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> There is an argument to be made that Christianity's focus on truth at all costs helped science rather than hinder it

In certain respects, such as Roger Bacon's advocacy of the scientific method and Gregor Mendel's discovery of the rules of inheritance, perhaps. In others, such as the Church's persecution of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, perhaps not.
It may be of interest to note that this includes their tools as well as the actual produced demos.
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Italian here. I don't know what your experience is, but I have to call bullshit.

Such generic comments applying to an entire population should be best avoided.

I have worked in Italian, British, American and Spanish engineering companies and I have not noticed any significant differences in dressing code, with the UK probably being the more formal environment (we had "Casual Fridays", which meant that the rest of the week we had to wear shirts). In the rest I could get by with a polo shirt and jeans.

Of course people with more contact with the outside tend to dress more formally, but this has been true for every company I have been.
Black cargo pants and an orange T-shirt.

I have like 15 of the shirt.
That's exactly the point above. See my above comment.
In fact, I think the data format ("sequence of bits") is actually something totally unrelated to the type system, which deals in an abstract idea of types. Type-checking doesn't get involved with encodings of values.
I've honestly had a strange experience with Win10. On my home PC I built I installed Win10 from an OEM disk (not the off the shelf edition) and I'm not sure if that made it different, but I loved it then. Worked flawlessly, just deleted the stupid XBox icons and was never bugged again.

Then I got a work issued laptop with Win10, and it's been ATROCIOUS for me. I don't have any ads or whatever (is this gonna be a new feature?) but my permissions model is royally screwed. For instance, I had to activate root administration controls on my user, cause you know, it's my computer. And some how because of this, I can not run the built-in Calculator app. That's right, can't run the calculator because I'm an admin. I had to write my own.
So it's been hit and miss. But so is my story with every OS.
There's another side to this that I contemplated today. If the goal of terrorism is to spread terror, have they accomplished their goal? So far as the families of the victims and people in surrounding areas go, likely. However, when you look at the planet as a whole you have this sort of response[1]: widespread and global compassion. This defiance must be incredibly demoralizing for murderous scum. Removing awareness of these events, which media provides, takes our defiance (compassion, solidarity, and fearlessness) away.

Limiting the media would only work if we limited all media in this way. The media needs to cover our peaceful defiance and we need to give the media more of that defiance to cover.

[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/23/world-monuments-i...
You understand you pay cable companies for the infrastructure and it's different companies who show you the programming, right? Do you call it double dipping when you pay your internet provider and then the Netflix account isn't free?
> It's perfectly reasonable to be interested in supporting only the proactive user base

If you only care about the bugs that someone else fixes for you, then you don't actually care. They do, and you're just pretending. It's perfectly reasonable to stick your fingers in your ears and go "LALALALALALALA" instead of listening to reports about bugs in your product the moment you stop giving a shit about it having bugs. A competent person who actually gives a shit isn't willing to put their head in the sand like that.
The easiest attack vector is just mugging you on the street after you've unlocked your phone. The police are already doing this.

And unless you regularly leave you phone lying around, you'll realize this is pretty much a requirement for breaking into your phone anyway.
"There is no excuse that these kind of applications are not completely sandboxed."

Woah, what a sense of entitlement! What's your excuse for not having submitted a patch years ago?
But SSA is not. It's specifying a font and sometimes even shipping a font inside the SSA file.
We could also put minimums on the rate at which new information appears on screen.
Those restrictions work for you, but would make VLC borderline useless for me.

> I don't need any access to the network.

90+% of what I use it for comes from my NAS or the Internet.

> I don't have an optical drive

Most of the rest is from optical discs.

> I'm perfectly fine with a default / embedded font. [...] I'm fine opening a subtitle file myself.

It's _fine_ but far from ideal. Both are useful quality of life features.

> Why would I need to unzip anything?

Non-essential, but being able to play video from a ZIP is a useful feature.
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I think a big part of the reason is that the common man confuses privacy and security. You see this with statements like, "Well, I don't have anything to hide... so I don't care." The media and politicians didn't (don't) help with this confusion, either.
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Which fact from these that I've specified you not believe?

