skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that it was nearly impossible to make YouTube's commenting system worse, I'm interested to see if the G+ integration improves things. For whatever reason YouTube has forever had the lowest quality comments of any site I can think of.
What are the issues? I've been considering getting a Nexus 5, but I don't use any Google services (perhaps besides the Google Play store). Will it be a brick?
Yes, yes you are because man pages are _terrible_ to read especially if you don't know what to even look for. I can see them being useful if you are already familiar with the product and just want to double check what a feature does; but as a newbie? Showing me the man pages would make me want to bail.

"How can I marge this branch to master?"

"Just check the man pages."

"But what am I looking fo-"

"Man pages."
What a strange decision...and why dropping support for Linux? I feel this will be a bad move.
Are Computers Making Society More Unequal?
Comcast announces placing data caps
Marketing won't make IPv6 happen.

It needs routers to have native IPv6 support.
If you bought an expensive smartphone-cum-tablet just for that one app, then you might want to reconsider your purchase decision making process!
That makes it factually wrong not confusing.
You cannot refuse to hand over data when given a warrant, but if the data is encrypted (and you do not possess the key to decrypt it) the information is essentially worthless and they won't throw you in jail for refusing to comply.

Fun fact: Lavabit turned over an archive of encrypted emails from Snowdens account when he was first contacted by the feds. Those emails are still perfectly secure, because Snowden is the only person who knows the password required to decrypt the mail files. The reason the feds demanded the SSL keys (a few weeks after he first turned over the emails) is because they could not decrypt the mail files and wanted to try and capture Snowdens password the next time he accessed his account.
The Google Account was already in use before Google+ was created. The difference was that you could have a mixture of services enabled for your account (I only use Gmail, I never use Picasa so I don't have it on my an account).

Now they seem to force you to always have the Google+ enabled even if you never use it. Including for older accounts. I guess this is what makes people angry. It's like being prompted to create Picasa albums every time you try to read your Gmail.
This same exact thing happened to me as well (same scenario, kept declining until I woke up to find that google merged my accounts without me accepting) last week. Although I magically got my lists back after a few days, it still pisses me off that google forced the transition on me.
It's almost as fun when you ask a question on a forum and maybe figure it out or not but months or years later run into the same problem Google it and find your own question and answer as a top search result.
Good clarification. I thought it was a bit in poor taste to call it "second annual" this early.
Is this guy Malaysian?
I don't think they've handled the merge well at all, but it happening was both inevitable and sensible. Google+ obviously has much better communication features, and it's ridiculous that Youtube didn't have them for so long.
Yes ... Kickstarter's interests are not at all aligned with the project creators or the backers, but rather benefits from the highest possible pledges. Stepping aside of all the other issues works perfectly for them so long as their reputation isn't too tarnished.
I hear what you are saying, but if a site can rank position 1 for almost all relevant search terms with an algorithmic penalty then clearly the penalty is not severe enough. They really have our niche by the balls so I can't believe there is a penalty. It's disheartening to know that google simply will not acknowledge this. We've reported on WMF a few times and made various other attempts to make them aware of this blatant 'cheating'. Why can't they (Cutts himself viewed this thread) at least say what you have said. "They have a penalty, but we still rank them higher than everyone else" or as is more likely the case "they are a HUGE adwords customer so we wouldn't want to upset them". It stinks.
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Just because it's filed under "blogs" does not make it above refutation.
This argument presumes that Schools, Factories are better investment of talent hours than Space (high quality aluminium, steel or electronics)

This is not always true. There are some areas of governance from a sovereign country's point of view which it cannot neglect and should develop indigenous capability. Areas like defense which is non-negotiable and other strategic areas like space.

A good government always tries to balance investment in different areas. If India stops investing in Defense and Space and keeps building only schools and toilets, that will be a lopsided, weak development to say the least.

Even in other non-strategic areas, societal development cannot be dictated to flow in a single direction.

