skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Young men are entrapped by criminal gangs into sending them nude photographs, which are then used to blackmail those young men.

But that's just a business model (granted, it doesn't make any difference to the victim). Misogynists threaten for free.

> Arseholes are arseholes because they're arseholes, not because they have a mental illness that causes them to be an arsehole.

My working hypothesis is that well-adjusted people don't spend their free time sending rape/death threats over the Internet.
Thank you for posting—this shed light on my own bouts with hypersomnia in my early twenties. In my case, brought on by Major Depressive Disorder. A normal night's sleep for me was 12-14 hours, and on three occasions I slept 24-26 hours uninterrupted. I cannot begin to describe how disorienting it is to wake up a full day after you went to bed. For me, the hypersomnia melted away when my MDD was under control, and it's heartbreaking that some of these folks in the article can't find relief as "easily."
As a fairly young company, this is something we can clearly improve. The privacy policy we have was written by our lawyers and is fairly standard. Could you expand a bit on what seems murky?

In addition, it obviously isn't enough to just say that "we take privacy very seriously," although we do. While we don't store Protected Health Information, we treat the data we do store as such and are taking the same steps to protect users' data that we would have to if we were.
If you were looking for screenshots (since this is a wrapper around blink) they are buried here under the Press Resources link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ljm9h48qn2x3v33/AAAmdrTw2ISsKKQNR...
(Nobody tell him to lookup Microsoft.com)
I believe google hangouts has just started offering webrtc https://gigaom.com/2014/07/06/so-long-plug-ins-google-hangou...
That's right. Leaders who impose draconian censorship on their own populations and throw journalists in jail are literally leading the parade for free expression.

Leaders like Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

So add Zuckerberg to this ignominious list. He collaborates with these regimes to repress their citizens, then sanctimoniously shouts "I am Charlie" from the world's biggest megaphone.

Makes me physically sick.
I suspect those links are biased because the people writing them want to believe eating vegetables and not harming animals is not only ethically right, but also biologically right. However, I think mainstream science currently holds that humans evolved as natural omnivores, eating both vegetables and meat.
Despite the downvotes I'm inclined to agree with you. For a recent counter-example, Robert David Steele is an ex CIA open source intelligence analyst who didn't become numbed and deluded like this and actually has some meaningful anti-statist insights about the world at large. You know, gems like:

Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away from slavery, were re-commoditized by the Industrial Era.

We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making. Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised 'elites' and 'experts' who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted.

We live in a constellation of complex systems. It is impossible for any single person or even any single organization or nation in isolation to understand complex systems.

It is our obligation to speak of what we know as we know it, not dissembling or deceiving. This could be considered the 'moral truth', and ultimately it is what can be validated by others so that a consensus can be arrived at and shared.

- Robert David Steele, 'The Open-source Everything Manifesto'
You may be technically and structurally correct, but I think most people care far more about how effective democratic checks and balances are being applied to the NSA (hint: not much) rather than classifying it as part of one type of system or the other.
> So it appears this is happening with Stack Overflow knowing about it and approving it, after all -- they implemented schema.org. But at the cost of pageviews?

Having a useful answer appear at the top of a Google search with an obviously link to your site can only help you. It builds your brand as an authority and provides the first link for people to click for problems. I think this is a clear win for StackOverflow.
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"Regin Malware Unmasked as NSA Tool" or NSA Tool found to contain part of Regin malware?
I have a GTX970 and it performs beautifully, and this news makes no difference to my impression - the card is great bang for its buck, and runs everything I've thrown at it without issue, supersampled, at obscene framerates - I've been using it to play elite in the rift, everything cranked, supersampled, 75Hz... yeah. How it manages memory really doesn't matter currently, and it'll be obsolete on the same timeline as its superior sibling.
In Germany around the 16th century, people fought unarmored with blunted swords, and the winner was the first guy to cause a bleeding wound on his opponent's scalp.

We certainly could reproduce that today, but I don't think most people would want to. :)
Are group DMs supported through the API for third-party clients?

The direct capture and upload has been sorely needed, should make on-the-ground reporting much easier.
A spy tool that chirps every few seconds to announce its presence? There are better insects to reference.
How about being an American that has lived in the States, Aussie, and New Zealand over the past five years - I can't escape the Five Eyes shame :(
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If that is the case then the education system is thoroughly broken. It is obvious that a person who took the time to do that learned far more than they would than had they copied one of millions of Hello World examples from the internet.

