skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Amsterdam this would say "I'm a tourist, please steal my phone".

How? Leaving your phone mounted is like leaving your bike unlocked. It looks like 3 seconds of work to take a phone out and back in, so I don't understand your point.

Also, I'd assume most people would take their phone along simply because they take their phone everywhere.

GPS navigation is a great use case for this. Whatsapping with your friends, indeed, maybe not so much. I think you're confusing "I'd never use this" with "this device has a relatively small margin of usefulness".
I've also wondered if perhaps Snowden is still on CIA payroll. Maybe the NSA didn't want this leaked but CIA did.
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Natural gas is odorless. The odor is added.
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I sort of agree with some of the ideas behind this product, but I would have gone in a different direction.

The critical thing I want is to maintain my working context wherever I go. Browser tabs, open documents, and so on. I'm not necessarily going to be doing the same tasks when I'm out and about than when I'm at a desk.

I definitely don't want to be limited in terms of processing power and RAM to what I can carry around in my pocket.
Are there really that many Clojure IDEs available? I suspect you're conflating IDE and text editor.
This reminds me of the comment from the NSA a while ago in which it said that Snowden's documents have already changed many people's behaviour. I'm on a reliable 4G network in London and (mostly) only go to places I'm familiar with. The result being that location service, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC are permanently turned off. My girlfriend has had location services turned off since she first got an iPhone 3GS. And she won't let me use my Kinect when she's home.

Justified or not, these things are coming up in conversation at work and with friends a lot lately, which I find encouraging.
Speedrunning is fascinating! I've always wondered how they figure these tricks out. Thanks!
Ballard is awesome, though most of his real gold is in his short stories (a rare writer who really got into the format rather than treated it as a side line). A lot of interesting "ideas" related to science and society get explored, such as overpopulation, the psychology of insomnia, medical experiments, etc.
I'm using IntelliJ which has so far been great for great for Clojure and Java plus every other language I use. I'm definitely willing to give this a shot and I also want to know if you're looking at doing any Scala support?
nice but for professional use i'd go with screenflow.
> Also, is it possible to use GPS without an active cellphone account with a carrier?

I can use GPS in airplane mode, so I suppose it works.
Works on BB, Q10.
What's the problem with using a fixed mount? I use my bike nearly every day in Paris and have never had any issues in the last two years...
http://shutl.com/uk/
Bridge to solar, wind, and maybe other renewables.
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Citation needed re enough Uranium. AFAIK: 1) whoever says anything about energy with thousands of years assumes that our energy needs aren't going to grow. The modern states, economies and populations however expect the growth as it was exactly what happened during the last 200 years. 2) There's a lot of U only if the one once used is reprocessed, howerver there are significant problems with reprocessing now.
This tower draws interest because of its unusual case of being a skyscraper exclusively inhabited by squatters, but in the end it is really nothing more than a vertical shantytown, much like the millions that are sprawled out over the rest of Caracas and in other major South American cities like Rio. I assume daily life for the unfortunate people living in the tower isn't much different than the rest of the population living on or below the poverty line.
Protecting the free speech rights of people who are saying unpopular (but not illegal nor ToS violating) things shouldn't be a barrier to protecting people from harm.

Shouldn't be in theory, but essentially everyone with any pull in the public debate seems to want Twitter to ban based on whether the user's opinions are politically correct. So, for example, they argue that telling someone to choke on their own vomit is abusive when their opponents do it to them but a vital part of activism that must be protected when they do it to someone they consider deserving.

There's also signficant debate over whether moderators can even enforce policies in a fair and unbiased way: http://storify.com/andustar/twitter-moderation To be honest, I've never seen it happen ever.
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Original slide deck here: http://isecpartners.com/media/105564/ritter_samuel_stamos_bh...
They certainly know that sooner or later things risk coming to light.

But it seems more likely that they would have preferred to have this leak and its accompanying chilling effect happen at a later date, when they can be sure that everybody is under their control and their power structure could not be brought down anymore.
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I agree. It always sounds a bit phony when people bring up the "freedom of speech" defense, as in "if we relinquish our right to use slurs, we won't be able to topple authoritarian tyrannical governments".

