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True, but that's only half the story. The other half is that high-load and low solar-insolation means batteries degrade faster / require larger batteries and requires more panels, respectively. Even batteries built with clean energy isn't necessarily always the best application versus taking energy from the grid (especially a nuclear powered grid).
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Most problems out there are probably solved in an excel sheet at present. No need for machine learning.
fiveeyes is hardly a secret. It's existence isn't even classified. For example, I've sat in presentations with nationals from many countries, and the non-fiveeyes members would occassionally be asked to leave the room at the end to allow the fiveeyes nations to divulge some further information. But the other nations were told before leaving that the next part of the presentation was fiveeyes only.
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I've messed up badly.

It's only in the times of your worst when you can really reflect on what lifes real priorities are. When times are good, everything is easy going and you lose sight of what really matters in your life. Trust me it's not your startup. Your startup is a means to an end, but not the end in itself. If you treat your work as your life obsession you will end up alone with everyone who once held you close, feeling alienated and let down. Your work is never more important than taking one afternoon off to be with the ones you love and it's never okay to prioritise (by convention) your startup.

I've hurt the closest people in my life because I lost sight of what real priorities are and how to balance them.

(PS. I'm okay.. this isn't a plea for help, just a reminder from someone who takes full responsibility.).

Live life. It's short.
This article :

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bnd-intelligence...

may be interesting in this context.

Note that Der Spiegel is considered a top notch news source. Something like a German Economist in a way.
I think by "virality" what was meant was that GPL libraries "infect" non-GPL because the larger work must also be released as GPL. For programming languages, though, this should not be an issue, unless somebody is bundling the whole interpreter/compiler with their app.
In many vehicles, releasing the "go forwards please" control does cause braking. In this day and age, it's pure convention.
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This is absolutely amazing. I wonder what it takes to create something so brilliant single handedly, and that too as a hobby!
I see this less as corruption at the top myself and more as a number of internal problems systemic to the BND and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany's domestic intelligence service).

I am old enough to have seen a huge number of scandals coming out of the German intelligence services. I've seen Maihofer resign over the Traube affair and I've seen German intelligence snoop on privileged client-attorney communications and a lot of other bad stuff. The list of BND scandals is legion.

I would be happy to see resignations of any current and former Chief of the Chancellery involved in these schemes, pour décourager les autres. Let's be clear: the BND has pretty much intentionally broken several of the safeguards contained in the G10 Act, often with internal legal justifications that don't pass the giggle test (and would make only John Yoo proud). And the most recent revelations may mean they even committed crimes (conduction espionage for a foreign power, per §99 of the penal code, and economic espionage, per §17 of the law against unfair competition). This is plenty of reason for heads to roll. And sometimes, the tree of liberty has to be watered with the careers of intelligence service bureaucrats.

At the same time, even as an anti-fan of Angela Merkel's policies, I don't see what kicking her out of office would help (unless she had her fingers deeply in this particular pie). Intelligence services regular seem to aim at becoming a state within a state, and dismantling the power structures above them won't help; structuring safeguards so that they aren't as easily circumvented does. For example, in theory, the G10 commission (the watchdog appointed by the Bundestag) has broad control over what the intelligence services can do in terms of surveillance and can stop any and all surveillance measures at any time. In practice, however, that seems to have been circumvented by them not being told in the first place (or being deceived).
The war on drugs is not ending. Marijuana is the only thing people want to legalize. 80-90% want to keep everything else illegal. That is a problem. Legalized marijuana will surely cause cops to ease up on suburban white kids, but that'll remove the exigency from the injustice that continues to play out in other parts of the system.
But rhythm and timing and note relativity are ridiculously hard to get right (especially for beginners). This is a great exercise for one of the more challenging parts of playing music well.

Plus, the audience is much more likely to notice a mistake if the rhythm is wrong than they are to notice a note is wrong. If you can get the rhythm right you can play through your other mistakes and still have a reasonable presentation.
Haven't been overly impressed by all of his content - but this is really good!
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"The convictions carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.".

Surely, this is even more silly than having sex in public.
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The point is not that the BND spied.

The BND broke the law and then lied to the German Parliament about it. That's what the outrage is about.

