skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you receive a customer service call from a number with a higher klout score, you could send them to a 'VIP' agent that's been authorized to give them better deals or whatever. If you give better support to a few users who have a lot of twitter followers then that person is a lot more likely to tweet about a good experience and help the companies reputation. Otherwise if they have a bad experience they have enough followers that if they tweet about a bad experience, there's obvious harm there.

It's the same reason someone will have a bad experience and e-mail a company but get ignored. Once The Consumerist runs an article about it though, it gets fixed.
>illings emphasizes that they’re not directly using their clients’ data, but they are using the metadata around numbers.

I hate the precedent that this is becoming ok.
The worst part is I can't even disable it if I am using my another SMS app, so now I have to clear two notifications for my text message and 50% of the time I usually end up in the Hangouts app where I don't want to be.

When will this madness stop?
The big difference here is, mandatory minimum sentencing is an aberration which is engineered from the start to create more injustice. There is a reason that in a normal case, sentencing takes the history of the individual and the circumstances of the crime into account, instead of following a rulebook saying "Theft: 5 years in prison, no early release".

Three-strike laws exist to quench the mob's appetite for blood (as public execution is sadly no longer acceptable, the mob has to settle for life sentences), and get politicians get elected on a fearmongering & repression platform. But on a humane level, it's not far removed from judicial amputations.
g+ needs to succeed. if it don't, then google is done. Search with no ads is something a startup can figure out. video with no ads is something a startup can figure out.
If you are interested I recommend "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright, book has more details on subject.
So are all of the people who worked on Google+. The notion that anyone here, or any individual at Google, is a thought leader whose own personal use of technology represents where the industry is going just because they're a high level developer seems like narcissism.

I don't think we should be completely written off as "geeks", you're right about that, but it should certainly be acknowledged that we're a small (heavily) biased sample of the general population and our preferences need to be taken with a grain of salt.
> A lot of us are high level developers, architects, consultants, and so on.

Which in the eyes of most people other than those you have listed, makes us geeks. If we're talking about leadership, it isn't so much how we see ourselves that matters, but how others see us.
This is just hilarious. Thank you!
It is interesting that T-mobile U.S. has decided to provide free international roaming (with a data cap). That certainly removes one problem with traveling with your phone.

I also believe that carriers shouldn't be allow to lock phones. I don't think carriers should be in the business of selling phones in the first place.
I have seen this banded around a bit, and it really isn't a solution.
I 'firewall' different social networks, my YT access and my Google+ access are usually performed in 2 very different contexts and I have no interest in people or personalities leaking from one to the other.

Now, you are offering a pseudo anonymous solution, but that is an insufficient firewall for my needs.

Maintaining privacy across multiple networks, some of which contain my personal life, some my work life, some my social life and some my internet life is hard.

There is simply no freaking way I am going to trust a company which cares a LOT less than I do about my privacy be responsible for maintaining it.

BUT luckily this whole thing really doesn't affect me directly, my firewalls have not actually been affected.

I was just hoping to communicate why the suggestion you are making is not actually an effective solution for anyone who cares about their privacy.
Photoshop had blending modes, or rather channel operations, before it had layers. I learned how to use photoshop from kai's guide in the early 90's. It's amazing how powerful photoshop was even back then. I still think it's useful to read through those tips, just to understand what it is that photoshop does behind the scenes when you make it generate a drop shadow.

http://www.mprove.de/script/90/KPT/
I use a Das Keybaord. I've read the claims that you will be able to type faster with it, but I haven't seen an improvement here. I've tested my speed and it is about the same as what I can get on my laptop.

The boon for me has been that my hands don't get tired and sore. I was using a standard-issue Dell flat-key keyboard and every single night, my hands burned and I felt like my pinkies were going to fall of. My job requires near-constant typing, so this was a major issue for me.

The main productivity for me has been learning and getting comfortable with hot-keys as well as using the Vimium plug-in.
this one's better: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
As someone who's played a few rounds in HN discussions on sexism, I'll put it this way: on HN, there are a decent number of legitimate feminists. There are enough to put up a fight when a fight needs to be had. When a discussion thread starts getting bad, there are enough of us that you can usually expect to see someone step in and not feel completely alone in engaging.

Even better, a decent number of those who are willing to speak out are also capable of doing it reasonably and coherently with an eye towards explaining the issues understandably. That doesn't mean the people they're talking with are convinced; people are almost never convinced like that.

