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>At any point in the discussion on whether people have a right to die, or whether it was ok to use tissue from aborted fetuses for stem cell research or whether we need universal health care, has anyone ever asked, "Well, what do the philosophers think?"

Yes, many people. In civilised countries that are not all about "pop culture" and where science is not supposed to be half about marketing stuff to people -- people very much care what philosophers think about those issues.

In fact, what people care is what THEY think about those issues (that is, they want to make up their mind).

In this context, philosophers are essentially just more devoted thinkers, with a better command of the history of ideas, so people use them as guides.

Now, in the US, it's mostly pop culture, low quality op-eds and marketing/advertising driving the popular understanding of such matters.

I guess the equivalent would be NYT best-seller non fiction books (still, quite a low standard).
Totally a modal text editor...
I don't know the OP's background, but if he's the great programmer he says then I'm sure he has the smarts to find his place among the countless profitable one-person companies in our industry.
I thought that was PHP's sales pitch. Zing!
Question is, would it make one, 'young at heart' too. Possibly No. And this is all what matters.

As for $50K/Day price tag, it makes it loud and clear, this drug is for the filthy riches at least for couple of years, my average joe and jenny will remain old and ugly. :/
Shazam iPhone app now listens for music, TV shows automaticall
Locks are the kind of thing that you don't want computerized unless it involves biometrics. The 'tech-it-all' attitude is getting kind of tiresome. I've had newer washers with spin alignment sensors that break every year as oppose to my old analog washer that lasted 20 years.. A lock simply shouldn't have any hackable components. A microcontroller with wireless connectivity inside of a lock is the kind of ignorance that the 'omg, tech' attitude invites. As much as I like technical people, there are some folk who will orgasm at anything that has a microcontroller on it - I'm kind of ashamed of those folk - tech is a means to an end, not something you need to turn everything into.

I will say this is very cool though. I would not use it or recommend others do because the components and firmware are NOT open-source, and therefore it cannot be audited and is a HUGE security risk.
Is the car running on Node.js? Why am I here?
From your link:

>A November 1996 article in the New England Journal of Medicine found no difference in death rates, hospitalization rates or self-reported symptoms between Persian Gulf veterans and non-Persian Gulf veterans. This article was a compilation of dozens of individual studies involving tens of thousands of veterans. The study did find a statistically significant elevation in the number of traffic accidents suffered by Gulf War veterans.[44] An April, 1998 article in Emerging Infectious Diseases similarly found no increased rate of hospitalization and better health overall for veterans of the Persian Gulf War in comparison to those who stayed home.[45]

>Despite these studies, on November 17, 2008, a congressionally appointed committee called the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, staffed with independent scientists and veterans appointed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, announced that the syndrome is a distinct physical condition. The committee recommended that Congress increase funding for research on Gulf War veterans' health to at least $60 million per year.

The DOD is a large, cumbersome bureaucracy, and Gulf War Syndrome was an entirely new disorder which is still controversial today. It took a decade, but the DOD came around, and to my knowledge, people with Gulf War Syndrome are being treated.
FIXED: http://hnify.herokuapp.com/get/trends
API source: https://github.com/karan/HNify
What versions of Office does Access come shipped with? I've rarely seen it in the wild since...a decade? And I work in a .Net shop.
I'm fascinated with how people capture data on-the-go. Especially without fancy electronics.

There are two different modes in my job: normal operations or "blue sky" days and emergency operations or "gray sky" days. I keep two different notebooks, each one optimized for "blue sky" or "gray sky." They work remarkably well, but only if I'm away from my computer. If I'm at my computer, I tend to stay in the email loop, which is good for communicating, but bad for organized capture.
Having run the technical side of ~5 "small" businesses now (no more than $1.5M revenue), I disagree.

Eventually, nothing can match the performance of storing binary blobs on a cluster. But that only becomes worthwhile if you database is significantly larger than a terabyte. And I'm only talking about the operational "core" database, not your "data warehouse" (the log dumping ground, which should be split off when your database gets to be a few dozen gigs).

Meanwhile, mysql has big advantages :

1) can do basic optimization with "ALTER TABLE", even (mostly) live.

2) you can mix PROD and DEV/TEST (though obviously you need to use good judgement). Obviously you should also have a DEV/TEST instance for actual testing. Sometimes you want to run a test quickly against PROD though. Adding a slave, having it sync and then running against the slave is a joy.

3) creating reports is quick, customizable and everything you want.

4) It's "idiot-friendly". Employees can ramp up to the structure in a mysql db in 2 weeks flat. Try that with custom document stores.

5) It's typesafe and relational safe (if correctly designed), with the advantages that brings : significantly less weirdness in the database.

6) Phpmyadmin. Mysql workbench. Django. Php ...

