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Ancient philosophers didn't believe it was purely theoretical. They thought it was a way of gaining wisdom and living a good life (or study of physics, but again, practical). But, then again, it is kind of an equivocation to say that most modern philosophy is philosophy in the sense it was taken before. It was taken to be highly practical in days of yore.
I’m tempted to get another computer just to give KDE another chance. VMs never really do it justice.

Are there any recommended hardware manufacturers that are known to work best with it? Most of the typical Linux-centric sellers seem to ship Ubuntu or some other hacked Gnome version, and I’d like to reduce my install effort to the very minimum.
He didn't defect to Russia. He was on a flight that had a layover in Moscow airport, but the US revoked his passport, so he got stranded there until Russia eventually granted him asylum.
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Thanks. I wouldn't characterize this as "users aren't willing to install any more apps" though; that's quite the leap from the conclusion of the report.
Webpack actually supports exporting an array of configurations. https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/tree/master/ex...
It's more complicated than that even.

If women in a 'perfectly equal opportunity' environment, very rarely 'choose' to participate in some fields ... then those fields will probably develop social and institutional dynamics that make it more difficult.

The Canadian Navy did a study in the 1990's that showed if there were only a small number of women on a deployed ship, that they had a hard time, but once there was a critical mass (I think like 8% of the ships crew) - then things were easier.

So at very low levels of participation of one group, things can get weird.

The Army is obviously an extreme version of this, particularly the Combat Arms, but some other entities might be this way.

In particular, startup culture might have this problem - there is literally not enough women (at least apparently) today to form a strong critical mass in the culture and so I do think it's harder for them.

Of course I'm not implying that there is necessarily 'equal opportunity today in startups, but even if that were the case, there'd be problems.

You see a lot of 'clumping' for example: startups led by women have a lot more women working at them, and tend to be focused in slightly different areas.

It's why orgs which traditionally have 'almost none' of some groups might have to change a little to accomodate the first few.

Literally today in the National Post (Canada) there's an article about the first male midwife in Quebec and the kinds of issues he faces etc..
Hidden opportunities in US (other than NYC and LA)
In my experience when philosophers say something about those things, they say it in natural language (typically English), and that is not precise enough for measurement. All problems can be handwaved away with ad-hoc modification.

The difference between philosophers 'doing' AI and what e.g. DeepMind do is that the latter are precise enough (indeed as precise as possible -- pace the Church-Turing thesis) about their research hypotheses that they can measure and confirm/refute their hypotheses, unlike the former.

Whence all progress in AI since Turing, Shannon, Zuse et al has come from programmers and not philosophers.
> They’re looking for people who will keep going in the face of exhaustion beyond anything any athlete will ever experience.

You should talk to some ultramarathon runners. A woman I know did a 100K and slept for seven minutes en route. She didn’t win. The people who do go faster and sleep less.
I don't know what field you're in, but in my field, nobody pays to publish, and everyone just puts pre-prints on their websites and everyone seems totally happy with that. Is pre-prints on websites or arXiv not an option for you for some reason?
It matters when you want to evaluate whether a group has gotten a bad deal in society.

For example, if girls tend to prefer playing with dolls instead of toy cars, is it nature or nurture? If nature, then maybe there's a biological basis for why less women go into stem. If nurture, then maybe it's society's norms and expectations that explains why women more often go into people-oriented jobs like teaching and nursing.

When you look at it this way, you can see why the difference has political implications.
> Count the number of vowels in a String

Unicode is a little more involved?

I wouldn't even know where to start for the mostly trivial western European languages, and that's without leaving high bit ASCII territory.

I'd probably end up making a list by hand of every possible vowel. But that's not doable for Unicode. What does it even mean for things like ideographic characters?
Software freedom in Europe 2018
> I would say philosophy is the science of definitions

It depends, I guess. If it matters I for one stand on Socrates's side when it comes to what philosophy is and I find definitions to be just "syntactic sugar", they don't bring anything new to the table. This is also one of the reasons for why I found Aristotle pretty boring, I think he started this trend with categorizing things and defining terms, without trying to explain why we do the things that we do.

I also think that philosophy nowadays should stick to ethics and political philosophy, the physics and maths are too complicated and I honestly think that not even the mathematicians and physicists have a "grand view" of it all anymore. Case in point the pseudo-psychosis around the quantum theory thing and how, if proven "right" (whatever that means) it might obliterate the concept of free will (or vice-versa, I didn't really follow) and we might start killing each other out of the blue just because a physicist has proven a theory in some forsaken lab. That is not the case.
Spanking Is Ineffective and Harmful to Children, Pediatricians Group Says
A bit off-topic, but philosophy has a huge underground following now. Even I started to get into philosophy of systems (general systems theory) as well as pure topics like epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and logic.

