skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
15 years ago that might have worked, and even then 9/11 would have spooked all the level headed people enough to get laws railroaded through that would take the sting out of all of the above.

Now the horse has bolted and the barn is empty.

> Pressure technology companies to harden their systems against NSA surveillance

Tech companies are only going to be heard in one way: by boycotting the ones that don't have their customers best interests at heart.

> Create a global movement that encourages user-side encryption

User side encryption is great but with the number of exceptions and the way users have been trained to click 'ok' and 'accept' whenever presented with a dialogue box you'd need a major attitude change before that could become effective. In short, nobody cares because they believe they are not the ones in any kind of trouble or under suspicion.

Even here on HN where there is I'd hope a better basic understanding of these issues there are plenty of people in the 'I've got nothing to hide' camp as well as those that believe the state is holy and should be given every benefit of the doubt. This goes for the USA as much as for other countries.

> Encourage the creation of secure communication tools that are easier to use

That one might actually work. But there will always be a fundamental conflict between security and ease of use.

> Reform Executive Order 12333

Not enough data.

> Develop guiding legal principles around surveillance and privacy with the help of scholars and legal experts worldwide

Lots of paper will be produced, lip service will be paid and nothing will change.

> Cultivate partners worldwide who can champion surveillance reform on the local level, and offer them support and promotion

That's pretty vague but it might work and at least help some situations but for the most part the adversaries are nation-states and those have a lot more power and capabilities than you're going to be able to deal with from a local point of view. Bottom line: if they want your data they'll have it.

> Stop NSA overreach through impact litigation and new U.S. laws

The NSA will simply continue to do what it is doing today, only it will try harder to stay out of the public eye.

> Bring transparency to surveillance laws and practices

Good luck with that. Even today we don't have the whole story about what happened 40 years ago, let alone that we'll get transparency in such a timely manner that those directly affected by these activities will be able to make a stand.

As you can see from the above I'm not exactly bullish on this effort, I sincerely hope they'll make an impact but I think that the only place where you could really make change is at the ballot box and sadly that one does not figure into the plan at all.
"Without these elements flat design critics complained about the difficulty in noticing if a button is clickable or not."

Yet nobody underlines the links (e.g. HN). I have to guess if specific shade of text means something. At least I can recognize colors and have a mouse.
I wonder how browsers in the past used to work? A single tab takes over 200MB these days.
Women in technology must speak out, you can’t be what you can’t see
Would have been better that you hadn't mentioned using tor then hmm?
Open and openly arbitrary disappearing, detention, and torture of intellectuals for the crime of writing articles critical of state-sponsored religious and political doctrine

Al-Awlaki? He was not accused of killing anyone himself, but got drone striked for writing terrorist propaganda. So did his son (for having Al-Awlaki as a father, no less). That seems like a pretty close fit.

Corruption to a degree that renders the public health infrastructure so dysfunctional that tens of thousands of people die needlessly

That's a funny example. Most people in western non-US countries would say the US meets this definition handily.

All that said, your point stands. There are worse governments than the US government. But lots better too.
Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and for All
My thinking is that the Saudi actions right now are more geopolitical than they are aimed at the oil market. I guess the oil market itself is pretty geopolitical, but I see a strong possibility for some anti-Russia, anti-Isis quid pro quo between the US and Saudi Arabia.

(It's win-win for them if they put the pinch on new production, I'm just not sure they are hugely concerned with that)
>their stockprice would make a big jump

Assuming they has 110k people doing nothing much important. I rather doubt that. IBM isn't that badly managed.
What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intel Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers [pdf]
Ok, now also the Mac version is twittable:

echo 'const int main[]={1208,114434,2370306048,2101,834048,84869120,1818577091,1461743468,1684828783,10};'|cc -xc -ot -&&./t

The trick is to use retq instead of a sys call to exit and to strip some of the code that the compiler create when you call a function (pushq %rpb; moveq %rsp, %rbp; movl $0x0, eax;)
What is your alternative then? Push them and if they don't respond throw them out onto the street?

Once your children understand that you won't actually throw them out, any conversation pushing them is just negatively reinforcing their impression that interaction is a problem, not a solution.
At a guess, no.1 objective would be to get eyeballs. The money would likely come from the search box/URLs default once they have some scale.
Why not CTRL+PGUP / CTRL+PGDN ? Requires less fingers too.

EDIT: Sadly Vivaldi doesn't seem to support CTRL+PGUP / CTRL+PGDN yet.
> It's kind of remarkable how little we know about the most basic functions of our bodies.

