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Plato and Nietzsche are far from atypical. Being two of the West's most literary philosophers, they routinely turn up in high school. Excerpts from Plato's Repulic (e.g. The Allegory of the Cave) and any of Nietzsche's aphoristic works are especially common.

Academics are embarrased by it, because its filled with "non-collegial" behaviour. But that just means they don't get out much.

Where on earth are you getting this? Academics celebrate texts far less collegial than Rand's. Rand's work, as literature, is dismissed because, as literature, it isn't very good. Her work isn't taken seriously or engaged with philosophically for other reasons, but propriety isn't one of them. To invoke the ancient stereotype of the "stuffy academic" is ludicrous. Academics today are probably the most open-minded, least proprietous group around.

I think academics (and a few of his old landlords) would consider him more of a "crackpot" than Rand.

I can't speak to the attitudes of his old landlords, but no, modern academics do not consider him a crackpot. For political reasons he was in and out of favor around the times of WW1 and WW2 (due to the misappropriation of his work by various groups, most famously the Nazis), but he's never ceased to be hugely important to continental philosophy, and Walter Kauffmann set the record straight and rehabilitated his image for the English-speaking world decades ago.
Taibbi had a good article on this last month:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-...

"Carey talks about how colleges spend a lot of energy on what he calls "gilding" – pouring money into superficial symbols of prestige, everything from new buildings to celebrity professors, as part of a "never-ending race for positional status."
"What you see is that spending on education hasn't really gone up all that much," he says. "It's spending on things like buildings and administration. ."

One reason they do the gilding is to increase their ranking - which itself has problems. Rankings are primarily based on selectivity and prestige, which is sort of like judging that a hospital is better because of how healthy the patients are when they get there, not how much healthier they got while they were there: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_...
Do you realize that if music producers can't make a satisfactory profit, then music will just not be produced?

I doubt it, but if that is true, then there's a natural incentive to pay for music, and there's no need for copyright law; if people want music to be produced, they'll be forced to pay.
If the new information is relevant, how is this simulation code wrong? https://gist.github.com/tedtieken/6567112
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Alright, this comment thread is going to Hell, but for the sake of formality:

It's (been) required reading at West Point, amongst other places in the US.

I didn't know that. Thanks. It must be more popular than I realized, but I still don't see where it's considered terribly crucial in general, as the original comment claimed. I shouldn't have made it sound like my personal claim was any indication of absolute reality. My mistake. A survey would probably lay this issue to rest, but this was really supposed to be a one-off comment.

Atlas shrugged has other interesting reasons to read it, however. Its main theme is actually dealing with assholes at work. Academics are embarrased by it, because its filled with "non-collegial" behaviour. But that just means they don't get out much.
Economics as a field which assumes opportunistic and deceitful behaviour are non-events. Atlas Shrugged is a great reminder of the fallacy in that. A typical Economist would consider Rand a "Crackpot", for using opportunistic and deceitful behaviour as basis for an empirical philosophy. But consider that lawyers get paid to write contracts to mitigaet the very dangers that economists assume away. Your Lawyer will tell you...never trust an Economist...theyre all crackpots and live in Ivy towers. =D

Chill! I'm speaking on what my impression is of the popular opinion on Rand in education, not what I think of Rand myself.

Also, your statement that the main theme of Atlas Shrugged being about "dealing with assholes at work" is very interesting and I'm not sure how you came up with that.

As a side bar, have you actually read Nietzche? I think academics (and a few of his old landlords) would consider him more of a "crackpot" than Rand. Clearly Rand and Nietzsche have nothing in common? Perhaps other than its the lie that tells the truth.

I've read some of Nietzsche's stuff, and yes, Rand is very much an imitation of him (what does that prove and why are you asking me that rhetorically?). I'm still not sure I buy that Nietzsche is considered more of a "Crackpot" by academics than Rand is, having gone to a university in the US and having seen firsthand the curriculum in a philosophy class, but it's completely subjective, so you might be right.
he never said that...can we try citing actual quotes when making these kind of accusations?
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Well, the insight I was going for here is that a walled garden is only as safe as the gardener, and whatever trust we as humans could have in that gardener should be totally shattered in the post-NSA leak world.

If you think that isn't a legitimate insight, or if you're so blazing-fast that you'd already made that inference, I suppose you're entitled to think that, but it's very difficult for most humans to re-compute all of their cached thoughts in the light of new information, and the NSA leaks aren't any different.
i don't think it helps to start calling people you don't agree with cave men.
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Then it'll be interesting to see how long until the process is corrupted and the certification becomes meaningless.

