skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens pretty often, currently other media outlets are pressuring advertisers to pull support from Laura Ingraham and effectively de-monetize the show. That's just the latest example though.

Also, the FCC regulates broadcast TV and commercials. you can't simply run an obscene advertisement just because the station and/or station's audience approves it.
>Respectfully, that's bullshit. There is nothing that YouTube could have done that makes an active shooter their fault.

Why so black and white? I'm arguing for a shared responsibility. I even acknowledge that most of it lies with Nasim just that youtube also shares a piece, I don't think that's really an extreme viewpoint.

>News flash: normal people don't go on a shooting spree when bad things happen in life. This is squarely the fault of a psychologically troubled woman. Discussions about YouTube's monetization policies shouldn't even be part of the story.

Actually I do think some normal people go on shooting sprees when bad things happen in life. The idea that if you commit a shooting you must be mentally troubled seems wrong to me, it allows us as a society to remove our responsibility from these peoples lives. Besides it's not as if being 'psychologically troubled' just springs from the ether. Of course sometimes it can but it can also be caused by life stressors such as the ones youtube introduced to the life of this woman. Take this from Wikipedia:

In 1993, the United States Congress conducted a joint hearing to review the violence in the U.S. Postal Service. In the hearing, it was noted that despite the postal service accounting for less than 1% of the full-time civilian labor force, 13% of workplace homicides were committed at postal facilities by current or former employees.[19]

I'd say that there was something specifically and especially dehumanizing about working for the postal service and that the postal service had a shared responsibility in the fact that this happened. To say that youtube had no responsibility here and that the postal service had no responsibility with it's shootings demonstrates that we can see individual factors at play but are purposefully blinding ourselves to the systematic factors at play. I'm just saying that both play a role in actions like this and that implies a shared responsibility.
From saved screenshots of her YouTube channel, she'd put up/shared videos of really violent animal cruelty. Animals being skinned alive/boiled, etc. Somehow I don't think it was the workout videos that were the most offensive to YouTube.
Of course they are not responsible for the actions of the shooter, or anyone who decides to use violence to make their point. They are partly responsible for the mounting rage at their increasingly arbitrary treatment of users, and near-total lack of transparency about it, which has been festering for years, and is getting worse. They are quite responsible for those arbitrary decisions themselves. What's that bit about freedom not implying freedom from consequences? These things are related. 'Victim blaming' and other thought-stopping catch-phrases aside.
> Even at a million cars per year, Tesla would not dwarf the production of the many other EVs that will come out in the next 3 years.

Oh, I know BMW and others claim to be moving towards EVs, but the press release vs actual deployment is much worse even than Tesla.

Tesla's manufacturing numbers until now were almost all high-end luxury vehicles, so of course they wouldn't equal conventional manufacturers on automation and mass production. Additionally, of course Tesla's worker numbers look worse than a non-vertically-integrated company that just buys parts (of course, those parts also require a whole bunch of workers that aren't counted).

Sure, you can think they only can make 800 cars per week, but customers are getting their cars now at a faster rate. I'm merely saying what will most likely happen, not what's PROVEN BEYOND ALL DOUBT.
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'De-Monetized' suggests that someone who produces a video has an automatic right to income. That's bonkers, it's already quite a service that Youtube allows you to upload your videos to reach an audience that you'd be hard pressed to serve from your own server. They do this for free. In the previous iteration of such platforms all the ad income would go to the owner of the website, not to the rights owners of the videos.

I tend to agree with you, especially since they could put ads directly in the videos. However, they changed their policy fairly recently. If it was money producers were relying on to live, then they are definitely going to be upset.

It's like when Apple pulls something from the AppStore because they want to release something similar. They shouldn't have tried to build a business on someone else's platform, but it's still shitty.

On another note: I hate fanatics, no matter of what plumage.

100% agree, no "however"
Makes sense. Thanks for the video.
Homicide has long been the number 2 cause of death in the workplace in the U.S. You can find statistics going back as far as 1992. Layoffs are indeed often a motivation.

Hence the term, "going postal."
I largely agree with you.

But, about 1% of me, can't help but note that... well, I think there's a reason for people's tendency to give the perpetrator some sympathy. The thing is, we abstract this away into things like "it's not censorship if a private organization declines to monetize the content you freely publish with them," but... let's be clear about what happens here, at the granular ground level:

1) Company creates a space for people to do work that pays their bills. This is for company's benefit as much as theirs.
2) People do that work, pay their bills. Mutual joy.
3) Company suddenly, and apparently arbitrarily, and without adequate communication, yanks people's ability to pay their bills away from them

Most people that suddenly and apparently arbitrarily go from "paying my bills" to "holy fuck not paying my bills" flip the hell out. It's like a lay-off, but even more inscrutable and un-appealable.

