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The problem with drawing ethical lines is, nobody is ever going to be able to really agree where that line should lie. Exactly how nice does a media company's offerings have to be? Exactly which circumstances justify piracy?

The right way to think about this is that each person has their own ethical line that they will or won't cross in certain circumstances, and companies can and should encourage, through market offerings, them to stay on the commerce-friendly side of their line.

If prices are too high, offer a lower-end product. If people are complaining about nags, offer a higher-end one. And so on until you've got so few people on the destructive side that the people on the commerce-friendly side do the work of bringing them in line.

Of course, this means making your business responsive to the market and not just profits, and that's exceedingly difficult for the media conglomerates. Piracy is the big stick we all have to force them to play ball with us.

Ultimately, there's no right or wrong, just competing interests. It's bringing them all in line with each other that's the goal, not hammering out some grand idea of justice that's going to change every time the market changes.
My Adsense was cancelled today, thought it was odd but I can't really imagine trying to build my life around serving ads again... I think we never even used it so maybe it's related to inactivity?
I didn't realize Juno would have such a large capture orbit. 54 days and change to complete one pass. Makes sense though. They way they are skirting the Ionian radiation torus is pretty slick.
I assume you're being sarcastic, but while I like Switzerland it is a peculiar place. It's not at all uncommon that visitors experience culture shock, thinking people are unfriendly and not realizing how expensive things are. I wouldn't schedule a longer family vacation without doing some research, especially if you have family members that aren't flexible.
> Changes with definite, visible negative consequences

What are you referring to? Nothing is presently known about the outcome of the negotiations with the EU.

> Younger people have grown up less isolated in a much more connected world, where other ways of thinking have not been so scary and alien.

Apparently "not being in the EU" is scary and alien, even though young people from Iceland, Norway and Switzerland also feel very much connected these days.
Which large company (outside the advertising industry, including Google) relies solely on Internet advertising for their income?
Media companies are tied up in contracts designed for the TV/Movie age - spelling out distribution rights geographically and by channel (media). It may take a generation to get free of all that.
Of all the DRMS out there, steam has done the best job at preventing piracy. Why? Not because it's secure, steam drm is pretty easy to get around. But because it's just so gosh darned convenient to use, and has so many extra features. Steam controller, steam community, steam workshop, and steam itself is a very good library organizer.

The best way to combat piracy is to offer a better service, which I have yet to see. It's always a tremendous pain in the ass, and gives subpar results compared to piracy. Take, for instance, rick and morty. To watch it, I have to sign into an account, link that account to my ISP/provider, and then I get to watch my videos online. Except it barely works. It took forever to get my ISP to authorize it, and the first time they messed it up. After that, online had subpar quality, and would for whatever reason, cut out randomly/not let me login. Compare this to a pirate site/torrent, where it's just one-click, watch in full resolution.
It's in vogue to pin all issues about India on Nehruvian socialism based on hindsight.
Similar in Germany. Its gotten better, but most streaming services only offered the German dubbed version or hardcoded subtitles.

Is it any wonder that streaming sites are all the rage?
Well, the point is that Brexit does not guarentee that either of those things will be fixed.

"Scared shitless" might be hyperbole. But it's certainly very fair to say that Brexit was sold on false premises. A lot of the arguments from the Brexit campaign were straight out massive lies.
Why do you think they are so poorly supported? I know relatively few users have multi-GPU systems...it may be as simple as that, but I would have expected DX, OpenGL, and the new one from Valve (blanking right now, Vulcan?) would have improved usage and stability with minimal per-game development.
Code is perfectly suited to design. What is design if nothing other than patterns. What's code? Patterns.
Probably M.JS for clarity ;) /s
The accordion example cheats a bit. The height of the items is fixed to 300px.

I don't know if it'd be possible with flexbox nowadays.

The usual max-height trick is not ideal, as the animation then doesn't have the right duration.
Im not sure what you mean by people with long term interest are swept aside by emotional appeal. If you implying that the person who markets themself better is more powerful, then yes that is true. Solid marketing in a career ment to sell a person to the masses will usually win.

