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Well, it is great we have a common language which facilitates scientific communication, I don't really understand why the author seems so apologetic about that.

Conversely, the fact that the standard is a language where some nations inherently have an advantage over the rest of the world is an unfortunate side-effect of historical events. I also don't see the advantages leveling at any point in the future unless a country were to decide to completely give up its entire cultural heritage, literature, etc. and adopt English in every aspect of public life - and even then it would take minimally a generation before most of the new culture was assimilated, and would only level the field for said country.

Also I think there are two distinctions that need to be made. The first is that there is a global lingua franca, namely English. Now the world has a new standard language instead of French in which to communicate about everything. I see this as a great win in the sense that we can all communicate with one another, the only negative part is that its not a level playing field, but this again is simply a discomfort, it was the same before when French and Latin were lingua francas.

The second is the anglicisation of all cultures. Here in continental Europe you can almost literally observe the change as you see how many advertisements, marketing, technology, language, music, films etc. are directly imported from the English speaking world, even to the point where it now "sounds wierd" to use non-English words for certain things. Now you could see this as positive or negative. For one if you go anywhere you know what to expect, you have a universal culture to understand marketing, tech, restaurants, ads, doctors, educational systems, etc.. Of course on the flipside everywhere is the same, just as in the US you can travel thousands of miles and the stores, language, and restaurants are all the same. So you are getting sameness on a global scale. I see how the author could be sad about that happening and I think thats what's making him so apologetic. I even sympathize with him, English is great to communicate globally but I don't see why it and its countries' cultures have to encroach on all others, it seems to make the world a dimmer place.

I've often wondered why we haven't created a language based off of knowledge gleaned from the cognitive sciences and universal grammar and phonology, to create a language that was perfectly regular and maximally easy to learn (orthography/phonology/syntax/semantics) for all speakers of any language. Its certainly possible, you could even make it much more efficient for text-processing and analysis purposes. You could likely cut down the time of acquisition to less than 6 months for B2 level fluency. Of course all previous attempts at synthetic languages tell us no one will use it. I wonder how easy it would have to be to cross the threshold? Probably impossibly easy given the number of rules required to generate an infinite set of discreet symbols...
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What does "for the cloud" even mean? Previous TCP/IP stacks were not able to connect to someone else's computer?
I don't think anything is wrong with you. I've talked with lots of friends (devs and not), who have noticed their attentions have changed over time. I don't think it's causation that your attention has eroded with the rise of social media, just a correlation from the times you happen to live in. I suspect people in the 50's lamented vinyl eroding their ability to practice music for hours on end.

I think the ability to concentrate on one task singularly is really a gift the young get. I can't think of a single friend who has ever said it has gotten better over time. Enjoy the positive changes that come with age though. The ability to reason more objectively, the ability to control your emotions, the ability handle defeat and disappointment with grace, and the ability to plan larger things. Your body and mind change with age.
"Most violence in the world is defended by expressing moral sentiments"
Cortana does have a sense of humour. Try asking her what she's wearing. Her answer, while still funny, will not land you an HR violation.
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While it is challenging to build a Django integration, there are some options for working with RethinkDB. You can check this StackOverflow answer for a starting base: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28001980/how-to-setup-ret...

Jorge Silva (@thejsj) also wrote this demo app to show how you could pair MySQL with RethinkDB when using Django: https://github.com/thejsj/django-and-rethinkdb
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To check that such measures are race, ethnicity and gender blind, just run the following unit test on your admission procedure:

allow_admission( x.copy(race=a) ) == allow_admission(x.copy(race=b))
Sure, but most people want to use popular music, as a result the most popular video editor for istagram has licensed popular music* from the majors. This is not a novel business.

*http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/storytelling-socia...
In part, we know angels were watching over us that day. And I thank the nootropics for giving me mental clarity and alertness in that moment. I know without a doubt they helped me make a crucial decision in a moment of panic.

A belief in angels in the same sentence as ascribing to fishoil pills the incredible ability to deal with a flaming pan incorrectly. Pick your fiction, buddy; is it angels, or is the fish oil?
It has nothing to do with getting rid of sins, it's about counteracting systemic racism, you stop doing it when the need is gone.
Sorry - I have no idea how I misread the title so badly. I'd delete this but I've missed the window.
Basically, this means you hit an API endpoint that returns an array of JSON objects, each of which is used to generate an HTML page.