Germany has a law regulating surveillance (the G10 Act). It has a number of safeguards to prevent indiscriminate and illegal spying. As far as I know, the BND illegally ignored several of them.

Being a spy agency doesn't mean that you're outside the law.
So get upset with the BND then. That would at least have a chance of your anger actually achieving something, instead of waving your fist at the NSA from across the ocean, because frankly, they don't really care what German citizens think.
You are obviously misusing the statistic. First off, the question that 55% answered positively was not whether they liked the NSA, but whether "in order to prevent terror attacks, you have to live with mass spy activities". That is shameless framing because you give a negative consequence no one wants (terror attacks). It is not too surprising that a majority answers yes to the solution the interviewer proposes. But would such a majority of interviewees come up with the solution themselves? I highly doubt it. Just ask any passerby: "Please finish this sentence: 'In order to prevent terror attacks, spying ...'.

Additionally, the very same interviewees are surprised just how much Germany has been spyed on (61%). Note the framing here again. Here you have no evaluation, but just a very weak sensation ("surprised"). The interviewer could also have asked: "Do you like how much the NSA spied on Germany?" - and I bet the answer would have been clear.

And again, there are very few topics that we think the public cares about (taxes, pension) and again, how do we notice they might care? Media. As with privacy. As with immigration. As with any other political topic.
You make some good points, but there is a big architectural difference between RabbitMQ and Kafka.
The solutions you point out work just as well with Kafka as they do with a unlogged PostgreSQL table, but of course there are tradeoffs for each of them. The unlogged tables has transaction guarantees, but I am not sure if I want to hit my production database with huge read loads on every reindex of a secondary data store.

I haven't really looked into it, but Botteled Water[0] looks like it can combine the good log properties of Kafka with guaranteed delivery from postgres.

[0] http://blog.confluent.io/2015/04/23/bottled-water-real-time-...
MacBook Pro 13" (non retina). Just get the base model with core i7. Hop over to OWC and grab 2x8gb ram sticks, 7200rpm hdd and you can get the data doubler to add an additional hdd for good measure. Done, enjoy.
Lead acid batteries don't last as long, and suffer much more from large depth of charges, meaning you need to replace them 2-3x more often. This doesn't just have a cost to it financially, but also environmentally.

It also means that if you want your batteries to last, you can reduce your depth of charge by purchasing excessive capacity. This way instead of discharging 100% of X capacity, you can discharge 50% of 2X capacity, and this lower discharge depth makes the battery last longer. Which means you tend to have to buy a lot more capacity than li-ion.

Beyond that, look at it like any system. e.g. do you want 4 small fridges that give you x liters of volume, or one large fridge that gives you 4x liters of volume for a slightly higher price? Do you want 10 harddrives that give you 100gb each for $250, or would you buy a $300 1 TB drive?

There are non-financial reasons to go for simplicity, something that works out the box, plug and play. Especially for consumer grade equipment. Beyond that, Tesla's solutions offers some integrated solutions e.g. concerning fire hazards that you'd need to do yourself otherwise. And lastly, it appears batteries benefit from economies of scale. Their battery is already for sale today, and considering the factory they're building, it's quite exciting to see how cheap batteries will get by 2025, but that's a different story.
Wow. May I ask how old you are?

I can't understand your sentiment at all, especially when posting as "bayesianhorse". Don't you have any desire to change "your" country for the better? Do you really think Merkel is responsible for Germany's economic situation and the politicians of CDU/SPD are doing a better job than everyone else could?

Preserving everything as is like our government and Merkel does (just like Adenauer said: "Bewahrt das Bewährte") might work in the short term thanks to the strong economy and Schröder's reforms, but the complete lack of any idea or strong opinion about future challenges - always coupled with the way of least resistance - will come back and bite us.
Many Germans were more or less aware of Echolon, but most thought it wouldn't be that bad (I was not among them from beginning and was talking against a brick wall (and still do in related topics)). With Snowden lots of Germans became aware that all these few alerters that were laughed down were right from the beginning.
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Would really appreciate your help!
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I see that now. I originally missed that they were helping spy on their own citizens vs just other EU nations.
But Marijuana is a gateway-drug. ;)
So perhaps legalizing it and letting that situation become the new normal will open the door to people taking another look at the rest of drugs and how to properly deal with the problems they can cause.
I keep imagining a world where people eat food from agriculture, and I keep seeing that the world lose its mind when a volcanic ejection / tsunami / fire / mudslide / drought leaves us foodless.

