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> To the best of my knowledge, our Danish electricity is the most expensive in Europe.

It is, when you count in taxes and VAT, which go to produce other useful outcomes. However, Ireland together with the UK has the highest energy prices excluding taxes, closely followed by Cyprus and Spain. Interestingly enough, three of these are islands.

It would be interesting to see these prices without subsidies, as the enery market is pretty global and these big differences must come from something else, I think.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
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This is such an odd statement and fundamentally confuses two very different ideas.

First of all, there is no express right to privacy in the Constitution. There is however, the Bill of Rights which everybody is familiar with. It does outline protecting specific aspects of privacy which include such things as the First Amendment (freedom of religion) or the 4th Amendment, (privacy of your possessions against unlawful search and seizure).

The supreme court refuses to protect privacy beyond those issues which are directly related to the Bill of Rights even though the public believes it is their right to have a blanket type of protection against congressional overreach.

To hear Snowden confuse these things by lumping rights protected under the Constitution with a broad reaching idea of the public's right of privacy (which is does not have), and then equating them is puzzling.
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By foot? By car? By bus? "Cyclist" isn't a race or religion. He's not telling them "to go" anywhere. He's saying that if you choose to use a mode of transport that is a hazard and nuisance to others, you are in a glass house and shouldn't be throwing stones.
People interested in secure web development frameworks should definitely check out Ur/Web http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
best bet is to get a day job and sell software on the side.

steam is gonna be the best sales, followed by apple store them chrome play store.

itch.io is good also. (also like gumroad)
I'm sure that if he were in any way relevant to the conversation, then his affair would come up in conversation. But he's not, so let's not wander down that rabbit hole.
How about mods changing the link to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
If you aren't already in the SO club, and aren't willing to commit a lot of your time carefully getting there, then just treat the place as read-only.

Here are some other places. Each has their own problems. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine if they are better.

reddit, /g/, IRC, lobste.rs
>Free speech is between you and the government.

No. Free speech is a principle that any party can choose to respect. Free speech has been one of the very core values of Reddit right from the beginning, in the form of the ability to create and manage a subreddit with very minimal restrictions.

Being a platform of free speech was the single biggest reason Reddit grew to be the giant community that it is today.

Then Pao comes along and repeatedly shows that she doesn't respect free speech at all. What do you expect the users to do, other than revolt?

It's easy to brush off these incidents as the doings of "the ugliest users", but remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History books are filled with people being silenced due to their expression of uncomfortable ideas.
The real questions are how white, hetero and male are defined ?
Is white defined using the pantone matching system, etc.
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Very true.

A single electrical grid certainly is. I'd prefer to see local co-operatives buying utilities from competing networks. The co-ops would own the last mile and could pick the combination of technology, price and robustness that suits them. And when one fails, they hook up to a competitor.

If Japan had had that arrangement, instead of having to bail out the utility monopoly that failed to prevent the Fukushima disaster, they could have just let it go bankrupt and spent only what it took to clean up the mess. And that distinct possibility might have helped prevent the disaster to begin with. They might have figured out how to move the pumps high enough above, for example. Or made provisions to bring in new pumps by helicopter.

A disciplined standing army is more vulnerable too, in some situations, than highly decentralized forces. If you can get the leaders to surrender, that's it. But those pesky insurgents never give up.

And then there's the French Navy, whose leaders refused to send them out to sea when the Nazis were invading. Churchill ending up destroying it so it wouldn't fall into enemy hands. Those ships could have been used to help the evacuation and then fight the Nazis at sea.

Centralization is becoming a problem in disaster relief now too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/us/nationalspecial/after-f...
The moderators feel any question that can have discussion should be closed. They just want one right answer, anything with multiple is bad by their definitions.

So if you are getting discussion, you are actually just experiencing the common case of getting your needs addressed before the terrible moderation kicks in and closes good content.
Just a nitpick. YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language".
Pretty sure it'll be because of the semi-shady ad networks that service torrent sites and various other filehosts. The networks themselves aren't shady, per se, but they don't have the resources of Google to adequately police all of the ads that run through their networks. As a result, they end up serving malicious ads that link to dodgy installers or even straight up 0-day browser exploits.
Sure, the Chinese have got the info, but could they sell it to American companies? Might a US employer be interested in that dataset? How much might they be willing to pay?

Could I set up a Private Investigation firm and charge $10/file for access? Would an American pay to see their ex-husband/ex-wife's polygraph results? I could even take payment in Bitcoin.

