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>I tell you what my definitions are, not the other way around. Update your arguments, which, in this case, probably consists of discarding them.

I've never spoken to you in my life.

The definition of materialism has been established since 450 BC. It has nothing to do with you.

You can't say that 1=0 just because you define it that way. You have to actually prove that they're the same.

Using your tactic I can prove unicorns exist by redefining unicorns to not have horns. Under my new definition of unicorns, unicorns exist, and I'm going to go around shouting from the rooftop that unicorns exist and I've proved they exist. Anyone who tells me that unicorns don't exist is guilty of failing to recognize my private definition of unicorns. But this argument is absurd, just as your argument that matter exists because you have redefined matter in a new way that is incompatible with the previous definition of matter is absurd.

If your new definition of matter is incompatible with your old definition of matter, then why are you using the same word? It's not matter. It's something else. So use a new word. It's not a unicorn, it's a horse--something that has already been claimed to exist by the philosophers of horses.

You can't say that you've refuted the philosophy of horses and proved that only unicorns exist by redefining unicorns to not have any horns and then pointing at horses as proof of your unicorn theory. This is how crazy materialists sound. Completely illogical.

Materialists in 2015 are going to barns and pointing at horses to prove that unicorns exist, because they've redefined unicorns to now be without a horn. It would be funny if it wasn't so popular.

Berkeley didn't refute Jerf-Materialism. I was arguing against normal materialism, which holds that all things are matter, and that matter is a deterministic, solid, stable, extended substance that has mass, takes up space, is made up of smaller bits of matter, has an exclusion principle with the space that it takes up, interacts with neighboring matter through contact, and so on. This is still what most people think of as matter. Even the people who discovered the empirical evidence that refutes the existence of matter still claim to believe in matter, it's just odd.

Guess what guys! If it doesn't walk like a duck, doesn't talk like a duck, doesn't quack like a duck... it's NOT a duck!

And your private language is not relevant to this discussion.
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This is silly, there's plenty of art that takes a subject and renders it in an incongruous medium. It is usually not productive to criticize art for not achieving something it is not trying to achieve. I'm not taking a side on the question of whether the code calligraphy is good or not, but your argument that it's bad because it doesn't follow the particular model that you think is the correct intersection between art and data does not hold water.
And it has good cartoons as well.
Scientists find that athletes don’t really need all of those drinks
AdBlockPlus has an acceptable ads list  [I must have missed it earlier]
I think it's a pun -- on "Beware the ides of March".
Vortex Bladeless, wind turbine without blades
Any page that pops a modal or interstitial on landing is an instant-close for me.
I don't think anyone anywhere regards it as fact. It's completely speculative, and acknowledged as such in the book. The evidence laid out in the book is narratively compelling but totally circumstantial. For example, the way it so perfectly explains the obsession with physical idols in such a huge and disparate array of cultures around the world is really profound, but of course is no proof at all.

It's just that it's one of the most utterly original and compelling bits of speculation ever written about the mind. It's almost certainly off-base, but I still think it's invaluable reading for anyone interested in consciousness and the mind, if only as an example of how strange a satisfactory explanation may end up being, and as a way of exposing one's own unstated assumptions about consciousness.
Something I've wondered about is why, given Unicode is limited to 21 bits now, nobody seems to be using a 24-bit format ("UTF-24")? If you want constant-time indexing without bit-packing tricks, that'd be the ideal.

Though, of course, constant-time indexing isn't what it's hyped up to be. That's only for codepoints. Actual characters you see on screen are often combinations of codepoints.

So I've answered my own question really. Why does nobody use it? Because there's no point in it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10143836/why-is-there-no-...
>I've thought about this problem for me personally and agree that I definitely don't want all four. I'm fine with three of them, though. In my case, I've decided I'd actually much prefer a smartwatch over a tablet, in the sense that I think a tablet is actually more redundant on top of the phone than a smartwatch. I've actually completely lost interest in tablets over the last year or so.

I actually feel the total opposite... I hate using my phone, and love being on the tablet. At the moment my phone is basically used for WhatsApp and an occasional map search on the go.

I would prefer to have a 4G hub that connects all my devices to the internet. Even better, make the hub intelligent and move all the processing power to it. Then make the tablet and phone act as a screen and it would be perfect :)
hub pull-request is my favorite feature. It cuts the actions down from many mouse clicks to one command in terminal.
tl;dr "Hey, it's not our fault that we adopted policies so offensive to the project maintainer that they utterly washed their hands of us, but the license of GIMP basically prevents them from preventing us from distributing the software inside of our third-party shovelware bundle..."

Good job SourceForge. A++ would never download anything from again.
Headline contradicts the story, which says the button will be added to the "shopping ads that appear alongside search results", not the search results themselves. Big difference.

