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The implication that you cannot use Python 3 "if you are creating a project that you want to share with others" is false. Python 3 code is routinely shared and used.

There are a lot of enterprise systems that are still on COBOL, but that wouldn't make it any less ridiculous to say that you can't use Python if you are creating a project that you want to share with others.
I don't get your argument. I wrote my first programs using the very limited BASIC that came with my Commodore 64. Now that was primarily an entertainment device, and I still managed to learn interesting things with it!
[Law] to require Brazilians to [use real name and SSN-like] to post [in the web]
The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece
Quest for Glory 4 was always my favorite of the series. I loved the darkness and lore of Mordavia, and had a huge crush on Katrina. 2 was the first one I played, but most of my memories of it involve dying, getting lost, and was there some time-based mechanism in that game? I feel like some of my failures were based on not getting to certain places by a certain time... I was only 10 years old, and some of those puzzles were pretty difficult.

I haven't replayed any of them since around the time 5 was released. I am definitely going to have to look up that remake.
Pinkertons.

Anyone taking bets on how long it takes for this guy to get into a dispute with a neighbor and he starts exerting influence through his private police force.
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:)

Maybe it's better to start with I Am a Strange Loop.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
Agreed 100%. He's an aspect of nature in physical form, with all the danger and ambiguity that nature brings.
I get it, I just don't think it would be very hard to migrate those things. You'd probably even be able to download an OSS tools from whatever GitHub replacement you'd be about to migrate to.

I'm not sure I'm with you on the second point. I think I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's a reach to their from this incident. Being required to use civil language on a public site seems like a reasonable requirement to me.
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I changed the title to give some context to international headers and stay within the 80 character limit, I hope it stills within the spirit of the rule concerning editorial changes. A literal translation would be "Representative to require Brazilians to give CPF to post in social networks", but the text makes clear the proposed law will affect any website and, in Brazil, CPF is something alike a SSN originally used for taxes but now required for a lot of things, including financial operations, boarding a plane (sometimes even an interstate bus!), opening bank accounts, getting a job, going to school, etc.

The Google-translation is pretty good for an machine translation, but follows a few fixes:

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Representative to require Brazilians to give CPF to post in social networks

The House of Representatives will discuss a bill that seeks to end anonymity on the Brazilian Internet.

Authored by Congressman Silvio Costa, from the Social Christian Party from Pernambuco, PL 1879/2015 wants to change the Internet Civil Mark to include an obligation to store the full name and CPF number of Internet users who want to publish something on the network.

Any site that allows exposure of ideas would have to store this information of its users. The obligation would be set by adding a paragraph to the Civil Mark as it would read: "Internet application provider, as defined in the head, which allows posting of public information by third parties, as in blog comments, forum posts, status updates on social networks, or any other method to insert information in the Internet, shall keep, in addition, records of these users including at least their full name and their Natural Person Record number (CPF)."

For the deputy Silvio Costa, "this simple requirement will certainly curb the attitudes of those who cowardly hide behind anonymity to disseminate criminal messages in the network. Also," he continues, "individuals who insist in this type of conduct will be more easily identified and properly prosecuted."

The project is still in the House for analysis from commissions of Science and Technology, Communication and Informatics, and Constitution and Justice and Citizenship.
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> what I find fascinating is how the author seems to inadvertently be displaying the very behaviour the article is describing, even though with all their research you'd expect they'd be best equipped not to.

The article is about how parenting is stressful but (ultimately) rewarding, and you're surprised that the author of it finds parenting stressful but (ultimately) rewarding? Did you expect she'd find it not stressful, or that she'd find it not rewarding?
Anyone else wondering why a city with a crime problem has had their police force reduced by 500 officers in the last 3 years?
It doesn't really matter how transparent it is, since, International Law has rather little ability to enforce its decisions.

As much as we try to develop rules and norms to constrain and moderate behavior by countries in the international community, at the end of the day, "the strong [still] do as they can and the weak [still] suffer what they must".

And yes, you're right that the actions and intentions are pretty transparent, with just some uncertainty surrounding the extent (ie, what reasoning will the PRC ultimately use to justify its claims, as it's also been quite ambiguous about them).
Using git as a deployment tool is dangerous.

Although if I were to suggest just using SFTP to move everything but the .git file and not even have it on the remote server at all, I would probably just seem like a drooling neanderthal.

Although actually not having the repo be web accessible is probably the second best option.
Pedantry about "MS" being different than the "software" aside - Microsoft consists of a specific sub-sampling of those people.

