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> Yes I would, if it seemed to me that an awful lot of people who had studied carpentry were mediocre carpenters, while many who hadn't studied carpentry were excellent carpenters. I would start to question the usefulness of carpentry study.

Well that's not really the point, is it? The point is that on average the person who studied carpentry is better than someone who hadn't studied it at all.

> I don't think we should accept that the study of philosophy improves critical thinking just because that is "one of the aims" of philosophy as a discipline. (One of the aims of homeopathic medicine is to cure disease, after all.) I certainly accept that you'd have a very hard time going through a philosophy program without ever thinking critically, but I'd say the same thing about a student in a comparative literature program.

That's actually rather insulting, you do realise that don't you? It's insulting in three different ways going by the way you've worded it. First, you've compared philosophy to something that is widely regarded as a pseudoscience (which is ironic considering that philosophy is that _very_ discipline that attempts to rigorously demarcate science from pseudoscience[0]). Second, this isn't something I'm making up–this is _central_ to what philosophy is methodologically about and has been since its inception. Third, It's more than likely you'd _fail_ a philosophy program if you didn't demonstrate critical thinking skills by the end of it. I've tutored philosophy students so I've witnessed first-hand the process whereby one tries to show a young person the difference between mere opinion and reasoned argument. With other disciplines (depending on the level) it's sort of assumed that one already has critical thinking skills or that at least they'll develop along the way. A core remit of philosophy is to think about what it means to think critically and therefore by bringing attention and awareness to this the student ought to develop that faculty.

> I also think it's very hard to teach philosophy well, and that a poorly taught philosophy course can easily detract from critical thinking rather than bolster it. I took my share of philosophy courses as an undergrad, and a good half of them were glorified history classes with strong implications that certain viewpoints were "wrong" and others were "right." I suppose you could say those courses were not really philosophy courses if they were taught that way, but then I would say it's unfair to say that philosophy education improves critical thinking if you will only admit examples where it does so.

I'm sorry your experience was sub-par. Certainly what I am pointing out to you is an ideal. I freely admit that it is always possible to not reach this ideal but then that's just normal human failings.

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Having said that, there is a reference to an quasi-empirical study and meta-analysis here but I think the results are inconclusive[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem

[1] http://dailynous.com/2015/10/22/does-philosophy-improve-crit...
Of course there's no "evidence". If I had evidence I would go to the courts instead. This is an anecdote.

The pitfalls you mention can easily be covered if overall the practice brings profit, since you can cover potential losses with profits from other cases.
I built a collection of feeds over the last few years, originally using Feedly; Nowadays I access my collection of RSS using Reeder on my Mac and my iPhone (because of the sync between devices - but any similar client would do).

The feeds are grouped by category, for instance:

- Journals (various machine learning stuff)

- Music (MetalSucks, etc.)

- Politics (mostly think tanks and political publications)

- Tech (Verge, Ars, Wired, HN, The Register...)

- Web dev (Smashing mag, Google, Mozilla...)

- Local News (Norwegian news)

Other categories include world news, privacy, NGOs, infosec, games, economics, popsci, compsci, etc.
I am so happy I don't live in the "land of the free", seems like one dark and dangerous country.
Usually just on the 4th of July (give or take a week)
Nice resource.

Somewhat related, do you know how Safari “reader view” works? How does it identify the body of the article from the rest of the page?
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A bit oblique but don't lose sight of a really well done LI Profile. I admit this is self-serving since I run a firm editing resumes, performing LI Profile enhancement and interview coaching in Shanghai, China. I am not selling here. However, I have had numerous clients with de-minimus LIPs and a bit stuck in their careers. They hired me to spruce theirs to "all-star" status. After turning on the "want to hear from interested parties setting", reaching out to old colleagues for referrals and building a broader network, they started hearing from HHers and HR who they would not have otherwise. And some found new work within the month.

It does work if you pull all the levers. You can CERTAINLY do your own LIP if you are willing to put the time in and have an acute eye for detail. It is an excellent investment to get it presentable.
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Speaking of 100+ year old standards <sic> ... ask a photography friend who advocates Full Frame DSLRs why they think Full Frame is the holy grail of photography. Hilarity shall ensue.
Its not really siphoning money off, tho. It is an exchange of money for services rendered.

