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Technically, HE himself, as in Plato, first person, never says 'the physical world is bad'. However, if you study his work, you will find that this notion is indeed carried out in the words and actions of his protagonist, Socrates.

For example, and maybe the best example: Socrates, laying on his back as the numbness and cold from the hemlock worked its way from his legs upward after willingly drinking it, removed the cloth that had been laid across his face and said "Oh... don't forget to sacrifice a cock to Asclepius for me...". This phrase, which was also used by Steinbeck in "The Moon is Down" in a similar context, is taken to mean "please go an make an offering to the God of Ailments & Cures, as I have been cured of the curses of the physical world by death, and am going to a much better place..."

Also, Plato's take wasn't that the physical world was "bad" so much as it was composed of imperfect instances of the "Forms"; Reality as mere shadows and projections of purer, more abstract concepts.

I take slight issue, however, with you denigrating "secondary materials" with a broad stroke. There are some really very good, objective analyses of Plato (Vlastos, et. al.) that actually provide a great deal of insight from time to time by explaining some of the idioms and pre-conceived notions of the time and culture that are necessarily understood to be placed in the proper context to understand the dialogue.

For my 2¢, I say to the OP: Wittgenstein. The "Brown" and "Blue" books. Very interesting, modern philosophy that deals with semantic meaning and the binding of semantics to syntax and lexicon. Very intriguing stuff. Oh, and the guy was a kindergarden teacher, so you KNOW he had balls of steel. ;)
Awesome timing. I'm just starting to contemplate porting the prototype VM i'm working on to C. Thanks Mahmud! You seem to be coming to the rescue often these days :-p
This could actually be the kind of problem that's solvable by engineering. Make a simple and easy to use ad creation interface. Let me spend as much as I want for ads on certain subreddits/geoips. Make a system that sets the price by bidding, and that allows flagging/voting on an ad. Then advertise it.

It's incidentally what I think 4chan is missing too. Not necessarily for /b/, but the domain oriented boards coupled with some geoip would make for some pretty targeted ads. I think it's a pretty big loss not letting the little guy spend his $100 if he wants too.
Hi jedberg,

First of all, thanks for your hard work on reddit. I'm myself quite addicted to some interesting subreddits for about 6 months.

I would like to answer on your issue with the 6 months problem that interns 'would have' if you pick one. If I'm right, you released a virtual machine with reddit installed, last month, on a blog post. I see no reason for _any_ intern for not being able to contribute to reddit from day 1.

Seriously, /r/programming and /r/coding are great, and I'm 110% sure you can find an intern which would know perfectly how reddit works (code related) and who would be very kind to help out.

This virtual machine already setup was a great idea, why not using it to your own goal ?

edit: s/internet/intern
Have him call his MP - I can't stress enough how helpful this is (or even better, have someone who's a citizen and lives in the riding call the MP).

The vast majority of MPs have someone in their constituency offices who spends 90% of their time on immigration issues. They know who to call at CIC, they know their way around immigration laws inside and out, and they know which organizations in the community are reputable when you need one for sponsoring, etc. This isn't something they do in their spare time; a major part of constituency work is helping people deal with the Federal government, and seeing as there is such a high number of immigrants in Canada, this often means dealin with immigration/citizenship issues.

Talk to them - and if they can't help you personally, they'll know every immigration lawyer in the area and who to trust.
His daughter's view is "pacifiers for all!"
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=pa...

He didn't even mention pacifism.
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Broken link: try http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/07/droid-does-maven/.
Not really on topic but:

Insanely cool google custom search implementation :)
And Lego just opened a flagship store at Rockefeller Center - http://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/Karen/entry/40...
OK yeah that's a bit creepy. I missed that part. Why do they seemingly absolve them of any suspicion earlier in the report? I still feel like we should trust the judgement of the reporters. They're taking a measured response to this.
Typical debugging routines. It's fairly obvious some developer wrote this to troubleshoot devices and they forgot to remove it from the final golden master build.

This happens a lot, and there is nothing malicious about it. Now, if they had spawned this process from init and left it running on all phones leaving the factory, that would be another story.
My list:

- Pirkei Avot, it's a section of the Mishnah (a part of the Talmud), it summarizes the jewish moral thought (well, not for the Karaites Jews, they did not believe in the Talmud), I was born in a Orthodox Jewish family so it was important on my beliefs, even though I am an Atheist now.

- Organon, it's a compilation of Aristotle's logic works, they are the basis for the logical thought of the Western civilization, I think it's easier to read the originals than compendiums.

