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I think its fairly interesting that historically the Catholic Church was intertwined with the political system of various European countries.

Yet someone when this comes up, those countries are absolved of all guilt despite the fact it was their armies that were doing the deed, and their citizens who would largely receive the benefits.

Is this because the countries have changed their names? Or perhaps because the system of government has changed from monarchy to something else, thus people think having a new dynasty or new governmental type has broken ties with the old regime?
Pelton was just your garden variety spy. He wasn't acting out of any concern for the general welfare.
For all practical purposes 100Pa is space like vacuum. The forces on the vacuum chamber are still immense, the consequences of failure still catastrophic, and breathing still impossible. The only difference is that the turbomolecular pump based engine is not theoretically impossible.
The Maori in New Zealand fought the English to a standstill, and forced them into a treaty which still stands today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi
Mozilla Hacks [0] is pretty much the only feed that makes sense recommending here. There's a lot of very detailed explanations for technical problems and their solution in there, which I find pretty interesting.

Otherwise, though, less so a specific feed and more a general idea what to put in there: YouTube channels.
There's a few channels which I follow, but I don't particularly fancy visiting youtube.com for it, and neither do I particularly fancy having a Google-account.

But YouTube offers RSS feeds for pretty much every channel, which solves both problems. Also has the added advantage of all the features that your RSS reader offers, particularly being able to filter out any video series that you don't care about has been incredibly useful to me.

If you want to migrate your subscriptions to RSS, there's also a button in YouTube to export all of them to an OPML-file, which you can then import into your RSS reader (if it supports import). Assuming Google hasn't changed the design of YouTube since last time visited, this button should be at the bottom of the "Manage Subscriptions"-page.

As for RSS reader recommendation, on desktop I use QuiteRSS [1], mainly because it's the most feature-rich RSS reader that I've found so far.

On Android, SpaRSS [2] is my preferred reader, with my main-criteria being that it supports at least filtering and OPML-import, is preferably FOSS, and plays nicely with my YouTube-usage (I use it together with NewPipe [3]).

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/

[1]: https://quiterss.org/

[2]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.etuldan.spar...

[3]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...
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I also use BazQux and bought their lifetime subscription. Their site is written in Ur/Web[0] though, not Haskell.

0: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
> The part of history that he emphasized to me, was that in spite of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killing tens of millions of people, communism was still much better than what came before. There was constant famine before communism.

Most countries in the world did significantly better post-WW2 than before. No thanks to their leaders, but thanks to technological progress.
Wow. So, those who disagree with you would be totally on your side if they just weren't so darned ignorant. The rubes. They just haven't been exposed to the right facts!

... It seems to me, perhaps we have found one liberal who needs to be more open-minded and charitable with his intellectual opponents. Perhaps they have some right ideas and thoughts as well.
> I thought that what Historical Materialism held about the necessity of capitalism as a precursor to communism was that in concentrating property and the means of production in the hands of the bourgeoisie, it oppressed the proletariat, giving them an incentive to revolt if they ever developed class consciousness, and caused conflict between different bourgeois groups (e.g. governments), causing capitalism to be completely unstable and necessarily bringing about its demise.

That's the most important part of capitalism's role in the dialectical framework, but the theory of productive forces is also very important.

Communists were not oblivious to the fact that capitalism is by far the most powerful engine of wealth creation and technological innovation in history. They recognized that fairly early on, which is why Marx believed that it was important to have a transitional stage between pure capitalism and pure communism, which he outlined in Gotha. I believe he discussed industrial automation as a way to free the majority of people from work. When Lenin needed to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI, he turned to capitalism as the right tool for the job, and openly referred to it as capitalism.

I think Deng's approach was fairly well in line with Marxist orthodoxy in terms of the necessity of the development of productive forces, but he was more permissive of private ownership of capital and property than Marx would have been. Marx advocated a society with socialized ownership and management of the economy during this period, but Deng embraced a market economy instead. Both Marx and Deng believed that during this period, people would be rewarded proportionally to their contribution, not their need.

