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"Philosophers believe at least, that they are doing work more along the lines of mathematics than underwater dance (that is, searching for truth)"

Thinking that you can search for truth while ignoring how most of the world thinks about and addresses these issues is like thinking you can study urban planning without traveling to other towns. While there are some schools of thought that take such a tightly analytic view of philosophy those represent only a single strain of philosophy, and a highly Western continental one at that.

It is worth mentioning that Descarte thought he was doing just this kind of rational searching free of all philosophical conceptions but, for him, the proof of God's existence was obvious as a rational axiom using the same methods as his cogito. I think most of us in the more secular setting of hacker news would consider that portion of his rationalism to be the product of his cultural background.

Just as travel expands your understanding of where you are from, engaging with many traditions of thought is one of the only ways to actually become aware of the assumptions and biases inherent in your own.
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Nah, just like most of the animals in that cave wouldn't survive outside of it, nothing from outside world would thrive inside of it: the conditions are too different. With low oxygen, and food sources that require extreme specialisation it's hard for any invasive species to take hold.
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Mod experience -

Mods see user behavior patterns inverted - you see comments, they see users who make repeated comments of a certain type.

Good mods eventually curtail some of that behavior for valid but hard to deduce reasons.

I'm guessing that in this case, it's been stopped because user behavior shifts, and people use summaries instead of reading the article.

Edit: it's also generally bad form to have meta discussions, it encourages a form of navel gazing which worsens the signal to noise ratio.
What other nations have collapsed this quickly without outside influence throughout history?
Slight digression but - PLT-Scheme (or Racket or whatever it's called now) : CL :: Haskell : OCaml

Exploration of new ideas in Scheme and Haskell 'feel' more versatile. The representation of concepts are often more succinct and almost always have more of that that je ne sais quoi one gets from an elegant[1] math proof. In day-today coding with a team, I've used more of the CL/OCaml than the latter though for reasons I'm not entirely sure about. OCaml's modules are strictly more powerful than Hask98's type classes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty Didn't know this existed until just now, but glad Russell and Erdos are both mentioned in the first paragraph, and even more amused, considering their histories with formalism/ordered logic haha. Where's the Frege tragedy and the Wiggenstein Viennese fanboys?!
Ukraine uses active protection on tanks in war against Russia. It works well: http://wartime.org.ua/uploads/posts/2015-04/1427962059_7.jpg .
One also doesn't expect to look over their shoulder and be constantly stalked. But it's okay because it is the government?
Both India and China have extremely rich philosophical logic traditions, along with extremely well developed philosophies of mind and epistemology.

Attributing philosophy of mind as "western" is the problem the article is speaking to--our Philosophy departments are so ignorant of thousands of years of work that they often duplicate already solved problems or ignore perspective changing constructs.

If people are actually curious, even beginning to engage with Nagarjuna or Candrakirti is fascinating.
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I liked the article. Maybe a bit about how the LinQ methods are (or could be) implemented under the hood to show how easy this can actually be?

I've always like the good old fibonacci sequence for this too, because it shows off some simple logic that we all know, but it touches on some non-intuitive aspects (like yields being anywhere, and infinitely long IEnumerables).

public IEnumerable<int> Fib() {
yield return 1;
yield return 1;

int a = 1, b = 1;
while (true) {
b = a + b;
a = b - a;
yield return b;
}
}

Then the 500th fibonachi number is:

Fib().Skip(499).Next()
The future seems likely to involve a fleet of autonomous vehicles that we use on-demand -- why not own and operate the fleet? Not to mention owning the technology powering the autonomous cars.
The RP in RPG is Rocket Propelled. /pedantry

There's a huge difference between RPGs and hand thrown anti personnel grenades. The first uses a shaped charge to create a very directional blast of fast hot metal that can punch through armor and the latter is an unfocused omnidirectional blast that can't get through light armor.
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Spaniard here. I had no idea about Zuse prior to a few minutes ago.
I agree with the author given the author has cited specific works that sometimes predate the European works and some that they themselves probably discussed.

The Confucius one got to me in college as I learned about him in a world religion class instead of philosophy. I mean, here's a guy or group whose writings were so profound that they can lead you to business success or happiness in 2016. Gets almost no attention outside of jokes that make him look like an idiot. I like messing with people in the South by talking about how the "Good Book" says (insert Confucius quote). They'll correct me about what Jesus really said only to have me point out I was talking about a different author that came before him and was doing it for non-religious reasons. Blows their minds. Instead of him, my philosophy class taught me a mix of stuff that's practical (eg Empiricism, Skepticism) and stuff I'd have to use PCP to benefit from. Hmmm.

