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The compelling feature is secure webmail. It makes no difference how that mail gets from sender to recipient for that aspect.
I wonder if people just say that now without actually looking. The last time I saw any asm.js code it looked like very boring old c++ code, nothing crazy. Probably more readable to a newcomer than closures or self calling anonymous function wrappers.
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The server encounters error randomly and I'm unable to login as its redirecting me to the same page.
Anyone with an idea of how this happened?
First of all America was a colony to begin with, until Independence. And since then it has been expanding by colonizing. It's been an Empire since the Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colonial_possessi...
It's been about three years since I've seen an article like this. I guess we'll see another in about three more years.
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>Democrats with reservations about free trade have tried to sabotage the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest trade deal since Nafta.

Well that's a great big lie. It's Democrats who are concerned about giving corporations carte blanche to sue in secret courts for loss of expected profits.
Ask HN: Is my notion of a mostly grid-independent workshop insane or acceptable?
Disclaimer: trying to find people to collaborate with in addition to soliciting opinions (anyone who owns land in CA might be interested as well)

I am planning on buying a parcel of land in California where I can move my workshop and general operation (power and water as well as broadband but not much else). My business goal is to develop new technology in the consumer realm - or possibly just find any other simple things I enjoy to generate income if needed. My personal goal is to spend every day learning more science and engineering, and making new things.

There is a lot of equipment at my disposal which I have in my current workspace: circuits, physics, chem, etc.

I want to create a space on some relatively open land for experimentation, a place for other people to come and enjoy potentially, and a good general place where knowledge and innovation are embraced.

I don't profess to be an expert in anything in life anymore, although software development is what I worked in for a long time - but I have a long way to go in software and I have started learning from the ground up with basic logic circuits. I like Scala/functional code and have worked in many web-heavy languages like php and JS as well as objective C, C, etc, I have AWS experience, linux oriented, pentesting, etc. Just starting to get more into R, statistics and machine learning.

I've been studying a lot more electronic engineering and electrodynamics (which undergrad had given me a decent foundation in). I've created many interesting prototypes and have many concepts written out in great detail - I'd like to develop some of these out and explore new areas as well.

Any advice would be great - bringing any pitfalls to my attention which I would do well to avoid would be much appreciated. Also if anyone wants to collaborate in any way, get in touch ASAP.
Sort of, but that's what is happening now. My friends did a successful Kickstarter campaign of a hardware product and I know first-hand that the idea came from their investors and it was done purely for market research. The Kickstarter event was pretty much break-even effort for my friends. VCs seem to have figured out that crowdfunding is a cheap way of checking if a company is worth further investments, while at the same time giving it some marketing boost.
Anyone with an idea of what happened and what's the Passenger?
Lots of Kickstarter projects are "proof of interest" ventures. If you make your target, it triggers additional funding you've pre-negotiated..

I don't see how it's a problem in general (not talking about this particular KS here) since it's a useful tool for showing investors that enough people are willing to pay for your product.

Doppler Labs' recent KS for "Here Active Listening" closed successfully last week with $635k in funding, and they just announced a $17M series B funding round this week.

I'd have to assume these two events are related, and as a backer of the KS campaign, I'm actually happy to see this, since it means the product probably won't be a one-off, and they will continue to update the software post-release, etc..
I think the primary reason is an accident of history. There was a time where Java programmers were encouraged to not even think about allocation deallocation: "dont worry about it, we have it all covered, use it as freely as free love". The result of all that was a lot of bloated poorly performing software that paid no attention to how much allocations they were making. I still see the effects of that propaganda on many junior programmers. GC makes it safe, not free, and that message was never stressed as much it should have been.

The other reason is that languages that make you allocate explicitly with some burdensome syntax, that allocation is in your face, you cannot be unaware of it. Whereas in other languages someone may be blissfully unaware and still churn out pieces of usable software. The bite comes much later. On languages that were not designed around garbage collection, it is usually a whole lot harder to avoid allocation.
No Ferguson/Baltimore mentioned nor fast growth of govt. debt ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+government+debt&lk=4... , log scale by default!). It seems from the article the biggest problem of the country it doesn't kill so easily people owned by "dictators" anymore. Such a brutal western crap is definitely a huge problem itself.
The writing in this piece is horrible.

"Free parties were popping up all over the country, and there were many in Bristol. That's when ketamine came flooding into the city."