Deng's famous cat quote was an attempt to reconcile his use of the market with Marx's theory, by asserting that it didn't really matter by which method one developed the productive forces, as long as the method was effective. After all, it's only a transitional stage, and it's over when the productive forces can generate the wealth and goods necessary to support communism, so if a market economy gets you there fastest, why not use it? It's difficult to know how long Marx thought that would take, but I suspect he had a faster time scale in mind than Deng had.
A grandmaster chess player has mastered chess, but he can't play perfectly because he's still a human.
This could be the 2016 version of f.lux
Looks a lot like this quiz scores based on openness to experience thinking in terms of OCEAN. Those who have a greater openness to experience tend to be more liberal.

You could compare popularity of policies amongst types of voters and look to see what of the other personality traits influence those decisions.

Fiscal conservatism, for example, doesn't sound like a case of openness but rather conscientiousness. Spending within your means, keeping a budget and generally being organised financially is a conscientious activity.

Issues surrounding immigration could be down to both openness and neuroticism. The fear of culture erosion, terror attacks and such would align with lower openness and perhaps higher neuroticism in some cases.

As a side note I've been turning over the role of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol and adrenaline in voting decisions. The common tactic of fear mongering threatens security - how does that influence the activity of the aforementioned neurotransmitters? Is there a method of campaigning that will counter act it? Its very interesting looking at elections through this lense.
Seems ignorant not to have a unique Charles certificate
I tried and it doesn't work on my MBA on El Capitan 11.6.

There's kind of the same thing on my TV, and it sucks balls.

The changes in brightness is extremely unnerving, especially for action scenes where the light intensity varies a lot. So it was the first thing I disabled.

So IMHO this won't work that well.
Clickbait title. How do we modify that?
I'm kind of disappointed by Uncle Bob. I really liked his books, but designating Java as the end state if all progress would really take all the joy out of the job I love.

Apart from that, logarithm functions do not converge ftw.
The dead don't have living rooms or portraits to hang there. Nor do they have children, or grand children.

This is the same logic that is often heard in day to day life after corporate reorganisations "everyone now agrees that the redundancies were unfortunate but necessary."
I think you are being too dismissive. I agree that it doesn't work too well for videos. But if I am jumping between a dark terminal or IntelliJ screen and a web browser with white background, this would be perfect. Look at the gif posted in the submission.
Sounds like Charles can work with ATS, just not pinned certs.[1]

[1] https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/ssl-proxying...
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Maybe I just need to learn Prolog/Aleph
I believe you are correct. The advantage, on the other hand, is that you don't have to first acquire a PhD in mathematics and then learn Coq/Agda. Seriously though, simpler interfaces can add a lot of value, but only if the increase in ease of use makes up for the decrease in expressiveness.
Au contraire, I find it interesting how there's a total lack of enthusiasm among the general populace to put bankers in jail. Many potential explanations: maybe a certain degree of unethical behavior has become the norm for bankers, and so we feel we can't punish people when really they're the norm? Maybe we feel like the system has to change and that punishing individual actors doesn't make sense? Maybe we don't understand the economic crisis and thus find it hard to identify culprits?
does FreeBSD not have ASLR? I thought that was, like, standard among all modern popular OS's: Windows, OS X, Linux... right?
It seemed to work at first, but now it's no longer working. I restarted the app, but still doesn't seem to work as described. I like how f.lux turns the screen close to amber color late at night, but it makes it a little difficult to read code, and raising the brightness helped, but Lumen sounded like a nice tool because I may not have to worry about manually increasing the brightness during nighttime. Oh and when it was actually working in the beginning, I tested out my two external monitors connected to my macbook, but it didn't seem to work on them. Anyway, I think the idea behind Lumen is very neat.
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Ehh, I would rather breath natural gas. https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=18
I hope they play nicely together.

I also hope there will be a Linux version, that plays nicely with Redshift, because that's my set-up.
> I would be surprised if the usage of the terms doesn't pre-date your citation of Euler by at least several decades

The citation is pretty suggestive, in that the text goes "functions, which I call even, which have this property...". That doesn't mean the terminology is original to Euler, but it does mean it can't have been established at the time he wrote.

> if you asked a sample of mathematicians today why functions are called odd or even, I'd bet that many of them would point to power-series representations

Eh. The terms apply just as much to nondifferentiable functions. I would have just said that it comes from the properties of polynomials with terms of all even or all odd degree. I've never thought of infinite polynomials as having any special place in the categorization of functions as even or odd; the concept is generally introduced with finite ones like f(x) = x^2 . Years later, when you learn about Taylor series, it gets pointed out that sine and cosine form polynomials with terms of only odd or only even degree, and -- look at that -- they conform to the definition of odd and even functions. (I'm not making a claim about the origin of the concept, but I am making a claim about how it's viewed today.)
No, only those breaking that law are animals.
I wonder if they could use sea water?
http://feedly.com/smcleod/blogs

That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.

