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So, is it mere political correctness which prevents me from calling people "nigger"? Or, is it a desire to respect my fellow human beings?

It's not about political correctness. It's about not being a dick. I've said nothing about saying controversial things...I've called out intentional attacks by people with power on people with less power. White kids calling everybody nigger isn't an important discussion that needed to happen to further the discourse on race in America. It's a bunch of privileged white kids being little shits and perpetuating and endorsing centuries of oppression.

So, yeah, anonymity is great. But, the culture of 4chan is often racist, misogynist, sexist, and homophobic. That's privileged people having fun reveling in their privilege at the expense of those with less power. I just don't see the appeal.

Obviously, I'm not suggesting censorship (or maybe somebody has assumed I am, since I've been downvoted a bit). I'm suggesting that the casual culture of oppressive language as it is used by the mostly white, mostly middle class, people on 4chan is a negative for the world. And, I'm pointing it out for what it is. It always gets wrapped up in, "You just don't understand, it's funny!" But, minstrel shows were considered funny, too. It doesn't make it OK.
Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
I would love to hear how Google pitches G+ and the disaster that is Youtube at this point internally. How do they keep morale up?
My favorite was

>Disrupt Disruption
> Its not like ICBM's need ultra precise positioning. By the time nukes start falling ... its already all over.

I'm pretty sure that due to the nature of an ICBM's flight path, they can't use GPS. AFAIK, they all use extremely precise inertial navigation systems.
They're using the number as an identifier for the person behind it. Telesign is integrated into fraud and risk management systems. The clients aren't asking "should we market to this phone number?", they're asking "should we accept the credit card of this e-commerce customer with this billing phone number?". If you have a bad rating, you won't be able to do business with some companies you might want to, like having a bad credit score except nobody has to pull your credit.

To put the shoe on the other foot, if you wanted to create a startup that offered anonymizing VPNs to privacy-conscious techies, and offer a free trial, you'd have a spam/scam problem. That site would be very attractive to a large number of people wanting to do illegal things with it. You could filter a lot of them out by requiring a phone number on signup, verifying ownership of that number, and rejecting registration from any with a low reputation score. People using burner VOIP numbers or the same number to make accounts reported as fraudulent at other businesses would have a low score.

You probably don't want to have a bad reputation if you care about signing up for things online. Like they said, Telesign has a huge number of clients. Lots of other fraud detection systems, like MaxMind's which are recommended occasionally on HN, are built on top of Telesign's APIs as well.
yeah, I really got a kick out of this one...

Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it

So true.
Health Sherpa comes to mind as one recent example...
Really awesome run-through, thanks for posting!
Being susceptible and unwilling to accept it makes you manipulatable. If one person cracking watermelon jokes gets under your skin, think what a psychopath with an end game pounding the drum of affirmative action can do.

Outrage is definitely a weakness.
The HN community appears to have embittered members of both sides of that argument.
Interesting choice of name given their industry... this should not be confused with the cryptographic currency exchange http://www.kraken.com/
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I laughed hard at this realization. But you have to think about it. I rather have whatever hackernews is than 4chan.
The cold war definitely deescalated. Considering there was never open conflict, it's hard to point to a spot where all tensions whatsoever dissolved, considering superpowers are always going to have a little tension between them here or there.
I deleted my account few days back. And then Google forced me to create it again while I was trying to access Hangouts
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Ask: Coin? amazing or flawed...
I think it looks great but it's a flawed concept in execution and longer-term thesis.

1) what happens when i get it wet?
2) what happens when it gets lost or i get drunk and leave it at a bar and they don't have it (have to call 10 credit card companies up)
3) what happens if i lose it abroad or traveling (now i'm fkd)
4) what happens when the entire concept of credit card is going to go away (5-10 years)?

all of this leads to i must still carry multiple cards or there will be a new technology that will displace the credit card all together. diversification has negative but also have advantages.

in terms of execution, i'm also not sure if timing was correct. it says that i can't receive it until next summer. if that's true and knowing that they are not the first and only player in its market (others with sufficient funding) are also present, why can't others beat them to market with their own product. you just validated to the entire world there is demand. now having said that there may be multiple winners out of this but first to market has huge advantages.

what i think they should have done is use an exclusivity approach to propel brand reach and get people to sign up. due to its battery expiration, it's at the end of the day, a subscription model. meaning why not do the dual referring credit either for first in line (bump up in status), dollars off purchase? proliferation is more important than monetization at this point.

thoughts?
Yeah, as a Canadian startup person, my impression of the SV startup scene is largely shaped by what I see on HN, although I do personally know a few people who've participated themselves and what their report seems to correlate.
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I'm not seeing an update to YouTube, and my YouTube app does not currently do this. Perhaps they're rolling it out slowly, but it seems almost self-defeating to me to do this. One of Android's main selling points is how customizable it is, and the way apps are easily able to hook into the OS.