I think the television news emphasizes the possibility of identity theft & espionage but discounts the likelihood of this data making its way back to the US.
Funny phrasing. I usually think of third world countries as having drivers who are more aware of cyclists, and more bike-friendly roads in general. ;)
Ah, okay. Strange though, Steam client won't recognize the server even when connected. Thought maybe the IP address error was the problem.
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There used to be a programmers.stackexchange.com stack overflow site where the more general questions and discussions could go, but the moderation on that has been just as misguided lately, so I think the owners forgot the purpose of it.
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You need to read my post again, very carefully.

>So this is awkward, because white heterosexual males have much better than average access to brilliant lawyers.

No, rich people have access to lawyers.

The inference of your remark is that: "all people other than what straight males are not talented enough." This attitude is re-enforced by "positive" discrimination. Its also pretty condescending, and is far more harmful than "I dislike you because you are Insert slur"

Let me illustrate Discrimination:

"you only got in because you are <insert type here> here have the shit jobs, deliberately designed to trip you up"

"Despite us being actively hostile to you, we expect you to 'fit in' with the team"

"We are going to bully you, however its not bullying, as none of us get hurt, only you. Therefore its 'banter'"

Those three examples are actually not the preserve of minorities, they are applicable to every section of society.

However Positive Discrimination fails to tackle the root cause, as I said in my original post. The root cause is the lack of access to education, and ignorance of others.
A cyclist isn't a hazard to an autoist. Maybe to the paint on their two-ton vehicle, but not to them bodily.
> "I have this solution, what problems can I solve with it?" is not something a human being generally asks.

Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no familiarity with the history of science.

The rest of your answer shows another aspect of what's wrong with Stack Overflow: zealous mods who get an idea of the perfect question into their heads, and then who go out to purge anything that doesn't conform, regardless of whether others find it (and its response) useful or interesting.
The new work is subtitled "A New Information Theory of Money."[1] But how new is it? I have not read the full work yet, but it seems quite similar to the Austrian school's long held and well developed explanation of prices as information. [2]

[1] https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanpri...

[2] http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com/wiki/Price
I agree with you in theory, but it's also important to understand the SO perspective on this issue. It seems like they believe allowing the community to "drift" by not modding things defined originally as off-topic will be harmful to the community in the long haul.

How many times has HN discussed the digg/reddit/HN decline in quality as the population grows?

In their minds (and I have to give them the benefit of the doubt given their awesome accomplishment!), keeping strictly on topic is one way to prevent the point of the site from drifting.

It may be that the SO people "want" is a better one. But that's the decision that Atwood & co. have made. To wish for a SO that allowed off topic responses is to ask for a different product.
I really actually love finding questions like that on SO. Sometimes the only way you learn how to do something better is through spontaneous example, because it's just not intuitive or inline with the current flow of things.

Maybe they would be better categorized into some group that is more appropriate, but then you lose the possibility of someone within that knowledge domain being able to answer the question appropriately.

Those questions run right alongside reading documentation for fun.

I suppose an overhaul to the infrastructure of question answering could help solve this problem - like questions have a maturity cycle / process in which they are developed into a more refined / edited sorts of comprehensive documentation, or even a better 'smarter' way of linking clusters of question together, or a way of moderating the authoritative direction of a question (rather than delete or replace, show a progression of modifications so people can learn what are model questions and what are less useful kinds).

Getting people to stop asking kinds of questions will never work, because they ask those questions precisely because they have not been trained in any sorts of formal internet etiquette. If you want to prevent the community from collapsing in on itself, I think the best solution is to modify the flow and connectivity of questions, so that they are intelligently inter-related, rather than relying on a sort of competitive singular universal form.
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Cycling on the road is literally the law in most of the west.
I spend most of the week in London, where cycling is an incredibly popular mode of transport given the slow buses, heaving tubes, and the more widespread push to exercise and be healthy.

A pedestrian myself, I've observed that the largest risk to cyclists appears to be either at the lights or in slow moving traffic.

This could be incorrect, but I think almost all mid-range cars come with parking sensors which alert drivers to objects around them. However, they typically only sense objects in front of or behind the vehicle.

Therefore, I think it would be great to extend parking sensors to provide 360 degree detection. As a driver, your car would be able tell you if there is a cyclist behind you, in your blind spot, stationary or moving - all without having to take your concentration of the road ahead - including pedestrians who choose to jump out right in front of you.

