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I don't think the author's case for philosophy not being driven by confusion over words holds up. His argument is basically that he knows what he means when he uses a word, so how can there be confusion? For example:

'When I ask, "How do I know I’m not in the matrix?," I'm asking, "Why should I believe that I’m not in the matrix?"'

Ok, fine, but is that what everybody who uses the word "know" means by it? And shifting to the word "believe", as the author does here, doesn't help; there's just as much argument over what "believe" means, or should mean, as over what "know" means, or should mean.

In some cases he doesn't even explicitly give his preferred meaning, but just assumes that we all know what it is:

'Whether someone was "free to act" is something that we consider often in legal settings, and I think it’s right for us to ask this question before we lock someone up.'

Which may well be true, but it still leaves open the question of what, exactly, we are asking when we ask if someone was "free to act". What do we need to take into account in order to decide the legal case one way or the other? And is the legal question the same question as all the other questions that are pointed at when we use the term "free will"? The author seems to assume that we all agree on all these things, but the philosophical literature makes clear that we don't.

In fact, as this example illustrates, the author mis-states Graham's point about confusion over words. He says:

'To say that a question can be answered by saying, "Depends on what you mean by X" is far from proving that the question is motivated by a confusion over words.'

But Graham didn't claim that we could answer all philosophical questions by just defining what we mean by X (and he certainly didn't claim that we could answer them just by saying "Depends on what you mean by X"). He only claimed that the questions aren't well-defined unless we specify what we mean by X. What looks like one question could end up being three or four (or seven or eight) depending on which definition we choose for X; so unless and until we pin down the question more precisely, we end up talking past each other instead of actually accomplishing anything. I tend to agree with Graham that much of philosophy suffers from exactly this disease.

Finally, I would like to see some evidence for this claim of the author's:

'Graham seems to be saying that if a philosophy professor can’t distinguish a “real” philosophy paper from a fake, placebo paper that is purposely filled with nonsense, then the real paper is meaningless. If this is Graham’s proposal, I think that many philosophy professors could pass this test for many philosophical texts. There are definitely some charlatans posing as philosophers out there, but that doesn’t mean that all or most of philosophy is B.S.
Interesting to compare Amazon to Walmart. Frankly I never got my head around the Walmart hate. A far greater number of poor people shop at Walmart than work at Walmart. Their low wages might be bad for their particular employees, but their low prices are good for every poor consumer no matter where they are employed.
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How do you collect data about what constitutes a good life?

- Study people who are leading a good life? Circular: how do you identify them?
- Ask people if they are leading a good life? Begs the question, since to decide they must have already answered it.

Do you believe the answer is unimportant? Self-evident? Relative to time and place? Naturally dictated and discoverable by reason? Primarily decided by social structure? Primarily determined by the individual?

All of those positions have been held by and forcefully defended, and all of them have also been forcefully attacked. By people studying philosophy, because that is at root what philosophy is.

It's a vital question because we can't measure the effectiveness of public policy or personal decisions without some notion of "good" to apply as a scale.
> There's no "free market" that's an ideology (a made-up idea of how the world is that obscures one's thinking).

Everything is a made up idea that obscures one's thinking. I think I have to drive on roads, but really nothing is stopping me. I could get through traffic faster if I just started driving on the shoulder, but the problem is if everyone did that it would be chaos, and would be worse overall. Systems have the potential to create a net good.
Honest question: Is it still libel if you come up with evidence?
Look, I'm a Python 3 supporter, but you should never foist the Python 3 fork of gevent on anyone.

I'm pretty sure that, the monkey-patched way most people use it, it's a happy accident when gevent even works correctly on Python 2. This happy accident doesn't happen in an unofficial fork.
You should read "Without Conscience" by Dr. Robert D. Hare. He has been studying psychopaths for decades, and gives a detailed overview of what they are like. Everyone is falsely claiming that Elliot Rodger was a psychopath. He was not. Psychopathy consists of a collection of particular traits together, and while he has a few of them, he does not have the correct combination.
Kind of off-topic to your point, but I found it interesting that he got so detailed about things he is unlikely to remember (his birth, meals on very young birthdays) but there are a lot of verifiable things he got wrong in the timeline (he claimed Finding Memo was being played on TV in 2001, or that Xbox 360 was brand new in 2007). All of this is written very confidently.
MyFitnessPal – Data Science to improve Health and Fitness: Chul Lee Interview
A thorough debunking of Gary Taubes

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/gf8zy/a_thorough_de...
Yup. Biggest roadblocks in java update are bytecode manipulation libraries and at the moment maven.

I'm still intrigued by this situation: I'm running my software on java 8, but I can't compile it as java 8 unless I do that by hand (... really?)
I don't know what he said, but are we really in the business of defending people who are against human rights and make jokes in the face of tragedies? These are founders and CEOs we're talking about, I wouldn't want to work with them regardless of public image.
"Not all VC's."
And yet... Moghadam was the one who built Rap Genius (with his partners), when no one else did.