As for long term interest, that truly is up for debate. Some people envision a post scarcity world and want to live it out today. Some believe all groups can live harmoniously togethor. Some people think about progress at any cost. Others relate good behaviour and bad behaviour to demographics. All of these have extremes, upsides and downsides. All have the future and present in mind. Which one is right? Nobody has come up with a discrete plan or vision. We are all so early in evolution, monkeys with really really fancy toys
Creative Commons works that way. So its possible.
That didn't seem to be the sentiment of the speaker though, which is why I mention it.
Indeed. The one actual production use I have made of Scheme was in the Gimp--I couldn't get Python-fu to work.
Amazon dips toes into sharing economy, pays Ars to deliver your dog food
I can see how that works for code that has zero compile-time dependencies on other copyleft software. I.e. a very limited usecase. Or am I getting something wrong?
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -- Winston Churchill
You can always dual-license the software. The GPL version of your software can always be a basic version, customers could pay for features they want to have.
If anyone is interested in a similar writeup for node.js check out my tutorial here: http://allenkim67.github.io/bittorrent/2016/05/04/how-to-mak...
You should compare annual costs of GitHub and GitLab CE or EE and start planning it.
A check of the wayback machine indicates this was first posted back in October 2010. Mods might want to tag it as such since some of the information is dated.
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I like the DST change for all the reasons in this article: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/

> If we stayed on Standard Time throughout the year, sunrise here in the Chicago area would be between 4:15 and 4:30 am from the middle of May through the middle of July. And if you check the times for civil twilight, which is when it’s bright enough to see without artificial light, you’ll find that that starts half an hour earlier. This is insane and a complete waste of sunlight.

> If, by the way, you think the solution is to stay on DST throughout the year, I can only tell you that we tried that back in the 70s and it didn’t turn out well. Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter.
Well there's also the scenario of someone not running an ad-blocker and unsuspectingly getting served ransom ware which results in you know actual pirate like behavior of arrrrsking for bitcoin ransom to decrypt you data.

I urge everyone to turn on ad-blockers and stop this security madness stop. Additionally I urge people to write to their congressman/woman (or whatever means you have) and demand that the add-serving people should be held liable for security issues they cause, hefty fines prefered (similar to the tobacco industry being held liable for cancer they cause)
Curious what this will give me over a relational database.
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> does it become ethically OK to pirate?

This is a problem that everyone should answer for themself.
No, from wikipedia the Maghreb is "usually defined as much or most of the region of western North Africa or Northwest Africa, west of Egypt."
Why an office, after 10 years at home?
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Is it possible to earn on stock photography?
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i.e. it's condemned to be a hobby for almost everyone involved, besides some key players who can live off of donations or those who sell services based on mostly other people's software.
You would love this Youtube channel in that case :)

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
I don't see how that's really relevant. The point of the dead salmon paper was "do your damn FWE corrections". The point of paper, is rather "popular tools make unsound assumptions" (or, inversely, "researchers are violating the assumptions made by their tools").

The problem in the salmon paper is easy to fix. The problem in this paper is trickier.
> "Younger people have grown up less isolated in a much more connected world"

The young are just as 'connected' post-Brexit as they were before. Just because, heavens above, they have to sign a few forms to get a visa to work in a different country doesn't mean they are incapable of doing so.

I'm 32. I voted to Leave. It's nothing to do with being part of Europe. I still see myself as European. The issue on the table is whether to be part of the EU. EU != Europe.
We got our first app store review today and here's what the user had to say, "I have tried marvel, Flinto, atomic etc. Marvel was almost perfect but Demonstrate allows scrolling news feeds, sticky navigation bars, sticky tab bars and menu transitions.. The UX can be up a bit but I have been waiting like this come around! awesome job."

This is our round 2 with Demonstrate. We had initially released the app in 2013 and even then it was well received but we went back to the drawing board to redo the app from the ground up.

Do give it a shot and let us know what you think.
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Shouldn't pure CSS animations have better performance?
Some of the names involved with LEDE are high-profile OpenWrt developers. This might be a significant forking event in the OpenWrt community.
Selling services 'based on mostly other people's software' is not some crime or bad thing. Servicing cars or houses made by other people is an honorable profession. So are software services. If the thing needs servicing, then I salute those who stand ready to do the dirty work.
I subscribe 100% to the 'free-will as an emotion' description you gave else thread, but to play the devil advocate, a non deterministic acausal process could be the gateway for for a metaphysical soul to affect the physical mind. How this can be done without violating the expected probability density function of the non deterministic process I leave it for others to explain.
Different kind of patterns. Design is about visual abstractions; code is more about textual and conceptual abstractions. The design space of a visual medium tends to be much easier to explore... visually.

(Also consider that a typical way of developing a website or application UI involves everything from drawing on paper through painting in Photoshop through building mockups in a graphics-oriented design package.)
>fMRI hasn't been taken seriously

I don't know where you got that (very strange) impression.

