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>Where is the counterpoint? Where are the modulations?

In the sound design, the rhythms, and the production, where they never trouble the hearing of anyone who has been trained to believe that musical structures are defined almost entirely by pitch patterns.

Even the idea that music exists to 'express rhetorical ideas' is... actually quite odd, outside of classical training, anyway.

I happen to like fugues very, very much. (The fugue in BWV 542 is a favourite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Kul3JzKI0.)

But the idea that music should aim for that always? Uh, nope.
Why would you optimize the system for rare circumstances? Why are you appealing to emotion with the "your loved ones"? Why are you talking about throwing out the legal system? Your arguments are all terrible, green poster.
I may be speaking out of turn but wouldn't this be an object lesson of 'if you like something, pay for it'? Going out of business hurts everyone and frankly I think it's OK for customers to share some of that pain. I honestly am not familiar with their revenue model so perhaps that is not apropos though.

I do see the sadness of all that bitrot though so I understand your point of view.
How about merging all linux flavors into one so we have one system like MacOS? or Windows? hi they each have lots of different versions to maintain, what a waste of resources.

systemd by all means is still new, how can you convince all of us that it is _the_ init system all of a sudden?

It's good to have options, for each apps(email,web server,database,you name it) in Linux there are normally a few options too, why is systemd that different?
I paid once over 3 years ago for ST2. I'll have to fork again when ST 3 stable comes out, but the last 1.5+ as a paid ST2 user I was entitled to the ST3-dev betas (rock solid for me on Mac for JS, PHP, Go, Python dev with several plugins).

3 years of editor use for $70 (or somewhat less at the time) is not that much...
That's very good indeed, and much closer to my personal idea of a useful theory guide.
>(besides offend the anti-capitalist hive mind).

People love showering people they agree like with money, this case proves it. People also don't like to feel they are being taken advantage of and online you can find that out with a few clicks and 10 minutes of googling.

If someone gives $5 to a campaign that promises awesome wonderfulness but then finds out the awesome wonderfulness is being made in a Thailand sweatshop by 10 yearolds eating arsenic for breakfast they will pull the pledge and ruin the companies reputation.

Which is all to the good. Just look at Apple, they had their hipsters locked in when it was just the ridiculous 50% margins they were putting on their products. When we found out people were being worked to death and we had to pay those ridiculous margins that's when people became anti-Apple on mass.

Now if by anti-capitalist you mean anti-Dickensian exploration capitalist you're damned right. And I hope every half decent human being would be.
The rebound visualizer widget is the illest thing

http://grantland.com/wp-content/themes/vip/espn-grantland/as...

Edit: damn, I need to git gud with D3
One compromise position in this would be to extend the 5th amendment to include decrypted evidence, and to mandate backwards transparency in the FISA warrant and wiretap processes. The advantage would be a solution to law enforcement's 'ticking clock' scenario, and a solution to privacy advocate's concerns about investigative accountability. Some criminals would walk, but they would do so publicly exposed and ostracized for their misdeeds. This would be a bitter pill for privacy advocates and law enforcement to swallow, but the reality is that neither side wins in an environment of absolute privacy or absolute surveillance.
Very cool.

Please consider adding the free PDF tutorials I've made to the db:

http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/mech_in_7_pages.pd...

http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in_...
(another good one, not by me: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/NOTES/geomLinAlg.pdf )

http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pdf
> 4) Serve the whole lot over TLS.

But your server is configured to allow SSLv3[0]

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=fix%2dmacosx....
I'm trilingual (Spanish,French,German) and program fluently in at least 3 languages (Python, Javascript, PHP).
Things in common: You build an idea in the air and shoot it in the language. Happens to me a lot in German where I don't have a vocabulary as wide as Spanish on English that the brain will have to build a sentence maybe 30% longer but it will eventually bring out something that does the job. When I'm coding I just know the program needs to do certain thing. Python is very straightforward while with PHP usually I need to build some auxiliary function (same as German , not that the word doesn't exist but I don't have it in my Head at the moment). Also, very obscure concepts like "Dativ" conjugation do exist in spanish but since it looks the same as "Genitiv" and "Akkusativ" , nobody pays to much attention. However when you are speaking German you'd better understand that as you need them to correctly build a sentence of the fly. An example analogy with coding would be generic data structures like arrays in PHP but in Python are more rich like Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples(IMHO)
Thank you. Your perspective helps a great deal - this is all quite new to me. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

In peace,
Mike
export EDITOR=emacs

Then crontab -e will start emacs instead of vi.
Perhaps it depends on the languages. I was raised in English; French was added starting at 5. Today, at 49, I am fluently and idiomatically bilingual in English, French, and various idiomatic variations on both common to the provinces in which I've lived (I can switch from stock-standard English to various idiomatic dialects and accents, as many of you can, e.g., formal English Vs the street or town English you spoke growing up, from those used here in Ontario to lilting dialects and accents of Nova Scotia; I can do the same with a few Quebec Joual dialects.)

