skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why care about badges/scores. Just contribute, help and get help. It's great for just that. I find answers to 70% of programming questions I have.
I love the idealism, I really do, but I have to wonder under what criteria this company was accepted into YC? Certainly there's money in law enforcement tools, but there isn't much incentive for LE to pursue trafficked or underage sex workers, nor are they hard to find.

The most common reason I've seen for my friends to be trapped in agencies or abusive pimps has been immigration status, by far. And nobody is doing them any favours by taking them in. LE hates the paperwork so much that a decent way to get out of a pickup is to feign being an illegal alien.

Underage workers are similarly avoided. If you're 16-17 with no fixed address, it's going to be a nightmare of social services for everyone involved before you're spat back out onto the street. (I was arrested twice when underage. Both times they let me go when they saw I was 17 and a ward of the state.)

I don't doubt that there's revenue here though, because LE just loves to do stings. Mostly they're single moms or otherwise trapped by circumstance and trying to make ends meet with a side gig. They're the ones who go quietly, who plead out, who pump arrest records, etc.

Sex trafficking is an immigration/social services problem far more than it is a law enforcement concern. Giving LE more tools to track us is going to make things worse.

I supported myself with sex work when I was a self-sufficient and independent from 15-19. Now I'm a software developer in my late 20's, but that's still my community. I realy wonder if these founders ever actually asked any of us what we thought about this idea before charging ahead?

Note: Throwaway acct. (And I mean throwaway. I'm in an incognito window I'm about to close, with a /dev/random -generated password, and won't be watching for replies. Please leave me alone.)
If you didn't know how the organizer chose the door (which you do, the original problem clearly states it), then your decision needs to be made independently of how the organizer chose it. All you can use are the facts in front of you: you chose a door, the organizer chose a different door, that contained a goat, and offered you the chance to choose. You need to make the best decision you can with the facts that you have.
An even better reason to avoid using Google fonts is that they're frequently slow as molasses. Part of the issue is that fonts are frequently used badly and that browsers often don't handle them well, but it's still one of the more annoying things online.
You don't want the line numbers.
That is simply not true!
SO has changed a few times over the time, discussions, suggestions to improvements are constantly being discussed in meta. For the most of it - most of the changes that I saw in my 3+ years there were good changes. That's a constant uphill battle that must take into account malicious users and trolls.

And to the article writer: once you wrote a question and people responded it is no longer "your" question. It belongs to the community: as an example I'll give you a 3 lines question that was answered by a few paragraphs answer including screenshots, links etc. Who put more effort into it? the OP or the guys that answered ? Now, if you delete such a question - you're deleting all the useful comments and answers as well. And yes, if you try to do that for multiple questions in a row - it looks suspicious and you should be stopped!

As for the "attitude" towards new users, this happens only when the user posts a bad question, and by bad I mean:
1. impossible to understand
2. impossible to reproduce
3. already been asked multiple times
4. HM
or alternatively, posted a question that is far from perfect but can be improved - but then he/she bails off and not respond to comments.

In all the scenarios above - I'd rather have this question put on hold, until the user improves it.

And in general, when you join a community you should put minimal effort in learning the guidelines of acceptable behavior - if you don't like it - don't use it.

Personally, I find these guidelines useful and helpful.

All in all, I like the interface, I find it as a GREAT resource of learning and developing my personal skills, and unlike the author - I LOVE SO.
Unfortunately, it won't help against SSL sites.

Proxomitron will, although its not open-source, its author has passed away, and it's only being maintained by the community. Among the things I use it to block are these "unexpected links to Google" and if it's something like jQuery or fonts I can have the proxy host it locally.
The author of the article isn't saying it's harmful for people searching for questions that already have good answers.

He's saying that people who contribute heavily to the site with answers, knowledge and moderation are probably better off spending that time doing something more productive.

And with the gamification system keeping them at it, it harms them when they could be doing something more productive than chasing Internet points.
As cool as it looks, its almost impossible to get the finer details with these kinds of visualizations.

For example, India apparently exports 10m worth of arms. To find out which countries buy from India is nearly impossible because of the relative scale of the visualization.
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"><\/script>');
</script>

This has to be pretty standard in 2015 right?
The patent system is actually highly problematic because it a) provides no reward for research leading to negative results (which is extremely important to scientific progress) and b) provides the money after the fact rather than while the research is being conducted, requiring scientists to solicit investors up front (and possibly not be able to find any) and then gives the fruits to investors who may or may not reinvest it into future R&D. Then on top of that the patent monopoly makes the new invention more expensive and discourages third parties from making improvements they can't deploy without permission, which reduces the overall value of the invention.

