charlesdenault
Re:Astra for Law
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:04PM (#49746538)
You are.
Re:Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025
on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:10AM (#47122570)
please do
Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landin...
on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:23PM (#23970556)
That's not entirely true. Cat IIIc is "zero zero" autoland capable with no decision height required.
Re:Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It
on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:09PM (#23932270)
Does the product literally just scrape this data? Does it include the SPACs/direct listings/reverse mergers that seem to be increasingly popular?
Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Ca...
on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:38PM (#23920739)
Not to mention these are gas giants at a relatively nearby star (300 lightyears away) and we consider the universe is something shy of 100 billion lightyears in diameter. We're not even scratching the surface!
Impact of Covid-19 on Private Aviation
Re:Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?
on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:50PM (#20750558)
But that'd just create more echo chambers and destroy their engagement metrics, right? I feel like the contemporary draw of Twitter is the discourse.
Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its E...
on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:14PM (#15092561)
What does "drive-by-wire" achieve other than removing a shaft between the steering wheel and steering rack? Cars already have collision avoidance without full self-driving capabilities.
Re:Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft
on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:48AM (#15080285)
Most flight schools have much older aircraft-- think 70s and 80s-- that have carbs. Newer aircraft are fuel injected, but often more expensive per hour.
Re:Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:55PM (#14303724)
The gestures demonstrated are easily discoverable and are so widely used now, I'd argue the majority of iOS/Android users are familiar. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, etc. all follow these similar UI/UX features. Software should work well for everyone, but it's evolving and users adapt.
Re:Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:52PM (#14303707)
This is an incredible redesign, utilizing widely known gestures (swipes, double taps, etc). Apple should embrace these further, IMO, and a casual-use app like Music makes the most sense. I'm a longtime Spotify Premium user and I tried v1 of Music but it was jus too painful. This would have made me stay. Great job.
Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:45AM (#14031526)
Incredible... the most eye-opening difference was the majority of Americans believe global warming will harm people in the US, but very few people believe it will harm them personally. And this isn't limited to west/northeast coasts-- it covers the entire country. What would cause people to think GW will harm others but not themselves?
Re:London-Paris electric flight 'in decade'
on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:25AM (#13930309)
What do you mean by a grid? Long-haul direct flights offer many benefits, such as lower drag at cruising altitude, engine efficiency at altitude, etc. [1] Biggest fuel savings are going to come from more efficient engines and weight reduction (composites).
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
Re:Elon Musk is launching a tunnel digging company to reduce traffic i...
on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:29PM (#13202363)
What law/precedents exist around underground land ownership? Do the surface owners have rights to the land below it to a determined depth?
Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to...
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:33AM (#12683339)
See other comments regarding employer being able to create an account via POST request. I'd assume that's the only way to create clean separation, even then I don't doubt they'll be able to fill in that gap!
Re:Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles
on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:40PM (#12541412)
I doubt this was the piece the founders were hoping for.
Re:Why Bezos’ rocket is unprecedented–and worth taking seriously
on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:29PM (#12490983)
Serious question: what will the tolerance be for loss of human lives when crewed flights start? While it's entirely different, government space programs have endured many [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Re:Adblock Plus now sells ads
on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:03AM (#12487784)
I'm still using uBlock for Safari until Origin is ported.
Re:Blue Origin announces orbital rocket called New Glenn
on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:21AM (#12479871)
I'm most surprised that they're skipping a smaller orbital rocket before jumping to the massive scale of the New Glenn. Seems that there would be a lot to learn from that as well, with the potential of flying revenue generating payloads to LEO.
Re:Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:17AM (#12381624)
Assuming cryptography exists in Kleptopia, couldn't he use a padlock with a combination and transmit this electronically?
Because a simple, but clever, alias that integrates with everyone's existing workflow is a lot easier?
Re:What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:50AM (#11937611)
Humans need a bunch of atoms (organic molecules) to survive, and we source that from other living organisms. That parallel isn't too far off.
Re:What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
on Monday June 20, 2016 @07:45AM (#11937371)
If we create machines that learn as well as our brains do, it’s easy to imagine them inheriting human-like qualities—and flaws. But a “Terminator”-style scenario is, in my view, immensely improbable. It would require a discrete, malevolent entity to specifically hard-wire malicious intent into intelligent machines, and no organization, let alone a single group or a person, will achieve human-level AI alone.
Isn't this incredibly shortsighted? Ignoring all the questions regarding the morals and ethics an intelligent machine may feel and affect the way it behaves... It used to take nations to build computers, then large corporations, then off-the-shelf parts by a kid in his garage.
The first strong AI will most likely be a multi-billion dollar project, but its creation will arguably usher in an era in which strong AI is ubiquitous.
Re:Copyrighting DNA Is a Bad Idea
on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:16AM (#11915574)
DNA isn't an API. DNA is the source code. The API is more similar to the translation apparatus, but even that's a stretch.
Re:Apple’s announcement on artificial intelligence is a big shift for ...
on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:29AM (#11901872)
They really emphasized that this is done on the device, too! Definitely cognizant of the growing hesitation (amongst the crowd in attendance) towards what data corporations have on users.
Re:New details about planet 2007 OR10, third largest dwarf planet in s...
on Friday May 13, 2016 @06:07PM (#11693513)
The massive distances between celestial objects is somewhat beyond human comprehension. The scale of these objects and their orbits is so very different from the scales we encounter on a daily basis. The fact that these bodies can still be discovered proves we know so little about our own cosmic backyard, let alone the intricacies of spacetime.
Re:Hedge Funds Faced Choppy Waters in 2015, but Chiefs Cashed In
on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @07:38AM (#11666464)
Yes. But correct me if I'm wrong, but the article says that the managers made money because their firms are so large. Thus, they earned their 2% management fee regardless of performance. Should they be regulated? Won't the market correct when investors pull their money from the fund if they continue the losses?
Re:Hedge Funds Faced Choppy Waters in 2015, but Chiefs Cashed In
on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @07:29AM (#11666412)
Isn't this an issue of paying capital gains tax instead of income tax?
The amount of money they earn is arbitrary. If the deal is 2/20, and the manager performs (hence the 20), they're rewarded. That seems fair to me. If you think 20% is too high, find a different fund?
Re:Dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a...
on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:40PM (#11615914)
“We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was 'just human'.” - Jane Goodall