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I apologize if I am bad at articulating this.

Philosophy of the Mind is much different from Artificial Intelligence. And it is also much different from Neuroscience.

Neuroscience asks 'How does the Brain work?'
(Based in biology and chemistry).

Artificial intelligence asks 'How do I simulate human intelligence?'
(Based in math, and computer science, complexity theory).

Philosophy of the mind asks a lot of messy questions that don't really fall into either of those buckets. The mind isn't the brain, and the mind isn't strictly human intelligence, so what is it?. What is consciousness? How is it that I have an idea of self? What are my perceptions? How do I model the world around me? What's up with free will?

It is as much about asking these questions and refining them into new questions, as it is about anything else, and most of these questions really can't be answered with scientific facts or mathematical algorithms.

From the aspect of learning philosophy in a historical context, you kind of have to, otherwise you are sort of doomed to repeat the mistakes of others who came before. In stark contrast to science, in philosophy, you are questioning the nature of reality. Hence you cannot really design experiments (unless you are G.E. Moore), to prove this or that philosophical property. Instead, you have to build on all of the other work that has come before you, and understand why the things that people thought were true, are untenable or not true.

(rather long unrelated tangent: A number of people, like pg, think this is kind of stupid. The other options, unfortunately, are chasing our tails, or simply saying that these questions are unanswerable. Sometimes, Wittgenstein is interpreted as saying that all philosophical questions are simply reduced to 'language games'.My interpretation is more that he is making a statement about the relationship between reality and language, we are using language do describe reality, but there are certain things which contain the reality which cannot be described with language, because language is a part of that reality. There is a very strong parallel between his work and Godels'.)

So no, philosophers do not ignore science. But a lot of the time, when something has been solved by science, philosophers stop worrying about that realm so much. (Why use philosophy where you can use objective fact?)

Another example is that philosophy is very firmly ingrained in things like string theory or quantum mechanics. But the truth is, string theory and quantum mechanics boil down to equations which describe things that we have already observed. You still need a discipline in which you can speculate and say, 'Ok, but what does this mean about the nature of my reality? How does this effect me beyond being interesting math? What is the implication here?'

And that is what philosophy does.
Safari has some good extensions, like this one (forget its name) that quickly scans a page and tells you what frameworks/servers/technologies were used in its making. Good way to keep track of whats hot in web development.
One mechanism for that might be by advertising for the positions to attract the right kinds of candidates for each type, and then paying them. :)
Don't panic, base 256 is just like base 10 really, if you have 256 fingers.
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Can you provide some references to these reports?
one of the main reasons I stopped using facebook was for this very reason. While I was in the lab, working my but off, all of my friends were having fun. It was very clear I was alone and anti-social (even though this is far from the truth)!

I had a lot of fun in college, but it didn't look that way to me. In retrospect, FB would definitley depress me. Don't even get me started about the FB movie...
seedcamp invests about $80k, which is nowhere near enough to fund a London-based startup with 3+ people for more than two years. although the official story may very well be that they "only started looking" in 2010 this does not match up with this simple fact very well.

Occam's Razor therefore suggests to me that it actually took forever to raise a round (despite nominally ideal conditions, such as a well-connected founder with a CS degree from Oxford, trip to SV, liked by startup media, simple to understand product, etc).
Amazing book, highly detailed. Watching the madness of supposedly rational men bowing to militarism and nationalism, whipped along by supposedly inviolate plans and timetables, creating the conditions for not one but two world wars...it's all the stuff of nightmares.
>Besides, you don't have to code to run a business.

Funny, here on HN/YC there seems to be a heavy bias against anyone who is not a developer.
Perhaps you'll like the Bodyguard of Lies (http://www.amazon.com/Bodyguard-Lies-Extraordinary-Story-Beh...). It largely focuses on the utilitarian sacrifices that were forcibly made in order to maintain the intelligence advantage.
True story: I nearly failed a philosophy of mind exam because I gave a one sentence reply that the answers that a question (on perception) sought were to be found in the discipline of cognitive science and not philosophy! A bit cheeky, but true I thought.

I only passed the exam because I aced the other question about artificial minds in which I knew all about Turing machines and other stuff backwards from my knowledge about computers that my fellow philosophy students didn't.
They're in this the same reason Google is... ad revenue. Money on licenses may be to help keep OEM skin in the game.

