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> Philosophy, history, literature, and human languages

My claim was that some fields avoid data altogether so that they can't really be "disproved", only disagreed with. But in these cases, there are rigorous approaches that rely on data: e.g. analytic philosophy, rigorous history, linguistics, etc. and those approaches generally have a large impact.

In linguistics, Chomsky made such a huge impact on human languages because he had developed a rigorous grammar and was able to find counterexamples to many of the existing hypotheses. Chomsky had made testable hypotheses, which could only be backed up or disproven by rigorously studying human languages. And the most recent counterexamples to his grammar (e.g. that some languages lack subordinate clauses) augment rather than disprove it.

Similarly, advances in philosophy largely came from rigorous approaches -- Russell's attempts to formalize logic (and somewhat subsequent failure) resulted in Wittgenstein's formalization of the relationship to language, which had a huge impact on subsequent philosophy.
The social question comes up, generally first or second[1], when people find out that my wife and I chose the homeschooling route. We live in the Bay area, which is pretty urban, and there is a pretty vibrant homeschooling community.

One of the activities my kids participated in was the Riekes Nature Studies program. Once a week a group of about 20 similarly aged students would spend all day (9AM to 3PM) at Huddart Park (a wooded nature park near Woodside) and study different aspects of the park. They would count bird populations, identify tracks, identify plants and their properties, relationships between water and plants and animals, Etc. They also did camp trips to nearby places, once as far as Death Valley. All the while teaching camaraderie, respect, and how to socialize with your peers. We also did a 'science roundabout' with 6 other families home schooling where all of the kids would go to one of the parents houses for a half day of science curriculum. We had a Doctor, a couple of engineers, a couple of Chemists, and a biologist I believe. Two days a week. each day one of the parents would host the group, so while the group met twice a week each parent saw them once every three weeks. That was a good amount of time to work up a concept/lab for the next group session. They also participated in a bunch of other activities as group, whether it was Church related or softball or scouts.

What they didn't have to deal with is bullies in middle school and uninterested adult supervision. Or being traumatized by kids that were attempting to establish dominance through social stratification. When one of those negative patterns surfaced in one of the kids in our cohort it was pretty clear pretty quickly that either they could learn to be an adult about this stuff or not participate. That is really effective on 10 and 11 year olds who are trying to figure this stuff out.

[1] In my area the other question that competes with this one is "Can my kid get into a good university if they have been home schooled?" and the answer is yes, and sometimes more easily if they have a lot of activities and projects.

[2] http://www.riekes.org/nature/
Freud? Marxism?
Yes Mathematics is hard.

I don't think being good at juggling makes you any better at describing the dynamics of juggling, nor the physiological characteristics that enable it.

Regarding Feynman (comment below), yes it is very important not to fool yourself, but knowing mathematics well makes it easier not to fool yourself.
It’s a good target group when determining defaults. I’m not saying that we should remove all customizability; rather, I feel that out of the box a device should serve the majority of people.
Well, I don't like streams in Java, they make code much slower, it looks fancies, but in real time, streams are often abused and make code run longer in almost every case I measured (I took some methods from Github, SO and reddit comments). Equivalent for loop/for-iterator loop is much faster. Solution: you don't have to use it, you can educate others how to use it properly.
Prefer to use Emacs to edit text? Now you can use it anywhere. Press a keyboard shortcut of your choice, and a new Emacs frame (window) will be opened. After you’re done, just save and the text will be inserted in the original input box.

(*disclaimer: written by an avid vim user, and not a native English speaker. May need rephrasing to be better Emacsese or English.)
I always find it weird if a link shows up on twitter or HN and then a few days later it appears again, now suddenly under this generic "hackernoon" branding. Medium is bad enough at hiding author identity, mixing the good with the crap, but hackernoon adds another layer and I just don't get it.
Yes, but this is a practical rather than an inherent issue. You’ll see these crop up anytime you have a lot of people using something.
Do both i.e. charge them $1 for 1000 calls, and cap it at $30 per month for a period of 3 months - after which they would need to sign up for the monthly plan to continue to get the $30 rate.
Those are rather larger. The eee was great for travel- even in economy seats it was convenient to use.
Actually there are a couple open source alternatives around the corner -- one in Rust and another in Go -- fully supported. I agree that software really does thrive with an abundance of alternatives. An important thing is that we can verify the security of these implementations.
Zero Kelvin is still a different league of special scientifically speaking.
Even so, bsenftner, has shown that many people in a field that uses statistics don't understand some of the very basics in their field. Implicit in that, many other research papers in that field are likely to be just as flawed as the one discussed in this article.
Kelvin is making a philosophical claim about scientific knowledge. There is no contradiction here.
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I'm not sure I'd call it "likely", since the researchers disclaim any physiological effects.
>Being depressed is a state of mind. Being successful or not has not much to do with it.

