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>no one is able to say that we somehow don't have the rights to our own genetic material.

the genetic code is a code executed on biocomputer. You mother and father created the code by merging copies of their own codes (and the IVF clinic may have done some bug fixing). Did the mother and father have the rights to do so, ie. to copy and modify? For example, it is frequent case in the dog breeding that you can have this nice puppy, yet you wouldn't have the rights to breed him, i.e you get a
"license to use" and not a license to produce modified copies. It is easy to see that the same logic easily applies to humans as well. Lets say some designer produced a very popular eye color DNA alteration. You bought it for your future child. Would it come with perpetual license, ie. right to pass it to your grandkids or not? (or, God forbid, your child when grown let his/her friends to copy the code for their children :) The answer by Monsanto is clear and is completely in line with legal copyright framework.
"For entertainment purposes only" would fix that.

They haven't shut down the fortune-teller industry yet, and they make all sorts of wrong predictions that cause distress.
If you do not mind I would like to pick the Apology:

http://www.classicallibrary.org/plato/dialogues/12_apology.h...

It seems that it is the most accessible text. In my opinion it goes beyond the limits of philosophy and it becomes real poetry.
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
I hope you weren't serious here.
I'm going to say something probably unpopular, given the tone of many of the suggestions popping up, but philosophy is one case where I actually prefer to stay away from the so-called "primary sources". They are typically extraordinarily long and verbose for what they have to say, and if the idea some source is groping for is genuinely new, the fact that they are only in the beginning phases of grappling with it tends to show in the presentation. Plus they will tend to use quirky nomenclature that was not necessarily settled on later. If I'm after an actual understanding of philosophy and not merely enjoying some work for its own sake, it's better to read something that has been distilled over the years to its essence and stripped of its ornamentation, so you can contemplate the essence of the idea on its own.

I scare-quoted "primary source" because in a way, the ideas belong to humanity as a whole and the first person to "discover" a particular school of thought is not always its best advocate; it's primary more in the sense merely of first rather than the journalistic sense of authoritative. I would say the journalism or scientific drive for the "primary" sources is much less important here. To me it would be like insisting the only way to tour the Americas is to follow Columbus' precise route and anything else isn't really seeing the Americas.

I say this not because they are worthless or even a bad idea, but that I really do consider them a bad place to start.

Frankly, you could do a lot worse than to just cruise Wikipedia, and drill down in what you find interesting from there. (Don't skip the drilling down. I'm not saying Wikipedia is a full education on the topic. I'm just saying, it's really not a half-bad way to start.)
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SLA and support is for lawyers and PHB's or so I have been told right here on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2488970
Plus it's a whole new (for most) programming paradigm, and thus worth learning :) Not to mention that it's the kind of thing that will run on the 80-cores, cloud-on-a-chip chip of the future.
Columbia University offers a Core Curriculum (specifically, Contemporary Civilization class) to address just that: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/cc.php

You should browse around the other Core Classes, they're good
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Google allows you to search up to a certain date. The results up to April 30th remove much of this latest "resurgence" of the quote, but it's still pretty much saturated with quotes about Bin Laden, a lot of the dates are just wrong and confusing Google.

I still don't see anything definitive attributing the quote to MLK

http://bit.ly/kC6VIR <- Google Search to April 30th.
1. "Ruby" for your "Rail."
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Ugh. Terrible quotes.

2. Ignoring the fact that there ARE female engineers and hackers.

3. Your "request an invite" only has one corner out of four rounded.

4. The photos of your "consultants" look like awful Facebook profile pictures. And why are off center as if one on the left was missing?

5. There's a ton of empty white space at the bottom of the page.

6. No favicon OR <title> tag.
I'm just seeing a lot of lonely-sounding dudes. A missed-connection site without the womenfolk isn't likely to have much staying power.
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I'm right there with you Chad. We've got a strong team, yet are still weeks away from launching, and it's just truly amazing how much failure and rejection we have faced over the past few months.
The Mark Twain quotation that has been making the rounds today, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" also appears to be fake. (That is more to be expected, as Mark Twain is the favorite attribution for newly made-up quotations in English.) I checked Snopes for that one, but it's too new to be on Snopes, I think, and anyway isn't in Google Books either. A response by one of my friends on Facebook to today's flurry of quotes was this status message: "People believe anything they read on the internet if it fits their preconceived notions." -- Thomas Jefferson.