With a couple of days in Paris, I am taken for a native. Same thing in New Orleans or Chicago (I have to be very careful about not drifting into local accents, I just sort of go there.)

So it is possible to be perfectly bilingual - but it requires early exposure to the second language and an ear (which can be developed - you have to stop listening to specifics, to particulars, and listen holistically, letting the language flow over you so that you understand the intent without understanding individual words - practice that for a while, and the words come).

I also speak passable remedial Spanish and have learned and forgotten a whole lot of Turkish, Arabic, German, and Greek.

After a while, your inner voice switches to non-linguistic (which I think might mean it returns to what it was before you had language, i.e., as a child). I used to think mostly in English, but nowadays I think in, well, viscera. I then have to find the words that most closely match the viscera. For simple things, that happens quickly. For complex things or subtle differences, it can take time, during which I sputter.

About 6 months ago I ask a friend's daughter whether this had happened to her yet (she was raised in French, added English much later, then some Spanish, and finally did intensive German prior to heading o'er the pond for her M.Eng).

Her eyes went wide and she shrieked "OUI! OUI! Exactement!" She turned to her mother: "M'man! Il comprend exactement qu'est ce qui m'arrive!"

(Yes, yes, exactly! Mom! He understands exactly what is happening to me!)

She'd been going through the same thing and didn't know it had ever happened to anyone else.

It's a truly strange thing, mind blowing - and mind expanding.

Sometimes, I can sort of disconnect from language. It frees my mind in a most powerful way. It's tricky to get there, though, and sometimes even harder to get back.
So it's highly suggestive that at its most fundamental, the universe appears to be non-deterministic. No theory predicts exactly when this neutron will decay.

Wouldn't determinism have been "easier?" If there is no free will, non-determinism seems like a lot of trouble to go to for nothing!
My argument is that it is explained well enough, but most people complaining in here haven't even looked at the feature beyond seeing the original article talking about how to disable it with scripting. For example, as near as I can tell, eropple doesn't use Spotlight for anything except as a quick app launcher, which is a usage that doesn't involve Spotlight Suggestions (and AFAICT doesn't even try to send any queries to Apple). And yet he's been extremely argumentative, making wild assumptions about what's going on and then publicly complaining about it. Anyone who doesn't even look at the feature hardly has any grounds to complain about what it does and doesn't do, since they don't even know what it does or doesn't do. And their lack of knowledge is entirely their fault.

> By the way, there's a perfectly good English word that means "plural you minus you personally," which is "they."

If I was talking to you personally, one-on-one, I'd use "they". I used "you" because I was speaking to the larger audience of the people involved in this thread.
I've used Vim for 19+ years. I've used it on Sun OS, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows (Cygwin and native), Linux and OS X.

I use Sublime Text now.

Why? It's hella fast. It has a great plugin infrastructure and community. It has lots of 21st century niceties with regards to its GUI, retina support, etc. It stays out of my way. Even the ST3-dev versions have been rock solid for me (on OS X, other OSs may vary).

But most of it it's this: the things VIM does, and they are nice, are not that interesting to me. I know how to split and recombine text in 200 different ways, move in all directions by various amounts, do stuff with selections, play with buffers, etc etc.

Those are not the problems I have when I write code. For an admin, or a text monkey this kind of stuff might be more useful. For me they're more like circus acts useful in rare ocassions. In most cases I'm writing like 10 words per minute -- because I'm thing, debugging, designing APIs, and whatever we programmers do.

(I still use Vim whenever I SSH into some server, and as the EDITOR set in the shell).
Functional Programming in JavaScript: A Collection of Hands-on Exercises
My point is the data is worthless to support your claim. Comparing time periods isn't "torturing the data".
And this is why we must treasure and keep Flash -- so we can easily block the kinds of people who use it.

Filtering out HTML5 video ads is harder (though if you block everything set to auto play you do OK).
>I gather Yosemite brings Siri to OS X,

It's been around for a few versions.
No, it's kind of like saying that people should only be convicted in a court of law when the prosecution shows all available and relevant evidence to convince a jury of their guilt, and if convicted the punishment should fit the crime.

Again, you're suggesting that criminals shouldn't face punishment because it's society's fault that the crime wasn't deterred in the first place.
It used to work, but right now it's not, for some reason.

If you start any query with "Wolfram" it will send the rest to Wolfram Alpha verbatim, but "wolfram flights overhead" isn't working either.

