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There's a polyfill that works very well actually: https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader IE8/IE9 depending on what ES6 features you use.
The issue is that Europe never developed RTG technology because of politics, so scientists couldn't even consider it as an available choice.
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If everybody merely followed the standard and didn't extend their browser, progress and innovation would slow down quite a bit. At the very least, with Chrome Google put some fire under javascript performance and encryption/SPDY.
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SNAP won't let you shop at WF for long.

A few years ago, I indulged in an experiment: I'd try to live off the SNAP amount for a month. I assumed a budget of $110, and tried to make 3 meals/day out of it. I had to resort to all sorts of trickery to make it work, but I did; by shopping at Mexican grocery stores and swinging by farmers' markets at closing time (when they have to get rid of their produce, and hence offer massive discounts) I was able to survive. It wasn't easy, and I for sure wasn't eating organic foods!
It is my honest belief that a few dedicated abusers can easily attract and steer an army of trolls. They feed on the affirmation of comments, upvote points, whatever. The worst ones enjoy hearing about the misery of their victims. Just look at how easily online groups can turn pro/contra certain issues.

A good friend of mine is biologically male, identifies as female though. He was public about that online and also due to other circumstances attracted a dedicated abuser. That abuser is so perfidious and persistent, that he (we assume) still manages to rally communities against my friend several years after it started.
You should consider the proposition that funding science with taxes is a great excuse to politicize science. Moreover, the notion that science funding could ever be objectively "fair" is complete hokum, and the idea that a political apparatus could find a particularly fair solution is even crazier.

Of course, I have to disclaim that I ran a successful science crowdfunding campaign (http://pledge.indysci.org). As to why it couldn't be funded by taxes, it's because the NIH coordinator for the subsection working in the division that would have funded it used to lead the project I'm continuing so there's a conflict of interest.

Now, this is a relatively 'boring' and particularly coincidental reason for the inability for taxpayers to be able to fund this project. Usually the real reasons are internecine conflicts within sciences competing for funds, personal differences, political connections, etc. Consider for example the case of Leo Paquette, who denied funding to a group and then turned around and stole the idea for himself. (ScienceWeek. 1998-03-20) Of course the system came to a settlement whereby Paquette got a slap on the wrist (agreed to not accept funding for 2 years) instead of kicking him out.

My personal opinion is that if people want to say they fXing love science, then they should be willing to reach into their wallets and pay for it themselves. Science has a clear social benefit and to that end, everyone should want to help out. Forcing other people to pay to make you feel like you have chipped in yourself - is just patting yourself on your own back for making zero personal sacrifice.
To the extent it documents any abuse, it does so in a totally inappropriate and unfair way (obviously to the non-Zoe actors, but also to Zoe). What Zoe has received in return since that post was written is essentially internet mob "justice", on a level that would have sent weaker people past the edge of the abyss. Whatever point Gjoni might have had (and I don't particularly subscribe to the "it's emotional abuse" point of view, as you might guess), it has now been totally lost amongst the volume of obvious abuse of pretty much every type directed at Zoe.
I have not downvoted you, but the zoe post wasn't slammed because its author's experiences were considered invalid but because it is a textbook example of slut-shaming. And now you are saying that the target of this was an abuser.

And it's a stretch to say thezoepost was censored. It's still available at its original location.
Given that the NSA was going to get data from the telcos in any case, you'd rather they got it for free? If there is some sort of behavior you want to discourage somebody from engaging in, the simplest way of doing so is to make them pay for it. Even nominal fees can be a significant deterrent (this is why ads and eyeballs are the currency of the web). Without this monetary friction, there would doubtless have been even more rampant data collection.

Additionally, the link you provided itself says that the money the telcos got from that is a small fraction of their total revenues, so I am not sure how compelling a reason that would be to oppose reform.
What you are saying is similar to philosophy of Jiro from "Jiro dreams of Sushi". If you haven't seen it then you should. He also focuses on very specific type of food, and after some tests with trying to introduce more products he decided its not worth it. Amazing documentary.
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I'm Dutch, but I grew up with many Americans around me. It always shocked to see the huge amount of pill-bottles in the bathrooms of my American friends, and how much part of daily life these things were.