(I work for Google)
They're owned by a job ads and recruitment company. It's been years since they gave a hoot about the open-source businesses.
Ad-supported business models are OK when the website is view-driven. When the site is download-driven, web ads will never make up for the bandwidth costs, so you'll often end up with sites distributing adware to make up for it (target the area of your product that is actually being used).

So this is a broken model that Sourceforge entered itself into. You absolutely can and should complain that a service has a broken business model resulting in a horrible user experience.
http://www.vortexbladeless.com/
It seems like there's an opportunity here for the big three.

I'm thinking something along the lines of, "Don't like the way services like SourceForge are handling your project nowadays? There are better services to use; here's a list. Obviously, we'd like you to use ours. We've already set up a home for you on our service in anticipation of your stay with us, which we think you'd enjoy. You'll find that it's already fully furnished, even. Here are the keys. Give us the go-ahead and we'll aggressively pursue the takedown of badware distributors."

The benefits to any of the three who go for this plan would be the host's association with such high-profile projects. GitHub may look at this and decide that at this point in their trajectory, there's just not enough in it for them, but it seems like either GitLab or Atlassian could benefit from it.
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We can argue what readings are reasonable until the cows come home. But most lawyers had thought this area of copyright law settled. Creative expression is copyrighted. Functional expression is not. In cases like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade, use of copyrighted material where necessary for functional interoperability has been ruled fair use.

See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1323818 for some of the history about how this came about.
Open Sourcing Twitter Kit and Digits for Android and Launching NDK Support
Uber Adds New Features to Driver-Side App for Hearing Impaired Drivers
Argentine here. Both economies are pretty similar. Both are pretty diverse in their composition but not in their contribution, so you have the fact that primary activities (farming, oil, etc.) are the great contributor to the tax base and basically all other activities receive subsidies. This is the reason ar & br have one of the highest tariffs for electronics.

The root of the inflationary problem both in ar & br is, and has always been, the printing of money to cover for the fiscal deficit. Government hikes taxes every year and every year it consumes a bigger % of the pib.
(a) Mobile usage > 50% of total internet usage
(b) Mobile advertising ~ 25% of total internet advertising

Gap between (a) and (b) represents a ~$25B+ opportunity (slide 16).

Last few years, mobile ads have been propped up by VC funded companies buying installs. This means the opportunity is primarily for brands.

Why do you think it has been so slow? There seem to be enough mobile platforms to advertise on. Are the ad units too expensive for brand awareness campaigns? Or maybe that's wrong and inventory is limited and the platforms aren't charging enough? Maybe large companies are just slow?

I guess I'm trying to understand what shape this opportunity takes. Is it for new platforms to emerge? Existing platforms to sign more customers or charge more for their ad units? Novel ad exchanges to make it easier for companies to advertise on mobile?
A problem with science journalism
Introducing the modern workplace
SAFE Network is now going to rust. These guys are porting all their code from C to Rust and really loving the experience. They are making their libraries stand-alone so they can easily be incorporated in other open source projects as well.

Wiki: https://safenetwork.wiki/en/Libraries

Github: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=user%3Amaidsafe+l...
"UTF-24" feels like the right choice for an internal format if you want true constant-time access to code points with 25% less waste than UTF-32.

I know it's not a power of 2, and that's the most common reason cited against using it, but multiplying by 3 is basically n + 2n or a shift-and-add so it's not really hard to do.
No; you can learn anything on your own online, but it's easier through the structure from school. If you're paying for school yourself, however, you'll be in a much better financial position learning cs on your own.
Something to keep in mind is that she's presenting the data and trends from the point of VC rather than a startup. So you can reverse engineer it as to what will get on an investors screen for this minute (well at least some investors).

But my problem is if you're a startup you tend to think along the lines of solving a problem rather than catching a trend. Another thing is that chasing trends doesn't always produce innovation. For example would Steve Jobs have gone ahead with the iPhone based on a presentation like this from say 2005?

We tend to like data because it gives us the illusion of control, and that's a very wall street way of thinking to make investors feel secure.
There must be a relationship here because I do indeed have that watch face installed.

Though, without allowing that traffic, I don't seem to be able to remove that watchface, and cannot get into the Settings screen in the Pebble Android app to configure anything else.
I haven't used it for anything serious, but librelist looks promising: http://librelist.com/
> By species, I mean not able to inter-breed;

It's a bit more complicated than that. The edges of species can be very fuzzy. For example, it's possible that population A can interbreed with population B, which can interbreed with population C, but A and C cannot interbreed.

It's also possible that populations can interbreed, but don't, due to differences in behaviour, looks or environment.

