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Stein's Law: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

The only thing that's guaranteed when consuming a finite resource at an accelerating rate is that sooner or later, It Will Be Different.
Do u worry that ur social data can be used against u?
These days I always have to be politically correct when I post anything because I have feeling that whatever I write in the social network will remain in the internet history forever. I am sure the collection of data can be analyzed by sophisticated algorithms. I worry that whatever I say and write would be used against me in the future. Therefore, I have stopped tweeting about my opinions. I feel I lost my freedom because I care about my data privacy.
The author is referring to the additional lambda-related features below (Non-final variable capture, Exception transparency, Control Flow). Lambdas most certainly are included in 8.
But being right at the wrong time is no better, and often worse, than being flat-out wrong.
This looks cool. One question: how do you deal with split transactions? The comments in models.py suggest that they are supported. However, the signature of the debit and credit methods in AccountBase only have space for one account on the other side of the transaction, e.g.:

def debit(self, amount, credit_account, description, debit_memo="", credit_memo="", datetime=None):

Are you planning to implement it later, or did I miss it in my quick reading of the code?
The pardon does not imply the law (the Labouchere Amendment, 1885) was wrong, but the Sexual Offences Act 1967 which repealed it certainly does (or did).
>It also says that there's no natural law that "technology will improve" always, so that getting harder to get oil will only require the prices to rise "slightly". At some point a specific technology does not improve anymore, or you get diminishing returns.

If you (or anyone) actually believed that you'd be going out and buying oil and oil rights, expecting to get rich off the massive price increase you are predicting.

If people did that it wouldn't be a problem in the first place (it would conserve oil from the present supply for future demand, stabilizing the price.)
Exactly what conclusions do you draw from those stats? Yes, I remember from my mathematics degree that 39<61, but what does that have to do with anything? What groups do you think you are comparing?

(Especially) If a man has not had sex with another man for a year, and has tested clean during that time, the stats you cite do not support excluding him from donation. Again, this is considering that blood transfusions, sex with prostitutes (!!), and accidental needle sticks only earn a twelve-month deferral.

Do you see a stat that says a gay man is more likely to be HIV+ than an active prostitute? Because that seems to be a relevant comparison.

I donate blood to save lives. No blood transfusion is risk-free, but there is also a risk/cost to excluding healthy willing donors of clean blood.
I thought the point was that they are both hipster status symbols.
For most practical applications this is not necessary at all. Common Lisp has countless mathematical applications which make use of its various numeric data types.
django-oscar-accounts includes a web UI (I assume from the screenhots when I clicked your link).

bookkeeper has an empty views.py, and seems to be using django mostly for the ORM.

I'm curious to know what other people are using for this type of functionality. Does anyone reading this link their app directly to an accounting package, and post transactions in real-time using that API?
Criticising popular things: why is it so popular?
I enjoy programming, but I wouldn't want to spend 18 hours a day doing it for weeks on end for effectively $6 an hour.
EclipseFP, but really the case is that Haskell is so expressive that you don't need much from an IDE -- most of the asistace an IDE gives is already baked into the language. You don't need help writing repetitive code when the language lets you avoid repition. (E.g., type inference, point free notation, type classes, Deriving)
As Far as i am concern, Mozilla has never been great ( or even good ) with User Experience. So it is no surprise all those time they wasted on Firefox OS didn't bring any major ground breaking achievement.

However I do admire them to continue working on "Open Web". Open Codec etc. Sometimes I just wish they could be more realistic.
Peak oil has nothing to do with how many barrels of oil are "left". Peak oil is about production rates.

And the 1956 prediction of a peak around 1970 wasn't a prediction of a global peak, it was a prediction of a US peak -- which occurred just as predicted.
you assume rational markets. this assumption doesn't hold in the real world. that's regardless of the fact that most of humans on this planet don't have the money to buy oil or oil rights, and of those that do, most aren't interested.

PS financial institutions already do that.
I don't think that biofuel counts as "oil" for the purposes of this discussion.

it's not a fossil fuel that gets dug up. It's a renewable, carbon-neutral storage of solar power, really.
What are the benefits of doing this?
Political change isn't fast. There is also a legal process underway as well. Both are very slow moving, but can bring a lot of changes.
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If something can be done, it can't be "unnatural". Unnatural things or processes DO NOT exists by definition.
selection bias. look up civilizations other than the one we live in currently, e.g. the mayans.
I'm still trying to work out if goldenkey is actually trolling us, or if he's actually incapable of seeing the irony of what he's saying...lol.

