skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the GPL allows you to fork something under the same name though, right? Copyright law still lets you own the name of your project?

That's why the typical workflow is to say in the header of your GPL license "Foo is copyright John Doe... Permission to modify is provided ..."

Sourceforge may be allowed to redistribute software with malware but as far as I can tell, copyright law should stop them from calling the software by the same name, right?

Does the author have a copyright on the gimp-win name? Maybe I don't understand the law correctly though, IANAL, etc.
What? No `git blame`?

I only learned about it when I read Pro Git. Put crudely, assuming you've found a bug, you give git-blame a script that reproduces the bug, and it performs a binary search through the repo's whole history until it finds the first commit that makes the script fail.

I've never used it, but it sounds like it will be a life saver when I do.
That article actually confirms the 33B "liquid cash" quoted in your parent. The other ~160B is "long-term investments".
My problem with Facebook is that whenever I do something I think my friends would be interested in, I actually do take a photo and upload it to Facebook.

Then, Facebook filters all my friends' feed so only 50% of them see it.

All I want from Facebook is a way to reliably see all the posts from all the people I want to follow, and have it keep doing that. I have found settings in the past that let it happen, but it seems to reset to filtered every time I take my eyes off it.
I wouldn't trust a recent cs grad to do that either, if the language wasn't Java.
I'm not sure there's much to invent - unless the syndrome also covers basic things like human conversation.
> proof

Is there a service that does everything? I don't see how you connect your proof to what people actually want. It seems more likely that people will just use what is immediately available to them.
I don't read German, but I believe the main complaint in the case was AdBlock Plus charging money as part of its ad "whitelisting" service. ABP said it was to cover the cost of verifying the ads are safe and responsible. Publishers called it extortion (e.g. pay us this money if you want your ad impressions back).
Is Google guilty of waging a war against third-party content?
I used no javascript extensions for a while BUT it was not worth the hassle to me.
>until I learned that their business model is to resell your browsing habits and profile back to advertisers.

...If you voluntarily opt into that program (Ghostrank), after reading the straight-forward description.

I don't understand why people find their business model so abhorrent when its entirely opt-in and they don't weasel around what ghostrank does. Surely you must find every service on the internet that you use for free, particularly Google, to be horrible as well?
At its primitive core, Google is an information-retrieval system tasked with sourcing relevant information from across the web based on our inputted queries. The search engine then duly presents the most appropriate results to the masses in a manner in which we are all most familiar by now. However, in recent months, Google has undertaken a rather different (and potentially sneaky) approach to presenting information on its pages, leaving many in the SEO community confused, unsure and brimming with subsequent questions to ask in regards to Google’s content experiments.
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> it is difficult to stop using Facebook

It's really not. All the saving of contacts, birthdays etc. that you talk about here... If you give a crap about any of these people, you will already have that information in another medium. The Facebook logins? Only one I had to change manually was Spotify, everything else I was able to switch to Google.

It's seriously easy. Just stop using it.
Does it work for you?

I'm getting an 'Application Error' on the endpoints
> 1) There is nothing clear and open about the project being abandoned by the author

Then you say:

> 2) The author left SourceForge...

Pretty sure if you left SF with the project still up on SF, any reasonable person could consider that abandoning the project. A more responsible thing would have been to remove the project entirely and shut it down.

> 3) Is SourceForge just going to maintain any project that leaves them and makes a mirror?

I assume you mean the only obvious option is to remove the project entirely (or disable from view) for those that leave. Leaving up old code at the scale of GIMP has the potential for leaving up unpatched code that is still downloaded and used. If your opinion is that nothing should have been done at all, I think that's far worse than what anything SF did.
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"probably not the first in history to claim something like that"

Certainly not. The idea that consciousness preceded matter and exists independently of matter is a central tenant of many religions. It's a view I don't agree with but that's beside the point.
Consciousness is one of those areas where you probably can't validate scientifically what it really is because it's more than the sum of it's parts.

So instead of thinking about whether it's scientifically validated I think it's helpful to think about it as a perspective and then ask yourself whether thats a more useful perspective on consciousness than the others out there.

I happen to think his views are a better perspective than most others only maybe rivaled by Bateson.
People have made head tracking systems by mounting the sensor bar from a Wii on the brim of a baseball cap, and then placing the Wiimote on the top of their screen. I saw a video of someone playing Half Life 2 with it, and it looked to be surprisingly effective. Also, the difference between the Oculus Rift DK1 (which does not have positional head tracking) and the DK2 (which does have it) is pretty incredible. Obviously, the type of virtual environment you're dealing with has a huge effect on how strong the illusion is.
Corrolary: solving price stickiness problems, or changes in the demand for liquidity by changing the money supply itself is a horrible hack.