Are dogs and wolves the same species? They can interbreed, yet are seen as different species. What about Great Danes and Chihuahuas?

Humans and Neanderthals interbred, we know now, and yet are different species.
I am at a similar level of experience and have been interested in learning more about programming, with the hope of pursuing it as a potential career path down the line. It is encouraging to hear about someone else's success. Can you tell me more about the program you used? What were you doing for work before the bootcamp?

Thanks!
https://launchpad.net ?
> the assumption that inflation exists creates money itself.

That seems like a claim that's hard to defend... If the government stopped printing money, it is true people would continue to adjust prices upwards for a while, but people would quickly realize that they were running out of actual money and stop doing this.

This isn't the kind of situation where borrowing & lending is indirectly increasing the money supply, if no money is printed people would simply run out of bills and the inflation would stop, regardless of "assumptions" and "psychology".
> Github is only a solution for software without meaningful binary assets where the user is expected to build the software himself and no community interaction beyond pull requests and issue reports is desired.

GitHub Releases addresses this (i.e you can release compiled binary assets as your "release", rather than just an archive of the repository). Also, GitHub Pages is pretty useful if you want to build a user-facing site for your project.

edit: typo
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> I guess cutting all ties to Dr Walter Lewin means nothing of his can be hosted on anything that is owned by MIT.

This really doesn't logically follow. It's perfectly reasonable for a university to, say, host a video-taped panel discussion with folks who have committed crimes, or publish a book by someone with immoral views.

The defense of taking down these courses is ostensibly based on the idea that they need to prevent new bad behavior from taking place, i.e., that the on-going courses actually represent a danger.

> MIT says it removed Lewin videos for fear of continued harassment

But of course, there is almost certainly a way to do that while preserving the course material.

Here are Scott Aaronson's thoughts:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091

As the comments allude to, MIT keeps copies of Mein Kampft in their library. It doesn't mean they endorse the work.
no matter what the adblocker can always pretend to view the ad, this is not a fight advertisers can win.
Gimp should just push an update that has a "Stop using Sourceforge" splash screen and see if Sourceforge distributes that new version.

It's a shame. Sourceforge used to be really good.
If you already have some of those app installed, do you still need to select them on the install page or not?
Aren't those findings on apes heavily contested? I know there were a few cases of hoaxes/deluded researchers. Apes are quite capable of something, true, but is it language as we understand it?
Google still finds way better results for “complex gamma function”, for example. I have yet to see a search engine that can take on the Goog, let alone surpass it. I wonder what it would take to accomplish that...
A CIA Director Tells Us How to Make Hard Decisions
I strongly suspect the individual would perceive it to be very different from dying, yes---both on the experiential level ("I look at my hands and I'm still here") and on the memory level.

Memories don't randomly vanish; there's pretty good evidence that the brain does retain useful content. So if you're arguing that "500-years-in-the-future you would be such a different person that we might as well say now-you is dead in 500 years," I think the burden of proof is on that claim because we don't make it for modern elderly people. It passes neither the common-sense sniff test nor the extrapolation test ("What's special about 500 years out as opposed to 70 years out that breaks continuity?").
You simply can not have hyperinflation without the government printing money. In normal situations, there's not enough money to keep an economy running after a 1000 times increase on the prices level.

Now, if you are arguing that the government started printing money because the energy crisis destroyed its budget, then yes, the energy crisis caused the printing of money, that caused the hyperinflation. Thus, in some indirect sense, the energy crisis caused the hyperinflation.
According to the paper "Intended and Unintended Births in the United States: 1982–2010" where they interviewed 12 000 women, for women aged 15-24 either married or living together with their partner, a little more than half of all pregnancies were intended. I think it's safe to assume that most of those were first pregnancies.
"Swiss Data Security

Our email service safeguards user data with strict privacy protections and our secure datacenter facility hidden inside a Swiss granite mountain."

Now that is comforting.
PyCharm's debugger is awesome. [1] It really is faster then the import pdb;pdb.settrace(). (which happens to get committed sometimes).
Code coverage displaying is really well implemented.
Autocompletion and introspection is great. On a lot of frameworks as well.
Continuously displays python linting issues and suggests fixes.
Vagrant support works really good, even for remote debugging and running tests/devservers.
The git implementation is quite useful, although I do fall back on command line every now and then.
You can customize pycharm's interface a lot (impossible to explain in just a line or 2). If you like to edit distraction-free... there is a mode for that too.
It has an internal git system. So if you screw stuff between git commits, you can revert to a previous version nonetheless (local version)
There are a few ways to open files: a tree view, an "alfred"-like method and probably more.