If he is actually serious:

Sorry, making retard jokes is not funny - heck, the term retard isn't even politically correct last time I checked - nor is making jokes about Asperger's syndrome funny...

Still, unlike you, I don't really care if you make jokes I consider unfunny shrugs. Each to their own.

However, it is called "hypocrisy" when you manage to inappropriately insult two minority groups in the process of calling somebody else out for being inappropriate.
I think that most people can agree on the fact that this type of technology holds much medical promise. The public will most like have concerns about its other applications. At what point is line crossed between medical need and bio-curiosity? Is the privacy risk worth some neat statistics which may or may not improve the users health? These questions will become more relevant as accessibility increases.

As for the use of implants to unlock doors and so on, I find it discomforting. Applications such as this are too personal and do not provide enough benefit. Suffice to say that I will be holding on to my keys.
If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI.

It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password databases, you know, for all those password databases you edit on a daily basis, email around the company, etc.

It ought to have a search-oriented interface, perhaps bound to a hotkey, perhaps with pinning of commonly used passwords - almost anything would be better than the treeview / listview combo. Auto-save should be the default, as well as versioning, and it should be damn hard to lose passwords even when your database is stored on dropbox and has conflicting updates from multiple locations.

It makes me angry every time I have to use it.
> I think that saying you can 'learn Haskell in a week' is really short sighted. You can learn to parse a Haskell program and write a guess-the-number program in a week, but learning how to write good Haskell is going to take months, if not years.

That was exactly my point, sorry if it wasn't clear.

> Really learning Haskell as an experienced programmer took as long as it took to learn Python as a novice, and I've heard similar reports from other people. I certainly agree that if you know, say, Java, learning C# probably isn't going to maximize your 'skill increase per time'. But saying that going from Java to Haskell, or even farther to something super-weird like Agda or Forth or Prolog, is just as easy as going from Java to C# is just wrong.

I am not saying that the "Java after C#" learning curve is the same as "Haskell after C#". It isn't. But I believe that the general experience of abstract thinking that one learns in many years must give an advantage over a novice learner. I am not talking about a script-kiddie who spent five years hacking code, or somebody who has the same one year experience 20 times instead of real 20 year experience. I believe that if you spent your development life actively then you must get a new concept easier than a beginner. And not only that. Concepts of a paradigm or language leak into others. Linq in .Net leverages "monads". Eric Meijer, one of the creators of Linq, loves Haskell and they borrowed ideas from Haskell. Now, if one is a "too pragmatic" programmer, they can use Linq for years successfully and never get closer to understand monads. However is one takes the time and looks behind the curtains, they got closer to understand at least this one concept of Haskell. And I am pretty sure that over let's say 10 years you are exposed to many ideas in some way if you keep your eyes open.

As I said, my gut feeling (can't tell how good the estimation is) is that in about six months I "get Haskell and fp". But it's not black or white: obviously spending 6 more years in the fp world would make a difference. There must be a decision made (and here I agree with gfodor) when the further gain doesn't justify the investment. I won't stop at 6th month if I don't feel the power yet :)
They already did that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8249792.stm
The Mayans ran out of oil?
especially when it's scientists from the field in question sounding the alarm.
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And record both the screen and the user's face, after disclosing they are being recorded, of course. You aren't going to notice or remember everything and having video is also helpful to discuss with others involved in the development of the product.
Read James Altucher's blog, and his books. Among other things, he recommends a daily exercise of coming up with ten ideas on some topic.[1]

Do it. Every day. And see what happens.

(Yes, I do it. Every day.)

[1] http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/10/how-to-become-an-idea-m...
I seem to be unable to apply the principle of charity to your views in a useful way, so I'm going to need some help here to understand what you are trying to say.

If an activity is, in aggregate, "a basic function of society", then at the individual level it ceases to be a choice? Your argument seems to be "Reproduction...is a basic function of society -> Parenting isn't a life choice", but I cannot figure out the intermediate steps.

