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I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular. We're so quick to judge people in the past or other countries (gay sex is illegal, say) but ignore our own backyards (sibling sex is illegal).

The comedian Lois C K made some bold steps exploring this. "I'm not saying I would kill a kid and fuck him, I'm saying that if I found a dead kid in a field, and it wasn't raining, I might take a shot, I don't know." I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. It's a huge hurdle and there are lot of smaller ones on the way, but we overcame the sex between two men thing, maybe we're making some kind of gradual progress?
Presumably because of its modularity and extensibility. He was probably right, just look at Neovim.
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I'm sorry this wasn't as you expected, but that is operating 'as advertised'.

There's some text when you rate that explains it will be shared.
My favorite example of this is Max Levchin in Founders at Work bragging that they didn't hire a great engineering candidate because he said outside of work he likes to "shoot hoops." According to Levchin it might have been okay to play basketball but saying "hoops" made it immediately clear this guy was a bad culture fit.

How can anyone read that and find Levchin's reasoning compelling? He doesn't have any sort of knowledge of casual basketball as a hobby and is making a value judgment on the word choice of the candidate based on Levchin's own inexperience with the hobby culture the candidate lives in. It's basically running up a flag that says if you think someone is remotely different from you don't hire that person. Yet I've heard the opposite from some people, that this is a great move by Levchin. Jessice Livingston included this in her book of advice from founders! This is why there's no diversity in SV.
So, is it BYO headset or is it supplied?

Honestly, either way, I think this is not going to test well with real people.
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>Blizzard needs only buy the remaining 18 million tokens on their own auction house in exchange for virtual currency (which, conveniently, they can create out of thin air).

Hmm, you're right. I assumed it had to be a player to player transfer of the token.

I guess under said system they are walking the pay-to-win line, as you say. They've been slowly making the game more and more accessible to casual gamers. I'd bet these decisions are driven by the fact that the games user base is dwindling.
The file that decompresses to itself is a work of art. How does one even go about to create something like this?
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Estonia is so ripe for startups, I'm surprised Europeans all over aren't flocking to it.

Cheap (by most European standards) intensely skilled workers who speak fluent English in a country who's government has the best investment in technology in the world.

From what I read last, Estonian workers (especially those who work in tech) are fleeing the country due to lack of jobs- it'd be nice to give them a way of staying home.. too..
Also: the modularity and extensibility doesn't come at the expense of vim's traditional portability: Python 2.7 is a fairly low baseline for Unix servers.
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I sit a few buildings down from Cindy's office and have also been studying colormaps quite a bit in the last 3 years. Its interesting how many plotting packages get this wrong but are finally catching up.

I switched from Matlab to Python years ago and was sad to see pyplot using the default rainbow palette still. However, there was some good work done by Chris Beaumont to improve the plot quality. See: http://plotornot.chrisbeaumont.org/ You can easily import these styles into matplotlib using rcparams.

Matlab is using a roughly perceptually linearly luminant colormap they call Parula now. Good job Matlab.

Paulo Penteado has also done some good work in this area. See: http://www.ppenteado.net/ast/csbc2012_pfp_2_pres.pdf

I want to talk about the Luv Lab colorspace. There are several places on the net (even in the literature) that are wrong about these colorspaces saying Lab is for emissive displays and Luv is for reflected light. This is actually not true. (If anything it is reversed). See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scikit-image/DIRaSXJoEes/2jD... and Berns reference.

The interesting with colorspaces (and colormaps thereof) is that working in a perceptual space like Luv/Lab is yields a non-linear (and non-convex) gamut in the sRGB space used by most monitors. There is more "headroom" in the magenta hue of colors than say green. However, you have to then look at monitor output as a function of hue and human sensitivity -- with a red object and blue object with the same reflectance under the same illumination, the red object will appear darker to humans. So there are many transfer functions at work here which makes the problem challenging in picking the right colormap that is perceptually uniform, has the maximum number of perceived differences, and has the appropriate number of hues for best represeting your dataset.

Finally, it would not be complete of me to not mention this article: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=411848...

Slides: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/cs725s15/presentations/nam-pr...
>There's a schism in philosophy between analytic - the more "logical" side, with rigorous proofs and arguments - and continental - the more "what is art/ethics/love" side. I was firmly interested in the continental side. Of those that left philosophy, I found that continental people would often end up in some kind of community-oriented area, like education or sociology or social work or the like, whereas on the analytic side, people tended to end up doing physics/maths/comp sci type stuff.