Differentiation? Anybody? As far as I am concerned these so called "Free parties", aka outdoor raves, exist in most places of the world, as they cater for a basic human need to have a good time. Now when people enjoy themselves, they tend to drink, smoke and use various consumerables. We know Ketamine is big in the UK. Now how are non commercial social events connected to Ketamine?
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Not really.

The idea of protypical object-systems is for a large part coming out of the Lisp community (and the Smalltalk community) and was used long before Self or Javascript.

Check the works of Henry Lieberman. The Self developers got the idea of 'delegation' from him. Object Lisp was a prototype-based object system used in LMI's Lisp Machine OS and in Macintosh Common Lisp (until it was replaced by the then developed standard CLOS). Various Lisp-based systems were developed in the 'knowledge representation' domain, which are supporting 'prototypes'. Apple for example developed a system called Sk8 in Macintosh Common Lisp, which made extensive use of prototypes for multimedia UI tool development.

With the advent of CLOS those were not used for typical OO programming in Lisp - not because people don't like it, but because another standard system was provided.
This article feels like it should have been written by a Redditor, not a real BBC journalist.
The Roman 'empire' actually lasted almost 2000 years when you take the eastern Roman empire (the Byzantine empire) into consideration. The Roman republic started in 509 BC, the eastern roman empire ended in 1453 AD.

Btw, the western Roman empire ended in 476 AD. The ~200 number you mentioned probably refers to the split of the Roman empire into a western and an eastern part, in 284 AD.
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yep, in other words around 4% of the world's population live in the US and of course this pales in comparison to actually large nation states, like india or china.
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http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-p...
Likening Kickstarter to an investment has always concerned me. Investment implies a return if the idea is successful and (as you can see from Oculus Rift) early kickstarter backers didn't get any of the very large payout that Oculus got when the were bought by Facebook.

We're starting to see that idea come about with platforms like https://www.seedrs.com/ where if it goes swimingly the backers do well out of it, which kind of offsets the risk.

I think the problem with standard crowd-funding is the people doing the project obviously have an interest in downplaying the risks, and the platform does too, so with no regulation that's exactly what'll happen, and then we get a lot of very late, underdelivering projects which will sour people on the whole concept.
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>Therein lies the problem: addiction does not readily yield to teaching not to abuse the drug. In the US there has been an intensive 50 year campaign to educate people not to use tobacco, yet nicotine dependence remains a top public health problem.

Cigarette use among teens is half of what it used to be 20 years ago.

Harm Reduction absolutely makes a difference. Many people develop unhealthy habits with drugs for the same reasons people develop unhealthy habits with food. They don't know any better and draw norms from the environment around them. Most people quit drugs within a decade anyways. In a way it's a problem that solves itself if you manage the destructive social/health outcomes of drug use(most of which are a product of drugs being illegal).

>But don't take my word for any of it. Check out the scientific info sources for yourself, see: http://www.drugabuse.gov/

Which sources for which claims? Posting to the front page of a blog isn't a source.
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America is nothing if not a maritime empire.

But I think there's a very substantial difference between empires past and the american one: Cheap, ubiquitous, high speed communications and ditto + safe travel.

Managing far-flung territories in the British and Spanish empires caused major, major friction, in a way that just isn't the case in the present day. Back then, colonial service was a life career, and you'd spend years at a time deployed overseas. Letters took weeks to turn around. Today, if you need the help of a specialist, you pick up the phone, or you could even easily fly one out and he'll be there tomorrow or the day after, and he'll be back home a few days later still.
For those of us who don't do YouTube, is there anywhere else we can read about Moxie's "bundling"?
Perhaps internet commenters and professional journalists are, in the quality of their articles, converging quickly.
Agreed. This project is awesome but without usable form elements (there's more to forms that text fields) this isn't really usable for anything a little more complex.
hmm, seems a little trivial to me. Are they actually doing direct neural network to neural network communication? If this simple cooperation can be considered a network of brains so can a troop of monkeys, through communication via physical motion and cries. For that matter so can human society through the various transmission mechanisms we employ. For this to interesting to me it needs a novel and higher bandwidth communication channel. Directly wiring brains together would do it.
> To be fair, Kickstarter et al. are not shops

"shops" doesn't mean anything. Ultimately it will be for a judge to decide the rights and the duties of Kickstarter... or the supreme court.

You sound like Uber when they say "we're not a taxi company". It's not up to them to decide what they are and cherry pick which law to follow.