Consider this for contrast:

India's top 3 high budget movies - 86 million USD [1]

Mukesh Ambani's house - 2 Billion USD [2]

India's education budget for 2013 - 11 Billion USD [3]

India's health care budget for 2013 - 6 Billion USD [4]

[1] http://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/top-10-most-...

[2] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-bu...

[3] http://www.livemint.com/Politics/7EmPAMBANzkPDAPuyruQ1I/Chid...

[4] http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/budget-2013-hikes-spending-...

Edit : alignment
Yeah but that's under point 2, which I left out. :D
Yep, totally happened to me. Lost 100+ subscriptions. Had to find and re-add everything I follow by hand.

Also, had a fun bug recently with the G+ Page/Profile bullshit where I deleted my Youtube Channel account so it would stop asking about G+ integration at the cost of no longer being able to post videos or comments. (However, jokes on me, as they just forcibly integrated my G+ with Youtube ONE WEEK after I explicitly deleted my Channel account to prevent exactly that from happening. Thanks, Google.) It didn't erase all of my subscriptions, but it made them all nonfunctional. My feed was completely empty despite the channels having many new videos, so I had to drop and re-add all of my subs to fix the feed.

I take solace in the fact that this most recent forced integration and re-purposing of G+ posts has been an unmitigated disaster.

It's very entertaining to see videos a few years old just FULL of G+ Posts, not Youtube Comments, from people who don't even realize those posts were public years ago. And now they're getting tons of attention of G+ posts through the Youtube website from mean and vicious Youtube commenters.

It's basically the exact opposite of what Google used to stand for online, with regards to privacy, safety and respect for users.
Filed.

Will be contacted before Nov 28th.

Cool though.
Same here, I declined and got "virtually killed", no more playlist etc. Another short story. helped someone unknown become really famous. Got a DMCA takedown notice on all my videos, that's the "thank you". The best part is that the file I uploaded had no license, nothing. As said that artist was completely unknown. I thought about fighting back, then just said.. f* off.. I'll wipe and shut this account down. Not worth it.. She had barely 100visitors or less in total for years, had to delete her vids with some hundred million visits..
to be fair, i think they do realize that and smartglass does just that..
sorry, price inflation. Supply and demand.
Really? In my opinion the Vimeo Android app is abysmal. The design isn't responsive at all, it looks third party and unprofessional. To be fair, it's much better on iOS - but still outclassed by YouTube.
Good luck with that environmental impact study.
According to a new study, smartphone users are allegedly 10 times more likely to rebuild their car in space than users of google glass. Witnesses could not be reached for comment.
Not really interested in signing in with Twitter.
Has anyone on HN been successful in a previous startuppack round?
I think you misunderstood. They didn't buy it _for_ Google+, they're suggesting that without a Google+ account the experience on a Nexus 5 is so bad that they wish they hadn't bought it.
And now they will have the lowest quantity as well.
That is still allocations, not usage. If we had a public market for IPv4 addresses there would be incentive to use them like the limited resource they are.
This is great for Xonotic[1] and Warsow[2]! I hope the majority will look for a new FPS on Linux and Macintosh and find either Xonotic or Warsow, both great games. Warsow even got through the Steam greenlight program and will be on Steam soon.

1. Xonotic is a fusion of Quake and Unreal Tournoment. It features secondary fire mode, loads of modes and original maps and foremost a really awesome community. I highly recommend to try out this title if you are interested in this genre. 1.0 is not released yet, but it's already very mature and fun, it's also completely free software. http://www.xonotic.org/

