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I clicked around to see which topics were actually taught to undergraduates in the first philosophy program Google showed me (happened to be Yale): http://philosophy.yale.edu/undergraduate-program/undergradua...

The first five:

* An examination of major figures in the history of Western philosophy

* An examination of attempts to reconcile the evils of this world with the existence of a perfectly good God, with special attention to proposed solutions to this problem that appeal to human free will in explaining why God allows evil.

* An introduction to formal logic.

* An introduction to ancient philosophy, beginning with the earliest pre-Socratics, concentrating on Plato and Aristotle, and including a brief foray into Hellenistic philosophy.

* An introduction to major figures in the history of modern philosophy, with critical reading of works by Descartes, Malabranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.

Of those, only formal logic is neutral. The rest has an obvious bias.
Have you just discovered that when you permute the words in a sentence, you can radically change it's meaning?

The point of the article is the primacy of Western philosophical traditions in their departments. The context of the discussion in reality is what makes it relevant. Your permutation is incongruous with the context they're making their argument in.
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The assumption is by having 25% fewer teachers you can pay the remainder 25+% more. With the extra based on the idea you don't need to pay for health insurance again. 42k * 1.25 = 52.5k which is not bad with full benefits and a pension.
I've used haproxy a number of times for reverse proxying service requests and terminating SSL. The SSL setup is quite easy, basically just cat the keys together and put the file in a specific place. I'll definitely take a look at this, but I'm honestly not eager to replace haproxy with apache.
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Opera trying hard to survive these days. I would use it if they open their source code
that was unexpected lol, thanks
History of philosophy is a major part of all philosophy programs, and the list of topics that are discussed in the non-history topics are those that were discussed by the old European philosophers.
While impressions of staff being happier and full of energy aren’t exactly scientific basis for declaring 6-hour work days as 'better' than the 8.7-hour work day endured by the average American, we do have evidence that what we’re doing right now isn’t working.[1]

The study equates productivity with quality of care, which doesn't necessarily translate to white-collar work.[2]

[The company] had to hire an additional 15 nurses, which cost 6,000,000 Swedish krona (about $735,000). About half of that expense was offset by the decrease in sick days and time off. That said, the experiment didn't measure how the improved care affected the overall bottom line.[2]

To cope with the significant cut in working hours, Feldt says staff are asked to stay off social media and other distractions while at work and meetings are kept to a minimum.[1]

with more people in work, unemployment benefit payments are cut, but the savings accrue to the state, not the municipality that bears the cost of hiring more staff.[3]

Daniel Bernmar, leader of the Left party group on Gothenburg city council, which pushed for the trial at Svartedalens, admits a six-hour day costs more money, but insists it is a matter of quality of life for public sector workers and for residents in elderly care.[3]

What I see is a quantitative drop in productivity being justified with a qualitative survey. None of which supports "boosts productivity". Along with this is less vacation, but more day-to-day personal time. I'm happier working longer hours for more time off. The only thing that appeals to me in this list is shorter meetings. I work in the private sector though, which doesn't seem to be included in any studies.

[1] http://www.sciencealert.com/sweden-is-shifting-to-a-6-hour-w...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-10/the-six-ho...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-t...
It's very odd to me that Google would release this on iOS first. I understand the value of iOS market share but when you have your own platform...

I think this looks really good, doesn't seem to be in the UK App Store yet or I'd have installed it already.
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I found this video [1] to be a remarkably engaging and informative (but Bohr biased) overview of this topic.

Alain Aspect's comment regarding "if you just want answers you simply compute" in context of "understanding" entanglement is spot on.

[1]: https://youtu.be/-LklvINk_L4
It was 29 in 2010. Sounds like it's much smaller than 100.
This is terrible.

Ye gods, there's a whole section of philosophy devoted to pragmatism, which by it's very definition could care less where stuff came from.

I know that there's no way somebody received an advanced degree in philosophy and is now making a case that the historical roots of one thought system or another is more important than how useful it is. This has to be a troll.

You measure systems, whatever they are, by how well they achieve the goals you have set them up to address. Philosophy, especially, is a field of endeavor where you move between toolsets depending on the situation and context. That's because philosophy is not a science, it's a set of tools.

It's also not a preschool art project, and observing the field from a distance and noting that there's not enough blue, or too many mountains, is the height of reductionist idiocy.

I'm sorry for the vehemence. This article makes me sad. These folks should know better.