The general idea is not worthless, but it's disconnected from reality.
Use the --defaults-extra-file to point to a file containing the password and stop the madness. At least that is what I think should be done if entering the password is inconvenient or not feasible (like in an automated script)
Free speech does not include the right to threaten rape or violence, or to harass women. That is the case both online an offline. Try saying something like this in a loud voice in a pub and see how you get on:
https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/363160225873805312

Of course, free speech does allow a nutjob creationist to pervert science education in Texas, but that's another matter.
Reasonably crash-proof smartphone mounts already exist; they just cost a bit more. I use http://www.amazon.com/BioLogic-Bike-Mount-iPhone-4/dp/B004G7... for mountain biking, and I've broken a few mounts (I haven't found a good spot to put it that's visible but not in the path of my legs when bailing off the bike), ridden in the rain and fished it out of a stream without the phone itself suffering any damage.
Is the next step mandating Chromebooks (unless an Apple machine is justifiable)?
Is Vancouver Silicon Valley North?
Looks similar to SpeedTracer...is it related at all? The replacement?
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I have seen a lot of speedrun videos, and this is the best one ever. I had to post it.
I assume that the government has better than normal classified satelite tech, so how do you know what kinds of resolutions are possible?
Why is that an interesting point? There isn't necessarily a non-evil way to proceed, just worse and less-worse ways. I never said this was all roses and wine.
Sovereignity is a concept. Whether you want to use this word or another is irrelevant.

As I said in my post the first and mandatory requirement for one to be sovereign is to have a monopoly upon violance within particular geographic region.

What you declare is absolutely irrelevant. You are sovereign if and only if you are firstly capable of defending yoursef from harm and second unleashing harm upon others within this teritory.

There need not be any justification for violence beyond whim of the sovereign. So if you walk outside the airport against sovereigns will, local sovereign may do harm unto you.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with morality.
Something we aren't noticing is, if he can build one that small with off the shelf parts, the NSA could and probably does have devices like these as small as quarters or perhaps embedded in dummy iPhone charging cubes.
I would bet the Feds can build out miniature versions for a few hundred bucks a piece. Which in defense dollars means they are disposable.
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So CoreOS is the simple host OS, thank you for the clarification, i thought it was a minimal guest OS.
There's a right to free speech in the US but nothing to say it has to exist on any particular platform. This is no different from banning people on forums (except for the unscalable moderation problems, of course).
I really enjoy all kinds of Ambient music for coding

Sync24 and RQ come to mind.
This is why there is an entire genre of music called "Ambient"

Seriously, I know where you're coming from but there is music out there for every situation.
This place is a disaster waiting to happen.

On reddit someone from Caracas posted pictures of a different skyscraper on fire for days because the fire department didn't have the equipment to fight it. It was a business building but I can only imagine what would happen to a building full of families and no water for fire system sprinklers.
In the command-line, `lein new my-project` sets everything up for you.
>Why should anyone put up with that?

They shouldn't. Some comments are obviously unacceptable. That's easy. The problem is, as always, where do you draw the line?

It's the comments at the margins of "acceptability" that are the most difficult to deal with and where the arguments of censorship are sure to come from. "You know it when you see it" is not easy to apply.
i see, makes sense. thanks!
Original source: http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
>a system where anyone who doesn't like a Tweet clicks an abuse button, and that Tweet is immediately censored

A la "Flag for spam" on youtube comments. I would hesitantly estimate that perhaps 1% of comments which appear with a "This has been flagged as spam" warning are actually spam.
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no you mean rewriting A to suit their owners agenda.
Screw unsecured wifi - most peoples wifi is encrypted, these days (at least around here).

I wonder how secure 3g connections are? Because it would seem to one could get a lot more information out of those.

Edit: speling
http://www.governmentcontractswon.com
A 'free' service that treats its users like products and makes money off them?
The problem with this kind of article is they are too trivial to be truly original and don't help testing a real application, even a light one. Who want to test his evening project ?

Worst, it's by far too light on karma and E2E testing. They have a lot of pitfalls, traps, and documentation is nearly inexistent. A shame considering the size of these projects.

I upvoted, though, because I want more discussion on that topic.

For anyone who want further links about Unit-testing on Angular, I recommend the series from Benjamin Lesh on testing controllers[1], services[2], and directives[3].

This article[4] from The Year of Moo is also excellent and introduces the limit of End-to-end testing with a solution.

[1]: http://www.benlesh.com/2013/05/angularjs-unit-testing-contro...

[2]: http://www.benlesh.com/2013/06/angular-js-unit-testing-servi...

[3]: http://www.benlesh.com/2013/06/angular-js-unit-testing-direc...

[4]: http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/01/full-spectrum-testing-with-...

