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There is nothing wrong with being entertained by classical music, but to an initiate in the world of videogame music it is dissapointing if listeners don't want to engage with videogame music beyond reliving their classical experiences. There are so many more feelings an orchestra can inspire in a listener if they invest in absorbing that tradition. :)

There is good music and bad music, genres are just sets of constraints, none is inherently better than other, what matters is how composer use them. Good chiptune can be a better art than mediocre classical piece. And I would argue more "non-classicaly-trained" people know classical music (even by accident), than the other way around. Everybody have heard Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, and Strauss at some point in life. Most people never heard Flimbo Quest or Zelda soundtrack.

In 100 years there will be people with PhDs arguing over the merits of classical SID chiptunes vs the Amiga era mods.

PS if you're interested in trying something different I reccomend this presentation about chiptunes - it's interestnig and gives you some idea about the genre constraints and stylistic choices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjcK5JFEFE
I agree. I see performances like these as a way of introducing symphony to a younger audience. Orchestra does sort of having that "stuffy" vibe to it, and when I took music in high school, there wasn't much that was done to change that perception, that was was unfortunately.

I went to both the Final Fantasy and Zelda concerts at Wolf Trap in Fairfax, and I was stunned at just how packed the show was. (It's an outdoor amphitheater.) And the ages. And here is the NSO getting ready to perform, and most of these people are in their teens to 20s. How fantastic is that, to draw in that many young people to see what a real orchestra can do? And not only that, but to witness what goes into making the music they enjoy when they're playing scenes from the game above the stage. Suddenly you're able to place musicians with the sounds you're hearing and the notes being played.

I dare say, many of them, if not most of them, appreciate and enjoy classical orchestra music. It's always been with them. Just they haven't always realized it. =)
Do you have a source for this?

Red deer have no natural predators just now and plenty of food - they will continue to increase in number.

You will also find that a lot of those that stalk deer are not "the gentry".
So it's basically a set of libraries used to marshal/unmarshal objects without using a schema or can it also be used as an RPC library?
It's a shame React Art isn't mentioned more (https://github.com/reactjs/react-art). I'm pretty happy with the results from it, and it's a bonus that it works on iOS as well as drawing to Canvas, SVG, or VML on the web.

It doesn't support some of the more advanced features of SVG, but that's the trade-off for wider support.
I'm assuming they emigrated and renounced US citizenship. Would be interesting to hear how and where etc though.
Britain and Japan, both island nations where anything remotely threatening was wiped out long ago. The largest predator in Japan is the salamander. A meter-long specimen will make news.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1096...

What's the largest predator in Britain? The badger? The fox? Or that housecat everyone thought was a lion.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19397686

Talk to anyone in the pacific northwest. If you take only the slightest precautions you have nothing to fear from the wolves, cougars and bears. You are far more likely to be eaten by a fellow human. You are more likely to be killed by deer. They are already all over Britain. So the wolves will in all probability reduce the number of animal-related deaths.

http://www.therichest.com/animals/top-10-animals-that-kill-h...
Why can't we celebrate an achievement by the human being without pointing out the gender,race,sexual orientation or nationality ?
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Really comes down to budget. Hiring musicians is expensive. That being said, they are hired for larger projects though.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/super_mario_g...
From the announcement blog post:

Transit is self describing using tags, and encourages transmitting information using maps, which have named keys/fields which will repeat often in data. These overheads, typical of self-describing formats, are mitigated in Transit by an integrated cache code system, which replaces repetitive data with small codes. This yields not only a reduction in size, but also an increase in performance and memory utilization. Contrast this with gzipping, which, while it may reduce size on the wire, takes time and doesn't reduce the amount of text to be parsed or the number of objects generated in memory after parsing.

- http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit
Well this could be done without having me entered into a public leaderboard and having some kind of "who's is bigger" contest made out of it.

I very much would prefer the content to be accessible without this ego-bolstering crap.

Sorry, but local storage or a cookie dropped would suffice. Why should this introduction be in any way tied to me or my Github profile?

It may be so easy, to just log in with Github. But for me this just kills it. I assume, that a lot of people think alike - that might be the reasons for downvotes.
Well, it's a pretty 'shitty' Newspaper, but it's sold (and presumably also read) by many Germans.

Also, you can purchase a 'premium' account on their website and (according to their own advertisement for said premium account)

'..receive UP TO 90% less ads and UP TO 50% faster loading times.'