"Certified Organic"
Wow finding that page is a nightmare. I was recently trying to find out how I can stop auto-watching repos I'm giving access too (like if someone creates a repo under an organization) and I searched all over the settings for this.

Thank you.
Code that shows ev stays at 3x/2 (if x is the lower amount) or 3n/4 (if n is the higher amount)

https://gist.github.com/tedtieken/6567112
I think it would. HN serves a substantially similar role to those sites in that respect.

As a short term fix, if you're on chrome, 'open in new incognito window' bypasses the paywall in a click.
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> those keyboards that result in vi/vim not being able to exploit control characters.

Modern vim uses control characters just fine. Have you used it any time in the last decade?

Because you seem to dance around that question a lot, saying "Well when did I say I haven't used vim recently" whenever someone brings it up, and then saying something else completely wrong that indicates you have no idea how a modern version of vim is actually used.
Err, that last ratio was supposed to be 3x/2 again
Wow. Brings back so many memories. I bought my copy at Quantum books too, and got my internet through world.std.com as well. If I remember correctly, that ISP was in Coolidge Corner in Brookline, in or near the S.S. Pierce building. They were great guys.
...so it's safe to assume all animal products are unethical.

According to that statement, the ethical value of any animal product is a function of some huge number of variables, and the upper bound on that value is the minimum of that set.

So, it's safe to assume that all animal products you encounter as a human are unethical. Regardless of where you buy them, or what their advertising is, you should assume they are unethical and be very, very difficult to persuade. Anything else is just unsafe.
Thanks for the spoilers. I'll pass, now.
What were the qualifications of these "wine experts"? I read the original paper and the word "expert" is used only three times in the entire paper, and long after they talk about the subjects.
Nobody has mentioned yet. I took a look at the geolistening website, and the pictures alone pointed to an entirely different problem.

I don't think the problem is lack of surveillance, I think it's teachers who are blind to what's happening at their schools, and parents who are doing a bad job at parenting (exporting it to education).

If a parent listens to their child well, the child will tell them they are being bullied, or have problems. If the child is afraid to, or is ashamed, the parent should notice this. It's not normal behavior. The same goes for teachers. If a parent complains to the school that their child is being bullied, that shouldn't be ignored. If a teacher notices a child being bullied, that shouldn't be laughed off. Children try to seek help by nature.

This seems to be an all-round lack of awareness and care for the child. I don't think technology can do much good with that attitude.
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Ah, I'll second CSF! Love it, it wraps so much up into a sweet little bunch of scripts.
Do you think a species as a unit has preferences?

It seems like your friends are conflating genetics and utilitarian ethics. There's a way of explaining genetics in terms of preferences, but genes don't really have preferences. Species, by extension, don't have preferences. Cows as a species want nothing. Individual cows do.

So personally, as a vegan, I wouldn't see the death of the last cow on earth as a huge loss, as long as the cow was safe, happy, and comfortable.
Debian is very stable. I recommend running "safe-upgrade" nightly -- and keeping an eye out for when you need a "dist-upgrade" (typically new kernel images -- and other stuff that should be tested (eg: test that the server actually boots -- not to mention do a reboot to use the new kernel).

I'm not sure how good the Ubuntu LTS relases are, but Debian has always been great at both keeping a stable system up, and keeping the upgrade to new version as painless as possible.
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Yes, pretty annoying. We should have something that takes a copy of a page before it will be shown here.
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In the limit, they would simply disappear. There wouldn't be any humanities faculty, aside from the independently wealthy, because nobody could make a living at it.
What interval would YOU suggest to establish your claim that the number of people starving "doesn't change"? And can you provide a supporting link?
For some of them (say, Best Buy) it definitely would be, but others (say, Bob's Local TV Shop) don't seem to advertise on the scale that would give them any chance of gaining mindshare. I acknowledge that the advertisers are trying to gain mindshare are at a significant advantage when advertising, since they can afford to bid up to the lifetime value of the customer rather than bidding up to the margin of a one-off sale.
Much like democracy.
IANAL. Seriously, IANAL.

The language limits itself to cases where a patent is necessarily infringed by combining the contribution with the product. The scenario in the guy's PDF (also--PDF?) is that an infringement is created later that has nothing to do with his contribution.

Also, as others said, 1) if Apache wrote the agreement and says that others' future contributions can't give them a license to other patents, and indications are that people rely on that interpretation, it doesn't seem like a court would read it otherwise, and 2) generally, courts aren't dumb, and they're going to look at the purpose and context of the agreement and realize this is essentially about ensuring you can't taint a project with your invention and then sue for patent infringement, and avoid reading in broader meanings.

