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And I'd guess the work place wins by far out of that deal.

A professional person knows for starters the interview is not necessarily the job, especial the kinda person who bases it on one question is not something you'd want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

In many companies HR will be doing the interview, or even one level of it. You have no idea what the team might be like.

Even all that said it's a fun question that I'd like to try, it say a lot about people who won't attempt something fun and unusual.
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Hmm - I think my sarcasm detector just triggered.

I did a year of philosophy in my undergraduate degree. It wasn't much, and it was intriguing in places, but I did end up wondering what value it could possibly be. I completed my degree in Pure Mathematics, and I've ended up in industry as a programmer, manager, and systems analyst. And I'm not in a "startup," nor in the USA.

I've found a use for almost everything I ever studied, including English, geography, history, and languages. Not once have I, personally, found any value in the philosophy I did.

So I am genuinely interested in hearing what I've missed out on. What is it that I "don't get" that would make the subject useful. Note, I don't mean "make me money." I mean "help me think better about things."

I'm sure there are people out there who get engaged with philosophy and pursue it for its own sake. If that's all there is to it then I'm fine with that, just don't then pretend that it's useful. Getting people engaged and intrigued in an intellectual pursuit perhaps is its own reward. Is that all philosophy is?

Write something. Help us understand, especially given that PG took a degree in philosophy and art, and he wrote what he did.
What? Why would you even consider that people were trying to be flippant (disrespectful?)? So what if people know or don't know the artist? Does its popularity demand some kind of instant respect for the authors argument?

I'm just confused by what you are trying to achieve with this post
Abstraction power doesn't scale linearly in the number of tokens.
Since you mentioned banks, I just need to chime in:

I recently (May, June) surveyed 100 european banks (in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria), roughly selected for the 20 specimens with the greatest total assets per country.

None of them have deployed DNSSEC. Most use SSL, many use EV certificates, a few go so far as to include HSTS. DNSSEC? Zero.
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I do want to appreciate your attitude here. I'm sure all those things you mention can and would be gamed, but at least you try to keep fighting instead of giving up. Reading some comments about the PRISM case on HN makes me feel like we should just lay down and die while the world shreds itself apart.
I never heard of such a tactic but I think it's genius.

Also the money will have to be re-printed. If enough citizens declare their message on the money then ignoring the message will be very costly.

Edit: Turns out to be legal!
But he is right - the Internet was designed to be used in a certain way. One website to rule them all is not the natural state of the web and this is an example
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A friend is in the process of starting up a small commerce venture - focusing on something like clothes (the exact nature of the business is, I think, not so important for this question). He has put a lot of work and effort into design, sourcing suppliers, logistics, legal and IP issues, etc. He's asked me to come on board as a part time 'CTO', responsible for building out the tech (mainly e-commerce website, supplier integration, and company infrastructure (eg mail server, etc).
Thank you for that. I found that very sad, but addictive reading. The supposed origin of the term potters field was news to me too, and I didn't previously know what Judas did with his coins.
Don't forget that at your age, I'm guessing you have more financial responsibilities, maybe a mortgage, maybe even kids... You need a 'stable', well paid job. A 19 year old will happily work for less, in a junior position, with the knowledge that the job might not be a permanent thing.
I know I'm late to the comment party, but my two eurocents.

In EU it's no longer an issue to talk or message abroad even when roaming. Since last roaming cap was introduced voice and messaging has become relatively cheap. What's most welcome about this (if it will go forward becoming mandatory) is the possibility to get data abroad, which is VERY expensive right now even with offerings from Europe-wide carriers.
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Are you arguing with Steve Jobs? Because I should warn you not to expect a reply.
There are some amazing things you can do with free monads, although I must confess to not having my head completely wrapped round them yet:

There are some great links in this SO answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941904/recursion-schemes...

Especially Tim William's talk here:

https://github.com/willtim/recursion-schemes/raw/master/slid...
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Right, so move from a site that can use the whole width of my frickin wide monitor (nevermind efficiency) to one that doesn't - but it's shiny!
To me, that sounds like 'generalisations about women aren't disrespectful to women' - maybe it's a cultural thing or just the social circles I hang around with but I find it sexist.
I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely slow phosphor trailing effect, it could be added with js. I was great that you were able to read text from monitor about 5 seconds after powering it off. - After quick Googling, I couldn't find pre-existing javascript to do it. It would be nice to make one.
I guess my problem with it is if you're writing a book to educate nervous, timid, perhaps less experienced guys about interactions with people you're attracted to, it'd be nice to educate them in a way that teaches respect and kindness, not objectification
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I would even say if you simply consider it as literally "love of wisdom", you would be hard pressed to find anything that's remotely decent and skillfull which doesn't also contain philosophy.
I also switched to newsblur, and I'm pretty happy with it. The UI is definitely clunky, but after you get used to it, it's really not so bad. It's free for some number of feeds, has a sane business model (i.e. it has any business model), the entire thing is open source, and it has an open API so you can build your own client if you wish!