Removing that ability from the YouTube app doesn't make a lot of sense.

edit: Just checked, I'm on the same version as the blog post lists -- 5.2.27.
I think that this is important, but what about locked bootloaders and restrictive user privileges (rooting)? I truly do not understand how it appropriate to sell consumers a computing device that they don't have the right to run arbitrary software on. If I worked at [big box store] and tried to sell anyone here a desktop that was locked down harder than a high school computer lab from hell, someone would punch me...
what does pair programming even do in the first place?
But I don't understand why Google refuses to just offer this as a stand alone product for those of us who actually do enjoy this service, ya know.
A Nabisco guy did pretty well for IBM. It could work out.
> My point is Sony's hardware is quite famous for being extremely unreliable

s/hardware/game systems/

Sony had a reputation for quality (and style) prior to (and aside from) the Playstation.

According to a friend of mine that worked for them back-in-the-day, the SCE division was a sort of black sheep within Sony, insular and culturally rather distinct, and even rather hated by mainstream Sony management (especially at SCE's "height" when they became crazy arrogant). However, the Playstation was so insanely popular that Sony had little choice but to tolerate it.

I don't know what things are like now, but I'd think that time, the importance of the PS to Sony, and things like the PS3 fiasco ("they can just get a second job to pay for it!") may have moderated SCE and brought it into the fold somewhat.

[Sony's other divisions weren't perfect, of course, and especially really low-end stuff (e.g. $25 phones) not made in Japan didn't really transcend their price-point. But they've always had a pretty good reputation in general.]
Fantastically correct.
There are a lot of facts about the world and reasonable hypotheses that are impolite/inappropriate to discuss. Anonymity can be used to discuss them without getting shouted down by the PC police.

Gratuitous racial slurs are racist. But racial crime statistics are also racist. If a worldview is afraid of some facts, then it has some holes in it.
Somehow I don't think that someone who is a cog in the machine has much say in this.
Or more broadly, \w+.(com|gov|net|org}.countrycode should really happen. Probably a couple other standard ones.
Seems kind of ho-hum in that it reads a lot like AT&T's current policy for unlocking. Perhaps other carriers are different, and hence the reason this would be a big deal. But read it, it's not saying the carriers would have to unlock two days into a two year contract. No, the contract must be fulfilled or the ETF paid. They wouldn't have to unlock just because you say so.

As always, if you want an unlocked phone, then buy an unlocked phone. Plenty of places sell them.
The police already selectively fail to enforce many laws they could otherwise arrest and charge people for. So if that's all you're worried about your worst fears came true decades ago, if not earlier.
I don't think PageRank made any difference at all. Its the other thing you mentioned - the zillions of users.

A huge data set mapping the search terms -> clicks is what made all the difference IMO.
There's a documentary floating out there on Youtube, called The Money Masters. What is your feeling of the accuracy of this, and does it properly reflect the banking system history?
Serious comment about internet bullying.
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Ok, but why the masked computer criminal stock photo? I know the adage "all posts should have an image", but that image always make me cringe.
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But political correctness can prevent you from questioning progressive dogmas. Many of them are not born out by fact, but it is impolite to disagree with them.

If the facts don't agree with my opinions, I change my mind. But that rapidly pushes you into thought-criminal territory in today's world.
> People often have multiple email addresses.

That doesn't affect the fact that the email address exists to identify the person. You'd need to say "people often share email addresses in common", which they don't.
The way permissions work, the difference between reading 0 contacts where the contact list is empty, and reading them with a disabled permission, is that the latter throws an exception.

You're right in that it would be possible to have the OS report "0 contacts" instead of throwing an error, and THAT case should be handled.

In fact, I'd love to have the ability to block reading of contacts from all apps except ones I explicitly allow. It's the more basic "INTERNET" permission that is core to monetizing apps that I take umbrage with blocking; if someone is using my contacts somehow to monetize their app, that's not cool, and I absolutely wouldn't want to use an app that did that.
The lcd displays the CC# and the security code, all the info you would need to buy online. Don't even need to open the app!
https://twitter.com/coin/statuses/401939329506746368
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that she's posting her criticisms from Google+? I'm not trying to be snarky or funny. Does she genuinely value her Google+ blog or associations or whatever more than the privacy she's so concerned about?

She can, in fact, delete Google+ and keep Gmail. Try it. I have!