I don't know if this is present in executive cars, such as the Mercedes E/S class, however, it would be an amazing kit to have, and I think it should be a legal requirement on all busses and HGVs - the single largest cause of accidents between cyclists and vehicles.
Firstly, we must draw an important subtle distinction between oppression and persecution. Oppression implies a deliberate and prolonged attack on a group's rights, whereas persecution implies some active vendetta against a group on top of that, beyond merely enforcing the oppressed status.

As for your question, that strongly depends on which jurisdiction we're talking about. Where the United States is concerned, I would say the latter is true, but not the former.
Clojurescript.net is running an online version of the bootstrapped REPL. It works on at least some mobile devices I've checked.
This makes me wonder, does the "hey Siri" recognition happen on the phone or on their servers? If it happens on the server does that mean that it's secretly uploading a recording of everything I say?
Isn't it as likely that hipster bikers of today will grow into adults with cars like their parents did? "Our generation is different and our trends will last forever" doesn't have a great track record of panning out.
Yes, it seems like there is a big split in what people expect AND get from SO. I'll try to remember next time I come across such a case to save the link to have examples ready when it comes up again, but I guess I just search more for non-specific questions? Or maybe remember them more, because they take more time and result in more material read than specific ones with one right solution that I quickly find and move on?
Considering the hundreds of thousands of people drivers kill in Europe and North America every year, they're the hazard.

If you want cyclists off roads, lobby to change the law.
"Signs of a thaw began appearing last September after Vale signed a deal to sell and lease back ships from China Ocean Shipping Co (COSCO), the country’s largest shipping conglomerate."
That's a good point but remember that some passengers are not that good at keeping an eye on the row (I also often talk to a driver when I shouldn't without realizing it and he needs to shut me up).

But encouraging people to use safer alternatives is better then banning (or preventing) these alternatives because some people will always use a phone in the car. Remember that the average John Smith salesman who is about to use his phone to call his costumer doesn't immediately know how to turn off the airplane mode. He might be distracted for quite a while because he can't figure out why siri is not working. And if he is in a hurry, he will certainly not pull over!
every time I see the deep dream demos, I found so many "eyes" in it. very very creepy.
It's very difficult to maintain a site like SO after it has become successful. HN has the same problem. Basically you need to keep out troublemakers and boring repeaters and but at the same time you want to preserve broad and lively discussions.
The saddest thing about the Epitaph is that the last line of it is now ruined, because in the late 19th century its owner ground it down so it would sit flat to hold her flowerpots.

If anyone is interested in ancient Greek music/music theory, the best source is undoubtedly Thomas Mathiesen's Apollo's Lyre (http://www.amazon.com/Apollos-Lyre-Theory-Antiquity-Middle/d...). I had the distinct privilege of taking his ancient music course in his last semester of teaching. The man has literally looked (in person) at every fragment of Greek music or music theory, and translated many of them himself. The book is magnificent, and you will be very unlikely to find any source more well-researched and written.

Edit: If anyone has any questions about Greek music/music theory, I'm happy to try and answer them. It's one of my favorite topics, and while I'm no expert, I probably know a little more than the average Hacker News reader.
It appears im out of the loop. What decline are you referring to ?.
The Go team had nothing to do with the organization of the conference. The gophercon organizers decided who got the keynotes.

From an external viewpoint, Google the corporation has two influences. Firstly, it employs the language leaders (i.e. Russ). Secondly, Google frequently hires/gives to the Go team experts in some particular field in order to improve the implementation. For example transforming GC for the 1.5 release or moving to SSA for 1.6. As a result, Google probably has a big influence on what the important tasks are to work on. That said, it is still open source, and so outside contributors can still work on what they consider important. For example, the shared library development was all external.
It started out as "Yet another markup language" though - http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-05-26.html#sec-intro
The problem is there is an incredible amount of overlap between "too broad" and "extremely useful to large number of people".
It doesn't follow in normal mathematical practice I think because mathematicians want natural, sane axioms that lead to human understandable models.

Computing already starts out much messier in its activities. Determining what will happen when a large system gets input is tricky.

I'm not sure what could proved about the operations of a "deep neural net" for example.
“What people used to call liberty and freedom we now call privacy. And we say, in the same breath, that privacy is dead.”

— Jacob Appelbaum
Was it ever alive?
"I ended up in a river because of switching a Spotify playlist."