Come on man. There's more to it. There are real challenges and a volcanic ejection certainly is one of them, it's just not anywhere up the list.
This is not about being "offended". This is me being bored to death by the umpteenth dude – you – thinking that repeating random stuff written on the internet adds anything to the debate.

It has made people shake their heads 5 years ago, and it hasn't changed since then.

There is no need for persuasion. Those who are motivated enough try the language can discard non-sense on their own, and those who keep spewing the same old and tired stuff are not the people I want to deal with anyway.
Couldn't such a simple question be asked on a phone screen ?
If you've been serving jQuery (~30K gzipped) to mobile web applications, ClojureScript has always been a fine alternative. ClojureScript applications start at around 20K gzipped and go up from there.
In the future, I plan to rewrite the Lux compiler in Lux itself, and one of the reasons is to allow people to embed it and use it's API.

That way, if someone wants to create an online Lux REPL for people to try Lux, it won't be hard for them to do so.
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ClojureScript is passed through the Google Closure compiler and you can give various directives to the compiler (e.g. simple, advanced etc.) in order to set how aggressively the compiler optimizes the code.

Medium sized apps' should have an advanced optimized ClojureScript component of 200 - 300 KB after being gzipped. This will, of course, vary depending on your specific app.
> With the amount that Germany spends on defence

Germany is one of the top defense spending countries.

You may check also a map. Germany is surrounded by friends. Germany also doesn't have an empire to maintain.

We have spend billions on useless adventures like in Afghanistan. Luckily Germany was not stupid enough to take part in other adventures: Iraq, Libya, ...

That the US decides to spend as much as the next twenty countries together is only their problem. But the US politics has made parts of the world a very unsafe place. Check the US politics in north-africa and middle east: toppling regimes and trying to install new regimes. This has created a huge mess and creates problems throughout the region. The rise of ISIS/IS is one of those results.
It's not the first time to see collaboration like that. Time and again I find it fascinating how the members of the “surveillance community” seem to have a closer relationship with each other (across countries) than with their respective civilian compatriots.
> The NSA revelations are actively hurting USA's economy. You may not see it, but European companies have started to actively avoid US-made and US-hosted products and services, because guess what, people do care about it, especially companies that are increasingly worried about industrial espionage from American companies.

Who are they buying from, then? All of Europe is spying on each other. German companies even refer to France as the "evil empire" of industrial espionage - not the USA. And of course many other countries like China are also spying.

When I hear European politicians lobbying for local hosting services and the like, I think it in part has much more to do with getting more negotiating power at the international surveillance table. NSA had hooks directly into various services that other countries had to bargain with the NSA for, if they can get services hosted in their own countries, they can be the go-to organization and have more bargaining chips.
> instead of waving your fist at the NSA from across the ocean

You still don't understand.

The NSA is here. In my country. With huge installations. Officially. Together with the CIA and US military.

Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex

We even paid partly for it(!).

Time for them to go home.
> instead of waving your fist at the NSA from across the ocean, because frankly, they don't really care what German citizens think.

If the NSA doesn't care what the Germans think, why do they spy on them? ;-) [pun intended]

Seriously: The NSA really cares about the BND cooperating with them:

> http://www.danisch.de/blog/2015/04/23/der-bnd-und-die-nsa/
(in German, sorry)

And if, because of a giant public outrage, this "cooperation" will be stopped, the NSA will not like this situation. Thus, indirectly, the NSA cares a lot, what the Germans think.
> For example, the United States is the only major country in the world that taxes non-resident citizens on their worldwide income, which makes it one of the most inconvenient passports to hold.

Soooo if your US passport expires you no longer have this tax?

