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The two "arbiter bodies" for English are the BBC and Hollywood. They define what "standard English" is for the world. (Actually, they define two, slightly different, standard Englishes, but they're close enough to keep the language unified, at least so far.)
ESPN has huge issues lately. They've lost over 4 million subscribers and are cutting jobs.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-covera...

If only everyone realized that if you subscribe to cable, you're paying for about $6.61/mo for espn to be on your bundle. This is for everyone, not just the sports fans.

I read somewhere that espn alone if only paid by fans would come out to about $34/mo Which if true really throws a wrench into the sports world. If they keep losing viewers there will be an interesting situation regarding advertisements.

Honestly I can only hope, the only reason I have cable tv is so that comcast can still count me as a viewer with their "your bill will be cheaper if you just get a basic package" bs.
If you want to understand Perl, spend some time on two things: 1) The ecosystem in which it developed and from which it borrows; 2) Larry's understanding of and perspective with respect to natural languages and the way they work.

Sometimes, Perl trades depth of knowledge for length and explicit minutia of code. It can be confusing if you are not familiar with the dialect, but terribly powerful if you are.

And behind the scenes, a lot of effort has been put into making DWIM (Do What I Mean) not only intuitive but often quite good at implementing an optimized solution (e.g. quite performant data representations).

P.S. Thank you, chromatic, for your continuing generosity and... I guess I will call it "belief", in the Perl community I encountered 15 years ago.

P.P.S. I never was a Perl "expert", and I'm woefully out of touch, these days. But the occasional bit I read leads me to believe that the above still pertains. And I'm curious to learn about version 6, which while a long time coming, really wanted to "take it to the next level". If and as it succeeds, it should be very interesting indeed.
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rsync and Rabin chunking are both based on rolling hashes determining where exactly to cryptohash. rsync operates "in place" and benefits from chunks being in consistent order, whereas Rabin chunking uses precomputation to draw from unordered basis chunks (eg cross-file chunking).
A person having bad parents and therefore having bad grades has less merit than a person with good parents and good grades.

So your basic position is that lucky people are better than unlucky people (since nobody gets to select their parents) so that social outcomes are largely a matter of predestination.

Well, at least this saves me the bother of even temporarily taking you seriously in any topic in the future. No doubt this will mean missing out on some correct insights, but I figure that on any important topic I'll hear about it from someone else sooner or later, meanwhile saving myself the effort of seeking good-faith interpretations of what turns out to be self-serving bullshit from your end.
And here I thought that people actually building widgets in factories are wealth creators... As opposed to having your name on the deed to the factory.
Start reading books. Find something you like and with practice you'll find that you can recover your focus.
If that's the case then isn't most of the violence in the world not motivated by morals (ie in a vacuum), but also mostly committed by things like spiders, bacteria, cows (or do you ignore the plight of grass?), etc.
Number of billionaires is a pretty strange metric. Thanks, Forbes.
That's a really good idea, and something we'd love to provide. We've only set the 5-minute maximum in v1.0 - there's no reason we couldn't give people access to more extended music. Hopefully when we do you might be able to use it at work!
But blogs do tend towards presentism, by virtue of how they present their information... and those in the know are well aware of how easy it is to set up a blog, making the medium a little contemptible compared to a well-done "roll-your-own" webpage.
On the other side, if the generated tracks are 100% original, this tool could be of invaluable help for music producers looking for quick inspiration. As an amateur music producer I'd be willing to pay for this if MIDI export is added.

I think the project is great, maybe they haven't found the right niche just yet. Hint: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=midi+loops
perl6 has it's own module manager called `panda`, which looks at the modules listed on modules.perl6.org for it's data source.

The plan is to eventually have a perl6 CPAN, or something. They'll figure it out.
This is a false claim. The Library of Babel is far from complete; the site itself only claims completion up to 3200-character texts. And that's limited only to lower-case alphabetic letters, periods, commas, and spaces. So there is still a vast amount of possible texts that haven't yet been created.
The Motorola Atrix had an optional attachment that turned it into a "webtop" (basically a laptop case that used your phone as the CPU): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G
Because the Mongols were indigenous to Siberia, right? And had never attacked Russia at any point in history, right?

Maybe you should research the establishment of various western countries, to compare? Or how the various empires the fledgling Russian empire fought against were themselves established...

Edit - you keep editing it. Anyhow, as for Crimea, neither the Tatars nor British nor Ottomans were indigenous to Crimea.

Your point is what, that history is messy? Look up the histories of the various foes that Russia fought in your links, most of them weren't indigenous to those regions, and themselves were invaders. Unless you think Islam is indigenous to the Caucasus, and southern Russia/Ukraine, and not a result of various Muslim conquests north...
Well, pure self-interest would probably fall outside of morality, but one could make an argument that many conscriped ISIS fighters, US soldiers, and perhaps US leaders are acting out of self-interest.
Doesn't using the number of billionaires produced seem like a weird measure to use for who is "better"?