I am reminded of the old saying: if you do not know why you are doing something, stop doing it.
This is also assuming that telsa's software is infallible and has no bugs. I wouldn't automatically discount bugs because of the recorder.
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What became Philosophy was first delineated by the Hellenic Greeks. It was a pursuit of the literate as an alternative to the waning gods of the masses. There are certainly other schools of thought on what things are, how they should be considered, how being should act, how societies should organize and what people should admire and strive for; but not all of those are philosophical.
This helps solve our looming automation crisis.

On the other hand, patient handoff is the most dangerous part of the average hospital stay. Shorter shifts for nursing staff equates to more frequent handoffs.
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Probably referring to Meg Whitman[1] not Marissa Mayer.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman
So it's like using Google? It also stores data to help with spellcheck and autocorrect like any other keyboard? I'm honestly confused what you're trying to point out.

(edit: my mistake, I thought you were raising privacy concerns, not saying that your concerns were assuaged)
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Well, who doesn't float their boat?
Hello,

In the first phase an application is needed as interacting with the Ethereum/IPFS network currently requires a local Ethereum/IPFS node.

IPFS for example is currently working on a javascript implementation that would make it usable from normal browsers and basically "invisible" for average users. Ethereum also has some efforts in this direction but most likely we will see these things coming together somewhere around Q3/Q4 2016.

When these options will be available we will definitely make use of them as we understand the potential adoption gains we can have by removing the need to install an app.

In the meantime we were thinking to setup a few IPFS gateways that would serve a static version of the content in the form of a normal website (http://akasha.world for example).

This way people can at least access the content/read/share it over traditional Web 2.0 mediums. On the other hand, if they want to interact with the network (publish/comment/vote) then they would need to install the app. Not the best solution, we know, but seems like a decent compromise while the tech "gets there".

> PS., not sure if you noticed, but some of your comments on this page are marked dead. I have no idea why this has been done to you.

I have no idea why this was done either...Did I broke any HN posting rule without knowing?
You have a point. What about CSS? At first I think it would just render funny, but some javascript actually interacts with the CSS, e.g. jQuery selectors based on style classes or something. So it has the same problem really.

Images would be safe.

Or an alternate plan, start rendering, but do not run the javascript until the resource checks for css+js files return. It would slow things down some more, but not as much as waiting for everything.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Roots-Postmodern-Thought-V...

http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/044/blackwell.htm
That is what Chicken Little would like you to believe, but you always have the option of devising your own API, call it prefixWithChars. If your implementation really is that much better, people will go through the effort of migrating their software.

The sky is not falling.
> #bi
> #gays
> #lesbian

Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.
To complement this, I found this video interesting in demonstrating some of the technical achievements and flourishes in Uncharted 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2am8WRBXQ
> #italiano

Really?
No it can’t, because of the following two things: (1) Not all source or text files are Unicode, I can’t assign an extension. (2) I’m running Windows, I don’t have terminal, I use git from power shell. And power shell’s native encoding is already UTF-16.
Which is probably how it ended up rolling over your child in the (hypothetical) first place.
Some interesting takeaways::

- The cave is called "Movile".

- 3 species of spider, a centipede, 4 species of isopod (the group that includes woodlice), a leech never seen anywhere else in the world, and an unusual-looking insect called a waterscorpion

- Movile's only snail [probably the only snail species] suggested that it has been down there for just over 2 million years.

- Many animals are born without eyes, which would be useless in the dark. Almost all are translucent as they have lost pigment in their skin.

- The cave seems to have no contact with the surface; Chernobyl accident had released lots of radioactive metals, which had found their way into the soils and lakes surrounding Movile Cave. However, a 1996 study found no traces of them inside the cave.

- The ecosystem seems to be supported by chemosynthesis; bacteria oxidise methane, sulphide and ammonia, generating energy and organic matter.
The very idea that something like logic is part of philosophy is Western, I think. The ancient Greek philosophers studied logic, and therefore modern Western philosophers still do. I don't think people with an African or Chinese or whatever background would even consider that a natural part of the subject. They probably would consider other topics that are not included in our philosophy programs.
> ...purposes as well as for standardization purpose...

Huh :) what's wrong with ietf rfc mechanism? or has google set a precedent which everyone else is now emulating ?
I don't think anyone has. When it's that dark you get a free light show courtesy of your eyes. It was quite disconcerting the first time it happened to me.
At a glance, no - it uses Requests to fetch pages and BeautifulSoup to parse them, the latter of which only parses the HTML into a document object.

