skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely relying on ad revenue from people redirected from search engine results is the short-sighted strategy? It makes your revenue stream rely on the whims of uninterested third-parties.

The comments on the article even imply that Wikipedia "suffers" from having their content embedded in Google search results in this way; as if Wikipedia relies on ads, or has free bandwidth to waste, or cares more about getting visitors than spreading knowledge.

Unlike Wikipedia, StackOverflow is a commercial venture with ads, but are we really so jaded that we expect them to sabotage those who want to use their content? Have CC licenses turned into nothing more than trendy logos, to which we only pay lip-service?

SO's informal opinion-of/relationship-with Google is well-documented, for example: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html http://blog.codinghorror.com/trouble-in-the-house-of-google/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-importance-of-sitemaps/
Obviously different users! I'm aware of the network effect, and I massively commend them for such a bold, privacy-oriented approach, particularly given their previous track record. (Well done, Moxie! How'd you talk them into that?)

Everyone I know who was aware WhatsApp was Facebook-owned brought it up as a strong, overriding negative; others who heard that followed suit.

Perhaps that says more about Facebook's perception amongst that demographic than WhatsApp. (The plural of anecdotes is not data, I hasten to add.)

If there's a lesson from this, perhaps it's: something new and better needs to come from, if not trusted people, then at least not mistrusted people.
From my extensive expertise in ahem armchair amateur psychoanalysis ... I suspect a major mental disorder/abuse component to the story.

Their kids ending up in foster care may be better for the kids than being raised in a DSM certifiable parenting environment. At least in foster care the expectations of care are darn low, so less chance of being left with a sense of betrayal into adulthood.
<WebKit|Gecko|Blink> has cruft? That seems to be a very relativistic statement.

In ten years, people will be looking at the next next big thing because it has none of the cruft that <Servo> has.
Again, you seem to not understand how I discriminate between means and their use. Spying on European officials is a problem with oversight, not with capabilities. Arguably, European officials are a lot softer targets than a crime cartel or terrorists in this regard.
This piece is rather tepid in my opinion. The author bemoans a future that never came because of

>>an enormous influx of people into tech that are in it just for the money and that couldn’t give a damn about how they achieve their goals.

He continues talking about how things were harder in the old days, and how easy it is today, but paradoxically, too easy?

>>The barrier to entry was so high that those that made it across really knew their stuff.

>>Of course that’s not what you want, you want all this to be as accessible as possible but real creativity starts when resources are limited.

It all seems like a variation on a theme Alan Kay addressed some time ago[1]:

>>Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on the scene and some of its inventors thought it would be a way of getting Shakespeare to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare. What television was able to do was to capture people as they were. So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture.

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
> Limiting freedom of expression is never refined.

Only the most unrefined brute speaks what's on his mind without limits.

I would say that it is highly refined to know when limits should be applied, and when they should not.
I get a bunch of 520 errors for the js resources and a 500 for the d3.js (charting). In addition:

Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.18/$injector/modulerr?p0=tawnyOwlApp&p1=Err…gleapis.com%2Fajax%2Flibs%2Fangularjs%2F1.2.18%2Fangular.min.js%3A18%3A139)
Of course it isn't the norm. But the family hails from an area where such things are not exactly rare. (They're not from Germany originally if I interpreted the article correctly.)
I was quite surprised at how little support in browsers there was for es6 and 7. Essentially, every current and near future browser was developed against es5.

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6
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is this a service to help easier establish a peer-to-peer connection? If so, how much will it cost? and what are the long term plans?
Call me a grumpy old systems programming guy, but "Entirely written in Javascript" just doesn't seem like a feature to me.
Also "source code"...

This is clearly not source code.
US spying on allies, what else is new? Wasn't most of this already known? From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regin_(malware)#Known_attacks_... :

`Der Spiegel reported in November 2014.......`

`Fox IT found Regin on the computers of one of its customers, and according to their analysis parts of Regin are mentioned in the NSA ANT catalog under the names "Straitbizarre" and "Unitedrake".`
Duckduckgo has had this feature for a while... is Google playing catch up?
Why isn't there a Google Hangout clone with WebRTC already? It seems so easy to setup (similar to url shortener or pastebins), but there is no standard site everybody uses (like tinyurl.com before everybody made his own).

edit: Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate your work. My point is that there is no standard yet. Is it just too early or does Hangout/Skype have some inherent advantage?
You could have used it before with a gif tunnel. That's the way I've been doing 6rd on vanilla FreeBSD without any 6rd support.

edit:

Here's what you put in rc.conf

cloned_interfaces="gif0"
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
ifconfig_gif0="tunnel $MYIPv4 $THEIRIPv4"
ifconfig_gif0_ipv6="inet6 alias $MYIPv6 $THEIRIPv6 prefixlen 128"
ipv6_defaultrouter="$THEIRIPv6 -mtu 1280"
It is worthwhile to apply the same scepticism for placement of attribution as was applied with the Sony hack. In the latter many security analysts question NK attribution based on the similarity of code argument given by the US -- pointing out that the code base was in the wild for a long time, could be purchased on black market or reverse/reengineered after picking up the malware from a vulnerable machine.

