skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that journalism, as a bias-controlled profession, is only just one hundred years old.

The National Press Club, founded in 1908, is seen as the beginning of professionalism in journalism. They were built upon promulgating a set of ethics and standards for journalism, including a focus on the facts, accuracy, and bias-control.

Before that there was very little focus on what we consider bias-control. In the early years of the United States up through the 1890s, newspapers were most often owned by political parties and were explicitly for slinging innuendo, suggestion, rumor, and scandal at the political opponents of that party. So if you think it's a new problem or that it's bad now, history has shown that it has been worse.
“We still don’t encrypt server-to-server data,” admits Microsoft
If I may, allow me to point you at a video TotalBiscut recently posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDTspUNj-4w&feature=c4-overvi...

He quite clearly enumerates the reasons why he believes this change hurts him and other content producers.
I disagree with the proposed fix. As an English major software engineer, I would treat that as a run-on sentence. First, you should clearly ask yourself if the sentence is necessary before looking for a fix. If you find that the sentence is useful then break it into two sentences, use active verbs, and make sure your logic is clear.

The original sentence begins with the premise: my writing is not perfect. It ends with: I think highly of myself. Self-esteem and writing quality may be unrelated.

"My writing is hardly perfect. However, I write better than a typical salesperson."

I love the epiphany by the author of the comment. Communications is a HUGE factor in sales. Clear, effective writing will amplify your business overnight.
Wrong question: why shouldn't Google merge systems?

(as you say, there's no compelling reason for them not to)

Right question: Why did they release it in the current state, which is, I think it's fair to say, 1) a disaster and 2) technically rubbish for all the reasons in the OP.

You should be asking: Why, when building a cross-site system to leave comments, are their clever engineers ignoring the established discipline of spam protection, which they know how to use, and building a system optimized for social peer ranking, sharing cat videos and trolling?
Owning up to posturing

I think it's good advice to be aware of doing this but you can go too far in compensating. Don't derail other people's speech by riddling them with questions or admissions, but if they ask you if you know be honest.

In other terms, nodding to a speaker can mean "please continue", I think it rarely actually means "I understand completely".
Ask HN: what should I teach high schoolers about web?
I am a volunteer TA at a high school AP computer science class. I volunteered to do one session on web programming. What should I do? I want it to be interactive and have them actually write code. I was thinking have them do something in js fiddle. Any ideas or recommendations? I can't install anything on the machines but they all have chrome on them. So it will have to be some cloud IDE of sorts.

They are into YouTube, reddit and twitter so maybe something with using their APIs???
Unix is polytheistic and depends extensively on unseen deities, called daemons, so atheism is not strictly possible. The init[1] daemon is the first daemon which is begat directly by the kernel and it creates daemons for other purposes and when they die, it creates them again. Daemons usually contact you with syslog and can send you email also. Since init is the parent or ancestor of all other daemons and user processes, it's always process 1. Since daemons are required and contact with the unseen is common, there aren't really atheists in unix. Loyalty to one daemon isn't required, though.

The init daemon is the traditional source of immortality and overseer in Unix, so you may want to make an offering to this daemon or recite its spells. But there may be other daemons that could offer you more features.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init
Depends on your goals. Duplicating YouTube? How do you make old, obscure stuff available? bakabt does it by incentivizing users to "adopt" old content in exchange for karma.
Google releases Dart 1.0, says language is ready for Web
True, but you would have that kind of "trying to establish a viewership" either way - it just also extends it into the technical realm. Obviously the "getting people to watch my stuff" problem is a hard one to solve.
"Dead Man's Snitch" is a mouthful. If you'd like an alternative to God, what about Santa?

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake...
That's kind of a terrible side effect, isn't it?

I understand the existing policy as it is used to prevent editorializing, but it's unfortunate that this burying of interesting/original content can also result.
It'd also be great if you could add keywords you wanted in the questions surfaced to you, targeting the questions you get more specifically at what you're familiar with ("plumbing", "pipes", "leaking" questions for plumbers etc). Increasing relevance would help make it more useful.
Google Openly Bashes FISA Transparency Laws on Twitter
Good idea! Sometimes, if a tweet goes to 3 lines, the next & reply buttons get pushed a little below the footer text, which stacks on top of them. You can still select the top of the buttons, but just so ya know. In fact, just positioning those buttons consistently so you can rapidly scroll through the possible questions would be nice.

Anyway! I like it, if you decide to keep developing it with better parsing of questions (identifying and removing rhetorical, etc.) and show "other replies" below the actual question to show if others have attempted to answer already.