I'm even going to argue that the GP's argument, that running analytics on PROD can get you fired, is not just wrong, it's actually an advantage of using mysql. (And the open source SAP database can run "live" analytics. You just can't believe how great that is for dashboards)
I've thought about this once or twice before. I wonder how we would view life if we didn't die from aging or disease, but only accidents, like a fire, car crash, gun shot, etc.

What would happen to religion? Do you choose to continue aging, die, and take your chances with the heaven you've been saying exists, or do you take the new pill, and live forever? If you take the pill, what does that say about your faith in the afterlife?

Do we fear death even more? If I'm going to die in a few decades of old age as my health deteriorates, I might as well enjoy my prime, and take some risks now. If I die, well, no big deal, I was going to die soon enough anyway. If I'm married, 60 years old, and my wife dies, that would be a sad day, but let's not kid ourselves, we're getting old. If your grandma passes away, well, it was her time, she lived a long life.

But, if we live forever, we fear those accidents. If your wife dies in a plane crash age 60, how does that affect you? You might have expected to spend the next ten thousand years together, and she's gone. Do we stop taking these risks? Do I step in a car, or on a plane? I'm willing to take that risk now, but if I knew I could potentially live forever, I wouldn't want to risk dying with so much time still remaining.

Do we enter the world of virtual reality? Why leave my home, I could get hit by lightning, I could get shot walking down the street, hit by a car, or attacked by animals. Why don't I lock myself in an underground bunker facility, and connect to the world through virtual reality? I toss on the goggles, and I enter the VR world where I meet with friends and family, and go on wild adventures, because I can take these risks in the VR world. If I die, I respawn. My body is safe in the bunker, while I pretend to be outside.
I disagree. I believe this actually puts food farther away from the common man, more esoteric than it really has to. Food is fundamentally different from the arts you mentioned. Some people may facetiously say that they can't live without visual arts, or music. To say you cannot live without food -- that is a true statement. Programming, painting, writing -- we only started doing these things relatively recently in terms of our full history, and were some near-extinction event to happen in the future (distant, but an absolute certainty), it is possible we may stop doing them in the future. But we will always be eating and drinking.

I can tell you that food can indeed be "recorded, transmitted, and reproduced" -- we do it by doing the cooking ourselves, learning from recipes and our imagination. Why should food be so hard? That it's considered an extraordinary feat to cook a wonderful dinner? Why should it be on par with painting a painting or writing a book? I assure you that if you ask any honest cook or chef, they will tell you that cooking isn't difficult. Their job is fucking hard, but the cooking itself? As simple as arts can go.

The upper limit of cooking has, admittedly, increased. This is a recent phenomenon. In the future, this may become easier as certain technologies become democratised, and the avant-garde again becomes the status quo. We saw this with Escoffier, Bocuse. We will see it again with Adria. A competent home cook will not miss out on the food of any great restaurant (bar the cutting edge, maybe?) as long as he/she is willing to learn a few tricks (with the restaurant book craze, there are no more secrets) and pay a bit more for groceries (thanks, globalisation).

I hope I don't sound too hostile. I didn't downvote you either (hah, don't even have the choice to). I just think that you're looking at food from too academic a viewpoint -- too high up. That's not to say that food cannot reach greater heights. But not in the way you predict or wish it to.

Of course, I do hope you visit more great restaurants. Having worked in the back of house of said restaurants, I do want your business! The experience of a restaurant transcends its food, and the unique whole package is of course, not replicable anywhere but in that restaurant. Would there be "restaurant media"? I don't know -- restaurant documentaries don't cut it, maybe the VR headsets we were promised a decade ago would be the solution?

Somehow I think that actually going to the restaurant is, in the end, the only way to do it.

(Whether or not the concept of restaurant will survive into the far future is another debate)
Don't be silly. PHP's sales pitch is "at least it's not Perl."
Ask HN: Just learned PiCloud will be gone, alternatives?
I've been heavily invested in PiCloud building my app for the past few months. Namely the Unique IP provided by s1 instances was a killer feature for me.

I decided to check their blog today and was shocked to learn they are going to be shutting down!

Where am I going to go now?! The PiCloud environments and unique ip per instance and queue to run parallel jobs in python was why I went with python.

I can't wait until February for the new company to come into effect. I need an alternative today.

It has taught me the lesson of depending too much on a single vendor. It really doesn't matter if they open source the picloud platform because my project hinges on the unique ip per instance and the ultra low pricing.

