skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought it was a very simple relative size illusion. When placed next to objects on the horizon that provide a relative measuring stick of size, we perceive the moon as large in comparison. When the moon is high and we instead have a vast and large sky free of landmarks to use as subconscious or conscious measuring sticks, it appears comparatively small.

There is a lot of cognitive function in-between, sure, but I never thought it was so complicated.
One answer would be green lights indicate that it's red in the crossing direction, since the ambulance driver can't see those lights.
The observation that conscious mind forms only a thin layer on top of our daily cognition is a fact, more or less I think. The special position that language holds on human neurological activity is a valuable notion.

But the conclusions that are drawn from these on the evolution of the mind are more interesting than useful, IMO.

"and could be fixed with a few pills (in theory, anyways)."

What would you specifically fix if this condition existed? Not all human brains are alike, and many people suffer when their neurological structure does not fit societies norms and are forced to modulate their self just to fit into a square box.
It's also worth noting that, you can't view BBC worldwide content from within the UK either due to regional restrictions. I've heard this is due to the BBC policy forbidding them showing adverts to UK users, yet it's content regularly not freely accessible (without adverts) to UK users either, as its a separate entity.

There's been several occasions that BBC worldwide has had articles that I've been unable to read, or find on the standard BBC news website.
"...long writing was necessary only where quick contextualisation was impossible"

Adler and Doren's "How to Read a Book" covers quick contextualization; there were techniques and ideas about this starting in the early 70s, most of which is still very relevant and I've found very useful in my own reading life.
UN report: Encryption is important to human rights – and backdoors undermine it
An app for edting the site in a tablet would be wonderful.
I use it mostly as a replacement for ICQ and MSN and to gather some photos after events.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609887
No, while you might get a copyright that way, copyrights aren't patents. They only protect against actual copying and derivation. Independently authored works which happen to be similar, even identical, to some subset of a corpus are not a copyright violation. You don't get ownership of the naming space, just exclusive right to copy from your own work.
Is it time yet to repost this classic article?

"Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.c...

Key quote: MySpace is well on the way to becoming what economists call a "natural monopoly". Users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves it is not worth their changing sites, especially since every new user that MySpace attracts adds to its value as a network of interacting people.
MDMA may help social anxiety in autistic adults
Do you also consider TIVO to be stealing?
Google Scholar Button – Lookup papers as you browse
Thanks for noticing! I acquired the domain name a while ago. There must have been some suspicious content on it before. I have reached out to Bluecoat to see if they can reconsider.

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Submit.co
I've seen an impl somewhere where the (int => rat) bit from the Isabelle/HOL design was (stream rat). That's about the best I have at the moment.
Not in the next 10-12 months surely. Some apps will be in development to allow users to make some modifications on the go but the good old desktop will be still needed otherwise!
But that's complicated enough! Our brains use ad-hoc algorithms even for simple things like relative size. Look at relative brightness - there are endless optical illusions where a patch of dark and a patch of light are actually exactly the same tone.

Context is everything to our brains/vision system. Its alarming how warped our perception is.
Not heard of that in europe an employee might get thrown under the bus and sacked for gross misconduct if it came out.

But its very common for sales types to take their contact list with them and I know one large UK employment Site had some one leave who took the entire candidate list with them.
Fort McKay: The Canadian town that sold itself to tar sands
Missing r

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/16/wo...
I stopped using it a long time ago. For a while I mostly used Facebook connect to log into other web sites but I don't even do that anymore.

Other people are still engaged; my NEET friends will come over and look at Facebook for hours and even people I know with jobs find it compelling but I don't.
Puts the FIFA scandal in perspective eh
It's actually not easy to detect adblock use. Popular ad blockers actively try to evade detection. If the intent is to let publishers decide whether to allow adblock users or not, it should send an easily detectable flag.
Does an author need to grant permission for anyone to distribute his/her GPL'ed source?
Let me argue in favor of coding problems. Unpaid coding problems have a couple of very appealing properties:

1) They are available to all applicants (not all applicants have github profiles, or can show previous work samples, or are available for short term contracting work).

2) They do not cause problems with typical IP agreements or extra curricular work restrictions.

3) They can be standardized so all candidates receive the same process.

4) They are a closer proxy to the "real work" of development jobs than many other alternatives (and there is lots of research that indicates this leads to better results).

Those properties are very important and cannot be found in hardly any other style of hiring filter. For this reason, its my belief that coding problems are central to a good hiring pipeline. I believe this so much that I'm willing to replace nearly every other part of the hiring pipeline with just the programming challenge (though that is a hard sell with management often).

