moderation; which is why no core team member is on the mod team. In case of an ugly dispute between a core team member and some other user the mod team is a more impartial way of resolving it. Though in practice I don't think the core team would ever be in such a situation.

People often say that technical communities should stay technical and not worry about civility or other social issues. In my experience this rarely turns out well, aside from Rust I've seen this idea cause problems in other technical communities. Technical communities are, in the end, communities, and community health is something that needs tending. Maintaining civility and avoiding the exclusion (active or passive) of other users is a part of it, and that's something the mod team handles.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust...

[2]: http://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html
Bit of a plug, I recently put together a collection of changes to homepages from startups in the ride sharing space (including Uber) over time. You can check it out here: http://www.startuptimelines.org/collections/uber_lyft_taxi_s...
Tarsnap http://www.tarsnap.com/

$0.25 per (deduped) GB/month
How is this any better/different from the other gazillion invoicing platforms out there?
I seem to remember numerous frameworks being around for quite a while at that point.

They could have used Thistle to move to PHP ten years ago and saved a lot of money.
I don't understand how you would optimize routing/matching algorithms if you didn't have a visualization of all the trips/cars in the city. As a entry-level engineer.

Maybe it shouldn't have been tied to PII, but on the other hand there are some wins that you miss out on if you don't. (IIRC someone said that pairing women with women whenever possible increases overall rider engagement?)
Ayup. "Boom. Done." It just exploded, and your company is now done.

There is no such thing as "Boom. Done." when I have to answer the call when it goes "Boom." Enterprise customers won't allow me to say "Call Chilisoft"--they will yell at ME to fix things. If I can't fix it, I lose the customer.

If it was so easy and small, why doesn't there seem to be an open source version of it? If it was so easy and small, why did Chilisoft sell for almost $100 million?

Open-source wasn't scary at all to enterprise vendors as they didn't even know it was there if the software used a BSD-like license. Only the GPL causes enterprise legal panic like syphilis in a whorehouse.
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That is 4M requests per second. To put this in prospective, the established Akamai runs at 25M/s (http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/real-time-web-metrics....), which means that Cloudflare is quickly growing to hold 20% of Akamai traffic.
Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is?
Quite the fascinating exploration of perception, reality, accuracy, and fitness. With some bonus elements of human-computer interaction and UI/UX thrown in.

Perception is not reality, but rather, fitness.
After my data crashing and not having a working back up, i've been looking into BackBlaze. How in the world do they offer UNLIMITED backups for 5$/month? Have you had any experience with retrieving this data? I'm curious
Watch Casey Muratori on Handmade Hero write a video game from scratch with no 3rd party libraries or engines, live on Twitch, 5 nights a week. (All episodes archived on YouTube.)

He has written his own hash tables, his own software renderer, shown how to use compiler intrinsics to write SIMD (SSE) and multithreading optimizations.

He wants to show people how computers actually work and things from game engines to generic UI frameworks shouldn't need to be considered as magical black boxes.

https://handmadehero.org
What are the chances of having 12 new users comment on same thread? What are the chances of almost 50% of comments on a thread from new users?

This post reeks of spam and mod should consider reviewing and if appropriate delete it so that it doesn't show up in search results in future.
A typed and fast Python with concurrency is something I've wanted for the longest time. I really hope that this will take off.
Digital-only challenger bank Atom wins licence
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This is so absolutely true. After a long day of using my left brain the only thing I feel like doing is playing some guitar. I've only learned a few chords and bought a cheap one off Amazon, but it is simply wonderful.

I would add to your metaphors and say, it feels like walking downhill after a long day of walking up hill - totally different muscles - all in my brain.
They're designed to trick you, so I don't think any population, no matter how sophisticated, should trust themselves to correctly identify malicious websites 100% of the time.

Additionally, some sites may potentially contain exploits that run as soon as you visit the site (vulnerabilities in plugins like Java or Flash, drive-by downloads, etc.) in which case it doesn't matter if you correctly identify the website as malicious and hit the "Back" button - it's already too late. Much better to avoid loading the content at all, which is exactly what is achieved with SafeBrowsing.
The problem in my view is that the evidence you have given is weak, and can support many hypotheses. For example, it could be that the change are adjusting to reflect changes in the number of of non-white, non-male, non-straight, and non-disabled people that now do science.

