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> After centuries of thought, humanity has developed some concepts beyond dualistic black & white.

Not giving in to blackmail is not about black and white, it's about black and black. And from a logical perspective, you don't mean "dualistic", you mean "excluded-middle" or "false dilemma".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
I'm currently just looking for a side project, please correct me if this is the wrong thread to post.

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> Anyway, I hope the FBI gets this freak and put him in the can for as long as they're able to.

If only people shared the same feelings about illegal mass surveillance and the lax security of the companies responsible for these breaches.
This is very cool and impressive, really good job!

Image filtering is a popular subject these days thanks partly to Instagram, and this subject is on the boundary between art and science, which is nice for a change of pace sometimes.

Anyway, to master image filtering in photoshop/GIMP for example requires learning a (very) large number of words and concepts which seemingly have no organizational structure. These words/concepts exist for historical reasons, and not because they represent some sort of cohesive or unified approach to filtering in general. The exact same problem exists for simulating effects pedals for guitars in programs like Pro Tools, interestingly.

Only Fourier methods can possibly unify this type of filtering, for a number of reasons which are actually obvious to anyone who is familiar with the fundamental role played by these methods in analysis.

The problem seems to be that the people who actually use this stuff all the time do not know Fourier methods and are not in a position to learn it; and this has created a massive inertia against re-formulating the entire UI/UX for image filtering based on the only possible unified approach.

It might be thought that Fourier methods are too hard for a graphic designer to understand, but I believe that it is up to people like us who do understand these things to redo the entire approach to filtering from square one, based on Fourier methods. In fact, I believe such an approach will make this subject much more accessible to everyone, and will be significantly easier for power users as well.
I don't honestly know where 300,000 came from wrt that Forbes article.

I have different number: 1,049 from [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China#Accidents_and_de...
Hey, Tommaso here.
I've thought about using a depth prepass, however that really helps only if you have heavy shaders, at the cost of basically doubling the vertex shader load.
Given that our terrain shader is an one liner which returns tex*color, and that we have A LOT of vertices, it's not very convenient.
The poly count at max render distance (224 blocks) can be anywhere between 300K in plains and 900K polygons in jungles, minus the savings of the culling in the post. Apart from jungles which kill everything though, the major bottleneck is now alphatesting and most devices will run at 60fps if you turn that off.
Depends on two things. What you think of it, and what you make of it. If you go in there demanding 5% equity talking about what you can bring the team then think of yourself as a CTO. If you get there write some code employ another developer then think of yourself as a senior developer.
How in the world does it fundamentally break the protections of the device? Your apps don't get root unless you give it to them -- it's the direct equivalent of UAC on Windows or sudo access on Linux.
I remember when Steam did this back in the day (not sure if it still happens today) and it was a total shame. Lots of people using proxies to get US pricing on the other side of the pond. Now, I don't really know how the whole taxing thing moves about, but, are foreign customers forced to pay taxes for these kinds of products since they're considered 'imported'? Or maybe, do companies feel they should get more money to keep operating abroad? I'm just trying to look for possible explanations, but we all know this is just a cheeky, greedy play from these companies.
It wasn't his aim to have no apps, just apps that are distracting and time-wasting. For example, he says that he likes having useful apps like Google and Uber installed.

This is the same view that I have towards my smartphone, although I still have FB installed because sometimes I really need it to communicate with friends on messenger.
To me, the worst one are the regular news, especially if there are comments. Not only you don't learn anything, but it leads to bitterness and anxiety and give you a wrong perception of the world. At least, hacker news is informative and the comments are of high-quality. However, I wish I was able to read some articles more thoroughly rather that passively browse.
I think the model of review is not consistent.
In my experience, Apple rejected my app for the first time for 'x' and 'y' reasons.
The second time they rejected my app for 'z' reason,that was also present in the first version, so I waited another 8 days for another review.

Funny is that my app was rejected because it could potentially violates 18.1 and 18.2 in https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid... the first time.
The mentioned app by the policy, as bad example, is avaiable in the app store.
"Pro tip: since these essays are kinda long, I use the app Pocket to download the essays and listen to them next time I'm catching the train/bus/<em>hyperloop.</em>" <-- you sir, are going places.
With pgpool2 and two servers, I can have synchronous commits _as long as_ both servers are healthy, and still continue operating (with less durability) when only one server is healthy.

Of course, it’s impossible to protect against data loss when the remaining server also goes down, but you always have that risk :). As I said, I realize that a setup with only two servers cannot be perfect, but it’s all I’m willing to afford for a spare-time hobby.

So, in comparison, pgpool2 provides me with a more convenient mode of operation for my use-case.
> Find an altruistic hacker to hunt him down ...

