skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^this, I would gladly micropay for numerous outlets , i don't want to have to manage multiple different subscriptions.
In fact I would take it further and auto approve payment for my visit to avoid the click, set a limit of $n per source and/or $n total spend per month.
"Shakespeare was the most commonly used spelling in his day, but by the 18th century, the version most favored was Shakespear, and only in the 20th century did Shakespeare become the standard. Interestingly, of the six surviving signatures the great man himself left behind, not one is spelled Shakespeare."

He must have gotten it wrong. Thank goodness we've corrected it for him. Not like he was particularly good at English.
Here's the challenge: No community aggregator will ever be able to filter and promote exactly the stuff you in particular want to see. Everyone has different tastes and opinions and the only thing that can possibly come from community-driven aggregation is list of the most popular stuff in that community. You'll have to actually research and filter content yourself to get any better results.

The best crowdsourced results seem to come from specialized communities (HN, subreddits, maybe this new site).

For anything better you'll have to go through the volumes of unwanted content yourself, or have a trusted curator do it for you.
You think that they are confusing the term exists but the reality is that what "exists" means is very hard to define.

Where is the line between abstract objects and the real world you mentioned? Can you give a rule that separates the two?

Do black holes exist? Electrons? Magnetic fields? Is one of these a model but doesn't really exist?
There have always been heavily moderated forums for users to interact with representatives of media corporations. That's why Reddit and 4chan got so huge and influential (not being that.) I can't tell what the secret sauce is supposed to be from this article.
The annotations could give historical context and try to debunk his arguments. A lot of Hitler's arguments are based on exuberant lies.

For example, in the English translation I tried to read once upon a time the translator mentions that the first half of the book was written while Hitler was imprisoned in a fortress. To some extend I guess that would justify his anger. That, and the fact that his was a fucking psychopath.
Yeah, I get that. I normally use they/them/their. But then I'm stuck in plural. That does generally flow better, but sometimes... Anyway, I used to like s/he, but there's nothing elegant for him/her and his/hers.
Echo chamber is a symptom of a deeper issue. If you want to have a quality opinion on something, then you need to do serious work on often-gated information.

Without that hard, often-gated work, how is anyone supposed to form an independent opinion on something like global warming, models of crime, economic policy, intimate relationships, pedagogy, and so on? So what you're seeing is not the discussion of ideas, but rather the negotiation of clan policy and identity.

There's no policy that you can implement to stop this "echo chamber" or "groupthink", which are merely symptoms of a deeper issue: that the antecedents of independent opinion on a wide range of phenomena are simply not there, and that obtaining quality is resource-intensive with non-trivial opportunity cost.
Unplugged the minibar in the bedroom.

Seriously, kitchen fridge is more than enough for any household.
There's a pretty good demo, with links to source code, here: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/
Making, not serving. I think the title is pretty accurate.
Most of the time in a casual, public, marketing or just generally not technical setting, "VPN" is just the modern tern for "Proxy". I'm not sure why that happened to be honest, except maybe that "Virtual Private Network" is more marketable than "Proxy"?
I think it's more focused in the sense that you'll have many more "serious" people looking at what you write, at least some of them will be domain experts in the topics being discussed. This causes people to post much more conservatively and less frequently than they would do on reddit.

The flip side of that is that reddit will throw up discussions on things which would never in a million years show up on HN, this one today for instance I found very interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4g1pgu/serious_t...

I personally don't know of another "forum" where a post like that could happen and get such interesting responses.
Little Steps to a Frat Free Workplace
I usually just downvote comments that are factually wrong, because they sink to the bottom of the page and people are less likely to be confused by them.
Having to redo my 72 hour bag recently I ended up on a bunch of survivalist websites. (Mostly http://offgridsurvival.com/ ) They all have this tendency to start reasonable, and then go off the rails into crazy town. You'll have some good reviews of legitimate things you'd want like flashlights solar power radios, cooking stoves, knives, multitools, stableized food and the like, and then it goes into gasmasks, trauma kits for your "everyday carry" and of course guns. Lots and lots of guns, oh and bullets in common calibers for "ballistic wampum".

The subculture paints a world of black helicopters, and roving gangs of George Soros funded Black Lives Matter cannibals, ISIS EMP attacks, Supervolcanos, and so we're going to have to secretly leave cities by shooting our way out to our hidden mountain cabin ("Never tell anyone where your redoubt is. That's basic opsec.") Oh and along the way you'll may want to hand over boxes of ammunition to strangers for needed supplies.

