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>> the feud between Noam Chomsky and Daniel Everett

That "feud" is as much a feud as the "controversy" over climate change. Daniel Everett is very obviously a complete and utter crank, who has made absolutely ridiculous claims about Piraha the language and Piraha the people (e.g. that they can't learn basic arithmetic skills, like 1 + 1), to which he claims to be the sole authority.

To give an account of his "feud" with Chomsky, Chomsky claims that recursion (in the sense of embedding sentences into sentences) is the defining characteristic of human language that sets it apart from other animal languages. Everett claims that the Piraha language doesn't display recursion and therefore Chomsky's claim is wrong.

Stop for a moment and consider this. It's like claiming that, only Europeans have pale skin, but if we find one European population with brown skin, then it's not true that only Europeans have pale skin. What Everett is claiming is exactly that wrong.

Everett has only risen to prominence because he's a big old troll, and there are lots of people in cognitive science and linguistics who are very frustrated with the inability of both fields to make any progress on natural language, despite everyone's best efforts- and who have somehow singled out Chomsky as the culprit, because he had the audacity to hold on to a theory that hasn't really been comprehensively disputed yet.

Far from a feud, this is just a case of shoot-the-messenger. Shoot him with sour grapes that is.
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> I don't want to dox myself, but you can probably guess which western European country doesn't.

Maybe this is supposed to be an easy question, but as an American, I have no idea which western European country doesn't have socialized medicine, and Wikipedia is not helping me out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...
What are the cruise lines you have liked most?
The paper talks about a very small portion of POSIX. I thought they'd mention things like http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/hse... .

For the record, I'm always sad when I can't do everything I want in POSIX and need to use, say, Apache APR (to support Windows), or the C++ standard library (to support Windows), especially in cases where I don't stray far from what POSIX supports. (I am not sad when I use something that actually adds value over POSIX; e.g., I like using C++ regexes instead of POSIX regexes because I don't have to guess how many matches I might have; and I'm happy to use std::unordered_map -- or the APR equivalent -- because I can have more than one at a time).
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Rethink my business model?
It's true that it indicates quality, but I suspect it also indicates the exceptional wealth of WSJ's readership.
I used to run Linux at my previous $workplace, but I definitely lost more time than my employer would be comfortable knowing disentangling things that regularly broke after updates

Sounds like you were upgrading too often (almost sure, if you were already dealing with systemd). Windows releases a new version only every 3-4 years, there's no reason to update your Linux workstations any faster. At my work, we're still using a mix of Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, both of which are still supported, and we just add a couple of repositories for specific applications (particularly browsers).

I do use Debian Unstable on my personal laptop, but that's because I don't mind fixing it if I have to (which, mind, I haven't had to do in a long time). But for work? LTS all the way.
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Americans take their freedoms for granted. We Americans haven't experienced war on our soil within living memory. In general, America is safe and individuals have enormous freedom. I worry that the younger among us are ushering in more and more technology, and, as you stated, with that technology will come surveillance and an easier means for corporations and government to inspect, analyze, and control our lives. Hand-waving these concerns is naive and demonstrates a lack of knowledge and understanding of history and just how evil people in positions of power can be.
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I believe this was discussed in one of the last threads as being potentially against some dumbass 25 year old law.
Could you please expand upon this story?
For a story like this, the risk is so high that anyone speaking on the record could really be in mortal danger. If Putin is truly behind this, well, we've already seen how he handles detractors in his own country.

This is why you need to trust your news sources. Maybe you don't trust CNN, and think they're "fake news", but if that's the case then you've already lost any hope of objectivity. There are many news stories that are provably false, and CNN is not one of the major news outlets that continuously reports those kinds of things.
First gene drive in mammals could aid vast New Zealand eradication plan
Well, for starters there are every Windows NT system you have ever used, which uses ACLs quite successfully and extensively for a whole host of reasons, and ... me. I put ACLs to good use myself.

Your wording, speaking of repositories and git, bespeaks a too-narrow idea of what ACLs can be used for. Aside from all of the examples that one can glean from Windows NT, from window stations to the trusted installer, there are things like using ACLs to govern access to in-filesystem control/status APIs, or using them to limit the things that a subverted logging daemon could possibly do.
Alright, so when did posix become outdated? Was it outdated 20 years ago because you couldn't write a Symbian app with standard posix interfaces?
One reason certain metals can't be welded is how their crystalline structure is altered by the process, creating a weak or brittle weld/HAZ (heat affected zone: weaker metal surrounding the weld/filler metal altered by heat)

Some metals also have difficult or impossible cooling rates - welding stainless to carbon steel will make a weak weld that is almost guaranteed to crack while cooling because one metal cools and contracts much faster than the other.

