skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several work computers that are shared. The poor thing is trying to advertise to is but it is hopelessly confused. Between work and several staff of wildly different interests it can't target to save itself. It reminds
me of a comment on HN some time ago where it was mentioned that grocery store discount cards were randomly shuffled between friends to prevent tracking.
Personally, I'm going to move away from Android, because I feel like I cannot use the device without the sensation that my privacy is under assault, not only from some App creators, but from the OS itself. Many of the most popular utility apps ask for very intrusive permissions - unique identity, location, sms, contacts etc - and the OS provides no way to effectively sandbox your data. The OS does not believe that you should be able to control access to your data, on your own terms. I have also come to believe that there is a fundamental misalignment of incentives here - I'm only willing to use a smartphone on the basis that I'm buying a device which attempts to protect my privacy, not attempts to expose it, and that will only work if the business model of the manufacturer doesn't rely on mining my data to sell advertising.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure other operating systems are much better.
They're not powerful people. I've read a few StratFor articles. They don't publish anything much different from what you would read in The Economist.
this type of business, unilateral decisions are what made microsoft a "hated" company back in the late 90s, early 2000s.

It was a lot more than that.
Looking at the picture in the Times article I'm having a hard time understanding how this doesn't hurt the infant's neck.
C# had them already internally in 1999, before the 1.0 release, they just decided to focus on other issues for the first release of .NET.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2011/03/15/net-c-gener...

On the functional languages world, parametric polymorphism has usually always been part of the first versions.
Yes, google is one guy who is really lonely and just wants to talk. He calls you up to chat if you sign up for google+.
I believe the "Jobs" section of the board is reserved for y-combinator affiliates.
Is there a browser plugin or something that can keep google in check? Like separating youtube, gmail and the search into different "sandboxes"? Maybe blocking some of the annoying popups that constantly demand your info?
I'm not familiar with such a thing, but it could be kinda nice to have it.
So... what's your phone #?
Americans are fascinated with race. It's used as an explanation for practically every kind of social injustice. To me, economic situation is much more important here. After all, outside of a serious mental illness, a wealthy person will not go and try to break into someone else's house.

There are cultural aspects that have developed to support certain behaviors within an economic setting, there is plain ignorance, but all these can be addressed with proper economic support for the impoverished populations.

In California, LA stands as the biggest source of the 3-strikers[1], order of magnitude larger than other urban centers. Part of this is the sheer size of the population, part of it is the size of the economic strata occupied by the majority of 3-strikers. Of the 6.5% (is this even accurate?) "black people" you reference, what % live in utter poverty? Of the 55% of non-black 3-strikers occupy the same strata?

I don't have a source of these statistics, but to me it seems very intuitive that you will find that the vast majority come from the same economic situation, and race plays less of a difference than you might think.

As for the suburbs, I fail to see the reasoning - are you proposing that we limit the free choice of people of where they want to live? Most people I know who chose to live in suburbs and endure horrific LA traffic did so not because they do not want to be next to other races, they did it because they want their children to have a yard to play in and breath fresh air. Schools with a smaller classroom size are an issue too, but that goes back to the economic situation - large lots/more expensive houses result in greater tax income and therefore better schools.

Race is simply the most identifiable trait. Everything else, you have to actually work at finding root causes, this is why people gravitate to issues like that - it's easy, it's horrific and everyone immediately knows the solution. Unfortunately, that is also why we have made very little progress on the issues, despite making the subject socially-radioactive. Instead of feel-good/feel-bad rhetoric, it would be nice to see a tangible plan for improving the economic conditions in the blighted parts of LA for a change... If that happens, I'm willing to wager that crime will drop with poverty, and such horrific stories will become non-existent.

[1] http://www.lao.ca.gov/2005/3_strikes/3_strikes_102005.htm (2005 analysis, so a bit out-dated)
The traffic on the mailing list might lament the inconsistent state of Rust on ARM in general, but AFAIK Android should work ( https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1859 ). For pointers, I encourage you to either post to the mailing list yourself or check out the IRC channel (#rust on irc.mozilla.org).
And the tents were all silent,

the banners alone,

The lances unlifted,

the trumpet unblown.

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,

And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;

And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,

Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Destruction_of_Sennacherib...
That's weird. I assure you I was receiving a 502 error code from Nginx on their URL. Nevermind, there's no trace of the error so they fixed it pretty quickly I guess.
Are you long BTC at this moment? Do you think that makes your opinion of it unbiased?
No I haven't, thanks for the reference. The link is http://www.codeforamerica.org/ for anyone else interested.
> Just who the fuck do they think they are??