1: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/#debugger

Things i do not use:
The internal terminal; iTerm just is a lot better.
The interal ipython console. I prefer iTerm + iPython.
FTP and oldschool stuff like that.
Did not try the new profiling feature yet.
Youtube lectures are a good source for people who prefer to learn vocally.
Fed's level of independence: Ever heard of Greenspan Put? Even much more so for Bernanke and Yellen.

You can't call FED indpendent. They are not about inflation. They are not about full employment. They have been all about keeping asset bubbles afloat since 1990s: from nasdaq, through housing, ending on treasuries. All "indpendent" FED creation.

And then obviously central bank is a failed idea. Market should determine price of credit. Not a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat setting the most important price in the economy - price of credit. As if he knew better from the market what the prices should be. The central banker will always set the price of credit wrong. Too low - bubble. Too high - burst. Let the market set prices. Especially the price of credit.
Live-blog of all the Google News from Google I/O 2015
So please lay out your definition of stealing and explain why it would apply to this case.

"take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it."

No property is taken. It's not stealing. There are other correct terms to describe these things like theft of service.
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>Unlike a traditional IDE, each tool is self contained and can be used on its own.

Neat tools, but this is literally the opposite of an IDE.
Your fourth Exploit (ASLR, info leaks and virtual functions)
I wouldn't say "further along". Deciding to not tackle any medium-to-hard problems just allowed them to be finished far earlier with their language.
"The one bootcamp developer who survived, from what I found out was basically eat sleep breathing itunes computer science courses. But she eventually resigned from massive burnout."

As a self taught developer myself, this pretty much describes how I managed to keep my first job. I'd be working 16 hour days.... itunes U didn't exist at the time, but I made enough to buy as many books as I needed. I'd spend all night learning what I didn't know.

I started programming at 12 (my first dev job was at 18), so going in I had a good idea of how to program, but going from side projects to full time work required that extra effort.
The lack of server-side auth state only worsens security, and negligible from a performance perspective for common webapps when you're often touching the database anyway (it seems to me you'd really need all your static caches to classify requests and inspect tokens to make this worthwhile).
I looked into this for my current project, but in my opinion you have to leave behind too many things if you do this instead of Sass. Namely:

-No mixins

-No maps

-No loops and conditionals

Maybe a couple of years ago, but now that libsass runs so fast I still don't see the point of using this.
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Vibrant.js is a JavaScript port of the Palette class (Android support library)
One Woman's Quest to Fix the Process of Reporting Sexual Assault
for an engineer, Moldbug is remarkably bad at using accurate language. for example, http://unreserved-qualifications.blogspot.jp/2015/05/mencius...
As far as I know you cannot be fired for choosing to treat a condition. That would be discrimination. Chances are your coworkers would not care. Some of your coworkers probably do some illegal drugs, or maybe the same prescribed medication you do. I know I had coworkers who smoked weed, and would talk about it, and I do not live in a state where that is legal. Nobody cared SHRUGS
I see different incentives within my own organization. Sales and sales engineers makes commission so they want to close the deal no matter what. I deliver a specific product so I just want to get it done and stay under budget. Another consulting group handles the long term customer relationship so they are more inclined to give away free work for future relationship building that I am not incentivized to want to do.
"The most scalable MQTT Message Broker.
Powering IoT, M2M, Mobile, and Web Applications."

Warning, abbreviation overload! I don't know if it's because of Game of Thrones (which I don't even watch) but I find "IoT" intensely difficult to remember as an abbreviation. And I had to look up "M2M". I guess MQTT is acceptable because people interested in this would already know it.
>>Truthfully, all first world countries are gradually applying more and more welfare laws so there's no where to really escape to unless you want to live in say the Saychelles or Cyphrus or another tax-haven.

I come from a country(India) where generations of some very smart people have left to come and stay in the US. Guess Why? For a lot of time, it was pointless to even start a business in India(Given taxes and regulations). Add to this welfare laws like reservations, subsidies and freebies. You get at least 5 to 6 decades of very brilliant people leaving the country to never return again. The brain drain is still on, it hasn't stopped yet. All due to welfare policies.

Its taking decades more to fix that problem. I can assure you all those welfare laws ultimately led to far bigger problem they tried to solve.

US born citizens have no first hand experience of this. Nor do they have an idea of what it feels to live in such a country.

These words may look harsh. But the reality on the ground for such societies is very far from what you might have read in the books or articles online.
They have buy competition though. I have read (and it seems plausible to me) that most people go directly to Amazon.com when they know what they want to buy already, and they only search Google for things to buy when they don't know.

I myself limit my online buys to Amazon because it's more convenient than setting up a new account for each individual vendor. I don't even care if I pay more at Amazon. It's safer and more convenient.