It works directly on WA though:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=flights+overhead
What like downloading a tarball over http? Watch your own binary/source traffic for a day, we are downloading random ass executable content all day long.
M-x apropos is usually good.
How does the new Spotlight know whether or not you're using it as a quick app launcher without communicating back to the mothership? I would have thought that it would send every query and then display the result or not depending on what comes back. I don't see how you could reasonably do it otherwise, unless you want to block internet searches for any term that matches an app name.
Magic (at present) is a bit different in that the manufacturer will print effectively unlimited amounts of the cards for the 6-12 months a set is in print, and will actively seek to reprint staple cards that get expensive enough to make them difficult to acquire for play. The few limited-run products they produce can get a bit silly though, yes.
I believe the Windows version is better. Integrates with Python so it's easier to customize, and I think it's easier to define your own "words". e.g. "Slap" could mean "new line". I got it on sale for $99. Now I've gotta get a good microphone.

David Pogue's review: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/hello-computer-speak-your-text-wi...

And the fact that John Siracusa writes articles like these with it, convinced me that I could make it useful with a little effort.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/23/
If emacs is installed. It often isn't. vi almost always is.

I know enough vi to open a file, move up, down, left, and right, search, delete and insert text. And I often run afoul of my emacs muscle memory just doing that. But you really need to know the vi basics if you admin unix machines.
A number of more talented musicians than myself have also remarked that there is actually a lot of weird stuff going in top 40 music. It's so bland and repetitive that they have to do something different for it to be memorable; it's just not the focus of the song.
Hah! Really, this is the main take-away from the entire OP and discussion.
Reporters write, domain experts expertificate.
Raid 10 basically just gives performance over Raid 1. You might Raid 1 SSDs but Raid 10 is likely to be a very expensive way to hit your IO bus limits.

Given that, assuming it is spinning disk is a reasonable assumption, and the accusation of a strawman was unnecessarily rude.
> Andreessen has acquired more grown-up tastes, too. The chubby 6-foot, 4-inch lad who dressed in shorts, T-shirts, and sandals in 1994 has shed about 30 pounds and now fancies Ermenegildo Zegna suits and Robert Talbot shirts. Greasy hamburgers and milkshakes are out, replaced by grilled sturgeon and chardonnay. And he has traded in his red Mustang for a more sober white Mercedes-Benz S600 sedan.

yo pmarca, what prompted this change?
Progressions are old as dirt. Pretty much all solos are melodic arrangements which fit over an underlying chord progression. Bassicaly (ahahhahahaha), if you broke it down enough, you would be able to "strum" a Les Claypool bass solo.
I used both back in college. I usually used XEmacs for coding and reading mail/usenet and vi for sysadmin stuff. These days I've moved on to IDEs for coding and only break out emacs for editing binaries or large files.

It worked out pretty well as long as I used Emacs in an X window and vi on the command line. But if I ran emacs in a terminal, I automatically started typing vi commands into it.
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I’ve learnt enough ed to use that instead of vi. If that isn’t installed, I’ve had to resort to nano, and, in rare cases, sed --in-place. But I never need to know vi.

Of course I realize that this is mostly me being silly, but it’s also rather educational.
> Are you taking into account that while in prison, the person is not committing crimes (except possibly against other prisoners)?

Their kids will pick up the slack as they grow up without a father.

Also, are you really suggesting that crimes against prisoners are not crimes?

> Offhand, I don't recall seeing data on what the optimal term is for minimizing crime, but I don't recall looking for such, either.

The optimal term for minimizing crime is obviously life imprisonment but I'm not sure that information can be put to any productive use.
Only if you also agree to give up control over your incoming traffic and DNS to them. No thanks.
Game tree search on parallel systems (1993) [pdf]
next they just need to offer housing, and the transition to "company town" will be complete
Software Made for the Military Is Being Used by NFL to Diagnose Brain Injuries
I might be unfamiliar with how the archive team operates but shouldn't this have been ongoing over the years rather than all at once now?
"I'm working on something to announce (hopefully) today. Will try to get a PORTAL to everyone that wants/needs one. :)" - thegrugq

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/523299858581430272
It's fine. Good, even. But really not "cutting edge". There's a huge gap between Unity and Unreal Engine 4.
Uh, what? Siri is not available on OS X at all.
They should be more hesitant to give him advice that may discourage him from trying. There's not enough data to warrant it, it's not a simple math problem that he's calculating wrong.
I enjoyed this piece, but the middle section about the author and "Should I call Richard" seemed entirely out of place. It did not match the tone of the story and did not sound genuine.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/265/full/13540...
I think that all collectors are slightly strange to people outside the group. Coins, guns, action figures, baseball cards, comic books, you name it - there's going to be a group of people spending a very large amount of money to get a big or rare collection of it.

Personally, I think that spending money for artificially scarce products is a little silly, but I can think of worse things to spend money on. At least these collectors can recoup their costs if they decide to stop.
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> Jazz is a development of Western classical music

only of Western classical music?
> I gather Yosemite brings Siri to OS X

No. OS X has had voice-to-text for a while, actually, but that's all it is.
Why are they charging for access to ebooks, many of which are already in the public domain and available at archive.org[1]?