I find the Flying Man experiment interesting, too, given I've done the same one. At least the initial thoughts. I did it after I had fallen from a high place. It felt so peaceful as if I was suspended in air with a light breeze with the world moving past me. The ground interrupted the peace. Aside from that, I do recall introspecting on how it looked and felt from my perspective vs what actually happened. I knew there were psychological lessons or something to learn from the experience. Turns out, a Persian my philosophy class didn't know about thought up the same thing before 1,000AD. Probably fell off a building or something, too. ;)
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"Only 10 percent have a specialist in Chinese philosophy as part of their regular faculty."

How important is it to have a specialist as part of "regular" faculty? Is there no other way to teach the information that via a "regular," "specialist" ?
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Even without this new system, a person setting a toy rocket off near a deployed military force is really asking for trouble.
Other manufacturers have already done so. Honda being the biggest (see Honda Landwatch). So, I'd imagine that it is.
Interesting who will be the joker that will first register toto.africa when it goes live.
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> I'll add - sales would suggest building a faster horse.

Wrong - the customer would ask for a faster horse. A bad salesman would sell them one. A good salesman will get them to want a car.
Yeah, young enough to just barely recall it :)
Anyways, this is again a nice strategy, or better call it data grab.
(Although, I haven't use GBoard)
That is better than the "chat roulette penis gallery redux" I was imagining this to be.
I would want a developer who knows the best practice keeping the ciphersuite up to date and understands stuff like client side certificates if they going to work on any security conscious application.
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Not sure whether it is legal. The idea is not unique, Porsche also uses this idea in one of their concept cars: http://www.porsche.com/microsite/mission-e/international.asp...
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You'll have exchange setup on Thunderbird with email & calendar.

They recommend using Pidgin for a lync replacement, but I use Sky. And then the address book might require saying you have a mac (to your it department) and getting some specific info or dsquery'ing of your current working windows desktop.

To use internet explorer for your 1 or 2 admin applications just dual boot so that you can always use windows in a pinch.
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The one that I never figured out, is who on God's great earth would go to a state university, in a state that you don't live in? Out of state tuition at UNH, to pick one of them that's close by and I have interns from, is not very much cheaper than going to Colby or Bates or BC/BU.
That user was applying for funding from HN to start a summarising service. They started dumping summaries in HN threads to advertise the effectiveness of the service.

There's a bit more context than just "dang bans users who tl;dr".
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Zero sort of emerged from accounting serialization difficulties with positional base number systems. When it actually began to be treated as a number, all hell broke loose.
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It's because the car industry is about to experience two fundamental revolutions simultaneously. The move to electric drivetrains which will completely change the technical architecture of the hardware, and the move to self-driving. The incumbents have no built-in advantage in either of these areas, which makes it ripe for disruption on two different axes at the same time.

If a move to a new manufacturing process such as carbon fibre gets thrown into the mix, that's three simultaneous revolutions.
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Anybody else got the same pic they uploaded?

Edit: Second time worked. Apparently a lot of people google "stupid" and upload the first image... Lovely.
Not sure where to begin with this, looks like a complete scam to me, and looking at the spec of the zero buggy, it claims 20" suspension clearance (this would be travel, not clearance), and that the regenerative braking means you can corner "2-3x" faster.

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Physics.
This is excellent, the read-balancing consistency is a huge feature, and one we've been waiting for as trying to do read balancing without it is jumping through way too many hoops (unless data consistency just isn't your thing).
To me this sounds like the developers weren't tested for ops skills before being brought on to a team while everyone knew that developers are required to do ops.

Of course, specialisation helps. But the most pleasant work experience I've had was at companies where there was no distinction between dev and ops.
It showed me my own upload.
If that is the case, then why are Aristotle and Plato taught in modern philosophy classes? Why waste time with the ancients when you could go straight to the ideas of more modern, more correct thinkers like Santayana and Kirkegaard?

The thing about philosophy is that each philosopher is an individual; philosophy is additive (in the sense that any philosopher is building on, or replying to their predecessors) but not cumulative. There is no set of settled propositions that are universally regarded as correct.

The point of the argument of the article is that modern, Western university philosophy departments will not, or can not, include Chinese or Indian philosophers (both have extensive traditions) for example, and so cannot either evaluate those philosophies or, more importantly, relate them in any way to western philosophy.