All of the (stated) goals of monetary policy can be achieved by using a price index layered on top of money, whith none of the distortionary effect and seignorage.
I also use µBlock. It made me realize what a huge crapload of JavaScript the websites include. On most sites, you can have like 70% of the external-domain content blocked and the site keeps working as intended. Hackernews is beautiful in that regard, literally just stuff from ycombinator.com and news.ycombinator.com. I love this simplicity.
Never used it. Still don't get the point.
The interactionist problem was solved by Berkeley when he proved, without refutation, that matter is the fiction while mind is the obvious empirical fact.

Quantum mechanics came along and re-confirmed what he already proved.

"Matter"--something solid, mechanical, deterministic--is nothing but an ancient Greek myth. There is nothing in nature that has the properties of matter, therefore nothing is matter, therefore matter doesn't exist.

Quantum randomness is not deterministic. Bosons refute materialism. The wave-function itself refutes materialism.

Materialism is an ancient greek faith-based religion. Berkeley killed it a long time ago but people were so shocked they still haven't accepted that their God is Dead.
> The bicameral mind sounds a lot like an early type of consciousness. I think Jaynes' timelines are off, but it is possible that our consciousness worked differently back in the day.

I agree, I see no reason that consciousness wouldn't follow evolutionary processes over time.
> something useful like xmpp+otr

XMPP+OTR is just about the last thing I'd want as a messaging service on my phone.
>> Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers, and the original downloads are always available.

So in other words, GIMP-Win was hijacked, just not by a 3rd party.
>humans were not fully conscious until about 3,000 years ago, instead relying on a two-part, or bicameral, mind, with one half speaking to the other in the voice of the gods with guidance whenever a difficult situation presented itself

Sounds well nuts to me.
McGill is subsidized right?
I self taught myself before college and then used a CS degree to force me to study things I never would have. It tended to round me out better in areas where a self taught might avoid. For example, optimization, refactoring, underlying OS implementation, architectures, etc. No way on earth would I have diligently taught myself those for months on end.
Why Don't 3D Chatrooms Really Work? (2002)
Is jumping a subway turnstile stealing? The same train leaves whether you're on it or not. But if enough people don't pay the fare, the whole system breaks down.
Lenovo phone beams virtual keyboard
I stay away from Facebook, but it does have at least one significant advantage over email: pull vs push.

If I (as a hypothetical FB user) hit a deer driving to work tomorrow, would I email all my old friends about it? Absolutely not. Would I post something to FB? Sure!

I have email addresses for old friends, and they have mine, and I have no idea what's going on their lives.
I could understand why people would believe this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_signal_preemption#Line-...

In the US at least, that is how a significant number of these systems work. It's rather unlikely they would get the right frequency to trigger it, but it's certainly possible.
Unmentioned in the article, but quite possibly the most enjoyable consequence of Jayne's work, is that it provided the back story for Snow Crash [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
UK announces huge expansion of surveillance powers
This sounds like a use case for Macaroons [1]. A primer and a public implementation can be found here [2]. There's also a JavaScript implementation [3].

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html

[2] http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/05/16/macaroons-are-bette...

[3] https://github.com/nitram509/macaroons.js/tree/master
Of course, there were two components: the physical (stopping the runaway printing of money) and the psychological (changing people's expectations). So the title should more properly be something like "How Current Abstraction Helped Stop Runaway Inflation in Brazil."

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"You have to slow down the creation of money, they explained. But, just as important, you have to stabilize people's faith in money itself."
> For example, the national league, which finished its third round last week, has had only 3 games with more than 20000 spectators so far.

That's quite low - only the bottom two Premiership teams averaged less than that for 2014-15. But presumably it'll pick up over the season?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_home_attendances_in_non... implies there's at least 3 clubs averaging >20k a season recently.
Nonsense.

Anyone who believes the state of consciousness exists independent of matter should put their theory to test with a bottle of vodka.
Why Bitcoin should replace the like button
So that's about .. once or twice per century?
Hmmm. I wonder if quick one search stops allow us to cherry pick articles which we presuppose our world views.

I know I've done it.

Perhaps lengthy reading isn't necessary but the ability to focus sure is and I personally am of the opinion that they probably correlate (although I have no evidence).

Reading a 15 page New Yorker article exposes me to perspectives I'd never have seen. Do quick google searches do that?
The only way to change the signing key for an app (on an unrooted phone at least) is by completely uninstalling it (which deletes the main data directory) and then installing a new version. In fact, Google lost the key for their OTP authenticator app at one point, requiring all users to install the new app manually before they would receive updates again.
Cssnext: use tomorrow’s CSS syntax, today
Robert Wong Leads Google Creative Labs in NY.here's an Interview
The funny thing is that the truly mainstream publications (e.g. NYT, Time, CNN, etc.) no longer have such a high bar about what's interesting or meaningful to the world. Rather, they're already down on their knees losing impressions to Facebook and Twitter and the only thing they care about is "what has the potential to be forwarded like crazy on social media and generate impressions".