If you are out of Uni and never learnt it while in Uni, I recommend looking into Objectivism.
I think you're underestimating ability of children to make their preferences known. If she really had a different preference, she would either complain that she wants something else, not play with the doll and play with something else instead, or make most of the circumstance and play with it in a different way.

I think what is important here is to give children different options. I personally got a lot of toys from my family that I didn't use that much as a kid, most notably sports equipment. Meccano and (later, as it was expensive) Lego on the other hand.. Not to mention computers, that was love on the first sight.
For one, you accepted a junior position. Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior.

Then you seemed to be surprised by the issues, again showing you lacked the experience of a senior. I feel you got good guidance but it feels it was not well received.

The away team experience also felt a bit juniory. Your requests we not priotorized high enough but you didn’t find the tools or means to go around it. Understanding their needs and life in general would be an indication of seniority.

Finally, I think it takes at least a year to see how you are able to cope and progress. It takes time and effort to make any changes in a huge corporation.

In the end, I think that you would not have enjoyed yourself working in that environment so you made the right call. It takes certain character traits to be able to enjoy navigating and gaming such corporate culture.

Source: ex enterpreneur with two decades of experience, atm employed in a >100k employee corporation and loving it.
not obsolete but now they have a clearer picture of what they actually wanted.
They recently found an 'octopus city' .. wherein there seem to be social patterns emerging.

What's interesting to me is, what if Octopus suddenly evolve in the next 100 or so years, because of some input we humans gave them? That'd be neat.
Language Design: Unified Condition Syntax
Paul Graham's blog is still full of pearls, thanks a lot for sharing.
One thing that I think is missing in his essay is the fact that Wittgenstein in the end also realized that philosophy is incredibly effective as meditation, I still find that thinking about things is relaxing and cathartic.
9.57KBytes? That would be a very full disk!
Philosophy is the study of concepts and you can have philosophy of science.
Runs great on my iBook G3. I know that isn't what you asked, but FWIW OpenBSD works on my old laptops.
if so, it doesn't mean you need to rewrite anything most
of the times I guess, but just replace a piece
The very finest cheeses, I suspect, will benefit from live performances instead of canned recording played through some cheap speaker. Perhaps he should hire a chamber music ensemble to play to the cheeses every day.
Traditional banks need to pursue partnerships with FinTech startups
Actual title: "Why One VC Firm Moved Its Headquarters From NYC to Austin"
You can try Feem WiFi on iOS.

Feem can share files and send texts/links between devices without passing through the internet. (Uses LAN)

Works on multiple platforms.
Lime is putting $3M toward electric scooter and bike safety
Under optimal conditions (rendering) enabling SMT on Intel gives just ~30% extra performance, ~40% on AMD (usually much less), so of course you can't compare the additional thread provided by SMT to a thread running on another, otherwise idle core.

Scheduling only threads of the same process on a SMT group at a time is the easiest portsmash mitigation while still retaining some of the SMT peformance benefit.
Agreed, I hope this helps ends the period of time where research funds were funneled to publishing houses by the billions instead of being used for their intended purpose, which is to do research. The time where they provided a useful service is long over. There are enough reputable open access channels now to be able to stop depending on closed access.

I expect the next few years, most universities will stop paying the likes of Elsevier except maybe on a case by case basis for access to older articles outside of the scope of these rules.
> Contrarily, in echo chamber opposed groups the primary qualifier of information acceptance is process of argumentation.

Ostensibly, but there's a lot of people notionally opposed to echo chambers who are very happy in their own.
A 100k isn't that long in the scheme of ultra running. Most finish in 12-18 hours - so it's just a long, long day on your feet.

The 100 milers are the ones that tend to be 24 hour+ endeavors for non-winning runners (even though some of the elites run it much, much faster).

However, ultra runners are insane and now they're launching 200+ mile races where the winers only sleep a few hours.

Source: am an ultra runner.
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Ask HN: Has anyone undergone stem cell treatment for auto-immune disease?
I am asking because I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and it is seriously reducing my quality of life. I have been considering to go for stem cell or similar (NK cell TR cell etc) treatment for 6 months now but am very apprehensive.