Or, would you prefer that western mathematicians had never adopted the zero because it came from another culture and therefore could not be correct?
Kayia (http://kayia.org, my project) is also approaching programming from a very different angle. I would like to say that, since a large percentage of us know that programming is broken, we are supportive, inclusive and embrace new ideas. We don't.

This industry has become a branch of the finance industry. So instead of programming being driven by math (e.g. category theory, abelian groups), it's driven by the market (e.g. time-to-market, what works now).

HARC is a push back the other way, giving space to people who are thinking about it in the right way, and I applaud that. But we're still missing the 'inclusive' piece of it; until we can talk to each other and listen to each other, we'll remain frustrated.
I wouldn't begrudge anyone holding this opinion - I would struggle to point to any gameplay element as a true breakthrough - but the polish, quality of storytelling (that prologue!), and first rate acting/animation really set it apart for me. Like everything Naughty Dog, I would rate it as a lot closer to a "Steven Speilberg" level of cinematic/dramatic presentation, whereas most AAA games I can think of (Fallout 4, Starcraft II and GTA:V come to mind) are closer to schlocky B-movies IMO. Ultimately, that's not a gameplay feature, but I think it provides a compelling sense of motivation that makes playing their games uniquely immersive.
Question: He says EME will allow publishers to dictate which browsers can implement CDMs that can interoperate with their content, and therefore control the browser market, and that this will quell innovation. I have questions about this, however. In the old but waning status quo, Adobe and Microsoft got to decide which browsers would work with Silverlight and Flash (right?) so it still wasn't possible for a developer to make a new browser that could play DRMed video without getting their permission. What is the meaningful difference from the new status quo?

Is the difference that now, publishers control content and compatibility, whereas before publishers controlled content and DRM companies controlled compatibility? Is that actually a meaningful change for users or for browser developers? It doesn't seem like it is.

Am I missing something?
Reminds me of a game you could play on PC Pursuit [1] called PC Roulette: Connect to the remote dial-out modem and type "A/" [2] to dial out to the last phone number somebody else called.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set#The_basic_Ha...
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Did any of these modern theories come from non-western parts of the world?

"Causal theories of reference" looks interesting from an AI perspective. Do you know how it relates to the math discipline, causality (eg. Pearl)?
Google is reportedly announcing a standalone Android VR headset next week
Reminds me of the scene in Boiler Room when the guys from J. P. Morgan stroll into the bar and later point out that the firm in the movie, J. T. Marlin, is named such so as to try and sound like a stock firm people have heard of.
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> There's a drastic difference between earnings for unfinished and finished college degree

Is that really signalling, or is it that the reasons for not finishing a degree (not willing to put in the hard work, for instance) bleed into the workplace? The degree may play no part at all.

Interestingly, a GED does not statistically elevate ones earning position like a traditionally acquired high school diploma. It has been suggested by researchers that the reasons for not completing high school the traditional way are what lead to lower earnings, and receiving certification does not remove those existing traits. Why would college be different?

Additionally, the biggest statistical gains come from post-graduate studies. 49% of the top 1% of Americans have a post-graduate degrees. Further, there are more people with high school or less in the top 1% than there are with bachelor degree-only. This suggests to me that the gains from having a degree are skewed by supply managed professions (for example: doctors), where incomes are artificially high because the law prevents unconstrained competition. There, again, may be no advantage outside of those protected industries, and certainly not if you plan to stop at the bachelor level.
ugh. Get over yourself. All science is inductive reasoning.

Now talking about false positives or false negatives might be a more insightful conversation.
I think a more accurate thing to say would be that California seems like the only place you find anything other than the Dale Carnegie school of business... at least to any significant degree. You do find that in California too, but that's not all there is.
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> Apple computers ... will both rely on the Vulkan/OpenGL APIs

Apple haven't included any real OpenGL updates in years, and have meanwhile released Metal, their own cross platform (OS X / iOS) abstraction layer.

Wouldn't get your hopes up expecting Vulkan support from Apple.
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Could be because 'white girl' is also slang for cocaine.
I love new features in Postgres, but I hate upgrading. Transition, especially for dev environment is always way too complex and not obvious at all.

If there is one feature I wish PG had, it is recognizing old format db and offering one command that can in place upgrade damn db, without me googling it every time.
Pharo 5.0 (the immersive, pure object oriented language and environment) is out
Why is hackrrnews linking to a site with porn ads?
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Can you share some tips on writing a good project task descriptions? Or even a funny ones you saw in your career?

https://yanado.com/blog/how-to-write-project-task-description/
That's not the point of what I was saying.

