skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He called a friend — a military veteran with contacts at the FBI — and soon the bureau unearthed a suspicious legal trail and launched a criminal investigation. In that case, Ervine handed over the information he had collected on the family and spoke with law enforcement.

He thought the matter was over. Yalincak was convicted of fraud, sentenced to 42 months in prison and then deported.

If one hasn't been on the wrong end of this kind of situation, one might miss the significance of this part of the story. It could be argued that NPR is actually misrepresenting this process, by omitting the certain fact that Ervine paid this "friend" tens of thousands of dollars for this FBI-as-my-own-taxpayer-supported-private-investigation-and-fast-track-to-federal-prosecution-service. Much of that money either has or will make its way back to the FBI agents who did "the work" on this case. Yes Virginia, this is corruption. Normal citizens don't have Hoover's Gang at their beck and call anytime they're disappointed by a business experience.

Since FBI can generally make a case against any innocent victim who comes to their attention, it's far from clear that Yalincak ever actually did anything wrong. ("proposed a sham hedge fund"? What the hell is that?) It is clear that this Asian immigrant and his family disappointed this rich well-connected asshole WASP Ervine in some business deal, and then he spent 42 months in federal PMITAP. Any human being would be frustrated with that situation, and might even publish his account of that frustration online. (Which account seems to have disappeared into some memory hole, but maybe that's the point?)

Fuck Jeff Ervine, and fuck anyone who uses his wealth to hide the fact that wealth is based on fucking people over. Question: do we think little Jeff has something to do with this URL?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakan_Yalincak
I was slightly surprised to see scrypt so high up the list, given its vulnerability to cache timing side channels.

Is this because you think the side channel isn't that important, or that getting the params for argon2 right is complex enough that you're cautious about recommending it more strongly, or is there something else that I'm missing? Apologies if you answered this elsewhere - I had a look and didn't find anything.
If you look at the whole as a non-personal system, then yes. When you e.g. see your city has suddenly more murders than before, you probably take it as a valid feedback and try to do something about underlying causes.
I am not trying to insult her but I saw that "style" of making youtube videos and web sites in other people most of them are above 30 and not to bright. I saw similar videos from one old man that likes to talk about demons and how to save our souls from satan and he makes this videos with demons and people in some kind of old graphics.

ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4BTBMe_Um4
he talks about how satan tempt us with womens.

Or take this guy for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU

They all think that what they do is nice and beautiful and nothing wrong with what they say or do. And I also remember hi5, they let you change color of your page and usually the people that were not that smart used a lot of ugly colors similar with these websites.
Is security clearance a hard requirement?
"The Chrome Devs" is not a single entity, it would seem.

These don't seem like the same "The Chrome Devs" who broke every WebAudio app in existence by removing .noteOn within 12 months of .start being proposed as a replacement for it.

And that was a case where there was absolutely no long term harm keeping the recently deprecated method name around. It just seemed tidier to some junior dev someplace and nobody questioned it. There is actually a thread someplace where they moved it back by a build so that they would have a chance to fix Google's "Chrome WebAudio Showcase" site which had broken because of the change.

In this case though, I disagree that we're talking about backward compatibility. That's about not breaking things you previously released with things you release in the future. It takes Microsoft-Windows-esque attention to detail and testing effort to ensure you never break some fool's reliance on an undocumented feature.
Nobody is suggesting that, quite the opposite, actually:

> Or Google and Facebook will be held to a higher standard of compliance.
Sunken cost fallacy at its best.
> A move like this would definitely not win Linux any friends, because as it turns out the Linux Desktop really isn't that great and you'd just be causing a huge headache for a lot of people

They released HL2 as a Steam exclusive (IIRC), and your description of Linux now was how you'd describe Steam then (not great, a headache). It won Steam lots of friends and set it on its money-printing way.

I'll be the first to agree that there isn't much on the line for Valve now, given that Microsoft has pulled back from the more extreme plans of Windows-Store-exclusivity fuckery, which was an existential threat to Valve.
Anki is a lovely piece of FOSS, but its best to create your own deck(s). The process of making them, allows you to learn the content, and you're immediately familiar with the content as well. Pretty much like reading a book for studies the first time.
> Be sure to remind youtube of their power and responsibility after tragedy strikes.

