skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really useful feature to experiment with.
In the USA you just use automotive jumper cables to connect to your neighbors service.
> We have enough uranium to satisfy our power needs for a few hundred thousand years

That's assuming there's no exponential growth in energy demand. Which there is.

Human population is growing exponentially. Technology is growing at least exponentially, probably faster.
Sen. Obama warned about Patriot Act abuses. President Obama proved him right.
...and much like the uk reaction to the gchq thing, as far as i can see.
Why does Angular.js rock?
Why does Angular.js rock? Is the first article on the new angular-tips blog!
I call BS.
for rich developed nations, gas is an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from the genuine renewable and sustainable energy alternatives which are already taking shape around us.
there is an argument about using gas in the developing world (where they need cheap energy fast), but wealthy nations should be leapfrogging into the same renewable energy solutions that will inevitably dominate our futures, rather than 'investing' in new gas plants with their long 30-40 year lifespan.
no, not at all. how is talking about the threat of something trivialising it?

you're just playing cheap word games for politics.
The people they interviewed didn't look like they were terribly down on their luck. One couple just looked like young couple who might have moved in there because it's trendy, and the older guy looked like he lived there just because it was cheap. Remodeling the place, watching football on TV...

They really don't seem like the poorer people you could see from the shots outside the building.

I'd like to see them talking to people who gave the place the reputation it has. Is there some 'rule' there, like don't go above the 20th floor to stay in the 'good' part of the building?
Hence http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/ and similar attacks.
"Here's a question I've been pondering: Did the NSA want PRISM to leak?"

Perhaps they have been taking notes from Jeremy Bentham.

"PANOPTICON; OR THE INSPECTION-HOUSE: CONTAINING THE IDEA OF A NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION APPLICABLE TO ANY SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT, IN WHICH PERSONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION ARE TO BE KEPT UNDER INSPECTION"

...

"To say all in one word, it will be found applicable, I think, without exception, to all establishments whatsoever, in which, within a space not too large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant to be kept under inspection.

No matter how different, or even opposite the purpose: whether it be that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education: in a word, whether it be applied to the purposes of perpetual prisons in the room of death, or prisons for confinement before trial, or penitentiary-houses, or houses of correction, or work-houses, or manufactories, or mad-houses, or hospitals, or schools.

It is obvious that, in all these instances, the more constantly the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect them, the more perfectly will the purpose X of the establishment have been attained.

Ideal perfection, if that were the object, would require that each person should actually be in that predicament, during every instant of time.

This being impossible, the next thing to be wished for is, that, at every instant, seeing reason to believe as much, and not being able to satisfy himself to the contrary, he should conceive himself to be so."

http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm
Yeah, i gave up on doing fp (or any mathematics) in python when I got surprised by this:

>>> monomials = [lambda x: x(star)(star)i for i in [1,2,3]] #(not sure how to escape stars for exponentiation properly, whatever)

Those all end up being the same monomial because the integer i is captured by address and not given a new binding for every iteration. Very surprising, and an accident waiting to happen for anyone used to dealing with integers by value (hard to say that with a straight face).

The hackish workaround is "lambda x,i=i: x(star)(star)i" but I'd forget it all the time.
My version of your comment would be, simply:

> Move fast and break things.
If you're a more "serious" cyclist than you have the money to burn for more expensive, specialized equipment, not a middle of the road phone mount.
I hope you come with a big van when you take in all the "i hope you die" commentators on YouTube. Policing the internet of all distressing talk is just a ridiculous idea.
For now. What happens when interest slowly peters off as the current fanbase gets bored or distracted with other areas of their lives?
Look into the potency of genuine Nepalese hashish. Have a look in one or two of those coffee shops and ask about Nepalese hashish - the real stuff, I'm sure that you'll find it to be on par with the high grade Dutch hashish of which you speak.

Valid scientific study of Nepali cannabis and hashish are hard to find, and all I have is anecdotal evidence, which is of little use here, but Nepalese cannabis is where we got our most potent genetics, and we (here in Hawaii) had this variety since the late 1970's.

Your idea of American cannabis is not applicable to the top grades grown by the best growers here in Hawaii.

That our laws are more restrictive than those of the Netherlands is one reason that scientific evidence supports your claims, and is why I have only anecdotal evidence. It's been illegal here for only a relatively short time as compared to the Netherlands.

I have acquired (20+ years ago) some of the best seeds from Amsterdam, and it was not up to the level of Nepalese, or Tibetan.