You suggest there is "a pattern of attempting to mythologize as many females in STEM fields as possible", but perhaps it's the case that males are already as sufficiently mythologized as is possible, and what you are seeing is the mythologization of women catching up to men.

For that matter, you haven't defined what 'mythologized' means, nor how one can tell if someone is 'mythologized' or if a given category of people is under- or over-mythologized.

Without these, you have the advantage of controlling the discussion, because you are in charge of the definition.

My other commentary is to show that such terms can be defined in ways that others can verify for themselves. Your inability to come up with a meaningful definition, combined with your apparent cherry-picking of the data, likely contributes to the downvotes you've received.
Year: 2008.
Short answer is negative.

Everyone has a system to manage their personal lives, even if it is only in their head or as simple as pen and paper.

I sense you are trying to gauge a market demand for "a to do" app with the bug tracker formula infusion.

I don't think people think of their lives as software with bugs.

Even software engineers who fix bugs do not think of issues in their life as bugs.
It doesn't feel as natural to whack your issues (ex: lose weight, due 2 hours :), P1).

For "real life" stuff, I found people categorize their lives.
"Home", "Work", "Personal", "Professional", "Hobbies" ...

And each category has its own evolving set of tools.
Ex: Fitness contains a plethora of tools.
Work contains tools in sub categories...
If only i could give a zillion upvotes!
The more advanced models -- the ones more likely to be flown by someone in that situation -- have an automatic return-to-home function that kicks in if it loses the connection to the radio.

On the cheaper models, I'd expect it to simply crash within a minute or two. But it would be interesting to test that.
Giving you a CSV with quantity that is "in-stock" could mean you need a new one in a few minutes at worst and few days more commonly. Consider a model like Groupon.com or Fab.com - one is dumping large quantities quickly and the other is moving small quantities of well crafted / unique goods.

The best attack vector is obviously approaching people like prestashop, 3dcart, tictail, etc and trying to get them all to agree on a format to put pressure on shopify. This would enable pinterest to get tens of thousands of merchants on their site with little friction or data rot.
Yes, I believe there's nothing on God's good planet that can compare to the love a man receives from a caring woman. Nothing. (And I don't even believe in God.)
Problem with rewrites is there is the terrible gap that opens up between the old stuff which goes stale quickly, and the new stuff which isn't ready for prime time. Cash-flow then dries up right as the amount of work needed is maximal. Death follows quickly.

Here they did not rewrite from scratch they developed a bridge that allowed them to keep moving forward as the world that the old software was based on disappeared. And now they are on the other side with a code-base that works and has been providing cash-flow the whole time.
Is the simplest solution to just require transponders and a sales registry for drones above a certain weight class? 4' wingspan is a serious drone, and I think it's reasonable for all aircraft that big to have tail numbers and transponders.
>free refills

Woah ... that would be amazing. How much would it cost to get to this level? Is this also possible in Europe?
Because it's more fitting to give his name to a function that has a "heavy side".
My cousin tells me that the leader is corrupt and might have more money than our richest people. I am unsure if this is true.
Why do you want libc to be 5 times slower than other libraries?
They're better off owning the risk - it makes them a more competitive candidate for smart people with relatively little money.
i really dont think anyone would base their choice on whether they used hg or git (or both, or either for that matter). It's a very small, and rather unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
Wat? Please go find out. No startup is worth the life of another person (divorced or not). Go find her man. Get her taken care of.
Google’s self-driving cars are now on the streets of California
Can you trust Tor's exit nodes?
Go To Matching Bracket taking almost 2 seconds in atom, happens instantaneously on vim/sublime.
Many thanks for your kind feedback. We'll definitely improve the UI. Thanks again.
How about everything would have been all right if the other vehicle stopped at the stop sign?
i also hate that part of chrome - i don't have a fast disk on my default C drive, and i want to move my apps to a separate disk. But chrome doesn't let you do that easily...why do product teams think they can make the best choice for the user, without giving a way out? For a normal user, they can just use a default, and it should be fine. But let me choose if i want to, god damn it!
Python is the new lisp.
but surely one of the important choices is what kind of business to start. a VC funded, all or nothing shot has even less chance of being a guaranteed win than a bootstrapped, early profit business. (I am thinking of the ability for the company to survive hiccups that if they occur just before series A dooms you, but if you are profitable and growing is just a hiccup.)
I had a stuck pixel on this very Nexus 7. It stayed red for a few days as I played some 24hr YouTube vids that used the exact same principle. After ~2 days, no wonky pixel. Honestly, I think it was temp fluctuation, but whatever... it is fixed. :)