WMD in Iraq story was actually fabricated, the UK actually stole an article of a student Ibrahim al-Marashi to present it as the result of the work of their intelligence services. bin Laden actually had a Bosniak Muslim passport. There were "Bosnian mujahideen" soldiers from the foreign lands fighting there, just like now in Syria. They were actually supported by the U.S, but also by the "allies" of the U.S. from the Muslim world. The "moderate rebels" in Syria as the U.S. calls them, are in fact much bigger Islamists than Assad ever can be, etc.

There are clear decades of similarity in the politics.
But you need to pass data from the access to the stream_filter, from the stream_filter to the demuxer, from the demuxer to several decoders, from the decoders to potentially a few video-filters and chroma-converters, and then finally to the output. Each of them need different access policies, and several of them require FS access.

It is not easy. If it was, people would have done it already.
> However, it is likely to be at least an order of magnitude more significant.

Why?
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But that's just ONE of the issues. The issue here is that the decoder/parser is in a process that has a too many privileges...
The "mysterious" XMOS part looks like this:

http://www.xmos.com/products/silicon/xcore-200

If it had a DDR3 interface, it'd be cool if it were the CPU. It'd be more Amiga-like.
I think he's saying that governments should be partly blamed by those who blame these attacks on immigration.

If those governments didn't bring war to those places, maybe less people would be prone to follow the message "attack those who attacked us first", lowering the feasibility of mass murders.
source, https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2017/05/22/updating-logitech...
FWIW `[x] send patches or stfu` is as much black and white.
Have some sense of humor. I would not take that literally / seriously.

I would rather focus on the next paragraph which is the one that matters.
". You don't leave things to chance like natural born abilities."

Thats why you choose a proper partner.

Wealth still helps a lot, obviously, but thats why things went wrong and many people married for money and not for fitting genes.
great game, how much does the apk weight ?
Microsoft did this with the Xbox One (almost all the extra features they advertised were US only) and it completely destroyed their market share, making the PS4 sell 2-to-1. WhatsApp went the other way (the US doesn't matter, you want the global market) and it got them a $19 billion sticker price. The US is a market, not the market.
Until recently I had a worked with a friend who wears nothing but suits, not just at work but in day to day life. People found it odd for a few months but then he quickly got a rep as that really well dressed guy and most folk enjoyed it. Admittedly it helped that most of his suits were a bit more out there than typical business suits. Think slightly hipster barbershop quartet. The man had some damn nice jackets.
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NSA can probably modify the firmware to create some sort of backdoor, if you actually look like that would be worthwhile?
https://www.bitstamp.net/
I lost the last piece of respect for Microsoft back when they started the forced windows10 upgrades and switched to Ubuntu. I don't agree with the telemetery, keystroke recordings and overall loss of control from windows7 to some piece of malware masquerading as an OS.
Keep in mind, Windows7 itself had to be neutered and configured properly(all these services, registry tweaks and settings), but windows10 is whole another zoo of problems which i don't want to touch.
Malicious compliance.

I love that.
Yup. Wall Street will like everything about this, so the success or fail of it will be measured by 'can you survive if ONLY Wall Street likes you'.
Tell that to the AAA market.
The word "Obama" is mentioned only once within the 81 comments so far posted...
Hi everyone, author of HLearn here :)

This is a bit awkward for me as I've paused the development of HLearn and emphatically do not recommend anyone use it. The main problem is that Haskell (which I otherwise love) has poor support for numerical computing. I've tried developing an alternative standard library to improve the situation (https://github.com/mikeizbicki/subhask), but Haskell's type system isn't yet powerful enough to do what I want. I'm sure the type system will have the needed features in 5-10 years, and I'd rather wait and do it right.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
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This. Gone are the days of twenty-tiered hierarchies. And as companies outsource, disrupt, and automate into tiny modules of CTOs/CEOs selling products, it becomes less and less important as social structures break down in this gig economy. I think the future will view suit and ties as just another individual expression of taste among the sea of new ideas competing for paying customers - who may or may not really care how you look.
But you need to pass data from the access to the stream_filter, from the stream_filter to the demuxer, from the demuxer to several decoders, from the decoders to potentially a few video-filters and chroma-converters, and then finally to the output. Each of them need different access policies, and several of them require FS access.

The last part is just one of the issues, very far from all of them.

Seriously, stop thinking that noone has given a thought to the question...
No one cares because it doesn't change anything
The Georgist argument is that the problem is property taxes aren't based solely on land value, and this creates excessive deadweight loss from taxation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Under a system of pure land value taxes, an empty lot downtown would be taxed at the same rate as the highrise next to it, and taxed much higher than an empty lot in the outskirts—a huge incentive to put that empty lot to more productive use.