So static HTML parsing only.
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I cannot give you a quote specifically about number theory. But I would point you towards the discipline of ethnomathematics if such things interests you. The wikipedia article seems alright.[0]

[0](For your convenience) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics
What about imaginary numbers?
I believe GP was saying that the quoted text made them no longer concerned.
It adds to claustrophobia if you're descending through a narrow crack in the ground :-)
You would get much of the benefit without a special mode by disabling background app refresh, location services and periodic mail fetch.
There isn't even one kind of Western philosophy. There are vast differences between continental european and anglo(-american) philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
There are many huge biases at the core of all western philosophy. 'Self' as a meaningful separate unit is one of them. To take a slightly different take on a famous quote. 'It is presumed that I exist and I think, therefore I exist.' Even logic stems from a way of thinking, A and !A could both be true if you step out of the mindset of Truth with a T.

The problem with looking at world philosophy is you find 'western' philosophy is an ecco chamber as far from math as literary criticism.

PS: Not to offend people, but a huge chunk of western philosophy was so closely tied to religious thinking it's actually painful to read. Though this stuff is often a footnote in most philosophy programs.
Is that the same science that advances one funeral at a time.
Interesting. Yale seems like an outlier here - Stanford's program only has two history of philosophy courses[1].

It's possible that, for better or worse, the ivy league mindest is to focus on the foundation of our own legal system. (A huge number of lawyers start in philosophy.) Still, history isn't the same as philosophy. At my university, Aristotle is actually mostly studied by the classics department.

http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofhumanitiesandscie...
Technically all nouns are comparable under equality.
Or they are actually philosophical, but organized into completely different topics than the ancient Greeks did, and therefore not considered "real philosophy" by all the departments that still just only study the same topics the Greeks did.
I am looking to build the project myself, but I am always open to working with others. I've worked on all ends, front and back. I'm willing to look at any platform, learning something new is part of my goal here.

I'm not so much looking to make a business out of this (but we'll see). I have other successful businesses, it's just that I'd like to enjoy building something brand new for someone that could make use of it.
Netflix is heavily based on microservices. TalkPython had a good episode with one of the higher ups at Netflix about their infrastructure if anyone is interested.

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/16/python-at-netflix

Transcript: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/16/python-at-netfl...
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I very much disagree with this article. I was able to take some courses in Eastern thought, but I think the major problem of this article is how the authors define philosophy.

It seems like the authors are confusing the terms theology, culture, and philosophy. Yes, there are major problems with the way that philosophy is taught in the modern university. This attack, however, is unwarranted.
It's also substantial that this was all done from a database of tickets that the NYPD made available. It's easy to say "Oh sure, they talk a good game after the fact", but the decision to make the data publicly available in the first place seems like a serious show of good faith.
Is your startup really only doing $45,000 per month?
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I don't think that's accurate, at least on the luxury cars where I've seen it implemented. Take a look at this list [1]. In many cases you could overpower the automatic braking by applying more throttle, but the brakes will definitely apply automatically to some degree if they think you're going to hit something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
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> So basically, default mode should be battery-saving mode.

The default mode is already a battery-saving one, you can get an impression of a non-battery-saving mode by playing a game continuously, your battery will get run into the ground in 2~3h.

> Am I missing something?

Low Power Mode is not about downclocking the phone and trying to sip power, it's about disabling a number of features which can already be disabled individually, but which (as far as Apple is concerned anyway) most users want/use:

* animated transitions

* automatic mail fetch

* Hey Siri

* background app refresh

* automatic downloads

* wifi association/roaming

* night shift

In essence, LPM makes the smartphone less smart to try and last a bit longer. If these are smarts you don't need, you could disable them all along.
That acronym misled me too: "DRM? In Linux? :("
Are you kidding ? It sounds amazingly fun. You get to go to a place no human went to, you discover entirely new animals, and you get to do acrobatic stuff in the process, using tech equipment. It's the closest thing to being an astronaut or meeting aliens.
> We needed javascript to make it pretty

You can make a page pretty just with CSS; and even if you add behaviour via JavaScript, you can still degrade gracefully.

I see nothing but a blank page in both lynx and eww.
Clearly you've never been in the (real) middle of nowhere at night when it's cloudy. Rural North Dakota, for example.
Good point, of course if I only select a single data point it may be an outlier (and showing the first five was clear cherry picking on my part).

Still, even at Stanford, the history of philosophy courses seem to be about Western philosophy entirely.
>>They imagined a phone must have a physical keyboard

I get that I'm not representative of the market, but my pattern of using a smartphone involves a lot of email. I don't see that going away, as a lot of my communication involves people in other timezones.