I feel totally devastated. All that hard work will now need to be modified with a new provider.
You know, I'm areligious and I say Merry Christmas more than Christians do. It's like they're afraid to offend someone. To me it's memories of childhood and a season of feelgoodness. My atheist father still put up a christmas tree and bought us toys for christmas. I don't know what the avoidance is all about. It's like me going to Asia and some Chinese feeling that they would not want to offend me by wishing me a Chinese New Year, or something. Just odd.
Actually, the engines (and gearboxes, for that matter) don't get rebuilt. Breaking the FIA seal means they might as well replace the engine with a fresh one, since the same penalties apply.
In a more perfect world, the people would understand that for the NSA to be able to find/track/stop this type of activity, they would have to have access to a large amount of global traffic, mine it, throw away what they don't need, keep the rest.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You people on my lawn might be too young to remember, but there was a time when Enlightenment developers were treated as rock stars in the open source USER community.

People like Rasterman and Mandrake. Or Mosfet, a KDE equivalent. Or Miguel De Icaza and the Eazel ("Nautilus") guys.

People were excited about the possibilities of the OSS desktop.
spammed this post about spam with his anti-spam service?

edit: wordpress plugin looks perfect for a few of my blogs
Cobol and some of the Basics had a characteristics that made them very desirable for certain use cases. Namely, static memory allocation. Although you can dynamically allocate memory in Cobol, you generaly don't. All storage is statically allocated at program startup. This would be highly desirable if you wanted to allow third parties to execute arbitrary code on your server. That plus no recursive function calls ensures stack and heap safety.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomor...
So they'll be a mid-pack team with an owner that goes whining to the officials anytime something doesn't work to his benefit?

Not exactly the "reppin'" I'd like to see for the USA in world motorsport.
Microsoft should follow Apple move and make its latest Windows 8.1 operating system free to all Windows users. The time has come for Microsoft to take "a page from Apple’s playbook" and offer existing Windows users a free upgrade. Google has been selling Chromebook laptops with Chrome OS (free updates forever) and is currently selling like a hot cake. I have already moved away from Windows to Chrome OS and will do that for home PC. I bet there are many fence-sitters who are in the same boat and Microsoft has a chance to pull them by offering free upgrade.
"Caring" doesn't mean much in the context of a blind coffee taste test, nor does it mean much in the context of good things. Caring to make something good and having the ability to do so are completely separate things.
I agree with you, but the specific language used could have been better. "Essentially holding the site hostage" implies that the ex-employee had a responsibility to do some work, which he did not.
Taig could install apps that run out of the sandbox, just like the apps that be installed by cydia. Taig is not removable, if you remove taig, your iOS will be to the DFU mode (Not safe mode).
Not really, depending on the engine. Some engines are built sturdily enough that they can make that power without anything other than bolt-on modifications. For example, the Saab B204L turbo engines make 185 HP stock. Just by changing the mapping in the ECU, you can raise that to 225 or so. Add a new exhaust and intercooler, you're up to 280. Bigger turbo, now you can hit 300-330. Bigger fuel injectors, now you can hit 400. Keep adding more air (bigger turbo) and more fuel (bigger injectors) for as long as the engine can take it. I think the record is currently around 700 HP, which may have been done on an engine with aftermarket pistons, but still, 400HP or more is possible with only bolt-on modifications, no rebuilding of the engine internals.
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By efficient I meant it achieves the same result with less cost, not that it minimizes electricity waste. If distributed solar "will also reduce the size of the economy", doesn't that mean it's more efficient?
Sometimes it's intelligence and perception over and above balls; for many, it is a choice between basic liberty or death. Jail doesn't factor into it. (See weev's sentencing transcript for an example of that to which I refer.)
Slightly off topic but this line made me chuckle:

iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world
and iPhone 5c, the most colorful iPhone yet

I guess that's a PR problem you have to deal with when you release the best of your efforts alongside a lower cost version!
I see no reason why I should support a materialist bacchanalia of blood red and evergreen worshiping a pagan monstrosity trafficking in impish minions to tempt and subvert good Christian hearts from the simple truth of salvation and redemption.

"Sparkle"? Clearly an underhanded subterfuge intended to surreptitiously convert honest Protestants into dirty Papists, holding a mass claiming to be for our Lord and Savior Jesus H. Christ, when it is really an annual call to summon the sparkling Devil himself: Edward Cullen.
Are there any trends in efficiency regulations that compare to Formula 1?
What about binary-only drivers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob
This isn't pretty. Gwern doesn't look good here, messing with someone that was clearly mentally ill. Even at the end when he breaks this opinion he positions himself in a smugly superior way, insincerely offering this analysis.
If you don't know, have you considered asking?
Cool app, but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while.
Yep pkill is recommended on UNIX based OSs like Openindiana/Solaris etc. On these killall will actually do what it's name says :)
technically, how can they make ground coffee in a pod comparable to freshly ground coffee? even if you use an inert gas in the pod, aren't you going to have chemical changes in the pod? and some loss (evaporation) of lighter chemicals? it seems like if grinding freshly is important (and i have heard many times that it is), then it's just not physically possible to reproduce the taste via a pre-ground pod. odd.
Technically correct, but the pooping in the hole wasn't the cause of the disease - it was a necessary countermeasure against the effects of living in the same place for years on end.
Indeed you have! I find it difficult to track account names, especially unfamiliar ones, and didn't note that I had even commented elsewhere on your threads of doing that reading.

