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> Coverage of Mandela is a testament to the prevailing powers' ability to rewrite history.

Ironic, considering that your post is basically revisionism at it's finest.

Four forms of violence were possible. There is sabotage, there is guerrilla warfare, there is terrorism, and there is open revolution. We chose to adopt the first. Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/nelsonmandela

Mandela was jailed for sabotage. MK was founded after the ANC's policy of "non-cooperation" was continually met with violent opposition from the SA government. Were they "terrorists"? No, the intent was not to spread terror or harm civilians. They only attacked government and military targets in ways which that would result in the least harm to civilians. This is exactly what he was sent to prison for - sabotage. There was zero evidence that he had a hand in any activities that led to civilian casualties (if there had been, he would have been hanged).

These "thousands of people" you claim that have been killed by MK (I'm not sure you can substantiate that) occurred while he has in prison. A large part of his sentence was carried out on Robben Island (Google it, it's literally an island) so he had little to no contact with the outside world, hence it would have been impossible for him to lead MK. He only found out about the group's activities when he was moved to a prison on the main land. And by then, his wife was running the show.

Yes, MK did bad things, especially under Winnie Mandela. But Nelson Mandela had no part in it. In fact, the differences in political ideology was a big factor in their eventual separation and divorce.
Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options?
What kind of password are you suggesting that's nearly as memorable for the same level of security?

That's (ballpark) equivalent to 8 completely random characters, which is relatively hard to remember. I know, personally, I'd rather remember 1 word than 2 randomly chosen characters from a pool of ~100.
Interesting. I think you're on to something here. The wikia stuff seems to have been created in August 2013. The subreddit /r/cicada appears to be 11 month old, but the article implies that Eriksson discovered it in the beginning of 2012. And it's virtually empty. Hmmm...

Edit: oh well, nevermind. A google search between 1/1/2010 and 1/1/2012 returns plenty of stuff, for example a discussion [1] on the xkcd forums from January 2012.

[1] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=79579
> Same arguments can be used against handheld camcorders, smartphones etc.

You mean if you throw them over your neighbor's house?
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I think the key is that at a young age, they lack the self-control needed to know when to pull themselves away from the screens. They need to be reminded to go to the bathroom, eat meals, go to sleep, etc. By not being proactive with limiting the time, you risk delaying them learning the basic self-control.

The good news is they gain these skills over time. I can see my 4 year old already gaining this control which she lacked earlier. The thing is it takes some diligence from the parents until they get there.
I don't think there is much dispute over what Mandela did or did not do, but rather over what we call it and if we should approve of it.

Whether you call somebody a "freedom fighter" or a "terrorist" in response to these sort of actions is a matter of perspective. Movements don't get called "terrorists" by people who side with them.

We know this because, in other times in history against other wildly racist and tyrannical regimes, resistance movements have carried out similar violent attacks, but rarely do we hear those groups described as "terrorists". I have never heard somebody describe the French or Polish Resistance as terrorists; they receive the terminology "freedom fighters" because damn near everybody agrees that they were on the correct side of that fight.

So what is the deal with people who chose the "terrorist" terminology, rather than "freedom fighter", for the ANC and Mandela? Do they merely lack perspective, or are there actually still a significant number of people who side with the Apartheid government?
> "You're having a dispute with your neighbour," he hypothesised. "How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their back yard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?"

Or, your neighbor spies on you with a telescope. Or he just breaks into your house and assaults you. I don't get the point. I fly multirotors responsibly for my own enjoyment, so screw you if you want to stop me.
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I use Hyde and it works great for me.

http://ringce.com/hyde

My webpage uses it, feel free to steal everything besides the content:

https://github.com/stucchio/homepage
After my experience with MongoDB at scale - I was running one of the largest MongoDB installations in the world according to 10gen - I have since run into the arms of postgres and wish to never repeat the horrors I experienced over there.

I think the main issue is that people want something to be simple, and now that I'm dealing with the somewhat esoteric and opaquely documented postgres, I can understand that feeling. Native replication and auto-failover (via pgpool) is a bit of a black box on postgres, but under MongoDB it was fairly simple.

The problem is, it's complicated for a reason, and that reason is scale. What took me over 100 masters in MongoDB will only need two postgres boxes, so it's worth dealing with the Oracle of Open Source to make it happen.
It's no longer even true that the kernel returns all error context; for example selinux is supposedly a nightmare to figure out "why was this denied?".
Hi ______(target user) ,

My name is ______(yourself) and this ____(verb) _______(noun)!

Hi Dinosaurs,

My names is atwebb and this is madlibs!