The dead fish paper showed that multiple comparisons yield false positives, which is a problem that is much broader than fMRI methodology. With proper method, fMRI is a very reliable and insightful tool. It's just very difficult to do properly.
The hosting isn't too bad, but I'm paying for a somewhat powerful server as I am a bit of a perfectionist and only want to run the software at maximum capacity, so to speak. It's not much, but over the years, it adds up.
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It still baffles me -- yes, but you don't have a vote in this. Check http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understa... this:

> But if your boss is a 70 year old billionaire who also owns a movie studio and listens to the MPAA, you don't get a vote. Speaking out against DRM was, as more than one editor told me over the past decade, potentially a career-limiting move.
Egypt cancelled DST just 3 days before the switch
Thanks. Verisign is kind enough to let you sign up (for free, iirc) to get their list of taken .com domain names.
UK Poll results:
1. British people should be free to live and work anywhere in the EU: [Agree: 52%, Disagree: 26%]
2. All citizens of EU should have the right to live and work in the UK: [Agree: 36%, Disagree: 46%]

I don't think anyone wants to restrict freedom of movement. It's just about abuse of gullible nature of "us vs. them", creating a virtual enemy which you can easily blame for all your problems. The referendum did not represent will of people, it represented the mood - the negative mood towards their own government and way of life, which does not have anything to do with any migrants. I.e.: IBM creates AI replacing 30K internal employees with efficient process automation? Blame H1Bs! Farmers no longer relevant due to highly automated heavy machinery? Blame Mexicans!
When did building borders helped the situation? Even air-tight border separating Northern and Southern Ireland couldn't stop the real IRA terrorists...
> The problem is CSS has a global scope - you change one thing and breaks the whole site's layout.

I know what you mean (I tried fighting the default Plone theme before the littering of various instances of !important got refactored out) - but it's also deeply ironic. It's Cascading Style Sheets - if you don't use the namespacing - you will have a bad day. Remember how bad javascript snippets based off of tweaked code that some old version of Dreaweaver had injected to a project some generations prior to the one you were working on was?

Just as people "programmed" javascript without learning the language, so people did with CSS. And not just "hammer it with !important until it stops resisting" either.

Simple example: today, if you want poor man's stand-alone component ; stick the html in a div (or other element) with a class of Mygreatcomponent, and style from there with direct parent/child-stuff. Sure, you need to do manual namespacing, but even if your project is huge, you can grep for class='whyisitallpinkComponent'.
And Jrnl which is one I use on a daily basis. http://jrnl.sh
Stock exchanges, airports, calendar-syncing apps, ... they are all going to have a fun couple of days.

On Linux, it's usually just a matter of updating the "tzdata" package, assuming the sysadmin(s) responsible aren't on holiday and are keeping an eye on these sorts of announcements.

For client-side apps with built-in timezone settings, updates are going to be trickier.
Thank you! Now that's the reaction I was hoping to get, hehe. Glad it helps and hope you find the perfect names for your projects!
Have you ever used the customer support?
Thanks Paul,
I know what Ctrl + and Ctrl - do. I just don't see why I should have to bother doing that. I go to another screen and my text is enormous.
Also I find it is just so unfriendly looking when you log on the first time. Its like some horrible engineering manual from the 90's.
Yes, but we're at the start again: Only when you don't depend on other GPL software at compile time (and even runtime bindings can be tricky AFAIK). So it only works if all people do is write a bunch of siloes and don't work as a community at all.

So, looking at Linux system software as an example, it only works as long as you stay far away from the kernel.
If you have to enter a country through a checkpoint as a foreigner, then you are not a member of that country. We can feel any way we want. In the utilitarian sense, Britain will not be a 'part of' Europe by law.

Its not just a 'few forms' if the other country decides to change the rules. It can become difficult, expensive or impossible depending on the political climate. Make no mistake, this is a huge shift.
Thank you. Actually, in testing, the Namebird has been able to generate multiple names that are actual medication names. So there is something there, maybe I could modify it and make a version for use by pharmaceutical companies.
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Is there an example of multiclass text classification with mlpack? I couldn't find any.
Knowing calculus and linear algebra has been of about as much use to me as my knowledge of history; none bar intellectual satisfaction. I feel the same way about people who force their interests and prejudices on others even when I share those prejudices. Those people are st best obnoxious. I derived neither enjoyment nor any discernible benefit from having to do P.E. in school. I am not in favour of forcing Math or anything else on anybody for whom it holds no interest. If you can't persuade them to learn it it probably isn't something they're ever going to be interested in.

As to your distaste I feel the same way about many, many things but I'm not the one supporting making everybody "learn" things they have neither interest in nor a facility for.
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Thanks, the kind words mean a lot. To be honest, I am not sure why the website has done so poorly in terms of search, but that is a good idea to reach out and try/get it on some top lists of web 2.0 name generators.
The significance of the dead salmon paper is waaaay overblown.