Whatever abstraction is laid upon this at the 10k-foot view, I think people are sympathetic to the fact that YT basically did a really shitty thing to a lot of people (or maybe did a totally not shitty thing in a really shitty way). And, if you do something really shitty to a large number of people, yeah, you run the risk of having done something really shitty to a nutjob. The nutjob isn't a black swan, though: they're an extreme version of the response that a lot of people are having.

So, yes, "organization that did really shitty thing to a lot of people accidentally included violent nutjob on list of shit-receivers," doesn't really merit any lionization of the nutjob, but it's hard to ignore the "really shitty thing" aspect of it. Because it's not a black swan - it's just a (much more) extreme version of the same feelings we'd have if we were in their shoes.
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Yes, forgetting is sometimes inappropriate, but not every crime is the Holocaust.

It's the norm in cases involving childhood offenses, for example—expunging one's juvenile record—and it's the reason for statutes of limitations.
> If not, why is it the first result?

Because google search rankings for any niche search strings are pretty meh. Basically anything with your full name in the URL / main body of the page will show up at the top.

I filled the first two pages of results for my name with random stuff I control simply by creating profiles on carefully-chosen sites with my full name, as well as registering a bunch of domains that contain my full name.

That was much easier than contacting the hundreds of news outlets who published my full name in a negative context
to correct their lackluster or ambiguous journalism.

There was a few notable exceptions where journalists (who all like to copy stories from each other, then copy that again) had distorted the story so far that they actually managed to confuse me with the perpetrator. In those
cases I had the search results removed under the "right to be forgotten".

Honestly I'd rather have the right to be forgotten in a world where bad journalism is the norm, and where
trash like the Daily Mail, yellow press, and some kid with a smear campaign have so much power to destroy a persons reputation.

Basically you shouldn't have to know what "SEO" means in order to fend off a smear campaign or simply bad journalism.
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My argument isn't that their (almost) monopoly on PC games sales allow them to print money. My point is they're not the visionary games and hardware company that most of their cheerleading fans think they are.

They're just an online store, and for people like myself who grew up on Half Life it's a sad realisation.
Your comment does illustrate my point.

YOU value the free speech of whoever is speaking, but not that of the counter protesters. Who themselves value THEIR free speech, but not that of whoever is speaking.

It's an intractable problem really.
That situation will probably change as soon as most games ship with Vulkan: Even if devs devote zero effort to porting to Linux, Vulkan makes it easy to run them with Wine with pretty much the same performance. I can imagine Valve adding Wine automatically with Steam.
Ask HN: How Much Do SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) Make in the Bay Area?
I want to get an idea of the average compensation (salary + bonus) that SREs are making in the Bay Area. Do you have junior/mid/senior level experience? Are you working for a startup or a large established company?

Google employs a lot of SREs - they have a 20% SRE-to-Engineer ratio. SREs are also found in many other companies.
I'm not going to defend shooting anyone, obviously. But YouTube has captured the entire market, practically, for streaming video, and encouraged people to look at it as a way of making money (even a full-time time job, for many). Why would you be surprised that someone would be upset about a capricious decision, which cannot be appealed, suddenly taking away the money?
Of course, as you say, this is the curse of generalizations. It's just the easiest way I've found to explain how legal systems which are superficially similar (I live in an "english common-law" country), end up being wielded very differently.

The other is a general trust of the justice system. "Hate speech" as a legal concept would be abhorrent in the US. 1A aside, it feels like no-one trusts the state to reasonably decide where the line between free speech & hate speech lays, so you simply don't allow it to - Whereas we're much more prone to allow judges to make these judgements.

Of course there's exceptions, how boring the world would be if there weren't. (eg, "I know it when I see it" is a line most famously attributed to a Supreme Court Justice, while the concept behind it finds itself much more at home on the other side of the pond). But the trends seem clear.

(This isn't to beat my chest and admire how much better we think we are - I do think both sides could stand to learn something from the other.)
Drudge is simply an aggregator that links to sites like CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, AP, etc. Better to name the individual sites directly.
There's such a thing as being penny-wise and pound-foolish, though.

