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I am not aware of any system of morality in which "but everyone else did it" is considered to be a watertight argument.

I feel strongly about matter, having competed in weightlifting, because of the recent influx of steroid apologists into the weightlifting community. The question of whether PEDs should be allowed is distinct from whether they are allowed.

A sport is an arbitrary collection of objectively determinable athletic trials. It doesn't really matter how they start. Two people want to see who is the "best" at something, so they compete.

Eventually there is an argument about who won. Alex thinks Bob has cheated, because Bob used a technique or technology that Alex thinks grants an unfair advantage.

So Alex and Bob agree to rules. These rules create the space of permissible actions in which the arbitrary trials take place. For example, for sprinting, the rules create a space in which driving a sports car is excluded.

Eventually a name is attached. What is the sport?

The sport is the rules. It follows that actions taken outside the rules, even if unobserved, are not part of that sport. Consider the sprinting example: if the stadium lights go out and I drive to the finish line in 5 seconds, did I win, given that nobody detected my action? No: I did not win. I was incorrectly observed to be first, but I did not win.

If you argue that it's based on the observation, it still requires rules against which the observation is applied. If instead you argue that there are no rules, then you do not have a defined athletic trial -- you can sprint, I can throw, and both of us claim to be the best pistol shooter at the end of the contest.

That is, sports is a positivist legal framework. There is no "real" sport outside of the rules. The rules are the sport. If you break them, even unobserved, then by definition you cannot win and have not won, even when you appeared to.

The nature of modern professional sports being what it is, this means that most winners are the 20-something-th placegetter. But there's a reason we have separate words for "truth", "honour" and "glory".
John Green made a video about this last week. I'm almost 100% sure that's where the author got his idea for this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snQvRZ2vDHE
Flappyvird-vim
Reminds me of the CADT model

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Ad Blocking Will Keep Growing Until We Make Ads Better
In a different category, the "most too-literally-applied" poem in American administration, however, is Emily Dickinson's Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--.
It’s Not Climate Change – It’s Everything Change
What bothers me in these situations where there is (arguably) room for interpretation over the gravity of the act is the double standards. BigCompany does something harmless but illegal? They have the resources to make it sound completely benign to a court. Some random person gets hauled to court over an arguably harmless/moral grey zone matter and the story ends much differently.
Cruel joke on a friend
I wonder how this would work with the new Raspberry Pi display
Every week I adjust my (icon bar?) settings to change the "Get Windows 10" application back to "Show only notifications". Windows keeps resetting it to "Show icons and notifications". Perhaps I should file that as a bug report.
> We could just start new sports leagues that allow doping.

The experience of powerlifting federations is that cheating will continue to happen in the tested versions of a sport. The cachet for winning "naturally" is higher.
That, exactly. You start with a maybe-bad idea, start executing and learning, and refine your way to a good idea.

But there are no successful startups that are actually bad ideas. Bad ideas with money are just walking corpses.
I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to make momentous decisions in life, in which neither choice is clearly right or wrong. Either way you choose, the choice is defensible, but once you make the choice, you can't go back. I decided to go into computers, instead of joining the Air Force and becoming a pilot, for example. Sometimes in life you will meet someone who clearly could have been your soulmate, but you decide to let the acquaintance lapse. I wanted to spend a couple of years in the Peace Corps, learn another language, and help people build power plants in remote locations, but I chose to get married and start making babies instead. And I look back on these kinds of choices and say I made the right choice. But no matter what choice you make, it makes all the difference. Isn't this what the poem is about?

Regardless of what the poet says, I think the important thing is to be out there on that road, travelling, and doing your best. It's all too easy to stay in your comfort zone forever rather than travelling.

Edit: corrected title. Apologies!
I need a distributed, scalable solution for querying set intersections. Before rolling my own I may give this a chance, though Apache accumulo looks like the first option.
> Are there any gender neutral pro sports leagues?

Horse riding definitely neutral, so are motorsports.

Possibly others skill based without speed/strength element.
There is an interpretation of Born in the USA other than how the system beats down the common man with its useless wars and arbitrary bosses?

The lyrics are pretty unambiguous. Unless I guess you only listen to the chorus and ignore literally everything that isn't "Born in the USA"?
I've learned mean just to be fast. Lots of documentation and examples, I also like that you can setup continuous integration quite easily (compared to maven java in my experience)
I'd say that is better than what I came up with.

I really like this concept of a product TLDR. It reminds me of https://tldrlegal.com/. I wish these sorts of summaries were available for other software products and services. It would help when trying to get a simple understanding of all the buzzwords that I can't keep up with without having to read pages of documentation or look at examples.
Music isn't, in general, a head-to-head contest between individuals or teams with an objectively determinable way of keeping score.
That's a very interesting explanation. It's much clearer now, thank you!
Yeah, so it's a wrong thing in 2015 where the only significant use of octal is in unix permissions which themselves are only octal because of PDP-7/8.