The problem with coding problems is that it is very hard to come up with good ones. They should take less than 4 hours to solve (everyone severely underestimates how long their challenges are), they should be indicative of the kind of work you will you do, and they should be, if not fun, engaging. So normally when I encounter bad programming problems I chalk it up to that instead of malice.

It is everyones decision to not do programming challenges of course, and I completely understand people who will not do them. But to me the standardized hiring pipeline is the most important part and I'm willing to lose a few good candidates to get it. For this reason, I view a programming challenge as a good sign for a potential employer, and the lack of one to be a serious red flag.

If someone is using a coding challenge to get free work, that is at the least unethical and likely against the law depending on your jurisdiction.
Doesn't GPL have to say something about this? Wouldn't this mean that the adware would need to be open sourced?

No. The adware is part of the installer, and is considered separate by the GPL:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLCompatInstall...
For personal use, I use BigV[0] and for a pet project which deals with reasonably large datasets I picked up a Hetzner dedicated for $cheap in their Server Auction[1] with 32Gb RAM which is fine for playing around on :)

[0] https://bigv.io/
[1] https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/country/GB
Copyright protects deivative works, not just literal copying, so if copying the API is a violation, so is such a direct transformation.
Anyone interested in this might look at http://indiewebcamp.com/
Agreed. That said, the right coverage can get you customers. You just need to be strategic about which media outlets you reach out to. I'd definitely would not recommend to reach out to all 300+ media outlets.

Next step for the site will be to allow you to filter it by type of audience, so if you're building a game for example you'd just see the gaming publications. Etc.

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Submit.co
On the other hand, for fundamental subjects like math or CS algorithms/foundations, the difference between the newer and older editions of a text are not always very significant. University textbooks can be pretty egregious in this regard - some authors (who tend to be professors that use their own book for their courses...) just add a new foreword and maybe a new chapter, or slightly rework the homework exercises and release a new edition. So students need to buy the new $100+ edition, instead of getting a used copy at 50% of the price.

For more cutting-edge technologies, it does make sense to buy the latest and greatest. Although if it is something that is rapidly evolving, you may still be better off relying on the current documentation on the web - the lag time involved in writing a book can make it difficult to keep up-to-date as things change.
You keep saying that Coventry is riddled with crime, but you have nothing but feels to support you.

It's not persuasive, especially in the face of reported police stats; of the British Crime Survey; of insirance prices; of house prices; of murder rates; there's nothing anywhere that supports your outlandish claim.
Personally, I'd stay away from this product at the moment. The website itself uses way too many stock images, vague statements about high quality oil and its legality is questionable.

Disclosure: I have and use a magic flight box.

I'd prefer to not be beholden to unknown oil quality and buying questionable capsules, when I can grind and use my own ingredients.
Ignore any votes, up or down, in the first half-hour. They tend to balance out over time, as they have here.
Great resource. Thanks for sharing!
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That is assuming you have found all your old friends that you wanted to find. Else, you can't leave.
Are you implying that the "encrypted route" doesn't need to be verified on every request?
Avago is buying Broadcom for $37B
The adware is not part of the GPL'ed code. It almost certainly counts as "mere aggregation". See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#Me... or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation .
Sourceforge took over more than 300 dormant projects.

Here is the list,
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor2/profile/
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor3/profile/
(S)he's on the wrong side of history.
Well, there is no proof of Consciousness as Epiphenomenon that's why Panpsiquism is gaining traction. If Consciousness is not Computation, then we need a better framework.

http://youtu.be/hTIk9MN3T6w
Entrepreneurship is 98% coal mining and 2% art
I would assume that a non-GPL installer for GPL software would be fine, because it doesn't actually run the software, just installs it as a set of files (If it does run the program, generally it doesn't interact with it). I would equate it to using something like GNU 'indent' on proprietary software - I doubt using a GPL program to modify data would cause that data to have to be under the GPL or any other license.

What is very possible is that if they integrated their installer into GIMP's installer (Since GIMP already has it's own installer), GIMP's installer is GPL so their modification would be a GPL violation unless they make the code available. If all their installer does is run GIMP's installer though, then there's no violation AFAIK.
I've accumulated this list over time. I've also curated it with the help of virtual assistants (FancyHands.com).

> I wish there was something similar for the film world.

Noted! Definitely worth considering branching out to other verticals.

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Submit.co
Of course, at the US, at least at first.

My country is not even a party to the TTIP, but I bet once it's there, we'll import it somehow.
Apparently happened with VLC too...

> We also got outed of our +VLC project on sourceforge...