This is so true. It's all in the head. I was doing fine and felt like crap every day, and now I couldn't be more of a loser absolutely and I felt free and my creativity was unleashed and I love my life. Having nothing to lose is a great asset to have.

For me what made me love my life is finally have the guts to say to myself "Shit... I fucked up! I will have to rebuild everything again." Failures are just chances to start everything anew, this time only a bit wiser.
Also breaks with the traditional regexp by not actually being regular expressions :)
Not sure how to DM you. No contact info in your profile too. TIA
He was a really humble man, chalking up his feat to luck of all things. He was probably one of the last Great amateur athletes too. Most of all he was a quite an accomplished neurologist, who had this to say about his struggles with Parkinson’s Disease:

”There's a gentle irony to it. I have seen and looked after patients with so many neurological and other disorders that's why I am not surprised I have acquired an illness.

"It's in the nature of things. I am being well looked after and I don't intend to let it interfere - as much as I can."
Allow me to dissect the subtle bragging in the opening:

> Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus on it

"I excel at my work."

> But maintaining that passion — especially with his fourth child on the way — means knowing when to detach

"I'm excellent at my job, despite having more kids than average (i.e., probably more family obligations than you). And also, I find time to 'detach'. I'm awesome at my job and find time to chill out."

> relaxing with a glass of wine in the back yard alongside his wife, kids and the family’s 13 chickens and three sheep

"Despite working in Silicon Valley, where a 1100sqft home with no yard costs $2m, I have a wine-worthy backyard with enough grounds even for sheep and chickens."

This just reeks of the I'M ALWAYS WINNING attitude so pervasive in Silicon Valley, buried in an article about chickens ffs.
It's not specific to success, but my friend recently launched an anti-anxiety website with tips based on published research papers. You can click the "source" link in the bottom left to see the science journal the tip is based on.

http://howdoifeellessfuckinganxious.com
It's math-y. As in "let n be a natural, ...".
You're overstating Kelvin's claim. He doesn't say it is the only way to true knowledge.
Would you consider Sailfish to be a Linux handheld OS? And its predecessor Meego on the Nokia N9. Those are nice to use. The all-swipe interface would be perfect for a modern all-screen device like the iPhone X as well. No need to kludge in support for a home button.
Not an expert at all, just curious; could this kind of radiation have caused the high-pitched sounds, or perception of sounds, as purely a side effect?
Geeze, if Honda Accords didn’t look drastically different back then...
Do you mind sharing your strategy to shift to the PM role? DM me if you'd like. I would really appreciate it.
I am still sad that things in the form factor of the Oqo never caught on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO

With a modern multitouch screen and a slide-out keyboard it could be both a capable tablet, and do a lot more... The surface book is too large.

edit: this thing too, the whole 2007 era "UMPC" fad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Q1

imagine the same form factor but with modern processor/screen/battery tech, 802.11ac dual band wave2 wifi, a few USB type C ports on it.
The post was a comparison not a contrast. I believe the point is that the 3-1 ratio has no special status - not that 0C does.
This is the main blocker for me right now for sure.
You can set a flag on Chrome (chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission) to block the extension by default and only activate it when you click the pageAction/browserAction or if you whitelist it (for that website only or for all websites).

Also, two extensions come in handy: "Chrome extension source viewer" [1] and "Extensions Update Notifier" [2] (self-descriptive titles). The second one can automatically disable extensions when they're updated.

They're honestly a little annoying if you have more than a handful of extensions since they lack some essential features (e.g. viewing a code diff from the previous version), but at least they're open source! :)

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-update-...
The WHOIS db is not protecting anyone from scammers. It is way to easy to provide fake data or use a TLD that does not care.