Shouldn't we also assume that this malware, having been in the wild for "10 years", could have simply been modified and thrown into the NSA tool chest? When applying the same level of scepticism from the Sony hack, nothing in this article represents real proof to counter relevant arguments against US attribution.

Regardless, the Spiegel assumptions or slant is worthy if for nothing else than to teach everyone the issues with attribution, whether applied to greater or lesser evils.
I really like it! One thing that I'd like is for Bookmarks to be synced with Pinboard. Local browser bookmarks are no use for me (and I would presume a lot of people) because I use too many devices and too many browsers. I don't mind going to pinboard.in to view my bookmarks but it's nice to be able to quickly bookmark something using the native browser UI (rather than an extension).
Has Speigel reported on the ubiquitous US spy stations peppered throughout Europe? Have they speculated on why Europe does not close them?
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Not sure why people vote you down for sharing your opinion. Having said that, your logic is fundamentally flawed. Governments have to either focus on attacking or defending. Focusing on attacking means keeping a lid on vulnerabilities, which weakens the security of citizens and corporations inside their own country. Focusing on defending means disclosing those vulnerabilities in order to protect everybody, which also means those vulnerabilities can't be used in attacks anymore. You can't really have both.
Being married to someone with an anxiety disorder, the best second-hand advice I can offer is: see a professional. If they recommend CBT, great, perhaps this tool can help. If they prescribe medication, pursue that as well.

The medication they can prescribe really does help: it stops your heart from racing, it helps you stop the cyclic negative thinking... it just plain helps.
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What difference does freedom make if society is engineered accordingly so that anything but the party line will be lost in the noise? Other than for possible riots, bloodshed and long-term sustainability, is that in any way distinguisable from a "non-free" form of government?

Besides, freedom is only necessary for democracy, not sufficient. So his points all remain valid.
The 2nd piratebay dude had the same argument, and there is definitely some value to that notion -- convincing all these bright engineers to go join the so/lo/mo products instead of helping to build upon the BIG ideas.
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" It's not a secret that Turkey is helping IS in the Kurdish regions"
No this is again BS. Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers? BTW SA is not a Nato member you just can not put Turkey and SA in the same bucket.
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I was simply talking about operating externalities. I haven't spent as much time looking at the construction externalities but my educated guess is that on a per watt of generation capacity, the net out of construction and operation favors PV. Not needing fuel is a huge deal.
I started seeing this feature a few weeks ago, and I love it. They even bold exactly the segment of the answer you're interested in. Amazing stuff.

I basically treat it like any other link in Google that just happens to have the text I want formatted differently than other links. In most cases I end up clicking the link anyway to verify the context is correct.

VERY FRICKIN' COOL.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8952684
I've been using it for almost a year on sharedrop.io (p2p file transfer app) to distinguish peers in the same local network. The code I'm using for finding local IP comes from http://net.ipcalf.com. The app even allows you to select your local IP in case you got more than one, e.g. because of VPN.
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The story reads so bizarrely: A man who loses interest in his wife orders her to move countries to his ancestral home as opposed to just divorcing her? Then she obeys and leaves her children to forges a new life elsewhere, makes no effort to see them again, even after finding out they're no longer with her husband?

The whole premise is so questionable, I wonder if the underlying story is a crime being covered up.
We've turned into reddit.
Thanks - it sounds as if you could use it as a drop in replacement for underscore.
> I wonder if Chomsky would have that liberty of critique in any other country...

Yes, he would have. And in many, he would not need it.
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Also Quora forces you to signup even to view all answers/comment. (or you have to do silly url hack, appending ?share=1). Secondly the quality of answers on Stackoverflow network is much better than Quora. Lastly, I have seen some answers deleted by Quora mods for their personal reasons.* There is no way such thing can happen on Stack Overflow.

* this [0] is the question I remember. Directi is an Indian company. And mods who work for Directi deleted the answers which showed Directi in badlight. It doesn't matter whether answers were correct or not, let the downvotes decide them, but this kinda of censorship is not cool.