That being said, I wouldn't rule out a bored TA opening the file not seeing a printf and assigning a grade based on submitting something.
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Oh, I didn't know meteor offered hosting...
Is ARM support on the radar? There is more and more capable ARM hardware by the day, while x86 is not getting any cheaper.

I would be happy to try pfSense on something like BPI-R1 (dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A7, Wi-Fi, etc., $69 for board)

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Newest-arrive-BPI-R1...

http://www.bananapi.com/?layout=edit&id=59
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Playing NSA, hardware hackers build USB cable that can attack
Given the difference in size and userbase, if duckduckgo were to be the one playing catch up on new small features like this, they would really be doing it wrong ...
> "Spying on European officials is a problem with oversight, not with capabilities."

Snowden has showed this to be absolutely false. "Oversight" has been the nominal preventative for spying on our allies for decades, and it has always failed because these are spy agencies we are talking about. Their nature (and job description) is to do things in secret. You cannot oversee what you cannot see. The NSA has a fundamental incentive to hide as much of its activities as possible, and American politicians have a fundamental incentive to look the other way lest they appear "soft on terrorism" or some such nonsense. What few laws constrain the behavior of the NSA, GCHQ, etc are routinely ignored or "interpreted" to their own favor.

You cannot let the technological genie out of the bottle and expect a close watch on the genie to keep it under control. Mass surveillance technology is a pandora's box that you can't control.
In my mind that's conspiracy-theory level claims. Got sources?
Well, if you want to take minimalism to the extreme, there is surf[0]

[0]- http://surf.suckless.org/
Yes, they trained, but their training wasn't realistic combat. They used blunt, often wooden swords, for example, or practiced stuff in slow motion. And we do the same, but it's not the same as actual combat, because in actual combat, people get hurt. You can get a perfect simulation of that without people getting hurt.
I also had no idea what this was until I got to the bottom of the page. Looks like a "better underscore.js". They should just say something to that effect upfront.
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With enough macros you can do anything. I'm not aware of anyone doing this in C, but this is a cool example of doing approximately the same thing in a more easily extensible language: http://wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html
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I suspect this actually increases exposure and traffic to SO. If you look at the quoted data it is definitely not enough to decide if that's the right answer. It's going to get you to click through as you really need context, like vote ups, compare/contrast with other answers, look at context of question, etc. I think it's a bright move on SO's part and they really do control what they share with Google.

It's basically a free ad for SO. Smart.

Also, it could be that Google is paying SO to do this. You never know.
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A long, long time ago, email was invented. Then soon enough, someone created email lists (groups).

No one has invented anything new in this regard, since then.
The problem with that assessment is omnivores don't just eat the meat. They also eat, cartilage, ligaments, organs, skin, etc.

People might love 'Steak and Potatoes' and look down on a hotdog as mystery meat. But chances are the hotdog is closer to what our ancestors were eating. Edit: Ignoring the preservatives etc.

PS: Consider, we acutally need to maintian ligaments etc so not eating such things seems somewhat risky.
> Surely relying on ad revenue from people redirected from search engine results is the short-sighted strategy?

What's the long-sighted alternative?

> It makes your revenue stream rely on the whims of uninterested third-parties.

Involvement with search engines makes your traffic rely on the whims of uninterested third-parties. Ad networks will predictably go wherever the users are. Search engines are rather unpredictable.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a configuration problem."
Technology does matter. It matters if you need it to achieve a certain feature (recurrent neural nets demand a certain level of technology, for example). Competing technologies, matter less. But every decision is debt forming. So future-ready tech is better.
Whoah: "Tested in Chrome 39-40, Firefox 34-35, IE 6-11, Opera 25-26, Safari 5-8"...

IE6+ support! I wonder if that's real, full support, or more like a "there are serious bugs we'll probably never fix for old IE".

Working with old IE versions is loathsome (but still required for some of us), so libraries that just work there are much appreciated.
Thank you for this brief and calm comment on the delicacy of politesse.
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Don't presume to speak for people in the UK.

I'm from the UK and I absolutely, utterly disagree with what you are saying, most of which is baseless.

There have been abuses, there are corrupt intentions at work and there most certainly are people who do not think this level of surveillance is a good thing.
Which one of those (w3m, dillo, netsurf) is your favorite? And how do you deal with privacy in the absence of addons such as Ghostry, adblock, and so on?
This app looks awesome! Lately, I've been seeing so many posts on FB about hanging out and doing stuff locally, but I just ignore them because they're nowhere near me. If people used Shout, they could get more responses because their audience is more focused and not wide open like on Twitter or FB.
> A sword may not be an ideal weapon against an armored opponent, but half-swording with one is still very effective...