We might actually do better to just throw the patent system away and replace it with massive direct public funding of scientific research. The interesting question then is how to decide what to fund and in what amounts, which seems to be the heart of the problem.

And there is also another point, which is that maybe scientists aren't particularly underpaid, maybe it's that managers are overpaid, e.g. because investors in public companies are so diffuse and distant from the companies they're invested in that they can't prevent executives from paying themselves more than they deserve. If you solve that then fewer people will want to go to business school instead of becoming scientists and companies will have the money they're no longer paying managers to potentially invest in R&D.
My cable company dynamically allocates the bandwidth on the last mile cable so that it only broadcasts what people are currently watching. This ostensibly lets them show much higher bandwidth HD shows and have more channels available than they actually have bandwidth for.

So in this particular case, it's not as wasted as it could be. I even think this might be why they were recently able to bump up all the internet speeds in my area.
Mailgun - since you asked...no correlation. We have distributed teams across the offices.
I'm not saying it's exactly the knapsack problem, but it's quite related. Ordering from largest to smallest does not yield the optimal solution - period.
It's definitely not perfect. Like I mentioned, it was developed on an incredibly tight budget/timeframe. I wish I'd had budget to polish several things like that throughout the site.

I do still think a user that searches the web for a hickory chicken tailgating recipe is still a lot better served by even that imperfect mobile web page than the alternative native workflow though. Not to say that native isn't ever a better choice for some types of apps, of course, but content like this is exactly the web's sweet spot.

(BTW, I've been playing with React lately and am loving it; great work. Looking forward to giving React Native a shot at replacing Cordova for some of my clients)
Lenovo's SuperFish Removal Tool on GitHub
Huh. There's a pop-up that blocks the text, and I couldn't even dismiss it from full screen - I had to zoom out first. And I couldn't leave a comment there.
> This is a new kind of spying, unlike anything that has existed in the history of American society.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to call this "a new kind of spying" all of the data they're using is publicly available. I don't think it's a realistic view for the future that we'll be able to put things we don't want people to know about on public forums and trust that no one's going to build the tools to piece it together. That sounds like a really unsustainable security through obscurity situation to me.
> Mention of someone, to make him/her aware that job may interest him/her

> Someone saying that the company is awesome they have worked there or know the founders, ...

> it's never really bringing anything valuable to the job post.

But both of those things that you listed are valuable! The mocking is a bummer though.
Yeah, I went and read their FAQ, and I'm struggling to see how this tool isn't equally useful to target sex workers.

I'm perfectly willing (in my ignorance) to believe that sex trafficking is a problem worth tackling (in scale, in urgency, etc). But I also (already) believe that anti-sex-work laws act to oppress and victimize already-marginalized women, with dubious benefit (without taking a side on whether this effect is deliberate).

For example, in my jurisdiction (IANAL), although I understand that prostitution itself is not illegal as such, the following things are illegal:

* posting/negotiating prices openly
* operating a place of business for prostitution (a "bawdy house")
* living "off the avails"

This last law is supposed to allow the prosecution of pimps (yay!), but it also means that sex workers cannot hire bodyguards or accountants. The second law is presumably supposed to keep "decent" neighbourhoods "decent", but it also results in more streetwalkers, and more liaisons in minimum-price hotels, and so lowers safety.

It seems sort of obvious that the right direction is to have better laws, and then enforce them. I'm not holding my breath.

And, to return to TFA, in the mean time, what stops LEAs from using Rescue Forensics to pad their docket by harassing already-oppressed sex workers who are not victims of trafficking, merely victims of being poor and desperate.

PS: I salute and hugely respect people tackling social justice problems, and I want to emphasize that I'm not condemning Rescue Forensics, I'm expressing a concern.
If you're referring to a housing bubble, keep an eye on real estate stats, but not the ones the real estate folks release (because they always put it in the best light).

In Canada, units for sales have already tripled in Calgary, while actual sales have decreased. Housing prices have dropped 5%.

It might be the start or it might take longer, but it will happen.
Really? No info at all without logging in? Or am I missing something?
While I agree with your argument regarding the paranoia, I think what bothers users the most is that this is not just some random site, but Google that the resources are coming from.

Understandably, there are users who would prefer to have much less Google in their online experience.
It sounds like an Apple marketer devised the article's title ... ;-)
This was an interesting way to visualise the arms database.

Some patterns are interesting:

What appears to be almost 50% of Russia's exports go to India, while what appears to be almost 90% of China's exports go to the countries surrounding India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a Myanmar).
See, it's funny, because I actually got to see Jurassic Park again recently on a big screen.