I've not felt the need to try any others since switching
Pretty much the only reason people have a problem with SRS is they don't want to have their sexism pointed out and/or challenged.
I'd say that is a fairly mainstream geek kind of thing, I associate it with the kind of video game playing, reddit frequenting geek. (Yes overly broad stereotypes).
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> “If a U.S. entity is serving us with a legally binding
> subpoena, we contact our customer and work with that
> customer to fight the subpoena. We will do that proactively
> and help the customer in any way to comply with the
> subpoena or fight it.”

How does that work, with gag-ordered FISA requests?
I don't agree the breaking BC is a bullshit statement. We all saw how long it took for the majority of PHP users to be able to use PHP 5 due to hosts not upgrading. If all code breaks then we'll end up with two branches of PHP for the developers to maintain for very, very long.

The question of whether or not to break BC basically boils down to doomed if you do; doomed if you don't.
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Obviously not caring doesn't accomplish anything, because people who don't care about something won't act.

But if people do care about something, they are motivated to act, and may significantly alter the course of what happens -- not always, and not always as they wanted, but even a small number of motivated people can make serious waves, depending on their skill, charisma, cleverness, opportunity, etc..

Hence, what we feel matters.
See also free applicatives. We use these extensively at work. E.g. http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2012-12-01-static_analysis_with_ap...

Amazing when entire DSL programs turn into 1 line calls.
> Philosophy has been a waste of time since Socrates and it's provided nothing of value that you can't learn from functional programming

As far as I can tell it's mostly true, at least if you substitute "functional programming" for "theory of computation, probability theory and neuroscience". It's no failure of people back then that they didn't have the abstractions we have now. But we shouldn't also pretend they really understood something better without the mental and formal frameworks we have today.

Today we're turning philosophical problems into engineering ones. That's why we can finally get results (and that's why STEMs sound smug). Oh, and nowdays we can scan some answers to philosophical questions right out of the human brain, so there's that.
PHP was kitchen sink from the beginning. Only the kitchen sink was in the library and not the language. I'd rather have it like this.
Coroutines are tricky, and you need to explain them, not just present a bit of code. I think it is the right decision to omit them from a 15-minute intro. The C API is way out of scope.

I would cover assert() statements and the common (exit_status, result) var return, since that is so idiomatic. Maybe also loading chunks.
And it is. The question is:

f(f(n)) == -n
Where n is a 32 bit signed integer

It's `f(n)` that is not a signed integer. Both `n` and `f(f(n))` are ints, so the answer is within the constraints. There's nothing said about the signature of the function.
> Philosophy of the Mind (which does make me cry a little inside when they don't keep up with neuroscience or even know anything about Complex Systems Theory)

Can you explain more on this? I understand more neuroscience/complex systems than I do philosophy; back in school, I became skeptical of the meaningfulness of the research done in complex systems. I would be curious as to what you think it can contribute to philosophy.
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I thought you were flat-out wrong for a moment, then did some digging: Feedler 2.0 does indeed support Theoldreader, however Feedler Pro (which was what I was squinting at) is still on version 1.12.5, and only supports Google Reader.

As Feedler 2.0 only showed up in the app store yesterday I assume the Pro version is stuck somewhere in the approvals process ...
That's a good point, I guess I just gave up on that battle long ago.

(Well, not entirely. Games don't get my redshift color+brightness adjustments, and I used to be able to play video without the adjustments as well.)
As the rather facetious saying goes, "Git is a great library for building a DVCS".

I wouldn't go that far myself, however I do feel that Git has a LOT of features and becomes the "Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none", if you will.

Since I've grokked it properly, I'm now happy with it, but there are things I'm still not okay with doing (`git bisect' being one).
What a horrible piece of biased "journalism".

"High school drop-out" = Trying to disregard his intelligence

"Abandonend his Country" , "Leaked government secrets" ... sure, that is a totally neutral way of describing what he did.

And where did they get this Emily Brandwin. That surely must be a joke?