I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.

----

Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds:

tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.

I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).

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I use a combo of two tools:

Feedly - https://feedly.com

RSS feed subscription management.

Features:

- Keyword alerts

- Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url

- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)

- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content

- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration

- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)

- Backup feeds to Dropbox

- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.

- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!

- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)

- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)

2. Reeder - http://reederapp.com

A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client.

- The client apps aren't cheap but damn they're good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps

- Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other

- I save articles using Reeder's clip to Evernote functionality... a lot

- Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course)

- Good customisable 'share with' options

- Looks pleasant to me

- Easy manual import an export just like Feedly

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- Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)
Btw, calm the hostility - I was complaining about the context-free blog post. The project seems interesting.
Dynamic brightness on TVs was made by manufacturers in order increase contrast ratios in specs. In practice it is one of the many useless "sales" features, along with excessive sharpening filters, which has to be disabled in order to actually use the TV.

That being said, I think the effect will be less unnerving in an interactive environment where you control the contents of the screen. My phone also automatically adjusts brightness based on the brightness levels outside, and I don't find that annoying.
The "user quality" associated with FBSD may be "higher", though it's a hard parameter to measure. Worth considering if the user quality has something to do with properties of FBSD itself vs. user characteristics.

Since I run a number of systems, each of the 3 OS (FBSD, Linux, Windows) is represented. Two OS attributes define important differences, ease of administration, and ease of user applications (including installation of app software).

Here's my theory:

As I see it the OS sort out in opposite directions based on these attributes. For ease of admin I rank them as: FBSD > Linux > Windows. Ease of use/apps is the reverse order: Windows > Linux > FBSD.

From an admin point of view, FBSD is the most straightforward to configure and maintain. Windows is an admin nightmare. Linux is more complex than FBSD partly because of its heterogeneous origin and more frequent, less predictable changes.

No doubt non-tech savvy users are more comfortable and feel more productive with Windows and don't have to learn much about the OS itself. FBSD can be used as a desktop/laptop OS but that's much more difficult to accomplish. Linux has more options/apps vs. FBSD, but fewer than Windows.

These factors favor FBSD in the role of server and Windows for general users. Linux can be a server or desktop. The reason Linux is more often used in the server role is probably an outcome of FBSD's relative obscurity, not inherent Linux superiority.

When it comes to servers, given a choice, in a Linux-dominated world relatively few will select FBSD. When there's a chance to get familiar with both, the lower admin burden of FBSD makes it an attractive option.

In my view FBSD, especially in the server niche, is simpler and easier to master which encourages admins to learn it in depth, therefore its users tend to more consistently appear to have a higher knowledge level.
PINs are very costly because every time someone forgets one, you need to do an identity verification which usually depends on a human employee of the bank.
Suggesting someone search Twitter for a hashtag is not really good documentation. Maybe a link to a top level project page somewhere would be helpful.

I have been wanting to build a smaller project around an fpga so I am very excited about this, if they plan to sell it.
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Apology for submitting: I submitted the essay to a large part because I think that the perspective of viewing a nominee Trump as a symptom rather than an evil in itself as an interesting and hopefully fruitful way of thinking about the current state of affairs.
That's interesting. Would we still dare to offer deposit insurance without the regulations in place?
Competence required in pair programming may be very different, though. A lot of times, a co-pilot who understands the fundamentals well, but doesn't know particular framework/library would still be a great service, just for asking the right questions.
Don't care, Dislike, Disbelieve, Downvote, Doesn't belong on HN. It just feels like a spectrum. Maybe we could rate each thread on a scale of 1-30, ranking where we think it should be on the page?
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In v3 (not sure about older versions) you can set the default visualization in preferences. I set it to JSON text the moment I discovered it.
You make a good point and don't deserve the downvotes. Some OS projects don't aim for mass desktop adoption, although I'm sure all would like more visibility and users.

The barrier to entry for most UNIX-related tools is quite high for "non technical" users. I don't think that's a controversial thought. And one can hardly deny that some UNIX users like that i.e. if you can't read the MAN pages and figure it out, then perhaps UNIX isn't for you.
No, very true, sadly. I wonder if the C-school hackers on BSD just look down on Java as far too 'Enterprisey' for them? Or has this changed?
> You can't play that game in an apartment in the city without being a total dick to your neighbors.