I like my privacy and WHOIS is bullshit.
Try this chrome flag to enable reader mode option:

chrome://flags/#reader-mode-heuristics
Yes, this would be a nice addition, but I think final var might be able to stand in for it as of right now. One issue if it was adopted might be that “final” in Java doesn’t actually mean a whole lot, since there aren’t a lot of value types where mutation can be detected.
Bulk table rendering can have a performance impact on your app and a more minimal implementation may be desired
I don't know how much I agree with the premise of this article. People aren't resistant to retracting faulty research because the people who point out faulty research sound like cranks, they do it because their incentives are to maintain the work they've done. If you look at someone like Brian Wansink[1], what started off as unearthing methodological errors seems to have found actual fraud, although I'm sure Wansink wouldn't view it that way. And this massive peer review process not only didn't discover it, it's been an impediment to correcting it. At stake are millions of dollars in federal funding and more than a few careers. Do you think anyone involved is primarily concerned with tone? And I'm not sure how effective anyone can be at combating it by working within a crooked and broken system, where extracting rents from academic institutions for publishing their own work is the main incentive for publishers, and academics are incentivized to go along because their careers depend on numbers of publications and citations. You may have a high success rate at combating individual errors, but you aren't making any headway on the bigger issues like publication bias and the overall trend away from long, important work and towards shorted studies designed to provide an eye-catching conclusion so that you can get published and cited. It's like bailing out a boat with a drinking cup. You're still sinking.

1) https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/how-brian-wansink-forgo...
But does it? Or is it just that the people you know that don't fool themselves happen to be good at math? :)

The juggling example was supposed to be an obvious example of people doing something that takes complicated math to analyze. I'm asserting it is not much different to many engineering jobs. Nor do I think that most physicists have a terribly strong intuition for math.

I confess to not having numbers to back this. :(
It's special in our human world, but not in thermodynamics / physics.
Water is just a molecule like all the others, it's not special.

Whereas 0K is the absolute minimum temperature, so that's a really special value!
One thing I'm confused about is why most of the criticism has come on the Positive Affect paper and not the original "The complex dynamics of high performance teams" paper, which the most of the math is drawn from.
> but they typically dump it into a stream

And then the next city downstream gets that water and drinks it anyway.

Depending on where you live (i.e. near a large river) reducing water usage doesn't really make much environmental difference, as long as you dump it in the sewer: The water gets reused many many times on its way to the ocean.
I see where your coming from here, and by all means 0 °C is more significant than say 0 °F. But water freezing at 0 °C is far less "special" than everything freezing at 0 K
What means success to you? Why does that one thing matter more than others. I've done this and realised that what I thought my yardstick for success was more other peoples.

I don't know if it's on this topic, but the book "The Subtle art of not giving a f*&k" is something I want to read (or listen to) as I think it's written to help this mindset.
Yes, it covers everything. But in the US the term "identity politics" became popular during the Civil Rights Era. So it has been used to describe issues impacting African Americans. They vote overwhelmingly Democrat, so Republicans use the term in a derogatory manner.
That's your opinion. Some would say it doesn't.
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> That was the day I decided JS...

Why? surely having 47 promises and some on the same line is the authors fault?

Promise.prototype.then()'s callback function does not need to be written inline. At some point the author should have realised it hass become difficult to grok quickly and refactored them out using appropriate function names.
We've asked you before to please stop trolling, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Zero C is not very special. Zero Kelvin is!

I agree that Fredrickson is grasping for relevance. However, 0 °C is special to water-based lifeforms.

0 °C is defined as 273.15 K, or the temperature at which the three phases of water are in a thermodynamic equilibrium — at a pressure of 1 atm, or 1 standard atmosphere.

The degree Celsius is defined as equal to the kelvin, so the Celsius scale is a shifted version of the Kelvin scale.

https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/kelvin.html

https://www.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=10&R...
var, let, val, there are so many of these and they all mean different things in different languages! It makes it hard to talk about them.
Kdb+ [0], a very high-performance and very expensive proprietary time-series database, was written in a dialect of APL.

I've seen demos of Kdb+ and it is very impressive. It is the top ranking non-GPU database in this benchmark [1].