Anti-bacterial wipes for everything, pills at the smallest sign of illness (even just the sniffles), copious use of sleeping aids, and so on.

In my upbringing (which was kind of 'typically' Dutch), we took medication as a last resort. Even painkillers were not something you took unless your headache was unusually bad.

I have no doubt that this is also changing in Holland, especially when it comes to prescription drugs for psychological issues, but in general it seems a bit healthier to me to allow the body to take care of itself when it can, rather than stuffing it with foreign bodies that often have all kinds of adverse side-effects.

This state of affairs often makes me think about how malleable societies really are, for both good and bad, and how much variation there is even within 'Western-European' nations.
yeah, kind of digital version of it.

We are, by the day, achieving a level of technology that our primitive ethics aren't prepared to deal with.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by a completely different subject?

One possible reading of what you are saying is that the harassment of Anita and others with feminist perspectives is justified, but perhaps that is not quite what you intended.
Toehead2000 stated your theory more succinctly: "Poor people have no agency." Suffice it to say that I don't agree - I believe poor people are just as human as I am.

Scroll up for a simple way to test whether lack of education is a correct theory. What's the result?

As for empathy, I believe it's nothing but a feel-good substitute for moral reasoning. I've discussed that in more depth in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507328

And the way you are attempting to use it, as a substitute for actual facts, is simply anti-intellectualism. So are the ad-hominem fallacies, which have sadly become commonplace here and in modern culture.
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Anita Sarkeesian isn't a completely different. She is a woman in tech (more specifically, video games) who is harassed for speaking out about sexism in video games. Perhaps some of her essays have inaccuracies, but none of this justifies the horrible abuse she gets on a constant basis.

Also, Thunderf00t's videos on her seem to focus on single details as if her entire argument would fall down, when it wouldn't, and by repeating something enough times until it seems to be true. I'm hardly the best person to talk about these, though.
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I sympathize with the critique of Yosemite, I really do. But if your problem is "too many small things are broken" and your solution is to use Linux...
My guesstimate would be based on the number of posts on the FreeBSD forum(s) and mailing lists I visit where there has been a noticeable increase in the number of questions that mention leaving Linux due to the systemd debacle or wanting something that's not trying to become Windows or a XBox.
>I never saw Chrome as the way for Google to ascertain that the general public can have unfettered access to Google properties, I saw - and see - Chrome as a way to extend the Google eco-system onto the end users device, and to gain access to URLs that otherwise would remain hidden from Google to reduce the 'dark web' as seen through Google as well as a way to track users on pages that don't have Google Analytics installed. When technically speaking it really shouldn't matter what browser the users uses, as long as it is standards compliant it should simply work.

Agreed, things like Chrome and Android appear to be moats against a new search engine not being able to compete on a level playing field. For example, on Android, in order to get access to the Play Store and other Google APIs, OEMs are forced to ship only Google as the default search provider.

From http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licen...

>The agreement is basically a laundry list of "dos and don'ts" for licensing Google apps. The terms at the time covered the "Set-up Wizard, Google Phone-top Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Maps for Mobile, Google Street View, Contact Sync, Android Market Client (not products downloaded from Android Market

>The most important clause states that "Devices may only be distributed if all Google Applications... are pre-installed on the Device." Google apps are an all-or-nothing affair. If you want Google Maps or the Play Store, you must also take things like Google+ and Google's network location provider

>Google's Network Location Provider must not only be included, but set as the default network location provider; this is no doubt the clause that triggered a lawsuit from rival location company Skyhook.
I find the comments on Hacker News specifically to often be quite intelligent and respectful. Can't say the same for most sites.

I don't like the idea of merely disabling comments -- there has to be some kind of thoughtful middle-ground.
Your post seeks to minimise the issue (it's not about tech in general/just a few bad apples) something which is directly addressed in Part II of the original post: http://randi.io/wp/archives/91

I think the reasoning basically goes that trying to minimise the problem of misogyny is a symptom of misogyny.
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Most people aren't voting, period. The U.S. just had federal elections a couple of weeks ago, and two-thirds of the country stayed home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/the-worst-voter-tu...

I get it. The system is broken, and there are no good choices to vote for (when a race is even contested at all), so why bother? Except that the reason why the system is broken in the first place is that no one shows up at any stage of the game.