- Philosophical Investigations, the second book of Wittgenstein, it's dense, and obscure to some extent, but it's really eye-opener, some ideas that influenced the last century are introduced there.

- Proofs and Refutations, a posthumous work by Imre Lakatos, it defied much of my established view on how Mathematics works.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a powerful book, it's dense and you can only drag many conclusions from it when you read other works from Nietzsche, which lead to my next book.

- On the Genealogy of Morality, this is for me the most important of the 5 books that I have read from Nietzsche, in the first essay of the book the concept of master morality and slave morality is introduced, some people think that Nietzsche favors the first, I disagree, for me he describes and criticizes both.

- Truth and Method, the classic of Gadamer, some people call it a "postmodern" work, this only serves to show how "modern" some of the "postmodern" were, the book basically addresses how our current beliefs and customs, which he calls traditions, plays an important part in our hermeneutics and how we always are biased to interpret something.

- Epistemic Justification, this book of William Alston is a good refinement if you already know some epistemology, although I disagree with the "justified true belief" definition of knowledge, that is the main theme of the book and its essays, it introduced some questions about the nature and limitations of knowledge.

- Inquiry into the Human Mind, by Thomas Reid is a good read and also a staunch defense of the common sense.
The problem I have with this sort of line of reasoning is that it views research in an entirely economic light. It opens with a quote about how scientific research is not a public good, and a suggestion that publicly funded research might harm economic growth. But what about research that does not have a direct impact on the economy? What about the Hubble, or supercolliders? What private company would fund those?

Or, the best example I can think of, is about a therapy for panic disorder (a psychological disorder). There is a remarkable effective talk therapy for panic disorder which cures 80+% of the people who have it, and those people stay cured years after they complete the therapy (and there is no evidence it ever returns). The most effective drug treatments cure much fewer than half of the people, and once those people stop taking the drugs, the panic tends to return. The studies comparing drugs and talk therapy are incredibly expensive, and almost all of them come out of England, paid for by the government. What private company would ever want to fund that sort of research? They have an highly profitable drug treatment, which is effectively addictive (if you stop it, the panic returns)? Why would they spend their own money to research a course of therapy that lasts 8-12 weeks and is then done?

I don't think private research is a bad thing at all. But private research is profit driven, and there are some really important problems out there that don't have a big financial payoff once they're solved. Economically speaking, finding a more effective to regrow hair in bald men would probably be a lot more profitable than finding a cheap cure for any number of diseases ravaging Africa. Doesn't mean it's more important.
I don't disagree with you, but that's just part of working on a popular project. There are plenty of armchair language designers who could of course do everything better than you.
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> Any suggestions for a good designer who is startup-friendly?

+1 this...finding someone that is affordable and good is very very hard. I've tried various online sites (rentacoder, etc), at various different price points, and been disappointed every time.

You know how when you're watching a movie and it is so bad that you "fall out" of it and can't stop thinking that it is a movie and these people are actors, acting? That's how my experience is with designers so far, when I look at their work, it doesn't pull me in, so many things stand out like sore thumbs and all I can think is someone designed this, and did a poor job. Does that make any sense?
This looks like an automated debugging/testing tool that should not have made it to a production build to me. Is there anything that points in or away from that possibility? Pentaps seems extraneous for a backdoor...
That's what flagging is for. If it's spam or a really bad article, flag it!
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Tailored handcrafted tactile experiences. I don't think you can machine this, though. But that's great design. Good design can be made by following simple rules: grid, contrast, simple copy, for apps: easy-to-understand interface and functions.
1. Cassandra is very young! Especially, the design and implementation of local storage and local indexing are junior and not good.

2. Pool read-performance is also due to the poor local storage implementation.

3. The local storage, indexing and persistence structures are not stable. They need to be re-designed /re-implemented. If Twitter move data to current Cassandra, they should do another move later for a new local storage, indexing and persistence structure.

4. There are many good techniques in Cassandra and other open-sourced projects (such as Hadoop, HBase) etc. But, they are not ready for production. Understand the detail of these techniques and implement them in your projects/products.

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For actual data storage they build this layer on top of MYSQL ( and redis, and all other things that need sharding ) : http://github.com/twitter/gizzard
Yes, the question is whether Python intends to support the growing number of usage scenarios for which the GIL is a problem. You could write something like Cassandra or Lucene using a combination of Python and C, but the GIL prevents that.
Thanks. My fav feature is the automagic syntax highlighting of indented code blocks.
Socialism is preventing race to the bottom.
Capitalism is promoting race to the top.