And best of all, we aren't downvoted into oblivion when we take such stands. I've gotten some significant chunks of karma for being the feminist in a thread. If all of this labels us "anti-sexist", I'm cool with it.
So even if you go to the same restaurant twice a month, you would never pay cash? I'm not sure we're understanding each other here.
> I would not be so sure. I know at least the first name of most of the people I communicate with exclusively over the internet. Easily over 50 people

Then it means you're really not communicating that much over the Internet. Just to give you my personal example (and I'm generally an introvert), when it comes to "Internet discussion" I'm more or less actively involved in: a tramspotting forum, /r/soccer, /r/the_name_of_my_country, some urban development blogs and of course HN. I think I only know the first name of 3 or 4 people out of the hundreds (tens of thousands, if you include /r/soccer) of people involved in these communities.
So, if I had invested when I planned to a couple of years ago (or actually bought decent hardware to mine on) I would have made a decent return. But now I'm curious if we're in a bubble that will decrease in popularity or if it's still something that will continue to be on the rise.

Seems to me that all of the recent news has brought attention to bitcoin which has helped with it's popularity. Is it something that will continue to rise or will it fall once people aren't talking about it as much?

Can anyone weigh in with their opinions?
There have been similar projects in India and Brazil:

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

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

The Namibia project section at WP also contains some good references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee#Namibia
First of all, thank you for responding publicly.

In hindsight what I really meant to ask was this:

Why is Google Plus (the social network) worth burning every other Google service and product to the ground in an attempt to drive adoption? Is Google really that scared of Facebook?

The fact that this post turned into a YouTube complaint fest highlights the bad decisions being made, but I am more interested in the big picture.
Usage will rise once the value starts to drop. Why would anybody spend on real god as long as the value is soaring? This is of course only true for those currently holding Bitcoins.

The current rise of Bitcoins' value is actually very unhealthy for the market.
Criminals can spoof the callerid and use your number whenever they want. It's easy to do and happens very often in the UK. Your rating is going to be "scammer" quite quickly if you're unlucky.
Heatmap and detailed decription of a 150-hour long browser-based botnet DDoS
info@, accounts@, abuse@, webmaster@, support@, mail@ domains@ - those are just a few shared email addresses that I read.
Whenever I have a question whose answer is more subjective than objective, I ask it on HN.

I find the community here gives the most comprehensive and unbiased answer, while still being passionate about their opinions.
> in all the wannabe-academic comments with references

References would be unnecessary if HN comments supported such complex and over-the-top formatting as links (or escapable asterisks, for that matter, but then again who ever heard about using asterisks in a programming context?), which definitely haven't been a feature of all forum softwares since time immemorial.

It does not, and posting links inline often makes for unreadable garbage, hence pseudo-references, exactly as in mailing lists.
Very good indeed. The Google Tech-Talk presentation is worth watching.
Bitcoin about to reach 500$ - Mt.Gox
I can't tell if this is sincere or parody [1].

If it's sincere, I think the author is attacking a rather extreme position.

Sometimes I like to write code by myself. Sometimes I like to pair on stuff. It depends on a lot factors. Is it complicated code? Do I know the language/framework/codebase well? Do I have a peer who knows more than I do about the problem I'm trying to solve? Is it important that multiple people be able to maintain this code? Etc. Like most things, pairing is a trade-off. It can have benefits, but it costs twice as much to write code.

That said, I think most people in our industry could benefit from pairing more, not less. Studies on pair programming show significant advantages in many circumstances [2]. If the author is sincere, I hope he'll keep an open mind about an occasional pairing session in the future.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

2. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101...
I've had a few issues lately with my Bank Simple card being flagged as a prepaid card because of companies using "old" databases (as far as I can tell).

My account at Western Union was literally banned. I spent 2 hours on the phone with the American Express fraud department after linking my Simple debit card and getting flagged.

This sort of reputation system usually works 98%+ of the time, but when you get a false positive, there is literally no recourse.

I hope they are forced to provide profile information and "correction" services to consumers in the same way credit reporting agencies have to.
The awful, awful command-line interface doesn't help. But quite a few were with the vast and excellent selection of clicky picture tools, so I mostly attribute it to attempting to get by with clicky things without understanding what's going on. Once you do, it's brilliant.

tl;dr you do in fact need a basic understanding of the chain of versions and how branching actually works and stuff.
I was pleasantly surprised. An article about innovation that's actually ... good!
Because it's fairly easy to get out of such contract of you want to. At least in some parts of Europe the magic phrase is "moving out of the country". If you're going to close your bank account they won't be able to charge you anyway, so that's one way to finish the contract early with no extra charge.
Your other SMS app is broken needs to update to the new API that was introduced in KitKat, which should fix both problems:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/10/getting-your-...

