skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not sure that I think in words, and I never seem to hear any inner voices. This caused a bit of an embarrassment once at a meeting about the evolution of conscience, when fellow scholars kept referring to an inner voice that tells us what is right and wrong. I am sorry, I said, but I never hear such voices.

Speaking overbroadly, with way too many generalizations, simplifications, and the like...

You stand a stronger chance of hearing such voices if you actively seek out and speak to those voices. The directive given to young children to actively seek out and talk to their conscience (a la Pinnochio) is a cultural one which, over time, can shape a portion of your mind to give you this sort of feedback. Further training of this portion of your mind might be provided through a channel such as certain traditions of prayer or meditation found in western Christianity, seeking to program this part of the brain to guide you to be as ethical as possible; some Protestant denominations in particular focus extensively on building a "personal relationship with God" through conversational prayer. Specifics may vary widely within individual cultures, and even over an individual's lifetime, but America in general has seen a strong influence from Protestantism over the years, and it may be affecting the way people in America organize their thoughts with inner dialogue.

I wonder if those working in the science of conscience are subject to some sort of cognitive self-selection bias...
Ask HN: Implication of rise of new technology and machines?
With the rise of new technology, machines, AI, what will be the impact on poverty, employment, income gap? What I think is the skill gap between people who are comfortable working with new machines and those who are not will rise, the income gap will widen and thus there will be an increase in unemployment and poverty. (From deepwork by Cal Newport)
Sort of like an electric mower with a power cord?
Ah that's what it was! I had to fix issues with components like the select group on a regular basis.

The if channel was actually quite active I think I was recalling the difficulty of using build tools with... Perforce.
That project is mentioned in the credits section of the github page
Seam Carving is available as the Liquid Rescale plug-in in GIMP

http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/
The custom and practice of the web has always been that publicly accessible pages are served without payment, and the user agent (maybe a browser, maybe a script, maybe a screenreader, maybe something else) is entitled to render a page in any way or none - users might have custom stylesheets, might or might not have support for certain elements or formats. When you put content on the web that's what you sign up for.
Nice research, thanks for sharing!
Y Combinator, Tech, and “New Cities”
I have an MSI with Linux and Windows on it. I prefer to do everything in Linux and mostly only use Windows for games.

I'm a programmer, and working in Windows sounds kinda scary to me.

I don't think your question deserves the down votes.
This article is built around the same logic as saying you shouldn't drive a car because you'll end up in an accident, and that not driving is the only option.

Ad serving has problems, but you can't invalidate the claims that media companies need to make revenue by saying you want to minimize risks.
Good for them if true: FB goes back to being user-driven engagement. Getting news from FB would be like getting news from television. Neither reliable nor practical.
I definitely agree here and haven't really thought about it, but I couldn't care in the slighest about big brands on Facebook, compared to local businesses where it helpful to e.g know when they run special offers in their store.
Or even, how many researchers are working at McDonald's because their families' circumstances didn't afford them other opportunities, including ability to further their education?

Maybe not many, but I feel pretty confident that number is greater than 0.
Changing the return limit does nothing. Queries are charged on data searched.
Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
Excited about MongoDB Atlas
>Oddly enough, this particular desire must have passed me by, because I have never felt it. I am not waiting to hear what my animals have to say about themselves

Confirmation bias?

>This might be true for simple attitudes free from moralisations (‘What is your favourite music?’), but it seems almost pointless to ask people about their love life, eating habits, or treatment of others (‘Are you pleasant to work with?’). It is far too easy to invent post-hoc reasons for one’s behaviour, to be silent about one’s sexual habits, to downplay excessive eating or drinking, or to present oneself as more admirable than one really is. No one is going to admit to murderous thoughts, stinginess or being a jerk.

I'm not sure where this person lives, but they don't seem to have much social experience. People lie yes. But they also tell the truth all the bloody time too, even for what would seemingly be their most private thoughts.

Heck, sometimes you need to really try hard to stop them from endlessly filling you in into what they believe is the truth -- including about their flaws.

>In one study, female college students reported more sex partners when they were hooked up to a fake lie-detector machine, demonstrating that they had been lying when interviewed without the lie-detector.

Well, duh. An interview situation, and with a lie-detector attached to your hand to boot, where you're being asked to reveal private data to a random stranger/official, is nothing like confiding to another human being.

>There is a notable irony here. In an earlier age, the absence of language was used as an argument against the existence of thought in other species. Today I find myself upholding the position that the manifest reality of thinking by nonlinguistic creatures argues against the importance of language.

