skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'scuze me for not keeping up on the happenings in each of ~200 countries, and assuming not everyone everywhere is keeping up on the latest in my sphere of awareness.

Yes, Occupy was global. I don't know who from where knows how much about it. I was answering a question about why someone might be confused by usage of the term "occupy" when it was unclear whether it was an "Occupy"-brand event vs "hey let's go occupy this space to save it". I referenced the Wall St. thing precisely because that's where Occupy started.

Besides, http://xkcd.com/1053/
Your link is broken. Here is the one that works and is print-friendly:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/192935/revisiting_andr...
So pink lipstick is allowed? Please. Those things are better explained with Hanlon's Razor rather than a sinister grand scheme set by evil government.

After the initial protests, indeed it really boils down to an unrest against police brutality in first days. I cannot see any compelling reason other than that. And now they are just protesting for sake of protesting (sadly with vandalism and aggression).
If you're using incognito mode, your session is gone when you close the window anyway.
Two factor authentication can easily solve that problem. I used to feel uneasy about logging in on other systems, but now I don't mind using incognito and google authenticator.
In theory, perfectly played Go is always won by either the first or second player, presumably depending on handicap. That doesn't stop Go from being interesting, because we're not even remotely close to knowing how to play it perfectly.
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"It's (for me) evolved into my less-close friends' vacations and babies and memes."

This. Further, I think Fb serves a very important purpose in my life: it has supplanted any need or desire to attend a high school reunion. I can easily find out "what you've been up to" if I care in the slightest. Also, upvoted b/c babies are cute :)
So you don't know? Yet you're happy for them to sell it as safe for everyone, as providing optimal nutrition, as bring people to perfect health, as being tested, when we don't know if any of that is true? (And we know the tested part is a lie).
Why would you show this image without showing the context in which you used the word "Google?" It would be nice to see.
Femtolisp - 150kb, self-contained Scheme-like Lisp
When you say they subverted the initial protest, do you mean before or after the police clamped it? I'm just wondering because if they'd politicised (to some extent made more extreme too), that could explain a lot about the police action. Alternatively, maybe the police made a bad shout upsetting a peaceful protest and these parties capitalised on angry people?
To impress whatever philosophy is currently most fashionable.
(I deleted the comment after cup replied because in retrospect it was too snarky... Sorry.)
Yes, it has some grams of fibre. I'm not sure what form the fibre is in, or how much. It's on their website somewhere.
Branching Is Easy. So? Git-flow Is Not Agile.
Most people have lived very healthily on diets consisting 90%+ of various cereal or potato gruels. I just don't see how a high-tech powder really simplify things. You can almost live on mashed potatoes. That's barely more effort than buying and mixing this powder.
Yes, I see what you mean.

I guess my intellectual is anyone who has built up a strong foundation of techniques for analytical thinking, whether it be from the sciences or the arts. In some sense, I think that any such intellectual should be aware of this huge background of literature/philosophy that has come to shape Western civilization; it is important for scientists and engineers, who make a significant practical impact on the world in all sorts of ways, to understand the basic ideas and assumptions of Western civilization, especially in today's increasingly cross-cultural world.
That's genius. It's a bit more expensive than a notepad and a pencil, but also more scalable.
3) Don't let friends log into your laptop on your account. That's why guest accounts exist.
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> And sometimes even hardware all the way to application level.

I don't understand what you mean, what is 'hardware' here?
> you knew nothing about the incident yet can be vicious and lawyerly about someone who does.

Oh please! "Vicious and lawyerly"? I was making fun of his so-slanted-it-was-almost-horizontal report by showing that the same "facts" could equally show the Indian students in the worse light. I even threw in a couple of smilies to lighten the tone. Stop being so melodramatic.

> Also imagine a situation when a group of Indian students beats up an American driver in LSU.

I'm not an American; I'm Scottish.
>If caning its own citizens is not evidence of a nanny state that treats people like children, I don't know what is. //

Surely the issue - assuming active littering is punished by caning and in this narrow area - is that any adult in such a place would never come up against the consequences of the law.

It's not treating mature people like children it's treating antisocial adults as immoral.
The press could report on these events 10 years ago. Now they don't.
The workers could celebrate May day in Taksim square just a few years ago, this year they were banned.
People could express themselves more freely if they were not religious or if they were against the government. Now they fear retaliation, losing their job etc. This actually happened to journalists, they did lose their jobs. Hundreds are imprisoned without being convicted or even having a trial for months and years.

There are other indications that Turkey is turning into an Islamic (Sunni in particular) state and our culture is being destroyed. Scientists and artists are ridiculed routinely by the politicians in power. They destroyed Turkish Academy of Sciences. They shut down Feza Gürsey institute. They fired majority of people who made Pardus GNU/Linux distribution and Göktürk satellite from TÜBİTAK.