I would have thought it was based on US citizenship not travelling on a US passport.
The lip smacking and semi-whispering is very annoying to me.
If Elon launches a space vessel named 'Grey Area', I either want to be on it, or in a bunker.
The worst bit is that when you do use the XHTML MIME type, most browsers would give a big error message about parsing errors. And then there was the bug in IE7 or IE8 where both the doctype and xml deceleration had to be on the first line to have an effect.
Out of interest, any in particular worth noting as dangerous?
Cool :)

The system() calls seems to limit it to Linux, though - any plans on replacing them with libusb or something similar?

e: I might give that a shot later today if I have some time, actually. I'll send in a pull request :)
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To the naysayers: playing notes at the right time is way harder and more important than playing the right notes. Rhythmic confidence is key.
FYI that vulnerability was fixed already by the time he wrote that post. He brought it to Trezor's attention, helped update the firmware, and published the article after the update was pushed.
> the calendar and the TODO list should be the same app

Sounds similar the functionality that MS Outlook Windows application offers. Though, I would like to have it on Android & iOS too and with IMAP support.
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The dagger complex needs to be closed.
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Spying on other EU nations is not any better. There are strict rules that target selectors used for mass surveillance must obey. Any target selector must be related to the prevention of one of the following:

1. An attack against German territory (i.e. war).

2. International terrorist attacks related to Germany.

3. International arms trafficking.

4. Drug smuggling as part of organized crime.

5. Endangering the stability of the Euro through counterfeiting activities abroad.

6. International money laundering at a large scale.

7. Human trafficking.

Mass surveillance by the BND for purposes outside of these seven areas is not allowed, period; any personal data intercepted that is not related to these areas must be deleted. Most of the target selectors provided by the NSA to the BND did not fall into any of these areas.
I'd love a version for all unix like systems.
Putting a probabilistic bell curve on top of simplex noise works generally well.

Here's what I did:
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> Marijuana is a gateway-drug

The gateway drug theory has been discredited, doesn't stop right-wingers bringing it out at every opportunity though.
I can see this going one of two ways.

Optimistic - people in mainstream society realise cannabis is not destroying society and slowly come to appreciate that alcohol is not the only drug, and that drugs (and drug users) aren't the devil. The edifice comes tumbling down and we start looking at drug policy (and our massive drug-related budget) in terms of harm reduction.

Pessimistic - the largest group of drug users is brought into the fold of the mainstream. The idea of 'hard' and 'soft' drugs is reinforced and users of anything other than cannabis and alcohol are pushed even further into the category of 'other'. Drug-war resources used against cannabis are diverted into continuing to make everything worse for everyone when it comes to all other drugs. Central and South America and West Africa continue to get torn apart by cartels feeding off Europe and North America's insatiable appetite for cocaine. Other parts of the world that have the raw materials for other drugs (sassafras, poppies) go the same way (if they haven't already). NPS with unknown health profiles continue to be churned out and consumed by the kiloton.

Unfortunately I think the pessimists probably have the right of this one for the next several years at least.
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To answer your questions:

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Because otherwise you cannot use your iPhone with your Macbook. It's the most senseless oversight I have seen in years. In order to turn on WiFi sync between iTunes on your Macbook and your iPhone, you need to have it plugged in at least once. You cannot plug it in though, because there is no compatible USB-C to Lightning cable from Apple. D'oh.
To sync via WiFI you have to have the device plugged in at least once (in order to turn on Sync via WiFi). You cannot plug it in because there is no cable.
Simple demo:
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People rarely sit outside in the heat for a long time working on their laptops in SE Asia or the ME.
Nah, happened about 2 years ago. That's how old the device is.

I understand/guess that this is a regional thing (Germany here). No clue WHY Samsung things it can sell out their customers like that, but all of the "content" was German crap.
While I appreciate that this is true - this is exactly what a lot of bitcoin people want - total control over their money without having to place trust in intermediaries or authorities.
I tried to be as factual as possible when writing my interview feedback. I wasn't on the interview committee, so you can rest assured that I wasn't in deciding position :)
The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now.

I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to find out it's a huge pain to export to PPT. I know this is off topic as the post is about org-trello, but org-mode as a whole needs to take what org-trello does awesome and integrate with mobile/cloud services more!

I would love to hear from a hardcore org-mode user. I haven't found someone I could talk to and pick their brain.

[1]: http://www.bulletjournal.com
For anyone who wasn't there then I think the space between br and / was added because of a parsing bug in Netscape 4 or something.