The topic is fairly complex, but there is a good textbook/reference for welders put out by the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation called "Metals and How To Weld Them" that goes deep on structure and metallurgy, in a readable way.
The problem is that newspapers believe the myth that they were really efficient at reporting on and delivering news, when really their core competency was their ability to deliver print advertising to every doorstep in a given market on a daily basis. This is similar to the music industry, whose core competency was not developing talent or setting the standards of taste, but rather delivering precisely molded disks of vinyl to far-flung stores every Tuesday.

Oh internet, what myths do you believe about yourself? That you are the harbinger of universal enlightenment and democracy?
I believe Belarus is the only European one without it, Google wasn't giving me a good list of "nos", but I found a map indicating as much..
> Basically, our current situation regarding the modelling of complex hierarchical processes is like being given the key to heaven, but no map to the damned gates.

More accurately, you have been given a key that is claimed to be the key to heaven, but no one has yet found a gate that the given key opens, yet you insist on asserting that it is the key to "the damned gates".
I would love to see televised congressional hearings on the need to regulate the sketchy, under the radar, gray market hotel industry that is Airbnb. There could be a parade of witness who tearfully tell how their lives and homes were destroyed as a result of doing business with Airbnb, or how renting through Airbnb resulted in them becoming crime victims.

Then they could bring Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, into testify, and get him to explain why he is so indifferent to all of the suffering and misery his company has caused.
Here is a working link that contains all the the info parent cites:

http://www.wsjmediakit.com/files/uploads/201410/WSJ.com%20Au...

Also, this is the _actual_ audience not their _target_ audience.
Not everyone is american
React Native -- all tooling is free, it's used by high-profile companies in production, and it has a much larger community
On "full size" systems we solve that with FFI, but I don't know whether that would work here is not.
Yeah, but that's mostly because IPSec supports so damn many authentication methods, cipher settings, etc.

I've had to integrate with several telcos via IPSec (mobile money processing), and it's always fun to try and figure out what they're saying when all they can do is describe the [incredibly generic] settings in the Cisco ASA WebUI.

Then you finally figure out the ipsec.conf settings to make it work, and they come back to you a month later asking for a copy of your file to give to another company who's trying to integrate.

Sure, how much are you going to pay us? Oh, nothing? Well, I remember how much help you gave us when we were banging our head on the wall trying to figure it out. So, hire competent people and figure it out yourself!
Windows is a legitimate cash cow, but because of server installs.
Office makes a lot of money; SQL Server and other datacenter products make much more.
The problem isn't AI. It's capitalism. People are fearing the ultimate triumph of capital over labor.. If people owned the robots, then there would be no problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAwB9-9QOQI
Haha. I have done quite a bit of hallucinogens, but I never bring the subject up myself. My ideas are wild enough, I don't want to give people an easy excuse to dismiss them :)
Call me overly cynical, but the future is looking even worse with ever increasing automation. There will most likely be a small elite of technocrats and wealthy while everybody else is living in shacks competing for whatever jobs are left.

Most single millenial guys that aren't in tech or another high paying career are already living in shared housing indefinetely if they're in a big city.

An excess of people having no purpose in society will result in such conditions unless there is a revolution and a technologically disadvantaged north korea where everybody has stuff to do suddenly doesn't look that bad anymore.
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Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse
it's a logical fallacy to assume that people who downloaded your work would have discovered it and actually paid for it if there was no free option

a lot of artists would PAY to get millions of downloads/views
That's a bit beside the point parent was making: it's true that music piracy is somehow usually not frowned upon, at least based on my anecdotal experience. People don't see it as a thing to explicitly avoid, any more that they would avoid sharing someone's (copyrighted) photo in Facebook.
We're in the business of PostgreSQL support, and some of our customers use RDS for various reasons. Not having to care about the deployment is one of the usual goals of using a managed environment, but considering they subsequently go and buy support from a third party might be a sign of something.

Of course, my view is biased because we only hear about the issues - there might be a 100x more people using RDS without any issues, and we never hear about them.

In general, the pattern we see is that people start using RDS, and they're fairly happy because it allows them to build their product and RDS more or less works. Then they grow a bit over time, and something breaks.

Which brings me to two main RDS issues that we run into - lack of insight, and difficulty when migrating from RDS with minimum downtime. Once in a while we run into an issue where we wish we could connect over SSH and get some data from the OS, attach gdb to the backend, or something like that. Or using auto_explain. Not even mentioning custom C extensions that we use from time to time ...
CIA Revokes Michael Flynn's Security Clearance
A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth
See here for more Apple II stuff: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/site_index.txt
The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...
"Financial planning", in the western sense of the phrase (saving currency, investing in stocks, mutual funds, life insurance, 401(k), and various other pieces of paper that require trust and courts to be worth anything) isn't actually a rational thing to do in emerging Asia (or, to the extent that it is now, that's very recent).

