skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, come on. This is beneath you surely. Where are these "philosophers," this monolithic horde of abstraction-loving pinheads stuck in the 15th century, too benighted to see the Real Truth right under their noses, too stuck in debates over definitions to think practically about application and science??

You have a cartoon version of philosophy in your mind that is in sore need of remediation. These are precisely the kinds of questions that philosophers have been utterly preoccupied with for centuries. As if Bradley, Dewey, William James, never existed! As if the very idea of a pragmatic, "reality-based" science had not been proposed and debated rigorously for decade upon decade.

As if the subject-object problem wasn't at the core of the foundations of modern science!! Far from being some late, decadent conceit of a handful of disconnected postmoderns, the problem of objective knowledge is at the very core of modern science, at its very foundations, on to the present day.

Have you read a single volume of philosophy in the last decade? Are you not aware that the Grand Poo-Bah of modern philosophy of Science, Popper himself, redefines "Objective Knowledge" to deal with that very problem?

If you are content with a naive, self-contained scientism that remains dogmatically immune to philosophical critique, that's fine. You're certainly not alone. But let's dispense with the sweeping generalizations that have no bearing whatsoever on the reality of the history of philosophy, science or ideas in general.
Yes, because my... "due dilligence" learned years ago of their business practices and, to my mind, questionable behavior.

OTOH, I've read that for more than just "register a domain" service, at times their feature set and prices have been hard to beat. OTOOH, that from people who know what they are doing and simply work around the crap.
Scapy: a powerful interactive packet manipulation program
Next time I visit the Apple Store, I should remember to visit Panopticlick from some of the machines on display and see what only-one-in numbers it reports.
Google Now is quite amazing. I wonder when we'll see Siri on the OS X.
I was an Elder in UO. We created short quests while Seers were responsible for rendering larger storyline quests. Seers weren't really allowed to venture off script and do things but Elders were encouraged to. We Elders had insane powers. We could appear anywhere in the world at anytime, walk around invisible indefinitely and into players locked dwellings. We were able to color and rename items. And make serpents and spiders appear in mass and in the middle of town by waving a beast making wand. This was actually encouraged under the Britain is under the plaque storyline. Being an Elder was boss, but stealing from mages in Occlo with my thieves guild in Baja. Also.
No hard feelings. In the interest of not digging my grave deeper, I will leave it at that.
Emacs' help system is fantastic and is one of my favorite things about it. But I had no idea you can navigate to the C source code too. That makes me so happy. :D
Silverlight team (or more precisely, Silverlight management) is weak. Was weak from the beginning. Delivered poor product.

As a result - Silverlight failed to get enough traction. Now Silverlight and Silverlight team is getting abandoned by MS.
... and it's not just about virtual economies, either. The section "Hoarding and The Failure of the Closed Economy" is basically a lesson on the so-called Paradox of Thrift and the virtue of government deficits:

In the closed system, the "pumping up" of resources from the bottom of the top was done by the game administrators, and is very much akin to a government that spends exactly what it taxes.

In the open system, the "drain" at the bottom is still government taxation, while the "faucet" at the top is still government spending.

What the developers of UO learned is that those need to be tuned independently of each other to get a well working economy. If only people understood this about the real economy!
Sure, you can look at the source on your own machine.

There are times though where it's just more convenient to browse the source directly on Github. For example: if you're looking for a little snippet of code in some old/large repository you don't already have a local clone of -- it may take a while to clone it (slow connection, huge repository, etc.). Showing the file sizes in the "folder view" on Github would be helpful to guess which file you actually need to look in.
This won't work for one very simple reason: Windows apps, unlike their *nix counterparts, do not have a unified command line switch format. This will only really be useful for standard getopt(long) implementations, which is a very small portion of the software available on Windows.
An extended tutorial using Emacs's self-documentation:
http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html

Random testimonial: «The guide has been extremely helpful and without it, I wouldn't be making the switch from vim. I particularly like that you present just enough information about various tools that I can use them productively, while referring to the excellent built-in docs. A lot of the programmer-critical tools have good documentation, but no "here's the bare minimum you need to know not to go back to your more comfortable environment" guides.»
You Can’t Fake Passion
Also keep in mind that Reddit throws in spurious downvotes as part of their spam prevention. For example, you may have a comment with 100 upvotes and 50 "downvotes", but in reality, most of the downvotes may be fakes generated by their spam prevention mechanism.
I'm very curious about this. I've had the opposite experience: I was a slow Vim users (but stil, Vim lover), and I switched to emacs to use ESS-mode for R. Soon I realized the core movement operations I clumsily had to switch modes for in Vim were the same in bash (by default configuration) as they were in Emacs. Even textboxes in OS X behave somewhat same way. C-a, C-e, C-k, C-y M-b, M-f, are all the same for example. So is searching (C-r, C-s). I was fast at these in bash, so learning them in emacs was a breeze. So, how do you use bash? Do you use these bindings?
This is an ethical bounds area. Although I am against murder of any human, I also think that locking a 20-year-old in prison for 60 years is a far more inhumane punishment than a hanging.