Imagine if I told you I had a desktop application that was slow, and I'd achieved a 2-4x speedup in common tasks by rewriting the whole thing in a different language. But then you discovered that I'd written it in such a way that it had to hit the (spinning-platters, just to drive the analogy home) disk to do even the most basic things. You would, I hope, tell me that I'd wasted a ton of effort optimizing entirely the wrong thing, and that my 2-4x speedup from choosing a new language would be blown away by the likely multiple-orders-of-magnitude speedups I could get from better memory management and I/O patterns.

In the web world, most discussion of backend languages is like this. Sure, you could get your impressive-sounding speedup from switching to a "faster" language. But the time spent executing application code is so utterly dwarfed by the time you spend idle while waiting on a database, or by the time it takes to send things over the network to the client, that "switch to a faster application language" should probably be the 1000th item on the list of the first 1000 things you do to try to improve performance.
"The Internet was supposed to be about the free exchange of information."

Actually, no, not at all. The Internet was for defense contractors to share information, and when made available to the public it was for corporations to sell services to the public. All that "free information" propaganda was just propaganda to get the public comfortable with allowing large scale surveillance technologies into their homes and to be carried on their persons. "Social media" is a genius re-writing of surveillance technologies.
>It would be very risky to operate, even briefly, a portable imsi catcher in a briefcase and move it around WA DC, nevermind one that remained in fixed locations for hours.

I'd assume if it was run from an embassy it's not risky at all actually - they can just tell the FCC to pound sand
I can't tell if you're serious.

One of those 'systems' is governmental corruption, the other is Youtube; the comparison makes absolutely no sense. Youtube is a private company, not a corrupt government. If you're living in the states and trying to "eek out a living" and Youtube steals your proverbial "apple cart", too bad, so sad, go get a different job - they don't exist as a platform to ensure people get paid, people getting paid is a side effect of them existing. If it doesn't work for you, find other work.

To compare them indicates a level of myopia and entitlement that is profoundly distressing.
It's purely syntactic sugar. You can even get the new protection yourself:

function Cat() {
if (!(this instanceof Cat)) {
throw new Error("please use new!");
}
}

or, if you want to be a bit nicer to your users:

function Cat() {
if (!(this instanceof Cat)) {
return new Cat();
}
}
Shades (a commercial successful MUD that ran on British Telecom from the mid 80's) happy ran with 64 users on a Z80 with 256K RAM, 2Mb RAM disk and 10Mb HDD. It's actually still running (telnet://games.world.co.uk) though these days it's running on a Z80 emulator. Makes it a bit over 30 years old, and some of the old players still log in (just to see who's still around).

Disclaimer: I'm the author.
>Why do we do that on youtube when we don't do that on TV?

Our society does do that on TV and radio. Consider the recent boycott attempts against Laura Ingraham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott_in_support_of_David_Ho...

>Do we assume that if you're ad runs during <some sitcom> you agree with the jokes in it?

I don't think most people actually assume that the advertiser literally agrees with all the content they are running ads on. Rather, I think that people have found that it's an effective ideological weapon.

Going after the advertisers to attack content is a tactic that works. The attackers don't have to literally think that the advertisers are morally signing on with the content, they just have to think that enough people out there think that, and that the advertisers are risk-averse to bend the knee, that it's a useful tactic.
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Statistically, yes, i.e. every company that has ever laid off or fired an employee should expect the possibility at whatever the relevant probability is.
Mark Ames wrote a whole book (which I admit I didn't quite finish) with the thesis that you could tie the rise of workplace shootings to an increase in worker precarity.
I got this pull request today and it really makes me wonder if U shouldn't just close down my open source project. For me its the equivalent of someone sticking a finger up at me after eating the free lunch I just gave them.....
Hakan Yalincak called posing as a lawyer to get his case information removed from PlainSite. Here it is:

https://www.plainsite.org/tags/yalincak-crime-family/
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Very possible.

However the various groups I've spoken too are very concerned that this directive does have teeth and willingness to use enforcement power.

In the same way that legal firms started patent-trolling, there is concern that GDPR is ripe for the same treatment (legal firms brining cases on behalf of users in order to earn fees).

Right now I think there is legitimate concern, but time will tell.
Arabic? I think the are cases where letters are joined or not by default, but sometimes need to be forced to the other state, depending on meaning that the text layout engine isn't expected to be able to figure out.
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The problem is - and this goes for all the apologists for this person in this thread - that having your stuff on Youtube isn't a thing you should count on. If you run a small business and you make that business entirely dependent on a third party you are inherently setting yourself up for failure.