To be clear - they aren't actually responsible for an active shooter showing up on campus. It sounds like you're saying they could have some responsibility in someone coming to their office with a gun.
Do you lose the push notifications when you use the custom firmware?
It's been alleged that her videos were genuinely controversial (vegan screed, animal violence depictions). How is a support team going to fix that?

And the right to sue for redress of grievances is covered in the first amendment, for goodness sake. She didn't exercise it.
YouTube is so popular that it’s indirectly censoring private content by getting all the traffic.
One trick that works for some topics is to limit your search to a custom time range like pre 2005 or so. Specifically this only works for information that would have been available then, but when that is the case you can avoid a ton of modern spam.
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Diagnosing mental illness based on someone's poor UI skills is dangerous pseudoscience.
There's some rather telling content on that site about her mental state.

http://nasimabc.com/sitebuilder/images/car_attack_nasim2-426...

She feels paranoid like everyone is out to get her and it probably didn't help that when YouTube "attacked" her online, it was direct, unambiguous, attributable to a distinct entity (to her at least), etc.

When she ran over some debris in the road she came to the conclusion that anti-vegan (she identifies strongly as a vegan) businesses hired unspecified criminals to harm or kill her, and that they did it because of the stickers on her car.

She might have honestly been deluded into thinking that YouTube wanted her dead.
When the media attacks you for doing something, you should question the repercussions of changing that thing before you do it. Obviously you cant have perfect hindsight, but use some common sense.
The lack of mention of Vocaloids strikes me as interesting/odd: they're literally virtual pop stars/idols.

And while they're not intended to look or pass as humans they "give" hours-long packed concerts: https://youtu.be/HI0mv7P_sRk
Well, about that:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/15/a...

There's also increasing problems inside first world countries: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/blog/2014/06/uk-hunger-...

It's also possible that hunger is a leading indicator of conflicts. I've heard this cited as a cause of the Arab Spring, and water conflict is a factor in the war in Yemen.
Yea. To even suggest this is Youtube supports fault is absurd.
Most likely the enforcement would be applied as a restriction on any future business done in the EU assuming the US company refuses to pay the fine.
This wasn't just right wing vlogers, the spread of ISIS is at least partially attributed to their videos posted to youtube. A few years ago when there was a research project on censoring them everyone said this would happen, it's a shame that it involved people getting shot.
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Just to expand a bit on what theomega was saying, the node_modules folder should generally be excluded from the repository.

The idea is that anyone can grab a copy and run npm install to get the devDependencies listed in package.json. Not only does that keep your repo cleaner but it also lets the package manager handle the management of packages.

The last part is the important bit. Anyone running npm install after Coveralls 3.0.1 came out, for example, would get the updated version and all the correspondingly updated dependencies. As it stands, anyone who grabs a copy of your repository and uses the included node_modules won't get all the non-breaking incremental updates to all the dev dependencies, their dependencies, etc.
Because youtube didn't employ her. She was never hired, and so can't be fired, in any sense of the word. If anyone thinks that they are working for Youtube, then they must be delusional.

Edit: I meant if anyone thinks they should depend on youtube ads for income, they are delusional.
I get how that gets some channel into trouble: politics, guns. Than channel was apparently a Iranian-American vegan animal rights activist.

I’m not a vegan, but I don’t see the point in opposing them. Other than the banter about how in-your-face they can be, do people violently oppose vegans, or animal rights activists? She was upset over a workout video being age-gated: who would oppose that video?
The YouTube ad-pocalypse was a set of terrible policy decisions from Google. They demonetized a ton of legitimate YouTube channels in a rush to appease their advertisers. Only after much outcry, did they re-enable the monetization for some of those more popular channels. But many channels remained affected by it.

You would think that with all of this talk about "human-beating AI" lately, these things would be better and more precise by now. But they're not. It's almost looks like they've gotten worse. Unwarranted censorship on social media platforms is just as rampant as fake news and manipulation is.
Why is it a "horrible" tactic? Citizens have a right to free speech, not to make massive profit off of it as a corporation.
There was a black mirror episode about something very similar. "The Waldo Moment"
I can't help but think of of the Tunisian guy who was trying to eke out a living, faced his own Arbitrary Machine (the state in this case) and lost, getting de-monetized. Then set himself on fire, more or less starting the "Arab Spring."