Also, also, I saw someone on your twitter feed suggested you take it off-twitter, but I think the real joy of this is the potential to help a complete stranger who had no idea the whole world was actually listening.
If you're using Chrome there is a great addon called Youtube Options which achieves something similar to what Youtube Feathers is trying to do (it has video sizing options too!)
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I think that the system requires some form of filtering - be it by location, score, hashtag or otherwise. A featured which allows a user to get to the questions they can answer quickly is definitely something that needs to be developed.
IETF is a rather chaotic process, probably the closest thing to "anti-committee" in the standards world. The working group chair, Mark Nottingham, is a pretty respected guy in the web world.

If you use Chrome or Firefox as a browser, you're probably already using SPDY as many larger servers (Google, Wordpress, Twitter, a bit of Facebook) support it.
She must have amended it, or maybe the HN submission was truncated, because the title as it stands now on her blog is:

"Google+ YouTube Integration: Kind of Like Twilight, Except In This Version When +Cullen Drinks BellaTube’s Blood They Both Become Mortal, But +Cullen Is Still An Abusive Creep, Also It Is Still Bad"
I'm curious about your use case. Why would you be okay with YouTube comments (which could be full of profanity and/or the names of reproductive organs) but still want Safe Search enabled?
I never head of David Bushell before, but a Google search shows that he is a producer and production manager. However the OP's website comes before the IMDB site in the search. Interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124239/
Interesting that this comes from a woman. In my experience this is mostly men that systematically cover up not knowing or not understanding.

I always know that when I have to talk to a group of women I have to be well prepared. Men are generally easy to bullshit, they won't ask questions like "could you explain exactly how that works?", at least not in front of their peers. Women seem to have less of an issue with it, especially when there are no men around to give them condescending looks.
Would it be possible for ISP's to operate a proxy seed box (or network of boxes), that detects which torrents are popular, and and seeds them to customers? In theory these boxes, being much closer to the customer and having less bandwidth bottlenecks, would be the preferred source for bittorent clients.
I'm surprised that admission into Computer Science PhD programs is so competitive. I would think that with the strong job market for computer scientists, there would not be as many students who would want to make the commitment to a PhD program over other job and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Effectively accusing someone of fraud is generally not wise, even if you're a giant corporation.
This article reads much better when you apply xkcd.com/1288 on it :)

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That's truly awful ad placement. Especially as the blog also has a gigantic "hire me" button at the bottom too.
Tips to keep your e-mail out of the spam folder
Advertisements in Skype video calls
My Skype just updated itself, and I see ads when I'm video calling. Is this happening to other people?
"What's really sad about this..."

What's really sad is that a lot of people, either through job/economic pressures or lack of self respect take lie detector tests at all - regardless of effectiveness.

The poor effectiveness and/or technical problems with the test are not the issue. We as humans - as peers - should demand to not suffer the indignity of a "truth test".
Stupid comments never bothered me, sometimes they are even funny, that's the beauty of it.

Moreover, did Google/Youtube said they pushed the change due to quality of comments ?
It is a goddamn shame what happened to that country over the years and I really do hope it will bounce back. My pet theory is that it is inevitable because of the internet.

Do Lebanese nerds have an English hangout somewhere to conspire with nerds from elsewhere?
This is the right attitude to have about learning stuff related to your field. But, I think it is very important to really know your field very well if you want to be good at it. It may be really obvious but I had to write it[1].

[1] - http://serenecode.org/2013/11/proper-education-is-a-must/
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There is a legitimate need to ensure that people who drive both know how to do so safely and can handle any accidents financially.

There is no legitimate need to hamper fair use in the way that DRM does, especially considering that it fails at its goals.
I love this. Especially the part where it gives you a few problems that you can try to solve. Not only is a good way to find talent that may otherwise be detected. It increases the chances of finding new ways to solve some problems. (Edit: grammar)
I am generally pro-consumer protection, but filling in a sign-up form is in most cases not binding the company to much. Data protection laws is one thing, but obligation for eternal service isn't.

Generally an EULA specifies that a company has the right to suspend an account without cause (leading to termination of obligations on both sides, so you don't have to pay for a service anymore). I'm not sure how valid that has held up in courts, but the notion of ending a contract is not a new one.

>But corporations do not have the absolute right to arbitrarily refuse or suspend services.

I agree they can't arbitrarily suspend services if there's some sort of agreement, but I thought that , by default, they can refuse. There are exceptions but they have to be codified (healthcare, for example).
That's a bit uncalled for, this story is really not the worse "off topic" story we've seen on the frontpage lately, even though I agree it's a bit short on actual content.

