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The anonymity issue is really two parts: 1) Is anonymity a right on a public piece of infrastructure? 2) Is it viable on a piece of public infrastructure?

In the case of part one, I cannot argue that anonymity on a piece of public infrastructure is a right, but I can argue it is a luxury that some will create and some will pay for.

In the case of two, with the scaled information systems we have today and the non-distributed connectivity infrastructure enabling the Internet today, anonymity is no longer viable even if part one was rightful.

When Oprah says people are dissatisfied with President Obama and his administration because he is black and offers that no one is saying it, but are certainly thinking it there are a few things to consider in this context. Should these phantom black-American haters she speaks of feel comfortable loudly proclaiming these things in, say, a busy Starbucks? Oprah's phantom black-American haters certainly have the legal protection to do so today, but why aren't they and to what degree is it or is it not a good thing they are not verbalizing these positions in public forums? Depending upon where you stand here, why should a public information exchange be any different?

Back to part two; I get it. The Internet has been a place that little people could make big statements about the government and powerful people without consequence. I don't believe that will ever go away, even if anonymity is further diminished. The internet isn't just a public forum, it is a public record and there is physical distance between parties. If anything, I think the technological diminishing of anonymity on public Internet forums is a good thing because it promotes coherent argument instead of trolling ad hominem.

Anonymity and privacy will always exist in the same form they have for centuries: in the non-public, non-digital world we know as the real world. People violate their own privacy right by doing stupid things on public Internet forums, not Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

Until further notice, you can still take a private shower in the nude in the privacy of your home. If you want private sexual relations, don't record the memory. If you want to critique public policy, you will be much more authoritative and effective if you offer a strong coherent argument for the public record.

Spam, porn and trolling are destructive to the Internet. Those are the problems and the solutions will be what they are.

OTOH, maybe spam, porn and trolling is the Internet and everyone is pretending otherwise.
Some things to note:

Laser diodes (which produce the structured light used by the PS technology) need to operate at a specific temperature so they hit a specific frequency of light. You do this so that you can hit a frequency window for the IR filter in front of your camera. The trade-off here is to use a wider filter, but this increases the system's susceptibility to noise and outside light (windows with sun shining through them are a big problem).

There is a longish delay for the laser diode to hit that frequency (that's what Kinect is doing when it's starting up; the firmware and all is ready to go in a few hundred milliseconds, but the LD needs tens of seconds to get to operating temp). It's not an instant-on device unless you can process data that has low fidelity.

In addition to dumping power into a heater, you also need a cooler (a mere heat sink won't be reactive enough). More power. I really worry about battery life in a hand-held device. (I don't remember how much power laser diodes draw, but the one in the Kinect draws over 60mw).

Microsoft has a metric buttload of patents in this area, both purchased and from in-house R&D.

I really wonder what Apple thinks it bought.
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I haven't looked at OpenSMTPD. This guide does include a lot of configuration, but it's worth mentioning that not only are the defaults pretty reasonable, but that Ubuntu (and Debian) can configure the most important options using dpkg-reconfigure.
What do HNers think of the Mac OSX server solution? Assuming you have an apple machine, isn't it rather easy to set up a mail server?
> You can't delete the last Google account from an Android device.

The trick I used to 'liberate' people who were fed-up with the Google sync was to change the account password from a PC using the web interface when the phone was turned-off.

Then boot the phone and the account sync will error-out; at this point you should be able to delete the account from the phone.
Probably has a bit to do with the fact that Carlsen doesn't care about money, he only cares about chess. There was a tournament recently where he was offered a draw during the match, taking the draw would be a sure way for him to win the tournament and win the 1. place price money. He didn't, he went into an all in fight to win instead (risking his 1. place) - and pulled it off. Also, his father takes cares of his finances so that he doesn't have to deal with it, AFAIK.
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I wish i had read these post before my devnull-as-a-Service was on HN.
Indeed, carlsen is also in incredible good shape in addition to his young age. Regularly works out, plays soccer on the side (and is actually quite good at soccer).

You can see Anand getting tired from sitting in the same position some of the matches, moving about in his chair.
Ok, interesting. I was about to dismiss that approach, but instead took some time to think about it, and it might just work.

The problems I see:

> 1. Query lots(100 000s) of Youtube videos and store the comments associated with the video.

One would have to do it as early as possible, before they change too much, as the thesis is they already changed. Though I would be surprised if there weren't some studies which used comparable data, maybe something like that is available?