It's hard to separate the product from the creator. We can demand a higher standard of creators, but one of the consequences will be fewer creations.

Moghadam's behavior, while not one of polite society, isn't necessarily separate from the community that Rap Genius serves. Compare Moghadam to famous and successful rappers who haven't been fired from their jobs for quite similar behavior.
Yes, I was thinking about doing it like this.

This will probably the most flexible way.
Where are the React.js utils for creating SVG charts?
I disable them in most places by simply turning off Javascript (with the Quick Javascript Switcher chrome extension).

One place that didn't work is at Forbes.com because they're using CSS to implement that particular annoyance.
> does this question NOT depend on the definition of "right"?

I think it does; this is another example of what I pointed out in my post upthread, the author assuming that, because he knows what he means when he uses a word, everyone else must assign it the same meaning.
Is that specific to git or is it in the shell?
Are you referring to the comment threads on the answers?
"Ethics - Are people really altruistic if they gain pleasure"

To me this is a matter of degree and not absolute.

So it's not "if gain pleasure (or benefit) then not altruistic" and black and white but rather that someone can be altruistic and gain pleasure at the same time depending on what they are gaining and losing specifically.

So a billionaire giving $100,000 for a good cause might seem to be less altruistic than a person with $200,000 net worth giving $100,000 of it for a good cause.

(Fwiw I've never taken a philosophy course so this is just my personal common sense opinion..)
Wittgenstein was certainly interesting, but he thought Godel was wrong, precisely because Godel showed something interesting about logic itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_the...

Paul is obviously right in criticizing the gaseous generalizations, nonsensical pretentiousness and word games that much of the western (particularly, the german) philosophical tradition fell into after the reformation. But I also agree with the philosphical hacker that he is overstating the case that word-confusion is the primary cause of conflict in philosophical disagreement, and I think Godel showed why this is compatible with an apparently deterministic and logical universe.

As near as my uneducated mind can tell, Godel is the most important philosopher since Aristotle: he proved something practical, dramatic and unintuitive about the world, using only words.

In as much as I understand it, it makes me laugh hysterically.
The git reflog gets you out of all kinds of messes. https://medium.com/git-tips/a4189dd88c40
Varies from country to country.

I am very much not a lawyer... and more importantly, not familiar with european law on the subject.

Here in the U.S. though, it's a defense. But that still wouldn't change the "man about to be sued" bit.
What leads you to believe Brendan Eich or Mahbod Moghadam have had their lives "destroyed"? What leads you to believe downvotes mean someone thinks you're the devil incarnate?
Too bad it only works with Facebook chat. I'd love to use this if I could put the images in a text message.
What does the future hold for NoSQL?
PG mentions that in his blog post:

"Wittgenstein is popularly credited with the idea that most philosophical controversies are due to confusions over language. I'm not sure how much credit to give him. I suspect a lot of people realized this, but reacted simply by not studying philosophy, rather than becoming philosophy professors."
I would have thought the rest of what they charge the consumer is what pays for the "kindle ecosystem." Not like the "kindle ecosystem" costs all the much to run.
I remember doing this for my dad... sitting in his computer store, entering bytes of the boot-loader program by flipping switches. In my memory, it took much longer than in the video. The computer was an Altair clone, one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhbzCAzNy0 and the paper-tape reader was also different (not connected to a teletype, just a stand-alone paper tape reader with a serial port) so I guess it was a different bootloader entirely.
The way to combat that is to very vocally accuse anybody trying to institute those sort of policies of being an evil classist who is keen on neglecting the education of families who cannot afford reliable internet access, or computers for each school-aged child. The more vitriolic the better; the idea is to catch them off guard such that the fastest way for them to combat the accusations is to backtrack completely.

Some schools may get around these accusations by doing shit like providing each student with computers/tablets with cell cards. That's when you start beating on the privacy drums. Most public schools do not have anywhere near the necessary resources to do that though.
Looks nice. Is there functionality for a fallback/backup passcode in case the YubiKey is lost?
Notice that all the images and fonts are actually served from durated.com!
Interestingly, this article completely leaves out soda (aka pop aka coke) pallets. All of the major soft drink bottlers use about the same size and shape pallet, and it's much smaller than the traditional whitewood pallet. Often, they'll put their pallet onto a square pallet, then that one a whitewood pallet, when they deliver to grocery stores.

Pepsi, Coke, and other soft drink and beer distribution companies even have their own, smaller, powered pallet jacks. The powered pallet jacks that grocery and other retail stores use are usually too big for these smaller pallets.

These companies have been slowly moving to plastic pallets over the past decade, and wooden pallets of those dimensions are hard to find today. The plastic pallets offer some level of 4-way access as well.