That paper was a warning to researchers that family-wise error corrections are, indeed, important. A small (but non-negligible) portion of researchers were not doing these corrections simply because "the results looked nicer".

The dead fish guys wanted to demonstrate the extent to which this could produce false positives. The (rightly) make no comment on the soundness of fMRI as a tool for cognitive science.
Also devtodo [0] (written in Go) and todo [1] written in Python.

[0] https://github.com/alecthomas/devtodo2

[1] https://github.com/foobuzz/todo
Funnily enough, I find it insanely large.
Which will be compounded by the misguided belief that "electric cars don't need maintenance" and the growing charging network making EV ownership more attractive to people living in the Northeast, Midwest and other places where they dump corrosive chemicals on the road every week or so for a good chunk of the year.
subtitles usage has been a bit problematic for me too. i'm hearing impaired and my mothers tongue is german; i can read english almost as well as german, but spoken language is and always will be a problem (i get parts of it but not everything, even in german). my friends all prefer OV, so when i watch movies with them, i usually want english audio and english subtitles, because the dialogue and subtitles indeed differ A LOT between different languages (e.g. they use different numbers, the audio track says it's 2.2 miles away, while the subtitles say it's 1.8 kilometers away, which is incredibly distracting and immersion-breaking). if i remember correctly, german audio tracks and german subtitles of english movies also differ regularly (my guess is that they're translated independently).

the problem with netflix in a german speaking country: they indeed offered original language audio tracks, but subtitles were often german only, which made the experience unbearable (my guess is that, as always, international licensing is to blame). either we turned off the subtitles, which hurt the experience for me, or watched the movie in german with german subtitles, which hurt the experience for them (and for me).

afaik netflix improved this a lot in recent times - there are a lot more english subtitles available. other than that piracy is the only option for an enjoyable movie experience with guests.
I'm surprised that Chinese sellers aren't paying attention to language disparities and hiring translation services. Are they simply trying to streamline price so aggressively that it's just not worth it?
> [...] they added stuff like split screen which is a HUGE improvement.

A great step to catch up with desktops from two decades ago. Good job, Google!
Yeah, whitespace makes a textNode so an element containing any nodes can't be :empty. Also gotta watch out for those whitespace-only extra nodes when counting the children of an element with JavaScript, it often returns more children than you think at first ;)
What's to stop the factory to cut you out and just sell on Amazon?

That's why many folks use freight forwarders who break out, wrap, label, and send the items to Amazon.
You can always pirate the episode to see it in a timely manner in good conditions and then buy the bluray when it is available
Sure, just have the user follow a step-by-step guide on deleting the last x items in their history every time ;-)
I'm not sure how that applies, but it's interesting. Maybe I shouldn't say "guilt" as much as "shame".
Nice. This also reflects my experience that the connectors often are the most expensive electronic parts :)
How about VPN + regular HBO?
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>I get your point that from all experiments we performed so far and bothered to write down and digitize there might be few tricks left to squeeze out, but vast majority of our current progress comes from new experiments.

I don't think so. We already know the laws of physics to a great degree. An AI or even human could design all sorts of amazing things without ever doing a single experiment.

Of course, there's no reason it can't do experiments, also. Once it's free on the internet, it need only contact some random Joe and bribe/threaten/persuade them to do it's bidding.

>No, you couldn't. Do you know how long it takes to build a fab with current infrastructure available? You'd have to bring half or their industry into XX century before you could have a CPU.

Perhaps. This doesn't seem to be true of most technologies though. You could go to 1800 London and show them how to build a modern car or airplane in a year or so. You could introduce everything from antibiotics to radios, centuries before they were actually invented. Ancient romans could have built crude steam engines, and bootstrapped industry in a century, if they had known how.

Building a CPU might require first building multiple other industries to support it, but that can be done. If the AI lays out in painstaking detail, every step necessary to construct every tool, every machine. And yes it would take a lot of labor, but they would be able to do it.

It seems impossible to us, because we can't imagine that kind of complexity. Humans are terrible at managing complex systems. We overlook or forget details, we don't account for possible mistakes, etc. No single human even knows every step necessary to build a pencil, because we specialize so much. An AI could be aware of every detail, of every step in the process, and manage it at terrifying efficiency.
It's a moot point, since a large group of people either consider it ethical or they are not bothered by it being unethical.

Companies then have two choices:

- Trying to enforce the laws that make piracy illegal, which has time and again proven completely ineffective.

- Trying to make legal access painless and more convenient than the alternative, possibly adding value in itself, which has proven successful (Spotify, Steam, Netflix), at least to an extent.

It is a difficult problem (it has been since decades) but I don't think putting in terms of ethics does much to solve it...