That's exactly why I said "nearly". That, and the Mordhau.
What makes a great proposal?
It assumes anything other than 10.* and 192.168.* are public.

https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips/blob/master/index.html...
> CC BY-SA is not the license that Google is using.

Exactly, so their license is not compatible with SO's (which requires Share-Alike) and therefore they're violating SO's license until they explicitly comply with CC BY-SA in those excerpts.

What matters here is which license the source content is distributed under.

> 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

SO added metadata to enable anyone to use their data in any way (as long as they comply with the license).

I'm very grateful for having structured data. Even if schema.org is a Google (+ Microsoft + Yahoo + Yandex) initiative, the idea is to structure the content, not to give it for free.

> therefore it constitutes an implicit license grant to Google.

I don't think it works that way. I'm not sure if "implicit licensing" will hold in court (after all, there is a explicit license contradicting it), but even if it would, the only thing schema.org implies is that the data is structured.

Here are schema.org terms and conditions: https://schema.org/docs/terms.html It never says you give them your content for free.

> IANAL.

IANAL either :)
There is https://talky.io/
Totally agree.

Looks like you have to login and your private medical data is stored "in the cloud." I have no idea why anyone would think this would be a good idea. Storing it locally would be the only remotely sane solution.

I mean, I don't mind telling someone I have an anxiety disorder (and I do have one). But the content of some of those intrusive thoughts is something I don't want anyone to know. Especially not some startup who may sell their company to, say, Facebook one day. Some of my intrusive thoughts are things that I did wrong (10 years ago...). So logging them would mean a third party would have an entire database of almost every mistake I made in my life, out of context. The potential for that to go wrong is... extreme. I'd rather have nudes be leaked.

And the stupid embedded video in a jQuery modal. Stop it, you're making your videos unusable. Let me pause. Oh wait, I can't. I need to pause the video because it runs at lighting speed, so fast it is impossible to gain any information at all from it unless you pause it.
Unlikely, you can't sue the Federal Government without its permission. In any case the NSA would simply say "national security" and boom you are done.
I am serious and I am aware of the issues you raised.

Meanwhile Turkey has to remove pages from FB because they're "offensive", not to mention other issues that happens in the ME.

I am certainly not saying the US has the better situation, and Europe looks good, unless you "offend" some groups of people...

And if you think censorship by DMCA is bad in the US you should know the German GEMA.

Please note that freedom from critique of a country usually is much stronger while being outside of that country.
There is no recursion. Just some parts which have been implemented in C++/ObjC before (like most of the UI) is now implemented in JS.

Besides, the main engine, i.e. the rendering engine, the JS engine and other core low-level parts (all of Blink and V8) are all still implemented in C++.
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> You could quite happily rig elections, arrest opponents, suppress the population etc, while still claiming to be 'democratic'.

There is nothing undemocratic about those thing as long as a majority of people agree to them - though with rigged elections, you might not be democratic for very much longer. "Democracy" is not synonymous with "respecting my values and human rights."

If enough Americans were sufficiently upset about the NSA, it would be gone. They aren't. It's not even a significant election issue.
They used too say that when the project was new. Perhaps now they feel the project is established enough that it can stand on it's own without trying to position it as a drop-in replacement for underscore.
Just going to leave this here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.seroundtable.com/report-scra...
I get about one SMS a month (usually from an old person or an automated system). Whatsapp has pretty much _completely_ replaced SMS here in Europe.
>FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon

See, fuck this. We are all fucked if style begins to trump substance in infosec, like it has in most everything else. Fucking marketing turds. The Grugq is dropping pearls before swine.
For anyone interested in learning more about lodash, Adam Boduch's "Lodash Essentials" book just got released, and covers everything in v3 (he delayed it to make sure it covered v3).

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/lo-dash-essentials
To the surprise of exactly nobody, it turns out that people don't mind being able to access porn.
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If you are running CUDA applications on Linux, you can certainly get the full amount of RAM - just don't let X.org use it.
Agreed. An impressive piece of transparent encryption technology is Apple's Filevault system, which on-the-fly encrypts and decrypts your files when you save them and open them. Users don't need to know it exists at all, it just works.
That's cool, didn't know they offer a standalone version of the server.
Ask HN: Do you have any feedbacks on this architecture?
Right. My grandmother was tack-sharp into her 90s, and her daily diet was pretty much vodka martinis, steak and eggs, ice cream and cigarettes. I'll just do that ...
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>You are wrong. As citizens we can grant and revoke government powers at will.