Wait, what? How does that describe an "altruistic hacker"?
In images frequency is 2d. However in that page (and many other image processing applications) we only care about effectively what is 1d frequency (all the frequencies with the same euclidian distance from the center are binned as one).
But there are no official exchange rates are there? So how can they be wrong? You must mean they're not as favourable as that which other companies are offering. In which case it's not a 'rip-off', it's just as good as deal as you might like it to be.
One of the authors of srclib here. Python has been incorporated (and should be installed if you update srclib and run the toolchain install script). The website hasn't been updated to reflect this, however. Let us know if you run into any issues!
Implicit in your second paragraph are the notions of absolute status and of mutual recognition of absolute status.

I'd suggest social status is always relative and is likely assumed by participants prior to their initiating an interaction: The student used lower status language when writing to the professor, who used lower status language when writing to the famous professor.
Is This Alibaba-Like New Startup the Tinder of Lyfts
That's putting the cart before the horse. Google's already shown with the Dart project that they're willing to invest in building tools for their own technology. Android Studio hasn't been the official Android IDE for very long either.
Do you know if they offer 2 factor authentication? I've been so annoyed with Dropbox support for the past 2 months I'm actively looking for a replacement, but it needs to have 2 factor auth.
Exams are stupid. Qualifications are stupid. Jobs are stupid. Capitalism is stupid. We've turned pure learning into an exercise in grinding, to level up a meaningless stat.

This is the dirty trick of supposed meritocracy: if a whole lot of people have merit enough, then picking among them becomes an inflationary contest in irrelevances. Those people tricking their way past the grind are really doing nothing different than buying a pre-leveled WoW character, it isn't actually harder to play at the higher level, you just get more swag and bigger battles.
Correct. See my reply to akeri_, above: Status is relative, not absolute.
Okay. Something I'm not sure I see clearly, that mean you'll have as many runtime as there is ABI ?

The way I it right now is that I can have a Gnome 3 runtime at version 3.20.1 compiled with let's say openssl for all my Fedora binaries depending on Gnome and another complete runtime at the same version because the Firefox I've donwloaded from mozilla.com has been compiled on an opensuse the rely on gnutls ? The example is made up but as far as I understand it could happen, right ? It feels like a lot of wated space for one app.

And the scheme is supposed to cater for embedded ? I'm puzzled. I missed something ?
Ah, I thought I recognized that name. Optimine really made the game playable for me in early days, thanks for your contributions.
How does one detect incognito mode? I was under the impression it was the same as any other Chrome session except for history and cookies being wiped automatically upon closing the window.
First of all nobody is talking about enforcing anything, so the "you want to kill people!" slippery slope is out of the way. Second: where is the line then? If I have AIDS should I have children (and not get treatment to avoid infecting them)?, if you say "no" that is eugenics. I, myself, I'm carrier of a disease that I is mostly genetic, so I decided that I will never have children. Discouraging the (pre-) existence of unhealthy childs is not nazism and people should stop pretending it is.
I wonder if the email examples are simply a byproduct of the specific conversations / order of the discussion. Maybe 'cold-call' emails demand a lot of 'I's in them as part of the initial explanation while responses to these emails do not.
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Thanks for the correction.

I don't have an opinion on the blackmail topic. But the blackmail was preceded by a governance decision and other communities can provide advice or useful precedent. Even when the blackmail issue with this one person is addressed, the governance issue will remain and can re-appear at any moment.

Since solving the governance issue will have to be done at some time in the future, it can be done now and offers some chance of de-escalation. The blackmail issue can still be addressed through other means, including legal. But de-escalation helps everyone, now.
AnandTech founder Anand Shimpi retires from journalism to join Apple
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Our front-end tools are all built in AngularJS with a half dozen other JavaScript libraries like D3. We have some interesting UI/UX challenges in graphing metrics and representing data that our current front-end team describe as nothing less than "the most exciting and challenging work they've had for awhile." You're supported by an incredible UX team to perform the heavy lifting as far as design and deciding which A/B testing should occur.

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This role is both advisory ("Team, implement this best practice") and execution ("Team, I implemented this best practice..") We're lean and mean so you should have no problem at all hacking on Ruby one day to deploy a new 'hids' through Chef or drafting a Cisco IOS access-list the next.

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You can find agents from IMDB Pro too. It's not that hard if you're determined (or obsessed for that matter).
What we should learn from the Fappening
I'm amazed that so many non-tech people hold out hopes for 100% security. They are shocked when these sorts of things happen and think that software people are incompetent.

Yes, there are some things that are reek of incompetence, but it doesn't take much work to find out how many homes in your neighborhood have been burglarized in the past year despite thousands of years of experience building houses and developing locks - more than most people realize.