On the one hand, I certainly found it immersive as a piece of storytelling, but I could also clearly see the transition between CGI dinosaurs and puppet ones. The flipping between methods didn't trick me as well as it has sometimes in the past.
Just to be clear, Facebook and Google hate any software that allows users to modify content within their walled gardens (whether that's an adblock, ad injector, or other). These companies want a totally controllable user experience in order to maximize their own user metrics and monetization.

My fear is that these companies will use this Superfish debacle to attack and restrict the ability for users to download legitimate software which leverages these technologies. As users and developers, we want to retain this ability.

Adware sucks, and there are dozens of anti-virus companies who should be all over anyone who tries to pull this crap. The problem here is not with MITM, SSL packet inspection or modification. The problem here is that Lenovo allowed themselves to be turned into a distribution channel for a poorly implemented, spammy piece of adware for a few extra pennies.
Introducing Upfront for Wordpress
> Superfish uses a third party library from a company named Komodia to modify the Windows networking stack

This is the second article I've read that states this - Superfish does no such thing.
I totally agree Netflix is overlooking this aspect of live programming.

I would love to see a Netflix 'channel' that loops randomly through the top 100 shows/movies and plays the content live for everyone.
Many of Netflix's recommendations are films I've already seen. I asked Netflix's Twitter account about this and they replied (!!) saying it was a "feature". I guess they don't want to show an empty list.
I'm not sure why a normal user would ever need to add CAs to their root store. Can you clarify?
They're scraping and archiving what used to be considered anonymous postings.

It's not anonymous when people put their phone number in the ad for commercial purposes.
This is just my opinion but

Facebook was a bad idea because MySpace had already won.

LinkedIn was a mediocre idea b/c it would be very difficult to get enough user adoption to be valuable.

Amazon was a mediocre idea b/c people want to go to a bookstore and look at a book before they buy it (usually). Also, that business has no moat (anyone could sell books online).

You're right though - ideas that seem bad are more typically bad ideas. I still think Twitter is a bad idea. :-P

Really the corollary to this is that all the obviously good ideas are already being executed by huge corporations with massive resources and its very hard to compete when you are severely outgunned.

Also, it seems like it's important to have an understanding of the domain that is somewhat counterintuitive and contradicts the common understanding that people have about it.

Also, be lucky. Your "understanding" might be insanity.
Free iOS Designing Sketch Paper
we beat ourselves up about how unproductive we are, not understanding the intrinsic nature of self-teaching.

Agreed.
Realizing an adblock mechanism, for one. (Similar to InterMute in late 90s, and admucher.com now.)
Ah, so this is why Facebook tries to load Flash on almost every page... Allows them to gather data like this. Always wondered why Flash was "needed".

(another reason to put Flash behind click-to-play and/or push for HTML5 video)
Quick Guide to Lenovo's Superfish Adware
This still has to time out on the first request to trigger, right?
It's not about creating the content though. The people at BigMediaCompanies aren't actually doing that. It's about their ability to manage the process. It's not clear that they're particularly awesome at that.
Depends on what you mean by "normal user." It's somewhat advanced, for sure, but many companies use private CAs to issue certs for their intranet sites, and the ability to install those certs on client machines is very useful.
Says who?

Biology. Dying from a cerebral oedema is one way your body tells you "you shouldn't have come here". Rushing quickly up that kind of altitude is dangerous to your health - for example, one of the biggest contributors to altitude medicine was when India rushed an army to the Himalayas in the '60s to counter China [1]. They got a lot of pulmonary and cerebral oedemas, and the sizable affected population really helped the literature in the topic.

Also, keep in mind that the opinion offered was in response to someone basically saying that it was indefensible to not build a gondola ride to the top of everest. I notice you didn't tell that commenter "says who?".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
I had no idea that "MS-centric" meant your site is hosted on Windows. Thank you for clarifying that.

IOW, WTF ???
Plenty of enterprise users need to. There are other reasons too.

I presume 'nugget is talking about the HTML rewriting aspect of the software. Injecting additional/unwanted tracking code == bad, user-requested re-writing of content == good.
GRIP real-time API protocol needed?
In this particular case, I'm not particularly arguing against it, just in general, the way I see things going.

There are lots of other promising ways that people compose Web services beyond this issue with fonts, services like Stripe or Geo, technologies like the upcoming Web Components, embedding media like Tweets, where I don't particularly think we will be served well by a paranoid model.

Your model of blue-links-only almost entirely prevents the kinds of service composition that almost all sites engage in these days.