Going a little further, maybe too far, the paragraph is in the present tense--"you hereby grant," etc. Nothing in there about your future work like you might find in, say, the IP part of an employment contract.

Given that, I have a hard time seeing how your contribution in Sep 2013 binds you to license an idea that, since it didn't exist yet and nobody talked about future inventions, neither you nor the other party could've been contemplating.

(On the other hand, if there was an idea embodied in your Sep 2013 contribution that merely wasn't patented or assigned to you yet, both parties could have been considering potential patents of the idea when reading the language. So Apache's answer A2 is justifiable.)

Finally, I have little sympathy with people's desires to be able to enforce patents against open-source projects anyway, so yeah. While the language is friendly enough to patentholders, I almost wish it weren't. :)
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These are the backlift guys, rebranding.
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Or a non-privileged account is accessed and the kiddie just wanted to run an eggdrop bot. Plot foiled.
Wanted to care but the page wouldn't display without Javascript.
Do companies ever release linguistic guidelines?

Do you have "a facebook?" A facebook page? A facebook account? A facebook profile?

People don't "friend my facebook" they "friend me on facebook," so is it "a me on facebook?"

Twitter? Twitter page? Twitter account? Twitter profile? "Check out my twitter," but do people say "I have a twitter?"

GitHub? Do people say "I have a github?" Check out my github? Check out my github account? Follow me on github? Follow my github account?

Didn't all this start with myspace? Is it a my myspace or a myspace? Do you have a myspace or a myspace page or a my myspace page?

Is every sentence in this post a question? Isn't it exhausting?
First look up the Guardian's coverage of GCHQ. Stones, glass houses, etc.

It still has nothing to do with wanting the subject to "go away", it's that your post is completely irrelevant to an open source programming environment for the Raspberry Pi. That's why I downvoted your comment. It adds absolutely nothing to a conversation on the subject at hand, and is generic enough that a decent bot could generate your top-level comment on any subject with Google in the submission title. Seriously, you're like one step away from those blog comments that try to stay on topic while "subtly" working in a link to their discount counterfeit purses or whatever. Mindless knee-jerkery is not something I want to see encouraged, so I'm happy to help downvote it to oblivion.
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This.

Nothing is more easier than just drag n' drop few files into a folder.

There are tons of static-generators in Ruby/Python/Nodejs/whatever, but none has the simplicity of Dropbox publishing.

Think of it, dropbox as a versioned storage for Markdown source files, third party platform to publish full-fledged rendered HTML with analytics, sitemap, feeds, mobile views, pdf/json/xml formats, etc. This is how should cloud platforms work.

Need collaboration or external contributors? Just invite your friends on Dropbox!
It does make a difference but I messed up the code :S

If you try the updated gist you will find that the second distribution appears to converge for a while but always jumps away again. I've run it now for 20540000 rounds and its further away than it started.
> Do companies ever release linguistic guidelines?

Yes, sometimes, and people ignore them. So: rarely. And they shouldn't. New language isn't prescribed with any effectiveness. And what you were taught in school is based on analysis (a bad one at that.)
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I closed my fb account two or three years ago, at a point when I was really virulently anti-fb. I still haven't re-opened it, but I've mellowed a bit--not that I approve of it, really--it's a disgusting panopticon at best--but it's at least sufficiently obvious that it's hard for me to feel like anyone hangs out there without understanding what the basic dynamic is.

Now, articles like this don't make me feel bad for the kids who 'have to' use facebook (not that they don't; it sucks being ostracized, we all know). Really, they make me remember this talk by Steve Yegge[1] about how stupid it is that so many smart people spend their time working on cat pictures.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8
It might have been true if it wasn't possible to get a copy of the plaintext key (eg: from ssh-agent).

Actual two-factor authentication would be requiring proof of access to the secret key and a diffrent login password.
So there are a handful of other services doing this same basic concept (see other comment), and none of them seem to have a story about how this scales past a single developer: sure, you can share the Dropbox folder and all work in the same place, but on something like a website with common CSS files and other centralized assets it seems like that would rapidly become unmanageable.
I only have Internet from my phone right now, which is why. It's the same basic idea as my comments on this article though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728788

But again their primary sources are fine, they're just not being honest about what they say. You'd be best off just reading the data from the NCES, College Board, etc.