Also, I still don't understand why you discuss reproduction of the species. Maternity leave does not encourage reproduction, and the evidence I've seen suggests negligable social benefits. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348505 Free-riding suggests a situation where a good or service is underprovisioned if people can choose not to provide it. But as the evidence shows, reproduction will be provided at the same rate regardless of maternity benefits. So your use of the term "free-ride" must be referring to something besides the obvious. Can you explain?
It's most illustrative that this lecture was given to future actuaries. Branches of society that have to concern themselves with the future are already well advanced in making preparations for it.

For example, a friend who is a town planner has to make sure that all new infrastructure takes expected sea level rises into account - even as her political masters deny global warming exists.

Meanwhile, mass society still can't even come to terms with the fact that many well respected mavens predicted that the Iraq War would be a disaster, that there would be a housing crash and that banks were incentivized to be corrupt and loot the economy. What hope for anti-biotics misuse, over-dependence on synthetic fertilizers and civilization surviving the anthropocene?
And while we're all sitting here debating whether Rap Genius is "baller or no, y'all", they're probably sitting around thinking "Gee, I have this giant pile of $50 million. Gosh, I wonder what all those people lurking on HN think about us? I had best find out!".

Actually, quite frankly, I don't think they give two cents what we say about them...lol.

But even money aside, they've managed to actually accomplish something tangible, so for that they have my respect.
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everyone should go read at least one article from that site. doesn't matter which one.
Thanks! I'll try to finish through that huge book! :P
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So - what was the outcome? Did the RSA public key algorithm make it's way in? Either through the BSAFE license, or did you just wait for the patent to expire?
A good beginner book is "Don't make me think".

If you want practical advice, I would say look at what you are making, find existing projects that have similar functionality to what you are trying to make, take lot's of screenshots of them, put them all in a folder then note what works and what doesn't, and use it to plan your design.

When you have a minimum viable product (hopefully you've planned a little bit so you don't have to restructure everything) put them side by side and pick your own work to bits.

It's easy to lose sight of what you are trying to do if you don't take breaks while designing especially if you are new to this. You can end up making something really weird if you don't take your time and try to push it all out in one go. Allow your brain time to digest what you are doing in in the background while you do other things.

Other helpful tips:

Combine actions as much as possible without being confusing. If you have a flow that is 3 or 4 pages/actions long for a mechanism that is relatively simple - you dun goof'd. I like to aim for one CTA per action but I will settle for two, three if the action is relatively complex (but all cases are different - there are no rules).

Spacing and consistency make things look polished - it's 'not important' as far as functionality goes but it goes a long way for making people want to use your product. It also gives subtle clues as to the pattern or template they should follow to get to the next action. As in: if the CTA button is usually at the bottom but then for some reason it shows up in the middle or the top you are breaking the 'shape' the user expects to encounter while progressing through your app or site or whatever.

Same for text entry fields, buttons, or text fields - unless you have a good reason to change their location, keep similar things in the similar locations, keep similar mechanisms the same size as each other and have everything act as consistently as you can.

Keep it simple. If you hand it to someone and they just freeze and ask what they should do, you need to go back and make it more clear.
Thermal paper is by far the last medium I want to store a wallet on...
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If you have a slow connection, WebM can be significantly faster. For example, I was on a vacation and the internet was slow as heck. WebM was a much smaller filesize.
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Just seen this. Funny you should ask that, but I am actually working with somebody new to web development on a project right now as a sort of work experience thing. If you have a bit of time every day it's actually not that hard to teach somebody new. I highly recommend it!
"The inability to tolerate the existence of those who are unlike you is a personal failing."

That's kind of ironic, since you can't seem to get over the fact that someone, unlike you, considers the RG founders douchebags. See how sophistry works both ways?
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Minor correction: in 1947, when the AK was developed, World Wide Socialist Revolution, as you put it, was not on the agenda for quite some time. The idea of Soviet autarky (“establishing socialism in one particular country”) has been adopted by Stalin as far back as in 1924, the World Revolution slogan has been removed from the USSR Constitution when it was revised in 1936, and by 1943 Stalin has done away with Comintern, the organization which was conceived (by Lenin and Trotsky, originally) with the aim of propagating revolution to capitalist countries.