Contentful offers this as a service, along with web frontends for updating the data for those APIs.
> promote a common moral that "violence is not okay – ever"

I guess that's generally was is tried in the Western world. Especially (marginally more) in Europe, where even being in the army is not as regarded as in the US, and there is nowhere the same support for the troops even when deployed.

But then all of that is drown in a sea of entertainment, the majority of which not only promote virtuous violent reaction, but also show that non-violence generally lead to ridicule or painful death.
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I'm gonna guess that PhDs working on non-profit public domain cancer research probably don't overlap all that much with the taxation-is-theft crowd.
I just don't worry about straining the leaves. A lot of teas will helpfully sink to the bottom of your cup where they are trivially easy to avoid. This probably requires using whole leaf tea for a good experience.
Tangential, but:

1) best app for Mac (once upon a time I'd care if it was pretty, but not so much now) for computer chess?
2) best communities for 'beginner-enthusiast' and online games?
Type Erasure is the reason you can't use builtin types as generic arguments. And in a lot of cases it forces you to cast.

And as type erasure happens very, very early in the compilation process, you lose a lot of static type information the compiler could act on or give you warnings.
With regards to [2], are you saying the private price at the last tender offer was much higher than the current public price?
The one is on a language level, the other on an application/framework level.
We're better at tracking deaths of bees than people who die in police custody
> the CEO should be rallying troops and making deals. well, at least that is the excuse for their obscene salaries and bonuses.

She looked like she was asleep. Wasn't rallying anyone or making any deals. Did you watch the interview? She was talking about the most important thing she has ever done as a CEO and couldn't care less. She has checked out.
> It's misguided because they have the wrong idea about simplicity...

No, it's not your idea of simplicity. It's not wrong, it's different. That's all.

You're falling into the "my way is the right way" arrogance that so many here are accusing the Go advocates of.
It says a lot about the broken sensibilities of higher education that an Historian

The author of the blog post kindly submitted here is not a historian by occupation or training. He is a linguist who specializes in the study of the English language.[1] (He is a co-author of the definitive grammar of English, the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.[2]) He writes "Let me state very clearly that I don’t intend any of this in triumphalist spirit" because that is the way that all scholars trained in linguistics write about language differences: languages are not better or worse, if they are natural human languages, but just arbitrarily different in interesting ways that seem to have an arbitrary relationship to their use in human society. That includes the issue of which languages become widespread around the world and which do not--that appears to have very little to do with specific features of each language, despite some of the discussion here.

[1] http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/wikipedia_is_wrong.html

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Cambridge-Grammar-English-Language...
> because most gun violence is not committed by people with mental health problems. Rather, it is committed by people who feel they are morally right in committing that act.

Is there a reason that delusions of morality don't count as a mental health issue? I don't see these things being mutually exclusive.
>didn't involve massive conquest or colonialism

This is demonstrably false.

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/50/3850-004-87B10...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War#Russian_expansioni...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia#Ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Russian_E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Soviet_Un...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
A pastor of mine once talked about this in context of Martin Luther and Zwingli ( in context of the Kappel Wars ), and talked about how violence is often the moral outgrowth of those who have grown so assured of their righteousness (in a Christian context) that they felt they could not sin by committing violence. He pointed to Matthew 5:21-26 and 5:38-47 (The Sermon on the Mount) to bolster his argument against violence by Christians, and I feel that it is generally a correct one. (Further strengthened by Romans 12:9-21) Thus, the case laid out in this article is one that I agree with, generally. It's a case long laid out by a succession of Christian Theologians, albeit using different language.
Yes, I updated my comment, but my point still stands: Perl 6 supports Perl 5 syntax and migrating is nowhere near as hard as was implied. Sorry for confusion.
Okay, so there's the Winter War and other battles throughout history where they've won land as a result of an offensive. (see also: Siberia)

However, much of Russian land was claimed after winning decisive defensive victories and then going over and saying "We won't kill you if you give us [specific pieces of land]" to which the losing nation's army hands over the land.

Something many nations never learned was to not launch offensive battles into Russian during the goddamn Russian winter. Napoleon wasn't the only military leader to lose to the Russians because of that mistake.
If only we had some globally distributed tamper-proof database we could use to timestamp data...
Wow, that was harsh. If startups were assigned to the Deadpool based solely on whether their 1.0 products were ready to immediately disrupt billion dollar industries, there wouldn't be _any_ successful startups out there.

Personally, when I see a team of people who are passionate about what they are doing create something new and interesting, I like to cheer them on.