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Edit: I had forgotten about these full-size plastic pallets. They are so much cleaner and easier to use. Even new whitewood pallets leave behind a cloud of splinters and wood dust. These leave behind some shipping dust as there are no cracks for dust to fall through. They stack more securely and don't get heavier when wet like wooden pallets. And you can stack about twice as many in the same space.

http://www.foodlogistics.com/article/11442316/smaller-faster...
Now you're making a joke out of "not all men". Are you sure you're helping?
Cherry Tree Seed Sprouts Six Years Earlier Than Usual After Trip In Space
It's actually not really defined at all in terms of an actual medical illness. It's mostly an invention of the criminal justice system.

Sociopathy/Psycopathy is about as real as Drapetomania or hysteria. It's the modern day blasphemy, if you question the state or authority you are 'anti-social'
I especially like optional static typing and compile-time protection from nil/None very much. It's type system doesn't look very sophisticated, but since you get fully dynamic variables with no (syntactic) overhead it's not that important. requires and ensures are very nice (as are tests), especially because the only other language with real contracts (Racket) focuses on functions and is a bit lacking when it comes to contracting methods with side-effects.

It generally looks quite nice for a niche language and it's nice that it seems to be maintained. It seems that there is a JVM underway, by the way. Boo was the other similar, interesting language I checked out some time ago, but it seems to be under less active development (if at all).

Anyway, if Python 3 is such a problem, then maybe let's port everything over to Cobra. It has snake in the name and familiar syntax and lots of goodies; imagine how far it could get if hundreds of thousands Python users would start working with it! (Just joking, although I'm wishing Cobra (and all other new or unpopular) languages the best of luck, of course)
Well though there were for sure "fighting words" in this comment.

And with anyone who is admired such as PG you would typically try to be very careful (almost diplomatic) in how and what you said.

Statement was:

"He should just stick to essays about startups and lisp instead of pontificating on something he clearly has very little understanding of."

or, suggested re-write (for someone who feels this way):

"PG's essays about startups and lisp are great|good|wonderful however in my opinion, and based on my particular experience, I can't tell that he has any particular expertise in Philosophy".
I think you mean a debunking of Taubes's insulin theory, which I've been convinced for a few years now is rubbish.

However, the posted article doesn't mention the words insulin or "carb" at all and it's a pretty interesting article about epidemiology. Taubes's GCBC ended with some ridiculous speculations about carbohydrates, but there was some solid stuff in there about the history of nutritional science and how we ended up demonizing dietary fat.
SCADA systems basically is the area you are interested in. Real-time industrial equipment monitoring (and control). Typically these are thick clients but people are clamoring for mobile and thin-client access to real-time data as well as historical time-series data. There are some very serious security threats in this space which is why the gorillas have leverage (not that they are really secure though).

Time-series historians are expensive if you log a large amount of data. There are several attempts at this like OpenTSDB which is a historian on hbase and is where GE is trying to go. We looked at their offering briefly and its hard to say if hadoop is good enough for near real-time but it looks good for long-trend analysis I think.
Triangle of Design Needs
There seems to be quite a bit of existing content on this topic: https://www.google.com/search?q=watch+people+code
What surprised me the most about PG's essay was his use of tiny small sample size to make a broad statement about an entire field of study. He puts together an interesting argument about the pros and cons of ancient Greek philosophy and their discussion of metaphysics, and includes modern perspectives, but then titles it "How to Do Philosophy". That's akin to writing an essay called "How to do Computer Science", then only discussing the shortcomings of COBOL, FORTRAN, and LISP and concluding that Comp Sci is still a young field and has a long way to go.

Yes, Philosophy is still a young field, but there's at least 2000 years of material not covered in his essay.
I've been using clive [1], cclive [2], and youtube-dl [3] to download youtube videos for many years.. none of these downloaded videos ever had ads.

[1] - http://clive.sourceforge.net/

[2] - http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

[3] - http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Updated my comment, based off your feedback, to state I am using the account creation date as a data point ;) This post and comments about philosophy are so subjective that I doubt anything useful is going to come of it. Likely the only reason it was posted here, is that it's about PG. I just thought I'd give some advice about commenting style.
Ah yes, I see that now. I didn't notice that the TFA had a direct link to PG's essay.

Since the author (K. Matthew Dupree) could see Wittgenstein was cited, I'm wondering why he didn't address what the notable philosopher already said.
http://misogynisticlyricsthatarentrap.tumblr.com/
New standard for a faster Web finished by year end? Maybe not
How about oursql (https://pythonhosted.org/oursql/)?
Rap Genius Drops Co-Founder Following Elliot Rodger Manifesto Annotations
Each case is different, and I (personally) do not see a pattern emerging. In this instance, all signs point to this being the "last straw". In the case of Eich, it was the unique relationship that Mozilla has with it's community and the community believing that someone with his views should not be running the face of Open Source IN PARTICULAR.

