hornytoad

Agree. And for relative pitch training, I love this tool! The creator should read the paper to get ideas on how to turn it into an actual training tool for absolute pitch.

Datomic has a centralized transactor serializing what transactions, whereas Blockchain is decentralized. So they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, each trying to solve a completely different problem. Of course "centralized" is much less dramatic.

"International Media Is Asleep At the Switch", only this guy somehow manages to see the truth. Yeah, right.

Interesting so many people on hn seem to be jumping on this.

So I went back to his oldest blog entries to see what his general stance is and if his judgements merit consideration or are slanted, which can be better be judged with years of hindsight, judge for yourself:

"To my mind Chávez’ hold on reality is so tenuous that he really does think that six million people poured onto the streets on April 13th to demand his return. And with a narcissist leader who’s that cut-off from reality, political miscalculation is the order of the day."

He was hugely popular then, and stayed that way until his death, if polls, which actually have received praise from international observers, are an indication. Chavez not only had the absolute majority behind him, they actually supported him.

Just compare Venezuela's voter turnout with that in your own country. Wikipedia says about Venezuela's 2012 election:

"The elections showed a historically high turnout, above 80% of the electorate, in a country where voting is not mandatory"

How about working to change America? In theory, it is a democracy, so if what you say is true, people should be able to change it.

50 million on food stamps in "the richest country", while "poorer" countries fare much better - you should have some voters here. The only problem - you need gazillions to make it to the TV screens so that you end up being electable. There goes your democracy.

Keeping all our money to ourselves, not only having enough to keep us warm and our stomachs stuffed, but actually being able to spend on a lot of luxury, e.g. most of the tech gimmicks around, while other people are literally starving is obviously inhumane.

However, donating to "charities" is just not gonna do it. I'm not talking about details like "don't give 'em fish, give 'em a fishing rod".

Rather, considering that we, at a minimum the so-called "West", have been and are still collectively robbing other countries and regions blind, all that we individuals are able to give back is way less than that. Just have a look at Indonesia now and in the last couple of decades, or check what most African countries export vs. what they import to see it is still ongoing. Lately, at least most of South America is finally getting out of the morass. But not due to charities from the West, rather due to their standing up against Western capitalist interest.

So after understanding that we - as a society, and everyone living in it benefits from society - are not really philantrophic by giving a little back having taken a lot.

Our time and money needs to go where we think we can change this system. A big task, but just giving to some charity is not gonna cut it.

Once we have a more stable financial picture in the next 10 years or so

Dream on. You'll never donate. How pathetic. Who do you expect is able to give except Gates and Soros?

Instead of revealing your ignorance, you could read up on ECHELON, which was becoming a bigger issue in Europe already in the 90's, there was an investigation by the European Parliament in 2000/2001, and coincidentally 9/11 is probably the reason why the US&Britain didn't get to bear the cost at the time. Now they are (Boeing, CISCO, IBM, ...) and will probably continue to for some time to come.

stackoverflow and servfault are back. superuser is not.

and now, is it still down?

As is all (?) of stackexchange.

Greenwald seems to be the only journalist in the mainstream really doing his job. The consecutive US governments' continuous sheltering of fallen dictators, successful terrorists (and I'm not talking about the one terrorizing Pakistanis, Yemenis, Sudanis, and others with drones, he obviously deserves and gets shelter in the noblest of houses) is hardly news, but it's also hardly known, so it should be news. Thanks Snowden for providing Greenwald an opportunity to bring it into the limelight.

Nice: Populations all over the world pay their respective governments to snoop on them. That's of course in addition to all the other things our "representatives" are doing in our names, often enough without telling us. If they can't manage to hide something from us (like going to war may be hard to keep secret at times) they make use of our funds to adequately "educate" us why it's necessary.

AWS will just lock you (or wikileaks) out on gov't request, although they'll claim that to be "inaccurate": http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/

Trying to login with emacs-w3m, I get the error message: "Post request without Content-Length."

Sniffing the POST request that emacs/w3m sends:

Content-length: 38

I get the feeling news.ycombinator expects the more common form "Content-Length" (capitalized l), but according to the HTTP 1.1 spec: "Field names are case-insensitive." (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-4.2)

So my request is to fix that to adhere to the HTTP spec, thus allowing us poor emacs-w3m users to login as well.