I'll be highly interested if someone has anything consistent about Karma and Angular-scenario. I didn't find anything satisfactory about setup anything bigger than 200 LoC. For what I saw, people run away from Angular-scenario and inject Jasmine and Mocks as a work-around.
Or Raid: Redemption.
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That's a different user referring to a different comment made over voice chat on xbox.
I'm very much working on leaving the first category. That's the problem I guess with teaching oneself a language with no code review.
Will a sheep's wool grow forever?
The problem here is that any system that is used to fight threats of rape or violence will inevitably be used to silence political dissent, criticisms of corporations, etc. The existence of trolls is the price of free speech on the Internet.
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http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/diagnostics/us...

and

http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-monitoring-plugins/
Are you saying the victims of rape threats are trivialising rape by expecting twitter to intervene?
The attack was launched via an infected Word file. You can separate your internal network from the public Internet - which power companies do - but that only reduces your attack surface, it doesn't eliminate it. Attack vectors are still available.
If people didn't want services on free services, then the people who were using them to make money would be up the creek. Adding 'customer' in front of that concept doesn't change the underlying relationship.
Google Code was a breakthrough in it's time (remember Sourceforge?).

Today if you want your open source project to be noticed, you pretty much have to push it to Github.
if it helps, the largest cruise ships are around 300m long.
> The modern states, economies and populations however
> expect the growth as it was exactly what happened during
> the last 200 years.

I heard the same about real estate prices some five years ago.
We're still talking about different things. Yes, WP could be better. This is demonstrable from other, better-designed engines within the LAMP/shared constraints.

But no such system can prevent any plugins from doing whatever they want to do.
Voiced my concerns as well, I'm a more 'serious' cyclist and my phone just doesn't cut it.

I would consider something like this for my cruiser and beater bike but it's not the big jumps I'm worried about, it's the tons of little vibrations, like going over a road that hasn't been paved in a while or has been scratched just before a repaving or cobblestone.
Plus anything municipal agencies are collecting. Eg. License plates, etc.
The USB power is very very low with them. Even one is pushing it reall, any more would need a bulky powered hub.
> why has "Passive Income" become such an evil thing around here?

In general the lifestyle business is criticized here, but ironically at the same time people who build startups are acquired by their skills/talent more than from the startup itself. At the end both are lifestyle businesses except if you are the next Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Apple/IBM or if you are Dropbox and refuse to be acquired by Apple!
If I'm not mistaken, a bunch of GET requests against a public API, unfortunately setup to not require authorization credentials and yet still exposing nominally 'private' data.

Nuance is a hell of a thing.
I absolutely dislike this development. It seems beyond my understanding why Twitter is becoming the judge over which value systems around the world are the right ones to enforce and which ones are the wrong ones.

If they want to play that whole culture sensitivity game, they also need to censor all negative statements against religious figures - because there is certainly some nation, somewhere in the world, which has laws against that.

It seems to me absolutely unacceptable why Twitter is bowing to free-speech censorship of one country (U.K.) and not of another (let's say all the Arabic Nations).

Either you subscribe to the rigorous interpretation of free speech in the U.S. or you have to respect each Nation's individual understanding of free speech. Otherwise this is pure cultural imperialism.
Good question. So, there's this new Web Tracing Framework:

http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/

And Speed Tracer, as you mention:

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/speedtracer/

And also PageSpeed Tools:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

I'm surprised they don't address the distinction, history, or evolution plan anywhere prominently.
My JavaScript isn't great, so I'm ignoring prevent-default?, but you can probably do something like this:

(defn events [object type]
(let [out (chan)]
(.addEventListener object type (fn [e] (put! out e)))
out))
The official Python docs also have a section on FP.

http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html
It is not about toppling authoritarian governments. The right to speak freely is important for any democratic system to function. People have to be able to voice their complaints and criticisms.

The problem is that any system that could be used to prevent people from making rape threats on the Internet could and inevitably would be used to silence various forms of dissent. We have seen this sort of thing before:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/mark-fiore-can-win-a-pulitz...
Perhaps the Vatican?
you think the competitors of the Pi in the US are not doing this all ready.

There is a lot of NIH in the comments about the pi on HN and ./
Crowd funding, at its core, is a pay first system. This means that it is also in some way speculative. You cannot price your device above what people are willing to live without if the project fails spectacularly (or simply fails to deliver on what they really wanted).

To be fair, if Ubuntu Edge is truly the F1 of phones, then it should be marketed to people that don't bat an eye at spending $830 on a device they have never held and have little guarantee that it will actually be suitable for their needs. I just think that the intersection of those people and Ubuntu users is significantly smaller than Canonical thought it was.
not the first time I read about this. should be reason enough to avoid it.
20k is nothing ... for direct phone sales.

It's a lot of F-22 fighters, though. And a lot of Christmas hams for one family (but not a nation).

How many times do 20k customers pool millions of dollars to go towards the development of a phone?

20k people willing to pay $800 per phone is a tiny market.