I was way more productive in this when I had a blackberry, but, of course, it did suffer horribly when using the web.

It won't change, but I wish there was enough demand to keep up competition for phones with keyboards such that there was a decent physical keyboard android.
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Do people think it's ok, or are we just at a point where "at least the theft stopped" is pretty much the most we expect?

I can absolutely believe that this happened by accident (it is a pretty subtle rule change), but that doesn't justify pocketing all of the cash it produced.
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I went to a small liberal arts school. The philosophy department was tiny (only two professors, one of which also taught history and sociology), and only one other person in my graduating class earned a degree in philosophy. While the much of my advanced work (400-level classes) focused on dead white guys (Ayer, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), I had several classes on various flavors of non-western philosophy, reading, among other things, Confucius, Laozi, the Koran, and various Hindi texts.

I wonder about the difference between the history of philosophy and philosophy. Few philosophers operate in a complete vacuum, so it isn't useful to have an overview of philosophical thought that had an impact on your particular area of study?
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>Nobody would ever dream of arguing against eurocentrism in number theory.

There are strong cultural biases that show up in the history of mathematics. For instance the English mathematics community preferred Newton's notation over Leibniz due to a Anglocenteric bias in English mathematics community despite Newton's notation being clearly inferior. As wikipedia says:

>"The priority dispute had an effect of separating English-speaking mathematicians from those in the continental Europe for many years. Only in the 1820s, due to the efforts of the Analytical Society, did Leibnizian analytical calculus become accepted in England."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus#Leibniz

This change was brought about by the Analytical Society created by Babbage and others to defeat Anglocenteric notation in favor of the better Leibnizian Newton.

>If you think an idea is worth teaching just because it came from a certain culture, you must not care if it's right.

Consider two axiomatic systems with different starting axioms. They are both internally consistent but may differ widely. How do we choose which ones to teach? Is diversity and scope important to building an objective perspective?
Issac Cordoso, who is graduating from Medford Vocational Technical High School in Massachusetts in June, already has a job lined up as an electrical apprentice, earning $12 an hour.
He is also applying for a coveted spot as an apprentice with the local electrical union, where the starting pay is $18.25 an hour. As an apprentice, he could work while training to become a journeyman, a position with an hourly wage of $28. Most of Mr. Cordoso’s classmates also have jobs waiting for them, he said.

So whomever hired Cordoso on as an apprentice is saving $6.25 an hour in wages over a union apprentice. And they'll have to hire him on at $18-24 an hour once he's competent to keep him from jumping ship.
Combine that with damp, low oxygen air, confined space and protective suit with all the equipment you must be wearing, and I'm sure it gets irritating pretty fast.
Opera is staging and making some last minute "value adds" before selling to a Chinese Tech company: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/opera-soft...

It has nothing to do with surviving. They just want to cash out.
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I am not sure why it is called "Legendary". What's the legend here?
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A wild guess, but #saltwater might be in there because it contains twat, a nice example of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
The big difference is the method. The people you cite made arguments based on premises and those arguments taken together (to their belief) were consistent. When people attacked the arguments and premises, they defended them. When the arguments or premises were eventually found to be indefensible, they were abandoned. Their premises, when based on religious texts, were bad - but the very method that they championed is what exposed that.

The scientific method itself is a product of Western Philosophy. The very fact that you know these philosophers were wrong about many things is thanks to the very tradition they were upholding.

My brief exposure to "Eastern Philosophy" in college was interesting as it did not really feel like philosophy. It seemed to be nuggets of so-called wisdom presented without argument. It very much reminded me of some books in the old testament and even some pre-Socratic philosophy. It came across basically as religious/mystic dogma.
Under the hood, yes. You set a TXT record with the challenge token and the certs are issued when LE's servers are able to verify it (a few minutes at most for it to propagate, generally).

However, people already made hooks that take care of that for you for some providers, for example, the CloudFlare one I experimented with:

https://github.com/kappataumu/letsencrypt-cloudflare-hook
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We need only to look to journals to see counter-examples to your proposition that "If a paper deserves a serious comment, I think the proper format for that is another paper."

For example, a journal might have a "Letters to the Editor" section for people to voice a serious comment, even though such a letter is not "another paper".
If the Apple pattern holds then they will be 3rd or 4th to the mainstream electric car market but it will be marketed as "above and beyond" all products that we have seen to that point.