The Atlantic author did some reasonable checking for the purported King quotation. "Searching Martin Luther King Jr. quote pages for the word "enemy" does not turn up this quote, only things that probably wouldn't go over nearly so well, like 'Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.' I'm pretty sure that this quote, too, is fake."

For a book-length work on tracing quotations, which I bought years ago, see The Quote Sleuth.

http://www.amazon.com/Quote-Sleuth-Manual-Tracer-Quotations/...
Hard to beat Arthur Schopenhauer--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Even better since much of his work is freely available from sources like Gutenberg and similar...they even have 'Studies in Pessimism' as an audio book!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground

http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Underground-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/d...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Years-Solitude-P-S/dp/0060...
I found "The Clouds" rather entertaining. Unfortunately the language in the free version is a little less frank...but it's an interesting read nonetheless.

http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/clouds.htm
Wait, which for words? Does craiggers just blow craigslist? Is it a vile headline when you remove the 4 words? Just curious. ;)
Astonishingly not mentioned on Wikipedia, is the novel "Snow Crash", which deals with this exactly as a 'mind virus'.

It's also a great work of science fiction in it's own right (predicting Second Life, for example).
Was this data only sold to Dutch police or to US police departments as well? The article is not very clear on this, but mentions Dutch police specifically. Regardless, California drivers beware, police have been really cracking down hard on speeding since last month.
That's sort of evil to use as an 'Introduction'...it's like reading the Silmarillion before you read LOTR.
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And if you hadn't taken that quote out of context, you would have seen that I was recommending between 60-70 ounces of water from 1-2 hours before the race until race finish, which won't put you at risk for hyponatremia and is, in fact, in line with what the American College of Sports Medicine recommends.
JavaScript, I'd say.
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This was on reddit a week or so ago. I thought the top comment on the article there explained it reasonably, so I'm just going to quote it here:

"Here's the situation:

-TomTom, when you first set your GPS up, asks you if you want anonymous time/location travel data to be sent to TomTom. You can say no if you want. This has been going on for years.

-TomTom sends this anonymous data to authorities and governments with the idea that it will help them know where to build new/better roads etc. This has been going on for years.

-TomTom finds out that Dutch police are using this data to set up speed traps. TomTom, as a courtesy, lets everyone know what the Dutch police are doing, while they decide what to do about it.

And somehow the headline we get paints TomTom as evil jerks for this? They are the ones who let you know about what Dutch police are doing. This is a press release that they issued. They are warning you."
Probably not really.
As per some of the other comments, Flippa is likely able to get you a good buyer. If the website qualifies, it will likely be included in our A-List newsletter (see https://flippa.com/a-list) which will get it in front of premium buyers. Let us know if you need any assistance getting your auction running (though "code" makes some great point on this thread already!). We'd be happy to help.
Did you read the article? I'm referring to this: "Portman Wills, [...] he went all in. He purchased eight SSDs over the last two years ... and all of them failed".
I have to say, I've learned more from LessWrong (lesswrong.org) and OvercomingBias (overcomingbias.com) than I have from nearly all of my classical reading. No, it doesn't cover the classics in the same detail, but they do cover rational discourse of philosophy very well.
I see what you're saying, but let me reiterate, I've only done this on the receiving end as an applicant, candidate, potential employee. Saying "about what I was thinking" is something I say when I would take a job for $500, but they offer $2,000. Am I screwing over an employer by encouraging and allowing them to pay me that much?
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The old title was better. I like the article though.
We were in a similar situation. We were extremely happy with their dedicated server, virtually never had to use their support and never had to worry about the server going down.
But their cloud offering is a whole different story. I lost track of the number of time, we just could not connect to the server. This was not a disk problem but a network problem. Twice we raised support tickets and once it took around 6 hours to resolve and the other time it took 3 hours to resolve. In all that time all we only got generic replies that asked us to wait for updates. These two major incidents were in addition to at least three times where the server was not accessible for like 30-40 minutes each time, where we did not raise a support ticket. All this in a span of less than a month.
We moved to the cloud for the same reason, in terms of cost and usage. But the pain of not being able to access a server when you need it is just not worth it. We are testing out Rackspace. Hopefully that will be a better experience.
shoulda written it in sarcastica font or perhaps woosh-sans
Hi Ray!