The real irony is not seeing that the "hand gestures" and other signals the author seems to appreciate, also constitute a language (as they have all the essential attributes of one -- actual verbalizations in sound or writing are secondary expressions of having a language).
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

a proper mise en abyme btw
That might help, but it depends what problem you're trying to solve then - if everyone was using the same platform, then it would be easy for adblockers to block it.

If part of your pitch is that you avoid adblockers, then once you get big enough you'll constantly be fighting an uphill battle.
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875419 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11868077
> This is like claiming a firewall is unnecessary because properly-configured software should be unexploitable. It's correct in a certain sense, but it ignores that configuration is terribly difficult to do correctly, hence the idea that security should be layered.

I actually agree with that. Firewalls are often incredibly complex codebases and usually written in C (with a rationale of the need for performance). Exposing such a thing to arbitrary internet traffic virtually guarantees exposing a vulnerability.

Just don't open network ports except for services that you want to expose to the network. If you really need to expose an insecure service to a limited set of machines, use a VPN.
Wait, what about leap years?
This response is right on the money.

I'd just like to add that almost all the problems with malicious ads are caused by ad networks that are used as "backfills" for when the in-house ads aren't booked. Backfilled ads are not inspected and can contain everything, but they are also needed because otherwise you'll have unsold inventory.
You know... with uMatrix you can block the 'please dont adblock' element specifically so you don't have to see it anymore.
He mostly rejects that we literally think in words: ‘The obvious (and I should have thought sufficient) refutation of the claim that natural languages are the medium of thought is that there are non-verbal organisms that think.’ (This is him quoting Jerry Fodor.)

I don't think this is particularly controversial among contemporary linguists. It's important to him because if we did think in natural languages, and if further we were the only linguistic animal (which he first posits and than backtracks), then it would follow that animals do not think, which, given only such a binary option, seems absurd.

There is a rich field of linguistics that studies the relationship between language and cognition: Language can shape the way we think in obvious and non-obvious ways even if it does not determine the limits of our cognition. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

One field I found very rewarding (and approachable) is conceptual metaphors, involving parallels in cognition and language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor

So I think the title of the article is sort of a red herring itself.
I'm building a new business. I'm afraid to be copied. Should I patent it?
I've built a new product.
I showed it to a couple of target groups (who are part of my target audience).
All the people's response was: I like it and would be willing to pay money for it.

I tried contacting a company offering a related service, offering them a cooperation. I suggested a simplified version of what I showcased my focus group. The company said "thank you for the suggestion, we'll implement it ourselves".

After receiving this response I thought of patenting my idea.
I contacted a patent's lawyer who said that since I already launched a basic version it means that there's no novelty behind the idea any more. He said that I should remove the website and wait with gaining users until I receive the patent. This seems very counter to the common practise of startup companies these days.

What would you suggest?
Why we Israelis go to India after the army
Not real AI, but just is a simple finite state machine.
Show HN: Codesearch.xyz – web search and cross reference for any repository
Density is Destiny
Announcing Enhanced Apache Spark Support
I've made a site that allows you to search and browse any Git repository. After entering URL, the site downloads and indexes the repository. The code browser allows you to click symbols to see definitions, perform searches using regular expressions etc.

codesearch.xyz is based on OpenGrok (in fact, you can view it as a hosted version of OpenGrok).
They became cliches after him, but he did not invent them.

"and then they became clichés"

as per my comment
This reminds me... Does anyone actually run zend server? At a previous gig they standardized on zend framework 2 and were adopting zend server. I told them I thought that was a mistake given Nginx and PHP-fpm but I didn't stick around long enough to see how it panned out.
I don't buy this hype about so much demand and applications. Why ?

Don't tell Verizon or AT&T, both likely candidates for replacing their terrestrial services with 5G in the US as a way to compete nationally against Comcast.

There's a reason Verizon has been selling off chunks of their system to Frontier.

After all, why put wires in the ground if you can just attach a 5G modem to the side of a person's house?
You do know Amazon is now using your history to find out which products you want, and increase the price shown to you for them, or even lock them behind a Prime requirement?

And for the suppliers, it’s also problematic.

That’s why usually the solution is a free market.
You are bob, the crazy bot. Bleen. Lick me?
3GPP (not to be confused with the old tech 3G, this is a consortium sort of like the W3C for the web or the ISO for ...tons of stuff) are the defacto group who meets up and agrees on what gets done. They meet up and agree upon standards every so often as described here[1] (release 8 and 9 delineating LTE, LTE-A, and the transitional 3G -> LTE stuff, along with tons of other stuff).