Ironically, I'm a comp-sci/math type person, and I regard continental philosophy a bunch better than analytic. Continental philosophy usually considers matters inside their social and historical context, so at least sometimes, when they can be bothered to refer to the real world, they're referring to it with a solid context.

Whereas analytic philosophy often seems to me to suffer from math-envy, and to formalize too early and too often. The result is that analytic philosophers spend a lot of time debating over what they think are rigorous, scientifically-grounded concepts when in fact our best science says that things just don't work that way or the theories aren't "done cooking".

(I'm thinking of a Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia page someone directed me to last night on "reductionism", which was given three definitions, none of which matched what a working scientist would usually call reductionism. Or of the very concept of supervenience, which needs less metaphysics and more information theory. Or of the perennial debates over the "Hard Problem" of consciousness.)
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> * an MMO where most people paid a subscription fee to play, but you could exchange in game currency for play time (and could even cash out into real currency -- leading to pro players who would compete for collecting the most in game gold).*

Reminds me of Stephenson's REAMDE.
> Only if he doesn't care at all about money.

Power is not always the only cost. I work in an industry where you pay per core for software license fees far in excess of the cost of power. There, perf/core is what matters.
Most things we do are a little pointless in the end. In the long run, the universe will cool to uniformly distributed inert matter, and all of our efforts will scarcely affect the distribution.

I currently work at big company X doing cutting edge work on the latest rewrite of big system Y, used by millions of people each day. In five years, the next rewrite will begin, and probably within ten years every last line of code I've written will be deprecated and deleted.
"We accept everyone's contributions. Nothing else matters."

Doesn't it say it all?

Doesn't matter if you wear running shoes to the office, we don't care. If people have a problem with that, we don't care. If you have a problem with people doing it, we don't care.

How would a flame war begin? "He said left-handed people can't program!" -> we don't care. "She said dogs are better than cats!" -> we don't care. "They say we should use vim instead of emacs!" -> we don't care.
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"The electric field and magnetic field are still distinct." This is not entirely true. In general it depends on your intertial frame what fields you see.

See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_magnet_and_conductor_pr...
> it could use some tidying up.

Yes..

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Yeah good point, Scotland hasn't got the lease\freehold distinction.

Converting large chunks of the Highlands into national parks would be a great idea IMO.
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I have no idea.

There are people who take special interest in compression. The Hutter Prize would be a good place to find them. http://prize.hutter1.net/

It's a bit old now.

> Restrictions: Must run in <10 hours on a 2GHz P4 with 1GB RAM and 10GB free HD

I'd be interested to see what can happen without those restrictions.
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First off, I am sorry for your loss, cannot begin to understand how it must feel. Secondly, that is incredible about the new drug, it is crazy it takes that long to find more possible treatments for such a widespread cause of death.

What are some more effective ways we can give or help that won't be eaten up by overhead of the charities?
I don't think the concern is about foreign ownership per se, but rather the lack of transparency associated with the offshore companies, particularly in relation to potential tax (Stamp Duty) avoidance and money laundering[0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/25/london-housin...
Actually I find you get a better user experience now using the paid services. Fire up your Amazon Fire tv and pick a movie, starts streaming. Compared with bittorrent, go find a torrent. Download it. Unpack it. Make sure it's the right format, language, subtitles etc. If not go get it again.

Granted there are tools to automate it but from a purely UX pov the paid services do have a better experience.
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> Why does this matter? Somebody's going to own the land.

If the demand is coming from a rich external country, it can create a situation where citizens can't afford property. For your others points, if the skin color of external people isn't white, creating any new common sense legislation to protect the interests of citizens can be difficult due to immediate cries of racism (which it isn't of course as it would apply to all non-citizens equally, but lets not let facts get in the way).
Monitor zip files as they decompress. Halt decompression process if the size ratio between zip file and decompressed file exceeds a fixed ratio (for example, if ratio between the file sizes is something like 10:1).
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I guess someone valuing code more than perfection in prose doesn't deserve to be writing code.

Remember not everyone speaks English as a first language, and not everyone has the time, the knowledge or the resources to proof-read their project description. And most people don't care that much when they see such errors.
Why would this be ADHD? I suffer from the same problem and yet when I'm doing something I like I can concentrate intently for hours if not days. I've worked 60 hour weeks for months when I'm invested.

But when it's stuff I don't enjoy or I'm a bit down, it's a totally different ball game.

I also tend to not be concerned about dates far in the future because I secretly believe I can pull a rabbit out of the hat whenever I want and get the 1 month task done in a day, I'm that fucking good. Of course, I'm not.