Unfortunately, this is no joke.
Not at all. The protestors have legitimate grievances however the initial protest over green wedges in turkey have been subverted by a coalition of opposition political groups looking to exploit discontent.

Don't forget that there is a major war occuring on Turkeys border and significant geopolitical games occuring. This isn't about trees anymore.
This is ridiculous reasoning. Do you think every new food product that hits the market is tested for years beforehand to make sure it doesn't kill anybody? Soylent is just food, not some new medicine.
Very cool. And since it's all a 3D model it's a lot easier for them to generate the panoramic files than taking actual photos.
I have a game running on GAE (www.runesketch.com), our initial design was really ineffecient. Using Khan Academy's mini profiler (https://github.com/kamens/gae_mini_profiler) we slashed our gets, puts and general overheads by two orders of magnitude. Our main cost, running a live game, we managed to completely remove gets and puts and run in memcache. We hardly scratch our daily usage now.

One of the overheads I did not realise that took a long with was using channels. We found them about 3x slower than a get or put. By parrallelising those with another thread we reduced our latency hugely. Our game went from taking 8 seconds to service a move, to 300ms.

Just my experience, did you work hard with a profiler before moving all the code?
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Does anyone know any good articles about trial vs. non-trial for premium subscriptions?
One piece of advise from someone who was at Delhi event, stay away from words like 'hacker', 'ninja', 'rockstar' and so on.
I am actually looking for a job, But I am in chandigarh and still in college. Location makes all the difference I guess.
Why Lisp Never Took Off
Probably worth mentioning numbers.vim (https://github.com/myusuf3/numbers.vim) as an easy plugin to get the relative line numbers going in your vim setup.
That makes sense. rubygems.org was down for me for a few minutes....
for the datastore ops, it maybe insufficient use of memcache.

for the front-end instances, i have no idea what can it be. I suspect the numbers are high because of "nice" global distribution of users.
in theory it's a great idea but in practice it isn't.
for example those question aren't meant for you think about when they give these kind of question they are expecting a specific kind of things to find in your writing which have nothing to do with your opinion,answer by a yes or no and give them your arguments ,you'll get a big zero faster than the speed of light.
That's true, I have two-factor auth enabled, but I still don't like how other computers can easily steal my password. Besides, between my laptop and phone, I haven't had to log in on another computer in a long time.
Students are perfectly free to express their thoughts. I was when I took the Baccalauréat in 2000, and I did fairly well (though it was the scientific Baccalauréat, where expectations in philosophy are not very high to begin with).

That said it doesn't mean that you shouldn't memorize anything at all, otherwise you are soon going to run short on ideas. Think about it as building software on top of existing libraries rather than rewriting all from scratch.

Take "Is truth preferable to peace?" for instance. Maybe it could bring you into a utilitarianism vs consequentialism debate (that's where I would go anyway, but I guess there are other interesting approaches). But if you've never studied these, well, good luck reinventing the wheel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_model

From personal experience with a similar situation. It's a major leap of faith, but you'd be surprised what a kid can do in an environment that permits them to.
Perhaps he meant really good GCs in mainstream systems? It is a bit of an assertion on his part, but Java GCs are pretty advanced relative to most mainstream languages.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages and a pet should really be chosen to fit your lifestyle. A dog being a man's best friend harkens back more to the time of men being forced to hunt or work in the fields. Thankfully those days are over. A cat is a more suitable pet for lounging around the house, as a dog forces one to be more active. As such a cat generally makes a better pet for a hacker, but your mileage may vary.
Let me quote you some of the soylent texts:

"Soylent - Free Your Body"

"Share it with your friends and family -- they like getting good nutrients too, we promise!"

"Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health"

A bunch of unsourced (anonymous) 'early adopters' raving about the product.

This is wrong at so many levels that a bit of skepticism to counter it is a good thing.

Disrupting eating, what could possibly go wrong?

Soylent is definitely arguing that people should switch wholesale to their diet, and that's a move that would require a lot of hoops to be jumped through before any kind of claims hinting in that direction could be made.

It's nothing to do with BMW vs KIA, it's everything to do with taking significant risks with other peoples' health.
Isn't that the usually advice from everyone on HN or in YC? I thought we were pretty well decided on the hipster terms like rockstar, ninja or brogramming.
Are you going to also complain about Canonical partnering with the Chinese government in creating a Ubuntu derivative[1][2]?

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UbuntuKylin

Business relationships make for strange bedfellows, and I'm sure Mozilla has some serious preconceptions about working with Foxconn, however it should be comforting that we're moving beyond the world of Microsoft/Apple/Google dominating consumer electronics.
This seems to happen quite often to DNS hosts, I remember ClouDNS getting hit often.