And you'd put the parens on the line, but I'm not sure of the markup for underlining here and feeling lazy.
So then, your point is that multirotors should be banned because your neighbors can now inspect your roof without your permission?
"I'm using Windows 7 and I'm still not sure how the items in the primary menu are selected to be there."

Most recently used. And by implication, most commonly used.

"It usually seems to have what I'm looking for so I don't worry too much."

Et voila.
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If you subsist on fast food, you're obviously on your way to health problems, but those problems might not include malnutrition because even fast food inputs are complex compared to something engineered from the most primitive possible inputs to specific macronutrient ratios.
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I actually don't care at all what the quality of the posts are like as long as it spurs an information rich conversation. To that end, maybe you could add something useful, instead of complaining.
> Soylent could be a very positive change for those people.

It could also be worse. Without long-term, scientifically valid studies, no one knows for sure.

> It's not like meals are an arcane science working some unknown magic on your body, it's about biological needs and chemistry.

The workings of the body are not fully known, even today. There are many unknowns in nutrition, which is precisely why none of the pharmaceutical companies have a "replace all meals!" product.
Very interesting book. Will check it out for sure.

I have a 4.5 yrs old who can understand 4 languages and converse in three of them. Credit goes to my wife for conversing with him like an adult in all these languages. I don't know why, but we never did any baby talk with him, and based on his teachers' comments he is way ahead of his peers in language/communication skills.
My wife started teaching him reading English about 3 months ago. Now he can practically read at 2nd grade level. We don't push him to read, but he loves reading his story books. I hope your book offers couple of more things that we can try to increase my kid's happiness.
This is all well in good when you are having an armchair discussion. I suspect you would respond different if you were informed: "We regret this but we are going to have to kill you" (read in the voice of a Vogon)
Like an hôtel particulier? That's the origin of the word hotel.
I personally solve this problem by purchasing cans of fresh air and keeping them in a drawer. A guy I knew once tried to corner the market with a giant vacuum, but failed when the expensive equipment suffered a terrorist attack, putting hundreds of operators out of work and torching my life savings.
I see. Great suggestion, might even use that for something else I'm working on :) Thanks for explaining!
Ask HN: Is showing a pair of boobs the only way to stand out in the app store?
I'm tired of building apps and watching them slowly fail after launch. I've done all of the recommended stuff. I blog, I facebook, I tweet, I contact bloggers, I send out emails, I work on improving keywords, I add translation to the app, I fix every possible bug I'm aware of, I reply to user reviews, etc..but I can never see my app grow to more than a few new downloads a day.

I know there's no magic solution here, but what else can the average joe with no contacts do to better promote an app?
power of language: "commercial observation drone" vs. "remote controlled plane with a go-pro atttached".
PHP continues to thrive because of WordPress and PHPBB. There are so many sites running these two pieces of software that PHP will be a top language for years.

PHP is also one of the easiest languages for Designers to learn. If you know HTML, adding a few bits of PHP is easy.

Even if you dislike PHP, (I certainly do) you end up getting good at it because enough projects touch it that you kind of have to be good at it. It is like JavaScript, I don't like JavaScript as a language, but it is essential because you can't not know it.
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Which shocked me, to be honest. I think I may have tapped into some latent reddit vs. HN rivalry? Also, I put in graphics. HN loves graphics.
after reading these documents, sounds like a safe is basically a refundable security deposit.
Looks like a shot from Blade Runner.
There is a section at lots of health food stores for "meal replacement".

I bought some a few weeks ago while out sourcing ingredients for some DIY soylent.

It was disgusting.
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Yes, that's because PHP operates at thermodynamic equilibrium and creating order from those states requires the expenditure of energy.

Rails is great for creating a site with a form where people can upload images, it's a 20 to 30 minute project in rails, pretty much just take any rails blog tutorial and add paperclip. (Note, it's not a 20 minute project for anyone who doesn't already know rails)

Rails is not for non-technical people. Rails is like a great jig, if you're a master craftsman it's going to save you a lot of time, if you're not don't bother, just tweak things until they fit together. If you're someone who has spent the last 5 years building furniture by tweaking things then you will love a jig.
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But in any complex system there can be various factors that lead to things being out of balance. I know someone who can't take multivitamins because there's too much iron in them and it upsets her system. If she were getting too much iron somewhere else, though, and cut that back, then they would be fine.

The point I guess is that perhaps these things aren't bad for you, but rather they're bad for you in the current context of your environment, health, and current dietary intake.