We're talking about a country that was governed by a prolific kleptocrat (Ferdinand Marcos) for 20 years, and where the currency halved in value against the USD over the course of a few years during the asian financial crisis. Beyond that, there's generally a weak rule of law, and poor regulation of the financial sector.

In this environment, a more traditional Asian approach of spending money on housing, land, gifts to relatives to build up some social credit with them for times of need, makes a lot more sense.
There's a pretty easy test. Just start talking about the illusion of the ego. People who've never experience ego death will have no idea what you are talking about. Given that ego death is pretty much only caused by epic trips or a profound mastery of meditation, you should be able to get an idea fairly quickly.
Bonus points for "Wahrscheinlich guckt wieder kein Schwein" - that triggered some fond childhood memories. ;-)
Humans are hard-wired to gamble and accept terrible odds. People know that it's almost impossible to win the lottery and yet so many of them keep buying tickets every week.

I think you severely overestimate the average persons understanding of how gambling works.
Funnily when I got to visit the Google office in London people just left their trash on the floor of the cafeteria for the cleaners..
do you claim to know the exact intent of other people, and are prepared to judge some other people based on sharing your view and adhering to it exactly?
> For example, jump with the intention of levitating, expecting to just hover in the air.

The following quotes neatly sum up how flying in a lucid dream feels to me:

> There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. [...] Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties. [...]

> Do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are unlikely to say anything helpful.

> They are most likely to say something along the lines of "Good God, man, you can't possibly be flying!" It is vitally important not to believe them or they will suddenly be right.
Linux supports POSIX.1e DRAFT ACLs. These are a de-facto standard by implementation, but were never formally standardised by POSIX. They are also supported by other kernels.

However, other systems support the more modern and featureful NFSv4 ACLs. NFSv4 ACLs are supported by the NFSv4 filesytem and also used by ZFS. They are part of the NFSv4 formal specification. On systems supporting ZFS (other than Linux), you get the full NFSv4 ACL support. Linux doesn't have VFS support for NFSv4 ACLs, and doesn't expose them even for NFSv4 mounts. In contrast, a FreeBSD mount of an NFSv4 filesystem served from ZFS exposes the full permissions model to the client. FreeBSD has a separate set of richer acl_* functions rather than the get/setfacl functions on Linux.

Linux:

% getfacl ~/.zshrc
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/rleigh/.zshrc
# owner: rleigh
# group: rleigh
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

FreeBSD:

% getfacl ~/.zshrc
# file: /home/rleigh/.zshrc
# owner: rleigh
# group: rleigh
owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
group@:r-----a-R-c--s:-------:allow
everyone@:r-----a-R-c--s:-------:allow

Linux really needs to get proper support for NFSv4 ACLs.
Yeah as an Arch user I've used it a few times where an pacman -Syu has caused something to break and it's pretty easy to chroot into your system and fix the broken package.
I too remember feeling like I was dying. My consciousness had dissolved and transformed to such an extent that "will I ever be a human living on Earth again? What's stopping me from just being here forever? What's stopping this five minutes as five million years?" Basically every assumption about reality is broken, "real life" takes on a new sense of impermanence. Being alive here at all starts to feel like a fluke, like a hundred-year stop in a trillion-year journey.

I might be full of shit though.
Better than saying it over and over is to imagine the scenario of the lie repeatedly. Memory is malleable, and this actually creates "false" memories.
How it works would be at the bottom of the page labeled whitepaper (https://storj.io/storj.pdf), or you could have clicked on the link labeled Github (https://github.com/Storj/) to look at the code.

Storj is a direct competitor to Amazon S3. We don't have to educate the public, just the developers that need to store data somewhere.
There's Agile Ventures: http://www.agileventures.org/
Then just wait 18 hours for you $0.03 transaction to be confirmed so you can read the article.
It's really easy to plug your ears and scream that an opponent's argument is "ridiculous" (what you are doing). It's more difficult to actually make a counterargument yourself (what you are not doing). Try harder, maybe.
Ok I'm going to give you the country, it's Ireland.

Some medical card for the destitute exists but if you're working you don't qualify.

The whole medical system is a nightmare, but it's a very small country as well.
Don't forget UFO's - Their Sightings Coincide with Popular Sci-Fi Films, TV
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/www.universetoday.com/37713/rep...