I think the technology is interesting and cool. Even if it isn't marketable in current form (what 1.0 product is), I wish them the best in iterating on it until it is.
Some personal philosophy (as if the Internet needs more):

I always watch out for the dogmatic idealogues, the ones without moderation. You can identify them when they say that the welfare of others, often including their lives, should be sacrificed to the idealogue's cause - and of course the others should have no say in it.

Pragmatism and humility are the wisest forms of morality. There should always be something higher than your ideals and goals, either the ideal of other people's lives and welfare, or their self-determination (whether or not you agree with their opinions), or your humility: Unless you are God, you should hesitate to sacrifice others based on your judgement. For me, that's also the philosophical foundation of democracy.
I think opposing hypothesis is that violence is in some form a more primitive behavior driven by our emotions or instincts (by ego and id, if you will), and only our moral sense (our rational superego) keeps it in check.

I recently submitted this article which makes this distinction: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830471-000-syndrome...
Mail is the #1 e-mail provider.

News is massive.

Sports is massive and has one of the top Fantasy operations, a growing market.

Homepage is still the homepage for people who set homepages.

All are monetized through one of the most effective ad selling operations out there.
Right, but the point is, it's wrong to say that "the mortgage industry" is holding this up if there's another group that would be more than willing to invest the money.
I'd guess that the opposing hypothesis would be that violence is economically /politically/religiously motivated. Maybe thought of as extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation?
As if everything you mention were equally distributed (quality of academic instruction, affordability of extracurricular activity or exam coaching services etc.), such that everyone had access to more or less the same quality of basic education.

You're an intelligent guy and have taken part in discussions on this sort of topic many times before here on HN, so why do you persist in advancing simplistic arguments whose specious nature has been pointed out many times before?
An important clarification: Most violence among humans is motivated by morality. Sounds plausible.
Your case is an exception, the majority of royal-free music
companies do not police their content this way.
When I was a theatre student a thousand years ago my teachers used to say every character you play feels like they have the gods on their side. Bad guys (with the possible exception of Iago) generally don't go around thinking "today I'm going to be particularly evil". They think what they are doing is right and will make the world better in some way. That is the challenge with moral relativism, people are very good at rationalizing their violence.
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While this research is an important data point, it does not prove what they claim. Things that look like ancestors of dinosaurs might not actually BE ancestors of dinosaurs - they may have even existed at the same time!

This is not even a hard scenario to create. Perhaps changing sea levels isolated an island where dinosaurs evolved. Then millions of years later the sea levels dropped again, and dinosaurs immediately spread and out-competed their relatives. Unless we were lucky enough to find that island, evolution would look virtually instantaneous.
Violence could take place in a moral vacuum. Killers just do what they feel like, take what they want, kill randomly or whoever gets in their way. Or, the morality of the situation might be of some concern, but the killing would be motivated by something else, like emotions or practical considerations.
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I think you're being too harsh on the revenue side: they make a ton of money. They may not be growing that at the desired rate, or in the right markets, or be appearing to be innovative (or being actually innovative), but Y! has a ton of cash flow.

When Mayer took over, they had no ability to attract or retain any kind of tech talent. Now, they can do so at the same rate as any other ad company. That's a big change.

She didn't hit it out of the park, but she's delivered her shareholders a solid double.
wish you luck with your project guys!
To this day I run a Windows 7 VM in Parallels on my MacBook Air in Coherence mode just so I can write blog posts in Windows Live Writer. I looked for years for a setup that could beat this, and unbelievably, never found it.
>It's trying to sell itself as a better solution to Google's existing problems[1]. That's the keyword (no pun intended).

That's a good point - but if that is the case then any comparison to general purpose programming languages is pointless.
Yeah, capitulating to their demands... I'm sure that won't encourage more tax arbitrage.
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> Is there a reason that delusions of morality don't count as a mental health issue?

Yes. It's a dangerous line to cross. For example, in some communist countries, people who were dissidents were considered to be mentally ill (and put into institutions), because who in their right mind would oppose communism? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest pretty much deals with a similar dilemma.
Personal morality is bad, in my opinion.
>much of Russian land was claimed after winning decisive defensive victories

Citations, please.
That proves that your admission procedure does not consider race separately from the measures (and could be extended to do the same for gender and ethnicity, mutatis mutandis), it does not prove that the measures themselves are race, ethnicity, and gender-blind measures of the concrete merit which they are designed to assess.