There is anecdotal evidence that my condition can be "cured" (at least for 3 years at a time) with stem cell treatment and there are some phase 1, 2 & 3 studies out of China [1][2] (that aim) to back this up. That said I am also aware of the risks and don't want to make a bad situation worse especially considering that I have reduced the conditions negative effects from an 8/10 to 3/10 using diet. Google is practically ineffective for research as it is polluted with companies offering treatment who are heavy on hype and light on evidence.

I'm curious to hear first or second hand experience of stem cell treatment for auto-immune conditions from the HN community. Please let us know about the condition, the treatment, the clinic and the outcome.

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.3892/etm.2017.4687
[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02809781?term=stem+cell&cond=Ankylosing+Spondylitis&rank=4
Ready at Dawn is excited about the Quest, Echo Combat will come with surprises
Except if you already have that biological variable measured, with a test that do not ask for effort. Then for each candidate, you can measure how they will perform, compared to their expected performance, depending on their lung capacity or grip strength. Reaching their limit (or going beyond them) should be a good indicator of 'grit', since reaching one's physical limits is usually painfull and/or difficult.
> Most Chinese people..

Is that really true? Considering there must be hundreds of millions of parents I seriously doubt most of them buy outside of China.
I think the SEALs analogy is a good one as I believe, absent cognitive or other significant impairment, that nearly anyone of average intelligence or better and a sincere drive to become great can become an excellent programmer.

Imagine what a BUD/S training might look like for programming. It would make struggling with SICP or the Dragon book look like a walk in a park.

SEALs represent about 1% of active duty Navy. That's elite but not singular level. Think about the vast swaths of terrible workers you find in any field, including ours. Whether they're poorly trained, lazy, just going through the motions, doing just enough to not get fired, I think you'll find it's easy to beat the bottom half of any cohort with a tiny amount of talent and modest amount of dedication.

I believe that when we come across the 1 in a million outlier (Knuth, Carmack, Gosling, Ritchie, et al) that those people combined a lot of raw talent with a lot of hard work.

But just getting to the 1 in 100 level? Hard work will take you a long, long way down that road, because most people simply aren't willing to put in that work.
Wellcome and the Gates Foundation have long been on the forefront of the transition to Open Access, and it's good (and luckily unsurprising) to see them join the front ranks here as well.

Note that the original consortium has already expanded from the initial 11 as well Wikipedia currently lists 14.
I'm fairly visual-spatial. I now make little websites and take photos and play SimCity. But when I was a homemaker, this largely got expressed as an interest in clothes and household decor because those were basically the avenues open to me. It wasn't particularly fulfilling.

I thought dressing well and being pretty would get me a happy marriage. It didn't. I thought having a nice home would get me a satisfactory social life. It didn't.

I liked being a mom and I liked being home with my kids, but a lot of the rest of it wasn't really what I expected or wanted.

I spent a lot of years pursuing some mirage where I thought X would get me Y and being disappointed. I also spent those years sorting out why my life didn't work and resolving a lot of issues.

There are ways in which I'm very stereotypically feminine and have a history of reading to others as very feminine. But I actually don't enjoy cooking, never learned to sew or crochet or similar, etc.

I've worked hard at sorting this for myself so my life can stop making me crazy. It tends to be a lot of drama when I try to comment on it. No matter how carefully I say "X research resonated with me personally and was useful for me personally in making my life work better," inevitably other people will jump up and say (in essence) "Well, that isn't true for me and you are evil and bad and wrong for saying this is true for women generally and you don't represent me!!!!!" type nonsense.

It's insane amounts of drama that is essentially unrelated to whatever I actually said and it makes it nigh impossible to have any kind of meaningful discussion.

I think some of what I've learned over the years does generalize. But I am increasingly reluctant to try to say anything about such because that's even more drama than saying "X made sense for me as an individual trying to sort my own life."

Based on those experiences, the odds seem long against there ever being research that really seriously sorts this for "the world."
I've installed Debian GNU/Linux with KDE on pretty much every computer I've had since the late 1990's, and I've never found a platform that didn't 'do it justice'.

VM's won't provide quite the same level of compositor 3D eye-candy, of course, but that's no surprise.
Q&A: In Ports Everywhere, It’s Push versus Pull
Show HN: Vitriol – a distributed, serverless web publishing platform
Ask HN: How does your company manage passwords?
We're a startup based in Paris. Our staff is growing, we use a lot of third part saas and we find it increasingly complicated to deal with passwords and access management.
A significant number of the subscribers. There were at the time something like 800k of them.