The 9/18/36-bits architectures have lost but octal conventions of C was made on the PDP-7 (18 bits) and until the early 1980s, 36-bit machines were commercially available (PDP-10.)
It adds an accountability mechanism for spoofing device types: the vendor's signing certificate can be revoked if they release devices which pretend to be from a different vendor or which misrepresent the device class.

A reasonable criticism is that this would likely result in several examples of customers being screwed when SmallCorp Inc. loses control of their signing key, it's used to sign malware, and the revocation takes out all of the legitimate users but that's arguably an unavoidable cost of the industry maturing.
Do you know how these projects address the problem of stale data, or how do you not read stale data in the case of a network partition?
How is that an ad hominem attack?

Most cops aren't properly trained to shoot a gun. Some have 1 training session per year and they have to hit 70% on a target 3 yards away. Most don't seem to know how to react in a confrontation or high-stress situation.

The system is flawed but people have personal responsibility too. You can't absolve someone of criminal acts by saying oh it's someone else's fault.
I see. And the previous code didn't have this issue?
Git Town committer here. Our commands output the detailed Git commands when they run. In addition, we provide a summary of what each command does in its man page (see https://github.com/Originate/git-town/blob/master/documentat... for an example).

You have a good point about it being valuable to document the steps run by each command in more detail though. We'll add this, thanks for the suggestion! :)

Btw "git help ship" displays the man page for "git-ship".
I wish this went into a bit more detail about working with the mirror itself. Do you actually need a 2-way mirror? Or can you simply use something with that coating on one side?
Once you know the poem you'll start seeing it in a lot of places. If you don't know the poem than it really isn't a surprise that you have not recognized it anywhere.
Cherist the poop you are full of
Also presented here by John Green - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snQvRZ2vDHE
Achieving Excellence Through Social Media Customer Service
Hm, I'm both impressed and a little cockeyed at the ruling by regulators that e-hails are "pre-arranged travel" for the purpose of defining the service and noting its exemption from needing a medallion.

Oh I get it - that's clearly a distinction to hammer home for the benefit of Uber. As the article points out, one of the competitive advantages Uber has is the rapid pace of pickups in Manhattan - within two minutes. Quite a remarkable achievement in getting the efficiency of "pre-arranged travel" down to less than 120 seconds.

I wonder what the conversations around Melrose Credit Union were like when they decided to, metaphorically speaking, put all their eggs in one basket.
These days when Apple is copying almost everything, I hear this thing a lot "It's not who does it first, it's who does it better". And while the statement itself is true, the biases that go around what is "better" are huge. Come on, a lot of watches are doing this, and in a better manner. Moto 360 and other watches are much better, and they do all of what you have said, and you can fix any band you want to that. That's innovation. A round watch, that's innovation, they already had native watch apps, which Apple has tried to copy only with watch OS 2. They still don't have a GPS, which other Android watches have done already (including Moto 360 sport). LG Urbane looks fantastic! Really, the things that you are comparing are not awesome by any manner.

The copied features in iPhone, which its fans defend with closed eyes saying "but it's just better". Really, in how many ways you can make a phone always respond to a catchphrase? Forget about always listening, iPhone wouldn't have got even a "Hey Siri" had it not been for Google Now. There are many such things which are just blatant rip-off.

Trust me, everyone is doing awesome things AND doing them first, you just don't realize it.
I guess that apart from the "Divina Commedia", it could be "L'infinito" by Giacomo Leopardi. But "If" is pretty well-known, as well as many things by Shakespeare
Very. Gabriel might go back and forth but I was sold on the concept first read of paper. Let's take Turbo Pascal or even Delphi. People were griping at one point about all C's problems and C++'s similar + new problems. They wanted a more productive, safer, easier-to-integrate systems language. I cited Wirth already built half a dozen and Borland industrialized them. Hell, even industrial BASIC's had less problems that C development with similar safety, readability, and dev speed.

What's the market do? Push all effort into C and C++. Results of that are still with us. (sighs) Go and Rust give me some hope in that they're first mainstream languages that solve some problems. On non-mainstream, Julia is an awesome development that might be re-applied to systems programming. Not to mention Racket's metaprogramming combined with C or assembler generation for a high-level use of low-level, fast language. Ivory language does that with Haskell, for example.

So, not as Worse as usual. Still true overall.
"Support for" implies it's capable of these guarantees independently but doesn't necessarily mean it's capable of both of them simultaneously, IE it may be configured for one or the other.
I wonder if humidity and steam would be a problem if this was done in a bathroom.
I'm guessing this is based off [1] which uses a normal monitor and a Raspberry Pi.