So I challenge you: How? In what way? Does it meaningfully change the calculus of your total life ownership? Why?
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I'd like to be positive about this especially considering the thought behind it, but...this is bad. I read the tutorial PDF hoping not to find BASIC-style unstructured programming. I was disappointed. QBASIC was the first language that I learned as a kid, and I regret it to this day. Learning to solve all my programming problems using GOTO in such a formative time set me back months when
I finally moved to structured programming languages. In addition to that, the syntax of this language is so inexplicably heavyweight that I feel like "SmallBasic" is an intentionally ironic name.

I'm assuming that this article is apropos of the article posted on HN earlier today about how Python is the new BASIC, as far as educational languages are concerned. I agree with the sentiment. These days, we can and should do a
lot better than BASIC as a first language for kids.
py3k break str(), a very basic yet extremely important data type for all scripting languages.
Followed shortly by the petition to rename China to Asia.
People hating on Mozilla is about as weird as hating on Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. That is to say - it's not weird at all. You're just saying that because you like their bullshit better than the other company's.

Me personally, I think they're run by a bunch of lying thieves who have been bought out. If they actually cared about openness, they'd have done a lot more with the hundreds of millions of dollars that they've collected over the years.
more money than cents
Could you not have used Transferwise?
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I see what your are getting at and they are not the only villains (see US/Iraq conflict). The biggest difference between Russia's expansion and the US' conflicts is the US doesn't annex the countries we invade (in modern times at least).

Only mentioned Vietnam because it was discussed in the article. Besides US Troops arent fighting proxy wars with Russia at the moment. Just fighting "Terrorists", whatever that means at this time.
It's not really your fault, but defeating Google-gotcha interview questions is a very distorting motivation. I'd like to think that this material is worth studying because it will help you to achieve things you otherwise could not, whether at Google or elsewhere.

But that leads to a different kind of study: deep dives into specialized subjects relevant for the task at hand, rather than attempting to maintain shallow coverage over a broad field.
He is underneath nature, primal and original. The ring was nothing to him; it changed things in such a trivial way, to his understanding, as to be irrelevant.
I enjoy it when people feel the need to educate me with Yahoo! Answers.
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> As far as AIXI is concerned, this is the definition of an "intelligent action": that which leads to the largest expected utility over the agent's lifetime.

No. Largest expected utility over the (weighted) set of all possible future timelines (i.e. hypotheses). AIXI chooses the action that gives the best average over the set of future timelines. But we only live in one timeline. Maybe an action that is very good, averaged over all possible futures, is very bad in our actual timeline?

Now we can think than an action that is good on average, maybe it is probably good in our real timeline, too. But the way AIXI gives weight to different future timelines is based on how short their MDL [1] is. Maybe this is not at all how real world works? Who knows.

A silly example: Maybe there are a lot of possible future timelines where things randomly explode. And maybe their MDL is actually shorter than for timelines where things stay stable. Then we produce a highly intelligent robot that does nothing else but seeks shelter in the nearest empty room. And this would be the "definition of intelligent action". (Defined as the maximized intelligent action over imagined future timelines where things mostly randomly explode.)

Btw, in NFL theorem, the averaging is over all possible datasets (and datasets usually describe something about past, not future), not over all possible explanations. (But yes, you can think that implicitly behind every dataset there is a multitude of world models which could have produced the dataset.)

[1] Minimum Description Length
what's wrong with pylibmc? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylibmc this is actively maintained, mature, feature-rich, highly performant, and has been in widespread production use for years.
At least, potholes can't move, but with petty criminals, if some streets are patrolled more often, they will just move elsewhere.
> Reference counting and caching are probably the only areas where immutability can help for most programs.

There is another use spurred by React: when you have a new state to represent, you have to diff it against current state to know exactly what changed and work only on this diff. "Immutable" structures make this trivial.
>>Besides that, artificial land is nothing new

Also - hitting closer to home for me is that a good chunk of Boston is on top of man made land. The entire "Back Bay" area (which is what most people consider downtown Boston) was originally underwater.
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Anybody knows if there is support for LLVM IR code as well? What would be good alternatives here?
Off topic, but that happened to me once, as a tourist from Europe visiting San Francisco. Only difference was that the guy who played this routine on me, wanted $15 per shoe. I was a naive 23 y.o. kid, but really entertained because he played me well, so I said "No way man, I'll give you $5 for both!"

Meanwhile his buddy was pressuring him to get going, so the guy was really annoyed with me, but took the $5 and ran off to the guy shouting to him to get into the car. Only later, back in Europe, did I realise how close I could have been to a totally different outcome, so to me life stopped being a given when I realised that. gulp
we are in the process of doing a slight graphical upgrade to the sites in the near future to clean them up and make them more mobile friendly. stay tuned!
> 420,000+ signatures so far...

