skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Open standards tend to trump closed platforms over time.

I certainly hope this is the case, because it scares me how much content is being centralized in Facebook in particular.
Wow, people are really missing the big picture. These are great developments towards reducing environmental damage, increase animal welfare and long term increase health (as we can much better tweak nutritional content of meat, when we construct it ourselves)
Well, looks like somebody found a "cure" for adblock ;)

I miss the Wired of ten years ago. Now whenever I pick one up I am immensely disappointed by the hype and marketing. I remember it being more rigorous with respect to both journalism and technical acumen.

Edit: or not, per other post regarding adblock coming soon to apple.
This could backfire. Surely this should result in a Google penalty against Wired.com for publishing thin content?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604719?hl=en

If Wired wants the article to be exclusive on Apple News, fine, but in that case it should not be on the website. Keep it exclusively on Apple News. There is no content on this page beyond a headline.
Come Tuesday it won't be an exact quote anymore.
>When you are doing something that needs to be protected, use end to end crypto. And buy things in cash.

This isn't the solution.

The push for usable experiences has made the internet in all devices a reality. Let's just accept that people want Slick Apps for their refrigerator and instead of sticking to old school security doctrine, let's take a stab at implementing a security compliance regimen in our applications. Security controls like Code Review and Unit Testing is just thorough hygiene that helps with ensuring data (e.g. email, phone call, message, credit card transaction) are private.
> Yet again, the RESTful API comes to our rescue. Thanks to its simple JSON output, we’re able to use JavaScript to its full potential, using ReactJS or AngularJS to craft beautiful and fast front end experiences, taking advantage of many of the new HTML5 browser APIs that have become available over the past few years, including localStorage and more recently, service workers. Even better, we don’t have to use jQuery.

Can someone explain to me why using a front-end javascript framework for entirely static content would be a sound idea?
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I was always interested how things were done through the various ages of the civilization. I wish there were some comprehensive book(s) that would describe how civilization was "bootstrapped", from primitive tools and weapons to agriculture all the way to at least steam power.
I would say it is timeless.
I don't get it. I go to wired, I follow the link to apple, and I get bounced back to wired???
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Ditto. iOS 9 too.
Frontline covered the "hospital room showdown" in their documentary they published last year, "United States Of Secrets"[1]. Their web video player has a bookmark called "Concerns at the Justice Department" for the part about the "showdown", though the entire video (and part 2!) is worth watching.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-sec...
Apple doesn't believe in the long tail. They target the profitable niches first and work downwards. They don't need to compete in all Googles markets.
What does the disappearance of google reader have to do with the problems of native vs webapp design?
I keep seeing links about this on HN? Beating a dead horse? It exists, we know about it.

It's almost like the same asp.net/mvc tutorials being copied and pasted from blog to blog.
On reading it for the third time, I noticed the word app, which I must have missed before.

So it's exclusive to the apple eco-system and probably pay-walled. I think I get it now.
>I miss the Wired of ten years ago.

This is what I said ten years ago! In truth Wired has always been a lot of hand-wavy hype wrapped around bits of legit interest. I think you just outgrow it eventually.
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OK, so given that Kickstarter isn't fully bootstrapped, if they say they never want to sell or exit, how do they not make all of their investors upset? Dividends, buy backs? I like their conviction but it would seem like false advertising to the investors.
While not saying I whole heartedly agree with that statement, the admin panel is a major selling point.
Quora requires registration to simply read it.

That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.
In general, publishing studies with negative results can still be very valuable. If nothing else, they save time that might otherwise have been wasted investigating the same thing. Conversely they may provide a starting point for other researchers to look into something similar with potentially different results. They may also be useful as part of the basis of meta-studies.

So the fact that no supporting evidence of a hypothesis was found certainly shouldn't disqualify a paper from publication.

I also can't see any reason why it's relevant that their work primarily involved searching the internet. They provided logical reasoning that if time travelers exist, it would potentially be possible to discover them through this technique. Most likely time travelers don't exist, and so they don't expect to find anything, but that doesn't make it worthless to try. And since the feasibility of time travel is (as far as I understand) still technically an open question of physics, it does appear to be an appropriate, if unconventional, topic for a classic physics journal.

I'm not necessarily saying I disagree with the editors' decisions to reject the paper, and it's certainly their decision to make, but I don't see it as a foregone conclusion.
How Hack the North wasn’t the bomb
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I think the inability to post images is a filter on users, to a large degree. One-liner jokes aren't tolerated here, by and large. You can't vote for a very long time. HN is not for drive-by consumers.