This one looks much quicker and simpler than [1], but what if you need to do anything to the tablet (updates, new app, etc)? Remove it and re-adhesive?

Personally, I've been working on doing the same with an RPi and Hover so I can wave my hand in front of the mirror to swipe to new screens/info.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/
Type-Driven Development with Idris
I'd like to think that those who appropriate the poem for car commercials and such and fully aware of the poem's meaning, but are exercising a subversive irony.
What an absolutely awesome idea. I love things like this that just blend software and information into the physical environment seamlessly.

I see stuff like this and just think, yeah, now we're living in the future :-D Kind of reminds you how cumbersome and inappropriate it can be to have to pull out a dedicated black slab of glass to access all your information.

The future (at least the one I want) without a doubt is information distributed throughout and blended with the rest of the 'physical' environment so it can be accessed in a truly interactive, head-up manner, not always funnelled and filtered through a singular device - be that VR, AR, or just a load of nicely designed physical interfaces like this one.
Kinda misleading title. Actual article title refers to "A Material That Can Heal Itself" rather than Terminator.

The actual material is more like a glue sandwich than a T1000.
Planting trees post clear cutting does not establish a healthy or usable forest.

Thinning is more expensive and difficult than clear cutting, which is why we don't do it often.
Was in London last month and toured Lord's Cricket Ground. That experience got me to watch some test and ODI matches between England and Australia on ESPN3.com. Strange for an American with no Commonwealth ties!
Yeah, I never noticed this particular reference, not knowing the poem itself
So in fact, it [clean sport] is profoundly just what the Nazis would’ve admired—the strongest, the fittest, the most beautiful.

self-Godwinning sophistry
Yes, it discriminates against dirt-fluid trans-cleanists.
OO is not the only robust way of representing uniform interfaces. OO preachers must stop claiming ownership of the concepts that existed long before OO, and are much better represented outside of thr OO blindfolded way of thinking.
I found some of the almost mournful passages in this piece off-putting. As the author ultimately recognizes, the drift of robotics talent from publicly funded universities to private enterprises is an indication that the technology has advanced to the point of commercial viability.

In other words: Companies finally think they can build robots that are good enough that people will pay for them! To me, that is exciting news, not an occasion to lament the sudden emptiness of university laboratories.

Perhaps in other fields, there is a strong tension between the basic research that government funds and the commercial applications that private companies pursue. But in robotics there are usually foreseeable uses for the technologies that researchers are pursuing. I don't foresee the direction of the field being dramatically changed, particularly given the amount of government money that will still pour in through the DoD.
Work force disruption is an unfortunate side effect of technological disruption. If your solution is NOT to embrace change because you don't want to see disruption take place then that's not a long-term solution.

Edit:
I'd like to expand on this with a (not so) hypothetical. Autonomous cars are already here. How long until we have automated taxis? Let's just say 10 years. Would you make them illegal to keep the taxi workforce in place?

There is disruption in virtually every workforce because of the Information Era. Our work force will have to adapt.
This needs a Kickstarter. I would back it immediately.
Or, in the case of Copyrights, a government granted asset can be an entire business model, and when efficient at making money, the industry becomes a force that can strong arm the government to further its interests at home (Copyright term extensions) and abroad (SOPA/TPP).
In SF I always use Uber over taxis for the better experience of hailing and paying for a ride. But within the last year I notice every day how bad Uber drivers are severely affecting the city for the worse.

So many uber drivers don't know how to safely park to pick up or drop off passengers without blocking traffic. Drivers don't know the fastest or safest routes to get around with other drivers, busses, cyclists, pedestrians and construction.

I don't want to see Uber regulated to hell, but I would like to see features of taxis required for drivers like signs on top of the cars indicating cars for hire, and most importantly lots more training about road safety.
How about through dance [1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8
Looks perfect for daily affirmations.

"Good morning, Dave. MY, you look handsome today!"
Migrant crisis: Germans chide Facebook over race hate
"Who's the fairest one of all?"

That's the application I'd like to see on one of these.
> The lyrics are pretty unambiguous. Unless I guess you only listen to the chorus and ignore literally everything that isn't "Born in the USA"?

Which is exactly what happens.
Hackers vs. Academics: who is responsible for progress?
You are getting down-voted but I always had the same feelings. Lit teachers often read far far too much symbolism into the text. It is usually simply guesses or completely unfounded and stretched opinion far removed from what the author intended, and most usually a huge waste of everyone's time.
You can know Frost's intentions by reading the letters he wrote to his colleagues about the poem. He makes his deception clear there. This was alluded to in the article and you can go read the source material yourself if you're not satisfied.