You really don't know what happened in this instance and all signs point to "started to view him as a liability that outweighed his value as an asset as company outgrew founders". Eich I'm sure the HN community can argue about all day, but that seemed like a REALLY unique situation to me.
Okay, I live in France, the quintessential socialized health-care system. The wait at hospitals is short, I can choose my doctor as I please, and an appointment costs me all of 23 euro. I have nothing against the health insurance being government-run, which does not entail that the whole system is government run. Most GPs, for instance, are independent.
Evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time
I think this is still speculative though.

From what I understand from local papers it is also believed a piece of salt fell from the ceiling (waste is housed in an old salt mine).
The person who trains the hardest is quite possibly also somebody who trains incorrectly. Why should effort alone be worthy of praise or recognition? Achievement should always be prioritized above effort. Prioritizing effort unjustly disadvantages those who work smarter, not harder.
From what I can tell, Joel Arvidsson is a co-founder of Durated, not one of the people asking to be paid.
I've thought about putting up youtube videos where I go through a project, start to finish (including mistakes and all), but I couldn't imagine it being educational or entertaining. Also I almost never finish anything :/

I kind of understand though - since I do get into a zen state just looking at code sometimes. Just kind of the shape of it sometimes is calming.
Every country in Europe has a private healthcare industry in addition to the public one. Not only is there no "waiting list crisis", but people still have the ability to choose whatever private healthcare provider they want, provided they can pay for it.

As a European who only recently moved to the U.S., it's bizarre to see the rhetoric being used here. The news are littered with "Europe is on the brink of collapse", "Will the Eurozone survive?", and "Healthcare waiting lists longer than ever in Europe", but mention those headlines to most Europeans (at least in Northern/Western Europe), and they'll look at you quizzically before asking what you've been smoking. And indeed, nearly every study into healthcare systems and their effectiveness prove many of those headlines to be wild exaggerations or downright untruths.

Consider if you should take what you're reading at face value--very large corporations are heavily incentivized to mislead you. Manufacturing Consent is chillingly relevant.
suspect it is due to CSS3 and its powerful arsenal which has replaced a lot of js
It's full of ads because it licenses the rights to the lyrics, which is quite expensive. Most lyric sites don't.
You could easily make a cheap machine that could make pallets to order out of plastic packaging scrap on-site. Judging from this article though, that might annoy a hell of a lot of people.
I like how tame and polite your reply is.
Almost everyone is guilty of black humor.
Funny how some people downvote thing like this
Why we are porting to python 3
The terribleness of healthcare in America isn't really about private versus public, it's more about the system of healthcare being horribly regulated.

Let me say this: The healthcare market does not function like a normal healthy free market.
"Stifling" could refer to technical aspects of the language and its ecosystem or it could refer to adoption and marketshare.
It is specific to git.
original statement in case anyone's interested:
http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-a-statement-about-mahbods-an...
It's a O(log(n)) operation, but we aren't talking log base 2(100,000), since it's usually a B+tree, not just a B-tree. In practice, you don't usually end up with a B+tree more than 4 levels deep.

So, we are usually talking 3, at most 4 buffer reads for the index, and possibly an extra read to an additional buffer or disk if you need non-indexed data, assuming the amount of managers is fairly smaller than employees. Follow the 5 minute rule (you should have enough memory for anything you might touch every 5 minutes) and in practice you get will probably get similar performance to a graph database.

You'd be surprised what you can do with recursive common table expressions in SQLite, Postgres, and Oracle too.
If you want to see an implementation along the lines that jhallenworld describes Martin Thomson has some very high quality implementations here in Java. These are just single producer, single consumer queues

https://github.com/mjpt777/examples/tree/master/src/java/uk/...

I have a number of Go implementations of the same queues here

https://github.com/fmstephe/queues
Honestly, the only thing a murderer's manifesto deserves is to be laughed at.
To me it seems like this whole debate (Is philosophy useless or not in 2014?) is suffering from the same debate over words which philosophy supposedly suffers from. Nobody seems to agree what philosophy actually is.

The question can't be answered without that being clearly defined.
Speaking of Dr. Dre and misogyny... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Barnes#Dr._Dre_incident

[Dr. Dre] picked her up by her hair and "began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway" as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun. After Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women's rest room. Dre followed her and "grabbed her from behind by the hair again and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head."

N.W.A.'s MC Ren later said "bitch deserved it", and Eazy-E "yeah, bitch had it coming." As Dr. Dre explained the incident, "People talk all this shit, but you know, somebody fuck with me, I'm gonna fuck with them. I just did it, you know. Ain't nothing you can do now by talking about it. Besides, it ain't no big thing-- I just threw her through a door."