Related, but not quite the same, is something I learned at my first startup. Don't do enterprise pilots for free. Without some skin in the game the enterprise is a lot less likely to assist in making the pilot work. When there's even a small fee, they seem to be a lot more willing to view it as something they also need to make work.
Most successful startups I can think of (Mint, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter) who bought expensive domain names did it well after they had traction.
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Err, yeah, thats my point
I am on LinkedIn, and I don't actively use it. The only active user I met once was a recruiter of creatives. She logged into LinkedIn and we saw her private inbox. Filled with hundreds of messages about people in her industry who were looking for someone or looking to hire someone. I was amazed, we were amazed (this was 2006). She gave us one really good tip - almost all the job postings on LinkedIn are posted with the name of the hiring manager. That is why job searching on LinkedIn is better (even if they aren't posting the hiring managers' name now in 2011).

At a bar a month ago, I met someone who asked if I knew a friend of his who used to work for my company. Quick search of the LinkedIn app and found him. LinkedIn is gold for finding out where someone in the technology industry is now working. Especially if you have connections who have hundreds of connections.
I am yet another hacker with an undergrad in philosophy. The first college-level programming class I took (in high school, so before I had decided to major in either) was taught by a professor with his Masters in Philosophy and PhD in Computer Science. I think there is an incredibly strong correlation.
> one would expect the executives to purposely underprice the stock in order to generate a big first day pop because they are looking for an exit.

The executives typically are locked not being able to sell on the first day of trading. It also looks bad if they do sell.

It's the investment bankers that want to see a stock shoot up on the first day of trading. It's their clients who are the most likely to hold the stock for an hour and then sell it.
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:) Thanks for the points above.

"Great market" /= "hot market"

Great market to my mind is a market that has a lot of users who will use your product (and better yet, you can make money off of them using your product). Maybe I will write a post on how to identify a great market, as that is a pretty big topic. But one example is often markets where user behavior is fundamentally shifting, or where there is a sudden change (e.g. adoption of truly smart phones) leading to opportunity.

I think certain areas in ecommerce are a good example today of changes in user behavior and business model leading to high growth companies (Gilt Group was just the beginning, and some really cool companies are getting started today around fashion/women's goods online).
> At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off

OP's point was about consumer education. Have you considered that maybe you should feel like you're getting ripped off?
Yeah, the best solution here is definitely exposé. Invoke, select just the window you want via arrow keys or beginning to type the window's title, hit return, and only that window comes forward.
> I'm thinking that Ubuntu and a tiling wm are all I'd really need to be productive

For me that's where the road in the long term is going. At the moment Ububtu is still a little to rough for everyday use (for me at least). But I give it another one or two years and the quirks will be gone.

And then it will be: tiling WM + terminal + vim (and a browser). Tiling WMs are just too productivity friendly to pass up on. :]
No, they also banned sites like MegaUpload (Google Suggest stops at the "u") and Rapidshare (which is causing collateral damage, since they stop suggest at the "i" with that one).
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Problem is that it's hard to drop a steady job and be motivated about an idea you know isn't very good.

You need to have an idea that you can believe has a chance of being successful.
Philosophy is what you do when you don't know something and don't know how to actually discover anything about it but you are not wise enough to let it go and find something you could actually discover something about.

That sounds like a lot of research in maths and CS.
It looks to me that when you sympathize with an argument, unsupported noodley speculation serves a purpose, but when you disagree with an argument it becomes "not only useless, [but] harmful". I think you're being less rigorous than you think you are.

Nothing prevented Greenspun from framing his argument in more neutral and objective terms. He could have said, "our scheme is ineffective because it induces people who don't have the skills for good jobs and like most Americans don't know how to effectively search for a job to waste many months of their lives fruitlessly". Instead, he played directly to the worst biases of his own choir of libertarians by evoking Xboxes.

And now here you are berating people for having the temerity to take issue with a recklessly constructed, poorly supported argument. And THAT'S FINE, I don't mind, but I'm definitely going to call you out for pretending to take the high road on this.
Thank you very much for your offer;sadly we're a bit further afield.
I started out with textmate way back when. I actually started using NetBeans in hope that it would have decent support for Actionscript 3. I happened to find out about the Rails support later on & was very happy I did.

Here's some of the reasons I switched:

1) inline syntax checking

2) ability to click through to called method (command + click in os x)

3) ability to have multiple views of the same file (clone window)

4) ability to have split screen editing.

5) debugging

6) inline documentation instantly available for any built in, plugin or internal class (ctrl + space).

7) code completion / suggestion (this is not a lazy thing -- it's helpful for discovering what's available in any given class)

8) indenting in textmate was never fun. In NetBeans just command + shift + f and the whole file is properly indented.