If you want to make the case that they are meritocratic, it would be more convincing with a concrete definition of the merit they are intended to measure, evidence that they do measure that merit, and evidence that the manner in which they do is not sensitive to race, ethnicity, and gender.

Assuming that there is an objective, measurable merit being addressed, these are all empirically testable, and the claim can be assessed based on the evidence for it; if there is no such merit being addressed, the claim that they are meritocratic is empty.
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Any idea how peer discovering work?
Can't find any mention of it
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Punctuated equilibrium provides an explanation for why this could have happened fast.

But it also provides an explanation for why this could look like it happened fast when it actually didn't.
When I first read the headline this is what I was hoping for. Auto generated, upbeat, electronic music, that continuously changes, which I can listen to it all day while at work. I need music playing all day, and these days I've been trying to find electronic music that is non-memorable yet upbeat so that it's motivating but not distracting.

Instead I got a 5 minute long song. For my needs, I'll stick with soundcloud "Dj sets" which seem to go on for a few hours each.
In the tax avoidance game, any amount of taxes is too high. Your advice will take the rates right down to zero.
This is how startups do business in China
What's harsh is burning through 3 million dollars while you're trying to figure out what's wrong. If my statments leads to a major change that saves the company that is a good thing.
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Let's say you grow up in a poor community where murders happen often but are not often solved. You don't trust the police to serve justice to those who have wronged you. You notice that many of your neighbors solve their problems themselves - by fighting, threatening, killing. People often heckle you because you try to not fight back when people pick on you - there's a culture of toughness and honor all around you.

Now someone wrongs you - let's say they hurt your significant other. Are you mentally ill for wanting to serve what you think is justice?
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I'm also not sure what sort of violence the author would classify as not motivated by morality. From the article:

> ISIL members believe they are morally justified and obligated to commit acts of terror, while US soldiers accept some loss of civilian lives to achieve the deaths of those terrorists. In all of these scenarios, the violent act is perceived by the perpetrator as virtuous.

In the case of ISIS, the author is correct. They really do believe their actions are an unqualified good. But I seriously doubt that drone pilots in US military feel the same way. They may know where a terrorist leader is, but not be able to isolate him from innocents. In other words, if they had more accurate weaponry and better information, they would harm fewer innocent people. Sadly, current bombs and armies are crude tools. In contrast, lack of ability is the only thing stopping ISIS from killing more innocent people.

I think the author is confused because the term "morality" covers everything from self-defense to religious fanaticism. There's practically nothing it can't explain.
The article suggests that we're looking at a faster TCP/IP stack, with the increased performance based in part on custom hardware. The only real link to the cloud is that cloud hosts are seen as its target market.
Opposing hypotheses: that violence is a choice driven by self interest; that violence happens when someone is angry enough they don't think things through; that violence is an expression of some primal instinct.

I think all of these are somewhat defensible: the bank robber motivated by self interest; assaults driven by personal arguments; drunken street-fights. But I think the article is very interesting and possibly has a very valid point, especially regarding potentially different approaches.

One thing I would like to see teased out, though, is just how much the 'moral motivation' involved in various violent acts boils down to an assailant retaliating for some non-violent but supposed outrage of their personal dignity. I think a lot of fights could be described that way but that doesn't make it a valid moral motivation.
That's a great idea - can I ask what you'd want to use the resulting MIDI for?
I don't think "abandoned products" is something you want to bring up in favor of Google.
InfluxDB is designed to either store data for some given period of time (a retention policy) or forever, whichever you need.

The ephemeral nature of time series is more about the fact that metadata and the raw data are constantly changing. For example if you use a round robin database (like Graphite or RRD) you have to pre-allocate the file based on how much of the series data you're going to have (e.g. 10s samples for 3 months).

Having series that are ephemeral and may exist for an hour or a day make this much harder to deal with. Our storage engine, the Time Structured Merge Tree, is designed with this ephemeral nature in mind. So it's able to store this data efficiently.

The 0.9.6 release that came out today has that storage engine in it for testing. We'll release it for production use at the end of January after more testing.
the City of London Corporation, the local-government authority for the 1.2-square-mile slab of prime real estate in central London that is the City of London. The corporation is an ancient, semi-alien entity lodged inside the British nation state [snip] the corporation is an offshore island inside Britain, a tax haven in its own right.

http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporati...
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_%28programmer%29

It's fairly common in hacker culture to use pseudonyms.