Releases 13 and 14 standardized 5G[2] earlier this year. Here's the set of documents that I'm pretty sure shouldn't be public (you typically have to be a member to get access). Bad sysadmins, disable DirectoryIndexes ! The R13 and R14 zips have quite a bit of descriptive content. Here's the marketing mumbojumbo stuff, for completeness[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)

[2] http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Re...

[3] http://www.4gamericas.org/files/3714/4224/8256/Executive_Sum...
https://github.com/google/font-rs
This is where I worked (link below), they gave me my first job coding when I was 17. On the first page of the brochure, the card in the lower left was what we called the dpc-816. It had a Z80 and an 80186 chip on it. The silver heat sink covers the 80186 and the Z80 is just to the left, vertically oriented. I worked on parts of the BIOS for it. Both the 8 and 16 bit BIOSes scanned for a sequence, ESC Ctrl-\, which would switch the terminal from one CPU to the other. Both CPUs could execute simultaneously on the same bus, with shared RAM. They solved the arbitration problem very simply; they inverted the clock from the 80186 and fed the inverted clock into the Z80. This way whichever CPU was going for the bus first would pull the HLT pin on the other via some TTL logic, so on the next rising edge of the clock, the other chip would stop. When the bus cycle was complete, some TTL would drop the HLT pin.

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ace/ACEDiscovery500Ads.pdf
> "thank you for the suggestion, we'll implement it ourselves"

No matter what you do, this will happen. It's too early to worry about competition. Focus on getting your customers and building your business. If you provide better value, that other company won't matter.
And tying an individual's future (health insurance, retirement, immigration status) to an employer is a bad thing.
There's also been submissions here regarding Indian media where they've started blocking adblockers.. Maybe there's just a lot of people using adblockers and this is coincidence?
Whilst a commercial offering is probably quite expensive, it strikes me as the sort of thing you could do quite cheaply and easily with an arduino.

I've actually been collecting the vibration motors from disposable electric toothbrushes to build my own belt; as they were designed to run form a single AA battery powering them should be easy.
What Waze and WiFi Security Have in Common: Crowdsourcing
My birthday of FB is both inaccurate and hidden.
I've seen a phone app that does this - turns the camera's video into sound. With a bit of training, deaf people can use it to "see" the surrounding.
Show HN: Learn to code with Scheme
LogDog prevents your Facebook and Gmail from being hacked
Hi, thanks for the response, yes I've heard the "github for recipes" a few times. My intention is not to make it that complex(target audience is not always a technical developer), however the feature to "fork" is already part of the current implementation. Simply clicking copy, will create a version under your profile, with a reference to the parent recipe.
I think the best sentence is this:

"The theoretical expectation is that you don't measure anything. Now you're measuring something, and you can learn extremely much on this hunt for the error."
Special flight to catch a movie
Remember that Google was also raided in Paris almost exactly one month ago [1].

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-of...
Standard oil? Microsoft? At a high level government and big business are very similar in scope. It's not a matter of one or the other - your analysis is too simple. Government created the baby bells, not creative destruction. Government circumscribed ms.
He just might be one of the roughly 1 in 70 people that lack inner monologue. I remember reading about another person a month back that had a hard time reading books because we use visual metaphors in books and can do thing like imagine a beach in our minds eye. But not everyone can apparently. Can't find the link will keep digging through my history.
Shame that these elemental security issues were present in the first case, and that StartCom went live with such an 'untested' and 'unaudited' product without doing a public-beta like Lets-Encrypt did (with non-trusted-by-default certificates).
I don't really follow bitcoin but the NPR podcast that linked to this NYT story claims that 'some bitcoin transactions are not getting processed at all.'

Is that really true?
This is the thinking of people in the media industry (I know, I work there). Thats there's only two options: have the scummy ads we have now, or have none at all and media orgs die.

But no one seems to talk about the middleground - ad serving done responsibly. I'm fine with ads, as they're performant and don't abuse my computer.
>I believe that language is in the process of deeply integrating into the brain and still isn't really done yet. People have tricks that they use in order to increase the compression rate of words. Narrative for instance. But we still have trouble reaching for words when we need them. I think the language part moves in parallel to the rest of the brain, silently translating thoughts and presenting them to the executive function. (what you think of as you) Thoughts are multi-dimensional, whereas words have many fewer.

Yeah I don't know about all this though. Maybe the brain is very messy and we can't really understand something consciously until we can write/speak it in words, and that words connect disparate thoughts into something meaningful. Maybe this is what you were getting at with 'multi dimensional', but I would think language creates structure, not reduce structure.