We have some of how it works; GABA was first synthesized in 1883! The problem is that we have no idea of the situation on an individual level. In this case until the spinal tap came back positive for abnormally high GABA levels, all we have to go on is the patient's report.

Fortunately in this case, high GABA levels can be measured via a spinal tap and while the article ends abruptly, the 'what next' is that his GABA is too high, so... lower it. Hopefully a drug can be found that does that sustainable.

Unfortunately, for other mental disorders, there's no such test, and no way of knowing what's chemically wrong, so for depression which probably has a whole host of causes, all we can do is try different drugs until we find one that works for a particular patient.

For now, the medical tricorder remains unfortunately in the realm of science fiction.
Security as Stencil
> Of course there are macro-economic arguments against it

If there were, wouldn't the market eventually take care of it?
It's very popular in Europe, even more so (as far as I've heard) in South America, where it's used mainly instead of SMS. Heck, even my father use WhatsApp and I can't make him stop clicking on "You have 1 new message" ads. Though I deleted my WhatsApp as soon as it was acquired by Facebook.
Don't mistake my description for advocacy - heaven should not be for so few, nor should it be so judgmental and so brittle.

As for your comments about movement - try to keep some perspective! While the TSA is an icon of everything wrong with our security climate (security theater, irrational assessment of risk, irrational assignment of resources, and a banal humiliation meted out to those who can't afford to skip the lines) it is, at least theoretically, under our control. The next President could dismantle the whole thing (although I'm not sure what statutory restrictions there are - certainly the President and Congress could change things if they wanted).

No one wants to be the one to dismantle the TSA, because when the next attack happens (not if, when) they'll get the blame.
ShellCheck
Limiting freedom of expression is never refined.
But being owned by Facebook, and their previous security record, has massacred WhatsApp's credibility amongst many users I've spoken to it seems.

Which users do you speak to?

I have lots of friends who are not technology-minded and zero of them care that WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. Heck most of them don't even know. It doesn't have the FB logo anywhere. I think this is a non-issue.

What's more, my experience has been that most of my friends (on the rare rare occasions when it comes up) trust WhatsApp a lot more than most tech products, because it doesn't have any ads and asks them for money occasionally. Though lots of us don't actually seem to get charged. I keep being given free extensions.

WhatsApp has huge network effects at this point, it's the de-facto standard outside of the USA. So implementing the TextSecure protocol is a huge deal. Not only does it directly help lots of people but it sets a precedent that PFS is not only for nerds and geek products but can be integrated into consumer products too. It raises the bar for everyone else.
Really nice to see that there's now an auto-curried, function-first version, lodash-fp! I've been really attracted by Ramda JS recently for this reason.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp
Work on new foundational layer is ongoing: https://github.com/breach/thrust
>to suggest that kids who have never left the nation, let alone their own homes, have somehow adopted the cultural norms of cultures thousands of miles away just by consuming their internet leavings seems more than a bit questionable.

I don't completely agree with the post you're replying to, however this part is not so far fetched to believe. It doesn't matter much how often these people go outside, the Japanese media and culture is vastly focused on Anime (at least for these shut-in people, which are one of their target audience) and there has been a constant cross-pollination between the western and eastern cultures. A lot of people are living a more western 'make-believe' culture in Japan that easily goes against their traditional set of moral values. The Japanese world is changing and we're still seeing this major cultural shift, which very well might be the cause of this, or at least a catalyst.

As a matter of fact, these people are much more detached than the rest of the population and are much more susceptible to the western Internet cultural phenomenon to such an extent that it might be changing their point of view in such a way that they find themselves unable to fit into their actual culture. Obviously this is all my hypothesis, it might very well be unfound.
Ride Share Delivery Service Roadie Launches with $10M in Funding
Lars Andersen: Everything you know about archery is a lie
I wonder if you would still say this after years of staying home without ever leaving it.
It's funny because its Mozart's birthday not Vivaldi's.
Vim is one of the most successful open-source software programs of all time. It's been going strong for over two decades.

Neovim aims to replace it, but it is not a new generation of vim, it is a new and completely different project by different people, that may or may not succeed.

I wish them the best of luck, but it is by no means clear that Neovim will ever achieve close to the user base that vim has today.
She probably died within two years.

As ars say above, falls in older people kill a lot of them within 2 years.