They think they are Google - you know, the guys that made the Internet searchable. I'm pretty sure they know what they are doing.

Call verification is used by many services to establish ownership of an account, and to provide a fallback mechanism that automates the recovery of an account. Google likes to automate the shit out of things. This is no different.

I hear that you are angry about their policies, but I really don't hear why you are angry other than it's 'intrusive'. Are you afraid they are going to do something horrible with your phone number but not your searches? Do you have similar concern and passion for what the NSA has done? Are they related to each other?
That's awesome work! Strangely I cannot believe that a place like Piccadilly Circus is ever empty. It feels so unreal.
He must have:
a) waited a lot to see the streets clear
b) been quite lucky the streets eventually cleared.
Never forget that you are not the customer, you are the product.
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The "Who is hiring" threads get initiated every now and again, and then you can post a reply to it. The particular threads you are pointing to are closed to new comments because they are old.

You can start your own "Who is hiring" thread and reply to it with the position you want to advertise, or you can post in the same way as you have here with a job offer, or you can create a web page describing the position, and submit a link to that.
Would somebody tell Jay-Z his damn sister is looking for him?
I agree. While I sympathize for the people in the stories, the publication by ACLU is much like typical spinning of facts done by marketing firms and politicians.
> It's like seeing Times Square empty.

It's interesting you mentioned this. The pictures reminded me of Vanilla Sky, which prominently features empty Times Square.
On a rainy, cold day and very early, I don't see why it's so hard to believe. Especially if you're willing to wait for the stragglers to walk out of the frame.

Also, consider the clustering illusion. Even with a fair number of people, there will tend be gaps and all you need to do is choose the right perspective that focuses on them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion

Besides, I really don't think it'd be worth lying about. The photos are interesting, but not nearly enough to risk a reputation on, especially considering how hard it is to lie to the internet.
Your school or company knowing exactly what you're doing on youtube is more than just annoying. It can be extremely harmful.
It depends on the school or company though of course.
Very cool! I had seen the DDP notes in your repo when Meteor was first announced, but wasn't sure how established that protocol was, and how closely Meteor intended to follow it (I didn't realise it came from the Meteor team). Sounds like it's time to take another look :)
You'd have to ask Yahoo to create a competitor for something similar to even be available.
Good idea. But the site needs some polish. Moreover, you should add a thumbnail of the book in question.
I was looking into that a while ago. There are multiple categories based on balloon size, weight of equipment. They are mostly concerned and the strength of the string between them.

Away from airports, the smallest balloons as completely unregulated, bigger ones need to be reported. Even bigger ones need a schedule. My overall impression was that all the rules were reasonable amateur-friendly.
Manufacturing defect with the HDMI port is causing damage to HDMI cables. Amazon should really send an email out about it to people who ordered, there is an easy fix.
I think I might hit 10k emails a month if I subscribe for a few more mailing lists, though I guess I could stand to unsub from a few. Otherwise I think that's a pretty decent solution.
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Ah yes, the vocal minority...
> Call verification is used by many services to establish ownership of an account, and to provide a fallback mechanism that automates the recovery of an account. Google likes to automate the shit out of things. This is no different.

I've been using the internet for well over a decade now. The number of services I've signed up for must be in the hundreds.

I've never had to verify my identity unless a monetary transaction has been carried out, and then it's to my bank rather than the merchant.

Nothing I get from Google+ needs any confirmation of my real identity.
Now if only you could get it to fib to the app... Yes, you have permission to make phone calls - sorry there's no coverage right now. You have permission to view SMSs - sorry they never used SMS. You have permission to access the Internet - sorry, not connected.
Listen, and understand. That Google Plus is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you complete your profile.
People can still use it. But it's dead, insecure, and unsupported. Just like Windows 3.x, 95, NT, 98, 98se, 2000, etc. People still use all of those, too.
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Filtering this stuff reliably isn't exactly free.
CyanogenMod without any Google apps works pretty well. Wouldn't that meet your needs?
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They don't permit all sorts of content that YouTube does, which is what holds Vimeo back from broad acceptance as a YouTube replacement.
Some are much easier to believe than others. Finding empty tube carriages is easy. I think some photos are of Canary Wharf, which IIRC is deserted at weekends.

