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So he says at the start he dismissed the best philosopher in the field, Karl Popper, without reading him.

Maybe most scientists ignore Popper's philosophy of science (the only worthwhile one) because they are ignorant and judge which philosophy to read by inaccurate reputation rather than merit.

Though bear in mind, quite a few scientists, big and small, did not ignore Popper and actually liked his ideas and found them helpful. E.g. Richard Feynman, David Deutsch, and Albert Einstein.
1. Backblaze for off-site backups: http://backblaze.com

2. Dash for access docs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-docs-snippets/id45803487....

3. Solarized and ir_black themes for Terminal and all editors: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized / http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/13 (I use ir_black w/ Terminal.app, terminal Vim and the sidebar fork of Macvim: https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots)

4. This fork of GitX: http://gitx.laullon.com/

5. DTerm (pop-up terminal emulator for the occasional 'less README'): http://decimus.net/DTerm

6. XScope (rulers and stuff for UI design): http://xscopeapp.com/

7. LittleSnapper (tried everything, this is the fastest and cleanest way to collect UI inspiration – Skitch + Evernote would be my second choice): http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/

8. Found (don't use this much, but it's awesome. Indexes Gmal, Dropbox and Google Drive and lets you search and launch files – a bit like Alfred): https://www.foundapp.com/

9. DaisyDisk (essential harddrive file visualization): http://www.daisydiskapp.com/
OSX apps that keep you hooked to your Mac?
Sure Apple's hardware is great. Very stylish, very sexy and sleek.

But at the end of the day, its the software that makes you productive. Or keeps you entertained.

Which are the OSX apps that keep you hooked to your Mac / Macbook / MBP?

Thanks!
Thanks. Great advice.
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> A prophecy: The first entity to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of Linux will have an opportunity to compete with Apple directly.

I think this is Canonical's current strategy: they're not relying on KDE/Gnome to get their act together, rather they're trying to roll their own with Unity.

They had a shocking start (very unfinished when launched) but they're moving really quickly. I personally find it nice to use now. Still not at Apple levels of state-of-the-art or polish, but if they keep the pace up they'll overtake Win7 before long and within a few years might offer serious competition to Apple.
Oh most definitely! I totally agree with making healthcare accesible to all income groups and at the same time cheaper for everyone.

Don't like to copy-paste but in one of my other comments I wrote: ... Debate about models such as free public healthcare, compulsory insurance, compulsory insurance where the government pays the difference that the less wealthy can't make up for, etc... (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124317)
My first question would be to ask you where you are located?

Rural Canada, which I assume does not bode well. There's certainly no startup scene, so to speak.

Where you are matters.

Which is unfortunate because one thing that has always excited me about software in particular is that it democratizes location. I've had the opportunity to work with some amazing organizations from around the world without having to be physically present for any of them.

If you build it and it makes sense from a business perspective and have a prototype you can attract that one or two people you need. With just an idea of course you can't. Care to elaborate on the idea at all?

That's fair. I've built "hundreds" of prototypes before. Some I've come to realize are simply bad ideas, others I've decided were still good and were taken to market with some mediocre success. In those cases I have felt were limited due to my lack of business acumen. What is not clear to me is where to go even after a prototype has been made and still shows merit.

I don't mind sharing the idea, but after some further research I discovered some companies who are already working on pretty exactly what I had envisioned, so I'll spare you the details. Though I do appreciate your advice in general as there are millions of other problems that need to be solved so it will no doubt come up again.
I always liked the BeOS interface—at least, in the context of the early 90s, when its popularity peaked—but I find it pointless to clone a 20+ year-old UI. With Kinect, Leap Motion, and other forms of input, it seems like there's a huge opportunity to get away from the traditional windowed UI that has dominated desktop OSes.

Not to knock Haiku OS—I just feel that if someone is going to create a desktop OS from scratch, it's a chance to do something really different. I see this as a missed opportunity.
Alfred is awesome. You can also write plugins for it!
My experience with the Win8 preview

looks ok. click on something, which launches an app. cool, but now how do I get back.

spent probably 10 minuted getting increasingly frustrated at not being able to exit back to the home screen (or whatever it's called. it's obviously not the desktop, because there's a tile called "desktop" that should be called "normal windows"). In the end I gave up and gave it to my wife, who did manage to figure it out (hint: you have to move the mouse to the very bottom left hand pixel)

Also - it appears I'm unable to use the email client at all unless I sign up for a live account. What's up with this?
By "like big canvases of entirely purple", you're probably referring to Yves Klein, who I think is actually a bad example for what you're getting at. Klein was interested in a kind of total, pure experience of color. He worked with a paint chemist to create an especially vibrant blue color ("International Klein Blue") which, to a pre-television era, would have actually been quite mesmerizing. Klein was also a legitimately fascinating and eccentric character who I think would interest anybody that studied him.
Actually, starting right now, AWS is probably your best bet.