If you never read of the Tunisian man, from wiki:

> Twenty-six-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi had been the sole income earner in his extended family of eight. He operated a vegetable or apple cart (the contents of the cart are disputed) for seven years in Sidi Bouzid 190 miles (300 km) south of Tunis. On 17 December 2010, a female officer confiscated his cart and produce. Bouazizi, who had had such an event happen to him before, tried to pay the 10-dinar fine (a day's wages, equivalent to 7USD). In response the policewoman insulted his deceased father and slapped him. The officer, Faida Hamdi, stated that she was not even a policewoman, but a city employee who had been tasked that morning with confiscating produce from vendors without licenses. When she tried to do so with Bouazizi a scuffle ensued. Hamdi says she called the police who then beat Bouazizi.[35] A humiliated Bouazizi then went to the provincial headquarters in an attempt to complain to local municipality officials and to have his produce returned. He was refused an audience. Without alerting his family, at 11:30 am and within an hour of the initial confrontation, Bouazizi returned to the headquarters, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_Revolution#Mohamed_Bo...

They are obviously not the same, and the Mohamed didn't attack other people, but as people earn a monetary (or just a social) living on more arbitrary platforms, they are conjoining their own fates to these platforms, for better or worse.

If you ask Fukuyama, Niall Ferguson, or many historians how to build a non-dysfunctional state, they will tell you that rule of law and property rights matter. Systems that can easily and arbitrarily take away one's living (monetary or social) are not good for society.
> Are there any other similar competing services?

itch.io is one such competitor, with lots of interesting games (you need bit of digging for sure).
http://itch.io/
Require videos to be approved by a human before being available to the public.
I don't see a how you could come to a reasonable accommodation with someone who thinks, "You will let me do anything I want on your platform (with full benefits) or I'll shoot you."

This doesn't look like a support issue at all to me.
Mix "other quite similar videos are explicit" with "other videos from the uploader are inappropriate for children" and pour it into an overly-aggressive automated algorithm.
Sure the media played some part but really it seems to fall more on youtube to me. Youtube used to be a steady source of basically reliable income if you had 'made it.' So people flock to the platform, start producing tons of content and basically link their lives not just to the platform of youtube but to the job of video maker. This works out great for youtube, no real competition ever rises up because it can't buy away the big hitters, then once youtube has true, lasting dominance they begin to squeeze the people that got them there, they pay less, they start restricting content and worse as a content creator you can see other big channels getting away with what is prohibited to you. Youtube basically becomes the worst, most arbitrary boss at a piece work, gig economy crap job. And the creators have nowhere to go because all the competition was crushed long ago.

That type of systematic degradation always pushes some people beyond the edge but because internet companies are disconnected from their users/workers they've mostly been able to ignore these side effects. This woman's act is horrific but it's also illustrative of the effects these companies actually have on people's lives.
I kind of think/feel that YouTube is turning into regular TV in terms of the content that is on it, if not the delivery. There's a reason that normal TV is bland and mediocre (for the most part), and that's because it has to be inoffensive for the advertisers to put ads next to. Any sort of risque content has very low-value ads next to it, i.e. gambling and penis pills. So for YouTube to profit it has to be seen as having mostly inoffensive content, which will inevitably drive out any interesting and non-mainstream stuff, for better or worse.
Both sides are victims though.
ah, I understand. The website demo had me confused. thanks for your help!
You don't think any thought was put into these decisions?
There is something very ironic about a person that is supposedly so careful about animal rights that they will change their diet to relieve the pressure who at the same time has no problems in bringing a gun into the offices of a free service and shooting random strangers.
I wouldn't even bother mentioning X86(64) in the context of RISC-V. When RISC-V becomes financially viable for manufacturers they'll switch. Cost alone is enough to justify the change. Most of the innovation happening these days is in the mobile sector with mobile devices replacing more and more of the average consumer's computing needs. This alone has made for some pretty nimble software already. Every device sold with one of those ARM-based processors has an Arm holding "tax." ALL vendors are happy to not pay that tax and will be even happier to have nothing to do with ARM Holdings at all (I've heard they're shit to work with). Arm and RISC-V are both RISC architecture; not hard for software to switch. What happens in the mobile sector will trickle down to the rest of the tech industry. Microsoft has even embraced RISC with Windows on snapdragon devices. I doubt the consumer will even notice a difference.
If you want to look at causes then I fear that it's not the monetization itself that's the problem but youtube's 'burned bridge' approach to communication. I've seen several people complain about the non-communicative stance YouTube has taken, leaving people with little to no ways of recourse.