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=loeb%20classical%20libr...
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Panic's Coda comes to mind first for great design, and it was just updated.

http://panic.com/coda/
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Hey, thanks for the kind words! I'm really glad you and your friends are enjoying the site. It's been really gratifying to see so many people enjoying our work and also to watch new players discovering the game for the first time.
Not really inconsistently. Firefox, Safari and IE all do this. Firefox, for example, will wait up to 10 seconds for an OCSP response (https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:ImprovingRevocation)

That article cites Adam Langley - a respected engineer at Google who has worked on Chrome and parts of Go. Chrome is wildly lax with certificate revocation. Don't believe me? Browse to https://revoked.grc.com from Chrome. It is true that if someone can MITM they can block CRL/OCSP requests...but browsers (including Chrome) made the choice of 'soft-failing' and thus making it an attack vector. OCSP stapling and the proposed "OCSP Must-Staple" (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-muststaple-00) solve this problem. With all due respect to Adam, it seems a little peculiar to say revocation checks don't work when they're broken by design in the browser he worked/works on.

Chrome is the only browser that skips revocation checks for DV certificates but it still does OCSP for EV certs. Chrome has the concept of CRLsets - but these have been shown to only capture a very small portion (<1%) of revoked certificates.

Firefox has the option to hard-fail if the OCSP request isn't verified. This should be the default behavior, but the fear is that too few people understand this and would migrate to another browser if SSL secured sites randomly failed to load sometimes. Note: this is vastly preferable, in my opinion, to loading a site with a certificate of unknown status.
the bigger problem is they failed to execute, not that they "stole" an idea. if every no-totally-original idea were not allowed to be executed, then we could be still in the bronze age or something.
Fascinatingly, I tried asking Siri "Siri, will you mary me?" and her response was:

"I sure have received a lot of marriage proposals recently!"

For the first time, I was genuinely impressed with Siri's pseudo-intelligence/wit.

(Can we assume someone on the Siri team at Apple read this article?)
"That's the rule of men, as opposed to the rule of law, and it's antithetical to a free society."

Not sure the rule-of-law / rule-of-men dichotomy with regards to measuring a free society is as clear cut.

Civil disobedience, corporate political spending, judicial activism, selective legal enforcement at the local level, federal/state disagreement. These are not all good or all bad things.
And that pretty much encapsulates, what systemd is attempting vs what people think it is attempting.

Systemd is not innovating on ideas, but on implementation. How do you make things like service dependencies, stateless systems, etc consistently possible.

It is bringing something which was possible only for a person of your skill level, down to mine.

I would say it is the same difference between Ubuntu and Arch - idiotproofing the Linux ecosystem.
Any arguments about the rule of law from agencies that lie to courts and mislead them about how evidence was obtained so they can't be challenged on using illegal tactics are a mockery.
Having someones email is like you being logged into their social network instead of them having to log into yours. You need to handle this relationship carefully.

I am 40 and for that reason I am biased with regards to email as I grew up with it. Having said that. I can't find a much better tool than email to build a social project around.

When I started weekendhacker.net I got 3000 signups in a week. First 10 newsletters with around 100 projects I hand wrote but it allowed me to try out and see if there was something of value without spending too much on servers etc (WH is non-profit).

Now I am at 8000 members and with 500 projects under the wing. I have more automation now but it's still centered around the newsletter and it still feels like a community.

Starting a business around emails is the quickest and most telling way of starting a business next to people actually paying you.
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Rule of law is generally necessary, but not sufficient, for freedom, so far as we know human nature. Rule of men is capricious.

Laws that are written up and known ahead of enforcement, and that are enforced fairly and impartially - that's rule of law. But the laws themselves may be unjust or otherwise problematic.

That is, this is a lawful / chaotic axis, not a good / evil axis.
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While I haven't noticed 'Chrome Helper' problems, sometimes Chrome slows my machine with a ton of 'lsof' processes. I suspect an updater going haywire; more details here:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/26gO8swn...

Anyone else seen or worked-around this? (It's been a while since it's noticeably recurred, so maybe it's been fixed.)
This article reminded me of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where the protagonist receives a book that became her closest companion and mentor in her life.
Google Now has a select few easter eggs, but nowhere near what Siri seems to have.
Absolute privacy is the natural order. Absolute surveillance requires suppression of knowledge. One is a lot more brittle and costly than the other.
They are one and the same now. Parallel construction is the fig leaf on that ugly reality.
One of the most annoying things about Chrome is that I can't kill individual tabs via the task manager. Occasionally one tab will go crazy, then I have to click around trying to figure out which tab. Task manager can only close group of tabs.

I know this isn't the same issue just a whole bunch of annoying things about chrome