From what I saw in comments and the (paywalled) article, the problem is that Google isn't siphoning money. They're keeping the ad-space for themselves.
I'm originally from Brazil and I hear that same argument about cops over there, that bad ones are a minority, that we shouldn't generalise.

I don't buy it, the system itself enables this, if it didn't then those bad apples would have been detected and expelled before they could cause so much damage. It can be a minority doing that but they have affected so much that the whole itself is no longer trustworthy and requires reconstruction from the ground up, the foundations themselves have been damaged and as it would be for a structure or a car, when the base structure that supports everything else cannot be repaired you need a new one.

That's what should happen in Baltimore, that's what should happen with the Brazilian military and civilian police, their foundations aren't good enough to be trusted anymore.
> Such mismatches, though rare, could serve as the basis of genetic changes that drive evolution and diseases, including cancer.

The evolution part caught my attention. So we are generating some random changes that can lead to evolution (not that all evolution is good or bad, it's just different from the previous version).

And chemical processes are reprodutible, i.e., given the same conditions, you get the same the result... but in a broader sense, DNA has some unstable, changing configuration, where the molecules are constantly reshaping and can generate different combinations.

Seems that it's not easy to recreate life from chemicals elements alone.
My karma got wrecked, but the responses were very informative - worth.
Wow, I finally found the one other person that thinks screens are too wide!

If you look it up, the human field of view is actually approximately 4:3... you know, like old monitors.
I was a bit confused at first as Fuji Xerox is already the name of the joint venture between the 2 companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_Xerox
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Just like it’s a sweeping generalization to call ISIS members terrorists, right? Most of them don’t partake in such ops.
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Ah yeah, 'Hazeii the Coder' - I'm old, my memory is not what it was!

Do you have anything to do with the Shades that runs at games.world.co.uk ?
I would like to have a simple free video editor that can cut and append files together without re-encoding. It's doable with avidemux, but it is just pain to manage.
This was pre car, it's hard to find recent examples.
I was using something similiar for my Siemens SX1. Who would have though that this 15 years old phone was equipped with such next-gen technology.
Great, a browser that permanently takes up about 20% of the screen with fixed controls on the top and bottom. And I guess if you go to a website that also uses that design pattern you'll have about half of the screen left for content.
Also, I was very surprised to see that it was really QT based in the sense that there was no glue to an attached Chromium or something, just pure QT in C++.

The effort that went into that thing is amazing. It's fast on my 5 years old Pentium.
If it’s a Gawker-associated publication, isn’t there always a question of validity?
https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/issues/67

Dead project according to the author, though.
Ignoring the content of the article, why are so many articles on sites like these written so "weird"? There is lots of text and it seems there is very little actual content.

It is like only a few lines actually have something to say, but the rest is just filler content. It is like someone wrote an article of a few lines, and someone else just extended it with random sentences to fill a page.

To make matters worse, usually the page is also polluted with advertisements and referencing articles in between paragraphs.
fascinating, disease/death or evolution/survival, two sides of the same coin
Paddidas
If applied to an individual person, how does this present any risks of ecological damage? Alternately, does this concentrate control of the food supply into the hands of people who might decide to starve some population out of greed/apathy/prejudice?
Food is food, with no consideration of quality implied, so that doesn't quite work as an explanation of why it would be right around food, but not around restaurant.
The problem goes way beyond the US borders, and is a clear sign of corruption among the ruling class.
When a cop is acquitted for murdering some innocent thanks to some intervention form above, he could become in the future a pawn of a private army for whoever was helping him/her from above.
Suppose you're a high profile politician who needs some dirty job to be done, who would you trust more, some thugs recruited around or ex cops who don't serve jail time because of you?
Apple’s New Vienna Store Is an Homage to the Wiener Werkstätte
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Well, the same thing counts for the serial (UART) port. It's incredibly simple, it's a license-free universal I/O port. And in spite of that, it has disappeared from computers and we now have the complex beast called USB instead.

I'm not happy at all about headphone jacks disappearing, but I doubt the development can be stopped.
There’s no need to feel guilty about that as long as you’re providing the value your clients are paying for.

Although I see why you used a throwaway. I’m always astounded how much consultants will publicly share about their pricing strategies and clients, many of whom likely read the posts themselves.
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Except you can't really get a signal in below 20Hz.
Do people actually say that in their daily lives? I thought that's only IT Crowd over-the-top joke :|
I don't disagree, but I think that's more because it's hard to make a shitty headphone jack, whereas it's easy to make a shitty bluetooth headphone set. If somebody actually sat down and made a good bluetooth headphone, with the same kind of robustness and repairability that you get from high-end hearing aids, then it would simply be better than a jack.