Communists willfully ignore this fact.
I have the 3G 32GB version, too. I love it! Apple's optional carrying case is a must.
I don't like the Mathematica language per se very much, but the massive number of built-in functions, the excellent graphing capabilities, and the interactive environment are just dazzling. If your goal is to run a fairly simple simulation and visually explore the results, Mathematica is in a league of its own.
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The analysis on HN is way off. The Skilled Worker program brings in skilled people without jobs lined up in the expectation they will find a job once they get here.

Computer related industries must not be hiring, or at least not hiring immigrants. Because having thousands of unemployed skilled workers in Canada is not the goal of the program, they delisted it as a category.

By the way, it's possible this happened because people don't want to hire immigrants despite competent developers being in high demand in Toronto. Here's a blog post I wrote about that a long time ago:

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/07/23/immigrant-quebecoi...
I felt the same way, and commented on the original post about lack of documentation and actually showing the potential user something.

I thought that maybe it was a dry run test, but didn't want to accuse Dru of not having any product when it was possible he had spent months building this.

It's a shame that in order to test out hypothesis and expect to get adequate feedback, it has come to lying to customers about the product being offered.
Particularly when they have a 'free - get started' button, making the user think they are about to get the product.

Nowhere on the sign-up page does it say the product is in beta testing (which of course it isn't, it's just an idea at the moment).

I'm all for discovering what the customer wants.

I'm not for telling the customer you have something to offer when you don't.
> Do they have an expiration on these spots that are marked empty by the person leaving?

Not exactly. But if you look at the top of the example image they provided there is some indication of how long the empty spot is expected to last.
Some from the canon:

Plato: Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito (translated by David Gallop)

The Modes of Scepticism by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes (a beautiful collection of texts from Pyrrhonian scepticism and analysis of their arguments; the best way I know to meet ancient scepticism)

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (The Cambridge University Press edition is very good; it's probably worth buying their Selected Philosophical Writings for a good basic Descartes text)

David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (I recommend the Oxford Philosophical Texts editions)

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (terribly, terribly difficult, but very rewarding)

A few contemporary things:

Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind

Willard Van Orman Quine: From a Logical Point of View

J. L. Mackie: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

Thomas Nagel: Mortal Questions (short essays, well-written, very accessible)

Bernard Williams: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Michael Smith: The Moral Problem

Specialist, technical, odd:

The Frege Reader by Michael Beaney (for modern logic and the beginnings of contemporary philosophy in the analytic style)

J. L. Mackie: The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation

William Kingdon Clifford: The Ethics of Belief (he argues, oddly but powerfully, that it's immoral to believe things on insufficient evidence or irrationally - an offense to morality, not just reason)
You might surprise yourself.

I am not a programmer of any singular talent, but I understood foldl when I was 9. I understood it in terms of Pascal and iteration, but the knowledge was there.
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32GB WiFi. Haven't missed 3G yet. iBooks w/PDF support + Amazon Kindle app = bye bye Kindle. Would buy it again. Will probably buy at least one more by Christmas for my family, so I can have mine back.
Read through this blog and you'll be up to speed:

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Sophie's World is by far the best introduction to philosophy that you can read. It's presented in a narrative and the lessons are in conversation form. The plot is really good-- it goes very meta at the end.
Surprised no one has mentioned Paul Graham's How to do Philosophy. We are after all hanging out in his living room.
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
It's taken me 6 months to get through part 1. GEB is a tough read.
Isn't your comment fully supporting the previous poster?

It sounds a lot more like a debugging tool than a malevolent program: a backdoor sitting in an obvious folder, with an easy default port and no encryption, that allows to see system status, events, or run commands. Also, "We do not believe that skyagent could ever be invoked remotely".
I followed the link on my iPad and saw a video about how Moousture works on the iPad. Or, rather, I didn't see the video, because the video relies on Flash.

Still, this sounds like a very promising project. Support for gestures in webapps is a huge win, especially on touchscreen devices.

If you're on an iPhone or iPad, don't miss the demo page: http://maxpert.github.com/moousture/iphone.html
You could write something like Cassandra or Lucene in Python. Python is a language (much like Java, BTW). You could then run it under Jython or PyPy. The GIL is unique do CPython, AFAIK.
The studies comparing drugs and talk therapy are incredibly expensive, and almost all of them come out of England, paid for by the government. What private company would ever want to fund that sort of research?