Those are some of my reasons. Hopefully there's something else out there that can replace NetBeans for me. I've been extremely grateful for it -- especially at its price.
I have the HTC Trophy from Vodafone here in New Zealand, I really enjoy the UI, for some reason it really clicks with me compared some the other smartphones.

As a developer my biggest gripe is the limited access to some of the phone features, the largest one being the limited API for Live Tiles which clearly is one of the major selling points for the WP7.
> My college (RPI) had been pushing something very similar for a while now, which is why I have a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy.

That almost happened to me. I started with CS at RIT, but since they didn't have a philosophy major, I left as a sophomore.

Apparently, the year after I left, they got a major. I was told by a professor that I was one of the examples used in the lobbying for the major. This didn't make me feel much better.
I think that this is correct. Looking beyond money, this also means that he won't view you as an equal partner when it comes to strategic decisions either.
He is the boss, and you are the employee with some stock.

I would only take the job if that is what you're looking for, and if you don't mind leaving with the title 'Lead Developer' rather than 'Co-Founder'.
I could not agree more. I think that of course that smart philosophers do not ignore scientific advancements. Furthermore people are too reductive, sure mind = brain in a reductive sense in the same way that chemistry can be reduced to physics but you still have to learn all about what chemistry has to give you don't you? I'm a strict materialist but even I realize that you need a different language to talk about properties of the mind versus properties of the brain. We are only at the very beginning of the scientific road, philosophical questions always come back to bite you on the ass I say.

It's not that you are bad at articulating this stuff, it's just that it is very hard to articulate. You quoted Wittgenstein - he also said that philosophy is an activity, one where we strive to make our ideas clear - by at least trying to articulate your thoughts you are walking down this road so don't apologize!
If you are a beginner and gym unfriendly, I have found that strength training sites oriented towards women spend a lot more time talking about proper form (because they know many women won't just turn up to a gym - they want to train in private to start with).

Eg:

http://www.stumptuous.com/worship-at-the-altar-of-the-goddes...
Fuzzy Finder is also very useful http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984
I personally prefer the "remove from friends list" option in such cases.
And it's ActiveModel-based! Hallelujah!

For those not of a rails persuasion, ActiveModel is basically all the non-datastore stuff abstracted out from ActiveRecord, rails' ORM.

So, this Toy Store lib will share all its validation, accessor etc. apis with ActiveRecord and so will already automatically be compatible with the huge range of rails libraries out there. A good example is simple_form, a rails gem for doing lovely forms without any markup. In theory you should be able to hook this into Toy Store and therefore all those key/value stores with zero effort.

https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form

ActiveModel is on course to become Rack for data objects. When this idea is fully explored it's gonna make so many things so easy.

Soon we're all going to be auto-generating javascript client-side validation code from our server-side activemodel validation definitions, without ever having to think for a second about how or where the data is actually stored.
After 83 weeks I did find work. The reason it was difficult was my age plus few openings. The age thing is interesting. Some places where I applied I got past phone screens that gave fairly little programming quizzes. When I got to the in person interviews there were no questions about me experience, education, or publications. It seemed the whole process was geared to finding folks fresh out of college. Things are picking up here. The recruiters are calling and there seem to be more openings. The unemployment insurance was helpful. Keep in mind though that I have paid more into it over the years than I have gotten out of it. That's fine and fits with the general pattern of insurance. That's why insurance companies make money. I guess I have two point. One is that it is insurance, as opposed to a direct handout from the government. The other is that age discrimination is a big factor that Phil's agenda does not address. OK, there's a third point in that market conditions also make Phil's agenda impractical although I agree that folks should try to "retool" during hard times. It's just not ass easy and effective as Phil suggests.

About the high expectations, perhaps I do. I don't think that's so bad though. I hope you do too. A difficulty though is that so do prospective employers. They are often reluctant to offer lower pay to people that they feel might flee when times improve and they can find a better job.
Well, I can't blame you for that ;)
I last took chemistry in 10th grade, and I too was exposed to the progressive chronology of atomic theory.

While today I would appreciate it for what you point out, at the time, those lessons were lost on me, and I was a thoughtful kid. I think if the pedagogy were more oriented around the progess of the scientific method, it would have been fantastic.

It seemed misguided, though, in the context of a chemistry chapter on the nature of atoms. Let's also not fail to acknowledge that a gifted teacher can make all the difference in how a given approach might be, and I imagine that the more complex, contextual picture that respects that our understanding is still evolving would be superior in the hands of a gifted teacher.
I'm beginning to think this guy has a random random maze generator algorithm article generator.
> My mileage did vary. Nobody in modern academic philosophy is a dualist.