Since Google supposedly runs on data, the only way Google is going to figure out their problems is if people delete Google+ or stop using it. Otherwise there's no such thing as bad publicity, especially if you're an advertising company.
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Not the flight path per se, but altitude over 60,000 feet and/or speed over 1,000kts are limiting factors for GPS. [0] That said, there are certain GPS devices that can bypass the limits. [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/bypassin-us-gps-li...
I believe you mean Service-as-a-Stallman-Substitute
It's not a dickhead move to send a C&D since they didn't bother to ask you if they could rip you off. It's not like it was 'inspired' by. They took it.
This article that was submitted to HN had a section on Vic Gundotra that should have clues: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/20/sex_a...
@Coin twitter confirmed that the coin card actually does have a signature field on the back that you would sign, so the vendor can use that to compare with your receipt.
https://twitter.com/coin/statuses/401939329506746368
It keeps going. Somewhere in that thread, someone mentioned that they might post the thread on HN. Later in the thread someone says that would be a bad idea and links to the previous time someone linked a 4chan HN-satire thread on HN.
So... take from it what you will, I doubt the intention of the thread is to make anyone on HN mad.

I don't get the impression anyone on HN is mad. Much of the commentary in the thread is entirely accurate, and many folks here at HN are pointing out the really funny and really accurate ones...and I've seen some of the same jokes here at HN in the past. And, I've had conversations with tons of folks about the Silicon Valley echo chamber; and there's serious discussion happening pretty regularly about what's broken about this culture we're in. A lot of it's actually quite funny.

But, even a thread about HN brought out some of the bigotry of 4chan. Not the bigots against the mostly middle class (or wealthy, or even filthy rich) white people on HN...that's irrelevant. It's not about people being mad, riled up, or outraged. It's just about calling people on their shit. I know it's senseless to do so on 4chan (I have more than passing familiarity with the place), but I can hope that HN is willing to consider the cost of continuing thousands of years of oppressive language and behavior and societal norms, and what that means for our community. I think we'd be better off with more women and people of color and LGBTQ people in our industry; people who casually make sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes do not agree with me, and they express that opinion freely...even here and on reddit, which are merely pseudonymous, casual use of oppressive language and support of oppressive behavior goes unnoticed or encouraged much of the time.
> Being susceptible and unwilling to accept it makes you manipulatable. If one person cracking watermelon jokes gets under your skin, think what a psychopath with an end game pounding the drum of affirmative action can do.

I'm afraid I'm not following your logic. Care to explain further?
Well that's great. I was literally just working on this. Going to bed now.
yes, they do.

we have a shared email address between us that the kids use, and I use to sign up for some stuff.

My parents have 3 emails addresses between themselves, and use them pretty much interchangeably.

I worked at a distance education provider for a couple of years, and we commonly had entire families using the same email address.

It turns out that when you sign up with an ISP, they give you a single email address by default, and you can - if you wish to, and know how, add more of your own.

Outside of the tech industry, nobody knows how.
Cyprus does something similar, you need to buy property worth a million and make a 300k donation to the government. Then you get your citizenship in a month. Of course you can sell the property after. Lots of Russians do this.
looking at the about page, seems like some Indian college kids cloned it for their festival
I could see this eventually being tied into a Klout score, and different tiers of customer service being provided based upon it.
Also:

https://twitter.com/StuffHNSays

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says (No longer updating)

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ShitHNSays
why not elisp?
Cool! I'm glad you liked it.
Im glad both exist TBH. Life cant be all serious :)
So I don't work for Google and I've never worked for Google. I do, however, have two things you might want to keep in mind:

1. Google, according to Wikipedia, has 46,000 employees. The number of employees who are in a position to influence policy regarding Google+ adoption over the Google suite of products is likely less than one hundred (or .2%). It is entirely possible -- likely, even! -- that the other 99.8% of those employees do not agree with the Google+ strategy. It is also entirely possible -- likely, even! -- that those employees are encouraged to voice their opinions internally (though voicing those opinions externally doesn't really accomplish anything extra.)

2. You can disagree with Google's tactics, motives, and end-goals, but I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't believe that the average Google employee is very intelligent. It is entirely possible -- likely, even! -- that one of these employees did a cost-benefit analysis somewhere along the line (likely before Google+ was released to the public) and discovered that the cost of pushing an umbrella identity (pissing off users, possibly lowering retention and engagement) is outweighed by the benefits of such a strategy (attracting 'whale' consumers, strengthening advertising profiles for consumers).
OK, I think maybe we're talking past one another. So, let's get specific: What "progressive dogma" have I brought up that you believe we should be able to discuss and that you should be able to disagree with?
On Android, if a permission isn't granted, then when you try to use it, it throws an error in the app. If you're not expecting that throw, the app will crash. It's not the kind of "throw" that Java forces you to handle; it's more like a null pointer exception, and no, I don't put blanket try/catch blocks on every block of code. That would mean writing code that would almost never have coverage, which is a poor practice itself.