Go figure.
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If the data sucks, how are you going to present any other reasonable expert view than the one he presented? Manufacturing some grand view and recommendations based on untrustworthy data is something that needs to be avoided, however much we would want to hear it.
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Unless you sleep for 16 hours a day, your waking time will overlap with office hours in Washington at some point. Skype can call to the US for very low cost.
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My favorite: "residents can't remember if they lost their wine at the same time." [1]

[1] http://clickotron.com/article/5588/residents-cant-remember-i...
I don't think we will ever agree on this. I think income tax should only be paid in the country where you made the money, because the money comes from a business in that country. You think you should also pay it in the country where you are from, because you should support it(even if that country hasn't done anything to help you earn that money). To me, that sounds insane. To you, it doesn't. I'm not sure we can reach an understanding.
Predators are usually not that good for keeping animal populations in check. They often kill more than they can eat and leave the rest alone[1]. If you introduce predators for population control you would have to introduce scavengers as well. Otherwise rangers will have to clean up after them or the carcasses become a problem.

In the end you would need a whole and healthy ecosystem for this to work out correctly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
Grabbing popcorn. Waiting for all of these chinese lovers to tell you that it is not an IP theft but just a mere inspiration.
On top of that there are not any problems in China and it is much safer and better place to be in than the USA.
To add to this, the musicians are enjoying this as well. As time passes and games stay with us longer, the perceptions of them will change, just as Shakespeare has.

Case in point: I was lingering around with a friend well after the "Music of Zelda" performance, when a group came out towards the parking lot. Struck up a conversation with them, and found they were all part of the NSO's flute section. One had built a harmonica into a Zelda NES cartridge, and brought that to the show with her, along with the Zelda t-shirt she was wearing under her suit. She grew up playing the same games.
Perhaps, or perhaps the people who go to the symphony do so because they enjoy the snobby atmosphere and wouldn't go if the concert hall looked like a Southwest flight.

Meanwhile the Southwest flight people won't go to the symphony either, because they don't care. Unless, of course, it's video game music.
These posts by the author of transit-js clear up some things and go in depth about performance:

http://swannodette.github.io/2014/07/23/a-closer-look-at-tra...
http://swannodette.github.io/2014/07/26/transit--clojurescri...
http://swannodette.github.io/2014/07/30/hijacking-json/
Except that the phone itself is increasingly the target. A compromised phone renders such "second-factor" idents moot.

I say "second-factor" in quotes because I don't really consider the code-to-the-phone a second factor. It's just another password. A proper second factor would be a token, a physical object or at least something that cannot be transmitted/intercepted.

I'm running into this problem when doing PCI audits. PCI demands two-factor for some things (internal, non-customers) but specifies the 'something you know, something you have, and something you are' approach. Since biometrics are out in most situations, that leaves passwords+tokens as a practical mandate under PCI. Code-to-the-phone schemes don't qualify.
> The whole "file handles" can't escape a certain scope sounds like what python's with statement does.

It is incredibly easy to return a file handle out of a with statement. There is nothing in place other than programmer discipline preventing you from doing so, and your program blows up in... interesting ways.
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So basically "you will always pay us a bit of your income,no matter where that income comes from, or you are no longer our citizen"? That's a bit of a mob mentality, and in general, not how countries work. You don't need to pay taxes to be a citizen and enjoy protection of the law, otherwise what would we do with people who really don't earn anything? Kick them out? I'm perfectly happy to pay income tax on the money made in Poland. But I see no reason to pay income tax on the money made elsewhere.

And yeah, I'm not totally sure about your example. I'm quite certain that I would pay 30% of my income in Poland, and then US would want a further 30% of the remaining amount, IRS would not care that I have already paid income tax in Poland.
Words are joined the same way in Swedish as described above for Norwegian, so not safe there either.
I'd say they are going to find it very difficult.
The practical consequences of homosexuality and prostitution (STIs and reduced vigor) are of much less concern to Jesus and Paul (and other Biblical figures) than the immediate problem of ignoring God's design and intentions for sex.

Here's a quick list of passages dealing with sexual immorality:

http://www.openbible.info/topics/sexual_immorality

Notice the theme where the immoral person does not get to inherit the kingdom of God. That's a way-out-in-the-future concept, not any kind of concern for the physical body of the immoral person.

Which isn't to say there aren't practical benefits to Biblical sexuality. Certainly your chance of getting an STI is dramatically reduced (eliminated?) by remaining faithful to your spouse in marriage. Abstinence for the unmarried has the same obvious benefits. Heterosexuality is clearly the easiest way to procreate, and the inherent differences between men and women gives children a broader experience of physical, mental, emotional interaction with the world (seeing how mom and dad handle the same situation in gender-unique ways, for instance).