The proliferation of parking lots is a regulatory/zoning issue.
That was certainly the case in the past. We backed away from it ~5 years ago after wasting too much time investigating cases where a daemon had leaked memory, hit the heap limit, and failed in a way which caused work to halt but produced no visible error state other than a stack trace in one of the many log files. Local testing wasn't viable since you needed something like 16-20GB to run stably, and back then we didn't have individual dev systems with enough RAM to run that kind of overhead and still have enough left for the actual work.
We have to remember that machine learning is much more than just ANN, or, for that sake, matrix manipulation:

http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home
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I wonder how many young people were inspired to take up programming because of the work of Future Crew, Farbrausch and the like. I certainly was, after experiencing what FC did with Second Reality.
Props to Farbrausch for publishing so much of their code.

In some sense, getting 1k colors out of a CGA is the contra-movement to node.js :)
I work for a dotcom era company, and the dress code here is basically jeans and 90s industrial band t-shirts.

And everyone is in their 40s.
Bhakths are devotees of Modi. "Bhakth" in Hindi/Sanskrit means devotee. They are like the die hard Trump fans in the US.

They usually come in hordes and attack any content against Modi on the web usually by unethical tactics like questioning your character/love for country, down-voting, mass reporting, abusing and general trolling - whatever it takes to shut the critics up.

Modi is part human and part mythical figure for the Bhakths - I kid you not :).
so he was both the perpetrator, and victim of child pornography. That sounds reasonable
Aabout 1 billion dollars of trade volume per day.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
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Same thing here. Wrote enough of a COM implementation that some software could be compiled native on Linux. The cool bit was that we automatically generated the Python bindings as well, so all the COM components were easily accessible for scripting.
I didn't really like what happens when you click no, seems a bit mean!
"You only need a laser printer, a decent camera and a contact lens."

No, considering that the picture doesn't have to be that good, you need only a rogue picture from somewhere on the Internet (Facebook, Instagram, or whatever), the means to get it printed cheaply (most likely using a public printing service), and the contact lens. Oh, and the contact lens don't have to be new/hygienic. The total cost boils down to pennies.
Something you are: iris or fingerprint

Something you have: phone

You can't log in remotely with an iris or fingerprint.
Thank you! I was frustrated when I saw this last night and it didn't contain any details. I assumed buffer overflow but different attacks for each is more interesting.
I agree, it's a similar effect for me. I like that my dress pants and dress shirts serve to separate work from home.

I view my morning routine, with the special clothes, special shoes, special bag, and even my "special" commuter car (that I don't drive on weekends) as a sort of liturgical practice. I wake up, I shower, I groom, I put the clothes on a certain way, I gather my things in the same order, I get one of only a handful of breakfast options, make coffee, and leave for work. I even kiss my wife and kids in the same order (youngest to oldest, oldest of course being my wife).

This seems boring and repetitive to a lot of people, but it's actually incredibly freeing for me. Because it is all so routine, I usually spend my mornings thinking about the book I was reading the night before, or the news, or some other topic. I don't have to pay attention to what I am doing because it just happens without "me" really being part of it. It allows me to focus on ideas that matter to me instead of menial activities.

For me, this liturgy would be interrupted without those special clothes and special shoes. I would likely find myself making choices and decisions I really don't have a desire to make.
WiFi is clearly the correct solution in 2017. It's just sad how this has gotten harder for users as technology has otherwise improved.
Trumps tweets aren't addressed to anyone, nor reference anything as response, so it is false that they were "directly in response". The tweets don't even mention the word 'classified'. If you believe otherwise - prove it.
>This post probably applies much more for libraries, where it's pretty easy to open a pull request with a code example causing the bug.

Yes, a cursory glance at the author's repositories shows he's talking about libraries for other developers and not consumer apps like LibreOffice/GIMP/VLC/etc used by non-programmers.

https://github.com/ryanflorence?tab=repositories
> - no longer showing the faces / names / manifestos of the suicide bombers on media

The UK authorities tried that approach through the 1980s regarding the situation in Northern Ireland; PM Mrs Thatcher's infamous "oxygen of publicity" policy was a response to a general feeling that the media were advertising for the terrorists.