It's also not clear it's a net win for speed or security. CDN sites are likely significantly more hardened than most regular sites, and most regular sites don't necessarily scale, or don't want to pay to scale, to reach top performance. That means people cut corners.
To the contrary: it has always been difficult to rank questions on Stack Exchange because there are far too few people casting downvotes on questions.
My interpretation might be wrong

Thanks for that moment of intellectual honesty. The following two paragraphs strike me to be as much of a stretch as his theory.

I am more likely to vote up a good deed done by Microsoft because I find it to be more noteworthy than a good deed done by others.

Credit where credit is due is commendable.
A girl tried her best in singing. (Practice Cover)
It's not? Then I suppose princ is a fine name for a print function.
otros mini-typos: published, is awesome.

"All our classes are recorded and plublished. But the live experience it's awesome."
Wow that was gone in a flash!
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> I use an electric typewriter. Nothing beats it for creative writing

There's another use case for typewriters that computer still aren't very good at: filling out forms. I haven't bought one yet but I can definitely see why some companies still use them to fill out pre-printed forms.
There is research on identifying sexual orientation from Facebook profiles beyond those that volunteer thar information.
"We've observed more than a dozen other software applications using the Komodia library" is the scary part.
Lenovo's Superfish Removal Tool Source Code
How do you know one way or the other? Care to enlighten us?
It's accessing the internet from a different IP, not a different location, the whole idea of an IP (without additional information) being equivalent with a proof of physical location will most likely not hold up as a legal concept in a higher court. So called geo-fencing by IP only is fuzzy by definition.

The copy is licensed since it's made available by the distributor to the customer. It's the distributors duty to the determine if a customer is eligible for purchase or not, best way would be having to provide a verifiable invoice address within the region of the granted license. An IP is a best guess at best, but not a verifiable proof of the physical location of the end customer. Netflix doesn't ask for an invoice address, Amazon Prime does. Amazon also has siloed accounts for each market where you would have to have multiple subscriptions in different countries to access the local offerings, where as NETFLIX has only one global platform. If an US-resident purchases a US-NETFLIX subscription travels abroad for a short or long period it shouldn't make a legal difference if a private VPN to the home's IP or a commercial VPN service is used.

By all enforceable concepts the place of purchase of the subscription is the relevant thing for having a valid license for private use, not the place of consumption.

Also I can't see why the first-sale doctrine wouldn't apply here either. Rights holder sold a distribution license to Netflix under certain restrictions (first sale). With Netflix distributing the copy to the end customer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Does not appear to include firearms, or even some classes of crew served weapons. The source db is here: http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers you can get 'get everything' query and take a peak at the categories yourself. From a quick skim, its basically every possible type of actual weapon (as in actually kills things) except firearms and crew served machine guns... and I guess grenade launchers. Portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons are on the list. A lot of aircraft and naval avionics is on the list as well.
What doesn't it do? It is modifying the network stack by intercepting all traffic (presumably through a proxy), right?
What's the current 'substitute'?
Doesn't seem very aspirational to me. The glory in Everest isn't the nice view, but the feat it takes to get there. When people talk about Everest stories, the view doesn't feature very strongly.
Interestingly, that's true for scripts but it's not for webfonts because @font-face allows multiple sources, including local system fonts, and the browser will keep trying until it finds one which works.

Here's a test page:
http://chris.improbable.org/experiments/browser/webfonts/web...

You can see that it first gets a 404 before continuing on to a URL which works:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150221_J4_43K/1/details/
My (not very studied) understanding is that it used SSL Digestor:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150220003144/http://www.komodi...

installed as a LSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered_Service_Provider

"modify the windows networking stack" is not an absurd description of that.
DIY: kernel panic OS X and iOS in 10 LOC
Google has little to gain from these.
No one seriously says prices will never fall. People are just get tired of aimless remarks.
You can repetitively tell a person he will eventually die, one day - but does that make any sense?
Yes – you could do something creative with async scripts but then you're transferring too much data for everyone to benefit only the subset of users who experience failures on the first script.
To be fair, I'm sure any website owner would want to prevent others from modifying their own website and how users view/interact with it.
No, Google Web Fonts tailor served CSS to the browser agent. Now, Firefox receives 'woff' with all requested languages combined in the single file, recent Chrome receives 'woff2' with all available languages in separate files. Try visiting http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400&subset=... in different browsers.
Planet Earth: great resource, bad community.
Can you remember the name of the store? Sounds like a great place to check out.
Can you not just put 127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com in your hosts file?