For things directly related to the body and rote repetition, the brain might do things we can't consciously express while still being good at it, but that's not really knowledge, that's more automatic neural response. To have knowledge you should have to encode it into some language I think.

On a more broad level, I wonder what symbols like the alphabet and words really 'are', I would tend to think they have no more priority than other stimuli from the environment, but that rather in themselves as an environment for the brain, they have a lot of innate capability for representation and that the brain has learned to manipulate that environment with great skill, but that as far as internal thought goes it's just another environment like navigating a forest or sleeping in a hidden place under the trees to hide from predators. "it's all aesthetic as stimuli" so to speak
One thing that is starting to become more common knowledge is that ad space is a commodity. Typically commodities are auctioned or sold on exchanges. I would think it should be entirely possible to not have any backfill by having the prices for ad impressions fluctuate on an exchange (I realize ad exchanges already exist, it seems they just need to make it into these situations).
>The Bitcoin block size debate is like the Brexit. Only this time everyone wins.

How so? Not in disagreement I honestly just don't see the connection (but I don't follow bitcoin)
"Portrait" is a little masterpiece. There are sentences and passages in it that make me want to stand up and applaud the genius that is Joyce.
Diagnosing Software Problems – Limit, Threshold, and Quota
For those of us who have LED streetlights right outside our bedroom windows, it makes an enormous difference relative to screens, most of which these days you can at least put into an after-sunset mode even if you don't just voluntarily turn them off. The streetlights are on all night and they don't have an off switch.
> In order to keep your brain making new connections and keeping them active, you need to keep moving on to another challenging activity as soon as you reach the point of mastery in the one you are engaging in.

Mastery may be too strong of a word here but the intention is definitely clear. It seems to me that certain activities are more suited to naturally force novelty on someone. Musicianship comes to mind, as when one finishes learning a piece, they can advance to a more challenging one, which would be considered 'novel'.
Uber, Lyft win deregulation efforts in Fort Worth
>Ironic that Bobby Lee calls the Americans imperialistic

He doesn't:

He said the American companies failed to understand the power dynamics in the room that day. “It was almost like imperialistic Westerners coming to China and telling us what to do,”

almost like

And as the article states Chinese firms are hardly a hive-mind. But even if they were, "taking control" by virtue of mining the most coins is a feature, not a bug. And not "imperialistic."
You are suggesting, maybe, that there is no more hacking for profit any more..?

Corporations have always had a lot of sway in writing laws, but this is ludicrous - corporate policies have effectively become law.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138419
To really understand this point, I highly recommend playing the board game Concept. It is both really simple and fun, and a deeply thought-provoking intellectual excercise.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9JWV_HcsqQ
Well sure, but at that point you're effectively implementing parsing it by hand - which I guess is better than implementing lexing by hand as you would with a reader macro, but not by much. You can take a string of symbols and then does something arbitrary with them, sure, but at that point your language isn't really doing anything for you (and again, you could do that in any language (if the point needs proving: apart from anything else, it's trivial to write a lisp interpreter in most languages) - the difference is that lisp doesn't allow you to do the more structured thing).
> entitled

I don't think this is the correct word (and it definitely enforces publishers negative preconceived notions), but they can't be relying on an untrusted party (browsers) to enforce their business model.

As you put it, the nature of the internet is that user agents are able to render it however they wish.
exactly. Here in Ontario i go without a data plan because of the extremely high costs. Every time a new low-cost provider comes along, they get bought by Rogers/bell/tellus.
Some people just want to watch the world burn...
Someone already beat you to it: https://hn.premii.com
I imagine the thinking is that this post might provoke the creation of said "next gawker"
Agreed. There are some small businesses that will not even answer the phone anymore.. but try sending a facebook message.. almost instant reply.

I hate this, but the fact is that small business depend on that. Facebook almost took over the web for most of my friend circle. they spend their lives there and have difficulty in finding stuff when it's not showing up in facebook search.

And google does not help in some cases, try searching for a product information. the first page is mostly shopping garbage.
Isn't all implementations of AI a combination of "a simple xyz"?

The perception of Artificial Intelligence being some kind of magic is common. However, as with all magic, when you know how it is done it is "just" a combination of techniques skillfully performed. And with AI it is a combination of algorithms, data structures and computational power with an output that make sense for whatever the application is.
Good post.

How much do people consider body shape when looking at those numbers?
So I guess any 'database as a service' makes me think of Firebase, so what are your killer features over them?
Exchanges are these backfills.

When we don't have a big sponsor for a section of our site, or haven't had enough direct sales for certain placements, it goes out to the ad exchange to action the spot off. That's where the problem is. That's somewhere we could start enforcing certain quality.