THC is only one of the psychoactive ingredients in cannabis, and to only list that one ingredient while ignoring the others is one of the same mistakes made by pharmaceutical labs in their quest to somehow profit from cannabinoids.
Especially since indica varieties are high in CBD as well as CBN and THC.

The chart listing seized cannabis potency fails to note the origins of the seized drug, and mentions indoor cultivation while failing to consider genetics. Not much Nepali or Tibetan is seized compared to what is seized coming into the USA from Mexico.

The second link makes no mention of Nepalese potency.

Ask Arjan (The Greenhouse) about Nepali genetics, as I'm certain that he is quite familiar with this subject.

But enough of all that, time for a funny story.
I visited my sister in Oregon back in 1981, and I brought some of my best Hawaii grown (by myself) for personal consumption, and found out that my brother in law was a pot smoker so I broke out my stash to share.
Well, both he and my sister could only handle a few puffs before they left me to finish what I had rolled.
The next day my sister accused me of "lacing" the joint with something, which I vehemently denied. (I don't use any other drugs, excluding alcohol) She told me that "no weed can get you that high, you had to have put something in it..."

Thank you for you comments, as they are quite informative and I'm sure there is validity in them, and I do tend to be a bit prejudiced towards my favored varieties.

Aloha!
Really thought provoking post, thanks.
I was thinking more like this:

http://www.wired.com/business/2010/04/apple-bans-satire/

Or maybe "just" this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/06/29/texas-teen...
I believe this is the general guidance for new projects- see https://github.com/polymer and https://github.com/dart-lang as well.

GitHub is just much better for collaboration.
Big Transparency for the NSA
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA had this in live and for every major city.
>I would like a small list of materials that my representative could read that make my case much better than I could.

Honestly, I think it's fine to just take your pick of reasons why you are not happy and convey that. You don't need to be an expert or have a master crib-sheet. Your honest feelings on the issue as they are real, organic, and coming straight from an individual -some of the more important attributes to have for a message being sent to a representative imho.

I've always suspected that form letters and chain emails get mentally binned fairly easily quickly, as some of the comments by other users in this thread seem to reinforce.
Okay, new idea. What if he did a Kickstarter for $500k for additional high-quality devs to come on the project for a year and focus on 1) improving the UI and 2) improving performance. That's it. No promises of additional functionality, no open-sourcing to make Toady feel like he's given up his baby.

Given the cult following of the game and the people who would like to play it but are otherwise frustrated, I doubt they'd have trouble reaching the limit. The press they'd get just from announcing would give them a boost as well.
This project has roots at least some years back, so it’s not starting from scratch with lofty ideas that are unlikely to come to fruition. Solid team with a great ideology!
Not necessarily - the speech to text just has to be good enough to flag likely use of interesting terms. Those calls could then be fully stored for later analysis by an investigation if it becomes necessary. The vast majority of calls would end up being stored as a text file, but this technique with today's technology would certainly be good enough to flag a reasonably high percentage of calls of interest for audio storage. That phone call from Jimmy to Sally Mae telling her he's going to be late home from work? It doesn't matter if NSA-Siri garbles the translation...
"I hope you die" is not a threat. You are equating utterly different things.
I remembered it has around 700m, but didn't remember the exact figure. You could probably also ask either of us about the inner workings of transporter or the warp field dynamics ;). It's a geek thing.

You spend too much time with something, it feels natural to you ;).
I'm not sure if this is a real niche. For the device to be any use to a developer, you'd really need an external monitor and keyboard. So you're looking at a developer who for some reason can bring a phone places, cannot bring a Macbook Air or something places, and has monitors and keyboards available everywhere they bring the phone. Does this actually fit anyone's situation?
No. It is, so far as I know, possible for Twitter to intervene against rape threats without also engaging in censorship of undesirable political viewpoints.
But he does give more evidence than that when he reports that he was using mostly non-Apple replacements for lots of his standard apps. I'm not sure whether the apps he lists are more "innovative" on Android, but apparently he found them more comfortable to use than the iOS built-ins.
> if you know the statistics of the communication channel, you can build secure steno

That's a pretty big if though. I mean, if you miss one nuance the NSA didn't, then your scheme could be toast. At least in the high data limit.
Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
What's wrong with cultural imperialism? Some cultures just suck, and cultural relativism is nonsense.

"This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

Charles Napier, British Commander of India
Threats are illegal in the US, too. The laws are just poorly and selectively enforced.
I'm super-happy that someone is at last trying to build a self-hosted competitor to Gmail.

Sure, I can set up my own mailserver already, but the amount of effort it takes is too much compared to just setting up a Gmail account. If they can get set-up and spam-protection right, then this could be huge!
> 1) ...in the event of a crash...