> 2. Repeat the operation after 6 months when the Google+ integration goes in full effect and there is enough G+ comments.

Is there a next step of the integration? If not, one wouldn't have to wait that long.

> 3. Label an initial set of comments (100 000s) as spam, non-spam, hateful, sexist, neutral, etc using Mechanical Turk.

That is the main culprit. I'm not convinced that the new set of comments is easily detectable as offending, given that the context seems to be more readily used by the trolls. First and Rickrolling is a thing of the past. Besides, even given the low prices there, to rate 100k would cost a lot…

But still. Even something like "they changed a lot and are hard to compare" would be an interesting result.

The algorithm is of course the next question, is something like that easily doable given the nature of the comments?

Hm. Is that something you seriously consider to do? It could be an interesting experiment, it surely would be an interesting HN-worthy article - and if you are in academics, it might be even worthy of a publication (maybe something like "study of the effect of de-anonymization on commenters on an internet-plattform") or at least a few credit point. Is there a working API to get those comments?
"Asshole" is easily defined by someone who puts their interests in front of everything else. Both introverts and extroverts can be assholes .... or not.
That's not a middle ground. It's part of his second group. If your boss fires you for what you said on Facebook or Google+, that's abuse. If other kids bully you at school over what you said online, that's also abuse. The US government not allowing you to pass US borders as a foreigner, because you criticized NSA, is also abuse.

You don't need to be assassinated, to have your life being made very unpleasant by others, when you say things online that they don't agree with.
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There's a close acquaintance that repeatedly invites me to go to one of his religious meetings.

I don't want to go because I don't have the adequate time nor interest to engage with extraneous religious activities. For the record, I'm not one of those fedora-wearing know-it-all atheists, I'm just really not interested and I think that going there will be just a waste for both of us' time.

I haven't found a way to no to him. I know that the only and inevitable solution is to firmly say no to him and that should be enough if we were living on an utopical world; on the real world, however, people have feelings and sometimes expect things from others and saying 'no' will probably put you in the position of 'the asshole' and damage your relationship with that person, which is something that I'm trying to avoid.

How do you usually deal with these kind of issues?
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>The law does not permit breaking the law to further expose corruption though. That is the role of an appointed (and trained!) inspector general. Or, if necessary, a special prosecutor.

The Inspector General is empowered to break the law? Or is that a bit of a bait-and-switch?

This is a very silly bit of circular reasoning. The State has effectively made it illegal to expose The State's own illegal conduct. You suppose we should all ignore the State's lawbreaking, because it took Snowden's lawbreaking to expose it, as if citizens are to be constrained by judicial rules of evidence?

Or, are you invoking the "not my job" excuse for abdicating one's responsibility as a citizen (to hold the State to account for its actions). We've had this argument before. I remain unmoved by your opinion.

>It would be one thing to reveal evidence of wrongdoing that one happens to fall into as part of their normal duties. Going further beyond that is illegal for good reason, as otherwise those who are impersonating high-ranking officials for purposes of espionage would be literally indistinguishable from those impersonating the same officials for to "dig for dirt".

I would have hoped that the NSA were competent to the degree that a Snowden wouldn't have been able to betray the them so thoroughly and completely. Hawks such as yourself ought to be especially furious at the level of organizational incompetence made evident by Snowden's disclosures. Even after being personally embarrassed by my government's shameful conduct in spying on everyone, I am again embarrassed by its obvious lack of competence. It apparently hopes to ensure the security of The State with thuggish threats, and nothing more. It must change or it is destined to fail.

>Put another way, if your logic applied Google would have not merely the right, but the obligation to constantly scour through their GMail archives, G+ private messages, and everything else they have access to, for evidence of wrongdoing. Is it your position that Google should be doing this?

Except that logic does not apply to Google, nor have I attempted to apply it to Google; because Google is not an agency of the State, especially not a part of the Judicial Branch, and therefore not the arbiter of the law in this country. Even if Google were an agency of the State, they still are not empowered to violate citizens' rights under the Constitution.
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> One thought about real names: what does your contacts database look like on your phone?

So my phone book is identical to a public identity, is it? Just because most people have contacts by their full name in their phone book, it means that everyone should use their full name publicly at all times and on all occasions? Because that's what you're saying.

I don't know about your country, but in the Netherlands this is why we have privacy laws. It's legal to have a calendar with birthdates which your family and guests see; it's legal to keep a phonebook full of personally identifiable data, but it's illegal to share either of those with any audience.