Old story about Chuck Yeager from the 1950's: one time shortly after take-off, Yeager's aircraft suffered an engine failure, and he had to do an emergency semi-crash landing. When he realized that a mechanic had put the wrong type of fuel in the plane, he went looking for the guy. The mechanic profusely apologized, said he would resign and never work in aviation again. Yeager replied something along the lines of "Nonsense. In fact, I need someone to refuel my plane right now, and I want you to be the one to fuel it. That's because of all the guys here, I know you'll be the one guy who'll be sure to do it right."

Probably apocryphal, but the point has merit.
> the things you like about science are the reasons why most (if not all) of it is ultimately illusory.

How is science illusory?
A few observations:

1. One of the highly distinctive characteristics of being a Free Software project leader is having the freedom to speak your mind. What Linus does (hacking the Linux kernel) and who pays him to do it (presently the Linux Foundation) are pretty loosely linked. The primary objective of LF is to fund Linux development, and Linus is pretty much the guy to get that done. If LF didn't pay him for it, someone else would. He can state his opionions on relevant technical matters with few if any fears of repercussions. I'm looking forward to next week's press releases from Nvidia.

2. Linus addresses what Nvidia are doing wrong at a few points, both directly and indirectly.

Around 15 minutes in he talks about what Free Software provides in the way of developer freedoms: you can focus on what you are interested in and what you are good at. In Linus's case, issues such as maintaining Linux-related websites, init, QA, and Linux distributions is stuff he fundamentally doesn't care about (while other bits such as, eventually, creating a useful revision control system he does). Free Software lets you focus on your own core competencies.

He also makes the point, around 35 minutes, that it's very important that people need to know how he feels about things. Including how he feels about support received from hardware vendors.

More specifically, for hardware manufacturers, playing nice and closely with the kernel development community leads to both better product performance and customer relations. The woman asking the Nvidia question clearly wasn't happy with her Nvidia experience. I've learned in assessing hardware compatibility to treat any Nvidia componentry as at best a red flag if not a show-stopper. I'll actively go out of my way to avoid their products (Intel have gone out of their way to ensure compatibility and open specs, my most recent purchases centered on Intel chipsets, in particular for graphics). Playing well with devs also means that issues are addressed in a timely manner, compromises can be reached, and in general communications are open and positive. I don't know the full backstory on the Nvidia front (though searching the LKML mailing list should turn up some bits).

3. ... and yes, the HN moderators fubared this one.
I think philosophy is a worthy pursuit for a scientist. It's easy to get a feeling of going somewhere with science, because someone else has done a lot of thinking for you making you comfortable with your result. But if you leave philosophy more confused than when you started, you won't have the mental fortitude to make real progress in science. I think philosophy is ultimately the study of human thought. It's why courses on logic are an important component of undergraduate studies in philosophy. Having a good understanding of human thought, how we come to the decisions we make and how we fool ourselves with lazy thought, is invaluable in making deep scientific discoveries. When you don't come away more confused, but with a deeper understanding, you are better prepared to understand the why, instead of just accepting the how. You would know why science works, instead of making snarky remarks about science and that it works.

If you really think about it, the situation in science, that the questions that were hard to answer were still unsolved, is very similar to the situation in philosophy. Ask anyone what an electric field really is. No one knows.
> There are literally millions of smart hackers out there
> and only 1 entity has ever managed to put a state-of-the-art
> UI on top of a Unix core: Apple.

I wouldn't say ever. At some point in time, IRIX and Solaris (at least!) both had state-of-the-art GUIs on top of Unix. Apple's state-of-the-art GUI-on-Unix was inherited from NeXTSTEP.
I've noticed on HN lately we're getting this wave of self-promotional self-submited blog posts whose pattern is effectively, "I'm 20 years old, the CEO/cofounder of SomeTwitterBootstrapWidgetOnRailsInHerokuIBangedOutOverAWeekend.com and let me share with you the wisdom of my vast accumulated life's experience and insight, from my struggles in an elite private US high school to my challenges overcoming too-frequent iPhone 4S use, to my ephiphany involving Mac OS X graphic design. And I'll name drop a few times. And you should follow me here, here and here."