As a rule of thumb, conservative ideology is mostly based on theories that have no basis in reality, whereas liberal ideology is mostly based on facts that have no basis in reality. This is a good example of the latter.
Lego tries to get people to call it's toys "Lego bricks" rather than "Legos" but I think this has not really been successful.
In 0:58 of the demo video you can see Backlift and Backlift Pro folders in /Apps. Same guys?
It annoys me to no end when people say they have "a Facebook," but I often wonder if I'm the one that isn't with the times...
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Well, go and look at the Wikipedia entry for PRISM and follow the leads to the UK coverage, anything to do with GCHQ is gag ordered. Nobody is talking about this fact, yet we should all do a kumbayah around the fire because Google have released a FOSS product "for the children". This stinks of PR. As I say, I have faith that those on the ground at Google have nothing but good intentions and want to change the world for the better, but we now live in a world where you cannot trust them. This is exactly the same as if Nestle released an open source solution for breast feeding, nothing but a PR repair strategy. I hate to be the one saying this by the way, because I have for years loved Google and put almost everything in their cloud solution.

Edit: Oh and I have exactly zero to gain from trolling Google, I am not promoting Skydrive or Spideroak because they are both equally dubious, why does my reaction to a company deeply tied into the recent revelations about all out data being processed by the US gov have to be considered non-relevant?

Edit edit: I believe I am contributing to this story because my comment is about the company involved in creating it and the relationship of trust they have (in the sphere of computer geeks and Hacker News this is particularly poignant). If you believe things should only be 100% related to the article, to never deviate and discuss things such as the the company, fair enough to downvote me.
The patent grant/license language of Apache 2.0 is actually quite important, especially for those downstream. That's why the FSF recommends[1] Apache over X11/MIT if you aren't going to go copyleft.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
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> Do companies ever release linguistic guidelines?

Adobe does with Photoshop and others.[1]

[1] http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#photo...
Ah yes, this sort of thing.

Facebook, like the internet, like blogging, like twitter, like crowdfunding, like videogames, like books, like e-commerce, is not some crazy new universe, it's just a medium where human beings can do what they've always done, but perhaps in different ways. It doesn't change the underlying capability of humans for good or ill, nor does it force humans to act differently.

If a drunk person initiates a fistfight with someone else in the parking lot after a football game most people are likely to place this event into the proper context, to put the responsibility on the individual primarily. But if the same thing were to happen under "more unusual" circumstances suddenly all logic flies out the window and people are more inclined to think those circumstances are somehow intimately related to the altercation. If someone kills someone over a video game, if people get into a scuffle after they run into each other on segways, or if some other drug is involved than alcohol, suddenly personal responsibility takes a back seat and moral panic rears its head. If a newspaper gets a story wrong that's one thing, if a blogger gets a story wrong suddenly it's a condemnation of all of internet journalism to its core. And here we have an example of people behaving badly and participating in perhaps human kind's oldest pass-time: horribly broken relationship behavior. And yet somehow all of this is special and unique and new because it happens on facebook, as though all of human history preceding facebook had been a bland parade of utterly normative relationship behavior.

People are weird, sometimes in a good way sometimes in a bad way, and when that weirdness becomes evident on a new medium it implies nothing about that medium other than that it allows humans to act like they've always acted.

P.S. This doesn't mean I think facebook is "good". There are lots of legitimate and even fundamental reasons to dislike or even hate facebook, but this narrative is not a particularly good critique of the platform.
I deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and I haven't regretted it for one day. From my perspective the people that use facebook are weak. They use it because other people tell them to use it and no other reason. If they don't see that then they are even weaker.

Companies that brand through facebook are worse. The company is such a bad one that the only way it builds its customer base is by appealing to these people.

The whole thing is depressing.
Did you ever contact them regarding this? They have webmaster tools for this.
Or maybe they actually know people with whom they want to stay in touch.

Having elderly relatives you care about doesn't make you "weak".
Nope, you aren't. Saying "a Facebook" is just stupid. I mean, if these guys have their own Facebooks you have to wonder why they need grant money, right?

They also repeat the "computer is isolating" nonsense. A friend got to see his daughter take her first steps while he was in Afghanistan. Yep, really "isolating".
It's a communication tool, just like email, phone and letters. "Using" it does not have to mean you're on it for hours a day. My main purpose for using it is to keep in contact with people who live far away from me, and to organize meeting up with people who live near me. I find it strange that you think that makes me "weak."
I'm glad you are familiar with industrial farming as many people are not aware of how food gets to our supermarkets. However, even in the kindest of farm environments (which, incidentally I have visited first hand) I personally find milk production unethical. Force impregnating a cow and separating - and getting rid of - the calf at birth are not "practices" famers can opt out of, they are the biological and financial reality of producing milk.

I don't know if you can empathize with an animals plight at the discomfort of repeated pregnancies, births, and forced separations from their offspring - or the even grimmer likely outcome of the calf itself, but for me this is not justified by own fleeting enjoyment of a slice of cheese that is completely not necessary for my physical well being.
Lack of X86 hardware support of course.