However it was worse than ineffective; no-one receiving their primary news of the situation from TV was likely to volunteer for action, and it became symbolic of the Government's seeming powerlessness, that they had to hide the bad news behind censorship.

Aside: I remember being disappointed when hearing Gerry Adams' actual voice for the first time, having heard him dubbed by an actor throughout my childhood. The actor sounded more authorative!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
As the old saying goes "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

Why should people not assimilate into the local culture of where they are fleeing to? Or at least discard elements of their previous culture which are incompatible with where they are now? Especially if the place they came from was so bad that they had to leave?

If they cannot or do not want to assimilate to the new culture, or discard incompatible practices in their new location, then they are always free to return.

It's not racist to call out faults with cultures and ideologies, no culture is perfect, but some cultures are objectively better than others.

Note that culture is not the same as religion, and it's not the same thing as race.
I'm reminded of the Vietnam era slogan: "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came" One could just as easily adapt it to our modern day. "Suppose they gave a bomb and nobody talked about it" I can only imagine how frustrated those narcissistic sociopaths would feel if after all that meticulous planning, people simply talked about the weather the next day.
Outside of programmers, I don't know anyone who takes the time to do this. Be careful of the Malkovich Bias--the assumption that most people who use the internet use it like you do. Most people don't give a second thought to Google and Facebook selling their data... or in insert most countries in the world their government watching and censoring them.
I can't say for these vulns specifically, but in general, if software is vulnerable on one OS, it is very likely also vulnerable on other OSs. The differences aren't that big. Exploits generally have to be written for each OS separately, though.
I love the fact that reddit chooses to stay small and sustainable.

Twitter is taking the opposite path and they do everything in their power to alienate their most passionate users. However, I think Twitter is infrastructure now, like Facebook and LinkedIn, and it would be very difficult to disrupt or displace.
Well given that parent used phrases like "entirely depends" and "definitely", I didn't get that at all. And given my own experience of being consistently delayed in most locations and being white, I think there are clearly more factors. And if true, those factors affect more people and amplify the effect of racially motivated factors.
That's slightly incorrect. Gold has intrinsic value beyond industrial uses. Intrinsic value doesn't require utility (but it often includes it), it only requires a use beyond a consensus exchange rate and speculation. Many people enjoy using gold in jewelry for its own sake, not because they want to speculate on it. That enjoyment functions as organic demand, which increases the price.

As long as a thing has consumer demand that doesn't derive from speculation or decay quickly with time, it can have intrinsic value. Phrased another way, "jewelry" and "dentistry" are both legitimate uses of gold, because they both create organic consumer demand (and from what I can tell most people don't use gold in jewelry for speculative reasons).

The author's usage of the word "intrinsic" is confusing to me, because its fuzzy and imprecise. He's not really using the term in the traditional financial sense, as you would in e.g. fundamental valuation, or options pricing (theta decay, etc).
You could also flash a bright LED and measure the pupil response. It's possible that there's something unique in the response too.
Hah, this poor guy is reviewing a demo as if it's a game, and sounds hilariously clueless in the process.

"I'm amazed they didn't finish this game, this plays really well."

To be fair, a legitimate review would have just been "Holy shit, this is 96k. Holy shit. Just 96k. Jesus. That's less than the space taken than a single screenshot. Wow."

EDIT: Oh, I see what happened. He thought "demo" referred to a game demo, as in a limited edition of a full game.
There's no conclusive proof it wasn't spontaneous and in both cases it was legitimate.
What the hell is racist about assimilating into the local culture? Also, you seem to be very unfamiliar with radical islamic schools in Britain.
Because to do so would be rather unfair on the vast majority of followers who do not share the values of these terrorists. Ever wonder why the world hasn't burnt down? Because there isn't a "sleeper switch" in every Muslim you pass in the streets.

There are discussions of Islam and ISIS - the Atlantic's most popular article covers just that (so thorough that it's praised by ISIS even.) And then there's the likes of the Daily Mail, which rather than heal serves to deepen divisions and hatred - that is the aim of terrorists.
It is my understanding they would always execute on the same core.
At one company I interviewed the director of development was wearing bermuda shorts, flip flops and a worn out T shirt. As I looked around, most all employees were in shorts. All work in a common area.

When I started working I had my own private office and wore a shirt and tie at least. Fridays were "casual" - no tie. I liked it better like that.