In my opinion, slavery is far worse than death. Could you imagine working under a hot sun for 15 hour days only to wake up and do it all over again everyday for the rest of your life? Supposedly, this stuff was banned throughout the whole world but it is still ubiquitous. People and politicians actively encourage it by looking the other way, not caring, or justifying the use of slavery because of a pretty contract.

I do feel some pity for the animals dying for my own health, but in the same token, if I was not dependent on the local super-market, I would end up hunting it myself. For certain, America treats its animals far better than other countries. I won't eat veil, shark fin, or foie gras. There is a huge difference between inflicting outright suffering and growing an animal for the purposes of slaughter.
If you completed the first game (Banjo-Kazooie) 100%, the player was shown a video of the key and eggs, with a promise that they would be used in the sequel. (Banjo-Tooie)

The technology that would have made this possible through what was known as Stop N' Swap. Turn off one of the games, then while the data was still in the RAM of the N64, place the other game in the console. However, Nintendo had made a change to the console that made the time the console clears the RAM post-shutdown to 1 second, making this method impossible. (Tooie had an alternate method to get the items in that game alone, where they did grant bonuses)

In Kazooie, however, in-game cheat codes were discovered that let the player get the items anyways, although they had no function.

EDIT: irishcoffee's link below explains it better: http://www.therwp.com/article/dk64-stop-n-swop-connection
But mainly, get good at ignoring what you don't like. There's still a lot to like.

I think this advice is crucial. I try to follow it.
How did you get your site unbanned from HN?
I was one of those people picking up my jaw and elated about it.
Agreed. I will forget the URL almost immediately. But if I can add it to my Google Reader list then, well, you will remind me yourself.
"Scheduling Real Time Cover Photos" - what does that mean?
How is depopulation a crisis?
I'm sure the Waltons would appreciate no longer being the poster children for employee mistreatment.
I have a number of such idea, sadly I'm short on time so I never got to write them down in detail. Besides, my friends don't seem to "get" it so I worry I will waste my time inventing the newest developer tools but not being able to gain any traction due to thinking inertia (or me being a crank - you can never tell :) ).

Briefly, I think I understood how to properly build an interactive data-driven application in the highest level of abstraction. If I were build out the tools, one would be able to create such app by defining data models, view models, derivation logic (for deriving view model from data model), viewmodel-bound layout for individual stages, and stage-linking workflow, all in their respective domain-specific languages. It all looks very neat in my head, and I have even programmed a couple of pieces in my iOS apps to great effect.

Oh well. Back to work now.
Yeah, it's funny how the anti-GMO people seem unconcerned with the much worse stuff we spray in terms of pesticides. And it's not like you can avoid consuming pesticides and pesticide byproducts just by eating organic food, not when planes are saturating the area with it. GMOs have the potential to greatly decrease pesticide use.
Are you guys part of H&FJ's secret web font beta, or are you using Archer on the web in violation of your license agreement with them?

(Serious question. I want to know if they're accepting applications. Still eager to get Gotham on my site.)
I use the Ghostery add-on for Firefox, but if you enable "GhostRank" then the add-on will send every URL you visit to Evidon. This is purportedly for "tracking the trackers", but it does give one pause.
It happens in Eve. Undocking in Eve is permission to be destroyed. One of the first things you learn in Eve is to not fly a ship you can't afford to lose.
Ask Detroit.
I spent probably hundreds of hours on rarenet, and playing tooie running around that damn water level pleading with that pirate guy to give up the ghost.

I still checked for years. In fact if anyone is interested in the full breakdown:

http://www.therwp.com/article/dk64-stop-n-swop-connection
When big consumer brands launch a new mobile product they often book all the available air cargo space they can. Chinese manufacturing has lead to an explosion of air as well as ship cargo, thus adding tons of CO2 cost to your products. That's were domestic manufacturing would safe you.
possibly we shouldn't anthropomorphize nature. she hates when we do that. And it may be be creating barriers to understanding. perhaps one should substitute 'is a useful construct for understanding nature' for 'nature cares'.

I think the one thing that set me off in the original comment is that morality is a 'human invention'. A more complete picture would be that humans, dogs, and apes are a creation of nature, which has endowed them with a sense of morality. Not one that is consistent or infallible, just as your sense of balance doesn't always correctly tell you what is up and what is down, but a sense nevertheless.

In physics, referentials are relative. We don't say, let's expel the idea of referentials. There is no one absolute referential, but the concept of a referential is a useful one in a variety of contexts and worth developing. No one physical theory is final or complete, but some are more useful than others.