It's easier to hit these sorts of "smaller player DNS hosts" if the website you want to take down is otherwise protected?
I would hardly call sitting down and writing a 4 hour test "doing it right" when it comes to philosophy. In my opinion, philosophy is a mandatory subject but it should be focused on debate, not essay-writing.
For passing ideas, I just stick them into an email and send them to myself. For other stuff, I keep a private github repo called 'braindump' with each idea in a separate project directory.

Whenever a project gets legs and I want to share it, it's pretty easy to then move it into a separate repo and grant access to specific people.
None of those start-ups have anywhere near the potential negative health impact that soylent has.
I think Twitter suffers the same issue, that's the reason why I built an app which allows me to focus only on the people I really care about: http://EssenceApp.com
Mindjet Manager before it converted to the SAAS model.
I do hope that works for you, but very much on my mind after reading this is Job's "misfit" quote: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38357.html

A student who does not do what is required... would have described me throughout much of my career, and there is a string of bosses, unfortunately, that may have ulcers as a result of employing me, what with my wild ideas and unchecked imagination.
How exactly does being informed about the tornado improve your life, unless you live in the area which may be affected?
You mean people commonly use Google Docs without keeping their own backups? That sounds crazy.
I think malloc/free at least are certainly far from simple to implement..
The bad rap is deserved. But the US is so large you can live there your whole life without running into any issues if you're lucky, so don't imagine loving it where you are means there aren't major issues. Swing over to Oakland and you'll probably see some.
I'm french and before anyone write how wonderful this is let me explain how it goes :

We have 1 course of philosophy on our last highschool year (if you're doing a scientific baccalauréat).

(Along with math, biology, physics, french, history/geography, english, a second langage and a third option (which can be a third langage, it was chinese for me)).

No one wants to sit through a philosophy class in High School. It was the "boring class" we had to pass. It was "too soon".

Then in university we have this mandatory SHS which means human and social science course, which is basicaly philosophy for bachelors.

(This is in a math degree)

It's not more interresting, it's just that people are more mature and are more interrested in the topic. Way better than forcing it to kids in highschool who are still living at their parents imo.
You either closed your eyes for the last few days or don't know anybody in Turkey.

I have friends and family who protested (peacefully) on the streets of Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara in the last few days. Almost all of them had to endure tear gas, beatings and other cruel events.

I have also been told by the exact same people (who don't belong to any political party btw) that people who normally wouldn't stay in a room together (think soccer fans of opposing teams, religious and non-religious people, nationalists and communists) went onto the streets to protest against the police brutality, SIDE BY SIDE.

You are right, Erdogan and his party won the last three elections. But there are also rumours that they bought votes, so like you said - don't believe everything you read.

The problem is way bigger than a few political parties trying to pull strings (honestly your opinion sounds very pro-government and almost conspiracy theoretical): There are people RIGHT NOW in the streets getting BEAT UP by the police (the very same organization that should PROTECT those people).

Look around on twitter and facebook, read posts of REAL PEOPLE. The police brutatlity has taken a level which is inhumane and has to be stopped.

Edit: (sorry I'm getting a little angry here) Posts like yours are exactly the reason why people look at this and think "oh this is just another political party power move / somebody trying to exploit the situation. This is probably all fake anyway" - while people are getting beat up.
It is also compulsory if you follow the International Baccalaureate program, under the name of Theory of Knowledge. I think this is extremely useful for future social / natural scientists and engineers.
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Maybe time to repost an old link of mine: http://codosophia.blogspot.fr/
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I get all that. It's great.

It's a shame that they (and many of their prospective customers) appear to be unaware of the existing liquid feed products.

Eventually they claim they'll tailor the product for each individual. That'll be interesting. Maybe combine it with life planning for exercise and healthier eating? People could wean their selves off junk foods (subbing Soylent for those) and tapering in better food.
I think it cans be interesting to see the links people are sharing, just Facebook doesn't do a good job deciding what to show you. If they put a greater effort into really knowing what topics interets you, they could only show you links on those topics.
I hope we all start to move past this phase. Is it really worth the energy of starting and maintaining a "news diet" when you already know what's wrong with news? I went through a phase where I thought no news would be good for me. Then I grew out of it. I realized that if a person understands what's wrong with news they're really not the ones who need to abstain. It's everyone who hasn't realized it yet.