Time magazine decided on their own to feature one of my personal little embarrassingly-simple late night Arduino hacks, and my guess is only because I made a Youtube video out of it, and that it had good potential for a witty headline that could go viral on social media with its connection to something from popular literature that everyone knows. There was absolutely zero innovation in it as far as technology goes.

Tech publications, on the other hand, tend to have a higher bar in terms of content quality and meaning to society and the world, but mainstream, non-tech consumers don't read them.

Moral of the story is, if you want to get featured on the mainstream publications, make it catchy, witty, funny, fashionable, potentially viral on its own. Oh, and use technology to realize something well-known from fantasy, science fiction, or popular movies and you'll have an instant hit on mainstream media.
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Merging galaxies break radio silence
I like how you can easily miss this part:

You have to slow down the creation of money, they explained.

It's as if it wasn't instrumental when in actuality, it's the entire reason why inflation stopped.
wow thanks, I feel stupid for not knowing about that.
Nicely put. I never saw what it would do for me that I wasn't already doing with email. Never signed up.
On the list Apache Hadoop, Apache Lucene, OpenOffice, SQLite, etc. wow - if all these downloads come with an malware installer..
Thanks Roger. I hadn't realised that you could read it in that way. I was talking about myself, but it wasn't clear.
Canada genearlly has 3 to 1 subsidies for studies. For my program (Engineering at Waterloo) It cost me $12k per "year" (per two semesters) all in (books, coop fees, tuition, endowment fund, lab fees) and it cost the government about $30k over the same period. Which means the overall cost of my degree was around $170k. I was also able to claim back the taxes on a portion of what I paid, so the total cost is slightly higher.

Looked at from this lens, $10k isn't much for a program that will give you skills to earn about the same salary after a year of work that a physical sciences engineer can attain.
Are they choosing? I've accidentally installed this crap on a number of occasions, and I'm typically very vigilant about it. But it's impossible to be perfect. That is where the adware market has gone: banking on the small-but-not-0 probability of someone forgetting to read installer wizards very closely, 100% of the time.

What systems are in place to prevent this from happening with package manager systems like apt-get, yum, or even npm? How often do we just blindly "sudo apt-get install blah-blah blah"? I know I don't read the dependencies.
Oh, certainly. But western philosophy prior to the enlightenment (and for a bit after) was dominated by scholastic or otherwise theologically-based thought.
I wish Github would get into that business. Easily set up MLs for organizations/projects and integrate them, do what they do in regular issues (markdown processing, autolinking issues etc).

In fact, I wish anyone would do that. I've had detailed plans of what a service like that would look like for over two years, and no time to take a stab at it myself. If someone here is actually interested, feel free to contact me.
Fair enough, but if your browser is susceptible to drive-by malware, you're going to have a bad time on the internet whether you block ads or not. I think hacked sites are a far more common malware vector than ads.
> only an issue for a subset of races and genders in certain industries

Firstly there isn't one issue, there are many. Discussing them in aggregate isn't useful other than to highlight the extent of the problem.

Secondly, only some of the citations I gave in my previous post relate to fields percieved as male-dominated, the others are general.

What basis do you have for holding that opinion?
Yes. I have no problem with their model. They are completely open about it and it does me no harm. Ghostery does exactly what I need.
Because time is your most precious commodity.
Bloody *walls
I'm astonished they lasted this long. The only unique thing they ever did was their compile farm, now long gone.
Last flying Avro Vulcan enters her final season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis <-- this caused the hyperinflation, not money printing.
I doubt the relays that control the headlights are even capable of switching at the required frequency...
VerneMQ – An Erlang powered MQTT message broker for the IoT
> This would also be fair on TV - But there it's impossible to measure.

Offtopic, but Neilsen actually does measure whether people are changing channels during commercials.
First off what's a download? If I do a "git pull" on my last day of the job, simply in the course of my duties, could I be accused of stealing from the company?
Put a div tag with a class of "ad" on it... then test it's display style property 100ms after the load event...

For that matter, wrap your primary content in a div with a class of "ad" ... then users won't even see the content, and you can replace it with a notice to disable adblock and refresh the page.
Gaana.com Hacked, Millions of Users' Details Exposed
There are some subjects where quick context is adequate or even optimal - coding and cooking have a lot of uses for quick snippets of knowledge - but there are many, many subjects where deep context is necessary if you want to achieve anything beyond cursory knowledge of the basic facts, let alone expertise. I dare say that someone that's read a book about, say, any given historical era or person, has a better understanding of it than anybody that's done all of their reading on wikipedia.
It's not that consciousness exists independent of matter, it is that what materialists keep calling matter... does... not... exist...