That is a profound level of incompetence along a number of dimensions. Obligatory: ThisIsWhyWeCan'tHaveNiceThings.
I don't understand this. How is enabling Go to run on android skewing the ecosystem? You'd rather them not allow it?
Any simple explanation for this? I'm interested in learning more about it.
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>Windows is dying. Not just the phone. Sorry, there really is no two ways about it. This little engine can chug itself over the hill for the next few years, but it's all downhill from there. I use a Windows desktop and I constantly find myself wondering: "what am I paying MS for?". I personally like to use Word (even though it's too bloated for my needs), but clients ask for work to be in Google Docs so they can share and comment better.

You can alwayws get a Mac or install Linux.

But 70% of the world's population wont do either in the next 10-20 years.
Man, if there ever was an instance of alienating a sympathetic audience, this would be it.

How does one take a golden argument like "privacy is an inalienable right," turn it into a tired "you should be ashamed for being white, check your privilege shitlord" flamebait, and still get taken seriously?
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It is usually said that the English built the first railways in France and that they built them so that trains drive left, out of habit.
> beat you with a rubber hose until you give me a password that works

And if you actually don't know the password? No organisation wants to be public about torturing a good person, so they get stuck in a black site for years because they can't be easily released / reported on anymore. (this is actually what's happening - not regarding passwords, but "terrorists with intel")
As a mere reader and non-user of SO, does it matter if the question was closed? The answer's still there, googlable, and it still gets updated regularly, no?
> Disabling them on purpose is just stupid and endangering.

I agree with that. Further, Toyota, nor anyone else, has no right to reach down into my life and disable something.
The concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of the press exist outside of US constitution.
You're talking as if Reddit is doing them a favor by providing them a platform. With your idea of "discipline", Reddit would never become the giant that it is today.
No, goroutines are never cleaned up until they exit. If they are blocked on a channel that no-one else references then they'll be blocked forever.
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This makes no sense to me. What is Snowden "confusing" here? Is he confusing privacy rights with free-speech rights because the latter is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution while the former is only indirectly referenced? If that's the case, you do nothing to explain why it's odd, why it's puzzling to you, or what Snowden's confused about.

His analogy does not fundamentally confuse anything; he's equating privacy rights to speech rights through a weak notion that having no interest for one equates to no need for the right. Privacy in and of itself might not be a right explicitly granted by the Constitution, but the analogy is clear and an accurate description of how ludicrous it is to give up a right because you see no need for it.
The documentary film Citizenfour is a good place to start. Or, you know, half the Internet (YouTube especially) ;)
My experience w/ SO has been mixed. Some of the moderators act like quality police and shut down genuine, but potentially basic questions. Yes, amazingly some of the answers are so deep! So mixed opinion for me.
Give kongregate a try if your game is flash or unity based. Also pickup some jobs on elance,freelancer so you don't have to starve.
That's surprising and disappointing - a lot of my value derived from these postings is from the discussions and the alternate answers / differing viewpoints.

Also confusing from the point of view of the site operators - aren't they missing a lot of site interaction and pageviews and additional free content, etc. ?
Who cares about what businesses use? It's all about what individuals use, and with trends BYOD and tele-commuting that's also true for businesses.

As if what computers some boring bank, insurance company or sausage making company uses is something to care about...
Not puzzling at all. He is making a general analogy between man's freedom to exercise speech and freedom to exercise privacy. There is no mention of constitution or bill of rights in that statement. Courts refusing to protect freedoms are not mentioned either.
Or I don't care about freedom to bear arms because I don't have a gun
"Toyota makes front page of HN with silly gimmick"
This is the crux of the problem. You have a mod culture of mechanistic law enforcement and an apparent passion for punishing technical rule breaking.

The true rule should be: Is this question useful to people? Will other experts be able to provide useful back?

The rule most in need of context-sensitive, question-specific interpretation is the closing of opinion based questions. The number of useful, highly-upvoted questions closed for this reason is the evidence that something needs to change.
Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winning economist and NY Times columnist, being cogent and analytic as usual. The state of the global economy has everything to do with Hacker News, entrepreneurship, and economic success.
That's crazy talk. Nobody (except some outsider outliers) developers on Debian to deploy on Windows, no matter what experimental, half-working cross-compilters it has...
He was not saying a "right to privacy" existed, and he certainly not saying that the rights you pointed out imply "right to privacy".

He was only pointing out that there might be other reasons to defend a right (or defend that idea that something should in the future become a right) other than me wanting to exercise that right directly.

I do care about freedom of speech even though, really, I have not much to say. Freedom of speech affects me in other ways (and arguably more important ways) than me personally being allowed to say certain things. Likewise, I do care about (an hypothetical) "right to privacy" even though I have nothing to hide.