> But it does not matter, we moved to our infrastructure a long time ago to our own, which is better and more powerful!﻿
I always knew the russian front had a much bigger impact on the war then we are taught in our western history classes, but this video made me see the scale of the loses on the soviet side. Incredible.

The video is really well done. Great job, a good change from the usual black and white documentary.
Facebook has too many elements of "poisonous Internet": ignorant rants, memes, political correctness, exaggerated display of public affection,...

Gradually, users find other websites to channel their interests and avoid biases, like Reddit, Pinterest, HN,...

It's a serious falacy to assume one will always need a network filled with friends and family.
I don't believe it is true. You would see some evidence of it, among the many isolated and recently contacted tribes.

There are lots of people in the Papuan rainforest who only joined civilisation in living memory. So we don't need to guess what life was like "before", we can just ask.
It is not cool, it is just easy. No effort to understand a problem even less
effort to understand is there really a problem...

So people who talk on this topic aren't thoughtful? Sure some aren't, but that's the same for any topic. You're cherry picking there, it doesn't stick.

I'm currently working in an organisation that specialises in behavioural science, we have the actual data on this. If you look at the studies there's overwhelming evidence to support an opinion that these problems are real. Women and different ethnic groups are treated in different ways with regard to things like hiring, performance reviews, etc. and there's a significant enough difference that the system could be defined as racist and sexist, even though no individual feels that they themselves are racist or sexist.

If you want citations... here are some just relating to the field of gender and employment...

Female job applicants with children considered less warm, likeable and committed than male applicants with children. Successful mothers penalized for promotion, hire, and salary (Benard and Correll, 2010). Women expressing anger more penalised than men (Brescoll & Uhlmann, 2008). People in gender-incongruent roles penalised more heavily for mistakes (Brescoll, Dawson, & Uhlmann, 2010). Voluble women perceived as less competent and less suitable leaders, inverse true for men (Brescoll, 2011). Men who work for women in stereotypically male dominated fields accorded less status and lower salaries (Brescoll et al, 2012). Women who succeed in male-dominated fields percieved as not likeable (Heilman et al, 2004). Students question the competence of female teachers who evaluate them negatively, less so than male teachers (Sinclair & Kunda 2000). Female students seen as less competent than identical male students, offered lower starting salaries (Moss-Racusin et al, 2012)

... even some words are taboo the concepts behind them are inaccessible
so people are not able to think about them. This results in people not
really understanding what racism is...

This point is broadly right (you have cause and effect inverted), but it doesn't just apply to "SJWs" as you're implying. People in general don't have a vocabulary to talk about racism and sexism. People don't typically identify as racists. They think "racists are 'bad people' and I'm a 'good person' so I can't be one", but in fact race is a more complex beast in the 21st century so we need a more complex vocabulary to describe it without triggering defensiveness.

Using 'social justice warrior' as a snarl-word is a sign that you feel defensive and uncomfortable. But that discomfort doesn't mean the 'SJWs' are wrong, it just means we as a species don't have a good set of verbal tools to communicate with each other about what's happening.

I'd recommend reading this, it's long but worth it if you actually care about this topic:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-men-project/why-its-so-ha...
Which counties would this be Qatar?

BTW Freedom to work for whoever you chose is on one the rights laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human rights.

and I think its implied in the US constitution
Show HN: Secretmoji. Emojis and AES 256 Encryption and Messaging
Looks like a photoshop job. Won't believe it until I see it on Google maps earth view. Searched, got this:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E7%BD%91%E9%BE%99%EF%BC%8...
And the excellent "Wake, watch, wonder"-trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer.
Yeah, there seems to be something funky going on with the Twitter followers. We currently use a Google Spreadsheet Script to fetch these numbers. Will have a closer look today!

As for sorting, I think it's a limitation of embedding a Google Spreadsheet. We'll probably move away from it shortly so we have more flexibility, but for now you can visit the document directly: http://edit.submit.co/

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Submit.co
How does the "AI" interpret this repo:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

It's near perfect idiomatic java. But does the dev solve any actual problem? More generally, how can you really evaluate a code project by parsing it line by line for syntax and style best practices? I think this algo would select the essays with the best handwriting, not the best ideas.
Was it an abandoned project, or was did the project just stop using Sourceforge?
Question what are the alternative solutions to distribute window binaries freely,without adware like sf or download.com ? github used to allow binary distribution but not anymore, and I don't feel like tags are a good way to do that.
They have permission as long as they comply with the license (GNU GPL v3+) and the author can't revoke a license already granted unless the license allows to do so, and the GPL doesn't allow it.