A few things like that and you are selecting for people who enjoy, and probably produce, good discussion and informative, factual comments.
That's where we'll end up some day, but it probably will be a long while.
some of these could be Onion headlines, I love it.
Prediction: Apple Blogs. It's like the app store, but for blogs. You need a mac to create content for it. Free and premium blogs, In blog purchase, etc.
Reading that it does seem like just official confirmation.

"The [resignation] threat became moot after an Oval Office meeting March 12 with Bush, Comey said. After meeting separately with Comey and Mueller, Bush gave his support to making changes in the program, Comey testified. The administration has never disclosed what those changes were."
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Huh. I'm surprised to find an outfit like Wired intentionally breaking the web. On the other hand, that's one less distraction for me.
This is because Apple knows very little about algorithmic internet-wide Search or much of anything on the algorithmic level when compared to Google. Think about the maps debacle, its horrible email search, its purchase of Chomp to help it figure out app search.

Apple builds the nice looking robots, Google builds the brains.
Or multiple incognito/private windows :P
Posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244714
In this case, there is a very significant difference between reversing and reverse engineering.
I wonder if anyone sees Apple News as anything more than One More Aggregator? I would be curious for thoughts/articles on that subject.
But it's a default auto-installed app (on iOS9) and the headlines are on the search / Siri Suggestions screen. I'd be surprised if it doesn't already have a huge market...
long term increase health (as we can much better tweak nutritional content of meat, when we construct it ourselves)

I'd be a bit concerned about this, with how the guidelines keep changing.
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The crash was definitely not there in the beginning, since I happened to have Chromium 22 (from 2012 - when I first tried it), and although it doesn't crash with %%30%30, it also refuses to visit such a URL. Someone with suitable tools should be able to do some bisection to narrow down exactly when it was introduced.
Well then, one less website to visit. Thanks for making that decision easy Wired.
My main gripe is I really hate how many screens and presses I have to go through to set what should be simple options.

I use my phone (2 to 3 year old Android) as my alarm clock. If I want to sleep in for an extra 20 mins tomorrow I need to.

1. Press clock button.
2. Press Alarm button
3. Deselect my current alarm to deactivate it
4. Press Add Alarm
5. Tap repeatedly on the "scroll wheels" to select correct time

If the phone had something resembling a CLI you could just echo the newtime + Alarm into the scheduler.

Another example I get a text message from someone who is not a contact. I want to save that number I have to open the message takes about 5 or six clicks to "copy" the number into address book.

Why can't I drop to command prompt "echo Phone no. Name >> address book
Two hackers get kicked out of Hack the North for clock bomb jokes on Facebook
I debated saying 20 years ago, but I didn't want to show my age.
It's not ubuntu's fault. Ubuntu/FF here, and I'm getting green trees in FF, blue in Chromium.

Blue trees can be seen in mountainscapes in certain light conditions. Or in the Blue Mountain... well, the trees themselves aren't blue, but they're covered in a blue haze... but still, the emoji is evergreen_tree...
Yeah, I was with him up until that point. That's a huge negative, and something that could be avoided very simply by using a framework other than React.
Don't unions only work if hiring non-union people doesn't work well?
Which was explained in the cited link.
Do you ever wonder what the conversations were like which led to decisions like this?
Some background here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179458
By that logic, all article titles should be written in the past tense.
> the dependency on PHP can turn many developers away from using it

Well, that's going to be the same no matter which technology you choose. The dependency on ReactJS is also going to turn many developers away from your proposed changes.

Why turn away? Here's a possible reason: Instead of generating perfectly valid and semantic markup that can be understood by all clients from Lynx to Chrome as well as search engines, you want to turn every blog into a single-page "webapp" where the markup only contains some empty placeholders and all content is rendered separately by a hefty JavaScript framework.

No, thank you.

One thing I'm absolutely flabbergasted about is that we as a community have spent the last 10 years trying to get everyone to serve valid semantic markup, only to throw it all away. This tastes just as vile as using tables everywhere.

There's a time and place where JavaScript MVC frameworks make sense. A blog ain't one of them. Even Medium is barely tolerable nowadays -- I am often forced to use the Reader View in Firefox to get rid of all the junk that Medium throws into every blog post.

Please, please keep that junk to yourself. Don't pollute my precious WordPress with it.
Does the phrase "syntactic sugar" have any meaning? Name a new language feature that "it is just syntactic sugar" can't be applied to.
Also 'waiting for a catch' doesn't work if you're a straight woman: like it or not, woman are evaluated for their beauty as much as men are for their wallets.
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Yep, for awhile I didn't even register; I used some trick (I forget what it was) to get around that.