> the point of crowdfunding was to invest in potentially interesting ideas

Where is the equity? Kickstarter is certainly not an investment plateform technically.
Not the worst from BBC. I remember one where they interview some "expert" who pretends to have telepathic abilities.
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The problem is that a prototype is not equivalent to a real fighting system you will put in a game. You will need a lot of testing so the game is challenging is fun. And it must be challenging and fun during all the game (30+ hours).

EDIT: To give an example, see a website. A small website to show some prototype will be quite quick to do. But when you need to do a website used by hundreds to thousands persons with a lot of use case, it gets far more complex.
The quote from Kickstarter, according to the author:

"[The graphic] is not an official Kickstarter badge, nor is the badge granted by Kickstarter"

Note that this doesn't necessarily say "we are okay with people using this." In fact, the quote could easily have gone on to say "people who use this are violating our trademark and we intend to pursue removal".
So many sci-fi episodes from startrek/stargate come to mind. US foreign policy (for that matter any countries') is designed to exploit all other countries for the benefit of their own interests. Sometimes immediate interests cause shortsightedness which results in a mess being created for them as well. It used to be that mess everywhere else is good for US businesses. But given how all economies are interconnected in more direct ways and hardly any major company has US interests only, the game is more interesting and the political thinkers and lobbyists are yet to catchup to this new reality.
I don't disagree. We should be raising taxes on fuel to pay for infrastructure, but people are stupid and politicians prefer to stay in office, so raising taxes is verboten.
Quite the opposite. China was a 2nd player due to its vast territory and population. Chinese are not homogeneous like Koreans for example when it comes to culture and one language. They were always hard to manage and hard to rule and organize. That's why they kept loosing to japanese, mongols, british and the US.

China has to always pay attention to its neighbours. They can be economic dwarves compared to US or China but are extremely powerful when organized.
The three major powers in the world today are the US, the EU, and China. The trade that makes them world powers also makes military conflicts between them unthinkable. The US needs to focus on maintaining its economic superiority and not waste its time on fighting the peanut gallery. So far it is doing a pretty good job, or rather, not as bad a job as the other two.
For the gas cars, did they also take account of the emmissions/polution from the oil rigs/refineries/gas stations etc? For the coal plants, did they take account of extraction of the coal? Because if we're bringing infrastructure into the equation, where do we draw the line?

I note that in the UK, its very easy for consumers to specify that their house be supplied with renewable energy. Looks like it doesn't work that way in the US.
Other major inconveniences I've run into:

Collecting metrics require using an external collector process (statsd) rather than just an in-proc lib (e.g., codahale metrics on the JVM).

Issues generating random numbers - I ran 8M simulations on 8 cores, but because the random seed was forked, I actually only ran 1M simulations 8 times. (Easy enough to fix, but annoying.)

Deduplication is really handy in reducing memory usage - why would you want the same (immutable) object duplicated N times?

And of course various issues with resources - you need to be careful only to connect to the DB/etc after forking otherwise stuff gets weird. And of course, this means that instead of sharing a single connection pool, you've now got one DB connection per proc, which may or may not be a big waste of resources.
Only if the small fish doesn't sell-out before it has a chance to become a major threat to its competitors (see Whatsapp or Instagram, for instance).
Sure. But, I mean, look at some of the points they try to make. The situation in Syria is supposedly evidence of the decline of US power. No, Syria is evidence of the US public's unwillingness to contribute more American blood to a foreign war. We spent the last century dying in various jungles and deserts without much to show for it. It simply illustrates that foreign military power, in many conflicts, accomplishes very little. We could be MORE powerful, that fact still wouldn't change.

The stupidest part of the article, though, was part about young Americans not thinking the US is great. Uh, newsflash: the suggestion that the US is objectively the greatest country in every way has always been absurd. The fact that young Americans now realize this isn't indicative of anything. Again, we could be getting MORE powerful and MORE influential, it still wouldn't affect the absurdity of that statement.
It's one of the best long story article about font combinations which I read. Some examples are really good.

Gotham, Proxima Nova and Avenir are really best of...
I simply don't believe any past statistics on things like this are relevant in the modern era.
The code appears to be presented in a mix of fixed-width, proportional, italic, bold, and sans-serif fonts, with a bit of colour thrown in. I don't think that's particularly readable...
Pretending a maritime empire is relevant in an age of ICBMs and jet travel is just foolish. All these "lessons from history" always fail to take into account the serious, radical differences in technological capability.
Atom's performance problems are not because of Node, they're because they render with HTML, loading your whole text documents into the DOM as hundreds of thousands of separate elements.