20k people who care enough to pledge $800 towards development of something that doesn't exist is a huge group of passionate early adopters.
AFAIK, the requirement is due to security concerns from the China hacks in 2010. The way Sergey Brin put it in 2011, it sounds like employees have the option. On the number of employees using Windows: "I’d probably guess 20 percent ... But I’d have to get back to you."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144... http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/googlers-windows/
The course is based on the general principles which underlay HtDP. But HtDP is Matthies Felliesen's particular approach, and Gregor Kiczales (CLOS, Aspect Oriented Programming, The Meta-Object Protocol) has his own points of emphasis.

What both share is a general approach to programming pedagogy - that of the larger Racket community. It includes starting with a simple functional language, BSL, in order to avoid getting hung up on language syntax and to provide better error messages during debugging. BSL prevents FORTRAN in any languages, everything has to be functional. Because it only has

cons

But not

list

BSL programs tend to make structure explicit - don't worry, list is added when appropriate.

At first this seems like a lot more training wheels than necessary, but it allows the course to focus on writing signatures, descriptions, and templates in the first weeks, and pays off handsomely when the material hits recursion - there were very few questions about it in the forums, and the answer when those who couldn't picture it felt stuck was, for now just trust the template.

The big idea of the course is to teach a design method. It does so by looking at recursive algorithms and presenting recipes for applying them. The second theme is functional style programming - and it is dictated by necessity. The third theme is model-view-controller through Racket's "worlds".

I've taken a lot away from it, your milage may vary.
can you explain the context? my immediate reaction is that this sounds disturbingly like "poverty porn" for tourists (something i started thinking about while watching the original video).
I think the problem is that this niche, is really only worth the maybe $10M that have roughly been given so far. The niche consists of developers, who are happy to produce all the apps they need for themselves (since the app market is at 0), they like Ubuntu (since this is really what they have now chosen to buy into, they want to give up their current phone and laptop setup in no less than 30 days max, and last but not least; is ready to shell out $800+ for a non-existing phone, that could be out of date by the time its in their hands.

To me that sounds like an incredibly tiny fraction of the smartphone market. If I were Canonical, I would use this as a survey, that tells you that you've got X amount of people ready to shell out $10M within 30 days of announcement. Surely the rest of the money could be earned from people who are aren't looking to change phone right now, and maybe wants to test the waters by seeing it in video reviews or in stores, and then pay the price. After all, isn't that what companies do? Take risks, and get rewarded if it works, instead of this extremely carefull investment (even Apple is more risky with its money for crying out loud).
You get rape threats if you go on Xbox live and the like too. People seem to have mostly dealt with this sort of thing by banning the user from the service.

The behaviour's really not acceptable. But... do we really need the state involved to deal with some teenager who thinks they're funny?
Can anyone give a technical account of how this is achieved?

The article makes it sound as though it relies on unsecured wifi data, but also states that "Even when he didn’t connect to a Wi-Fi network, his sensors could track his location through Wi-Fi “pings.”" It also talks about iMessage, and dropbox, and other application layer data.

I couldn't make sense of it.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but won't their control over the grid disappear once the power goes?
The question better than "Why wouldn't I just use MAMP" is 'Why wouldn't I use Vagrant or another VM?'

The benefits of learning how outweigh the 'ease' of MAMP.

As Kayoone points out, polluting your main OS with so many technologies is much less than ideal.
A Dyson Sphere.

On a more serious note. I see the immediate future as a focus not only on cleaner energy production but also a more efficient and far reaching energy grid as in many places neither nuclear nor renewable energy production are feasible. Gas being cheaper and cleaner (ref. air pollution) is a sensible investment for those areas who are still relying on dirtier fossil-fuel powered energy production.
That's all fine and good at least up until you have to kern a line of text. Then what?
Chillax man, what FUD? I posted a link to a pretty balanced article that doesn't claim anything, just raises questions. Read the last paragraph.
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most of the planet's uranium is in very low concentrations in the sea.
We certainly don't have enough commercially viable uranium (ie, that can be extracted and enriched with less energy inputs than they might produce) to maintain current rates of consumption for more than around 100 years using existing technologies.
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> IMO they should be able to get 100 of the Fortune 500 companies to fork over $80,0000 for an exclusive access to the new shiney thing in mobile.

There are only 50 of those $80k bundles available. (Also, only 50 of the $10k)

> Heck Marissa Mayer alone may just reimburse every Yahoo employee who decides to get one going by her thirst for mobile ... and pr.

Why? What's in this for Yahoo?
In truth, some of the content on Wikipedia is sensitive and would brand the site in more than one of the blocked categories. While not strictly pornographic, Wikipedia does get quite explicit, including entries and descriptions for things like fellatio, etc.
The argument for Clojurescript is about the same as for Clojure on the JVM. To get a (subjectively) more expressive language but have it run on an already popular platform and take advantage from that.
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