I read a lot about this "no news/news is bad for you" meme going around the past few years and I have to admit it's getting a little lame. How about just taking the news for what it is and take in what you want and leave the rest. Am I odd in that I don't have any emotional reaction when I hear of a rape, murder, or most other tragedies on the news? I was in Europe during the Oklahoma tornadoes and when I heard about it on the news when I came back I thought "hmm, so this is the new big story for the next week" before falling asleep. It's not that I don't care, but I also kind of don't care.
One could consider Foxconn evil (I don't) and still recognize that it plays a very important role in the tech industry (most tech hardware gets assembled there after all) and therefor the fact that a huge player like Foxconn joins FirefoxOS could be seen as an important endorsement for Firefox and be celebrated by Firefox users/fans (which I am not).

The fact that you could turn a story like that into an occasion to attack Apple critics makes you look like some Apple fanboy with delusions of persecution.
If they truly are recommending people replace every meal - and I've not heard them explicitly say that - then I myself have misgivings. But that doesn't ruin the entire idea for me. I personally wouldn't replace every single meal and think there's a definite benefit to having access to a quick, nutritious meal when you need it. I doubt very many people outside of the founder himself will actually go on an all Soylent diet, so why bother attacking that premise?
Question is.
Does one who excels at repeating and doing what others tell to do, also excels at philosophy?
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Google telling her that the files were gone and that there was nothing they could do translates to "why should we bother getting your files back for you?" (Obviously they can do it, but it would take a highly salaried person some time, so, no.)
Nobody talks about the trees anymore. You should read the description of the campaign:

"But this is not just about a park. Before the park was the closure of an Ottoman pastry shop, the arrests of journalists, laws on alcohol sales, constantly changing school curricula. Gezi Park and the subsequent police violence on demonstrators were just the latest examples of a fundamental shift away from basic civil rights."
I'm not in the target demographic for products like Soylent. But someone in my social circle sells AdvoCare and others within that circle eat it up. Soylent is entering a market at least as accepted and established as the technologies mentioned in your comment.

Your logic can be applied in regard to the consequences of a whole host of technology ideas which involve personalizing user experience, providing relevant advertizing content or analyzing user behavior.

As a parent, I certainly wonder about the long-term consequences of online behavior, and expect they are of a far more irreversible nature.
The best-known issue is interior pointers[1]:

To give the programmer this flexibility, Go must support what we call interior pointers to objects allocated in the heap. The X.buf field in the example above lives within the struct but it is legal to capture the address of this inner field, for instance to pass it to an I/O routine. In Java, as in many garbage-collected languages, it is not possible to construct an interior pointer like this, but in Go it is idiomatic. This design point affects which collection algorithms can be used, and may make them more difficult, but after careful thought we decided that it was necessary to allow interior pointers because of the benefits to the programmer and the ability to reduce pressure on the (perhaps harder to implement) collector. So far, our experience comparing similar Go and Java programs shows that use of interior pointers can have a significant effect on total arena size, latency, and collection times.

Interior pointers may pose a problem for sophisticated GCs. Interestingly, this may not be a deal-breaker (see here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/GvA0DaCI2...), but because Go relies on interior pointers so much, and because the language does not distinguish between interior pointers and regular object pointers, this may prove to be a huge problem in practice.

[1]: http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article#TOC_14.
Ah, got bitten by this. Just added Route 53 as redundancy, should have done that a long time ago.
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>All users are affected, as our approach requires neither a jailbroken device nor user interaction.

That's the bad part! Somebody screwed up big time if the package manager does not insist on user permission for installs that are initiated without proper authentication token. (Google does this for app installs from store over the Internet - but you and your device both need to be obviously logged in to your Google account for that to work.)
A possibly useful expansion idea:

My nexus 7 is physically 800 x 1280. However if you're running VNC in landscape mode you want to set up a non-scrolling session of 1280x736 because of the bars.

Other than VNC I suppose similar issues exist if you're trying to edit a pixel-perfect background image or something like that.
I've been using WF for a long time for a small site. Their resource use limits can be a little stringent at times though.

If you keep running into the limits, I heartily suggest looking at switching away from their default stacks (especially when they use Apache -- uggghh) to uWSGI, for instance, if you're running a Django app. (`--http-socket :99999` or whatever the public port they assign your app will get you going easily).

EDIT: Comparing WF to GAE is slightly apples-to-oranges, though, as WF gives you a slice of a dedicated server -- GAE just runs your app without letting you touch the infrastructure, much like Heroku.
I think history of philosophy is very important, though.

If you don't understand Hegel you won't understand Adorno as fully, frinstance. Whether or not understanding Adorno is important is another issue entirely.

Similarly, seeing the vibrant debate as it unfolds through time prepares you for the lack of consensus and sheer vitriol among modern philosophers.

History of philosophy is essentially the history of thought itself, and as such is invaluable.

Perhaps it should be taught under the name "history of philosophy" rather than "philosophy" though?