1. Warsow is a Quake with a unique twist regarding movement and graphics. It got that Borderland cartoonish look and it fits really well in this fast paced genre. It also features a "dash", that is that you can turn without loosing velocity and do walljumps etc. Loads of great original maps, and a active community. Highly recommended as well. Warsow has reached it 1.0 release and is has a free software engine, but the game assets are proprietary. http://www.warsow.net/
Also not happy that they Tweet from your account without making it explicitly obvious that they're going to do it.
We ran into this exact issue in my virus class. The lab machines running Scientific Linux would not randomize the library addresses despite ASLR being on. In contrast Ubuntu not only did the proper layout randomization but also had gcc compile with stack smash protection by default.
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It seems with Google+ people can add you but you have no option to reject them. Anybody know a way?
Another nice attribute the naive implementation has is path independence. If I grab part of the globe and release it somewhere else I expect those two coordinates to determine the transform. With the non-naive implementation I can get completely different results depending on how I wiggle my mouse on the way. It's true that this gives me more flexibility, but I don't know... it just doesn't feel right to me. Google Earth does it that way too, and it has always bothered me. If I move more than a few degrees on the map I find myself either wildly gyrating my mouse to try to get back into a recognizable north-up orientation or simply clicking the compass rose to have it set things right automatically.
There's no post API and all sharing is done manually so spamming anyone with G+ is impossible unless you actively use it.

I think what they're effectively trying to do boils down into unifying the Google account: instead of every Google product maintaining its own divorced account/sharing infrastructure they're effectively retconning all of their products so they're now all based off one source, the Google+ Profile. This allows any change they make to the underlying G+ architecture to instantly propagate across all their products, as well as much more effective user data collection.

The problem is while the setup has plenty of benefit to Google, they've barely explained the benefit to the user.
This is a sad, desperate attempt by Google to take on a competitor(facebook). I wish Google showed as much restraint and care in taking on facebook as facebook is showing in taking on google when it comes to search.
Traditionally applications will print usage (which is usually the same as --help) if arguments are missing or invalid flags are given. This is clearly an error condition, and it would be very bad to print the output to stdout in that case. --help will simply call usage(), so there's no difference in behavior. I think it would be feature bloat / overkill to have programs print usage to stdout or stderr depending on how it's invoked, even if it's easy to implement.
Freaking barbaric, is what this is.
If we want proper peer-to-peer communications to be possible, we need to avoid, where possible, the need for a routable middle-man to help out.

That is the very reason many people are nervous about the switch. Right now NAT/PAT give home users reasonable security without the need for a firewall. The obvious solution is just to make cheap firewalls that can route properly, and default to blocking all incoming traffic. However, that brings up the same concern of needing some way to dynamically poke a hole through the firewall. Which brings us to UPnP, and I for one do not trust that at all, but maybe thats my tinfoil hat.

I totally agree that we need to move forward with IPv6 though.
On most new cars: the transmission is entirely computer controlled.

This is the case for "semi-automated manuals" like DCTs as well as automatics.

For e.g: to shift to neutral or disable a Prius at speed you have to "hold" the shifter in the neutral position [note: it doesn't seem to stay there like it would on a traditional automatic gear selector; it's spring loaded] or "hold" the ignition switch for 3-5 seconds. This is (presumably) to prevent the motor & trans from grenading itself.

I haven't driven a vehicle newer than model-year 2003 recently: so in a panic situation I would expect my cars to make the "money shift" and blow up their powertrains; not "ask me for confirmation" that I want to destroy my motor.

Having to wait to make a money-shift seems like a feature that looks excellent on paper, but terrible in practice. I find it difficult to buy a car which only has firmware-implemented kill switches.
This is happening with me and is making me sad. Help!
entah :P
Because in manuals you have a physical link between you and the gearbox (usually), Almost all modern automatics simply have an informational link. If the computer freaks out and doesn't accept the message, no change.
It does seem strange, like we've given up trying to bring people along on the unstoppable train of progress, and are now content with simply funding people to be alive, while those who were lucky enough to be taught drive and determination real the most massive benefits of this world.