The thing is though, I totally get it. It's a problem. How long can you hold out with resupplies? How can you pack this better? How can you reduce weight? It's an engineering problem. The right wing conspiracy theories and and that up it neighbor is just waiting for the right moment to kill, eat you, and your skin into a jaunty hat is just absurd wish fulfillment fantasy.
The article doesn't really explain how anything is actually going to work in practice. By 'warmier and fuzzier' do we mean it's targeted at kids (as the graphics might suggest)? In that case, will they be moderating profanity and whatever they deem inappropriate for children? Or is it just going to be based on reducing harassment (as they mentioned in the article)? And in that case, what would constitute harassment and how would it be dealt with? It seems like the idea is very broad without an actual target at what it should be. I don't think Reddit was the right model to base it off of for what they're attempting to do.
Quote of the day protocol (QOTD)
Why? I can’t build an atomic bomb since I don’t have the resources and the guy who has the resources probably doesn’t need a manual in the first place.
The problem is that American defense contractors don't get a slice of this pie, while exporting arms for whatever reasons = $$$. There is also the political pressure from some such leading luminaries as John "I can't feel my feet!" McCain to throw weapons at every problem.

I agree though, this is pretty clever. It's not quite the RoK building a giant bank of speakers on the DPRK border, but it's probably more effective.
Thanks, I appreciate the time taken to give this feedback. Honestly, I expect user acquisition to be very challenging, the industry average cost of acquisition is currently at around $2.50 / user and considering I will be running pre-rev for atleast a year will further stress the company. I am working on a concrete plan of action and am quite sure I can get down COA substantially considering I managed to get it down from another startup of mine from $1.00 -> $0.35 but that was in a completely different market and it was an easier sell.

I will check out your other comment, if you have any suggestions on marketing ideas I would appreciate it.
Facebook, Google headquarters face flood risk
Ditto on the sheep thing. Thought it was a figure of speech. Ditto on the score. Gobsmacked. Curiously, I'm considered by peers as good at rendering concepts or architectures into drawings. Hmm.

Also, when I see movies derived from books I know whether they depict the same setting I took from the book. I know if the characteristics mesh, but don't really recall "seeing" the settings while reading.

Tend to ace those spatial tests. I slaughtered all my friends in Descent -- I almost immediately had each entire spatial 3D map in my head and knew where to go to get anywhere regardless of ship vs map orientation.

So yes, I recognize your experience almost exactly.
Sad Netflix is missing. The web should be standard and identical everywhere, which means Firefox and Chrome et al should operate the same everywhere.

There was just a comment by someone in a recent thread about apps in browsers being the size of the original Doom, which stated that the web is the only real, true cross-platform production development and consumption environment (looking for it) and it's almost true... Except for where lobbying is strong enough to even break the open, standard web with proprietary software.

Boo.

Edit: found the comment, by @dasil003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552598

Edit 2: despite the contentious conversation dasil003's comment caused, I agree with it, but you could already tell that.
I don't think that's intrinsically a good argument [heuristic]; the Neanderthals were also intelligent and faced extinction at the hands of human brains..
> I wasn’t forced to leave MIT over anything here on Shtetl-Optimized.

> Bizarre as it sounds, CS departments mostly cared about what actual research we were doing and could bring to them! So students and faculty afraid to debate anything controversial online under their real names, however politely, should know that even in 2016, the banner of academic freedom yet waves.

I wish we could say the same about private industry -- most notably our employers and our funders.

I am reminded of this:

>I think the web has made us all write more defensively, and it’s a shame, because we’re effectively contorting our communication style to defend against a small minority of mean-spirited and uncharitable actions by some. Actually, as I say that, I instinctively feel the need to hedge myself–I don’t believe that people are really mean-spirited (well, perhaps some are–gak I’ve done it again!), but there’s something about commenting about stuff on the internet with people you’ve never met that seems to bring out the worst in people. (https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...)
Of the six signatures, three are abbreviations, and the other three don't coincide among themselves. Besides, he did use the modern form when he wrote his name in print, just not in his signature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare's_name
Doesn't "they" mean more than one person, without specifying gender?
Well I don't mean an American-led "freedom" revolution. I mean the people need to rise up against the mullahs and do to them what they did to the regime before them.
If a mathematical statement did not have a corresponding experimental test would you dismiss it? What about those?
I hope DeepCraft could do those things, since no other AI can at this point. And I hope it can do them better than any human. And I hope that DeepCraft can pivot its strategy on a dime when needed, in response to the human doing something. And I hope that it can do well against the myriad of play-styles that professionals have developed across the the three unique races.