Intercepting SMS required using a hidden API before. Now it's an officially supported feature.
i would recommend guest posts: they work for google (you place a link to your website in the author info section), but they also bring other website traffic to you.
In my country people have a contract and get a prepay SIM, too, all the time. They don't even ask the carrier to unlock it. They just go to 3rd party service vendors who can unlock it.

Here it's because you get like 10x or unlimited minutes in the same network compared to 100-200 you get with other networks, so that's why people want to be able to use at least 2 SIMs with their phones. Not sure how it is in US regarding the minutes you have with other networks, but I assume it's similar since carriers want to lock you in through that, too.
As mentioned in my other reply here, KitKat added an API which explicitly lets users change their default SMS app. The way apps did it in the past required using a hidden API and wasn't guaranteed to work.

No conspiracy theories necessary. :)
And that's why I don't care in the least to get a "contract phone"

Really, why? I don't care for the latest overhyped bells and whistles, my current phone is an SIII Mini which I bought for an affordable price, and even better, I put whoever SIM card is best for me at the time
weight: this is th most important. it's a laptop, you carry it around, so it should be confortable to carry

SSD: speeds everthing up

keyboard/trackpad: you're a developer, so you write a lot. Make sure it's confortable to do so

screen: you spend a lot of time in front of the screen, so make sure you get something that's easy on the eyes.
Good to know, I'd never seen that before. But still they do keep the records for 2 weeks, and it's not very far-fetched to imagine that it's rolled up into some data store that can be attached to your unique identity (even if it isn't explicitly a record of every webpage one has has visited).
Here's an idea, tell your friend to grow up and use a socially acceptable name instead - revolutionary I know!
This is the best piece I have seen on this issue, by an immeasurable margin, of the dozens I see pop up on HN every day. Thank you for sharing this.
It is imperative to get the playstations working, simply from a buisness view. Game publishers want to position their releases into the hype around the newly released PS4. If an unknown, not really small number of PS4s just doesn't work, two bad things happen: i) these people won't buy those games due to a lack of console and even worse, ii) will probably start talking to their friends - and guess what happens, if someone is on the fence about the new console and his friend is like "Yeah I got my PS4 and it doesn't work". It's not a pretty situation, especially if one starts thinking about reported cases vs real numer of cases.
Next step, forcing Android users to have G+ accounts.
My favorite part of the thread:

https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38087806#p38097739
The latter is literally what they think.
Public and/or anonymous data should be posted to a single global, anonymous, distributed storage system [1]. All other data should be stored on your personal system with 700 permissions, and require explicit pull requests from your system parties interested in using it.

This setup could offer a public, searchable medium that is safe for anonymous discourse, and includes plausible deniability, as well as a protected personal space with fine-grained access control. A brightnet/darknet system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem
Airbnb does put out highly technical blogs written by their engineers on how they tackled an issue, etc. Such articles in my eyes are relevant to to the "HN crowd" if you must say so.
That ... actually makes me wince a bit. For the Facebookers.

http://stylebot.me/styles/2446

That's what it took for me to be able to tolerate the Plus.
> Indeed, many smartphones and other consumer navigation systems sold in the United States today use data from both countries’ satellites.

That was surprising news for me. I had no idea that other GPS-like systems had come so far. Wikipedia says,

"GPS and phone baseband chips from major vendors ST-Ericsson, Broadcom and Qualcomm all support GLONASS in combination with GPS. Smartphones and Tablets also saw implementation of GLONASS support in 2011 with devices released that year from Xiaomi Tech Company (Xiaomi Phone 2), Sony Ericsson, Samsung (the Google Nexus 10 in late 2012), Asus, Apple (iPhone 4S and iPad Mini in late 2012) and HTC adding support for the system."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
Purchase a 4chan pass to post without captchas: https://www.4chan.org/pass

You'll also be supporting the site.
Whenever people advocate such a thing, I ask them for evidence it works, rather than just being something that sounds good. I have yet to receive any whatsoever.
At least the density of "go" posts on the front page was spot-on.
It's existed for a very, very long time
I guess your life is way more interesting than mine. You can also add that NSA will tap your phone/email/web activity and find child porn, CIA will track all your foreign trips to find that you talked to Bin Laden and PETA will report that you feloniously tortured puppies.