See: "The Non-Revocable GPL" http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006062204552163
The traffic lights in Sydney are managed in a way to give priority to late-running public transport.

I was impressed to find out the traffic light system in Sydney, Australia (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Coordinated_Adaptive_Tra...) has been exported around the world to cities such as Singapore, Dublin and Hong Kong.

Interestingly enough,
Ask HN: What's next after the FP trend
There has been a significant buzz around FP on the latest years, from purely functional languages being adopted again (as Haskell), and also from relatively new languages as Scala / Clojure being used in large scale applications (as well as the brand new stacks which are emerging with it).

How do you see this trend?

Given it is not a new paradigm, are we surpassing any problems that showed in the past?

What you think is next after the current trend?
They cannot file a DMCA because there are no copyright issues.

This is why popular open source projects should seek trademark protection on their names.

Sure, people get angry about Mozilla's protection of the Firefox trademark, but this demonstrates that there are legitimate reasons to trademark a name so you can protect it from malicious operators.
Could you expand on this? My perception has been the rejection of Meteor by experienced programmers has been mostly fear driven and a lack of understanding, but that has been my own opinion. I'm interested in understanding better what is keeping experienced developers from adopting the framework.
Exactly this, non competes are mostly only binding if there is adquate compensation involved.

If your contract only says "Not allowed to work in the field for X month after leaving" and there is no compensation, it's toilet paper.
In all fairness, the page for gimp-win on sourceforge clearly states it is a mirror of a project that is no longer distributed by the upstream author through sourceforge --

"Hey, this isn't a SourceForge project! Check out the SourceForge Open Source Mirror Directory for more information. " -> this links to a page that explains in detail what you are getting.

I don't have a windows installation handy so I can't 'test' the SF installer to see if the adware or add-on programs are easy to identify and accept or refuse -- has anybody tried that?
This rules out all manner of great employees. Basically all of them that have a job currently and have read their employment agreement.

In most places it is standard boilerplate that your employer gets approval rights on any outside work you do while employed by them. Current employees also have more restricted IP agreements typically which can put the contracting company in legal trouble as well.

For this reason, I've found paid real work projects problematic in that it biases against the currently employed.
Exactly. And if you keep seeing similar posts on a regular basis from the same set of people (close or distant), it gets repetitive and boring. How often do you need to know that x is doing y?
The same problems you list with Facebook exist on Reddit, too. Reddit is an echo chamber.

One of the great things about family (if you have a good one) is you have to put up with them no matter how much you disagree on the little things. Interest sites like Reddit let people form into their own ignorant cliques without serious personal effort.

It seems to be a fundamental problem of humanity.
Try to answer this question: why Qualia exists and do you have it? what proof do we have that you are not a well implemented automata? how can we be sure you are not a philosophical zombie? what proof do we have that you are actually experiencing things inside you?
Ah, pity. It would have been nice to have a legal reason for them to take it down.
SF current administrator is a company despised by many of their end users. They had the option of crowfunding before it was sold, but do not have anymore.
How Auto-Tagging Helps Investec Asset Management See Through the Cloud
The link that needs to be reported:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/
Reddit is a gold mine for niche stuff. Don't stop using it for r/funny, r/politics, r/whatever. Those are shitholes. The small subreddits is what Reddit all about for me nowadays. The big subreddits are breeding grounds for young Redditors and to fend off those we don't want in smaller subreddits.
>land lines basically don't exist anymore //

Everyone I know has access to a landline (UK).

True the only reason I have a landline really is that you can't get a broadband internet connection on its own that's cheaper than phone + broadband.
The whole blog post can be summarised in the one sentence "Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers."

Makes me pretty sad since I still remember the days when SourceForge was one of the good guys.
The Theology of Consensus
Yes that is of course very true. Sports is a helpful topic (just like the weather), but there are so many other things to talk about, and ways to be a memorable and entertaining business partner.

My experience is that sales people are not actually liked all that much, as their efforts to socialize sometimes seem forced and creepy. You can turn that into your advantage.
The classical argument against an immaterial soul is that something material CAN NOT interact with something material. BUT, we don't know what matter is. Attributing properties of supposedly immaterial substances to material substances is just as bad. One has to account for why matter has those properties, that is, the contingency of the fact that electrons are capable of posting cat pictures on the on the internet.

I believe that the contingency of the matter itself points to intelligence, thus consciousness, metaphisically prior to matter. But this comment box is not sufficient for me to prove this novel statement of mine, made for the first time in history.
Good idea! Here you go: http://csv.submit.co

Note that DNS propagation might take a while.