(For example, it wasn't until 7th grade that I noticed that various books that I really liked were all written by the same author, so I should get more books by that author.)
The difference is that Verizon already had this code built, and charged $700/request to use it. The Lavabit founder was asking for money to develop and modify his code. Even if it was his code, there is no "standard" amount for this service, so the government balking about it seems a bit disingenuous. It seems like they were annoyed they got push back to begin with, then did a heavy handed overeach to get the ssl keys because they knew the judge was friendly to their point of view.

He may have done if they agreed, but then again, maybe not. A lot of his responses seem like stalls in order to decided what to do.
Walter Mitty movie trailer budget goes to aid Phillipines
Disruptions: Betting on a Coin With No Realm
I am sick of political correctness in all of its forms. The truth is the truth, and if you're offended by it, the problem isn't how I said it, the problem is that you need to get over yourself.

As for Christmas, I don't give two shits what we call it, but can we just decide to call it something and move the fuck on, please?
Oh, I guess we disagree on that part then. To me it's pretty clear that they mean there's no way for their beloved baby (the site) to be returned because the person holding the power to return it is unwilling to do so. A bit like a school with kids locked inside and the janitor won't open the doors because the school didn't pay him.

Hah. Analogies.

(Yeah, I stretched it there.)
That's why I find all these rules idiotic. I personally would like to see a rule where each car gets X amount of fuel (adjusted in BTUs) per race. So say you can get 100 liters of gas or 85 liters of diesel, because diesel has more BTU/liter. That's all. Leave the rest up to the teams, let them figure out the most efficient way to spend their fuel.

You're describing a different racing series, perhaps one that doesn't exist yet. Fuel efficiency isn't the top priority for F1 so they'll only partially optimize for it. Other factors they have to consider:

- revenue

- exciting races (=> more revenue)

- somewhat competitive backmarker teams (=> exciting races => more revenue)

- "reasonable costs", so backmarker teams can sort of keep up with the Ferraris, McLarens etc (=> exciting races ...)

- possibility of lots of overtaking maneuvers (=> exciting races ... )

- cutting edge tech (of course, but have to keep races exciting)

- fuel efficiency (ok, sure, why not?)
Yeah, I probably overreacted.
What's wrong with $EDITOR?

Why would I want a terminal command for using a GUI editor?

Why would I want a GUI editor at all?
This is not sarcasm. These are still problems with F1. The reason why these rules are needed is because F1 racing has been in the constant "getting out of hand" state since 80's.

Some races from the ground effect era 1977 to 1982 were ridiculous. Wing-profiled sidepods sealed to the ground by sliding lexan skirts. It took gigantic amount of rules changes to cover all loopholes.
Wouldn't it be the FBI's job?
I really like the app but I'm not selling it, it updates itself if they find new places. New places just show up.
Upon clicking the link to your app it gives the following error:
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.
If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
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Chinese App Store Taig Disabled in iOS 7 Jailbreak
Yes. Too many requests have resulted in time out error. If you want, you can run it locally as well: https://github.com/karan/HNify#start
register you@your-real-name.com or .me and use it as your "forever email".

For the time being redirect it to gmail - and then switch to whatever provider will fit.

But first step is to own personal domain and gradually eliminate using of something@some-provider.com
How do you cheat at chess? Young Borislav Ivanov seems to know
"Music snobbery is the worst kind of snobbery. ‘Oh, you like those noises, those sounds, in your ear? Do you like them? They’re the wrong sounds. You should like these sounds’" - Dara O'Briain

s/music/coffee
Yup. There may be thousands of earth like planets in our galaxy alone. Shouldn't we explore them some time in future ?
From Wikipedia article:

Levison objected saying that the key would allow the government to access communications by all 400,000 customers of Lavabit. He also offered to add code to his servers that would provide the information required just for the target of the order. The court rejected this offer since it would require the government to trust Mr. Levison and stated that just because the government could access all customers' communication did not mean they would be legally permitted to do so.

This is a CORE of what is wrong with the oppressive system US become. Note that Levison himself did not commit any crime; he simply offered the service to host emails; he was not a criminal but yet court decided that he can't be trusted. This is a core of the problem here. You can be a saint Pope yourself and the Gov will not entrust you, but yet at the same time you have government who on record murder its own people and do things after which you would have not slept for a month, and is given carte blanche type of trust from the judge.
I mentioned under the "Get Invited" form that I do not collect phone numbers or other location data, but in case anyone would like extra assurance of privacy, feel free to check out the open-source code:

https://github.com/codyromano/Map-Streak/tree/develop