To me the actual problem is not the error message though (which is fairly straightforward and informative) but rather the fact that there seems to be no recourse or ways to contest that. But then again, in my opinion, if you outsource your identity online by having it managed by a third party like google, facebook or twitter you deserve everything you get. That seems to be a fairly unpopular opinion however.
> I hate this argument, because the argument has never been that no person would be rude under their name, it's that there would be less rudeness:

I disagree. For myself personally, I have always believed that real name comment policies will do nothing to reduce rudeness or trolling. The primary reason is that the visibility of rudeness and trolls is what counts, not the raw number of trolls. Even if there are less actual people being rude as often, as long as those trolling kinds of comments surface it has the same net effect and doesn't change anything.
Engitize to save the open source, because history is important
You might like Data Analysis from Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis

From the post it looks like Udacity too is working on courses that address this.
Google's current name policy

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271?hl=en

It used to be more strict.
<rant>
The question I am going to ask is - What's wrong with Google? They had solid services, great reputation, every techie loved them. Now they fit perfectly in the stereotype for a big, bad and greedy corporation.

In retrospect:
April 2013 - they butchered Adsense YT reporting by removing the real-time reports from your Adsense profile and moving them to YT. There was a massive drop in earnings afterwards! Instead of aiming for transparency they gave their users the finger.

Then comes the constant harassment with this G+ thing. I've gotten the popup message around 50 times.

Should I discuss Gmail redesign - hidden interfaces, new sorting system. Absurd things!

And the latest - G+ comments on YT. Yeah, that improved the comment quality.

I am wondering who's fault that is. There probably is a committee of managers who come up with these "changes".

</rant>

I come off as too negative, but I am just mad at them. That's why I've stopped using gmail, gtalk, hangouts, etc.
how much money can be made selling stickers in messaging apps

I'm not trying to be difficult; I really don't understand this statement. Are you talking about paper-and-adhesive stickers, like my kids use to plaster Strawberry Shortcake everywhere? What do those have to do with messaging apps?
When you're new to the game, it's quite easy to admit gaps in your knowledge and pick up on what you're missing.

One reason why this remains a persistent problem, I've found, is that the more experience you gain, the more likely people are to treat you like a guru - or worse, the guru - which makes it more difficult to say "Sorry, I've not heard of that... could you fill me in?".
I think timing is a better word for "luck" typically, even in the examples given here. Sometimes you can control that, usually you can't...
Government requests for user information double over three years
You can sue them for libel, but I only think that charge can go anywhere if you show material harm done due to their actions.

Considering this message is not plastered on the front page of the NYT, I don't think it could go far.
Hmmm. This is an interesting spin the Brown Professor has taken on the PhD application process.

For those interested in a career in research and development, a PhD is almost a must. Getting on to a prestigious PhD programme is incredibly competitive, and as someone who has gone through the whole process and seen it from both sides, I can say that I've seen individuals who'd make great computer science researchers not being given an opportunity because they don't tick the right "boxes".

Sure it's not perfect, but worth a shot if you're interested.
Thanks so much! About the frontend comment - I'd not really heard anything about the actual design, so that's a very welcome piece of feedback - I'll add that to the bugfix list.

I think half the reason I really built this app is because I keep saying on my own Twitter "I want to learn how to do ____ - but I don't know where to start!". When I don't hear anything back, it's a little bit demotivating. I really love the idea of strangers helping strangers with their work and goals too; but I also feel that the questions would be better suited to those who have specified exactly what kind of questions they can answer.

Food for thought, I guess. Thanks so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it :)
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Why does it follow that you get to benefit from the tax credit and not the entity that leases the car to you?
You Can’t Touch This: Experts discuss UI future
It's more like driving while typing on your phone and ignoring the road for 15-30 seconds at a time, causing a 40 car pileup of death, then claiming "whoops, sorry, just an accident."
I remember Martha Stewart once filled the audience of her show entirely with people named "Martha Stewart."
Entry into elite PhD programmes is as competitive as ever. Others, not so.
Meanwhile SF supervisors have proposed a moratorium on the Ellis act.

If rent was ugly before, I can't imagine what if will be like now.

I get the feeling that the mayor and supervisors only care about displacement, not placement.
End of NASA's first campaign to commercialize spaceflight
Google wins the Book Search suit: declared fair use
And they are malicious. For instance they are forcing removal YouTube apps on WP by revoking their API keys, simply for being on the wrong OS. They also removed mail features out of the blue to hamper WP users.
By malice they also make it as hard as possible to select which calendars to sync (they hide the option when the browser is on a WP) and force phones to use legacy google maps. Luckily Nokia's HERE is much better.
I believe someone who is not a good software engineer or even can't code at all, can still be admitted into some CS PhD program.
Online Presentation Startup Prezi Zooms To 30M Users And 96M Prezis
That's a link discussing an analytic database from SEVEN YEARS ago. eBay has moved on.