But yeah, I tend to think that some of these "amazing insights" are chosen tongue-in-cheek, just to have an excuse to blog something and submit to HN. It's getting tiresome. I also sense a recent wave of Redditors that have signed up, based on many comments with Reddit-style comment patterns. Which I actually like on Reddit, but hoping to not see here.
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If you're thinking of it as a way to sell people things, you're missing the good parts. Sure, I recognize that a generation or three of salesmen have misapplied random bits of the book, but that doesn't mean that the advice in it is worthless.

As someone else said, people haven't changed.
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...and they should take it to heart.

I went from >12% to <6% A1C by cutting out carbs, taking a low dose of metformin (750mg slow release per day) and throwing in a bit more light to moderate exercise.

Credit to Dr. Bernstein (http://www.diabetes-book.com/) who is a type I diabetic himself, but really we're now hearing the same things from Taubes, Lustig, the Paleo folks and many others.

Obviously low carb diets alone aren't the whole solution. Berstein's book contains a wealth of information on living with diabetes well into old age. It's a great read for diabetics or for anyone caring for a diabetic.
Probably too many and no easy way of finding them all to scan them all
Popper's great. Your reference to Feynman, however, reminded me of this classic qip:
“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” ― Richard P. Feynman
I agree. I'm just providing a reframing of what philosophy is that makes progress in philosophy a possibility.
> Ethics as irrelevant?

Having it or arguing about it?

> Logic?

Depends on what kind of logic you mean. There are multiple different entities covered by that word, some of which are not philosophy.

And for the rest: Arguments that never end produce what?
Just like the US violated European patents during our Industrial Revolution, India, China, and other emerging markets violate our patents and copyrights to fuel their own economic growth. Really, the best we can hope for is that they'll start producing their own worthwhile research which we can license in 10-20 years.
Java has two types of exceptions: checked exceptions and runtime exceptions.

In Haskell, there is a parallel to this: things like error and undefined are much like runtime exceptions. They are what you would use for conditions that should never come up like division by 0 or infinite loops. You wouldn't want to have to deal explicitly with potential errors every time you used division--it would be useless in most cases. The default behavior with these is to immediately abort.

Haskell also has a parallel to checked exceptions: Either (also Maybe and ErrorT and probably others). If a function returns an Either value, it forces you to check whether the result was valid using the type system, just like a checked exception. So `int f(int a) throws SomeError` can be written as `Int -> Either SomeError Int` in Haskell.

The Haskell approach actually has some advantages, mainly stemming from the fact that Either is not baked into the language. This means the type system can be simpler: in Java, you have both the return value and the "effect" (e.g. throws), which are different concepts with the latter baked into the language and inflexible; in Haskell, you just have a different return type that is defined in a library. This also gives you greater flexibility: you can easily encode your own "effect" by defining your own type, and it can behave in the same way as Either.

There are also IO exceptions, but I haven't actually used them for anything, so I can't say much about them.
I agree that it's vastly usable and fun to use; it's like a power-enhanced UNIX/Linux shell. Useful to get things done, but, except for some testing positions, useless on a resume.
I suspect part of its "failure" compared to other scripting languages is that it was so flexible that it seemed not to have an opinion, EG there are several object systems commonly used with it.
> The question is whether our habit of elevating scientific explanation to the 'one true truth'

This is a complete strawman and nobody who understands science could take this idea seriously. In fact, I dare you to ask a working scientist whether they're after 'Truth'.
I'll bite...I know very little about art, but I'm willing to be educated. So tell me, by what criteria does one distinguish modern art from garbage?

Taking your Obfuscated C contests as an example, even if the source files look like gibberish to your average citizen (or average programmer), you could at least explain why it's special. And it wouldn't be that hard to see, for anyone, why creating a winning entry takes a lot of technical skill and creativity and that not just anyone could do it.
Did anyone else run into issues with ELB during the outage? We're multi-AZ and could access unaffected instances directly without a problem, but the load balancer kept claiming they were unhealthy.
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What an incredibly uninformed comments thread. Firstly to the main post, of course philosophy isn't ignored by science. Science is an offshoot of philosophy and happily so. It's a ridiculous premise not born out by the article itself.

Secondly, it sounds like several commenters have studied little or no philosophy in an academic setting, and as a result are posting garbage comments based on straw men of their own creation.