[0] - http://www.quora.com/Is-Directi-banned-from-IIT-placements
In javascript in javascript in javascript... The time when concern seemed actionable has passed; It's clear that the infinite recursion is well underway, and because the arguments are just returns passed in-register, that the call stack will never overflow. I can't tell if there's any logic or reachable return pathways. Is the only way back to reverse time and to have never entered the fractal in the first place? Save yourselves. We can never see the fate of matter that has passed into the event horizon already. The big picture can't be found in the smaller imitations. We can't say that it's over, but we must hold it within our culture that using javascript within javascript is a warning sign, such as curiosity about death or whether the world is a projection of our minds. We must remember that ineffability is effable rather than attempting to reach that effability in all except analytic proofs; even computation of lowly derivatives or irrational numbers cannot be perfectly calculated via machine. Friends don't let friends implement javascript or vehicles for javascript within javascript. It hasn't been proven that there is a conclusion to such exercises. Meanwhile, many have perished chasing truths we can only imagine may be ever even slightly distinguishable from within this universe.
You comment here sort of answers my question above. So basically you don't agree with
attacking or weakening crypto/security systems.

The thing is that without those "competitive advantages", I fail to see how they can have an advantage over the bad guys. Playing offense, when the need arises, won't cut it. You're gonna have to "lay the foundations" so to speak, for you to be a successful attacker.

So basically we reach the old, but not so tired, question of how much of your freedom you're willing to sacrifice, for your government to be the "meanest of them all"
Hey Will here (one of the creators). Yep we wanted to make setting up WebRTC - allowing P2P connections client-to-client, without a server as simple as possible. The pricing plan is not fully worked out- we're thinking something similar to Kimono labs with free up to a certain number of connections and then potentially a paid tier to cover costs
Spare no expense if it will create a wedge issue that gets people elected.
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It's weird, but only the other day I was saying to my wife: "I wish more applications were written entirely in Javascript".
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CC BY-SA is not the license that Google is using.

Stack Overflow added metadata to their HTML to enable Google to use the answers in their response box. This is the primary (and probably sole) reason for this metadata, therefore it constitutes an implicit license grant to Google.

IANAL.
Some skepticism: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-canc...
He certainly would in quite a lot of countries.

Chomsky is a lot less controversial in a lot of countries outside the US than he is in the US.

I'm sure there are countries where he'd be unable to say what he wants, but there are also a lot of countries (e.g. in Europe) where his political views are reasonably close to mainstream, to the extent where he's no more controversial than the average left wing politician and his main problem would be that he'd be one of many voices saying similar things.
Thanks for the comment. We actually agree entirely. One of the most effective ways to combat anxiety is through a combination of psychiatric drugs administered alongside CBT. Unfortunately, not everyone has the means to pursue professional help, for a variety of reasons. Of the 40 million people in the U.S. with anxiety disorders, only 1/3 of them are actually seeking help. We're hoping that Pacifica can help bridge that gap, ideally helping people find the care that they really need.
Practice common habits from people who carry good health into old age. The science of nutrition is more confusing and contradicting than ever.
this is great and you're right, software is never done, only abandoned ( http://john.do/software/ )...

the challenge is that i wasn't aware of many of the issues until we had a plethora of users (which is great). i can only catch so many via testing and alpha-users!

thanks for your patience, that means a ton. it really does as an indie developer.

finally, i try to point a lot of people to our community forum, which has grown quite nicely over the last 3 months. there's a lot of help there and said caveats. i can always do a better job in this department though, so, thanks for the kind reminder!
There is https://tokbox.com/opentok/

It's probably the backend used by the forthcoming Mozilla Hello, as the two companies have ties (in Firefox OS).
That was part of why we built this. Give me a message at icecomm.io@gmail.com - I'd love to help you build one!
Q: "What does it do?"

A: "A utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras."

Q: "Yeah, but what does it do?"

A: "Oh, nothing but it does it consistently, modularly and performant. We also have functions for string handling in the extras module."
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Are you serious?

I wonder what Barrett Brown would say about this topic, if he wouldn't sit in prison right now:
http://boingboing.net/2015/01/22/barrettbrown.html

Are you aware that (h)activists from around the world do not travel to the USA because they fear the consequences, having their equipment seized or being imprisoned?
Do you know why Laura Poitras is living in Berlin right now?
this comment will go nowhere, but, i'll try...

you're right. i should have taken a step back here. i am being hypocritical and i am (was) wrong. great catch and thanks for that safaridevelop.
There really is a labor shortage in Japan and has been for a long time. Govt data shows as much as a 1.1:1 job:job seeker ratio. However, the parent poster is right in that a big part of the problem is that most of the jobs are crap (part-time/temp, terrible pay). I see job-wanted signs in every other restaurant/cafe I pass, but honestly, I don't think most people consider part-time $10/hr at Yoshinoya a long-term career path.