That may not be as true as you think. Notice the high percentages of internalism, libertarianism, and other positions associated with dualism. (Unfortunately, the survey didn't ask flat out about dualism):

http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
Cool. Is there a changelog anywhere? I couldn't find one. We've been running 2.1.0 beta3 and it'd be nice to know what to look for when I upgrade.
Agreed, if you are interested in applying, definitely do so, even if you aren't set on that specific course.

More info: http://www.ousu.org/acaff/undergraduate-specific-information...
That specific thing does sound a little urban-legendy but there's no shortage of known cases of precise copying of technical details of some design, especially in early iterations or when the copiers didn't yet fully understand what they were copying.

The aspect of this I find more surprising is that the Soviet space program went so far in emulating the entire idea of a reusable space plane, well after it must have become quite clear just from the US experience that it's very hard, very expensive and likely incapable of meetings its original design goals.
I believe http://www.allstepisodes.com/ is pretty comprehensive, and has all episodes.
Could you elaborate more on your choice of XMonad? Was it just the first best tiling WM you chose or have you done some research?

I'm currently looking for "my" tiling WM and am overwhelmed by the amount of available tiling WMs. Awesome-WM vs XMonad?
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I use NERDTree and it's not even remotely close to Command-T (or PeepOpen, which is pretty much the same thing).

NERDTree is great for browsing your project and managing your files, but for opening files (when you know their names) you really can't beat the speed of Command-T/PeepOpen. They're in another league.

I don't know how people work without it.
The idea is that people are using the results of a field to justify its axioms.

For example, all of science rests on the assumptions that the world is as it appears (empiricism), there are no supernatural forces, etc. Why do most people buy into these beliefs so strongly even though there is zero evidence for them? The basic reasoning is that empiricism must be correct because we have iPods, therefore 'science' (scientism) is correct, therefore there is no god, etc. (See also: http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Science)

It's a devastating belief system, because the more books these people read the dumber they get. If you don't believe me just read through some of the Reddit comments on r/atheism. Regardless of whether there is or is not a god, it's clear that the modern atheist movement is basically just a fad for dumb people. (Though from a social and political perspective I think it's a good thing.)

The thing is this doesn't just happen in religious debates, it happens virtually everywhere, but most people just don't realize it. It's funny because modernism as an intellectual movement crashed and burned spectacularly over fifty years ago, but most people (including many highly acclaimed scientists) don't even know it yet.
A C&D sounds like exactly what I would like to send him, along with a few other things.

Regarding his motives - at this point I am leaning strongly towards Greyhat recruiting, but this guy seems to be doing moronic things, which complicates analysis.

Case in point: He went ahead and spoke to the head of the department to ask for names of people he could contact.
Now a shakedown of this nature is best started from the bottom - targeting people who don't have experience and can possibly get bullied. Talking to the HoD is hubris/stupidity or the desire to malign us. We can't be completely sure what.

We were concerned that this guy was trying to ruin our rep. Fortunately since we have evidence that he tried to represent the Financial Times as well, it suggests that he was being opportunistic in choosing us.

It is possible that he may be trying to defraud someone - an outcome we had not considered.That would be something we need to find out.

I think the next steps will have to be talking to the original bank he targeted, and seeing if we can find some way to help them, and get more info on this person. Perhaps that will give us a lead and we can find him from there.

What concerns me is that there is little I can do to prevent this stuff, aside from dedicating someone to figure out every possible place our name can come up and making sure that those locations are searched regularly.
Forgive my ignorance, but I had no idea what single server durability was. So I had to look it up. I couldn't find any direct definitions, but from what I read it sounds like it does this:

Single server durability is a disk buffered list of pending writes so if the server reboots while in operation it can just resume where it left off. In larger deployments this risk is handled by having multiple servers running concurrently.

Does this sound right?
I live in Memphis, Tennessee. $45k is way above our average household income and yet it's still not a lot of money. Maybe enough to scrape by for a family of four. You're talking about around $3,000/mo after taxes & health insurance deductions. Housing is very cheap here, but it's still going to run $1000/mo+ including taxes and insurance.
I'm not sure I quite get this.

The code looks great. The mapping features seem strong (thanks in part to the power of ActiveModel). However, by restricting the adapter interface to a simple key/value store, don't you lose access to many of the features that make each backend distinct?

I think Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc. are great, but to me it't the differences amongst them which are interesting, not the similarities.
I thought about this a bit before I submitted it today. My feeling was that although it's not directly tech-related, chocolate's definitely in the Geek Food Groups, and most HN types I know are concerned with being ethical in their lives, even if they're skeptical of Big Green Movement stuff (as I am).

Nonetheless, totally respect your decision.