Vast majority of white/asian people in this country are so far removed from that life that chance of getting underserved felony is as likely as getting hit by lightning. It can happen but definitely not three times in the row.
If I'm going to get spam, I'd rather get spam targeted towards me vs. a 70 yr old woman
Ever since G+ started, two years ago, it's totally Google. This is who Google is now.
There's some text missing:
"Its immediately verifiable"... AND "normally linked to your real life name, full address, age, and social security number".

That's the scary part.

Not even mentioning that the phone number reputation score won't really just be a phone number score. it's going your human score - just like your CC Credit score but worse. Scary much? Welcome to the future. Just as bad as predicted.
And you think I will sign up for your service if you require a phonenumber? Are you retarded?
The disadvantage: You're still funding Google b/c StartPage sells their ads.
This turns out not to actually stay deleted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747045
Adobe accounts are something that many have acquired over the years just to get some free trial or something. A very large number of them are totally useless if compromised since there is no actually value or information tied to the account.

It is actually in some ways safer to use this method (password hint of "password is x") than to reuse the same passwords on other sites. Anyone who used a shared password now has to worry about all their other accounts, which are ones that actually matter.
Nothing wrong, just the fact that you cannot latter push ONLY a sub section of code from local branch (while leaving many other changes done in local for local needs) as opposed to svn. This is further mentioned in other comments
Anyone who still works for Google has to think seriously about what they're getting up in the morning to do every day.
I'm considering Hotmail over Gmail.

I you how much the thought pains me.

Though I'll likely end up with a smaller provider somewhere. Gandi.net or Sonic.net both have very strong pro-privacy and freedom reputations.
But this link isn't 4chan...
Microsoft’s First 3-D Printing App Is Made For The Average Joe
I hate corporations, but I hate startups even more
RMS isn't really portrayed negatively on /g/. Sure he is made fun of but there is still large minority who agree with his philosophy.
There's youtube-dl which supports a whole slew of video sites and updates really quickly when things break. This lets you download content locally, play it via your choice of player, and avoid a whole mass of embedded-browser-player issues. It's generally my preferred route for playing videos, though I'll generally preview a few minutes (or watch shorter ones entirely) in a browser.

The negative of non-Flash movies (YouTube has some) is that they auto-play. Few things annoy me faster than sound coming from a background tab. I generally close them immediately (I usually queue up stuff to look at).
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd prefer we don't do this. I'm just saying if we do do it, we might as well make the data public.
Hacking your way through Airports and Hotels
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A lot of the problem is reneging on previous privacy/data segregation policies. That is an entirely legitimate complaint.

There's also the question of to what extent you can opt out in the modern world. Got a mobile phone, pretty much essential to work or life these days? Your life is now beholden to Google or Apple. So "lol just stop using it" is fatuous.
Entrepreneurial Inspiration: the story of GoPro [video]
A Highly Opinionated List of Coffee Shops in Berlin
Possibly.

What really doesn't make sense is migrating someone to Google+ without asking, and then throwing them out since the account name didn't meet the higher name standard there. This has happened to a friend of mine.
(I'm assuming you're using "anti-sexist" to mean "feminist" rather than its literal definition.)

A little over a year ago, there was a lot of third-wave feminist activism here after several "Atheism Plus" communities mentioned Hacker News. Gradually, people started standing up to them, and their activism is not nearly as prominent.

On a side note: If you're curious about "Atheism Plus", it's a set of communities that focus on its members vision of social justice. Interestingly, it's not really about atheism; it's almost never discussed. For example, here's a current snapshot of the front page of their subreddit: http://archive.is/CMcAy
How do (real world) shops accept bitcoin? I thought that it takes some time for a transaction to be confirmed by the blockchain. Even if it is a matter of minutes, you can't expect customers to wait by the checkout until their payment is cleared. And yet without this confirmation, you are opening yourself up to fraud.
Although this makes practical sense, maybe OP is more motivated to work for companies that make society better versus large corporations that pay a lot.
If you click the button, it lights up in red and also shows up in the +1's tab on your plus.google.com profile (which you can make public or private). Since the +1 button is served from Google's servers and displayed via an iframe, Google of course receives client information when you click it. You're making a request to Google's servers.
Now now, that requires clear thinking,subtlety and finesse. Things that post 9/11 US Intelligence Industrial Complex top brass is severely deficient from.
Apple acquires PrimeSense
> implying 4chan is one person
Fortunately HN is not integrated with G+, yet!
Make sure to support Star Citizen if you're interested in PC-only gaming.