If the OS handles it transparently, then sure, it could work. But as I understand things, that's why the CyanogenMod "feature" of selective permission disabling fails: If I ask whether the Internet has a valid signal, and it unexpectedly throws an error, then my app will either crash or behave in an untested way (depending on whether I'm catching top-level errors and continuing to run anyway). I don't know how the 4.3 feature handles it.

I don't want users to have the ability to disable Internet, though; not if I'm writing an ad-supported app. I don't want to kill the app on devices that simply never connect to the Internet either, so I'd prefer if the OS guaranteed that, IF there's an Internet connection, it will give me full access to it.
Wow. What a shame. Seems another webpage was totally ripped off. Here’s another example on the same website: Original: http://www.kiterungame.com/ Clone: http://www.aranya13.com/aranya/app/index.html
There is also a dead comment by Gthrowaway1 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732425
Their FAQ has been updated. They do not use a proprietary lockscreen.

Does Knock use its own proprietary lock screen?
No. Knock uses Apple's built-in OS X lock screen with our UI on top.

http://www.knocktounlock.com/faq/
This may be in part because most of the examples we hear about in the startup scene are outliers. For most small businesses it's probably much more common to systematically reduce risk.
This is like approaching a tribe and tearing apart its social fabric. Anthropologically speaking it's never the right approach. There are times when you just have to accept certain behavior. Let the system adjust from within.
I, too, might have been unclear. You were citing a description of a highly, highly regulated labor market as an example of what might come to pass were that market deregulated.

>If you have any examples of de-regulation of a labour market

Because that ever happens. C'mon.

> buyers market (employers purchasing wage labour)

That's not what 'buyer's market' means.
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what would be awesome is if the mods here changed the title to "ITT: we hacker news now"
No. From the article:

The United States has stations around the world, but none in Russia.
I work pretty high up at Google, and I (obviously) made this account to post in this thread. Google is effectively "dead" in my opinion, and this mirrors (at least in my experience) the feelings of many of our other higher-ups who are concerned with technology rather than the business. Everything has stagnated, it's no longer fun to work here, and it's entirely about making money now. The claims that we don't bend over for government agencies is entirely bullshit. Most of what they wanted was done without question (though I can't say how much of a choice we had). The company will continue, but you'll see us fall out of style, in a similar fashion to what has happened to Microsoft.
Very commonly TCP was used for messages that had to be reliable, and UDP for the other stuff. A lot, and I mean a lot, of work was put in by devs in the early 00s trying to figure out how to do as well with TCP as they could with UDP.

Also, RO server code was and is a steaming pile of sadness and bugs.
Absolutely. I would say shame them. These are college kids, who are learning ethics. This should not under radar. 10 kids ripping your website and claiming their own. It is your hard work.
Here's one prominent Youtuber's thoughts on how the G+/YouTube merge has affected comment quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDTspUNj-4w

If you don't want to watch the video, the gist is that the G+ integration is actually highlighting the worst comments and putting them at the top, since they are the ones that get the most replies/likes/dislikes (feeding the trolls, etc.).
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How are those not meant to be identifiers?

They are intended to be delivery points for messages, not identifiers for non-messaging uses. The fact that the two functions are similar does not mean they are identical. Treating them as if they are identical just creates all kinds of (often unexpected) failure modes where the two functions don't overlap.
Hacker School guys, if you are here, are you open to foreign candidates? I am from Pakistan and would absolutely love to join if selected.
Wait a minute... Giant? I must know of this Australian? slang word.
That's what I'm saying. It's great for most of their users, but as Google becomes more important, it provides an easy single-point-of-failure you can use to completely take over someone's ID.
You haven't brought up any. But some are pretty common. I'm just arguing that PC prevents free thought and the dispassionate analysis of evidence, since it applies moral values to the evidence itself and it prejudicially strikes out some plausible hypotheses.

For example, I don't buy that racism is the sole reason for the underrepresentation of some ethnic minority groups in tech because other ethnic minority groups that have been historically oppressed and discriminated against are overrepresented in tech. But if someone posted an article about how "tech is racist" and I said "I'm not sure that tech is racist", then someone could call me a racist and I could lose my job if someone got offended.

So anonymity is essential for exploring non-progressive ideas and, I think, for getting closer to truth. There are lots of non-progressive/anti-progressive ideas that are plausible given the available evidence, but nobody will discuss under their real name.