But again, all of that is the secondary concern. The primary concern of all sin is the immediate effect it has on the spiritual condition of a man. The preeminent theme throughout the Old Testament and New is that God is Holy. He takes his holiness seriously. Man has sinned. God judges all sins. There is one way back to God, and that's by taking advantage of the path He made back to Himself, via his son, Jesus.
excellent article
Brain stuff is influenced by genetic makeup as much as any other health condition. Many health conditions present with different effect or prevalence in different racial sub-populations or between the sexes.

It's meaningful to include race if it was a factor, because she's saying it was a predominant trait in the study populations on which the diagnostic criteria were originally built.

If you don't study an effect in different populations to determine the universality of your criteria, you could very well be under- or over-diagnosing persons from those groups.
Is the submitted article talking about VC2015?

It's a pitty it is not stated which version - maybe it means 'all versions' - nor possible fixes a user can use. E.g. for the 'Binding Rvalues to Lvalue References' case: using /W4 flag will yield a C4239 warning, turning on 'Treat warnings as error' will prevent using the code all together. For things like the '__VA_ARGS__ chaos' and 'Elimiated Types' on the other hand there is no fix (that I know of), but I'd argue such constructs do not have a place in modern C++ (or maybe even any C++ for that matter) anyway and they should be avoided by the users and as such should never turn into problems.
Very interesting
(just commenting to read it later)
To my ears an Appalachian accent doesn't sound that different to a regular American accent, it's just an exaggerated version of it.
And with the else-if code you would need a counter increment for every else-if statement
That sounds like "child support" should be taxed then. If expats can send "millions of dollars" to family in Canada and they don't pay a single cent as tax, then it's a tax system problem. And hey, on the other hand, if that family spends those millions in Canada, then it's a net benefit :P I'm sure even if the "income" is not taxed, all the money they spend actually is, so their amount of taxes paid to Canada might be significant.
Gates, and basically all economists, argument is that without correctly pricing externalities, capitalism (creative or otherwise) not only doesn't help, it actively makes things worse, as people can make fortunes by digging up and burning the fossil fuels that will wreck the global climate.

Those incentives need to be realigned, and almost certainly will at some point, though probably much later than someone who believes in the power of market forces would like. The initial work will mostly be done via central planning and government regulation.

It's even possible, like the VW scandal has reverberations in consumer confidence in their brand, that global warming has the potential to discredit capitalism in the eyes of the public, if a carbon tax doesn't get introduced soon enough to see capitalism as part of the solution and not just the problem.
This is a stupid grammar nitpick I only offer in the hopes that you find it useful for your writing. No dismissal of your arguments or denigration of your character is intended.

I think you want the word "affected" in your second paragraph. Effects are the result of causation, whereas affect refers to the causation. The citizens were affected by the effects of this policy.
The problem is it grants legitimacy for a parallel network of justice enforcement. When there are so many stories about constitution being violated with FISA, SWAT teams, police stations using military gear, TSA, systematic torture, drone strikes without fair trials, civil asset forfeiture and now systematic seizure of cars, who could we blame if, say, Anonymous decided to take it to the street and burn houses of every single TLD agent? Is US justice still acting on the name of the lowly, or is the constituion so blatantly violated that the people will fund and sponsor an "alternative network"?
How does this example protect against phishing? Since the user believes that he's actually authenticating with WellsFargo.com, he would confirm.

That's what U2F protects against.
Fascinating - especially if the loop get closed and trading algorithms can generate short-lived tweets (Markov chains?) to disrupt their opponents sentiment analysis.
or with http://www.scylladb.com/ backend. "ScyllaDB: world's fastest NoSQL column store database; Fully compatible with Apache Cassandra at 10x the throughput and jaw dropping low latency"
> Bully and browbeaten seems to be a common complaint in modern Biblical families

I'm certain this passage is taken out of context in support of that philosophy. However, it's an abuse of the text, and not a reasonable conclusion from reading it in its entirety.

Are you saying we should judge all philosophies by their abuse? We should ignore climate scientists because of ClimateGate? We should outlaw religions because there are crazy people in the world who claim to be killing in the name of some of them?
Making their preprocessor compliant with (modern) C and C++ standards is on their roadmap though (and two-phase lookup is too):

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/06/03/first-p...