Side streets in Soho, and Carnaby Street? Again I imagine quite easy.
Was it better on previous models ? I wonder Sony isn't suffering from off-sourcing issues. Instead of in-house easily controlled circuitry, the cheaper off-the-shelf approach might cause higher rates of failures.
Funny you should mention that. Every time I think of Times Square being empty (which can happen at certain angles at certain very early times of day), I think of Roger Ebert's review of Vanilla Sky:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/vanilla-sky-2001

> Note: Early in the film, there's an astonishing shot of Tom Cruise absolutely alone in Times Square. You might assume, as I did, that computers were involved. Cameron Crowe told me the scene is not faked; the film got city permission to block off Times Square for three hours early on a Sunday morning. Just outside of camera range there are cops and barricades to hold back the traffic.
Valuation is a very complex topic, but in "classical" finance, it has more to do with earnings than revenue.
Well then what's the alleged problem?
The answer basically amounts to: "Git is harder to understand."

Fortunately that difficulty has a huge payoff that SVN simply can't beat. Git has a superset of SVN's functionality - it can act as a central repository, and can also support any granularity of permissions you wish.

And you can pull in, pull out subtrees using Git using the git subtree module.
In defence of that statement (although I'd agree it's a bit strong wrt Meteor's current state) the vast majority of web apps can get by with Mongo and without SEO (Google can't cache pages behind a login anyway). For a young framework it's come an exceptionally long way, and I haven't hesitated to use it in production for those use-cases that fit. It's just... yeah, important to note that not all use-cases fit (and they probably don't need to--I'd rather see them focus on what they're good at and be upfront about it).
Thanks Colin - you would think that HN would clearly mark it as closed to additional posts. I thought I was going crazy. Very frustrating.
Use incognito mode for YouTube.
Another reason why reading e-mail in plain text is the only right way.
Let me see if I understand you: The revelation of the NSA's activities made you fearful and so you decided to make fake Google accounts with fake phone numbers to alleviate those fears. All from the same IP address?

How exactly does this help keep your identity safe? Because they don't have your phone number tied to your account? How many times have you put your phone number in your emails to people? I looked, and over the last year I've sent my number to people over 150 times. I used to have it in my sig. How many people do that?

It seems like you and others are fearful of Google's actions because you are fearful of the government's actions. Remember, Google freaked out about PRISM, and the result was them encrypting traffic between their data centers to PREVENT the government from spying on your data: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...
Underneath it uses webkit speech api tightly integrated with bootstrap-wysiwyg editor. The service itself has a relatively good accuracy at-least for the English language.
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As a developer I think "Wow, impressive". They have serious creativity and brainpower on that team. But, as a developer I also think how much magic must be going on there. I've always been a lightweight framework kind of guy Sinatra over Rails, Backbone over Angular. I'm not their target.
Ask HN: I'd like to mine bitcoins using 100s servers idle time, where to start?
Yes, it's just a script, but you know that there was a human behind that script. Someone at Google, probably pretty high up, made a decision that they're going to keep pestering you, and making your experience as shitty as possible until you give them what they want.
This is what I'm doing. I'm actually looking forward to having a real machine connected to my TV (for lots of reasons besides Steam)...
> Nothing I get from Google+ needs any confirmation of my real identity.

Now we're getting to the nut of the real argument.
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>It's worth noting that current iPhone and Android phones now equal, if not exceed, the current generation of consoles in terms of power.

Is this true?
That's just silly, Google can't afford to alienate its users, whether you consider them customers or products. This phrase is becoming a meme.
London streets were empty in 28 Days Later as well.
That's completely irrelevant. Google need you as a product to sell to their customers.
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I can't speak for Times Square but I have seen many central parts of London where I/we are the only people around. Much of Central London is not residential.

If it is a merge of multiple exposures - the result is impressive and I would be proud of that fact.
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Because whats on my Google is mildly embarrassing, where as I grew up group of kids from Yugoslavia, where the government forces used information like this to butcher people in the streets, in there homes. I turn not he TV and see it happening in Iraq, and Syria right now.

Its not a future I want this world to have, and we are unfortunately enabling it, as always, with poorly thought through best intentions.
If you get drunk and get behind the wheel of a car, it's the same to me as walking around with a loaded gun and firing randomly. Does it matter that you didn't set out to shoot someone?
Dunno what to tell you. Perhaps rsync and a dynamic dns approach would be good? IF you want the machines to find each other even through IP changes you need somewhat of them rediscovering each other.

Back up should be a multitiered thing so you don't mind if one goes kaput. That way you can use a 3rd party without 'depending' on them.
I do this (but will argue doing it under some free limit misses the point: man up and pay for your use...); in my case I'm using either AuthSMTP or CritSend for my personal manually-sent outgoing mail (I don't remember which; I have accounts with both).
Maybe, but once trust starts to erode, the effects of it may not be seen for a few years. And once lost it's extremely difficult to get back.