Still, you can take a look at the the search results for "japan labor shortage" yourself. https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+labor+shortage Everything from construction, shipbuilding, airlines, and other kinds of skilled work are also feeling the heat. (other big parts of the problem are lots of skilled labor retiring every year, and terrible hiring, labor and super-xenophobic immigration policies)
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What's the feeling on the morality aspect of this? In a way it seems like the same situation as if US designed and manufactured weaponry were used against a US friendly power by some third party - is it analogous though?
Especially in recent years I've encountered a growing number of entrepreneurs who proudly called their companies tech start-ups, but who had no affection for technology whatsoever.

But worse, they actively seemed to dislike the kind of people that do love tech, i.e. nerds, hackers, engineers and such. These were young kids, the stereotypical "cool" start-up founders, but the way they talked about engineers and engineering made you think you were talking to 50 year old pointy haired bosses with not an ounce of respect for technology.

And they keep saying completely the opposite, they keep saying "we love tech", and they actually seem to mean it. Except everything else they do or say indicates the opposite. They just like to use tech, but are completely uninterested in the process of developing tech.

These people aren't just greedy cunts who are in it for the money. These are people who have grown up in a world where consuming technology has become so normal and easy that they simply don't get that creating technology is a totally different process.

And I'm not yet sure whether these people should be avoided or educated.
down voting on HN has become absurd. Also noticing this on other comments in this thread.
Yep, one might think that one could manage a decent description by version 3.0.0
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HN discussion on the first point from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7831355

I'm still of the opinion that the space at the top makes sense. I sometimes drag windows to the top to maximize, and like the inverse operation of dragging from the top to restore -- behaves consistently like any other regular Windows application that doesn't mess around with their titlebars.
It's extra stuff that should be in the standard library but isn't.

These days, a lot of it is actually in the standard library - for example, array maps - and invoking lodash just calls the es5/es6 built in, with a slightly uglier syntax.
Yes, that's why he's calling it out. What's your point? Should we not care about this case, because others are abusing it as well? Two wrongs don't make a right. Two hundred wrongs neither.

It sounds trite, but you're changing the subject. And when every post like OP's has a reply of the tone "Pff why do you even bother naming and shaming one guy who did wrong; don't you know everybody's making a farce of Je Suis Charlie?", it conveys hopelessness. It's demoralizing and it's a conversation killer.

We get it. Every politician is a hypocrite. Okay. Can we stop using it as a condescending dismissal of valid points, now, please?

I, for one, would love to know more about the specific details of Zuckerberg's alleged hypocrisy, so I can judge for myself.

Edit: ps: Upvoted you because I agree. I just want to highlight that your post should not be taken as a rebuttal against OP.
From the article: "They were springy, chewy, and resilient. They were ramenized."

How do you go from that to assuming they're talking about mushy overcooked instant ramen? Given the authors' previous work on their blog, I suspect they're aware of fresh ramen and its properties.

They probably could've used the term "alkanized" instead, but that's pretty dry and technical.
I wonder how much longer he'll have that liberty in the US.
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Because the US shares intelligence with those governments. In some EU countries it is illegal for the government to spy on its citizens (also see the US pre-9/11), so the US spies on those countries and then relays the info back.

Pre-9/11 this is also how the US worked. The UK spied on the US and the US spied on the UK, thus both subverting national laws, they then shared intelligence with one another (which is legal) and thus the loophole was born.

This is actually the system the US is going back to, it is becoming politically unpopular for the NSA to spy on American Citizens, so GCHQ will likely take over the majority again, the reasons they couldn't after 9/11 was that the workload increase too much in too short a period, and the systems didn't yet exist.
Freezes and crashes on sites as complex as Giantbomb. I'm still not convinced Javascript is a good platform for desktop apps.

If Github can't make Atom fast with their pools of money...
Yes, you can. I've successfully done so in a Backbone/React app.

The _.chain() method furthermore gives a nice functional style ways of building lists which is useful when building UI in React, like so:

var list = _.chain([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
.filter(function (value) {
return value > 2;
})
.map(function (value) {
return value;
});

console.log(list);

// prints:
// [3, 4, 5]
I think It could become more like hyperlocal twitter. What are you thoughts man?
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