Why are people's expectations different for tech?
No way. Anyone -- anyone -- who wrote a paper based on experimental data retrieved on the Shuttle would absolutely list the Shuttle, the flight, and the date. Basing research on data gathered in zero-gravity (technically micro-gravity freefall) environment would be so exceptional that the specific spacecraft would have to be listed.

It would be like publishing a particle physics paper using data gathered at the LHC and not mentioning that you got the data from the LHC.
Kotlin works very well with robovm. In fact, there is a game written in kotlin on the iOS store called True Fool that uses robovm
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Competition isn't the only way to calculate efficiencies.

But yes, my opinion of not feeling gouged is not a scientific indicator. I don't want 2 gas companies or 6 electric utilities.

That picture on the left, http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/jamesfallows/189... I have seen that in Vietnam. Everyone gets their own wire.
The male-dominated follower data could also be explained if men tend to follow more people than women do -- even if the gender split of total users is roughly equal.
Let me clarify a little more. Mosh hides latency by doing display prediction. It guesses what the results of your keystrokes will be and displays them locally, highlighted as predicted with an underscore.
I think you missed an opportunity there. The advice should be 'don't do this, it's better to admit to being a noob and asking for explanation rather than to hold a conversation using words you don't know the meaning of lest you pass up an opportunity to learn something.'.

There is no such thing as a stupid question.

This reminds me of a conversation I overheard long ago in public transport where two kids were arguing (loudly) about what was the faster computer, Okidata or Brother.
This got downvoted, and I can understand why, but I have to admit the idea has a certain dark appeal.

Well, I snorted appreciatively when I read it, at least.

(This is why I dislike downvoting. Ignore ideas you dislike, flag abuse, but downvote "honest opinions"? Hmm. Sure, that begs the question of abuse Vs honest opinions, but that is the purpose of discussion and reason: To sort the abuse from the honest opinions, to accept and improve upon the latter.)
A few Ivy League universities offering full financial aid doesn't prevent the perpetuation of class divides. The other problem is that even at most Ivy League universities, a lot of this aid is in the form of loans, something that also favors the rich.
Hey, generalizing the answer like that is nice, the flood fill is definitely an approximation of that.
However keep in mind that the flood fill is run only once, not per frame, so you have to check that "any ray from face A can exit through any point of face B", so I'm not sure it is easier to compute.
I'm sure there is some way to get closer to this than a flood fill, but for 0.9 it had to be good enough!
The sharpest edge of that language meeting bad design and sloppy or inadequate code review. Bad design is a problem in any language, safety critical projects need and typically have much better code review that would have caught the likes of Heartbleed, and every language has its particular sharp edges, e.g. the first launch of Ariane 5 would have successfully reached orbit had the code been written in C. (Yes, it would also have successfully reached orbit had that part of the code been adequately checked - see my above point about code reviews.)
You missed my point. This is security theater that in no way impacts my actual ability to run malicious ads or track users.
Everyone should have the option of upgrading to better, damage resistant mitochondria, or the option to purchase effective maintenance of mitochondrial function. Some haplotypes are objectively better than others, allowing greater athletic ability or resistance to age-related disease, but we can go beyond even just picking haplotype.

Progressive damage to mitochondrial DNA is an important contribution to degenerative aging. Wholesale replacement of either mitochondria or mitochondrial DNA (via any one of four or five different approaches) is a very viable near term goal. All of the necessary component of such a treatment have been demonstrated in animals and human cells in the laboratory over the past decade, leaving just the painfully slow regulatory and development process.
The OP might be distinguishing those who hunt for idealism and sport and those who hunt for profit.

He doesn't want a merc hacker, he wants one with shared ideals.

Those merc hackers are dangerous, ya know.
Just wanted to mention that I applied for the software dev opening about a week ago. I understand things take a while - just trying to be seen! Thanks.

I also created a visualization for the Kelly Criterion, which optimizes bet sizes for risk.

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/kelly-criterion-for-determini...
And yet when it came down to it, he chose to write all his code in C or C++. Actions speak louder than words.
I'd be very interested in knowing what's so objectionable about what I wrote?
Google will probably not be sanctioning a replacement for Java on Android for quite a while, which doesn't prevent Kotlin from being a very, very good second language for the platform.

One of the main advantages of Kotlin over Scala on Android is that Kotlin is a small increment over Java with very little jar size and language overhead.
"It might be thought that Fourier methods are too hard for a graphic designer to understand"

I find this argument funny in general. Just look at sound engineers working with the mixboard and their equalizers. Equalizer basically allows you to do the same as what is done in that webpage. And yet the persons using it won't necessarily even know what the term "Fourier transform" means.

An useful UI so artists can play with it is probably the only thing needed for this.
Since it's not 1.0, one could argue it's not even the official Android IDE yet.