Theoretically. First you would need someone with these beliefs to run for office. You would need them to win office, in a position where they have the power to change the laws. Then you would need them to resist the temptation to listen to lobbyists trying to change their mind. Then you would need a vote to pass. Then you would need the government agencies to agree (just because the law says something, doesn't mean everyone agrees). Generally this would take going to a high court who forces the government to comply. Hopefully that court is public and not a private rubber stamp committee.

Theoretically, we can revoke government positions. But we need politicians to do it on our behalf, and we don't really have politicians who are willing to do that.
Yes - I deleted my Quora account after catching them doing search-engine cloaking. Their policies make it clear that their priority is juicing numbers for eventual resale rather than building a useful resource.
Well, that depends. I completely agree that needlessly messing around with the cool-database-of-the-week was inadvisable and a waste of time.

But sometimes it's necessary to learn something new. I'm a rails dev who's recently started what is basically a multiplayer game, and which will require many simultaneous connections. I don't know if you know Rails, but it is basically the worst possible technology to use for such a requirement.

It would be ridiculous for me to commence work on a project knowing I was using the wrong tool for the job and that I'd have to rewrite completely if we ever went above 10 or so users. So I'm learning and using something else, and I think that's the right decision.

The trick is in being able to tell when to go with the tried and tested, and when to jump into the new tech. That comes from experience, and you've just gained some :)
> If ((1-p) * s * e) < (m-c)*t

Because `p`, `e` and `t` are so easy to estimate ...
For those interested, here is a really interesting video of Gabe Newell at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs talking about some of the in-game economic problems Valve has faced in the past few years. I think he briefly mentions Yanis somewhere in the middle of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_PGkfIdIQ
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This goes all the way back to ECHELON and Five Eyes. If you look up the ECHELON program, you will find documented evidence of exactly that occurring. There is evidence this and similar programs/agreements has been going on since at least WWII.

Even now, it's well-documented and well-understood that all the first-world allied nations have varying degrees of intelligence-sharing relationships with their SIGINT programs. For example, with the NSA, you have the Five Eyes countries, and also Tier 2 countries like Germany.

I tihnk what also holds them back a little is also the fact it's amazingly hypocritical for them to complain too much, because every industrialized country is spying on every other industrialized country, allied or not. Of course, some are bigger targets than others. The US is obviously the biggest target, but there's smaller scale stuff going on too, as between France and Germany. According to Germany, France is the "evil empire" of industrial espionage perpetrated in part through their SIGINT programs.

The focus on the USA, and the NSA, is misleading. The NSA's role is probably comparable to the US government at large's role in world politics, (biggest, most influential) but all other nations are complicit. I don't intend to sound mean, but I feel like the attitude that so many people had in the wake of the Snowden revelations, that spying on allies was unheard of, unexpected, evil, is breathtakingly naive and historically and contextually unaware, and almost like some kind of twisted expression of the stereotypical American arrogance, that only Americans could commit so great an evil. This is an old, old, old game that has always evolved with technology.

I guess I rambled on a bit there. Sorry.
No.. Government is not about picking a better bully than your neighboring nation and beating them into submission.

What government provides is a practically viable method (kludge?) to reaching consensus on issues where other more reliable methods (like science) fail to do so.

Should "we" build up an army and enslave our neighbor nations or should we rather build up and industry and fabricate something all of them want to have (but can't produce themselves) and sell it to them for horrendous prices? Both alternatives have the same effect, but which one is "better"?

Science can't provide conclusive answers here .. so what do we do instead? In the past we'd ask some designated mastermind deriving his legitimacy from god or a certain bloodline and such. These days we tend to vote on who that mastermind should be or create institutions that allow for more direct control by the nations subjects.

But nothing of this has to do with picking a bigger bully. How big of a meanie you (as a nation) want to be is entirely orthogonal to being a government (or a democracy).
> Built on Web Technology

I wish this trend would end. The few applications I tried out that advertised being built on web technologies were not very well integrated with the OS (UX wise), huge in binary size, very memory hungry and noticeably slower than native alternatives. It's not a selling point, imo.

Especially not when you consider how big a dependency webkit/gecko is and how much bugs and attack surface you're bringing in and are responsible for patching in your end product.
Google "Five Eyes". The Wikipedia article has a bunch of sources to this particular issue in recent times.

Also, IIRC this has been talked about for a long time... I'm pretty sure I read about this practice initially in the 80s/90s, probably in reference to Libyan sponsored terrorism in Europe.
It's only lazy when using the chaining syntax - and that one was never a standard replacement since `_.map(arr, fn)` returns a wrapper around a value and not a value.