You are really making a statement about yourself and not about the poem. You want to read it a certain way, and intend to keep reading it that way, because that's the way you've always read it. The "words are the words" sentiment says nothing about the words, but rather how you read them.

The sort of traditionalism you're expressing fascinates me, as the psychological phenomenon appears to me to underpin things like climate denial-ism, anti-vaxxing and religious fundamentalism.

At the very core, I suspect, is a tendency to be defensive about our limitations. To apply enough critical analysis to the poem to divine Frost's true intent, to become informed enough about science to accept the basics of climate change, it takes a lot of time and effort, yet we treat people who can't / refuse / just don't have the time to do these things as if they're stupid.

So they retreat into defensive positions, that the evidence is suspect, why believe Orr, I / we had a way to interpret the poem / organize society so why should we change? Changing is cognitively expensive, just understanding that we need to change is the expensive part.
He is saying "If everyone takes the less-travelled road, then to an average magnitude of sqrt(n) where n is the number of previous travelers, a rand()-based choice - which can skew the running total slightly - would be an equally effective load-balancing solution versus manually balancing the sides deterministically, while at the same time saving the time spent in examining roads to determine the current level of travel.

However, sqrt(n) makes all the difference."
Needs a little quality control. Tried the SQL quiz #1 just to play around and there was one question with no correct answer. one with an ambigiously correct answer, and three of the questions had the phrase "-correct answer" after the correct answer.
I've meant playing with the idea for a programming language.

With Future I've meant would it be easy to put a Future based API which I like b/c of composiblity on top of Quasar, e.g. on top of fibers.

(Futures are just an API to concurrency not concurrency itself that can sit on actors, forkjoin, ...)
This reminds me of AppleScript. Super easy to read, very hard to write.
Pretty cool. I'd want to try this out on a kindle paperwhite and see if it would work.

How obvious is the rectangle of light? I can't see it at all in the first pic, but can make it out a little in the last pic
> <OK HAND SIGN> is offensive in Brazil.

Well, not really. It may be, or may not. People use it as an Ok symbol too, what makes it quite useless for either use.
This is really cool! Although the title could be better, initially I thought this is talking about mirrors that can be programmed to adjust its properties (like tilt, curvature), much like those fancy telescope mirrors, although I'm unable to find a link now.
Wish he would also put how easy they are to untie. I've realized that the ideal knot is optimizing not just how secure the knot is and how fast to tie it. But also how fast to untie it, which is often anti-correlated with how secure it is.
Robert Frost himself wrote about this intentional light mocking [0]:

"I suppose I was gently teasing them." [1]

"but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other." [2]

--

[1]

"On one occasion he [RF] told of receiving a letter from a grammar-school girl who asked a good question of him: 'Why the sigh?' That letter and that question, he said, had prompted an answer.
Amherst Mass April 1925

"Dear Miss Yates:

No wonder you were a little puzzled over the end of my Road Not Taken. It was my rather private jest at the expense of those who might think I would yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life. I suppose I was gently teasing them. I'm not really a very regretful person, but for your solicitousness on my behalf I'm
your friend always
Robert Frost"

[Finger, L. L.: "Frost's 'The Road Not Taken': a 1925 Letter come to Light", American Literature v.50]

--

[2]

"(a) One stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn't bear not to finish it. I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way. (RF, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 23 Aug. 1953; tape recording)."

"(c) Frost said that he wrote the poem, 'The Road Not Taken' for his friend [Edward Thomas] and sent it to him in France, getting the reply, 'What are you trying to do with me?' (L. Mertins: Robert Frost)"

[Thompson, Lawrance: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, Notes.]

--

[0] http://www.retiredtractors.com/Frost/Roadfrost.html
I don't know if it's a matter of our business depending on Windows more than our business wanting to depend on Windows. We like using Windows because they have such an awesome product. Same thing with Apple. I got the new OS and all of a sudden my iphone 3g started going unbearably slow... so I had to get a new iphone.

My stance is... if they use 6gb of my internet to download updates... okay, whatever... i get unlimited(ish). But if I turn it off and it still does it... that sounds more like a bug in their software. It's still not a big enough deal for me not go with Windows for an OS... it's too good of an OS. I don't think it warrants boycotting MS.

P.S. I didn't pay for Win10. They gave me the upgrade for free.
> We had similar issues with the completely moronic and misdesigned crap called "strlcpy()", which was introduced for similar reasons, and also caused nasty bugs where the old code was actually correct, and the "converted to better and safer interfaces" code was actually buggy.

What's wrong with strlcpy? When I need one, I take the code from OpenBSD:
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib/...

Reasons for having it are surely not moronic because it provides security benefits.