Even in this edge case, your phone's health will probably be a low concern.
It's `reduce(add, map(int, ...))`.

It's more general than `sum(generator)` - you could write `reduce(mul, ...)` or anything else, while with sum you'll get sum and nothing more. Also, I have no problem with `reduce(some_fun, (x for x in iterable))`, which works too.

Generally, while `map` in python is much better written as list comprehension or generator expression, reduce has no equivalent short of explicit loop with accumulator variable.
Just what I was looking for! I have a silicon phone mount now that I use and love, but the silicon straps cover part of the screen, which is annoying at best. I'm definitely buying this right away.

Oh, they don't deliver to the US...I guess I'll wait for it to show up on eBay.
I like the concept - but it's missing a discussion of how they handle what I consider to be (by a pretty large factor) one of the most important feature in email - Anti-Spam.

Gmail (which I'm not suggesting is an ideal, just what I happen to use) doesn't even bother to show me my spam folder - and, in the last week, it's redirected 1178 messages there.
So they should take the money they raised, which they have to give back if they don't make their goal, and invest it in a horrendously volatile bubble asset? Sounds ideal.
Bluehost, HostGator and HostMonster outage
Long enough to get fusion plants online.
Are there any plans to help make setting up your own mailserver easier? That seems to be the main challenge for anyone who wants to self-host right now.
And the evidence for that is... where exactly? There's plenty of criticism of corporations and governments, as long as you're not threatening them with violence.

Criticism is silenced by other laws, such as libel. Threats to rape women have nothing to do with it.
It will be very interesting to see the criteria for a site to be labeled as porn. Is http://500px.com going to be deemed a porn site because it has a "nude" section?
I think the only major one is the IntelliJ plugin (though SLIME is a sort of marginal case).
Human customer service doesn't scale well. The number of false flags Twitter will get on this report button is non trivial. Most people are assholes when they get power, and that report button is power. It will be used by some to remove people they don't like from Twitter. We've seen the same on other services (youtube), and we'll see it here.
"I have never seen a spell check that had the word steganography in it though."

Are you sure you looked hard enough? Most of them include it as very faint morse code somewhere in the icon.
That is one of our main long-term goals. It's too early to say exactly how we would do that, but odds are there would be some sort of helper service in the cloud which relays and handles DNS and such. We need to get the client built first though.
HtDP, unlike SICP, begins with a purely functional subset of Scheme, BSL (Beginning Student Language). While this obviously means students will learn Scheme from the course, the purpose is to remove syntax and imperative programming from the equation - there is no set! and no macros. There is not even (list...) or lambda or closures or local functions.[1]

In short, BSL is pretty neutral from a language holy war standpoint. Which is not to say that those who self-select to engage with the book as teachers and students are not likely to be somewhat biased toward the Lisp camp - clean syntax and functional style programming are standard arguments in favor of Lisp in language wars.

The other distinction of HtDP is that is definitely not OOP based. The analog in terms of pedagogy might be MIX - there are certain ideas which it is desirable for the language to expose, and OOP hides a lot of those things.

[1] O.K. There is lambda in BSL, actually. But it can only be used in the body of a function definition like this:

(define (foo x)
(lambda (x) (* 1 x)))

Outside this (define...) form, lambda is not allowed in BSL.
Risk management in forex trading
Now that we know that it will not succeed we all can pledge to show our support without paying. Oh wait... :)
It seems the OP himself is generating passive income by creating an ebook on generating passive income. See: https://leanpub.com/passiveincome
Would this be a good resource for learning Clojure for someone who's a rather inexperienced programmer? I remember looking at Leiningen a while back and being a little lost. I've heard really good things about Clojure and functional programming in general but I still have my programmer training wheels on.
Absolutely. I'm the lead developer - I spent almost 6 years working on anti-virus and anti-spam, so rest assured we know this is a big deal. :-) There is alot of quality stuff in the open source world already which we will be able to build on.

Update: To clarify why we left it out of the pitch - we just took it for granted that you can't have a functional e-mail client without dealing with spam.
I haven't actually seen any decent benchmarks between those systems as a whole. Most comparisons seem to shy away from that (between some candidates it probably doesn't make sense to benchmark anyways). But if you've seen anything interesting on that front, I'd be thankful if you could post it. And, you're right, so far Angular hasn't let me down regarding speed.
Yes, the three italicized words/phrases are references to the names of popular programming book series:

Programming for Dummies: http://www.dummies.com/store/Computers-Internet/Programming....