Note that, yes, that makes every Dutch person with the Facebook app conducting illegal activities. But it kind of sucks to sue all your friends for uploading your info, so nobody does it.

(Also, the answer to your question is: a mixed list of first names, full names, nicknames, and first name + nicknames.)

> Maybe what people want is a unique identifier that only they know, and then choose to share a different name with different groups of people?

Exactly, and that's what I'm doing. I don't have that many identities, but yeah I've got two or three that I share with different audiences. Everyone in that audience knows me by "lucb1e" and I even own a domain lucb1e.com. If I wanted anyone in that public audience to know me in any other way, I would have used another name. I don't want to use my full name. My full name isn't even a unique identifier and it's much longer than my nickname. In my opinion, full names are pretty useless most of the time.

Even my Facebook account has no full name, and people seem to know and recognize me just fine, even though I know many of them in real life (and they also know my full name).
I know that but that's not really my point. We already changed the type of VAT on this. Bit of context for better understanding (sorry for the length):
Point of the law article was to say digital products with DRMs and platform locking aren't really products selling, but renting services instead, and so must be taxed as such. On the other hand, ebooks without DRMs and platform locks are technically books, even if not printed, and so must fall into the book tax class, which has a lower rate.
But at the moment, at European Commission level, ebooks are all, DRM or not, considered as services and not eligible to lower tax rates.
However, in 2012, France and Luxembourg kind of said "fuck off" to Europe on this point, and both put the VAT rate on ebooks (with and without DRMs) in the book category. For that those countries are under procedure from European Court and must justify enough the case if they don't want to be fined. The debate is on, and may cause a change on this at European level.
Our government estimated that the law article making the distinction between DRMised and not DRMised products didn't come at the right time regarding the ongoing debate.
And that's what baffles me: the "show up my balls" move had already be done, and this law article was in my opinion a good way to show that we're thinking about what we do, and are not directed by Amazon-leaded lobby on the tax rate choice, because it excluded them of it. And that could have been a good argument over the European Court: we make our choices because of their logical nature, not because of external pressure. The retractation however, shows the opposite.
yep!

There are "semi-equivalents" to a traditional structure. Teams have one or more Leaders that make or help make decisions for the rest of the team.

Once you get larger you do run into the case where a team is created that can force decisions upon another team to a certain degree. Such as if IT decides that your password should start containing two numbers instead of one, that decision affects everyone who uses those services. Don't like it? You need to get funding and support to setup your own IT for your team which most likely will not get support.
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Creativity (and carlsen is a big creativity player in the early game) doesn't really matter as long as the computer is strong enough to explore most, if not all game branches in the end game 20 moves deep. A really good player can only hope to draw.
Add to that the fact that Amazon is subsidizing Kindle device buyers, by asking all the other foreigners to pay an extra $2 for each e-book, making e-books much more expensive for the vast majority of Kindle ebook buyers:

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... and now you have two problems :-)
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I just visited http://google.com/domains by mistake and was redirected to http://charlestonroadregistry.com/.

Did I miss something in the news about Google buying these TLDs under a different name? Thanks.
Side note from the author: Posting this here as I know some folks that read Hacker News wouldn't mind saving a few bucks on my books. Not meant as spam... just don't want anyone to miss out on saving a few bucks. Feel free to ignore if you don't like DRM free Linux books. :)
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The reason I think this happens is because two of the main browsers (IE and Chrome) have a major interest in maintaining the status quo. They might even possibly be making it more advantageous for users to search for a website instead of navigating directly to it on it's URL. The more searches, the more ad revenue.
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There is a scary pattern with what you read about Pakistan, even criticizing politicians are targeted there.

The Pakistani oppression is done by the Taliban, which works with the drug gangs in Afghanistan. Another similarity.

(The main difference seems to be that the military there is (was?) also active in "media criticism"?)

This will be interesting in how it plays out the coming decades. I wonder if these groups [will] buy/receive software from China and Iran, to identify complaints? Sigh, not effects you expected the Internet's increasing importance to information.
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"Why would you want to hide your identity unless you are writing something crappy"

Yeah like if you are Mexican and you made a comment online about drug cartels, and then you were disemboweled and strung up from a bridge as a warning to others.
This. And as was mentioned before, the new page (more crap, occasional spam, but lots of hidden gems).
This approach took off because the markdown here does not allow for named links. Embedding those full URLs in the body of the comment is not so hot.
That would be a copyright violation. The only way to avoid the charge is to destroy the original, so that they can claim no real copy has been made, just a transfer of format.
They do shred+recycle, but they can not donate. Its all about copyright laws! :(
> you can set cloudbox as your domain's MX with a lower priority than homebox.