That said there is something DMT that its excreted in your brain at death.
Omelas deserves an honorable mention: a dystopia where a small minority are abused and forced to suffer in an otherwise pleasant society. It's already here.
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Holy shit, that's really cool.
We just switched from Github to Gitlab for our private repos. The choice (based upon cost alone) was between them and Bitbucket, and the professional way that this was handled and the transparent communication was really nice to see.
Although I can see the reasoning, this absolutely does not work for me. The times procrastination bothers me is exactly in those cases: when there is something important but not exactly specified at the top of the list. I'll feel guilty about not working on it and then end up in a sort of limbo between the task I could be doing and the 'important' one.

What helps for me is exactly the opposite: deciding this important task does not have a clear path forward and therefore go write down each and every question I have about it and need answered before moving forward or explicitly decide I don't have the proper energy/focus for it at that time and move on to something easier.
Oh wow, I wish I would have watched that 6 years ago. But maybe it only makes sense now because I already learned it all.
The title is plain wrong. It is the sec clear of a Flynn aide that has been revoked.
if copyright infringement is theft, then theft is surely murder?
I wonder whether it would be practical to write an emulator and actually run DOS et al. You'd lose some memory and speed, of course, but we might be powerful enough that it doesn't matter.
it seems to imply that semantics somehow matter when it comes to CSS - where the whole point of CSS is to extract the non-semantic styling into a separate document so that the structure of your HTML can have meaning.
Disney cruise was awesome, on one of the big new ships. I would recommend.
I know about the daily snapshots, but didn't know about the archive logs. Is this something I have to enable? How do I get the logs and how do I restore using them?
You can often loan out movies, music, books and sometimes software from a local library, free of charge. (At least in the UK.) It was also common to loan a friend a CD back when CDs were a thing. Perhaps it is more pervasive now, but I don't think it is fair to say that everybody who consumes media pays for it.
Except, this is showing very much in reliability of Google, which is horrible.

Just look at Google Nest and their massive outage in December 2015, that’s usually enough to kill a company, and if Nest was independent, it’d have hurt them massively.

Their reliability is nice compared to competing websites, but compared to other infrastructure, it’s quite bad. Hell, I’ve seen 2 orders of magnitudes more Google outages than power outages in my entire life (combined 29min power outage vs. several days Google outage since '96)
Hrrm... what if you COULD spin up factories like an EC2 instance.

What would be needed? A line? Programmable robots? Inputs and outputs?

Interesting idea.
Customers feel it too -- eg reader.
I've had similar experiences, but I don't think they're anything other than internally generated by the brain, especially since I've also been able to morph what I've seen into other objects at will.

I've also been able to see objects in more detail on LSD, like I was wearing extra glasses or something, but again I suspect the extra details were just created by my visual system, though it would be interesting if there were more scientific studies of this stuff.
I really like Nanosaur II and it still runs on OS X (at least it did in 2014). I installed it on my 2013 Macbook Air and it caused the fan to come on full blast.
Closer to the former. Both Hong Kong and Singapore were rich trading ports long before subways and meaningful city planning.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong, whatsoever, with having a public IP address on a production database server.

Umm, yes there is. Explain why you would ever need your database server to be publicly reachable. The only situations I can think of are if you're running everything off a single server, which of course is not relevant to this thread, or if you don't have a suitable gateway, which is rare and also not relevant to this thread.
Probably important to highlight that he was 39 when he died...

I always admired his passion, but puzzled at his stubborn lack of safety precautions.
Yes, I did already scan the whitepaper. The point is that there is no real information in the video that they title "How does it work?"

And if they are in fact targeting developers, then the video makes even less sense as devs will be far less impressed than laypeople.
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People still use avr?
Awesome! I've worked with y'all before. Great engineers!
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These videos are a treasure and I watch every new video that 3Blue1Brown puts out. They saved me last year when I had a graduate-level numerical linear algebra class and was struggling to grok the true meaning of all this linear algebra stuff (an embarrassing situation for a computer-graphics guy to be in!). Things that had always been "insert formula X to get result Y" started making a lot more sense.

The videos also make me angry because it frustrates me that such explanations were not available to me earlier in my life. What is it about the state of math education that this kind of explanation is not there in every class?
But they cannot go against the instruction they have. I.e. they cannot force you to defecate into your pants just to be sure you are not holding USB flash drive there. Same applies here. They can ask for password, but they cannot force you to actually enter it. Its illegal.
Its much easier for me to pay $10 a month

WSJ is $32.99 (+tax) a month, for digital access. That's a little harder to justify if you only occasionally read their content.