* We don't show up in local and state elections, where the politicians are elected who draw the maps and gerrymander the congressional districts.

* We don't show up for the primaries, where the candidate who is going to win that gerrymandered district is selected.

* Then we don't show up for the general election. Admittedly, most races are a foregone conclusion by this stage, and there aren't good candidates to choose from. However, even at this stage there is always at least a "lesser of two evils". With only 35% turnout, the outcome could be flipped in even the most gerrymandered of districts if people were simply engaged and showed up.

Money drives the system, but only because the public is so disengaged, and votes for whoever has the funds to shout at us the loudest. I don't know how you break the cycle of cynicism and instill some civic responsibility in the average Joe, but there's never going to be some external savior who swoops in from the outside and magically makes things less corrupt. Is has to come from us.
I'm tired of the fact that this debate has deteriorated into sides lead by extremists.

On the one side there is the gamergate crowd, who despite their constant denial are fundamentally sexist and misogynistic in pretty much every second sentence they utter. And the existence of these pricks serves as a cover for the ubiquitous but much more subtle sexism in the tech industry. Which in turn is being denied by the people smack dead in the middle of it (this thread to will see a lot that kind of denial).

On the other side however are the consummate activist, the ones the bigots refer to as "Social Justice Warriors" who see sexism in everything, stifle any debate with finger pointing, bullying and witch hunts (as recently demonstrated with "shirtgate"). These people are no better than the pricks they claim to be fighting. They don't just fight sexism and inequality, they want to bury anything they are uncomfortable with, including basic human desires and freedom of any kind of non-politically correct form of expression.

And from the tactics used and the collateral damage caused, I find it increasingly difficult to tell the two sides apart except for the the symbolism and rhetoric.
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How is telling other people what they can do with their property a fundamental right?
That stuff looks cool, and I want to play with photogrammetry stuff when I have some spare time. I think it's a bit optimistic to say it's a "solution" to this though. It's another tool that can help with the modelling + positioning + texturing + lighting + rendering + compositing workflow, but I don't think we're anywhere near a "3D photo editing tool" that can be used by normal people.
I am one of those vegan health and fitness obsessed girls and even I find Whole Foods a bit pricy, but they're doing well so they seem to have an appeal to a lot of folks.
I'd be interested to know how you would cope with the persistant vicious attacks from people like Weev, lasting many years.

And what you'd actually do in that situation, now what you'd think you'd do.
> society shouldn't encourage the creation of new art, because we already have more than enough good art to last anyone a lifetime

The theory implied there is that art is a shelf-stable commodity product whose only value is in consumption as entertainment. Will anybody seriously admit to believing that?

> artists are mostly motivated by social status anyway

If we get to cancel everything where social status is a motivator, we should cancel everything. We are social animals hardwired for social status. We should certainly cancel HN, which of course has rankings to show who's on top and where people spend stupid amounts of effort trying to win arguments in status-enhancing ways.
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Totally agree. Personally I think Anita provides quite a fresh look at the portrayal of women in video games and other pop culture, and it's interesting to hear her perspective even if one disagrees with it.

It just seems thoroughly unhinged to mount a campaign of sexual harassment and death threats in response, rather than countering with a reasoned line of argument, or simply just shrugging it off.
So with all these companies' support what I don't understand is why an IP standard is not being worked on that demands asymmetric encryption. I envision an ideal future where the IP layer is encrypted, possibly with multiple algorithms, the http layer is encrypted separately, and the javascript message passing layer is encrypted still separately from that.

We already know that encryption works mathematically, but human factors get in the way. No one should ever be able to snoop on someone's traffic content in this day and age.
Hmm, wonder if that Vuzix M100 would be a better investment then.
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I am wondering what does HN think on the topic of whether tech startup founders would benefit from visiting a vibrant ecosystem for a month or so in order to network with their peers and potential investors.

If not, why?

And if yes, what you think they would benefit from the most?
Kathy Sierra made her feelings on the subject very clear on twitter before she left.

Weev is a horrible person, and probably he even deserves to go to jail. But he does not deserve to go to jail based on bullshit.