If you're over 65 and have an unplanned admission into hospital you're probably not going to end up back at your home. Only about 1 in 4 people end up back in their homes. The others die or end up in nursing or care homes. (This is in England; it might be different in US, especially with the medicare distortions which mean much more money is spent on people over 65).
> Your public IP has always been available to a Javascript developer who knows enough to write a one-line PHP script that prints $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] (as an example).

The demo shows both my USA VPN IP address and my China Telecom IP address under "public addresses" (I strongly doubt this was possible before WebRTC). This means that Hulu, YouTube, Netflix etc. can now start blocking me even when I'm behind a VPN.
> * was a housewife in Germany - but then her husband told her to pack her bags and leave the country. *

n.b. housewife in Germany != German housewife;
ESports CS:GO bans match fixers from tournaments
> That's a heck of an assertion. Just because there are bad people we can't know what our government does?

Yes. Your intentions aren't malicious. There are many millions of people whose intentions are malicious. It takes very few of them to do you, your family, your neighbors serious harm.

It shocks me how many people on this site seem to not understand that sometimes.

How is it logical that a few kids in SF building some world-changing piece of software is expected, but a few kids in _____ building a piece of software and whaling a few executives in the DOD, DOJ, DOE and damaging critical national infrastructure is beyond possibility.

How how does is it not clear that exposure of an infrastructure of information gathering would eradicate our ability to do anything but read newspapers about what's going on in the rest of the world?

Yes we need better or different protection against domestic spying. As always technology is ahead of the government, and the professional politicians are simply not technology savvy enough to understand the implications of what they let happen.

We need a continuation of the values and knowledge development that our current tech-centric generations hold. When young people start not caring about how their tech works, is when we'll end up with more of the same convenience over propriety issues we're currently dealing with.
It's a Chrome app. Not exactly browser based.
Ra – A text editor for Chrome
Google Directly Embedding Stack Overflow Responses in SERPs
have somehow adopted the cultural norms of cultures thousands of miles away

Not adoption of new cultural norms, but corruption of existing cultural norms. I would offer parallel in how soviet block was disturbed by western culture. People were not so keen to build communism anymore,since they saw alternatives.
I'm french, and we recently discovered how "preserving the serenity and innocence of a population" involved very different means for radical islamist than what we usually think.

Censoring childish humour in the name of religion only prooves how mentaly unevolved those people are. Nothing else.
MRU drives me batty. It mostly makes sense for applications (Alt+Tab et al.) but for documents like webpages the "index" is right there in my tab bar. Why expect me to remember the order I last looked at them?

On a related note, Shift+Cmd+[] doesn't work in Vivaldi for tab switching, unlike every other browser on OS X. Dealbreaker for me.
Am I reading this right ? The children were abandoned by both parents ?
Mobile Binary Machine
Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban
To be very honest I'd rather move to a remote place getting away of this evolution.

Honest question: What's stopping you?

A huge number of people say they'd readily give up life in a nation that infringes their privacy for a different life away from prying eyes, but very, very few people actually bother to do it. There are plenty of nations where surveillance is still at the 'none' level, beyond a few paper records for things like passports and car registration. And generally they're quite cheap to live in and have nice weather. So why are you still living in the apparently awful conditions where you are now?

Could it be that privacy is actually much less important to you than ready access to, say, a good internet connection?
Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger
Koreans definitely study like crazy - probably more than any other country in the world and much more than they should. Many students come home from school only to spend the entire afternoon + evening at cram school in order to "prepare for their future" - which ironically will end up being an average pay desk job.

They definitely work long hours as well and have ridiculously high suicide rates - higher than Japan's and third highest in the world.
It's easy to not care when there's no context or indication as to what Lodash might be. Too many links, not enough time.

I did click -- but only because a previous comment made it seem like Lodash was something related to functional programming. If it hadn't been for that comment, I have ignored the post, because I wouldn't have had a clue WTH Lodash was.

Now, sure, people who've already used or heard of Lodash are going to know, but they're probably already following it on Github. :-) The unwashed masses like me won't have any idea.

I guess the key here is to try to make the title give some indication of what the thing is.
A mechanical typewriter and some white-out correction fluid?
Mira fractal playground
I use Lodash but i see not point in this announcement in its current form - what changed exactly?