To me it seems likely that this person felt that this was the only way they could 'reach' YouTube.
I wonder how attacking individuals in court and casting doubt on the causes of their sickness could be of any use against the larger picture, i.e. against the correlation between leukemia cluster and the TCE contaminated area. I also wonder if another dirty trick would work against such cases, where the plaintiff side throws the burden of proof on the defendant asking for numbers deduced from the costly inquiries and how those numbers explain anything in relation with numbers deduced from a non-contaminated area.
This is MY VOICE as rendered by lyrebird.ai - https://lyrebird.ai/g/hFj87pbl - So, tech is out there trying to replicate the actual CHARACTER of individual human voices.
> ...your comment appears to be in defense of free speech, but is actually attacking free speech...

Let's back up. Opposition to free speech looks like using power to shut up ideas. Free speech, in contrast, prefers that ideas are best addressed with better ideas.

So GP criticizing tweets is fine. And I think it's a fair thought to consider whether these boycotts are just a combination of free expression and free association or whether they are more like expressions of social power and therefore bullying.

In defense of the latter view, the rejection of NRA funds has been too immediate to come from economic behavior. So we are left wondering what caused the sudden change of heart. GP might argue that it's fear of blacklisting and punishment at the hands of the relatively socially powerful. Though one could argue that each change of heart was genuine and based on a new appeal to morality and ethics.
> Be sure to remind youtube of their power and responsibility after tragedy strikes.

I don't think they have any responsibility for the shooting. None at all. Whether the videos were demonetized rightfully or not.
that's a plausible narrative but where is the research thst shows this is an actual problem?
There is more of this going on in games than you'd expect actually, we even have some pure research positions open too. Email me @gmail.com and I can send you to our jobs page.
The right to erasure is not absolute, it only applies in certain circumstances. Here's the UK ICO's advice on it: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

In the list of "When does the right to erasure apply?", I'm not sure which one you would argue if you wanted to have your HN comments deleted.

1. The data is still necessary for the original purpose

2. HN doesn't rely on consent for this data (I don't think?)

3. I think HN are using legitimate interests, so you could try to object to the processing. I think HN could argue that their legitimate interests override the objection?

4+ Don't apply

So the only one that might work would be point 3. IANAL but it is in HN legitimate interests to keep the comment.

I'm not certain, it seems a bit woolly now I've written it down. It might depend on the seriousness of your objection.

Overall though I think it's important to remember that the right isn't absolute, you can't just have all your data deleted whenever you like. That's not the point of the law.
I think people maybe don't realize that, like Windows, Steam got to where it is for a reason. Valve knuckled under and built a digital distribution platform for PC games during a severe decline in the PC gaming market when very few people thought it would work.

And it wasn't exclusive, they sold other people's games on there too. Then they helped kickstart the indie gaming explosion with the Potato Sack. Then they started trying to make Linux a better gaming platform to provide an alternative to being locked in to MS. Then they released a non-exclusive VR platform against a competitor that was exclusive.

Say what you want about Valve having a monopoly and that being bad for the market, because that's generally true, but my opinion is that Valve has demonstrated a sincere interest in doing good things for PC gaming, not just what's good for Valve.
You forgot the Whitehouse.
Right, and since most screenshots are jpeg, that means LSB would likely be lost.
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In the air-travel world, a lot of seemingly-random limitations on systems that interface with reservations comes from the fact that they were originally built with telephone interfaces intended for use only by trained staff.

Every few years, for example, someone digs up and reposts one of the articles explaining why some airlines didn't allow 'Q' and 'Z' in account passwords (they were passing things directly through to SABRE on the backend, and so only allowed letters that could be "dialed" on the 1960s rotary phones SABRE was designed to interface with).
Actually there are no expectations in the text of the first amendment but that is for another discussion.

As for libel Google isn't the party that wrote that statement so they aren't liable for libel.

The yelling "fire" thing is a WWI era anachronism that wouldn't hold today.

As for incitement, intent must be proven.

Free speech is very well protected in the US.
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Trump exists partially because the parade of candidates in the primaries was really... not good. For all of his faults, Trump isn't a plastic person.

There's a reason why Trump was seen as a breath of fresh air to many, and a reason why the Russians saw an opportunity in him.
I want to believe this, but I have never seen something about Xiaomi/security. Can you please give some pointers/links/events that happened before