Is it hard to take on modern philosophers on their own ground? Is the language they use sometimes confusing to the layman? Is that sometimes frustrating? Sure it is. But that's because they have to shortcut a few thousand years of philosophical reasoning to make the points so that we don't end up in the weeds with every discussion. It's no different (as a trained Physicist myself) to the manner modern Physicists talk about our discipline in ways which are confusing to the layman, because we use cutting edge math to short cut a few thousand years of philosophical reasoning to make their point.

Study any subject to the edge of current thinking and you get to incredible levels of specialism because we've been at academia, as a global civilization, for an awfully long time. Not everything can be boiled down to an elevator pitch.

It may be hot to say people don't need to go to university, and further education is meaningless in the context of startups, but it's not meaningless if you actually want to understand the most advanced thought in areas of academic interest. It might not be the best avenue for most people for most career paths, but if you want to discuss philosophy and science (or as it used to be called Natural Philosophy) then it's probably best done with some kind of solid education in those fields.
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"movement Z is a reaction to Y, which in turn is a reaction to X. The artist is grappling with themes A and B, and exploring materials C, D, and E."

I don't want to see reactions. I don't want to see an artist grappling with themes. I don't want to see an artist exploring new materials.

I want to see a master displaying his work that exemplifies concrete themes and ideas. In other words, I would like to see defined, finished works as opposed to ambiguous, ill refined quasi-ideas.

Maybe that's just me.
Penny Arcade and The Oatmeal should combine into some sort of charity generating evil fighting super-force.
I'd add that those economies are far from nascent and are pretty complex beasts already.
Exactly. If scientist were not concerned with the philosophy of science, they would not come up with different interpretations of quantum mechanics. There would just be quantum mechanics, and there wouldn't be the Copenhagen Interpretation, many worlds, pilot waves, etc.

The Niels Bohr quote drives this point home. Physics (and science in general) concerns itself with descriptions of nature. When scientists start to ask why, start to make interpretations of quantum mechanics, start to ask what came before the big bang, start to ask why there is something rather than nothing, that is when philosophy becomes central.
Linearity: function's derivative is constant w.r.t. the parameter discussed. dT(K)/dK = -1.25/K^2 and this most certainly is not constant.
OS X's yearly release cycle highlights a key problem that Windows 8 highlights. Making changes that are anything more than miniscule can happen over a long period of time that users can adapt to.

Microsoft is stuck trying to cater to two fundamentally different interaction paradigms in one gigantic release, which is very difficult.

I think if anything, the author's article highlights some common perceptions many consumers will hold with Windows 8. While I haven't used Win8, a lot of the authors complaints seem like he wasn't willing to embrace something new and wasn't willing to learn. They don't seem like design failures per se; but if 8 wasn't designed well enough to appease these types of criticism, then I guess it is a design failure
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I'm sure your average customer has heard of Amazon :)
Actually back in the days of PSU's like HAL, ITI, BHEL .. etc. These schemes where there.

You could even go to private clinics. I mean you could go to a good private clinic, get yourself good healthcare and it would be paid for with your + company's contributions.

There were even hospitals that ran minimal payment schemes like MS Ramiah Hospital in Bangalore. Where the hospital trust would finance the difference of treatment after your bills. Sai Baba hospital is doing an awesome job, I know many poor people who got their cataract operation done for almost what they could pay. But as you know our country's population is too high for these patch work attempts to work.

The Government of India needs to seriously reflect on

a. Health care reforms.

b. Insurance, and ways of making it work.

c. Cut corruption in government hospitals and other areas.

d. Taxes on essential commodities like medicine and equipment.

By all means tax the alcohol,cigarettes and other luxury stuff, but taxing medicine and things that save people lives. Isn't quite justifiable.
> Chomsky, whose theories of grammar inform modern compiler design

That's math, though, not philosophy.

The difference: Math is a symbol game that occasionally produces useful tools for other fields, whereas philosophy is a discussion of human problems.
Every so often, a celebrity has some sort of seeming meltdown. An ugly divorce, a strange rant about cops or Jews, or an interview where they do something so bizarre that all the celeb gossip for the next week is focused on them. Sometimes they really relish it, and try to stay in the limelight as long as possible.

I get the same impression from this guy. At this point, it's no longer about the FJ defamation suit, or about winning in court. It's gotta be about getting his name out there, maybe trying to generate some book sales or link juice back to his site.

We on HN don't care about people jumping on Oprah's couch; let's give this guy the same treatment.