Also (nowadays) MS admits that their implementation of __VA_ARGS__ isn't compliant:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback/Details/...
I hope you don't wear any cotton/polyester blends.

> Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deut 22:11, KJV)

Most Christians I've known believe that some combination of Matt 15:11 (Jesus) and Acts 10 (Paul) mean that while the morality expoused in the original Law is forever relevant, the practical concerns (what to eat, what clothing to wear, how to handle menstruation) and the ritual concerns (sacrifice, temple practices) are no longer relevant.

So Jesus takes morality to 11, but not the other things. And according to Jesus, morality == love.

All this to say: I'm pretty comfortable with my interpretation. I'm not ignorant of the spectrum of Christian doctrine, and I feel like I'm mostly doing it justice while keeping it simple.
Hmm, so the Victorians were " Selfish, oppressive, iniquitous, abusive, racist, hypocritical, and worse". I'm curious, you mention "numerous physical and cultural genocides against native populations around the world", can you give me a similar critique of one of these native populations? Pick one. Describe their morals and social norms for me.
(S)he's making two points as I read it:

1. Much of what is being described as traditional marriage practice isn't actually traditional; the article notes that what a modern person might consider Victorian marital values often weren't.

2. Much of what remains (as being actually traditional) is better off being destroyed.
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I've seen PCI auditors accept code-to-the-phone as proper two-factor auth many times. Not that you aren't right...
This looks really interesting. Are you planning to do text as well? Specifically, text with line wrapping?
I didn't know Florida had crocodiles (I lived for a year in Tallahassee so I only saw alligators). Wikipedia tells me that there has only been one reported human attack in Florida ever. So pretty low risk.

I grew up in Canada and especially when I lived near Ottawa, I heard wolves fairly frequently. I never saw one. Personally, I'm quite happy to live near them. The risk is incredibly low compared to pretty much anything you would care to mention with respect to living in a man made environment. According to Snopes, on average 1 person a year is killed in the US by lightning hitting them through telephone lines.

Wikipedia tells me that 7600 people were killed by wolves in Europe... in the period from 1362 to 1918. I'm willing to believe that the numbers are under reported (damn middle ages where people were too illiterate to file a police report), but I think the risks are pretty negligable. I suspect that even if Scotland reintroduces wolves, you will still be at higher risk of dying by getting hit by lightning through the telephone lines.
How would you rewrite it to "tighten it up"?
Has anyone ever died because of an unlicensed limo? Is it really a threat to public safety? If consenting adults agree to a transaction, I am not sure how that's the government's business. However, if an unlicensed vehicle was portraying itself as a licensed vehicle, then you have a fraud issue, not a public safety one.
Why choose this over Google's Protocol buffers? https://github.com/google/protobuf
Crap. Time to work out how to fund an implementation of Avahi for Windows.
As an insurance student, let me just point out male mortality is still considered higher than female mortality (hence higher premium rates for men). Though i have no numbers if the world has more females than males right now
You actually wrote two paragraphs to tell somebody they misspelled with an 'e' instead of an 'a'
Naming a period in art "modern" is like naming your file "final.doc". You just have to know there will be "copy of final(4).doc" in that directory at some point.
Podcast advertising is fantastically profitable even though it's extremely unsophisticated. As the profit margins shrink due to increased competition, more sophisticated ad formats are going to come along to keep the lights on.

Right now, every podcast listener hears the exact same ad regardless of where or when they are listening. It seems obvious that at some point soon, podcasts will include a custom code for "insert ad here" and an ad exchange will bid on that 30 second spot and put a targeted ad there. Currently, the MP3 + RSS format of podcasts doesn't support this degree of sophistication which is what Marco is alluding to with it's walled gardens comment. There's a goldmine for whoever can figure out how to move podcasts into a vertically integrated format and define the platform.
Reminds me of Headline Smasher [0].

Some pretty fun ones there but it doesn't use RNNs. It just merges existing headlines.

[0]: http://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all
Lol. Forbes stopped being relevant years ago.
In the 17th century one of the nicknames some English people had for Ireland was Wolfland.

The century following the Cromwellian conquest saw a bounty-led drive to exterminate wolves with the last one being killed in 1786.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Ireland
Well, someone is lying. Either this artice or feminists who claim that back in day women were treated as chattel.
Calling out propaganda aside - with all this feminism and men stayed in same place while women advanced their right far above what men have - men are still workhorses to provide, serv and sacrifice.
Unnecessarily cynical. Its a problem that science funding makes scientist's careers so precarious, but nobody goes into science for the money.
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