I'm making a point that Wordpress is also "yesterday's software" and there's nothing wrong with making that choice.
I feel like OP understands this - the questions is that why do any of that when the younger generation is rapidly urbanizing, in which case "order a car on your phone, wait 10 minutes" seems silly compared to "walk out front door, onto train, be at destination even sooner".

The self-driving utopia is primarily a suburban-centric dream, in many European cities (and a small handful of American ones) it's likely to be less efficient than what already exists.

Around here for example, the subway runs every 2-3 minutes and moves faster than cars - perhaps even self-driving ones. Trips are generally short enough that being able to work/surf the internet is a pretty marginal benefit, and the hardware store is so close that it would be nonsensical to use any vehicle to go there. All of the above pre-supposed long travel times and having to take a vehicle for even mundane every tasks - this is untrue for many cities, where cars (self-driving or otherwise) will likely be strictly inferior to the utility offered by walking or mass transit.
As they should be! Enough time to know whether stuff breaks in real life or not, and to deal with fixing any issues that come up.
ha I think serverless was just to get a reaction! I def agree that the devops has been neglected in terms of OS and hope this will help
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Obviously besides HN. I'm curious on the list of sites that you visit daily. For news or plain habit.
> I am not sure that this is the correct or best way to describe it.

That's how physicists describe it. So it is the best way.

The thing to remember is that information (in physics) means "particles". The screen gives your eyes information in the form of photons.

In the case of QM entanglement, nothing is exchanged. So no information is exchanged.

> It seems almost necessary that an information exchange happens between the two cards, after all they have to acquire different colors and they have no definite color before looking at them.

That's the issue with QM. You would like to think that something happens. But as I said, whatever really happens is different than what you think.
> Liebniz notation didn't win because someone argued that anglos were biased and diversity was needed, it won because mathematical arguments demonstrated it was better.

> Unfortunately the authors of this piece don't actually make that latter argument.

Is this to imply there is a more-correct philosophy? I have no formal training in philosophy but I feel that to claim one philosophy is objectively better than another is a bit much.
They also washed their hands before they went inside.

Edit - and wore a hair net
That should be in quotes: "worth" billions of imaginary dollars. Until this company goes public or is bought or she's bought out she isn't worth nearly that much.

This whole thing looks like a way to scam money off of defense contracts. I doubt if there is any tech in there worth something for a company to buy. At that point any leverage she had with money evaporates.
For the same reason that David Ricardo comes up in modern economics classes and Panini comes up in modern linguistics classes -- because those are considered significant in the history of the now dominant paradigms.
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AngelList is great and it's (part of) how I got my current position.
Fair enough, but mathematics is robustly internally consistent.

If a mathematical idea leads to the same results as another mathematical idea with no contradiction it is considered true and is celebrated. These ideas also need to avoid running afoul of fundamental axioms.

I don't know much about philosophy but it seems like ideas lead directly to irreconcilable contradictions should be either thrown out or isolated into their own system (if the resulting system is rich enough) and those that fit into a system and lead to new paths of insight should be included in that system. Contradictions between systems should be explored but it seems that expanding an already rich system should be preferred to forcing contradictions into a coherent system or weakening working ideas to make room for ideas that don't lead anywhere new.

Maybe that is what the author is advocating -- separate internally consistent systems and a relinquishing of the umbrella term Philosophy to make room for separate systems. But the title -- 'If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is' seems to suggest a preference for Philosophy to diversify, to throw everything under the same big tent, contradictions and all, which I really don't think is helpful.
Hmm, just browsing to http://pictureswap.org/success gives you the other side's image without uploading one yourself :/ That's probably not what it's supposed to do?
This is useful for some free web hosting sites with some limits (if file creation is not forbidden ;), also useful for simple personal blog system (composer is unnecessary).

Well, not great, but usable. The write method is not reliable for asynchronous operations.
I'm not a C++ expert but can you solve this using something more like the functional approach in C++, by defining a templated function and then specializing it in the extension modules for the various classes? (I guess the specialized declarations would need to be #included somehow, but that's not too big of a hurdle.)
I'm hopeful it'll get better. Steam itself was _awful_ in the early days. There's an old NSFW animated gif of the Steam logo that's tells you a little bit about how early users felt when Steam became mandatory to play Counter Strike. Look at Steam today, though. It's gone through a tremendous evolution.
I understand censoring pointless things like "kansas" but "asiandick?" Seriously? They're going to penalize Human A&P students that need help just because the source material is Asian!? Or just the Art majors that could get by with a different theme?