Its important to say that it was a choice, there was no full page banner or bouncer that forced people to install the webapp, it was entirely optional.

If, however you are saying that people only click on it because there is an icon on their phone, then you are making possibly the biggest argument for keeping apps (although its perfectly possible to have webapps on the homescreen with icons)
That's an ignorant statement. You don't know where I work.

My current employer is more risk-averse than State Farm, a very large insurance company, whose livelihood requires a strong aversion to risk. I worked there for 3.5 years.

I know risk-averse when I see it.

Paranoia and risk-aversion are very different things.
I think, I would disagree in the sense that he was not only completely discounting on metaphysics, but also on ontology. Because one cannot write up a definition without using the word 'is' he must have been somewhat also completely discounting on definitions. His philosophy is in a sense Heraclitean because it is centered around 'becoming' rather than 'being'.
I don't live in China, but I have the same experience. No plans to leave, but never considered setting down either. Currently 5+ years in Bangkok.
"personal CRM" - this fits exactly with what followup.cc is doing and what you described. The only downside is that it only works with GMail and Chrome(mium).

I use it and have found it really useful.
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

The most commonly used example is the Bay of Pigs invasion, where no one advising Kennedy raised any possible negative consequences. That’s seen in contrast to the Cuban Missile crisis a few years later where Kennedy actively sort contrary advice.
The point of science is that its supposed to be verifiable/ provable at least by someone. Its "trust" (in that "someone" or "group of people" who can prove it)... not "faith".

Faith is when its literally unprovable by anyone but you still believe it. Its completely different.
The final sentence of GP's comment actually mentioned arXiv being most practical.
Do yourself a favor and watch Gabriel Gonzalez's talk "Nix: Under the Hood" ( https://youtu.be/GMQPzv3Sx58 ).
Making something public and making an infected file available only to Microsoft, if and only if they have a good faith reason to use it to improve their products and services, are WILDLY different.
So , they 'll switch some of their major journals to open-access-only and everyone will publish there. The publishing fee remains, and honestly i don't see the progress to better peer review, like for example, publishing of the reviews along with the manuscript
Nonsense. One month after the official release: Windows, macOS — March 11, 2014; iOS — April 16, 2014.
I mean, that great, but I've had Windows 10 for two years and I don't even know what you people are talking about. Never seen anything resembling an ad.
Women Leaders Who Are Changing the World
That the gods are man made is not a discovery of recent times but was known by the thinkers in antique and started to be obvious again some 500 years ago, as the whole continents were discovered that appeared nowhere in the holly texts. Soon enough, the heliocentrism was discovered and got the magnificent scientific explanation with Newton. And so on and on: today we know that the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, that we’re all made of the stuff either made in the Big Bang or inside of the stars... It’s simply not matching any “holly” text. So whichever of those you’d like to believe, there’s your main problem, not the people who typically just don’t believe in one more diety than you.
A .txt File on a Network Share which has a FTP-Access. :)
Philosophy is the study of concepts. To get to something purely theoretical, you need to abstract the precepts of your original concepts. Then it becomes a floating abstraction.

Take for example Einstein: he found some mathematical formulas, proved they were right and then used them as the abstraction for everything else. His example of 'what if I stand on a train traveling at the speed of light and it gets hit by lightning' is no longer something that you can prove in reality.

Ideally, you need precepts and concepts to work together and keep validating that your concepts work in reality.
Who keeps their own (or someone else's, for that matter) nude selfies? What fucking planet am I on? If I need to produce one (I have never needed to) then I get naked and take one. I don't keep a stash of naked selfies for retirement.
An important but as-yet rather underspecified part of the Plan S is to find different reward structures that remove the pressure to publish in "prestigious" journals and move to a system that mainly focuses on the quality of research. It will be interesting to see what they come up with here, and whether that will be successful.

(Disclaimer: I am working on a project that hopes to improve the prestige for open access publications and preprints.)
You still need to replace the battery pack, sell the car at a hefty discount with a degraded pack or pay for a new and expensive pack replacement. Don't worry, the barrier of entry into EV is still high. The complexity moves from the mecahanical side into the battery cooling and adaptive charge/discharge strategy, adaptive software for drive assist and instead of the spare parts costs you've got a hefty battery replacement cost that's like 20-30% or a new car. Plus less competition from used cars, since they come with degraded batteries.
Yes, but the content was how overpopulated and expensive it has become for VCs to operate and the other places where there is lack of VC money
Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D

Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com)

[1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr...

[1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...
Giving away my Instagram ebook worth $9.99 for absolutely nothing