Those are exactly the types of comments I was hoping to get form posting here to help flesh this project out.

The main reason I stayed away from PDO is that I was trying to support both relational and non-relational databases (support for Mongo already). I certainly could have used PDO within the mySQL layer, but the next level of abstraction for the DAVE actions was the main goal. I very well may switch over to PDO to make the mySQL implementation into a generic 'relational' driver if I get enough comments/requests about it.

The version jump to 5.3 is new and was necessitated by some of the DaveObjects. I certainly will be using getops() instead. Thanks for the suggestion!
This definitely seems like an interesting idea. It has been proposed before in the context of peer to peer networks, but I am not sure if it was taken beyond academic research.
See the last comment from SL's Kevin Hazard. They're aware of this post at the executive level, at least.
How are your backups? And what happens if it goes down for a few hours? Would you not get that mail?
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I do not follow - isn't it all the more amazing that poorly paid, uneducated workers without proper salaries are able to achieve this?

I would measure their performance by inserting random 'canary tiffins' over a period and measuring their loss percentage. You could also track some individual carriers and get a similar measure to combine into the previous metric.
Ask HN: Why do people believe Osama is really dead?
Hello everyone,

My question is simple and straight: Without photographies, videos, body, DNA sample, or whatever means of proving someone was even actually killed, ¿Why do people automatically believe Osama Bin Laden has been killed? ¿Why would the government throw the body away and not provide it as evidence?
They definitely should enjoy reading up on programming, technology, etc. Most of us who read HN, and are developers, fall into this category.

I simply hate spending my weekends and evenings sitting indoors. I would probably get rejected by many interviewers for simply not spending my spare time doing lots of coding, even though solving problems and/or doing challenging activities is one of my favorite past times. I love learning new things and mastering (attempting to master) my favorite outdoor hobbies like golf, snowboarding, hunting, fishing, etc.

If you are someone like me, then I suppose you should keep this in mind during an interview, and stress your enjoyment for more soft skills such as working with people and solving different types of problems outside the programming area.
I doubt if the majority of them do, but you are totally right, there is very high cell phone penetration in India. Cell phones with some basic software could help them a lot.
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I fail to see how this is newsworthy. Why bunch of mainstream media broadcasted this story, why is it on HN?
There is just no news in this story, guy saw a helicopter and tweeted, that's it.
If he was still alive, he would have sent out a message by now saying something to the effect of "liars." It would make really bad PR to say you've killed someone, and then have that person come on TV.

Unless, of course, you want to believe bin Laden and Obama are working together in some massive conspiracy theory.
Looks like the first serious piece of Malware for the Mac, and it's already caught out a number of people

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3029144

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3029310
We read about this last week did we not?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491729

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490690

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497611

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494170

Etc.
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Why would you believe your own grandparents were born if you have never seen a video and are not personally acquainted with the persons who attended their births? People believe reasonable statements, more or less tentatively, based on reasonable testimony and other confirming evidence. I believe that Bin Laden is dead because the risk of embarrassment from the United States government announcing his death incorrectly is too high to credit the hypothesis that he is still alive, and because Al Qaeda-supporting websites and other media refer to Bin Laden as a "martyr."
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oh I like your idea. is it opensource? I'd like to try helping you
Ask HN: when will the startup visa be passed by the congress?
It has been proposed for 2 years now, a lot of people are supporting it and I guess Obama is also supporting it implicitly during the Facebook town hall meet a few weeks back. However, when can this visa be actualized in reality? 5 more years?
If he isn't really dead then it would be easy for Bin Laden to release another of his tapes and prove that he is still alive. The President would look awfully foolish. Given the vicious attacks that he's withstood the past 2 years I find it hard to believe that he would announce that Bin Laden is dead without knowing for certain that he is dead.

If it was my decision, I'd dump the body at sea and not release any evidence. A grave site would become a mecca. Photos an rallying cry. No need to risk making him more of a martyr.
John Macmurray's "Interpreting the Universe" is a good overview of what philosophy is all about. http://johnmacmurray.org/reviews/interpreting-the-universe/
More official images and more media-propagated glorification of his death = more fuel for movements that want Bin Laden established as a martyr.
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As I am all about web dev recently, so I'd really like to master RoR and Python/Django
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Ask HN: What's this for? :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/yc

Just wondering, came across it after thinking what other easter eggs could exist like:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

I understand if it's a secret and/or not very interesting. ;)
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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is extremely readable and a classic of modern nihilistic thought.