ADHD is not something to be flippantly tossed around on not being able to do stuff until a deadline, that's just classic procrastination. I know you didn't mean to sound flippant, but you are being flippant and also I don't think it's a good idea to start conflating ADHD with procrastination.
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Hm, maybe. I quite like the look of 'plugins', even the vi-ness is handled by one. But it seems a strange thing to say in the readme - it's clearly a long way off being close to a contender.
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This assumes that the body is magnetically conducting. The article implies this, too, with the statements about increased privacy and the claim of employing the body as a communication medium (versus simply having it transparent, which would still be better than its absorption of waves in the GHz range). Can anyone point out numbers and the involved mechanisms? I'd say for static fields the only mechanism would be the iron in the blood, and for dynamic fields possibly the conductivity through ions, but I'm unsure if the latter would even help, as electric conductivity is something that designers usually try to avoid in magnetic cores.
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Studies report the answer is yes:

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I think this kind of thing was common even a few years ago in DoS'ing mail gateways that uncompressed and scanned various archive formats. Things like really huge files when uncompressed or ridiculously deep nested directory structures.

I think most software these days is immune to such tricks, or at least has tunables to reduce the chance of such tricks causing harm.
> Is anyone using it, like at all, except discourse?

Ubuntu: http://discourse.ubuntu.com/
Rust (I think): https://users.rust-lang.org/

It's pretty big in the Ember community for obvious reasons.

Outside of nerd-land, however, it doesn't appear to have taken off particularly.

I lost too much of my adolescence to PHPBB and the like to truly hate it.
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Beginners don't remain beginners forever. My yardstick for whether or not I like a particular approach is looking at old code that I have written months ago. The more quickly I can get back into it without fear of breaking things, the better the design is.

By that admittedly subjective standard, goroutines and channels have been a big success (compared to asynchronous code).
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This is a real issue. At my company, we always buy the $300-$400 CPUs but they are barely getting faster with each generation. The last time there was a big jump was with Nehalem.
If you want to meet new people, try joining a Couchsurfing meetup.

I was just on vacation in China, South-Korea and Japan, and Couchsurfers in those places were some of the nicest people I've ever met.
That's my interpretation as well. It might be a bit of a stretch to label it as a "forward-secure platform", as you can't know anything about what the receiver will do with the mail/(session)keys.

As a general system, I don't really see the attraction of forward secrecy for asynchronous, "email-like", communication -- I'm sure I'm not the only one that likes having a record of things I've said, or things others have said to me (good ideas, tips about everything from food to trips, not to mention the general "letter"-type things -- the stuff that can partially make up for not keeping a diary etc). The danger of being convicted for plotting to kill the president based on the contents of digital letters must be balanced against the historic value of having such records available for further students of history, so to speak.

But it just occurred to me that a system like looking glass could easily accommodate both: have the system automatically archive a copy of incoming and outgoing email, both encrypted to the (gpg-)key belong to the system owner. Such a system might retain "cryptological" plausible deny-ability (the owner, having the key, could fabricate a fake archive) -- but it would probably loose any "legal" equivalent. (eg: anyone can fake their browser history log files, but they're still used as evidence etc).

It would be easy to automate what should be archived, and it would also remain possible to shred certain things from the archive, if wanted. It might even be possible to store an archive in a git-like fashion, so that it will be easy to see if something had been deleted -- while hard to prove that a certain deleted plain-text was what was deleted.

[ed: to add: To misquote a common Internet meme: "I don't always plan a revolution, but when I do, I use a forward-secure platform". But I mostly don't plan revolutions.]
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There was no such thing at the time. There were MU* games around but MMO as a genre was viewed as something greater than that. Games like M59 and UO were where that differentiation really started being made.
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I agree about grammar.

But for me the hardest part in reading the readme is the presentation - such a wall of text, and a lot of it seems to be trying to sell the idea of vim to me, when I'm presumably already onboard with that if I'm looking at a self-described "vim-like" project.
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It actually has it's own topic now: http://status.bitbucket.org/incidents/01z9dn7ybqk8
Yes. A method whose only purpose is to answer the question 'is this file larger than <parameter>'. If it is don't go further.
Incidentally, if we are going to have global trade deals like TTIP and TPP, which roll in all sorts of domestic regulations in the name of a level playing field for global trade, I'd also like to see rules included which level the playing field for democratic governments, campaigners and ordinary citizens. For instance land ownership comes with liabilities, I can't see how it is possible for that to be enforceable if the land can be owned by a brass plate in the Cayman Islands. What reason is there, other than vested interests, not to include some sort of transparent ownership of property and assets in these international deals?