Especially, considering only one of the 7 people became a billionaire directly from working at either company?

If anything, this small data set just helps reinforce the idea that incredibly successful people don't just appear, they have a long history of being top performers.
Excellent news. Hopefully with this release we will be able to lift the remaining limitations of the TensorFlow version of Keras (tensor contraction, float<->bool casting, and RNNs over sequences with arbitrary length). https://github.com/fchollet/keras/wiki/Keras,-now-running-on...

Congrats to the TensorFlow team!
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Huge plastic ( or metal ) basket that fills almost the whole teapot. Perfect for European style brewing of green tea, flowering teas, black tea, and all sort of brewing habit ( leave the leaves in, remove them, multiple steeps ... )

Not good for pu erh or asian style brewing in general. But if you are into that, you already know what to use.
> Citations, please.

Read a history book, please.

This is like asking for a citation when stating that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, or that Istanbul was once Constantinople...
Most EU venture capital funds structure holdings through Jersey or Guernsey SPVs as well.
Using the Google Geocoding API to find a new apartment
I use MarsEdit on a Mac and (mostly) like it. I used Live Writer way back when but, at some point, I stopped doing so--don't remember why but I'm pretty sure it was before I switched off Windows.
That Wiki page is so outdated and misleading, I'm tempted to ask for it to be deleted altogether.
UK corporation taxes are pretty low in global terms and the UK is already an offshore tax haven.
Neil Patel wrote a nice article along those lines you'd probably enjoy: https://www.quicksprout.com/2013/10/14/move-over-content-mar...
Which part is supposed to convince me otherwise? The PhD? Non-profit public domain cancer research? There's nothing inherent in either of those personal qualities to suggest such.

I have never heard anyone refer to theft as "redistributing wealth" without corresponding usages of "taxation = theft."
I think it's similar because you're building graphs for a dashboard. Most of those UIs I've seen end up looking very similar.

Our longer term goal with Chronograf is that it'll help with doing ad-hoc data exploration and, more importantly, give developers an easy tool to quickly build visualizations for their applications.
I still use LJBAD as an "enable this for debugging" symbol on the off chance that someone else used DEBUG.
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans
Thanks a lot! :)
Would love to know your feedback on the product!
Well, that sometimes happens. There was a case in the UK recently where some gang was just beating up random people on the street for amusement. There are always a few who who just have zero empathy for anyone and find violence 'amusing'.

But thankfully, that's rare.
> Is there a reason that delusions of morality don't count as a mental health issue?

It's a bit dangerous if you start defining deviations from group norms; which is what delusions of morality would look like from within a group; as mental health issues without some moderating factor. Under those conditions the person who expresses, 'Maybe we shouldn't kill her just because she left the faith,' is mentally ill within an appropriate honour killing culture.

It makes deviation more difficult, and thus retards social progress, if you're prepared to bring the violence of the mental health system into those sorts of issues. Very close to instituting thought crimes.
Freedom of capital, mostly. Also, there are valid reasons to bank outside your native country. The wealthier you are, the less location matters, and the more reasons you might have to bank "offshore" (or at least outside your native country).

An example: a friend who often travels to the UK asked his local bank if he could get a GBP denominated credit card (+ settle it in GBP). Wasn't possible. He opened an account in Jersey (or Guernsey, can't remember), where this wasn't a problem.
"Better suited for the cloud" would probably be better. It looks like it's meant to work with OpenDataPlane. In general, it's another piece in the puzzle of providing heterogenous compute resources without a reliance on a specific kernel or operating system.
There has been some work to integrate Perl6 modules with MetaCPAN. I'm not sure what the current status is, but that's one possible route. This would mean the modules would be uploaded via PAUSE.
Speaking of havens, does Jersey have enough independence to become a data haven?
I had never even heard of them and i've been going to the dentist roughly yearly my whole life so... yeah.
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I'm fine with reading non-tech news. the problem is that hackernews doesn't have a category feature. so you see everything mixed together. but if it had a category/tag feature, it would be another reddit.
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Yes, some people are better than others due to luck. For example, some people were strangled by their umbilical cord and born retarded, others weren't.

This sad fact of life doesn't mean that choosing non-retards as nuclear physicists contradicts meritocracy.
it's in the README examples. you can use discovery-channel, https://github.com/maxogden/discovery-channel to do peer discovery which in turn uses multicast-dns and the bittorrent dht to find peers.
I wonder how much of the percentage comes from dicators motivated by said 'moral sentiments' and the wars they seem to like getting into.