This is one way to do this, but if you do, remember that a spamming tactic in the past has been to direct spam to the lower priority MX records as often they were somewhat forgotten and not kept up with the latest spam guards.

Basically, always make sure your primary and secondary mail servers have the same and latest of whatever you are using to stomp on spam.

You will also want to change the length of time things are held in the queue. The default is something like 7 days. That might not be long enough if you're using the secondary MX as a failsafe.
> "Can you even remember when was the last time you had to write an algorithm to traverse a tree?"

Fairly often? There are lots of things taught in comp sci classes you could have used for your example here, but traversing a tree is not one of them. Huge amounts of software will have something as basic as traversing a tree and if you can't remember how to do it even 20 years out of comp sci classes, I'm not sure you should be writing code anymore.

I'd think that refusing a candidate who can't work out how to traverse a tree in 5 minutes for an interview isn't a strong candidate for any coding position. At least I wouldn't hire someone who couldn't. (Give it a try if you doubt me, if you've done any amount of coding you should be able to work this one out very fast without ever stepping foot in a CS class, although you might have to spend 2 mins on Wikipedia first to see what a tree is)

I agree with the article though: best way to hire someone is to give them a trial run. However, most employable developers will laugh in your face if you ask them to come work for you as a trial run without pay. At least, I definitely would.

Paid 1 month trial of remote work is a good bet, but relies on your candidate not being employed already - and if they're any good, they are probably employed already. I guess you might catch freelancers though, but freelancers are not going to agree with the rest of the points in your post.
If it was their intention, why introducing autocompletion - a functionality which, if used correctly, allows to avoid search engines for queries.
second that. I find amusing when they say "don't bother applying without github account" smart way to lower the bar.
Good point and agreed. So the application in the case of this topic clearly is that the investors are likely betting, hoping, that SnapChat will be one of these exception cases. The one whose payoff more than makes up for losses on all their other little startup bets.

It's as if there are two ways of valuing companies, two competing schools, and their methodologies are opposed, arguably in outright conflict -- they can't both be true. One is the valuation on so-called fundamentals, the other is the bet that this will one day become one of those extreme outliers whose ROI is such a high multiple that it makes up for the losses on other failed bets. They're both valid models, like Newton or Einstein, that produce correct (enough) results, but in different situations and at different scales. The trick is to know when to use one model to make your decision, or the other. To carry this forward, 37Signals/JF/DHH clearly prefer/bias to the Newton method, in this analogy, and YC & SV VC the Einstein. Or to change the analogy, the former models are based on arithmetic, the latter on statistics. They both can work well but each in a different context with different endgame goals.

(And thanks for the reply. I'm a fan of your work.)
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I disagree with you on this. The point of the interview as I read it was to test an understanding of closures, scoping, and really basic programming logic.

I've been asked similar questions in interviews, and when I haven't known the little bit of factual information required (in this case the existence of setTimeout and clearTimeout), I've asked to Google it, and my interviewers have always been more than happy to let me. I've passed interviews doing this. I've even had friends who do interviews tell me that 'googling an answer' is often the correct answer.

I personally think the choice of setTimeout/clearTimeout was a really good one because almost all JS devs will know it, but it's also really easy to find online if you know what you're looking for. This test is really about coming up with a good way to solve a problem.
A mail setup does not have to be this complex. Mine, for example, consists of seven lines of configuration for the daemon, one line to have the init system start the server at boot, plus a few aliases & virtual users. This is using the mail server that comes pre-installed with my OS. It took a few minutes to set up and test. And it's been running for a few years now with no changes.
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I find your view on what is offensive fundamentally wrong.

Noting an arbitrary difference, like say "those ten guys are very interested in that woman's behind, while those ten women are clearly focussing on what this man is saying" is just observation (and not a reflection of my real world view, merely an example). Anyone who attributes negativity to either of these observations are betting offensive.

I should think aesthetics and personal feelings with regards to baby monitors can be helpful, in my example however, it wasn't. You chose to think it negative the female dominated forum judged differently than a male dominated one, if that's the case you are offending, not me.