skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be alarming if our perception was not warped—contextual awareness is far more useful than absolute perception in non-specialized situations (like most survival tasks).
I currently have 2500 unread emails in my inbox :/
The UK may be densely populated, but if it doesn't produce enough children then its demographics will be top heavy and there won't be enough people of working age to support those in retirement. We're currently below the replacement rate.

If you pay people to do something, that is generally considered by economists to incentivize that behaviour, so how is giving thousands of pounds to families not a government policy to encourage people to have kids?

They did recently limit the payments to people earning more than 60,000 pounds a year, but the average wage is less than half of that.
I also find it weird that someone born 1980 who was an adult when the web was first really exploding is a "millenial" and bucked with people born 2000 who will have grown up with the internet permanently connected.
Searching for "racket parallelism" does not really give anything relevant. In this case I searched for something that is extensively written about in the actual Racket documentation, both in the guide and reference material, so I know what I would expect.

It's a very natural search to do if you're thinking about parallelism and concurrency (both of which are suggested by Google, for example), but I assume most Racket users use the excellent documentation search for Racket. If you indexed that you'd probably get great results.
I really like the article author's description of the subconscious:

> Focus is required to learn to put together puzzles or execute a tennis serve or even play the piano. But after a skill is mastered, it recedes below the horizon into the fuzzy world of the unconscious. Thinking about it makes it harder to do.

It makes me think of consciousness like training AI neural networks. Consciousness is akin to training a neural net by testing the result and triggering the reward function accordingly, whereas the subconscious is when you don't bother checking the result, you just "execute" the neural net from the control signal and take whatever result.

I'm sure the analogy breaks down quite heavily, but it works pretty well as a simplification: when you're learning you're constantly providing yourself feedback to try to strengthen the neural pathways that led to a positive result through a reward system ("good, that was the right note", "bad, that was the wrong note"). But presumably once those neural pathways are satisfactorily shaped, trying to use that reward system (ie. "thinking about" what you're doing) could serve to just mess you up. Because you don't want to modify those neural pathways further if they were already "good" to begin with. (Problem is, I don't think you're ever not conscious of whether your piano playing sounds right, so your brain is always going to be mutating those pathways whether you want to or not. But if you're already good at the piano, the less you can think about your playing, the better.)
Could you please provide some links for Italian salaries, if possible. You made me curious.
Apple to Take on Google Now in iOS 0
Advertisers will also opt-in to using it as a way of differentiating their Ad from competitors.

Google and Advertisers have figured out that constant small changes to search Ads prevent "PPC Blindness" and every new extension gives a temporary incremental lift in regular ad clicks.
Anti-trust suits on both sides of the Atlantic in three, two, one...
That is indeed a valid and a different point. But, the original comment also comes hard down on accent which is too harsh IMO.
I've been hearing hints of this for some time now. Doing the hard things in life can open new doors as an individual, or steer you into the right direction for something else.
I think that's the point -- when a tool requires a lot of documentation and tutorials to use it, and other tools that accomplish most of the same tasks do not require them, that may be a sign that the tool that needs the tutorials is overly cumbersome.
Phonebot: Slackbot that can make phone calls using Twilio and IBM Watson
For me the illusion isn't really the Moon illusion but the sky illusion. Sky on top of me feels closer to me than the horizon, even though I know it isn't, so it's not that surprising that the same angular size near the horizon feels bigger than on top of me.
This Campaign Uses Drones to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Syria (Seriously)
Commerce has nothing to do with it. Google has no search competition.
What if one of the people in your photos later turns up on a no-fly list, and that relationship complicates your run for Governor in 20 years?

It reflects a lack of concern for "future-you", a way of closing off certain options in life that might hurt you later.
I don't understand why that's a problem for google. How do you find and install apps? Oh right - through google play!
Test out DocHive for data geeks and journalists
> google groups

Then there is the spam. Once targeted the spam can get really bad. Meteor JS suffered this and moved to the open source forum software http://www.discourse.org.
Why does it have to be a mailing list? Can a software project communicate with an interface platform more like HN/Reddit? For that matter, could you use a subreddit for the purpose without obviously violating Reddit's TOS?
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I agree. What you've said can be applied to anything.
The LA Tourism industry sounds ripe for disruption!
Picking lunch wasn't a big problem for us, but typically one person would go pick up the lunch and pay for it, so I wrote a Slack bot to keep track of how much everybody owes. Helps a lot with minimizing the number of times you actually have to pass money around.
https://github.com/tonyvanriet/lunch-bot/blob/master/doc/wal...
Eden (YC S15) Launches to Offer On-Demand Electronics Repair and Installation
1-Click doesn't hurt sellers! It works for the Marketplace too. It just means you don't need to go through the full wizard thing.
Truthfully, all first world countries are gradually applying more and more welfare laws so there's no where to really escape to unless you want to live in say the Saychelles or Cyphrus or another tax-haven.