True wealth is discipline and knowledge. We should be figuring out how to teach people to reach for their dreams and also figure out how to sustain themselves (and others who share those dreams) through their work. Because truly outstanding things in this world are almost always rewarded.
Larry Page and board's extreme fear of facebook has caused them to turn on their own don't be evil slogan and believe in their own BS.
G+ is "strategic" to Goog? in what way shape or form does all this crappy enforced connectivity benefit me.
As long as maps on my phone knows my location, i'm good.
I get what you're saying, but just because they're reserved doesn't mean they're not IP addresses.
You were the one suggesting Vimeo as an alternative to YouTube. And that's one of the reasons why Vimeo isn't a viable alternative.
You have my upvotes, Steve.
As a decade long Quake Live player and subscriber, I am really disappointed by this move. The team was forced to make this move because of the lack of native browser plugin support in future Chrome versions. It seems that the QL team only has one developer at the moment and he is not familiar with Linux.

Seems like a wrong move to move away from Linux/OSX when the rest of the gaming industry is moving towards Linux/OSX...
At least for me, clicking on my icon at the top right and choosing 'Switch account' allows me to choose my Youtube identity. Just in case others are having this issue.

Not sure I really believe your Chrome story, but I'm not really going to argue about it either.
Uh ... these guys have created their own response to the changes on YouTube lol: http://www.vus.io
+100 karma points for contacting the author of the original post and helping him out - and then writing this. We need plenty more people like you around here :-)
Microsoft sells this with the 'Ultimate' SKU of Visual Studio:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264915.aspx
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> - Every browser now supports WebGL

With 2006's 3D performance and access to all source code.
To be fair with them you can see this line below the registration form.

"Therefore, by applying you will automatically follow @startuppack and tweet the above pre-formatted tweet."
I dont get really get why they dont use asm.js/nativeclient to make it work without plugins on all platforms. Probably too much hassle but a game like QuakeLive feels like the perfect candidate for asm.js (Quake3 codebase is already opne source, relatively small, not resource heavy, OpenGL based)
>> What can Google actually do?

Give everything to the NSA, IRS or anyone else that asks.
This might work for one off emails where your user base is expecting it. But try to A/B test the headline, or better yet customize it for each subscriber, now you have to make many variations in photoshop -> export -> map -> send. You could imagine this getting out of hand fast.

If you get a HTML template you can use mailchimp or exact target to put custom html to each subscriber / subset and do A/B tests. It takes more time up front, and limits what you can do (er outlook / gmail limits that) but if you get it right it will pay off down the line.
I've just reduced the resampling slightly, using precision(.5) instead of precision(.1), not sure if that helps much.
Are the scale of continents right? Because Australia looks almost bigger than Europe, and Africa looks many times bigger than Europe.
From the linked forum post:

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Over the past few years, browser support for plugins such as QUAKE LIVE have dropped off significantly, causing problems for plugins to operate in a consistent and working manner. With the recent announcement of Google Chrome's roadmap to turning off plugin support and the upcoming changes in Firefox, it seems that now is the time to make the transition.
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I understand the need to spread the word, etc... and you are giving out free stuff.. but forcing people to follow and retweet your message, without even giving the option to edit the text.. I don't like it.
You don't have to add them back. Just like twitter, following/circling is not a symmetrical operation.
Had no idea what you meant until I saw:

We check applications then draw lots for 500 winners

To put it mildly, it's very misleading to submit a story that states, "Startup Pack gives away $5,000 worth of tools" when the reality is "Startup Pack holds sweepstakes for $5,000 worth of tools".
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/nov01/11-11c...
I Got the Dev Pack which was pretty good. Just started using the New Relic coupon on my Rails app actually.
Firstly why are you getting rid of your PS3, secondly I have a 360, and a PS2 before that, PSX before etc etc I also have a XBone and PS4 pre ordered.

I trade in all my old games as I never re-play them, if I do it's normally after such a long time that I can download them on my phone or run them emulated as I'm sure will eventlally be possible on the PS4.