Those are some of the worst examples of ideologues wanting to force their views on others and sacrifice others based on their 'judgement'.
If I understand correctly, companies used to be able to spin off large amounts of shares tax free by bundling them with tiny segments of their business. The IRS used to let companies ask "did we do this right?" but this time instead of saying "yes" or "no" they said "we won't answer questions like this any more and we want to rethink our rules" which is still in progress.

So if the above is roughly accurate it's more like the loophole everybody used is closing and now they're going with a less desirable loophole.
The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel: The Quiet German
This is where the article goes wrong for me:

> The commonality was that the primary motivations were moral. This means that the perpetrators of violence felt like what they are doing was morally right.

The first sentence is about motivation. The second is about justification.

As an example, I think back to when I was a little kid and fought with my younger brother. My motivations for hitting him would be things like feelings of anger, shame, or urge to establish dominance. My justification would be something like "he hit me first" or "he deserved it" or "he can't talk to me like that".

The motivation was primary, and something I didn't choose. (I did choose to indulge it, of course.) The justification was secondary and situational, constructed to avoid accountability (both internal and parental). Sometimes it was true and sometimes it wasn't, but it was always secondary. As an adult, the justification (and critical examination of it) is part of my gatekeeping of what motivations I indulge, but it's not the motivator.

I think this matters because fixing the claimed justification won't always change the behavior. This quote from a Jon Ronson article gets at why:

"I once interviewed a prison psychiatrist, James Gilligan, who told me that every murderer he treated was harbouring a central secret – which was that they felt humiliated. 'I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed,' he said. His conclusion: 'All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.'"
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I'm unable to get the demo [1] to work. I'm using Firefox 42.0 on Mac OS 10.11.12

[1]: http://mafintosh.github.io/hyperdrive/
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"The decision not to sell the Alibaba stake, which was reported on Tuesday, was driven by “the market’s perception of tax risk” associated with the Alibaba plan"

It's unfortunate that the tax code is so complex that ambiguous "tax risk" is a thing.
In the comments, if that is actually him posting under his name, he says "I was in Debt and had JUST started that particular contract ,,an attorney wanted 10.000 up front and I did not have it !! ."
That sounds as if the scientists are wrong but someone else is right.

Although this is a truism (since science by default does not deal with absolute truth) what makes you think that someone other is right, and how you know that? Doesn't that also make you a scientist, since you discovered new knowledge?
For the shadier dentists (and they exist), sealants don't bring in as much money as a root canal.

For everyone else, it doesn't help with cavities between the teeth where a lot of people get cavities. The sealants just sit on the upper side of the tooth.
I'm glad you like it on the scale of seconds! Higher-level structure is definitely a challenge, and is something we're working on.
Our founder, Alexander, just announced this on Business Insider's IGNITION event.

You can add yourself to our beta invite list at https://launch.blendle.com. We're really looking forward to next year!

Let me know if you have any questions.
They do. A friend of mine was doing tech stuff (an encryption related startup) there a few years ago. A lot of people in the government, who tend to be quite approachable, do honestly seem to care about this stuff.

Tech is one of the industries they're trying to get involved in.
My point is that your statement "[Russia expansion] didn't involve massive conquest or colonialism" is demonstrably false. No amount of whataboutism or moving goalposts will be able to change that.
... San Marino ...
Cool. I'm still looking forward to when I can run TensorFlow on a Windows machine and harness my GPU.

Right now I can only run TensorFlow in a Docker container in a VirtualBox Linux virtual machine running in Windows... so I guess there's that!
The article mentions several categories: We analyzed records of all kinds of violence, ranging from war to torture to genocide to homicide. That other stuff seems out of scope.
That's a very interesting target, although It's doubtful it will meet the needs of their vc investors. It is an interesting project, but it is in the wrong target market.
The question then is... why would you build on Android? It's not exactly the zippiest platform around these days. The primary pain point for alternative platforms like Windows Phone or any other "third OS" is the lack of apps. Which is the case for keeping compatibility. If you're going to drop it, why not at least focus on a more performant core to your platform?

Also, currently Android has been ruled as copyright infringement from Oracle over Java APIs. It may be advisable to avoid building your own new OS on those same APIs.
> the same kind of thing that decides how to autofix colors in photos or do a transform in photoshop

Why doesn't then Adobe own result of whatever "autofix colors" produces?
Yes, but it's still ultimately under direct control of UK forces. If GCHQ wanted to tap your cables, they would do so in the same way as in Britain.
> You can disable all its callback features.

The fact I have to write a host file to do that makes it rather irritating but, yes, with a local account and the appropriate host file and all the features turned off it sorta-works.