On the other hand, maybe they're just a bunch of things that are awful for your specific metabolism. Given the issues you posted, I probably wouldn't want to try it out if I were you.
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A really big contribution to the effort to get to Mars and other destinations farther from Earth would be to have a bunch of people try to eat nothing but stabilized foodstuffs for a period of time like 2 years. It would be something like: nothing but Soylent and MREs for two years.
> Such worries probably occur with every generation (and newer technologies) and things tend to turn out alright.

Do they? I think we just get used to the way things turn out, and thus think of it as "alright", no matter what actually happens.

But consider: everyone knows there is an epidemic of obesity in the U.S. Is seems unlikely that the rise of sedentary screen-oriented activities -- beginning with television -- is not a contributing factor.

Another: since the advent of the telephone, people have been visiting friends less often. Why visit, when you can talk any time you want? But look around on the web, and you'll find an enormous number of articles on how our world is now filled with lonely people. Again, a connection seems likely.

EDIT. A pre-emptive strike on a rather obvious objection: No, I don't want to go back to a world without modern technology. I like being able to learn about places I don't go, talk to people far away, etc. But let's not claim that modern technologies come without downsides -- often big ones -- and let's not dismiss any concerns as mere alarmism.
Stuff like composer, Silex/Symfony2, the addition of closures, the speed of new versions + OpCode caching make PHP pretty usable.

Thinking LAMP as a whole - the speed of new versions of MySQL (5.6, 5.7) and the Percona branch are also pretty sweet.
You know a ton of idiots who went to Stanford and Cal (and aren't including Cal athletes, had to, UCLA grad)?
This article is confused and its confusion is apparent right from the first paragraph: "In the course of exploring their universe, mathematicians have occasionally stumbled across holes: statements that can be neither proved nor refuted with the nine axioms, collectively called “ZFC,” that serve as the fundamental laws of mathematics. Most mathematicians simply ignore the holes, which lie in abstract realms with few practical or scientific ramifications. But for the stewards of math’s logical underpinnings, their presence raises concerns about the foundations of the entire enterprise."

Actually, it's confused from the first sentence: the job of a mathematician isn't to explore "the universe," which is ultimately an empirical question.

Anyhow, what Gödel proved is that such "holes" — a term a mathematician would never use — are a necessary consequence of any sufficiently powerful theory. In a nutshell, Gödel's incompleteness theorem says that if we have an axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the natural numbers and arithmetic — what is called Peano arithmetic — but manageable enough for us to enumerate the axioms then there will be theorems expressible in that axiomatic system which are neither provable nor disprovable in that axiomatic system. Note that they would well be provable or disprovable in some larger, more powerful axiomatic system. Or, like Euclid's parallel postulate, we could have a consistent mathematics whether we assume the theorem or its negation.

Even if we extend ZF(C) with axioms which allow us to prove or disprove CH, there will still be other theorems which are unprovable. Because CH is independent of ZF(C), the following statement is true: "If ZF(C) is is consistent then both ZF(C)+CH and ZF(C)+not-CH are consistent." That is, if we believe ZF(C) is consistent, we can add either CH its negation to our set of axioms and remain consistent. This is what it means for CH to be independent of ZF(C).

It's also worth noting that the Axiom of Choice — the (C) in ZF(C) — is independent of ZF. This means one can consistently do math in both ZF(C) and ZF(not-C), assuming ZF itself is consistent.

In the history of mathematics, Cantor believed CH to be true and Gödel believe it to be false. Nowadays, most mathematicians don't worry about this stuff. Instead, mathematicians prove statements like "In ZF(C), statement X is true if and only if CH is true." Whether one assumes CH or not-CH has to be decided on other grounds, e.g., aesthetics, utility, and so on.

The independence of CH from ZF(C) makes arguing for its truth or falsity a fool's errand. I think the error is in believing that every statement in mathematics must be a statement about our universe, i.e., either CH is true or it isn't and that's that. It's not a statement about our universe, however — it's a statement about some axiomatic system we've developed. If that seems weird to you, consider that you play with utterly un-physical constructs all the time, like numbers and perfect circles.
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How much has Facebook's open-source contributions to PHP (say, the HHVM) helped the development and adoption of the language?
We do indeed encourage the formation of new ventures, but we do not encourage it unconditionally or randomly. We ask for a model. We ask what makes the would-be entrepreneur think it will work. And those entrepreneurs who can't answer, or whose answers aren't compelling, we ask to go convince somebody else.

Why do we do this? Because once again, the fact remains that most ideas are bad. Too much risk-aversion does indeed lead to stagnation, but too little risk-aversion is even more destructive. A balance must be struck, and the proper balance still leans heavily -not completely, but noticeably- toward caution.