My point is that DeepCraft is still gonna be quite a ways off, and is going to involve a lot more than just learning how to micro, cheese, drop, etc. (Which, by the way, would be quite a feat to even develop an AI that can learn these things since StarCraft has such a huge search space)
Selectively enforced laws are more useful to the government than laws that are consistently enforced.
It seems like a lot of people are becomming interested in ketosis diets and being in ketosis. I have experimented with daily carb intake as low as <10g/day, and done a great deal of research on the subject. Other than Celiac I am otherwise a normal eater now and when I undertook it. My goal was not weight loss but to simply learn about and optimize my body.

The science does not support eating <50g/day of carbs [1] unless you have non-refractory epilepsy (you would know). Likewise, the evidence suggests that eating >150g/day leads to the problems described by the author [2] and those that many of us experience before exposure to some form of low carb diet (ketosis is a metabolic state, not a formala for a healthy diet).

So the conclusion of all of this reading and scientific journal rabbit holing is that humans should eat 50-150g/day of carbs, and that the further away you are from this optimal range, the worse. And that in lieu of all those carbs most people are eating, they should instead be eating more protein and fat from good sources.

The best curation of the scientific literature that I have found on this subject is the blog of "The Paleo Mom". While biased towards Paleo (for pretty compelling scientific reasons) her writing is very well cited and she has a PhD in Medical Biophysics and first-hand experience with autoimmune diseases (how I found her) [3].

The TL/DR of what I learned is: fast once a week for >16 and <24 hours, eat 20% of calories from carbs, 30% from protein and 50% from fat, avoid inflammatory foods like grains, dairy, nightshades, refined sugar, FODMAPs, alcohol and eat way more vegetables and a variety of meat and seafood along with olive or coconut oil as much as possible.

[1]: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13590840310001619...
[2]: http://www.thepaleomom.com/2016/02/rebuttal-to-paleo-diet-co...
[3]: http://www.thepaleomom.com
Immanentize the eschaton
> People really think this is common?

Rape and sexual violence are pretty common.

You might want to find a trustworthy source of numbers. Here's one for England and Wales: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandj...
The building was getting built regardless, they just paid to put their name on it.
This is precisely my experience. The interesting thing is that I recognize faces extremely well, perhaps even to the level of super-recognizer, contradicting the guy in the article. I also score really well on spatial reasoning tests and do extremely well at mathematical and abstract reasoning. I wonder if there's a connection.

As far as the nature of my minds eye, I definitely don't see pictures at all, but as you said "feel" abstract forms. When I imagine a familiar relative, I don't see an image, but rather I'm reminded of important abstract features of the person. It's as if my minds eye operates on abstractions rather than concrete representations. I also attribute my math ability with being able to manipulate these sorts of abstract visual/spatial feelings, which leads me to believe there's a connection. Even as a programmer my abstract visual/spatial machinery is working to operate on mental representations of the program state.

I wonder differences in ability on this abstract visual/spatial <---> vivid concrete representation axis can help explain differences in programming/math ability.
My father always said "Practice makes permanent" and I think he was right about that.
I think the best thing you can do is explain why they are factually wrong in that case and try to teach them/correct them. Otherwise, they just start to dislike the community and don't gain any new knowledge.
haha, I like the $20 dollars commitment. we actually started development of a pretty much full blown app, I dont want to call it an MVP because this app is quite complex but I only did so because in order to give a good product/solution I wanted to make sure it could result in conversion/giving the users the desired result of their install. I will be targetting a specific market to start and be running a prelaunch campaign for beta testers in the upcoming week, I will let you know what the result is.
I wonder if it's possible to improve your visual imagination through practice? My own mental images tend to be dim and fuzzy, far from the photorealistic scenes some people seem to be able to conjure up. But I wonder if there's a feedback effect here, where people whose visual imagination is stronger to begin with tend to use it more, thus further strengthening it, while people whose visual imagination starts off weaker use it less, and so it remains weak, or gets worse.

It would seem like learning to draw or paint might be a good way to train visual imagination. As I understand it, many artists begin by mastering representative art based purely on reference models, then later develop to produce works partly or wholly inspired by mental imagery.

I'm curious if anyone here who learnt to draw or paint during adulthood experienced a corresponding increase in the vividness of their mental images, particularly in areas not directly related to drawing? E.g. did your dreams become more vivid? Are you more able to imagine the specific details of your house, or your friends and family? Do your mental images feel "clearer" or more defined?
How do you tell, "your brain didn't produce it"?

I don't really understand by what your voices are different from what I simply call my thoughts. I mean I also hear random thoughts. Just the same kind of thoughts that you wrote down. Often it's a dialog or chatter from multiple different voices. They are different in what they say.
Isn't that normal? Do other people have a mute inner voice?

How are your voices different from your thoughts?
Einstein and Feynman claimed to think in vivid mental images.
Are there examples of people who have exceptional mathematical ability with aphantasia?
This is a really interesting post. I have to say the data science team at Stitchfix are clearly doing really good, applied work that is central to their business. It's so cool to see.