In 1947, USSR was indeed preparing for a possible World War III against the US and UK, but the general idea of this war, at least in the East, was that of a conflict of nations. That said, guerilla tactics and the involvement of irregular fighting forces had proved to be quite effective during WWII, and so, of course, the new weapon had to be designed with such uses in mind.
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And common logic says that a resource that is finish will, sooner or later, finish.

Sooner or later — well, you're probably right, for some definition of "later." But the only reason people burn oil is because it's a cheap source of energy. As supply diminishes relative to demand, price will increase, but then it won't be a source of cheap energy anymore: it'll be an expensive one, and electric will take over.

(Let's ignore, for the sake of argument, the fact that oil isn't finite and can be produced in a lab from organic materials, albeit expensively; we can also ignore that oil will naturally form over millions of years from decomposing plant and animal materials, since that's largely irrelevant to humanity as we know it.)

Eventually, even as oil supply diminishes and prices go up, even as people switch away to electricity, someone somewhere will still have a need to consume oil. Years after it's barely useful anymore, even though battery tech has gotten so good it surpasses the internal combustion engine dollar for dollar even ignoring the tax credits, there'll be a lab buried away still burning it for something. And finally, some day, the last drop — or at least, the last easily-recoverable natural drop – of oil will be burned.

But, to be honest, it won't really matter.

The scariest energy-related crisis facing us in the foreseeable future isn't the inability to burn oil or other cheap but dirty energy sources: it's the ease with which everyone currently does burn them, slowly but surely smothering, melting, and then freezing the planet. I hope the BP geologist is right; I'd rather face peak oil than an ice age.
Your remark about finite resources made think about this video about the exponential funtion:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
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First off, it is not running out of something that is nec the problem, just the drop in ROI can be devastating. Secondly, the Mayans ran out of corn.
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Actually the classic study is the Rapa Nui culture who inhabited Easter Island and whose culture had already been decimated by deforestation when the Europeans arrived.

Jared Diamond's book Collapse is an exploration of the phenomenon. A bit hard to read if you're paying attention.
Absolutely agree. As much I love KeePassX much more I hate it's rigid UI.
this is great! I have been a fan of this software. It makes merging a walk in the park. And a great example of a simple yet effective product driving the company.
Ah yes. Cheers and congrats on this, I've been watching you guys since almost the beginning. Have been enjoying OpenEmu on my Air and advocating to as many people I know who are also on OS X and love emulation.

I really want to contribute, but that will have to wait til next year when I'm a bit more acquainted with Obj-C.
Ask HN: Are there any GitHub apps present to suggest you which users to follow?
I tried to google for such application, but could not find anything specific which could suggest after looking at user's profile. AFAIK even github doesnt show any such recommendations. I am thinking to build a github app on these grounds, and was curious if something similar already existed.
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This is pretty comprehensive. I linked to it in the resources section
No, but they might have run out of a critical resource that they didn't expect to run out of. There doesn't seem to be much agreement on exactly what caused the collapse (judging from the wiki article), so it's not a great example.
To what extent is the solar economy dependent on the petrol economy?

Solar is great for architectural uses, and with a decent electrical grid you can even out and match up the fluctuations in demand and generation. But if you need to ship quantities of energy dense easily usable power around; it's really hard to beat hydrocarbon fuels. And for manufacturing and installing all those solar facilities...?
"If it was my tax pound I'd support this."

Well that's easy to say when it isn't. It is my tax pound and I don't. I don't support the posthumous pardon at all, and those calling for the posthumous knighthood are getting ridiculous.

Everyone recognises the value of Turing's input to both the war effort and greater modern life, but sadly the man took his own life. Arguing over whose fault it was it pointless. Pardoning him now does nothing for him. It won't change the impact of his work and it won't produce the work that we lost because of this. Yes the law in the 1950 by todays standards was an ass, but that was the law at the time and the punishment was the punishment. Yes, through 21st century eyes it is abhorrent and I'm extremely glad that the law has changed and what happened to Turing doesn't happen any more, but... It's time that we move on.
> It's not that they don't care, are brainwashed, or "lost", it's just that they have a different opinion on the matter.

Opinions don't magically drop down from heaven like mana. Just because an opinion is there doesn't mean we can't ponder how it got there.

> Now I'm not saying they are right or wrong, but let's keep in mind that their opinion is just as valid as yours.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" --- Isaac Asimov