Evidence that psychotherapy beats drugs would benefit these guys: http://www.americanpsychotherapy.com/

These guys would probably like to know which method of treatment is not worth paying for: http://www.ahip.org/

[Edit: kinda curious why I'm being downmodded for this.]
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Using this with Redis (at least) misses much of the point of Redis, which has an especially rich API.
If you're interested in phenomenology and/or existentialism and works that are somewhat readable (this is subjective of course), I'd suggest:

1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty - The Phenomenology of Perception

2. Simone de Beauvoir - Ethics of Ambiguity

3. Friedrich Nietzsche - Will to Power

I'd highly recommend NOT reading Being and Time by Heidegger - you'll want to stab your eyes out ten times.

Outside of pure philosophical texts and more emphasis on fictional works related to philosophy, I'd suggest indirect material that encourage ideas of subjective perception and point-of-view. Examples are works by Franz Kafka, Ryu Murakami and William S. Burroughs.
Great point. The tipping point for me on Slashdot was when insightful comments would get modded "overrated" just because they didn't agree with whatever pro/anti/MS/Linux/Apple/Democrat/Republican bias the moderators have. When the site gets so overrun by "average" users (whoever that is) with mod points that they can completely bury good comments and outright inaccurate comments get +5.

HN seems to be very good about accurate moderation. If the site ever reached the popularity of Reddit I think it would change.
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Ask HN: Modern web design resources?
What are some modern web design sites/resources?

It appears nettuts has some good stuff, as does themeforest... most of my searching led to crappy, outdated resources, worlds inferior to these. (I'm looking at you, SitePoint...) Where do I go for the good stuff?
64GB here, haven't used even 16gb yet but still love it. Couch, bed, car, DMV, bank, anywhere there is a wait it comes out. It even made sitting in front of TV for an entire 30 minutes bearable.
I don't understand this either. I think some HN users think of themselves as 'all business', but humor is a useful contribution. We are humans capable (and in need) of a range of emotions and responses. Embrace it.

It only gets to be a problem when it elbows out serious discussion, which this did not. As long as the actual conversation gets floated to the top, there is nothing wrong with some jokes as you scroll down.
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There are many factors that lead to Google's success, but I know what made me switch to Google back in its early days. It was faster (probably because it was sparse), it got good results, and I felt cool for using it (maybe because it was the underdog, or maybe because it had a "for geeks, by geeks" feel to it).
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An interesting article. That said, I disagree with their arguments relating to public research. Most areas with active public sponsored research are also areas that require degrees to start working in. Thus, interesting research should be comprehensible by those who have studied the subject at degree level and thereby making it accessible to their employer. For example, at work I frequently make use of papers from the ACM. Of course I wouldn't expect the average Joe to understand the papers - but why exactly should they?
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Zen is an overrated book. Having said that, to say that "I have absolutely no idea why people like this book" when you haven't read it (and 25 pages does not count) sounds completely absurd. I do recommend you actually try reading it, even if for no other reason then to find out what everyone else is on about.
Economically speaking, finding a more effective to regrow hair in bald men would probably be a lot more profitable than finding a cheap cure for any number of diseases ravaging Africa. Doesn't mean it's more important.

In the long run, there are far more values in curing ravaging diseases in Africa than there are values in curing bald hair men, at least to me.(Less disease ravaging means more time for educations, which might mean economic growth, which might mean bigger markets) For a corporation, it might make more sense to cure bald men instead of people in Africa. But it doesn't make sense for a charity organization to cure bald men instead of people in Africa because of their different aim.

Private research doesn't have to be profit...err money driven, but it can be done for err..noble reasons.

What to prevent billionaire from spending money on non...errr..profit research. Indeed, you would expect millionaires and billionaires to donate money to causes that seriously affect their life, whether it is themselves or a love one.

So what if it is viewed in economic lights? You're only looking at it in one perspective, which is how to make a lot of money. What you did forget is the true motivations why humans pursue money, like being able to live longer, have fun, being curious, have sex, etc.
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PyPy and Jython lag far behind the current version of Python, which is defined by the implementation of CPython. Also, as I said, I would like to use a combination of Python and C. That's for a reason. The JVM does not have structured value types (structs in C). All structured types in Java have to be referenced, which is the reason why Java software eats so much more memory than software implemented in C, C++, C# or Go. Maybe PyPy can work some day, if they can catch up. That day is definately not today.