Eventually I did register. And then the above requirement came, and that was the final nail in the coffin.
The question that immediately comes to my mind is how do they know whether that URL (the news.apple.com one) is being accessed from the app or not? It redirects immediately back to wired.com, so could it be as trivial as User-agent or some other header?
> How is it that a paper that could not get published had the fourth highest reported Altmetric score for all scientific contributions in 2013 (Liu 2014)?

Altmetric is not tied to scientific value. It can be used as an interesting metric though but this is a great example of how it fails catastrophically.
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I'm not a huge Siri user, but "Hey Siri, set my alarm for 8:50" works great and its something I use all the time, mostly because of what you're describing.
Honestly, it was about 1000x better just 3 years ago :/
It's almost certain that Apple's long game is to make this the norm. If there's one surefire way to get people addicted to ad blockers, it's to make them available on mobile devices. Once enough content creators start moving content behind News-walls, then Apple can roll out desktop versions of News. And as people then start asking each other "how do I get ad blocking in my browser as well," Apple's well positioned to be the only unblockable advertising platform, period. They could even use iTunes as a vector to deliver an Apple News desktop app to Windows machines.

It's brilliant and will completely change the balance of power in online advertising. Google will not be happy...
Are you implying the paper had no scientific value?
SO the first tentative steps are being taken towards this massive change. How long before we see the first automated cars in the US? 5 years? 10?
Precedence is odd and many-faceted, and in a case like this, it would be done indeed to show how other courts have handled the situation. If a Canadian ruling can give a bit of relevant guidance, than it is something that would be put into a case to help bolster the cause. Conversely, neither the judge, nor jury, has to take the Canadian ruling into consideration at all, as it isn't binding. Pretty much it's just helpful advice for the court to keep in mind.
Should I add a paywall warning for Wired to https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag/?
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The client you are using does not currently have access to this resource but may in the future as specified by the Expires header in the response. The user should either switch to a supported client as specified in the response body to access this resource or the current client should retry at the specified date. The current client MUST NOT retry the resource before the specified date.
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I just noticed yesterday that my local grocery store was selling Beyond Chicken, and decided to try some. It does have some vaguely chicken-like properties, but it's still too dry and rubbery to fool anyone paying the slightest attention.
What are those hard sub problems? There has been an encrypted IP standard since the early 90s. Https is not enough. Not everything goes through http, not all http is https, and there is a lot questionable about certificate based encryption schemes.
This is how I imagine it went:
Apple: "We'll give you a lot of money if you make content exclusive to us"
Wired: "Lets trial run it with one article and see how it goes, and we'd like the exclusivity period to expire"
Apple: "Sure, but we'll have to come back to the timed exclusivity, we think you'll cave"
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Sure, ES6 WeakMap and WeakSet can't be implemented without native support in the runtime.

Or, for that matter, const. Though perhaps const is just syntatic sugar for not reassigning to the same darn name? ;)
Adding share=1 to the query string allows unregistered viewing.

Such a strange decision by quora. No wonder they're so irrelevant.
The article talks about how the founders told their investors they weren't looking at a huge exit, and that they were planning on paying dividends soon.
I buy that - I was probably reading the "just" too strongly in "just because it cuts down the number of applicants".
So, really, Homo sapiens and Homo erectus will probably turn out to just be very widespread species throughout Afro-Eurasia that had a lot of regional subspecies? Doesn't seem too surprising to me. Perhaps even Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis will turn out to be two subspecies of the same species as well.
These examples are a great way to raise questions about what "gender" is!

Quite often arguments are raised that XY means man and XX means woman, or having a penis makes a man or having a vagina makes a woman.

It is edge cases like these that illustrate the situation is a bit more complex than that. There are plenty more.
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Iirc you can get around this by appending ?share=1
Agreed:

> if your website can't make money without crappy ads, and nobody looks at your crappy ads because of advances in technology, then blaming that technology puts you squarely on the wrong side of history.

However, GOOG would face quite a user backlash if they tried to go with some anti-ad-blocker policy. Not only would they tarnish their brand more, but they would chase more to DuckDuckGo and other service alternatives.
HTTP 418 is already reserved for teapots whom have been requested to make coffee (RFC2324, section 2.3.2[0])

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
It's a well known fact that most ecosystems are very delicately balanced. Introducing new species can often have devastating effects on existing ones. So even if we did resurrect extinct species, they may have to remain domesticated, as our toys.
"Wrong Client" as in:

HTTP ERROR 418 YOU'RE a teapot
It does feel a bit like the raising of this material provides people with a way of legitimizing the grievances of the Muslim community. Whether he built the clock or not, police arrested him over its similarity to a bomb, yet didn't evacuate the school as if it were one. Clearly the point isn't whether this kid made the clock or not.
Chris Sacca talked about it in-depth on This Week in Startups a while back. From day one they told investors they planned to never sell. Chris Sacca didn't believe them but was in for the mission (and kept Kickstarter off his promotional material for a while because he wasn't sure about the return possibilities). Over time he believed the founders more and more that they wouldn't sell and they're in it for the long haul.

