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Yes, that's awesome! Thank you.

I've been wanting a better Postgres client. Pgadmin works but it's a bit dated. Postico looks promising. Download and setup went seamlessly and the ssh tunnel functionality worked great. This error message was shown when I connected to the database and I wasn't able to browse catalogs, etc.: PostgreSQL said: syntax error at or near "num_total_pages" To be fair, the Postgres server I was connecting to is old and obsolete (8.3.7). I'll look forward to trying this more!

Interesting clause at that link you provided. Do I understand correctly that there are no weight limits currently if a drone is certified by "a community-based organization?"

3) the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds unless otherwise certified through a design, construction, inspection, flight test, and operational safety program administered by a community-based organization;

These things can be useful fraud-detection signals. If you don't log password reset requests then you're missing a chance to catch suspicious behavior. Even if you're capturing that data but using it now, at least having it gives you that potential.

Also, unless you plan on making the valid window very short, you probably want to mark reset requests as used so someone's old email doesn't get used again.

It's not a completely crazy idea, but the minimal amount of trouble required for the extra tables doesn't seem like enough to give up the logging and expiration benefits.

I can't read something like this without feeling really bad for everyone involved and taking a quick mental inventory of things I've screwed up in the past or potentially might in the future. Pressing the enter key on anything that affects a big-dollar production system is (and should be) slightly terrifying.

I was thinking along those lines too. A 46" high nitrogen tank holds around 125 cubic feet. As a wild guess, if an ATM contains 5 cubic feet of air then you could completely change the air 25 times with one tank. Does that sound reasonable?

"Don't be evil" means that sometimes you should do things for the good of the community without expectation of direct rewards. Maybe I'm idealistic and naive but I think that Google tries to live up to that.

At least some of it was probably for the Lyle Gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_gun) which was used to send a line (rope) from one ship to another to transfer people or cargo.

damninteresting is down now... here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bawJ3Bh...

That might also be true for 95% of all code.

I bought a sample light-emitting capacitor from CeeLite a few years ago. I was thinking of incorporating LECs into a building project but the very faint buzzing noise from the LEC and the understanding that light emissions would degrade over time was enough that I went with conventional light fixtures instead. This Lightpaper article remind me of that. I'm a little skeptical, but again, if they would just make samples available...

Where can I buy a sample of this?

The early days of commercial aviation in the US were largely open and unregulated. The first serious governmental effort to regulate aviation in the US was in 1926, by which time it was clearly needed.

I don't know anyone who thinks the FAA should have no ability to regulate drones, but their unwillingness to draw limits for themselves is causing real problems. Noncommercial drones/model aircraft less than a certain weight and operating below 400 feet and not near an airport have always been legal. If hobbyists are safe to operate according to those rules for personal enjoyment, why should they be banned from operating under those rules for pay?

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That is exactly what they are doing. It is infuriating to watch our potential US drone industry developing in Canada, Australia, Japan, etc., but not here.

http://screwpulp.com has a solution to the ebook pricing problem based on market economics. New books start out as free, then as more copies are downloaded the price goes up.

Seconded. I was confused by the no password thing at first until I found the link on this page https://workfrom.co/worker that described it. Now I like it.

Stanford does offer certificates and degrees delivered either partially or entirely online: http://scpd.stanford.edu/publicViewHome.do?method=load

I've taken CS courses at Stanford both through SCPD and on-campus. They're literally the same classes. Lectures are videorecorded and online. Tests and assignments are exactly the same.

There are minor advantages to being on campus: asking questions after class; sitting around your TA's office in Palantir bean-bag chairs while someone sketches sparse autoencoder on the dry-erase board; Axe burgers; but really, remote is okay too.

I wouldn't vote to hire a candidate solely because of a nanodegree from Udacity but I would consider it a positive signal; not as strong as an MS in CS from Stanford or a long list of published apps, but evidence of a desire for self-improvement and the discipline to act on that.

I think that's a little harsh. Vendor-specific certifications have earned a bad rep, some more than others, but that doesn't mean there's no advantage in any educational recognition short of a degree from an accredited university.

I wonder if the Udacity, in a few years, will be an accredited university capable of granting degrees?

I knew nothing about FindTheBest before reading this but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling towards them. Newegg also recently made the news for beating a patent troll. People who stand up to this make the world better for all of us.

Is there a way to download the entire history?

A great book on this subject is The Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law in War by Gary Solis (related to nrsolis?) I think it's currently used as a textbook at West Point and other places. I have a copy here. Solis is a clear advocate for rules of conduct in war and for the punishment of those who break those rules but he also does not shy away from pointing out the frequent cases when, as you note, guilty soldiers on the winning side escape punishment. E.g., here is a quote from the book concerning the trial of Ernest Medina, implicated in the My Lai massacre:

The prosecution urged that Medina knew, or should have known, of the massacre, but, in addition to inciting it, he took no action either to stop it or to subsequently bring to justice those who committed crimes. “Even if he did not personally commit any crimes in My Lai, Medina clearly failed to maintain control over men under his command who were committing scores of them.”42 Despite apparently meeting the von Leeb–List standard – knew or should have known – and, for that matter, the Yamashita standard – must have known – Medina was acquitted.43 One civilian nonlawyer who viewed the trial found the case poorly prosecuted.44 Another calls it “a striking example of the extent to which a domestic . . . tribunal will devise a restricted formulation of the superior responsibility doctrine in order to avoid the prosecution of its own nationals.”45 But that ascribes a sinister motive to the court-martial that did not exist. (p.422)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Law-Armed-Conflict-International/d...

I hope this information is helpful.

I'm sure spodek meant no disrespect to Admiral McRaven by referring to him as "the UT guy." Likewise I'm sure you didn't intend to show disrespect for Dr. Spodek by referring to him as "Joshua."

Interesting idea displayed at the bottom of the page. Note that I've removed the key string and replaced it with {redacted}. Ultimately, though, I can imagine a scheme like this wouldn't work very well in general use - that is why we have unique URLs.:

This page can be found by searching the Web for the 21-letter string {redacted}. Please do not put this string in any document that could wind up on the web--including email messages and pdf and Word documents. You can refer to it in Web documents as "the string obtained by removing the - from uid-lamporttlahomepage".

Yes. That could apply to other things as well. Once anything is co-opted by management it's time to move. If management would just learn to program...

Reminds me of Porterhouse Blue, the 1970s satirical novel about life in the fictitious Porterhouse college at Cambridge, where swans were served at massive feasts and "porterhouse blue" became another name for a stroke caused by excessive consumption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterhouse_Blue

Yes! Excellent, not the least for noting that CRUD does make the world go around. It's been done a million times but that doesn't mean there's not still room for significant innovation.

You could land on any hard-packed dirt surface, especially if you weren't too concerned about being able to take off again.

The amount of radiation released so far is perhaps not a big problem. It's the lack of control and credibility from Tepco and soforth that concerns me. The power plant was designed to ensure something like this couldn't happen and then it did; then various reports about what was under control and then it wasn't... Realistically, when is the flow of highly-radioactive water into the ocean going to stop?

Probably a bad idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Also, there's a fine line sometimes between bug fixes and enhancements. Sometimes it just depends on where you're standing.