I have no stuck pixels currently and I try to forget the whole experience as I might have almost junked the N7 because of my annonying Jr-OCD.
"They're really slow to update their site, unfortunately."

Because updating some static content on a website is a really time-consuming, difficult, complex task for a company that supposedly teaches web application development...? :)
The taxi drivers simply don't want to suddenly become 40% poorer. Selfish, right?
Recommends turning on Firefox's built-in tracking protection[0] (which matured in Firefox 37 or so), but has anyone compared this to uBlock? I guess the first thing to measure would be number of trackers blocked, but then of course memory and CPU usage would be interesting as well. uBlock has done this comparison[1] against AdBlock Plus, Disconnect, etc, so it would be very interesting...

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/#performance
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This is loading the WAD files from the demo version of Quake, which is fine per the Quake licence.
When you think of the size of the IPv4 space, you realize that $1/mo for an IP is by far the most profitable add-on they sell.

4.3 billion IPs x $12 per year = $51 billion. If the average cost to actually hold an IPv4 address was even $0.10/month, we would not be talking about IPv4 exhaustion.

My point is, as long as you're willing to spend $12/year just for the IP address, there will be a long line of people happy to sell one to you. But $1 per month for a routable address is at least two orders of magnitude more expensive than network architects are aiming for.
I wouldn't go out of my way to charge my laptop in the park instead of in my house. There are no savings there.

However, charging a car in a park is obviously worth it.
Reading through N4447, correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems to be more about compile-time metaprogramming than it does runtime reflection? It does talk about class.for_name(std::string) but kind of handwaves about how it would work.
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Me and my wife use wunderlist's shared list feature for todo items.
> A lot of work has already been done to solve these problems.

Not nearly enough. You write a script which expects a 'file' at some place, but it will break in french locale because 'file' will be replaced with something like 'fichier'. Sure, you can run under C locale, but then some other script, written for french locale will break. Not to mention date formatting, number formatting, etc.

In comparison, binary or XML (!) become very attractive.
I hear about the distributed properties of the vm often, but every example seems naive in that the work is passed to a named node, where in practice it seems the need would be to load balance between nodes available nodes.

For example, I have a system in Go that uses redis to pull jobs, each process I spin up uses a buffered channel allowing 20 concurrent requests. I looked at elixir because I liked having a the process isolation and the dynamic nature of the language (the jobs scrape data from the interwebs), but I couldn't find a simple way to distribute jobs to nodes unsuring each node is capped at 20 concurrent jobs.
That i cannot answer. Late last year they killed the free service and gave everyone time to either move their data or become a paying customer. They had a "whatever plan you pay for we'll double the storage" offer on. I only use it mostly for moving files between the 3 main OSes and some document storage. I found that I was quite happy with the free service so why not pay and continue using it?

They must have had their reasons for stopping the free service, probably financial, so what happens now I don't know. How many free customers converted to paid?

I mentioned Wuala mainly because they claim to take seriously security of your data and because it works well on OS X, Win & Linux.
I agree "drone" has a scary ring to it because we use drones to bomb people.
Sorry, that's like 50 pixels on my Retina display.
Apologies if I made it seem like evangelism; just wanted to clarify the state of tracing cycle collection in Firefox-related projects.