Sams Teach Yourself X in 21 Days: http://www.informit.com/search/index.aspx?query=21+days

The Complete Idiot's Guide to X: e.g. http://www.help4web.net/webmaster/Java/NewJS/JavaScriptIdiot...

Maybe those series are no longer as well known as they used to be? They were household names in the '90s and everyone would've gotten the references, but it's possible they're now dated and better removed from the intro.
There is one Silicon Valley on the continent already, why would anyone go to the BC?
Every time I see threads like this, the comments are all about telling the developers what they should do. The developers make enough money to survive, seem perfectly happy, and are working on exactly what they want. They aren't in a situation where they owe the community something more than what they are already doing. Why are we trying to solve their problems?
And what would be your approach to spam-filtering? One of Google Mail's strengths is that it can use data from millions of accounts' emails to train its spam-filter.

Do you see Mailpile offering some way to do the same thing in the future, with clients flagging spam and the result being used to train a 'community' filter?
The helium cliff is nigh
The article mentions natural gas is mostly methane (CH4).

Here is the combustion reaction for burning methane:

CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O

Note right side of equation.

The "climate scientists" cited in the referenced article have confusion on this issue, as they contrast the effects of methane releases to those of CO2.

It's interesting to contemplate what has to occur for someone to adopt the title "scientist" and leading authority in a subject while remaining confused about freshman highschool chemistry.

Burning natural gas may release some incidental uncombusted methane, but the major gaseous combustion product is clearly CO2. An unlearned person reading these articles would not know that from the way methane emissions are presented as the relevant issue.

It's also interesting to see that methane has now been rehabilitated in some minds into a friendly and relatively clean emission after years of hysteria regarding the impending doom that is coming from cow flatulence; statements such as "A significant portion of [global greenhouse gas] emissions come from methane, which, in terms of its contribution to global warming, is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide." (http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2013/03/..., http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/mammals/methane-cow...)
I'm in the same boat - I've been a very happy IDEA user for over a decade now, and any other IDE that targets the JVM has a pretty high bar as far as I'm concerned.

With that said, I'd love to see the Scala equivalent of this - the Scala plugin for IDEA works fairly well (they still have quite a few problems with inline error highlights/parsing when your Scala code uses path dependent types), but the Typesafe official Scala IDE uses Eclipse, which utterly rules it out as far as I'm concerned.

A lightweight but functional Scala-native IDE with builtin sbt support would be absolutely awesome for a pure-Scala project.
Human population is growing exponentially.

And this is true in what circumstance? The world fertility rate is going down and in some countries, like Japan, the population is shrinking.

That's assuming there's no exponential growth in energy demand. Which there is.

Citation?
I know you feel like you just explained its flaws, but there's nothing here that couldn't also be said about any other mainstream language.
Actually, it does, and I know this from talking to their senior managers.

Otherwise (1) you're being illogical and (2) my memory is accurate.
It's BS.

To limit global warming to 2°C we would need to leave 80% of already discovered hydrocarbon resources unused. This is same as producing CO2 at current level next 18 years and then stopping completely forever. We are already warmed +0.8°C and effects have been worse than expected.

To be realistic, there is no signs that we are even trying to reduce global CO2 emissions, we are just trying to slow down the increase. There is no sign in stock markets that all those hydrocarbons will be left into the ground. From developed nations only Germany is trying to leapfrog, but it might fail due to economic/political reasons when the cost becomes clear to voters (well see).

According to FAO, meat production causes 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That's more than traffic. If we would be serious, we would have to solve that ASAP. Nobody is even thinking doing that.

All actions in democratic countries are result of two forces: what people feel comfortable giving up and how much people fear global warming. People are not comfortable giving up anything even lightly significant even if they live in rich countries. There is not enough investments and technology is not advancing at the pace we would need to have to live comfortable life and saving the environment.

If you have kids, take them diving to see coral reefs. It's last time to see.

http://oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/ocean-acidifica...
You are right. Also, they manage to pay for DirecTV service. You would be amazed at the number of satellite TV antennas in all the slums in Caracas.

This is true for most of the slums were most people don't pay for electricity or water. But I had a teacher that worked in Electricidad de Caracas that said that it was a point of honor for residents of these slums to actually get a power meter. She said they saw it as something that set them. Apart from the rest of the residents.
Please fix the "it's" typo on your website ;)
Potential Ember.js XSS Exploit
Haha, noted. Thanks.
It‘s still decidedly aimed at techies though. I guess it'll be another few years before the benefits of a Free Software Gmail competitor will be accessible to the layman.