And what is it ith the narrow-eyed TV announcer in the beginning? Is he supposed to look non-threatening to people of lesser intelligence?
- Its user interface is inconsistent and poorly designed.

- It is an overkill for a small project with a central repository - what we usually have, leading to a large conceptual overhead.

Why it became popular in the first place? a) Linus, b) It's pretty easy and pain-free when you have a single-person project that doesn't branch much.
I can't even read half of these, peoples handwriting is so terrible. One there says "Before I die I want to raise a child" but it took be a full minute to not read it as "I want to ride a child"
I don't have a strong disagreement with his overall point, but think there's some strange data leading to those values. The families (average 1.7 people) earning less than $5,000 per year, seem to better educated, "whiter" and have more cars and homes than you might expect when compared with other earning levels.

One possibility is that these data are skewed by small business owners that made a loss that year. Together those who earn less than 5K actually have an average income of -2,500 and list average self-employment income at -8,000 dollars.
Sorry can I clarify?

You work for $BIGMANUF and you can use one of their phones in the office, and carry it through security. But if you try to carry a iPhone in, it will be sealed and bagged.

Huh?
Snowden's continued media presence is advancing his cause.

For common people to care, we need a victim. A victim creates a story that the media can report on. The moment we lose our victim, people stop caring. Discussions on what the fourth amendments mean will not capture the hearts of the people for a month or half a year to make changes possible.

For example: If you want to rally the gov to legislate a law to make people to seat belt on buses. Discussion of scientific reports or statistics of seat belts in the press will not go very far. In contrast, a story about a 5 year old that lost both her leg will go a long way.
Just wanted to say, that's a really nice analysis of what happened :)

Ahhh, Ms Star-Destroyer.
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Is "fact" not in some cases a synonym of "data"?

"Qantourisc; 144" might be read as data while "Qantourisc registered on HN 144 days ago" might be read as a fact.
I've been seriously introverted all my life. So much, in fact, I had to leave school and self teach.
I love it as a slightly crippling yet awesome feature, even though I've been told it's a flaw (I don't agree).

There are a few things that help me out in the lows:

- I have 2 close friends. To destroy these friendships, planet earth needs to be blown up. But I don't go out very often with them.
To maintain this, we play almost daily for about an hour, dota2 or whatever else floats our boat. And then, I just log off skype. I'd play even if they weren't there. FOSS collaboration works just as well.

- Having a not too demanding girlfiend helps. Look for one so smart it cripples her.
Don't just throw your toys out of the pram, argue†! Colin is a valued member of the community and asking a reasonable question.

Let me restate it: Paul says (at least) three things:

1. don't bother with philosophy books;

2. philosophy isn't useful and it's better to come at it from a different angle; and

3. Hegel is useless.

Four questions:

Which of these isn't true (or is it something else that isn't true)?

If 1 isn't true, which philosophy books should one read?

If 2 isn't true, what is useful about modern philosophy, or how should it be approached?

If 3 isn't true, what useful things did Hegel write?

† Sorry, this is a bit snarky, but I'd say what you've written so far is (according to http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html) level 3 (disagreement) and what we need to be convinced (and what we genuinely want to hear) is actual level 4 and above counter-argument.
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One interesting tidbit from the AWS re:invent conference in November: According to Stephen Schmidt, Amazon does regular "drills" where they pretend that a warrant has been received for a user's data, and they need to identify and isolate and copy all of it.

This tells me two things: First, that Amazon gets these requests often enough to have a well-tested procedure for handling them; and second, that it's still very much a manual process -- and that government agencies can't just reach in and grab data on their own.
you know bobsy, you just repeated the story, only with a different example; :)
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So more like artsy acrobatic dancing that just happened to involve the occasional pole.

Got it. Glad we got this sorted out. :-)
I'm using newsblur. I'm sad Feedler on iOS doesn't work with it. I don't really want to go through the trouble of maintaining two separate RSS readers, though.
New redesign is great :)

Screw anyone who rags on PHP. Since 5.3, it's been one of the nicer languages I've ever used, and I'm exceedingly productive in it.

The best part? I can work in Brisbane, and get paid well for it. Not too many Ruby jobs around, or anything other than .Net and a little bit of Java.
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Are you a FOO?

We can't agree. As the very few people who have bothered to comment here have shown. And we are all FOOs or BARs or BAZzes. All of us!

Why it matters?