Now its certainly fine for your money to live in the Saychelles, but many people value their home country for its people and you don't get that value without actually living amongst them.
Wow. I didn't know about it, thanks!
> Trig is a bunch of arbitrary formulas if you don't have the calculus behind them.

Why do you claim this? You don't have to have seen calculus to appreciate how trig functions are defined, how to manipulate them, or how to use them in applications.

As a math professor, I personally like the fact that we teach trig and exponential/logarithmic functions before calculus. They are (as you well know) exceedingly rich examples which illustrate why calculus is interesting and useful, and knowing them already enables the student to study calculus without excessive digressions.
GitLab CEO here, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitoriou...
Why not? Someone whose mother died giving birth to them can still believe murder is wrong. Heck, even someone who has consciously murdered another person as an adult can believe that. Humans are rarely capable of perfectly following their own moral codes, but that doesn't make that morality invalid. Especially when the "violation" happened as a circumstance of someone's birth that they themselves had no control over.
Indeed, I find it hard to believe that unconscious beings would be capable of art and self-reflection.
TL;DR: Brazil switched to dollar for a moment (to get out of inflation) and then to a new (stable) currency. The theoretical basis for this is the previous works from Persio Arida, André Lara Resende and Edmar Bacha.

Two important books about this subject:

* A real história do Real;

* A saga brasileira.

Inflation in Brazil was indeed rampant at this moment, but the cause (when URV entered the scene), wasn't public spending anymore.

It was a so-called inertial inflation (a theory, of course. See "Inertial inflation and monetary reform in Brazil"[1]), caused by public (merchants, industry etc) perception (or fear) that prices were always going up.

Before that, government made a great job reorganizing the budget, untying public prices from inflation, renegotiating debts with Wall Street and making new debts with the FMI.

After the roots of inflation where addressed, it's "inertial psychological" component (as they called it) was shut down with URV.

URV, of course, was no virtual or fake currency. It was an index based on (or simply copied from) US dollar price.

The real deal here is: how a lean team with a very strong leadership solved this big mess. Those guys were no amateurs and at least on of them were a inflation specialist Phd from MIT (Persio Arida, a Brazilian).

The first book was written from a member of staff of this team and it's description of the team gatherings is awesome.

1 - https://ideas.repec.org/p/rio/texdis/85.html
You can't resolve the interactionist problem by just fuzzing the definition of matter.

Materialism is the philosophy that all things are matter.

Quantum physics refutes the philosophy of materialism because it's incompatible with the philosophy of materialism.

If photons are not matter, then something is not matter, and if something is not matter, then materialism is wrong.

From that Wikipedia page:

'there is no single universally agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter". Scientifically, the term "mass" is well-defined, but "matter" is not. Sometimes in the field of physics "matter" is simply equated with particles that exhibit rest mass (i.e., that cannot travel at the speed of light), such as quarks and leptons. However, in both physics and chemistry, matter exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties, the so-called wave–particle duality.'

Modern physics does not actually define matter. Matter was once synonymous with mass, but redefining mass to include properties that are incompatible with matter/materialism does not bolster matter/materialism's existence.

If mass is defined in such a way that it is incompatible with matter, then either mass or matter have lost their meaning. In fact, it is the word "mass" that has lost its meaning, while the word "matter" has been dropped by science.

It's not me that is confused, it is the materialists who are confused.

Quantum physicists and popularizers of science go around claiming to be materialists when quantum physics is completely incompatible with materialism and nothing in quantum physics behaves like matter. Feynman 'sum over histories' applies to all things, both macro and micro, and anything that behaves in that way is incompatible with the properties of matter. Since all things behave like quantum wave-particles, all things have properties that are incompatible with the properties of matter. If all things have properties that are incompatible with the necessary properties of matter, then no things can have sufficient properties for those things to be matter. If no things can have the properties of matter, then no things can be matter. If no things can be matter, then no things are matter. If no things are matter, then matter doesn't exist. If matter doesn't exist, then materialism is wholly refuted.

The logic against materialism is bullet proof from every angle. People just keep it up out of inertia.
I lived through it. The URV was the turning point for inflation in Brazil, and a huge part was in fact the impression people had the the price was not going to change in the next day.
That looks quite nice - thanks for the link
On the topic of Aspergers, i found a part of the article interesting.

"As Jaynes saw it, a great deal of what is happening to you right now does not seem to be part of your consciousness until your attention is drawn to it. Could you feel the chair pressing against your back a moment ago? Or do you only feel it now, now that you have asked yourself that question?"