It actually has a bit over 76,000 signatures.
My strategy is to avoid taking notes unless absolutely necessary. In a meeting, just engage in the conversation. The only things you need to write down are the things you need to DO because of that meeting.

I know this doesn't work very well for i.e. discovery meetings with clients, but I don't have those anymore (and when I did, I just recorded the audio). You asked what MY techniques were ;)
It was very much a hostile takeover. If I remember correctly, the people who controlled the infrastructure like the website and mailing list booted out not only Michael but also a bunch of the existing maintainers of ffmpeg code and it got really ugly.
More or less all the UK banks are at various stages of involvement with blockchain technology. One use case I have seen openly discussed is cross-border, interbank settlement. A large part of the fees you talk about don't even stay in the bank. I forget exactly where they end up but e.g. IIRC both the fed and ECB charge fees for clearing.
What is the buying power $500-550 in the UK? (I'm trying to come up with a exchange-rate-adjusted ballpark for other countries)
Damn, missed the edit window. Fixed rule #5

http://files.figshare.com/2196656/Analysis_of_the_false_posi...

Same DOI, new version.
I don't remember Dubai building military installations, only selling mansions to those who can afford it. Also they did it right off their own coast and not miles into disputed waters.
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The whole asia is just a boling pot that is going to explode but nobody knows when.

I predict the peak to be when the North Korean regime collapses and South tries to absorb the North de facto creating an option for Korea to become a regional military super house.
Japanese right wing extremists pushing government to start massive military spending once again creating much more powerful Japan.

I do not really know what will China do at this stage to be honest. It may try to ally with Korea but i think koreans stay neutral and will try to rebuild the North. It is highly possible that the second miracle on the han river may actually happen and Korea gets richer and richer (after all North has a massive mineral resources and a cheap workforce) and korean GDP might start reaching interesting numbers.

I predict Japan will try to push forward and claim the disputed islands with the support of uncle Sam.

At this point I do not know what happens but i see Korea as a random factor that might start shooting at everyone who is not korean.
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This comic is staggeringly misleading. Here's a shotgun blast of problems with it:

* China is not a party to the TPP; China's absence from the treaty is practically its defining attribute. Yet the comic allocates large amounts of space to China's relationship with the US and the US trade deficit, neither of which are targets of the TPP.

* The comic is many, many pages long and only begins talking about the TPP at the very end. In that discussion of the TPP, there appear to be a total of just two panels actually based on any text from the TPP, despite extraordinary claims made about the breadth of the TPP earlier.

* It has an extended segment on US job exports, as if the TPP somehow changes the fact that every job that could be viably exported to Asia already has been. The US does not need the TPP to outsource manufacturing to Asia.

* The most important goals the US appears to have in the TPP is to harmonize intellectual property rules across the Pacific Rim. There is a very reasonable, very important argument against making Asian IP law more like the US, which is that medical care across Asia depends on lax IP laws. What does this comic have to say about intellectual property? They're coming for our music downloads!!!

* It has an extended segment about an evil robot that alternately represents either the finance industry or (once again) China and never connects it to the TPP or, for that matter, reality --- it's a pure appeal to emotion. "Modern finance is scary; reject the TPP!" The segment isn't even internally consistent! This is the lead-off argument the comic poses against TPP, and it boils down to "finance is friendly right now but might not be in the future; China".

* Despite the domain name, no economist seems to have had a hand in its authorship. The author himself is not an economist.

Like I said last time this came up: if you're looking for coherent opposition to the TPP, there are great economists you can read to get that information. I'd start with Dean Baker at CEPR. Please: oppose the TPP for real reasons, not because some bullshit comic told you to.
You don't need a currency to have a blockchain. A group of counterparties could work together to create their own closed/permissioned blockchain as a decentralised mechanism for recording transactions of, say, securities or real-time gross settlement.

This is what companies like Eris Industries and Hyperledger/Digital Asset Holdings are focused on.
Yes, that's certainly part of it.

The word retard was used to describe these people as sub-human, as other, as not having any worth. That started in the Eugenics material from the UK and US in late 19th / early 20th century, was put into full effect in Nazi Germany (who tested their mass murder techniques on people with LD before movig onto killing Jews) and even though it slowed after WWII the attitude is still prevelant. You will still find doctors who do not treat medical problems in people with LD with the same vigour they'd treat people without LD. You find doctors placing DNR orders on patients with LD without talking to that patient or their family first.