Similar story with Fred Wilson and USV.
Don't bother, on the 22nd, it will probably be one of the top titles on Hacker News: "Remember this article that used to be exclusive on Apple News? Now you can read it!".
Even Amazon.com isn't fully reliant on AWS. They're not using Route 53 for their DNS (or even for their backup DNS).
I don't think you're taking into account that websites are free to create their own apps, and advertise there. There's little incentive for a content creator to have their content off the net, and into someone else's apps.

Im not understanding Wired's motivation here, but I'm not too concerned because Wired isn't the most intelligent publication in the first place.
I heard their founder/current CEO Yancey speak at a startup accelerator and speak extensively about the business. According to him they told their investors they have no intention to have a liquidity event. He suggested the investors were in interested in Kickstarter as marketing for their firm. It seems like they didn't take very much money. Seemingly a large enough sum to help grow the business but not large enough to shy investors away from a business that doesn't aspire to provide meaningful returns.

Have you listened to the Startup podcast's coverage of Gimlet media? Seems like a similar situation, some unique businesses can secure prestige rounds providing they are not seeking huge amounts of capital.
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Dear Wired, if you want us to buy an Apple device to read your article, good luck with that. Losing respect in tech industry is pretty easy. Be safe.
When I clicked on this link I was expecting to read satire about content locking. What could be more absurd than making "news" exclusive?

Instead, it looks like Wired have officially "jumped the whale".
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>Open standards tend to trump closed platforms over time.

The opposite is true, and what is happening to the Internet is another example. Telephone, Radio, and Film used to be open but they have since been cornered by cartels. Tim Wu explains this excellently in his book, "The Master Switch."
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I find the notion that jackfruits are "poor man's food" to be weird. When did fruits have a caste system ?

Anyway I am glad that americans think jackfruits are cool - it might finally create a market outside of bangladesh where we can sell it, I mean we cannot keep this tasty and awesome fruit to ourselves now can we ? :)
Yes and no. This is basically a little bit disingenuous.

Today, most publications will use something like DoubleClick to manage their ads, sell a bunch directly to specific companies, setup bidding on some others via another provider hooked into the same system, and then use Google AdSense for the remnant inventory.

From my reading of it, on Apple News, you're required to use iAd to manage the inventory. iAd allows you to do direct sales through it's own system. And then all the rest are remnant and handled through iAd. Apple locks out all other players from that large part of the ad market, including Google. Knowing Apple... especially Google.

It's a brilliant two-pronged strategy to lock content providers and consumers into the Apple ecosystem.
Advice is only singular. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63799/plural-of-a...
Because that's what the cool kids use. /s

I think a good API would be great to have for a CMS (and one could or maybe even should run the normal frontend of it), but not for this reason.

EDIT: And if you build non-standard-CMS apps on top of or using data from the CMS, then you could use React or whatever and the API.
How different is this (from an ad biz perspective) from Facebook Instant Articles? Is it that Apple gets no cut from publisher-sold ads, but Facebook Instant Articles only use Facebook ads? Do either of these services have some sort of exclusivity clause (ala Youtube, where if you publish one place you have to publish to Youtube too)?

EDIT: it looks like Facebook Instant Articles also takes 0% of publisher-served ads [1]. So it looks like this Apple News push is merely an attempt to match Facebook's product (and Wired screwed up messaging / accessibility here).

I'm still curious as to if anybody can add commentary / context from an advertising point of view.

IMO these events indicate a future where portals serve publisher content in a way that improves user experience (fewer ads, faster page load times) while the publishers catch up (rather than replace) their own native web experience. Publishers will want to own their distribution if it does them well. These plays (Apple, Facebook) may be less about poaching display dollars from Google than 1) cutting low-quality advertisers out of the network and 2) increasing hub engagement. I doubt the hubs monopolize the market but I'm definitely no expert

[1] https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/facebook-instantarti... LOL the FB site is running on wordpress ...
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yesterday, under old page title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244653
The "Quora Share" add-on for Firefox will automatically add the "?share=1" parameter for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quora-share/