Roosevelt said to be brave. He did not say YOLO.
I agree that patents should be unique and novel (and that many patents are issued that are not novel). I disagree on the idea that innovation can only happen through expensive R&D and by experts in labs. Such innovation is useful and should be done and protected, but seems to be more evolutionary than revolutionary. Also, will companies take the time to do the R&D if they can't patent the idea and concept first?

Its important to protect more revolutionary ideas that may be developed by someone in a garage or starting a small company. Patents are supposed to also protect small businesses and individuals with great ideas that don't have the type of budgets you are talking about.
It's an anti-pattern to not pin versions in libs. setup.py is a contract. Every version listed as a dependency should have been tested, otherwise the package will bitrot. It should be safe to pin major versions, if you can trust upstream packages to follow best practices with version numbers and you aren't using any "undocumented" features of the lib. Ideally, your packages are tested and built into binary packages before they are deployed to production systems. If you are following that best practice, then your risk of a patch breaking your system are minimized.
I've been supportive of the idea of soylent, but this article actually made me worried, is it accurate?

Only rice protein? Not complete... there's a reason it is usually paired with beans.

That amount of carbs does not match the early human diet, but rather the modern one. Not the end of the world, though.

Also a physician isn't a dietitian/nutritionist. The fact they've brought the former on board instead of the latter is another unfortunate red flag re: cluelessness. Hopefully I've missed something.
It's as likely that a different civilization would go all-wired/wired-only for mass communication and only use satellites for observation purposes and GPS purposes. Then the number of potential satellites to be found is much lower than our current civilization.
This is a common (and racist) but incorrect generalization about Chinese culture. Look up the history of China and you will find millennia of successful rebellions against authority percieved as having lost a "mandate." Contrast that to Europe or America.

The thing I think is really important but often falsely confused with a lack of willingness to protest is a general distaste for the sort of personalized politics prevalent in the West. Chinese political participation in the US is lower than average. It seems like the culture in that sense is more focused on success economically and academically.

It's important to remember that the only reason the Communists have managed to last so long is because of their "support" from the start of the farmers, i.e., not killing and stealing from them like the KMT. As soon as that support is lost en masse, we will see another percieved experation of a mandate and another revolution in a long series of revolutions. What that will mean for the Chinese or whether that will mean more democracy we will have to wait and see.
How do wall street arbitrage desks link equity and debt? While I'm sure there's some degree of correlation, it appears that debt securities tend to be much more longer viewed than equity.
But is it sustainable? Heavy thick smog (indicating the prominent use of coal to generate power) are certainly a negative signal when we have much better power sources.
So is it time for private drone owners to form a lobbying interest to protect their rights? Maybe find an aging actor with a booming voice to use as a political spokesperson?
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I would suggest you look at just leasing an ordinary dedicated through these guys, who I used for ~3 years.

https://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/intel-xeon-lynnfiel...

Dual e5 2620 + 96gb ram + 480gb ssd for $493/month, and in 6 to 12 months you'll be able to shift to a bigger server at a lower price.

Benefits are:

- the physical server and network are always their problem

- you don't have to slap $7k down now
For me, Huxley hews much closer to reality - First Worlders are generally too comfortable, too preoccupied with the minutiae of getting on to really be fundamentally shaken by these ongoing revelations.

"An army marches on its stomachs" comes to mind here - it will take many more people feeling a much more literal pinch before the tide rises enough to buoy dissent past this nascent malaise. 20-30 years from now, with automation having rendered entire classes of workers obsolete, with the resultant gains having been gobbled by the same actors who have dominated global commerce these last 30+ years - I think we'll find then what the end game really looks like. I doubt very much it will be appetizing to 99.999% of us.
I'm not a legal expert, but I think it's already illegal to use drones to harm other people (unless you work for the government).
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Not sure how many every day PHP deployments are using HipHop. Probably nice option to have when you get to a certain point.

But Memcached, APC, and wrappers for Redis probably have done the language much more of a service in ways...
> By rejecting sweat of the brow doctrine in the context of patents, patent law has become divorced from its underlying economic justification: the prevention of free-riding. The magnitude of the disincentive created by free-riding depends very much on the capital investment that went into the invention.

Odd, I had always understood the underlying justification to be the establishment of free-riding. In return for a temporary monopoly, everyone would be able to use the same superior technique.
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Not starting your new company with 250k in debt sounds great. It will be interesting to see how fast this takes off.
Note that this isn't unique to SAFE. If you're using a standard Clerky / YC note, the debt will convert into a mix of preferred and common to ensure there's no extra liquidation preference.
It's mysterious. Rarely does one say this about js, or ruby.