Whether it is Youtube, Facebook, Twitch, Medium or any other user generated content site you give up control the moment you start using them and you are essentially working for whatever crumbs they decide to throw your way.

Being fired in many countries actually does come with a whole pile of assurances about your continued income, but it is ridiculous to compare the situation of a content producer on a free platform with the one of a salaried employee.

And to take that anger out on the employees of Youtube is utterly ridiculous, if you feel that there is some form of breach of contract then the courts would be your avenue to seek redress.
There's something akin to burying one's head in the sand about this approach. Implying YouTube has no reason whatsoever to examine itself. The actions of psychopaths can be like canaries. You can say there's no relationship between YouTube and the shooter's actions, but I think that's a bad idea. I believe the drastic rise in mass shootings is itself symptomatic of something. Something that is being drowned out by all the yelling about guns. Why so much rage in a supposedly civilized and wealthy society?
> I don't think a healthy person would feel that a tech giant is specifically targeting them

not specifically that person but people who think like him/her.
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Can you cite a source that Jeff Ervine paid for access to the FBI? An admittedly quick search didn't show anything making that claim.

Also, that URL redirect appears to be because "this person was only notable for one event." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Re...
Foresight and planning. Don't tie to another's platform without expecting cutoffs (pagerank, YouTube, apple front page, amazon serverless , etc)
It's not really about the new keyword. It adds a lot more and simplifies a lot of things:

- no more messing with .constructor, .prototype

- calling parent object is super() easy :)

- you can have static methods

- no need to even type function for methods

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I have created a Github repository listing all of the "main" MOOCs here.

https://github.com/Tuccinator/hn-moocs
Honestly I thought it added to the story. Yes, he's founding a company that seems to be aimed at cyber-bullying in schools, which sounds (1) good for society, and (2) not super-profitable.

It seems more like activism-entrepreneurship than self-promotion.
I guess I'm not seeing where the media's part in this is bad. They're raising legitimate questions about programmatic advertising.
Advertisers pull their ads to flex their muscles in the tv industry all the time.
Can you share the reasons why it's vastly superior to credit cards?

Using my card, I get good post-purchase protection (via threat of chargeback or card issuer-provided warranty increase) and excellent fraud protection.
This would be a valid point or topic of debate should the subject be an actual law (the 70 years copyright law for instance?)

What we're dealing with here is loopholes and nothing more under various incarnations - take patents in the US or the lax tax policies of Malta or Isle of Man as an example - and you'll get a sense on why a bit of cleaning up is sorely needed.
> Advertisers could push back on the notion that "an ad == approval"

Ads are far more than just "approval", they're funding. An ad appearing with a video is funding the production of more, similar videos.

It's quite meaningless to "boycott" a service that you're not paying money for, but people recognise that the modern flow of money around the economy is extremely indirect. This results in a lack of moral accountability. Campaigners aim to collapse the distance between those spending the money and the actual actions that result, to say "are you really happy paying for this to happen?"
please don't feel dumb. Everyone makes spelling mistakes and typos.
Do you have any data to support your assertion that policy based measures (versus technical measures) are solution?

Facebook used contracts instead of technical controls to protect data, and we've seen how well that worked :)

I'll admit many on HN are obsessed with overly technical solutions, but "using cash" seems much simpler than "establish a complex regulatory regime".
This is the current behavior, but Google has received significant legal pushback from that stance. Canada's Supreme Court has also ruled that Google must remove results about their citizens globally.

Google, looking for a friendly court, decided to ask the Northern District of California for an injunction preventing them from complying with the order, and California, true to form, issued such an injunction.

Of course, the Northen District of California doesn't have jurisdiction over the Supreme Court of Canada, so by my read, Google is currently in violation of a court order in Canada. As far as I know though, Canada hasn't taken this any further yet.

http://fortune.com/2017/06/28/canada-supreme-court-google/
>It's like when Apple pulls something from the AppStore because they want to release something similar.

when did that happen?
Long since forgotten unfortunately, sorry. I remember it was heavy in oats, as they were the majority of the carb intake. It was ~7 various powders that I blended up with water which would be a days worth.
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My first access to the internet was through MichNet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_Network ) which was motivated by connecting individuals to the various academic resources available on the internet.

It preceded the commercialization of the internet.
another interesting way to understand JS classes is to look at the transpiled Babel output of a class definition and extension

[like this](https://babeljs.io/repl/#?babili=false&browsers=&build=&buil...)