As your example notes, we cannot avoid acting, so thinking about the best ways to act is a useful project. Saying "it's all relative and nature is morally neutral, so I can do and justify whatever I want" is a moral choice, but not necessarily the one likely to lead to the least conflict.
Cultural norms are shifting by doing, not by faking it.
Marissa Mayer is shifting "executive's gender" cultural norm. Ben Horowitz - not so much.
Cool landing page. I really like the little interactive shell you have there as well. I watched your video but it seems kind of long at eight minutes. I know you have a lot to talk about and demo so it's not easy. Good stuff though.
Eve and Dwarf Fortress are probably the most difficult and complicated computer games in existence at this point.
Nice idea. A few problems spring to mind:

* Doing the following will hang if the stdout buffer fills up:

var output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
process.WaitForExit();

Take a look at Kudu (Azure's Git publishing platform) for the way they do it: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/blob/master/Kudu.Core/In...

* You need to expose a way to capture `StandardError`.
Your guide was indeed very helpful when I was getting to know Emacs. Thanks!
Federal Agency wants black boxes in every new car by September 2014
The sad part is when this someone doesn't defend and people start ridiculing the argument (instead of just losing the credibility for the person) whereas a defense instead can potentially make them a convert (a radical example can be programming development methodologies) regardless of the sense of the argument; or at least humanize the enemy.
I do not speak for unalone.

Personally, I see that lukeprog demonstrates an anti-intellectualism when he states, 'Another paper arguing about the definition of "knowledge"? No thanks.'

I'm trying very hard to not be rude and laugh at the ridiculousness of eliminating certain philosophical studies/classes that lukeprog suggests.

Let me first say I lean more towards unalone's thoughts on this matter. But essentially, I believe what is going on here is an ideological battle that has occurred many times in the history of Western philosophy (to quote a certain someone). That is, what is the purpose of philosophy and who should it serve?

Philosophy, if it perfected anything, is the art of meta and intertextuality. Yes, even the latter. Read Euripides.

Philosophy has mathematical philosophers, it has scientific philosophers, it has gnostic philosophers, it has theological philosophers, and a long list of etcetera. But to narrow it down ideologically to one single thing the way lukeprog desires, is a foolish thing and unproductive to philosophy at its core. Why? Because any student of philosophy will tell you that asking 'What is knowledge?' is philosophy. Epistemology (the study of knowledge) is an important part of philosophy because philosophy is very much tied to culture as it is to history as it is to rationality and logic. To reduce philosophy to only its practical components and, this is the important part for me, oppressing certain philosophies is no better than trying to erase part of someone's culture.

But all this has already been discussed in philosophy with regard to Bertrand Russell's approach. The fact that all of us are having this discussion is philosophy. Some philosophies do not want to be science, and no one should force them to.

If you watch The Philosophers' Football Match (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8), for example, there is a meta discussion and intertextual reference going on that is never mentioned, but it exists. It gives as much insight into what philosophy is for each country as a study on truth tables or logic.
I'll bite.

Meat, and red meat in general, has got a bad rap because of various studies linking it with poor health (i.e. cancer and cardiovascular issues).

Personally, I would argue against it. We know from anthropology studies that humans only evolved to our current state because we started to eat larger quantities of meat. Fact is, there is no better source of nutrition and calories when you're looking at foods obtainable from the environment.

In the 20th century, we're in a different situation. Food and calories are easy to come by, to the point that many Westerners are gluttonous and we eat too much. We don't need to eat meat to obtain more calories, removing it as a requirement from our diets.

Vegetarians will argue that their diets have less of an impact on the planet, and that they're healthier overall. You can argue that point either way, but anecdotally, I've met few vegetarians that are actually "healthy." Many do not understand that if you remove meat as a source of protein, you need to supplement it with another source. Vegetarian sources of protein are not very protein-dense, so you need to eat a lot of food to get your daily requirement. Moreover, you need to ensure that you're obtaining all of your essential amino acids, which many plant-products don't provide. That's why Indians, a predominantly vegetarian society, will eat rice with daal. Rice lacks lysine, which daal contains. Together, they are a whole source of protein.

I've personally tried the vegetarian diet, and it's not for me. It's not for everyone. I found that to hit my protein requirements, I had to eat a lot of carbohydrates along with it, which meant a lot of calories.

Right now, I'm overweight, so I'm trying to hack my diet and lose weight in a completely different way. I eat absolutely no carbohydrates. All I eat is lamb (I'm Hindu, so no beef or pork), fish, and poultry. I also eat lots of green vegetables, nuts, mushrooms, and cheeses. Oh, butter and heavy cream too. It's called the ketogenic diet if you're interested.