The word retard is frequntly used during the commission of hate crime. Disability hate incidents (which aren't always crime and are not always about LD) are more common than homophobic hate incidents or religion based hate incidents.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/blog/four-things-you-probably-didn...

Disability hate crime starts with verbal abuse. It doesn't end there. http://www.theguardian.com/society/joepublic/2011/sep/13/gem...

People with learning disability live their life being bullied. A survey for UK charity MENCAP called "Living in Fear" shows how frequent this bullying is.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2009...

> A survey by Mencap of people with a learning disability has found that nearly nine out of ten respondents have experienced bullying in the last year. Two-thirds are bullied on a regular basis and almost one-third are suffering from bullying on a daily or weekly basis. People with a learning disability face prejudice and widespread discrimination that often makes them feel like outcasts and prevents them from taking a full part in society. Public attitudes in the United Kingdom towards people with a learning disability remain discriminatory. The Mencap survey suggests that the bullying of people with a learning disability is institutionalised throughout society.

If you want to cause fear, alarm, upset, distress in people who have a learning disability then please do feel free to continue to use the word retard as an insult. It's not much of an insult if the person you're speaking to doesn't have an LD; they probably don't care. To them it's just a word, like "that's so gay" or "hey my nigga" are just words.
Yeah, it would be interesting to learn about pure functions and referential transparency before basic algebra.
All is needed is to have editor that can show white spaces (i.e. show tabs differently than spaces, after all those are two different characters).

With that the whole issue with tabs and spaces no longer exists.

BTW if you are copying snippets of code from website "as is" in any language you will have to reformat it to fit your structure. Also if you copy code so often that this is becoming an issue I'm not sure I would want someone like that working for me.
I said "decentralized name resolution protocol" for the very reason that I anticipated someone bringing up dyndns.

DNS is quite centralized with its registrars and the DNS root.
That's fair; the intent was to only change the search setting for users who had not changed their default. I don't know the specifics around that decision, but it seems like a reasonable position; I'm not sure anything further would have been viable. Still, I get how that can seem intrusive, and I apologize for it.

At the time we landed this change, we also tweaked the search box to increase the visibility of alternative engines and make it easier to switch your default. Hopefully that mitigated some of the pain for you.

We're in a weird place. We have to make enough money to fund the engineering that keeps Firefox competitive, but we also have to stay true to our non-profit mission and ownership. Balancing those two interests is difficult, and we're not always going to get it right. For when we don't, I'm sorry.
I guess that's a role reversal from Tianhe-II, for which the processors were made in the US and assembled in China.
Didn't read in enough detail to pick out the use of K.

My understanding is that the separation comes from an internal/external dichotomy. Internally we only have our observations as support for the metric, externally (and for a nicer mathematical construction) we need more structure including explicit construction of the manifold. This feels plausible externally, but involves some amount of arbitrary choice which is what is flexed to introduce the paradox.

To be honest, I'm not much of a physicist, but this idea shows up all over in mathematics.
Some memes immunize us against other memes. As a scientist, I'm immunized against all sorts of religious memes. But of course, carriers of religious memes are typically immunized (at least partially) against scientific memes.
The libav side have consistently refused to merge code from the ffmpeg side of the split, including security fixes, have written their own incompatible versions of any APIs the ffmpeg developers come up with, and been generally hostile, and he's the one that's had to deal with the mess for the past several years.
If ads are memetic WMDs, then maybe it is a war.
you can download CSVs from the draft finder on pro-football-reference.com. that includes career AV.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/draft-finde...
I may have just skewed memories/expectations but the graphics in the earlier games are excellent compared to what I remember at the time. I'm thinking specifically of the screenshots of:

KQ5 (1990): https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/OIoS9JrnCaaX60mJWfECdJjtVus...

KQ6 (1992): https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/kZopVZ3ZIoxfkmLrQXeKxlmiVto...
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How come the UN is not stopping this stupidity? Their 9 dash nine rule is so stupid.
Exactly. Quotes like:

> The word “hustle” has lost its meaning. Everyone who works hard is called a “hustler,” even if they don’t win. Fuck conceptualization of ‘hustling’ as working hard. I only care about results. A great hustle without results isn’t a great hustle. With this hustle, my goal was to get the attention of the AngelPad founder.

are just downright blatant and uncomfortable. If everybody thinks in this way then we're doomed. Unfortunately nowadays many do seem to do so.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for taking the effort to explain so eloquently what I meant, when I asked my question. I'm not a native English speaker, but you still got it right. ^ht
With nuclear subs, it really doesn't matter.
The idea of removing advertisements is itself a meme that propagates and must compete with other memes.