The concern is Windows Update will turn it back on as it has with other things in the past.
This is absolutely incorrect. The best thing you can do to enhance your tea-drinking experience is to buy good tea, and good tea is invariably brewed off the boil, usually somewhere between 170-200F, depending on the tea.[0] Higher temperatures will extract too much tannin at the expense of aromatics. The British generally drink shit tea and then add milk to it, which is why they can get away with brewing it at 212F.

Remember that the British experience with tea dates back only to the 17th century, whereas the Chinese and Japanese have had much longer to refine the growing, processing, and drinking of tea.

[0]: http://www.itoen.com/preparing-tea
yes i haven't tested the demo in firefox yet. there is an open issue for that on the hyperdrive repo. it should work in chrome though and there is no reason it shouldn't work in firefox once i find the bug.
That's a really interesting idea. Generating streams is something we're thinking seriously about, so it's good to hear it might be useful.
> violence is often the moral outgrowth of those who have grown so assured of their righteousness

I like that.

This idea is also present in Buddhism, though they take it a step further and say that all suffering (everything from external violence to internal dissatisfaction with life) is caused by some form of judgment. They say the same thing that you mentioned above: violence is caused by the judgment, "I am right, you are wrong".
It's polite to check first.

Use the Search at the bottom of the page, then sort by date (descending) - it's easy to see what other articles use that keyword.

There's a dupe-recognition attempt at post time, but it doesn't yet catch cases like sites that append crap to URLs to make them artificially unique.
The non-profit is presumably tax-exempt, which doesn't help your point.
Using 'macros' is no substitute for having taste.

The Clojure developer had a certain vision for a new language - otherwise he could have just continued to use Lisp (which he earlier used for a few years). It might be useful to respect that and develop Clojure along this vision.

Something like Common Lisp follows a different vision. Common Lisp was a large community effort and the language EXPLICITLY had been designed to be morphed by the user into widely different shapes. That's why it reserves characters to the user, why it has a programmable reader, why it has procedural macros, ..., and why CLOS has a Meta Object Protocol. Probably that was also too much flexibility.

But even with Common Lisp, because it gives you little guidance how to use it and there are a gazillion programming styles possible, you need to develop taste. You can design ugly code and extensions and you can learn to develop better code and extensions. Common Lisp supports LOOP, because it was already there (it was introduced with Interlisp in the 70s, then brought to Maclisp and Lisp Machine Lisp) and there wasn't a better alternative at that time.

The 'best' iteration construct in the Lisp world is Jonathan Amsterdam's Iterate. But that would also not fit well into Clojure... But Iterate fits well into Common Lisp and works nicely as an alternative to LOOP.
Thanks a lot. That's something we hope to be able to offer soon!
What does Java _driver_ mean -> is this a JDBC driver or just some non standard API to access this database system?
It's a race to the bottom. There are plenty of jurisdictions (i.e. BVI) with 0% companies. Most of these are used as SPVs to own property, shares, etc somewhere.

If you can pay 1% or 0%, and it doesn't really matter where the company is based, which one do you pick?
Video production has been democratized a far bit but I don't really disagree with your basic point. The richer the media is, the more aspects require expertise/talent, the more expensive the gear, and the more hours everything takes. I sometimes do video, but I usually sit down until the urge goes away and stick with audio or just writing.

Of course, pros find increments of gear that they absolutely cannot live without in whatever field they're working in :-)
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The author of the work created the scenario which resulted in the work. There was intent, effort, and creativity involved in this.
Really glad you like it, and thanks for sharing your track!
It gave them the leverage to create the store. Remember "rip, mix, burn"?

Most people were skipping the rip part or digitizing old stuff. iTunes gave the music people their dream: go buy everything again.
Doesn't that classify as self-defense?
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Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that wasn't possible.
I doubt it. Read _Albion's Seed_, or _Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement_. The South originates with Virginia, with Jamestown in particular, and thus with the west country of England; it always was a very quasi-medieval, quasi-feudal, aristocratic society. Southerners embraced Scott because they saw their values in him; they didn't change their values because they liked his books.

(One surprising but evidently true thesis of _Albion's Seed_ and _Bound Away_: slavery came first, economic uses for slavery came later. In the Southern aristocrat's estimation, you couldn't be a gentleman without having peasants to tug their forelocks to you -- and free indentured servants proved impossible to keep on the plantation.)
That's an extremely broad title.

If an individual soldier is motivated by their moral sentiment that they are fighting for democracy in Afghanistan and so that Afghan girls can get an education that is meaningless, the motivation of the leaders who took that decision is the primary cause of the violence.

My belief is that Western nations fight wars for economic reasons, but uses a moral argument to assuage the population and provide exculpation to the troops.

We simply do not put boots on the ground or bombs in the air for moral reasons, no matter how it's cloaked.
He isn't using the term to refer to bank robbery, his hypothetical bank robber is. Just like right now you did not refer to taxation as "theft", even though that phrase is in your comment.