[edit] Changelog is there https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog

Some decisions sound really weird, such as the fact that forEach is now lazy. It is not a standard replacement anymore, and probably break the compatibility for quite a few apps (even if I'm deeply convinced that we should all use the native functions and shim them when needed).
In classic Opera browser if you prefixed your search query with a letter it always searched with engine associated with the letter. For example:

`g thisissearch.com` would be interpreted as Google search query, not url. I think this is good behaviour.
Looks more like a "SW update gown wrong" scenario. People reported problems a few days before already, empty timelines and such. They roll out incremently. Those kind of problems quickly affect the backends.
Ask HN: Website testing service, with a focus on improving conversion rates?
There are many website review / testing services that will make a video of a person testing your site and giving feedback, but the feedback is almost always with regard to design.

As many of us who've done conversion optimization for years know, often prettier != higher conversion rates.

Does any review service exist that focuses on giving conversion optimization feedback? Obviously you can test conversions with real users -- but they can't really give you tips.
Speculating on outages at web juggernauts is squarely within the HN remit of business and web tech.
Happiness is very hard to define. Some people (most of them, actually) might be content with what they do, it doesn't mean that they are intrinsically happy about it. I've spent my fair share of time in isolation and I have to say that I've always felt happy about my lifestyle until I realized how much I missed my friends and family or even just going outside. I only realized this after the fact, not during. The problem is that your perspective of the world around you is warped and can easily lead you into thinking you are happy with what you have, simply because you are too afraid to go out and experience what you're missing so you just start believing this is what you want.

For some people, it might be true, though. Regardless of this fact, this is a very unhealthy and unsustainable lifestyle which should be corrected and these people should be helped. I don't see it much different from somebody being addicted to drugs. Sure, they might be happy taking drugs, but that's not going to work well forever. (Obviously this is an exaggerated example)
Its not a new javascript engine.

Its not a new rendering engine.

So basically its just a different UI skin on chrome. That's cute, but its not a new browser.

It's the same browser with a slightly new UI.

Count me as skeptical and unexcited.

I am similarly unexcited by the 'it's browser' webkits views in android and ios, for exactly the same reason; they're dime a dozen, and lack any compelling reason to switch or use.

(Servo, by comparison, is a new rendering engine, with new features that make it extremely interesting)
I sometimes feel the Hacker News crowd are a bit out of touch with the rest of the population.

Here in the UK most people I know feel safer with surveillance, it's used primarily to keep law and order.

We don't live in some authoritarian state where it's used for nefarious means, it's used to keep the public safe.

And seriously, why would you care if you're sitting on a database? What difference does it make to anything?

And I want to know when this mythical time was when we all had total privacy? I don't understand what bothers people so much about a person in a CCTV monitoring station looking at them sitting on a bus, or a spook reading the emails I send to my parents. Honestly, no-one cares.
Provided it is not open-source, it can repeat the fate of Opera Presto one day...
My first thought was: "Crap another browser. Fun times." - but I guess it will be alright since everything seems to run on bootstrap & co anyways ...
Your PhD Matters
The lodash & lodash-compat npm packages now come with modules baked in too.
Perfect for Browserify!

// load the modern build
var _ = require('lodash');
// or a method category
var array = require('lodash/array');
// or a method
var chunk = require('lodash/array/chunk');

This is great. It combines trust and quality with modularity.
Nice. Thx.
Ask HN: Is HN a threat or a thread for spies? What's the inverse of a lobby?
I was just reading the 173 comments to the post "U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars (wsj.com)", and I was thinking that the HN crowd has the power of knowledge and experience to combat spies first hand. Obviously there isn't any word to describe the inverse of a lobby, but if such word were added to our culture HN could be one of its first examples. Many heads and one heart is a weak scene because of an heart attack, so create a culture of freedom in your heart.

Edit s/thread/threat in the title.
Edit s/threat/threat or a thread just to reflect both are plausible.
Brits banned from leaving the country if they are in debt
Me, and probably anyone who uses a browser with something closer to ten than ten thousand tabs. I don't keep a list of the last 8 tabs I used in my head.
no ctrl+shift+t??
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PIMx8pYvMEw/Uek_GUQ-OCI/AAAAAAAAA_...
Looks like this could become a great companion for minimalist and customisable window managers such as OpenBox/awesome/xmonad. I always hated how Firefox/Chromium stood out like a sore thumb in an otherwise toolkit-less (i.e no gtk/qt) environment.
Thanks for the link, I was expecting a CHANGELOG file in the project.
You can allocate it fully even here, it's just that accessing some addresses is slower than others.

That's a shitty situation. If you want really fully guaranteed specs and performance, buy a workstation card.