Please understand what I am saying:

- Traditional database architectures have limitations on what you can express in SQL for highly available and scalable online transaction processing once you introduce partitioning and clustering.

- Oracle has probably the best support for partitioning and clustering out of all RDBMS, but even that has limits in the billions of rows

- Many companies do not use Oracle for business reasons (licensing/sales/pricing practices)

What I am not saying:

- Oracle sucks (it's the most feature complete and robust RDBMS out there and is );

- Oracle is not used (Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, etc. all use Oracle in various contexts);

- Oracle does not scale (it does, though it requires you, the SQL developer, to intimately know the database physical design at a certain point of scale, which defeats much of why SQL exists to begin with)
Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits
Great idea! Just one suggestion. Make the name linkeable to their profile or better to the tweet itself, because sometimes you need to understand the context to answer a question.
I would say duplication of youtube is neither a feasible nor a desirable goal.
if you do that you might as well forget the PhD. Schools don't want to teach you, they want to accept the best applicants. Applicants who work on open source projects and can get a job anywhere. Applicants that became great learning from somewhere that is not the school that he is applying to. Whereas as a post doc you'll be someone's bitch working for 40K per year. Screw the PhD and whatever it is supposed to mean--that you did all your stupid homework assignments and kissed people's asses for three letters of recommendation and that you "gamed" the GRE.
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This got me to consider applying to brown whenever I'm looking at grad schools.
> I hate this argument, because the argument has never been that no person would be rude under their name, it's that there would be less rudeness:

The counter-argument to this is that real names policies oppress the very people that were enabled by pseudonyms on the internet: women (especially in tech), minorities, and whistleblowers, because they're at risk of being ostracized in real life based on their online comments if their real names are associated with said comments.

That said, I think the Real Names argument here is a red herring -- hundreds of employees at Facebook and Google have rehashed this argument over and over again to death. The real uproar here is the change in the "social contract" between users and YouTube; similar to people being upset about ads being added to Twitter or about developer APIs being shut down or when a free service goes to a paid model.
I hadn't even considered contexts...! Great stuff, thanks - added to the list!
This article is currently linking to a link aggregator, the original link is here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/google-...
There's a real and fundamental gap between "physically unable to run" and "physically able to run, but blocked from doing so by someone else's actions".
http://thefire.org/ ? Aren't they a little more "education" oriented?
Apparently it is not that simple to conclude, yeah the current burn tissues but you need certain amount of voltage to break the human body resistance:

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_3/4.html
It seems that the majority of Big Data/Data Science applications are designed to give advertisers insight into things I don't really want them to have insight into. That really sucks, because the technology is cool, but I don't want to help build that kind of future. It's kind of analogous to how I feel about Computer Vision: there are a handful of legitimate purposes for it, but most applications of the technology fall somewhere between "I don't like that idea" to "that's totally unethical".
There's an English tech-forum here: http://lebgeeks.com
Coalition to remove NSA facilities' access to electricity and water
Yet corporations get do get access to the negotiations. What makes them more essential to the process than the legislature that has to ratify the treaty?

In the end, it is the legislature that has to determine whether this treaty serves the interests of the public, if it serves them enough, and if enough has been done to defend the interests of the public during those negotiations. A very secretive process makes that evaluation very hard. Limiting the time to decide, may make it impossible for any honest representative to say anything other than "no". (So it'll probably be ratified.)
If gasoline is available, but the owner of the gasoline refuses to dispense it because you can't pay, then you are in the second category.
I had a completely opposite experience. Nobody wants a company because everyone thinks a company with simply hire a few Indians, make a 3x profit, and add no value. Freelancer gets way better reception.

I even know a lot of consulting companies who pretend to be a bunch of individual people, hiding the fact they are linked, and don't know any examples of the ooposite - an individual pretending to be a company - and i see no reason from a customer's perspective to prefer a company to an individual unless they have a job so big/diverse that an individual can't do it.
FWIW, when I distributed a feature film online a few years ago, I was very surprised to discover that our download numbers were 4x our streaming numbers, even given very short streams.

There are a number of reasons why that might have been in that particular case, but still, an interesting data point.
This is what I was referring to:

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/07/12/stickers/

Line is now supposedly making $10M/month just from these stickers.
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Couldn't you just use the 'Paste and Match Style' shortcut (⌥⇧⌘-V)?