I'd also recommend Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals. It's not his most famous work, but it's pretty widely acclaimed as his best.
It's substantially simpler and more straightforward than a lot of the primary sources, which makes me wonder what is the analogue of LOTR here.
Are these real pro musicians who derive 100% of their income from music? I ask because of those I know, most actually actively try to get away from the music scene when they can.

OTOH, my neighbor who plays in the symphony (and is probably one of the best for her instrument in the US), plays music part time, because it can't pay the mortgage (at least not where she lives). She is a lot more into the lifestyle.

It just seems like in other creative fields there's kind of a line between the pros vs the amateurs or hobbyists -- and how they spend their down time.
I'll second this. It's both thorough and accessible. Sounds like a good fit for what OP is looking for.

At any rate, I think that it is a question of which history of philosophy the OP reads rather than a book on any one philosophy in particular based on his original post...unless he really wants to get back with his friend on that nihilism comment...
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We came up with the same metaphor. My post started with the glucose meter as well, and pointed out that misinterpreting blood glucose was more likely to have immediate and dire consequences.
Mine is definitely lisp (or currently ... scheme).

After following along the with the whole "You should learn a new language every year" line of thinking for a few years, I realized most of the languages I was choosing were all fairly similar - Perl, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript etc. (Not to say I'm a master in all of them, but I'm at least somewhat proficient in most, and reasonably competent with Ruby and JS)

I'm currently working on trying to master a lisp variant just because it's different from what I know and use. I started off with CommonLisp using the "Land of Lisp" book, but found the lack of exercises in the text made it of limited value. I've now started with scheme using "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" book - I'm finding this a lot harder due to the maths involved, but hopefully things should start to become clearer soon =)

I'm guessing after this, my target for next year will be something like Haskell.
> This alone could cause panic trades when they eventually do get back up and running.

I wonder if this could be a motive? Can you short sell bitcoins?
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Wow this post was like reading a post from myself in the not so distant future. We had the exact same experience on SoftLayer CloudLayer. Random I/O failures, read-only mode and of course the most frustrating part was the support process around that.

We had a week last month where we would lose a couple boxes a day to this issue at which point we said enough was enough and switched completely over to dedicated boxes (still from SoftLayer). Everything has been smooth sailing since.

To their credit SoftLayer (and probably more specifically our awesome account rep) stepped up and refunded us our money we spent on the CloudLayer in March (after some cajoling on my part) but their general reaction is one of a company that's completely disjointed. When I got really pissed and started bitching on twitter in March I received inbound contacts from multiple people on their sales/marketing/account mgmt team. Unfortunately these people didn't seem to be well connected to each other and are even less connected from IT (so they could empathize but not really affect change) and "management" (this faceless part of the company which seems to love to cut off it's own nose to spite it's face).

The oddest (and probably most infuriating) part of the whole thing is how everyone at SoftLayer went to great lengths not to acknowledge that the CloudLayer product had issues. They always seemed shocked by my assertion that something was very wrong with CloudLayer product and asserted that I was alone in seeing these issues. To this day I've still not read a single "we know something's wrong and we're fixing it" post from them and that's the part that bothers me the most because it implies that their either incompetent or disingenious. Neither of which are a trait you want in an infrastructure provider.
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The problem as I understand it is that TomTom didn't give the data as a courtesy, they sold the data. Sure, it's good that they've been transparent when they found out about what the Dutch Police were doing, but I don't think it was clear that they would sell your data to government agencies.
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Probably not, but income is income.
You don't have to run to the debugger to get dev storage, just start it separately. It should put something in your start menu like Storage Emulator. It varies with version.
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it's cool, but not sure if the traction is enough.. this kind of worries me
You did that as well? I thought I was the only person in the entire to universe to do so.
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Yes. I remember this the first time around - it was called listpic.com (which was a far better user experience). It lasted all of a month before craig lumbered in and shut the fucker down for serving ads off his content.

Craigslist needs to innvoate, or croak. It is absolutely useless for finding an apartment in nyc. With a few flicks of effort, it could be so much better.
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I stand corrected.

I admit that I tend to skim Jeff Atwood because his occasional tasty flakes of insight are thickly coated with delicious but useless fluff.
tl;dr? Abstract?