A bad technological culture makes technology it can't mess up seem better than it actually is.
Nope. On the bright side, the treatment is easy if it's not neglected . There's little chance of any residual too.
A new study of Airbnb paints an ugly picture of impact on NYC housing
It was a bit annoying until displays with reasonable vertical resolution became widely available. There were way too many displays with shitty low resolution, but you only get those in the shittiest bargain-basement monitors now.

I'm using a 27" 1440p monitor at home (bought it ~4 years ago), and it has plenty of space to comfortably show two full-size pages side by side, with plenty of space left over for toolbars and such. Or two 1280x1440 windows, which is a very handy size, giving me the equivalent of two portrait-mode monitors. Most modern WMs (and even Windows!) have window snapping/tiling that makes this very easy (win+arrows).

Aspect ratio isn't really an issue anymore, as long as you have enough vertical resolution, and the additional horizontal space is nice for tool windows and such.
It seems reasonable that they're investing their float. It seems possible they're creating Byzantine regulations in order to increase that float. No evidence, but it doesn't sound complex to me - money is fungible, and all that.
We tried. Baltimore is on its third police commissioner in just six years.

Where are you going to get the people and money for a “new police force”? BPD is already severely understaffed.
>> well... you can write a patent that is so obfuscated that the public cannot learn from it...

In such case the patent office should reject your patent claim as patent laws usually require that the description of the invention being patented should be understandable to professionals of relevant domain, who should be able to replicate it based solely on that description.
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Well for me, I prefer the way telegram has decided to handle end to end encryption. Let's face it - me and my friends have no use for it, and never will. Our threat model just doesn't really care about actors like the NSA hacking us. If they wanted there's tons of other ways to get our information any (like Google or Facebook accounts). But not being encrypted gives us features not possible otherwise, like url prefetching from the server or (when telegram was released, I guess it can be done now) accessing the chat from as many devices as you want. Yes, there is a tradeoff, but really I don't think most users are worried, nor should they be.
Yeah until you get to the "show the physical credit card used" fraud protection that is now common, "I used paypal" works but a "fake card" that the merchant didn't know about ? Good luck missing your plane if you don't have agree to let them take a card print before boarding.

I mean, I agree overall, but I also like the fact that Paypal is registered as bank in the EU (luxembourg) and has to follow all corresponding legislation.

(might be different in the US, where depending on the state it's either registered a bank or a much less refulated "payment processor")
Those people were idiots, then. Samsung S8 (and S8+) has a headphone jack (and comes with a very nice AKG headset).

Really, it's only Apple and Google who are really doubling down on having no headphone jack, and probably because they want to push their own assistant-enabled/burdened headphones.
India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
You're surprised that people aren't getting outraged by very minor inconveniences caused by design changes in consumer electronics?
It matters because it took Apple to show the world how to do it properly.
As per [1] the tier 1 providers are practically all located in the USA and The Netherlands.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers
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If the pricing of taxis is correlated with local purchasing power, taxis are almost (#2 or #3) most expensive in the world in Finland.

It doesn't matter if the prices increase or decrease. The price will get adjusted according to the market needs IF there are no other regulations or interferences. If the prices increase, it means that there are other regulations or restrictions in place which are not publicly known or people don't have a need for taxis in Sweden. The former assumption is probably correct one in this case.

Outside of North Europe in countries with similar living costs as Finland taxis are still much cheaper like Israel or Japan even though their taxi markets are also regulated.

Also in Finland car purchases for taxi drivers used to be subsidised with tax money resulting in most of the taxi cars being expensive luxury cars like Mercedes', Teslas etc. Nothing wrong with luxury cars, but most people just wanna get from A to B and not pay fortune for it.
I bet there will be someone selling $2000 gold plated 1/4 inch jack cables in 2118 (adjust for inflation/non-existence of USD).
I'm not sure why you mention children, I think people are paranoid about child safety, but that's kind of a tangent..

Cars have all sorts of safety features, crumple zones, mandatory seat-belts etc. It's more dangerous to be hit by a car than be inside it I reckon, though car-on-car collisions would be an additional hazard to drivers.