It is however not the easiest of databases to use -- it uses Q (another APL dialect) as a query language. There was an HN discussion a while back about its maintainability and long-term prospects. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B

[1] http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561573
Unfortunately, in order to make certain claims, you have to have metrics. Just because something is hard to measure doesn't mean you can forego it.
Thank you for the offer. I'm not at Google, but one of the enterprise software companies in SF. I will definitely DM you. Would love to get some advice/insights into the process.
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not the RF itself, no, but the effect of high powered millimeter-waves focused at a person's head could very possible have that effect on a neurological basis. It's not the sort of thing that has ever been voluntarily tested on humans (for obvious reasons), and if tested on animals, animals can't tell you if they're observing auditory hallucinations...

Though the science behind avoiding high RF exposure is known and observed (ex: tower climbers don't want to hang around on the front side of a large sector antenna with high EIRP in the 2.5 GHz band).

Would have to ask a MD that specializes in the brain.
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So chickens are the new horses when even the rich can't afford pastures
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Hit piece of an article from an East coaster. It doesn't take much traveling to realize that people in California like all organic, chicken, and organic food as something normal/part of their lifestyle, independent of their income.

Heck, I know plenty of folks in either Oakland or Berkley, that do raise their own animals.

Being in SV, or an engineer, has anything to do it. The only constrain is to have a back yard. When that is not possible, than people start growing organic in communal farms.

There are few of them in Brooklyn as well, even one in East Village (done on an abandoned lot).
Clear and to the point for this non-techie: thank you!
The value-proposition for the author by submitting to an Medium publisher like HackerNoon is increased exposure, although I wonder if it's worth the cost of having the personal brand obfuscated. (page views for a personal blog are a vanity metric, after all)

Incidentally, whenever I see a HackerNoon or FreeCodeCamp domain on Hacker News, it serves as an anti-signal of quality, which is an interesting side effect.
Thank you. I edited the title.
It's hard to say they have a huge voice. Perhaps louder than we are used too. At the end of the day, Trump is still President and the Republicans run both the House and the Senate.
In Senegal, Africa, a similar thing is happening with sheeps. They, however, have taken it to a whole new level. People breed them and ask for exorbitant prices, say $1,000 for a lamb before they are born. Peple negogiate prices sometimes pre-conception. These sheeps have names, some are known locally or regionally. Nowadays it is not uncommon to hear a seller tell you "This is so and so, the grandson of so and do and so and so."
It breaks the site guidelines to insinuate that behavior you disagree with must be astroturfing. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I realize it's a very persuasive-feeling impression. It's increasingly the first thing people bring up to account for disagreement, but that is a huge problem. Overwhelmingly the real reason for disagreement is that people just disagree, and we get nowhere by pretending otherwise.
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The bitcoin people will tell you that if you're using the same computer to browse the web as to hold a bitcoin wallet, you're doing it wrong.

(there are other conclusions one could reach from this, such as the disadvantages of being your own uninsured bank)
How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food (2017)
I definitely feel a trend going on for small-scale agriculture. But unlike in olden times where it might have been a way to reduce a (lower class) family's grocery bill, now it's more of a hobby for rich boys that probably in most cases does not make any economical sense.
Nice article. For the last few years, I've had concerns that parts of economics have serious problems. But it's good to get a reminder of how to criticise well: points one and two (calm down, and don't be a dick) are particularly relevant to me.

For me, the stakes feel high enough that it's easy to get worked up and spit vitriol. But I've found that I'll lose the interest of anyone I'm talking to when I do.
Math and physics can describe juggling, but that description is not what helped discover juggling - holding a few balls in your hand suffices for that. Engineering and physics on the other hand to be math derived fields. In other words, the processes involved are sufficiently complex to be beyond the scope of even a rather clever human's intuition. Of course you might argue of success by mimicry, yet mimicry becomes exponentially more difficult as the complexity of a problem increases, to the point that I think we can all but disregard it for meaningful applications of engineering and most natural sciences.
It doesn't take much traveling to realize that people in the Northeast are basically interchangeable with folks in the Bay Area, and that we have plenty of backyard animals here, too.

(I lived in Berkeley and Palo Alto for a decade, back in New England now, have always kept chickens. Had goats in Palo Alto, will have them again in New England when we move to a house with bigger yard.)
This looks great, now how to get rid of these annoyances on Android Chrome? Especially the uncloseable "get app" button.