We should never forget that injustice done to Weev is not the same as justice for the things he done.
Just go on there with a female name. It's horrible. A significant minority are manchildren, they turn into apes at the slightest hint of femaleness.
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> If Microsoft cares about privacy, when will they change Skype back to the encrypted peer-to-peer architecture it had before they bought it?

A bit off-topic, but Skype's actual voice traffic is still primarily P2P. You can verify this yourself using basic network analyzer tools (I used nettop on OSX) to check the destination address of packets. Multiple times over the last couple of years (after they allegedly moved away from P2P) I verified that a voice call between Skype instances on Mac and on Windows was direct between my network and my peer's IP address.

I did not check if IM traffic is P2P. And it certainly connects to a lot of other remote addresses by default, which I'm guessing is for call-setup via their servers.
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Looks great but I can't get it to pass tests from a fairly vanilla Ubuntu machine. The errors aren't really informative.

'fnordmetric-core/build/cmake/stage/src/fnordmetric/util/datetime.h:85:24: error: specialization of ‘template<class _Tp> struct std::numeric_limits’ in different namespace [-fpermissive]'
How is property a fundamental right? (Honest question.)
Because the "support" is just a PR move.
People published her info online, she received phone calls to her house, they called her employer and got her fired, her emails were hacked and posted online.

Just recently she tweeted that she was called into a meeting at her current job because trolls upset with the ggautoblocker list had been calling her current employer to try and get her fired.

But it's all just words on the internet, right?
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I told myself that I wouldn't comment on any of this, but goddamnit. MY NAME IS RANDI. IT IS LITERALLY PART OF THE URL.
Here's a hint. One side is threatening "the greatest school shooting in American history"
Ah, different use cases. The way it works at the moment is what I was looking for, but I can see when it isn't suitable.
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> "It is fun reminiscing about just how special our place in the universe is..."

I think you have it slightly backwards there. Life on earth, and us specifically, don't look the way we do because of chance. The reason we only operate in this specific environment is because we were shaped by our environments. Who knows in what environments life can exist. If you think of life as some sort of self-organizing system it's not unthinkable that 'life' could be possible in places that seem extremely inhospitable to us. Inside a star for example.
In other words letting them create a monopoly and extract rents like standard oil?
The implementers, sad as it is, get the final say on what they implement. Standards organisations can standardise whatever they want, but if the implementers don't want to implement stuff they won't. Hence we don't have XForms and all the rest of XHTML 2.0, nobody's implemented Persona despite that being a standard, etc etc.

Google can pressure others to agree to follow a standard by being an implementer, and they do. (There is practically nothing accessible from a general web page on Chrome that isn't defined in a standards document or draft standards document.)

We, unfortunately, don't live in a perfect world where web developers can unilaterally force browser implementers to implement standards - Google is a large company that heavily depends on the web, and needs to be able to do that. For the most part, other companies can contribute to Firefox to get that, but Google likely decided the politics and potential bad PR of that ("Google are taking over Firefox") were not worth it for them.
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Not really true, and Google stopped blocking Windows Phone after the outrage.

See "Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7RiMCrZFw
That should be fixed if you pull the latest master branch from github. We'll provide binary packages for apt-get and homebrew in the next weeks.
Tesla is on the forefront of getting the car industry to accept something they said couldn't be done. Battery powered cars. This will change the world, or maybe be required step for us to not wreck it.
Yeah, too bad we don't know which one.
> a textbook example of slut-shaming

Accusing someone of cheating on you is slut-shaming?
You're normally so sharp about deflating dodgy ideas that I'm surprised to see you say this. As I read it, you and Gwern seem to assume that a) there is an objective "best" measure for art, and b) the purpose of experiencing art is is to consume "best" art.

I don't think either of those are true. I agree there's a status component to things, but we're monkeys; there's a status component to everything. (If I avoided everything where status behavior was an important driver, I'd have to stop typing right now; open-source software is filled with it.) Culture, being the summation of everything we talk about, is "about" a lot of things. Really, it's about everything.

Sure, everything social that we do is socially mediated, and therefore has status components. But to say that's what it's primarily about is to me like saying that all of marine biology is really about water. Sure, it's there, and sure, anything you point at is related to seawater. But saying it's all about seawater strikes me as a rhetorical technique used to dismiss something, not a serious analysis.