I've never felt better. No intestinal issues or bloating. I'm losing weight steadily. And I get to eat awesome, healthy meals that taste amazing. And I would bet that my environmental impact isn't all that high. My grocery list is very simple, sticking to the outer corridors of the store.

It's not for everyone. But it works for me. I would bet that most studies that say red meat is bad, didn't control for carbohydrates. The biochemical processes that occur in the body in reaction to carbohydrate intake is likely what contributes to the issues surrounding red meat. Of course, few studies have been done to confirm this because of a general disposition that high-fat diets are bad.

In summary, people are against meat because they keep hearing that it's bad. They don't seek out alternate opinions, and would rather be ignorant than educate themselves.
There's a big difference between eating meat and eating meat like the modern american does. Eating meat every day and being vegetarian are far from the only options.
This is true. However, as you can see from my screenshot, I'm using Chrome, so all my information is getting collected by Google anyway ;/
The copyright industries want to expand their rentier state to exert control at the network level. They want veto power over the presence of any copyrighted material on the internet. The only way to prevent this is to legalize a fundamental right to link.
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Agreed on most of your points except a lot of news readers supported the basic markup for bold, italics, underline, etc. one now sees in Markdown & friends.
C-r is very handy in bash. On the subject of search - I recently switch from Emacs to Vim, just to try something new. It's working out well, but so far I have not found an equivalent for C-s <some letters> C-w C-s(C-w to grab the current word, C-s again searches for the next apperance of it). This is still the best way to search incrementally that I have found in any editor. Any tips on how to do the same thing in Vim (with as few key-strokes as possible) are appreciated.
If you're really into this, spend some more time on tasvideos.org

The guys that do these tool-assisted speed runs are incredible. One fellow plays 4 Mega Mans all at once with a single controller doing input for all 4 games at the same time.

This Pokemon hack is insane, but was inspired by a guy who uses it to beat the game in around 2 minutes. That particular speed run abuses the fact that everything in the game has a simple identifier. So, what he does is inserts a warp point into his inventory, drops it in front of himself, and walks through it to the end of the game.
Long stretches of uninterrupted thought are required to correctly partition the problem, which is a hard problem as the number of possible partitions is roughly exponential to the number of moving parts. Once the problem is optimally partitioned, understanding the solution is a linear effort. Hence, effort required to understand the problem is not indicative of the effort required to understand the solution. Now, for a new person to understand why this partitioning was preferred to all others requires one to go all the way back, and I worry can never actually be replicated, which is why old software projects often stagnate after the original architects depart.
Munich se ahorrará 10 millones EUR gracias a Linux « La mirada del replicante
crisis: "a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something"

Most of our social institutions rely on having an increasing or at least stable population. We need young people to support retirees, etc.
Skip viper-mode and go straight to evil-mode, which is based on modern Vim rather than classic vi. It even supports a plugin system, so that missing features and popular extensions (like surround.vim) can be reimplemented with ease (https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround).

The difference between Vim and the original vi is pretty huge. Just as an Emacs user might be stymied by the missing Lisp support in uemacs or zile, a habitual Vim user leans on stuff like text objects and visual selections, which were never even a twinkle in Bill Joy's eye.
How so? Now doesn't seem to make any sense to me one the desktop (location aware notifications?) while I use IG many many many times per day to watch news feeds, common sites I like to go to, etc. It just organizes the stuff I care about, but it's what I want rather then how Now tries to figure it out for me.

I've found Now useful on my phone, don't get me wrong, but I might consult it once a week or less.
Paper Gestalt (pdf)
Working people moving elsewhere for work is not the same as a general population decline we'd see from reduced birth rates.

Besides....I heard there are plans to regreen entire city blocks.
The site looks cool and interesting posts = but are you looking for technical detail analysis or stuff on trends to consider when building systems? (Example of the later because we just wrote it: http://www.3scale.net/2012/12/the-death-of-the-web-page/)
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I like this book: Improve Your Memory Skills http://www.amazon.com/dp/0746001622
Win my $100 bounty: Best Practices Example for iOS master detail screens
On a timescale, so that the site would be receiving at least one killer article from the past a day.
Male energy is in crisis. In the modern world boys aren't allowed to be boys to make sure they will become men grown tame. Boys are grown by women—and these days also men who have adopted the women's way of growing kids. We think that male energy is aggressive and offensive, and it must be suppressed and tainted, while simultaneously we have lost our icons of what real manhood entails. We don't have rites of manhood like indigenous people had: the boys were cut off their mothers and their mothers let go of the boys, they started living with men, and the rites eventually transformed a boy into a man. THis doesn't happen anymore. And if you, instead, grow a boy to a man the woman way, what you get is not a man but an overly feminine male who is at loss with his manhood and who has two balls that are barely working.
It's hilarious how much the My Little Pony reference derailed their conversation and excitement about the awesome hack.