A year or two ago i ran into an article that looked at autism/aspegers as "intense world" syndrome. This in that people with it do no shut out inputs that "neurotypicals" do by reflex.

I think for someone with that the idea of not being aware of the chair is borderline preposterous. It may only be valid when "in the zone", fully engaged and focused on some task, be it programming, gaming, or perhaps a good book.
Don't forget https://protonmail.ch
They are working on iOS and Android apps, and from what I've seen they have the most promise of making encryption simple for ALL.
15 interesting slides is a few standard deviations higher than what I normally find interesting in a talk
> It used to be the place where you tried to sell all your unwanted stuff, but now now people are using Craig's List or Gumtree.

Dude.
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Taking down the videos does seem a harsh response, but I guess cutting all ties to Dr Walter Lewin means nothing of his can be hosted on anything that is owned by MIT.

Does feel a little like a book burning, but I get why they cut ties with him.
It basically discounts "consciousness" from ancient Bronze-Age civilizations like Sumeria. (Things that happened 5000 years ago around 3000 BC).
That was 6 months ago. There was plenty of discussion about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8720064 and this specific link was posted already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721987.

Since that time, there was also a link to "Complainant in 'unprecedented' Walter Lewin sexual harassment case comes forward" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8937683 and "More details on the Walter Lewin case" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384745 .
I stopped at about the same time as you, but I actually returned a couple of months ago. Without friending anyone. And the reason? I use Facebook as a very simple way to get news about really minor things of importance to me:

+ my climbing gym has some new routes!

+ a new video by K.I.Z, yeah!

+ oh, demonstration against some Nazis demonstrating in my neighbourhood, should definitely go there

+ Someone's looking for a climbing partner next weekend, finally heading out to the rocks again!

So likes have become a poor-man's subscription to an RSS feed and groups have become an easy to follow replacement of forums. The key in these cases is the newsfeed, which is okay for having an overview of important stuff (and without friends is not crowded with inane stuff).

I repeatedly have idle thoughts about a startup idea, combining Facebook with github's business model: Any entity such as users, companies, organizations get a page where they can post arbitrary stuff like on their current facebook profile. Users can subscribe and get an overview on their newsfeed. So far, just like Facebook but without the social crap. Financing is not done through targeted ads but by requiring companies to pay for the service - something like 500 subscribers are free, 1000 - 10 $/months etc. Quite rough around the edges, the idea, but I personally would like such a service. Anyone interested in working on that with me?
> "Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers."

If they just mirrored the project, no one would be complaining. Having another place to download copies of the official releases is a good idea.

The issue is they changed the release. They advertised it as "mirror of Gimp-Win version X". And it wasn't. It was Gimp-Win version X with a boatload of adware / crapware. This made the Gimp-Win people upset that the crapware was being falsely associated with their product.

If SF had advertised it as "SF Version of Gimp-Win with magic crapware", people would be less upset. And fewer people would download it, of course. Which isn't what SF wants.

Their self-serving statement about "mirror" is a lie. The people who wrote it should be ashamed of themselves.
The JSON Web Token is your auth token in this scenario. It also carries some information inside the token; perhaps an email address and name. Just parse the token get the information instead of having to make another API request.
Could you clarify what you mean by 'attitude problems'?
I assume something like 'unwillingness to learn new things and admit mistakes, etc' but I'd like to know an employers point of view.
I've got adblock, but it doesn't stop that popup for some reason.
I think "Buy button" will not be forced to the retailers instead it will be an opt-in.

However think of these scenarios from the retailer's point of view:

1. Where Google button shows up on all links except my link, would it come under pressure and cave in; since all my competitors are selling by "Buy button".

2. Google may give priority to links who provide Buy button "integration". Pending anti-trust looming, this could put retailers under pressure as well.

3. Given an option to the end users to buy from Google vs. buy from another website, the end users could start seeing Google as a good brother.

Even though it could be an opt-in, it does not look like an opt-in when it comes to monopolies.
To be fair, Kissenger is a notorious warmonger and his whole goal is fomenting tensions.
>using up your only return value and having to take pointer arguments when you would rather not.

I specifically mention the C way of doing things- but use you demonstrate it above. I was suggesting the Go way is superior.
> The special position that language holds on human neurological activity is a valuable notion.

Dunno. Apes seem quite capable of language once offered alternate modes of expression, like picking symbols on boards or screens.
Bicameralism is no more than a difficult-to-test hypothesis at this point and should not be mistaken for factual. Jaynes' work is basically pure speculation. It happens to be speculation that has piqued the interest of some high-profile scientists, but until there's some hard evidence for or against the idea, it's basically useless.