Here's a tip for any R users who read through the code and (like me) is pained by repetition. Instead of using

library(lubricate)
library(bts)
library(...)

Just use apply!

packages <- c("lubricate", "bts", "...")
lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)
Does this actually work though? For instance, we may have user data in an API that, thanks to arbitrary rate limits, isn't useful at all when querying in real time.
The Mullah's like the Soviets before them will find that once they lose the ability to block the truth their expiration date is only a matter of time.

The Soviets were brought down by the humble FAX machine. When the United Auto Workers reached out to Lech Walesa of the Solidarity union and said what is your biggest problem he reportedly answered secure communication. So the union sent him hundreds of FAX machines and that is how Solidarity was able to coordinate their protests and share information.

What these guys in California are doing with their satellite channel and accompanying software is important. Now they need to enable the former leaders of the green revolution with a mesh network in each city in Iran. The answer once again could come out of Detroit where they're the world's leaders. All they would need is the funding, doubt it will come from the Feds but maybe from the UAW once again?

https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/digitalstewards
This pet store tried to sell customers a ‘gay turtle’
Interesting, I had never even considered that people could have a hard time with that.

I was taking this test and thinking it was stupid, since well, duh, you just have to imagine it, I do basically all my remembering that way.
This sounds useful!
That's what I call gamification.
On the other hand, it is probably useful for extremes... Personally, it was hard for me to choose other options but vivid.
This.

This is a beautiful thing.

On one hand, I hate the cookies notification message. I think that they are stupid, but that may just be because I have always browsed the web with them, and perhaps don't know any better. If someone has a good argument for the message, then I would be truly interested in hearing it.

On the other hand, I greatly dislike the manner, type, and (often underhanded) actions of most ad networks, and refuse to turn off my ad blocker for these sites, even if they withhold their content. The fact that this law may be interpreted in this manner is, in a word, hilarious, in that it is seemingly unrelated, and yet it may benefit us all.
The concept of prime numbers and the prime numbers themselves is a different thing.

Unicorns don't exist but statements about them aren't meaningless. Fictionalism accepts the concept of mathematical entities but denies their existence in the real world.
Agreed, the karma barrier does help a decent amount. But even on HackerNews I see the same "downvoting mob mentality" occasionally where all comments expressing certain views or disagreeing with comments of more popular users are reduced in visibility because of down voting. In a way, it gives the higher ranked users a platform to push their own posts higher/other posts lower, not unlike the way capitalism can widen economic gaps between the rich and the poor.

While it is helpful to hide comments that don't have much to do with the discussion, upvoting related comments has the same effect without the downside of making the comment invisible to people who want to see it and without impacting the user's status on HN.
This is another thing: people complain about film adaptations on the grounds that they look different to the mental image of the characters, setting, etc., that they formed while reading the book. I never understood that.
I used to have a lot of trouble with this. It didn't help having the terminology 'visualisation' which makes it feel like you're not doing it right if you don't 'see' something.

It's something you can work on by using your other senses for instance rather than trying to see something, concentrate on what it feels like, or the sounds or the smells. e.g. To picture a beach feel the sand in your toes, the breeze on your face, the noise of the waves or the smell of the salt air.

If you can concentrate with that in your mind instead I find a picture will then quite often form. Especially true if you take the time to quieten your mind first (e.g yoga, breathing techniques, meditation etc).
Finally the non tech people are discovering the power of the command line. The next big thing is bash.
I think they added a bit of polish/magic compared to what you'd get in a plain https proxy that you could setup yourself, since when visiting an HTTPS page it'll show the certificate information from the site that you're visiting, and not the one from the actual machine you're connecting to (the proxy).

Similarly (unlike poorly setup proxies like Lenovo's Superfish) it also prevents connection to sites with invalid certificates.

(I wrote the same comment in the gist)
Flesh Interfaces
I think you may want to re-read the parent comment :)
Via: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/23/11494742/horrifying-altern...
I believe the test is an attenuated version of one use in real psychological research, the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire[1], and has proved to have predictive power. E.g. the scores people give correspond with the level of activity seen in their brains when they undergo MRI scans, so although vague, it isn't "useless" in that sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_Qu...
Ditto on all counts.

I've only recently become aware that the way I experience or remember the world is in any way unusual. I'd always thought that mental imagery was a metaphor for something or hyperbole. It also explains why my memory seems deficient. I've no problems with facts, but I have no memory of being a participant in events.

Contrary to the article, I have no problem recognising people. It's like I keep a hash of faces. If I close my eyes I'll have no idea what the person in front of me looks like.

The whole thing has me slightly sad.