Supporting backwards compatibility could result in developers not bothering with the new hardware, soemthing that has happend a bit with the GBAdvanced and DS platforms.
Didn't Quake 3 originally work on Linux?
I fixed it by switching to Xubuntu - very happy with the desktop. From my PoV it's the best of Ubuntu but without the gimmicks.
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Just because your router supports IPv6 doesn't mean it should open connections from the outside world. I'd expect all home routers to continue to default to "only outwards connections allowed" and let you specify open ports as you need them - exactly as they do now.
Say I'm jobless, and I make 1000/m. If I find a job that pays 1100 :
- with BI I'll make 1100. That's the value of work.
- without BI I'll make 100 + 1000. The value of work is 100.

With BI, people will think "I don't want to work for 100/m" (you know, it's the gov that pays the other 1000/m). You'll hear people say "I'm paid 1000 just to breathe, why work for 100?".

It you want to limit this problem as much as possible, you'll need a basic income of exactly 0.
the QuakeLive Engine is from 2000/2001 and has been open sourced years ago. Its actually pretty perfect for asm.js it seems.
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The QuakeLive team currently only has a single developer and it seems that they would have nowhere near the developer bandwidth to do a WebGL port (as great as a WebGL QuakeLive would be!)
I'm curious what happens if you use the Inspector to modify the text.

It's a pack for hackers, after all. It's not a bug, it's a secret test of character!
Without being snide, I have actually found facetime is great for support calls, as they normally call me on it when there is a problem. I can just say, point it at the screen...
so google can claim higher google+ subscriber rates. i just wonder if investors, ad men will be that idiotic when comparing user counts betweent say Fb and G+. real vs. forced users.
This is one of the reasons that I love manual transmissions. Sure, you'll probably still blow up your engine, but that's way better than dying.

One of the interesting things from one of the other articles was related to depressing the brake. Apparently one of the solutions to resetting the out of control acceleration was to completely remove your foot from the brake before trying to brake again.

This may sound curmudgeonly, but that is one of the reasons that fly-by-wire makes me so uncomfortable. In my car, the accelerator is attached to the throttle by a cable, and that's the way I like it :). I was driving my girlfriend's 2010 Pontiac Vibe the other day (essentially a Toyota Matrix) and stopped at a slippery intersection. When I went to get going again, the traction control system detected that it was slippery and, as far as I can tell, did throttle limiting to prevent the wheels from slipping. This is one of the most uncomfortable feelings I've ever had driving a car... I pressed the accelerator and there was no response.
Also, WebGL wouldn't run with Quake 3's codebase (which is basically what QuakeLive does).
keyboard -> leopard is another one that caught me out ages ago. Makes things funny every now and then but also messes up your idea of the names for various keyboard config files.
Single dad with three kids, with a set of twins no less. There's a place in heaven for him.
My favourite IPv4 infographic is this one:

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html
I can assure you that is our concern too at HasGeek. It won't happen overnight but we will get there.
Perhaps I'll nuance: Conceptually, marketing is not hard. But it's very hard work.
2006's 3D performance is an xbox 360.

Code access is to a minified client-only source * for an Open Source engine, gamers could possibly write their own backend matchmaking service and host and maintain it themselves, but I suspect this isn't worth most people's time.

(that said, anti-aimbot type stuff might be a real problem)

* As someone else pointed out, ASM.JS is more than just minified, it's unreadable. Eg, Epic have UE3 ASM.JS hosted online.
Haha sorry buddy, the 7870 editions that beat the PS4 are $200. You're right that they are better than the PS4 GPU, but wrong on the price. The 7850's get down to $150, but they're also benchmarking lower than the PS4 in synthetic benchmarks.

Also, a $50 price difference doesn't invalidate my answer of $600-$650 --- in fact you'll notice that it lands exactly in my stated error range of $50.

EDIT: My bad, I found a super off-brand cheap bad-warranty version of the 7870 for $170.

But speaking from experience, don't buy a shit card from a shit company with a shit warranty.
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