> think about that chance, where 1 in a 1000+ drivers you encounter

is 0.001 the actual figure for that probability? larger motorways with counter-flow traffic usually have lane separators.

I'm not sure what "having a bad day" means, but drivers caught drink driving are harshly punished. also, it should be possibly to spot suspicious drivers early on in many instances.

I'd argue whether a driver who was not paying attention is likely to do anything as severe as swerve into counter-traffic harshly enough for the collision to result in severe death or injury.

> the capitalistic society at large encourages vehicle use

As opposed to what kind of society? People like driving cars even if it's not economical.

> thousands of lives are lost in accidents every year is mentioned, but not highlighted

what's that as a percentage of all car use? Dangerous or inattentive driving is the cause of most accidents; the same is not true of smoking. And generally, technology and regulation is improving.
Because the article is not a primary source, and it’s published on a website that rarely if ever “breaks” a story. The only way for the site to stay in business is to publish glorified rewordings of whatever primary source published a set of facts today. The further you get from the primary source, the more “filler” content is required to justify yet another piece about the same subject.
Authors with a Pulitzer Prize like ... Walter Duranty?
Hmm, then I don't know. Still, they mustn't have stood still since then and come up with new tricks.

I wonder if you could do a kind of quad-tree version where you hone in on the precise seam and minimise recalculations to bubbling new energy up the tree. That might also give a way to weigh global-to-local structure.
I just don't really get why Google shouldn't be allowed to advertise on their own platform however they want. Say what you want, but there are other options for people to use to advertise if they aren't happy with Google.

Google is powerful because they provided a product so good that everyone used it. And now they're making other services that are also good, otherwise people would try the second link on the page. And, like all their competitors, they're advertising their new product.

If I owned a building next to a highway, I wouldn't have to auction off the side of that building for advertising - I can put my own ad on there (as far as I'm aware). I also think that dining Google billions of dollars is a tad ridiculous. Is there truly that much lost opportunity from whatever they're accused of doing?
Just in case people wonder how ipv6 is doing: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Sorry, I didn't mean it as a personal attack. I meant it as a statement of fact.
I wonder whether something like this will happen to urban foxes - the ones in London are extraordinarily bold, sometimes happily trotting past humans a foot or two away.

I particularly wonder this because of Belyayev's famous experiments [1], in which selecting silver foxes for reduced flight distance (i.e. "tameness") led to them developing visibly doglike characteristics. I haven't noticed any sign of this in urban foxes yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_fox_(animal)#Initial_ex...
The fact that it reached distant metastasis is incredible! Hope this will work well on human with few effects comparing to chemotherapy.
Cool! For any javascript devs this looks like a capable library that attempts the same functionality and looks like it has pretty impressive results: https://github.com/jwagner/smartcrop.js/
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Show HN: Transfer, easy transfer learning for image classification
Related:

UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/08/29/center-for-human-compati...

http://humancompatible.ai/
The 60kmh are usually quieter, non-residential zones with good clearance between the road and the pavement.
Absolutely agree on both counts.

Holding public office is a privilege that rightly should come with a different threshold of privacy/transparency.

And yes, no nation is taking the issue of police conduct seriously if it's not even recording wrongful death consistently and reliably.

Some colleagues ran a trial on body cameras and found improved metrics, particularly around stop-and-search. The success rate of stop and search increased, officers reported feeling safer. They also noted an increase in allegations but I don't think dug into that as much as they wanted to (it may be an area where the behaviour feedback loop was slow enough to need a longer study duration).

http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk/trial-results/measuring...
Indeed, I've been attacked and modded to oblivion on here for mentioning that I use Telegram, and the scope wasn't even security related, just an alternative to email for sending non-sensitive photos.

I've found Telegram to be more than good enough for day to day communications where I would previously have used email or SMS/MMS.
Uber's prices will remain competitive so long as there is healthy competition. If Uber is able to establish a quasi-monopoly in a particular market, then prices will rise.
CAS overturns doping decisions on 28 Russian athletes
I have recently stopped reading any kind of news. As a result I find that my mind is lot less cluttered. I have realized that once you give it up, you don't really miss it a lot.
No surprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_event_upset
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The price for this should be massive. Doing this once or twice corrupts the justice system and destroys public trust in police. This invites gangs to become the law and order. Look how that’s worked out in Chicago.