Using Node JS as the backend to a proper native rendering system would work fine, and in fact if the application was written to properly handle everything asynchronously, it may well be faster than an app written entirely in the native language of the system.
I assume it's because most of the standard Java collections (HashMap, HashSet) actually cache the hash codes themselves. So caching it again inside the object is a bit redundant.

However other data structures (notably the ones in guava), don't do this caching - which does hurt performance for any sort of heavy writes and/or complex object.
Not really. US is a powerhouse because it attracts zillions of bright minds with the quality of live and opportunities (recently that got fucked up because of corporations). The language is relatively simple, the culture is welcoming, the landmass is beautiful and there are not so many crowded cities / places.

If you are a "skilled" person of foreign nationality would you rather go to the US or China if you would have an option ?
And BBC is showing it's racist and colonialist thinking colors more and more these days. Such propaganda doesn't bode well for their brand reputation.
I built a system that did something very like this at a previous employer. We got really quick (mostly) atomic deployments which could be rolled-back instantly with one command.

Even at the time I thought Docker would be a great solution to the problem, but the organization was vehemently against using modern tech to manage servers and deployments, so I ended up writing that tool in bash instead. Good times.
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It's not that I want to keep a key for a long time, it's that I have several different clients and I want to share whatever key I'm currently using across them. That way I only have to stick the fingerprint of one OTR key on my business cards.
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If you're curious about the chemtrail crowd, I'd recommend the "documentary" 'what in the world are they spraying'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA

It's one of the many conspiracy type videos out there, and I don't endorse the content in any way.. I just find this stuff fascinating
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It's the best (and only) intermediate level Coq book around.
I scale up and down weekly. I didn't know about that, I will look into it, do I just need to add static networking to the node?
I'm just asking because I am curious. If someone's immune system is so weak they can die of a common "harmless" bacteria, would they probably have died of something else anyway? We are surrounded by and filled with millions of bacteria at all times.
Flipkart's customer base is completely different. A large percentage of their customers will probably never own a desktop let alone access their application on one. Front is an app targeted for business where the users still use desktops where it may make sense to have a desktop app.
Facebook Terms of use: You give us an unlimited license to use it commercially.

How am I supposed to do that if I don’t even have the ability to give out such licenses?

Wikipedia, too – I can only upload if I have the license for commercial reuse. But with the limited FoP, I don’t.
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A more permaculture approach would be to decrease run-off rates / increase infiltration capacity of soils over the entire region -- almost by definition permaculture isn't big on massive terraforming projects.
This paper reads more like it's designed to foment support around removing electric car subsidies rather than accurately measure their impact. I particularly liked the part where they tried to assign a dollar value to various pollutants. $42/ton for Carbon, in case you were wondering. They totally scienced that shit.

As always with economic research with policy implications, it's good to dig a little and find out where they get their money from, especially when they're coy about it:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Bureau_o...
So, you don't use any browser apps?

That must be pretty hard to do. I think going without a browser+javascript would be pretty primative... I mean, I pay my bills, send emails, hell view the site I'm on as browser applications. I remember being online in 1993 (vga, bbsing, dialup ftw), it wasn't nearly as diverse or capable as today.
Not just MKUltra - there is a long history of what I would describe as "shockingly unethical" experimentation in the US. The US Government (usually military) is probably the most common actor and/or funder, but they are not the only responsible parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

This is why a lot of people (myself included) take a hard-line position of any kind of testing involving humans. Yes, it's often a waste of time to run many trivial experiments by an IRB first, but history has shown that some people seem unable to make this kind of judgement call probably. Really, in many case, an IRB simply serves the same purpose as assert(3); it's a "sanity-check". Like all sanity check, in theory it shouldn't be necessary, but history shoes it's worth checking anyway.
Not really, very few investment houses or banks own their own real estate anymore.

They all learned that after going public the next step to getting large payouts was to sell their real estate to management companies or REIT's.

Or less cynically, they follow Joel Spolsky's idea of focusing on your core competence and out source the rest to others.
I can't even find my own home, although people do like to debate whether it is a country, state or province.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter

Interesting stuff.
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