Matter just doesn't exist. In what way is the quantum wavefunction material? It's not deterministic, it's random. It's not solid, you can have two bosons in the same place at once. It doesn't have precise position or momentum but exists as a kind of smudge. It doesn't even move through time in the way that matter is defined as moving.

"Matter" has mass, yet photons don't even have mass. Massless particles take up no space. Matter takes up space. Therefore massless particles are not matter. Massless particles underpin all of reality, yet people want to say reality is made up of matter.

Wavefunctions are not matter. Photons are not matter. Electrons are not matter--they behave like waves and the properties of waves are incompatible with matter.

So where is this matter? It's just a fiction. Berkeley already called it in 1830. There is no way you can be an empiricist materialist these days, without being ignorant.
Google v. Apple: Mobile payments is officially the new battlefield – Fortune
True, but one thing I've noticed with Facebook is that it was the first big social network that saw widespread adoption across almost all segments of (at least US) society.

I don't doubt that it will eventually go the way of AOL and MySpace but there are some key things keeping it in use. With early ISPs like AOL, there was nothing really stopping you from moving to another provider that offered something better. Combined with the move toward broadband, any AOL-exclusive features just weren't enough to keep people around for the most part and you could still access the rest of the web, email, etc. regardless of your provider.

With Facebook, you need to use their service in order to interact with people on it. I can't just use Google+ because I like the interface and mobile app better than Facebook. No matter how much I prefer another service, they aren't based on any common protocol like email so I need to use Facebook to interact with people who use it.

And with MySpace, the audience was mostly younger people. Sure, some of us had parents or employers that maintained a profile but Facebook was the first big social network that got your mom, your grandma, your boss, your doctor, your old college professor, and all the neighbors on your block to sign up. The under-30 crowd will switch services for something newer and better but the critical mass of Facebook users is hard to get around.

Coming back to Google+, I really am one of the (few apparently) people who think it's a much better alternative to Facebook. Chat is better. Levels of sharing work better and are easier to manage. The interface is smoother. There aren't game and app requests. The mobile app is better. Photo sharing is better. Basically on a technical level, it's better all around.

But when it came out and I started using it, the thing I quickly came to realize was that even if my techie friends also were trying it out, the vast majority of non-enthusiasts found the idea of setting up a profile to be annoying and not worth their time. They already had a Facebook after all. To use G+ you would either need to maintain two profiles on two services or decide to only talk to the 10% of your contacts who took the time to set up this new thing.

In the end, it never really made a dent outside of niche uses (Photography, Ingress players, etc) and has largely become the butt of jokes. Another failed challenger undone by lack of interoperability and the momentum of a large incumbent.

If there were some way to choose your platform and still communicate with the same people (a la email) then Facebook would have some sort of competition but there's no way in hell they would open themselves up to that sort of competition. And currently, there aren't any must-have features compelling enough to make people either maintain multiple profiles or just uproot en masse.
This guy should receive an award of something.

The end is amazing.
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Similar systems are in widespread use around the world.
hahahaha

agreed
The philosophy is similar to Amazon 1-Click, reduce friction to buy however the impact to retailers may not be all positive. Retailers will loose control on up-sell and cross-sell, instead the control will go to the Search platform.
It's fairly spartan compared to other anti-tracking services. I haven't been able to find a policy regarding what is included in the list.
Offtopic: So we're all just calling programming languages "PL"'s now? Why is it so hard for people to type?

(Seriously though, it's a strange kind of memetic behavior, I rarely see it abbreviated as "PL" ever, but in each comment I scan, people are using "PL" here too. It was enough to get me to click the article just to see if "PL" was some new thing I haven't heard of.)
Be careful. At least in the US scraping a list of emails and sending them a messages violates CAN-SPAM Act and possible CFAA.
This happens a lot in over crowded markets too. In the Indian IT scenario, there are a lot of freshers every year in the market who will work for almost any starting salary(I was one such a guy at one point in time). So nobody in the chain would complain excessively about their salary, doing so would mean they are welcome to leave. The company would lose nothing as there is enough supply of workers ready to work at the price they want. The employee loses out on the longer run.
When would that have been, the year 2000? I remember as early as 2003 thinking they were junk because of the intrusive banner ads with no borders that only said "Download Now!" You actually had to look for the smallest download link, verify it was actual text, then hover over it to check to see if the URL ended in your expected file name.
They were never good guys: they start by an $10 billion IPO with the ticker "LNUX" to ride on linux success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet#Initial_public_offerin...

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/10/business/a-tiny-company-wi...