What? Why? Just put on good soundproofing in your apartment. If you're living in the center, there's a good chance you already have old-school half a meter brick walls anyway.
This feed http://cacm.acm.org/magazine.rss publishes ~25 articles once a month
Makes sense, thanks. I've seen 'OP' (original post/poster) enough times that I thought it was a variant on that and couldn't make sense of it.
Splitting hairs?

A number of atrocities has been made in effort to rid the world of the plague of religion. Call it ateism or what, point is they made a point out of being non-religious and they were extremely cruel and effective.

Now, listen up. I'm not here to attack atheists or non-believers. I only do when they start by proclaiming how religion is the root of all evil.
> * Quality of education for their children.

It's an american thing, without any objective reason. As a teenager, I had to commute for an hour (one way) from a distant neighbourhood to a good high school in the city center.
What you've hinted at here is fascinating to me.

Do you have some references?

In case it's not clear, I'd like to read articles about food allergies that have been common in USA for some time now becoming common in countries that are coming out of 2nd world status and into 1st world.
On android, this only works when the app is using http urlconnection provided by java. If the app uses apache http stack, the request is not routed through the proxy settings. Such traffic will not showup in charles or the great MITM.
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> “Okay, let's see whether my AI can make sense of it...”

"I'll pass your feedback on to the devs" by any other name would sound as sweet.
Working fine on my Mac with f.lux running as well.

I haven't found redshift to play nicely with manual xrandr brightness adjustments. I've to shut down redshift to just lower the brightness below 1 at night, which sucks (because I lose redshift)
it is maybe important if you want to allow people to resell the service with their own branding
Yes, "pkg search <pkg name>" generates list of available matching packages. "pkg search -f <pkg name>" will give salient pkg info in a multi-line format. Use "pkg help search" to pull up the man page for "pkg search" with all the gory option details. "pkg help" shows a list of available pkg commands.

"pkg" has become a very useful, reliable tool.
> well said

> preposition

It's called proposition, so I take that as evidence for a complete lack of familiarity with the topic of logic.

> Except ...

except the point is completely wrong but for the exemplary sentiment, that some interpreters of law don't even pretend to be reasonable.
> Comparing the Dust Bowl to the Great Leap Forward is... questionable. How many people died due to the Dust Bowl? Did the US government of the time respond to it by doubling down on an absurd economic plan in the furtherance of a political ideology?

Doubling down? It was more like an excuse to introduce the absurd economic plan. FDR's New Deal featured the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which ultimately tried to restore prosperity by paying farmers not to farm and burning crops as a price-support tactic. (Won't even go into the non-agricultural price-fixing schemes of the NRA which were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court. No, the other NRA.)

Mild, mild stuff compared to the Great Leap Forward, of course (and of course unrelated to more reasonable programs like Social Security).
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> And as the OP said, Christianity today is still used to persecute and oppress. Catholicism still covers up paedophile priests. There are states in the US where an atheist is barred from holding office. Fake 'faith healers' continuously bilk people out of their money. Some flavours of the faith don't allow women to be priests.

I defend none of it.

Just be so intellectually honest as to admit that Christianity brought a number of good things and Atheists hasn't been without fault and we can meet in the middle.

As I have mentioned before I don't like religious flamewars on HN.
Christianity, like Islam, and Secular Humanism is fundamentally internationalist, holding itself to be the universal ideal of correctness. Christianity and Islam both came out of, effectively the Roman Empire (in fact both the Mosque and Cathedral were built based on the plans of the same classes of Roman buildings). Secular Humanism is effectively a reinterpretation of Calvinism along atheistic lines.

As far as I can see, however, Orthodox Christianity didn't have the same history in this regard as Western Christianity did. Part of this was that the Eastern Empire lasted a lot longer, and part was that the spread occurred to Kiev and Novogorod under very different circumstances than it did to Denmark or the Franks. But in the West, the promise offered was that the Church (Roman) would help kings solidify power in return for conversion. It was from that promise that eventually the kings secured their independence by means of the reformation. And secular humanism is effectively an effort to banish competition to the state from the public square in this regard so it too is a further development of the same mistake.