I certainly get the feeling that Google's halo is slipping.
I actually applied to YC with a similar idea a year or two ago, but we didn't have a product yet. My team came entirely from art school, where we definitely see a market for an app like this. Maybe in the future even consider expanding to more than just music--you can include visual arts as well, like graphic design, film, even something like dance!

Best of luck!
I've never considered that.

That's actually a really good idea, especially as reliability will be higher. My connection rarely drops and I have a static IPv6 too so DNS may be far easier to configure.

Edit: An idea to ease transition would be to setup the vacation responder in gmail to remind your contacts about your new address.
This is really cool, I've never been to London so I have no reference for how busy the places he photographs typically are. I would love to see a similar project for NYC.
"Everything about it screams unix"
Strong agree. I've often described Go to people as "if unix were a programming language"
The limit is for outgoing mail so unless your sending 10,000 emails a month to mailing lists, I don't think you'll have a problem.
Driving is a privilege granted by society, not a right. If you Demonstrate that you no longer deserve that privilege, then yeh you should lose it for life.
I have no idea why people talk about huge corporations like they have hive mind and are in total unity?

Google is now a mega-corp, comprised of thousands competing for finite success outcomes (raises & promos). It is also data driven hence they look at metrics that are considered success like registers over abandonments. Brand tarnish is a long term outcome, therefore it can not be seen in typical a/b testing cycles. Hence it is ignored, or even gamed upon for short term metric gain.
This is true for all corps that equate success with short cycle data driven metrics.
That's great. I learned C by telling people I had C experience then when I got a job offer I was forced to learn it pretty quickly over a weekend powered by coffee and yorkie bars and a pirate copy of Microsoft C. I had plenty of experience with assembly at the time.

fortunately I wandered into a company that had even less of a clue than me. It's nice to be an expert on day one with only two days' of expertise :)

I learned a hell of a lot in a year. Great year.
There may well be widespread issues but this link just shows that some people have issues which given the volume of PS4s was kind of a given.
Git subtree does not cover the same use case as a subtree checkout in SVN. You need a complete clone to create the subtree repository and to push changes from the subtree repo to the main one.
I use Twitter as a broadcast medium. People follow me for news and very short form analysis. 80% of the hits to my blog and column come from Twitter. Of course I have a lot of followers and it is rude not to follow back.
Also please stop asking me to share G+ with my contacts everytime I go to G+.

Nothing makes like a website less than annoying screens I have to click through every time I go there.
Fantastic. I wish they were put behind bars even longer. I have no sympathy for people who drink and drive, and no sympathy for people who text and drive.

I cannot tolerate anyone who would plow around our roads in a 2,000 pound bullet and either be drunk or looking at their phone.
A few months. I was about to tell you I haven't installed it due to benchmarks that show the great power drain - then I noticed that all coincide with the time period you mention. Its funny, I only have issues with YouTube, nothing else. Guess I can't justify not having it now!
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This pisses me off. Seems like more or less blatant corruption.
> so if you want to know how to sneak in some vodka...

You can just take it in <100ml bottles inside a quart bag. Although you might get in trouble if it's labeled as alcohol.
There's an extension for Chrome called NotScripts, which does pretty much what NoScript does in Firefox:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notscripts/odjhifo...
The biggest problem with broad judicial discretion is that you get wildly varying outcomes with identical facts depending on which judge you get and even what kind of mood he's in.

If anything the system still has too much discretion (in the hands of police and prosecutors) that lead predictably to discriminatory outcomes.
In a sense. I promote me. I actually maintain two Twitter accounts, one to broadcast industry news and my speaking gigs, the other on the topic of my first book. Both accounts have over 30K followers with a lot of overlap.
I've changed it slightly so that when you click check it highlights correct squares in green. I might add a tick later, though that probably won't be until Monday.
Yes, it can. Where exactly are they going to go? Even the really few of us who care about it enough to stop using Google search, turning to duckduckgo, still need to go back to Google every once in a while, when DDG obviously doesn't cut it. The interwebs are filled with Google's advertising products, and the number of Gmail users who evangelically try to beat its interface into behaving well enough to be worth a fuck is almost outrageous.

We are still a good five or six years away from the point where Google would have to worry about alienating the users whose data they sell, and with the decreasing amount of Internet education most users get before starting to surf the web, the distance from that point is increasing. They thrive on the eternal September.