Well, it probably doesn't unless you have an agenda. I am not a "full stack 'web developer'" (hate me if you want but web dev isn't "full stack") nor an author of a marketing book. I don't have an agenda. I just have to post crap like this because I can't downvote the noise out of existence.
Is there a name yet for the fallacy of calling everything a fallacy? Back then, that word used to mean something.
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Some of the U.S. officials [...] told ABC News that the Hong Kong government was playing a double-game [...], which has raised fears that Chinese intelligence operatives had more time and opportunity to copy Snowden's four laptop hard drives – a feat that wouldn't be too difficult for the Russian intelligence service to do as well.

[...]

"It's fairly easy to do with right equipment," the official explained. "They get you when you leave it in your hotel room or even at the airport when they get you in an interrogation room at immigration."

Did they just imply they are not using full disc encryption on NSA laptops?
And more over it requries a browser plugin (at least for firefox) to even function, why? And most of the time it just doesn't work - keep displaying that it is updating (maybe it doesn't take proxy into account?)
One issue I've found with studying history piecewise like this (basically how history is taught in school…) is that you don't get a good global picture of an era.
What was happening in China at the time of the Roman Empire ?
Before he dies he wants to run nginx and varnish caching so that his site will survive the front page of HN.
What you are referring to is not "just" static methods. It is known as the Facade pattern and was utilised entirely for the increased testability it provides. In light of that - the comment about debugging rings slightly hollow.

Furthermore Laravel 4 uses the whoops error framework - which provides very in depth errors.
Speedboat? How long would it take?
the provided drivers could be better: my mac book pro is always hotter.
It seems to me that what you have done is said "What a load of crap" without actually adding any value. What you haven't done is provide a clear, well-thought out contrary point of view.

Isn't that pretty close to what Graham wrote? He essentially said "ugh, philosophy, what a load of crap" without providing much in the way of specifics, except a vague mention that he doesn't like Hegel (who he may or may not have read, and is hardly a great place to start in any case). What he hasn't done is provide a clear, well-thought out contrary point of view, just an off-hand criticism.

In general, I don't find sweeping "ugh, this is crap" pronouncements without detail or analysis to be too useful, especially at the level of granularity of people dismissing entire other fields of study which are not their own. As you yourself argue in this thread, mere criticism isn't particularly constructive.

Curiously, he does cite a philosopher in his list of books you should read (Kuhn). It's one of Kuhn's more historically oriented books, but still leans towards philosophy of science. If you like that one, you might also like some of Kuhn's more philosophically oriented books, like Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
I think the problem with philosophy is that language and words only go this far and we humans get tired fast when just thinking hard inside our heads without any interaction with the external world and no real-world problem to solve. I believe it was the book "The Three Pillars of Zen" that illustrated this effect by comparing the posture of Rodins Thinker [1] with the posture of a meditator [2]. So not only do we run circles around our own concepts that are most likely grounded in the unconscious, but we also get very tired, irritated and depressed from it, that's at least my experience.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker
[2] http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/cob/img/buddha.jpg
Sure, but "at least try and do something" seems to always result in the US military killing tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

I'm not saying isolationism/non-interventionism is the best way, but the US doesn't seem to be able to follow up "let's do something" with anything other than a big remote-controlled radar-invisible flying death party.

How about no.
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Do you prefer to write it all from scratch?

Because you can't materialize a new closed-source operating system in time for a console lifecycle without basing it upon some open source one.

So you don't have much choice: it's Microsoft or open source, and guess what? Microsoft already have a console of its own.
You are missing the limits that simple practicality has on each scenario.

There is an enormous difference between a military coup and the kind of risks the NSA databases create. A military coup requires tens if not hundreds of thousands of military to agree that potentially killing their neighbors and maybe even own family members is a necessity. For the NSA databases to be abused all it takes is a handful of motivated actors to quietly blackmail specific individuals. Not unlike the FBI tried to do with their surveillance tapes of Martin Luther King.
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Hegel contradicts himself already on the first two or three pages of System der Philosophie 1 while trying to make an impression it all makes sense. I really doubt he knew well what he was talking about. If he was a student I'd send him to study calculus, linear algebra, and mathematical logic with all the proofs and then let him rewrite his work after he learns how to express himself in a clear and concise manner.
For those interested in a broad account of history that does not try to explain what happened, but why things happen, I highly recommend Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"[1]. It resonates well with the hacker's desire to understand what makes the world tick :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
"I must confess to not having my head completely wrapped round them yet"

My thoughts exactly. That's the thing about Haskell. I love the elegance and enjoy the mathematics but it seems it takes me months at a time before something clicks. One reason why I haven't used it for any "real" project.
Bonus point for Cloud Atlas reference :)
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