There's a good amount of information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_%28psychology%29#R...
I don't understand this big mystery around consciousness.

Here is my take. The brain simulates the reality. That is we don't see or hear directly but instead the electro-chemical impulses go to our brain from our eyes and our ears. Our brain is big enough to simulate ourselves. Our brain is capable of noticing that the simulation of "me" is distinct from the surrounding simulation of the reality.
Capitalism is great and all. But capitalism's natural base, propertied high-caste men, make up only up only 30% of the electorate in the U.S. (and that percentage is falling). So how can democracy protect capitalism? Power is real, and power abhors a vacuum. Either you have it or someone else does. The hard problem is how to get a power structure that preserves liberty and free markets. I've never seen a good Randian or libertarian solution to this problem. I don't agree with Moldbug's solution, but at least he shocked me out of believing that democracy was the answer, and got me thinking about a lot of alternative possibilities.

I also think that American's get in a trap where we think that tyranny==dictatorship. The left is power hungry and totalitarian. But it has no desire for a dictatorship. The tyranny is the distributed tyranny, peer-to-peer tyranny, of a thousand different bureaucracies, SJW's, judges, civil service agencies, etc, all with their petty fiefdoms creating problems.
sigh This is one of the problems that comes with trying to map these traditions into our common English vernacular. We end up inventing new words (like capital Self vs lowercase self) or worse (as is often the case in buddhist circles) we borrow terminology from Freud (ego) and reuse it in ways that would have the Austrian neurologist flabbergasted.
So, like twitter with more media and text options?
I wonder if the name "inbox" is what causes people so much stress. I don't think of it as an actual inbox. It's just where my mail goes - all of it. I read everything, but I don't bother organizing it. Occasionally I'll mark some message as important, or keep a few open so I can get to them later. But most often, I don't.

Search is easy. I don't see the point in organizing my mail.
Have you ever tried to create art through conscious effort? It's ineffective to the point of masochism.
So they take the code from a 3rd party, compile it into an installer with malware bolted on, and reap the profits from the malware.

Yeah, hijacked.
After the first couple of paragraphs my own analysis is this:

1. Distance in the mind is based on cues; 3d binocular cues only work at distances less than a mile or so. Beyond that your mind depends on relative reasoning to know 3d structures. A moon close to the ground will connect to the ground you see and be placed at the furthest possible distance. Anything at that distance is made to feel larger in the mind.

2. If you look at a moon up in the sky, there are no cues to indicate how far away it is or anything.

3. A moon up in the sky is surrounded by empty space. Lots of empty space will conceptually "crowd out" the moon and make it appear smaller not larger.

I then finished reading the article. Conclusion of researchers: #1. Good joy guys? ...
How do one account for placebo in all that? It seems to walk willingly into the traps that double blind testing is set up to avoid.
It's brilliant, really. Impossible to compete with. Now customers have bought from your competitor without having to leave the results page. They won't even click on your site now.
But given Brazil's economy compared to the others, and it's inherent influence on the others because of that, wouldn't it be reasonable to say it might be a story?
BTW in addition to amazing content, this documentary is also technically interesting: this is not a video created in some motion graphics production software.

It is a hand-written JavaScript code, rendered realtime in WebGL using three.js (if you select "interactive" option, "video" option is a capture of this WebGL rendering).
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Sculpture of Tim Berners-Lee
> their business model is to resell your browsing habits.

This is what the ghostery options screen says about the data they (optionally) track:

> This data is about tracking elements and the webpages on which they are found, not you or your browsing habits.
Email is so far the best social network that I know.
Well, ok, the professors put forth as potential solutions inside the increasingly narrow Overton Window... such and such and so.

Actually solving this crisis necessarily involves widening the Overton Window to include things like "strengthen labor in its bargaining position against capital" and "reduce the economic rents charged on land, natural resources, and intellectual 'property'".
This is a sincere question. It's one thing to be involved in a court case and have a gag order in place while a case is in progress. But here, I'm operating my business lawfully, and out of the blue, the government tells me what I can and can not say.
My brother took one of the bootcamps. One of his classmates had been a CS major. He took it to bridge the gap between CS and real world application as well as make use of the networking aspects of the program.

When I took the course, 4 of my classmates ran their own companies, 2 others were project managers. None of them were looking to become developers. They were trying to gain some knowledge to better communicate with half their company. We had UI/UX designers trying to extend their reach. The vast majority were artsy people looking to apply their design skills to front end web development, while still making sure they knew where the data was coming from (or be able to fall into a full stack role). Out of a class of 25, I think only 5 of us ended up doing any back-end related programming, and I'm the only one that ended up as purely back end(Math/Stats major in college).