skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if adding a "different identity" with a google account could fix that problem. So, yes, you still have to log and post with your real account, but you can pick another nickname that people would see. It may limit the trolling since it's not 100% anonymous.
Except YouTube has a separate identity. It's not ever google-branded. If people weren't told explicitly, it's not obvious that its a google site.
http://hckrnews.com/ to avoid the 'never made it to front page' problem.
Easy to say if you're not in a vulnerable position where losing anonymity matters, a lot.
> claiming that they may have better NLP algorithms than Google is absolutely unbelievable.

That's why I did not make that claim. The NLP talent at Google is likely better than that at any other company or university. My claim is that their expertise is not used for filtering Youtube comments.
More info:
https://css.csail.mit.edu/stack

Code:
https://github.com/xiw/stack
As Tycho said - Bitcoin can only ever fall 100% and your potential losses are unbounded. Not a good bet to take.
So I was all for the G+/YouTube integration change originally, but I came upon an issue that hit close to my own circle. I am a part of staff for a hobbyist website on video game music rearrangements, and the change created a split between the YouTube accounts of the organization and the account that created it.

Google really bungled the execution of this change.
A Talk With Lars Peter Hansen, Nobel Laureate
Incredible snowflake macro photos using cheap cameras/lenses
Given the reasons that people use C, what do you think makes for a better sales pitch -- "our compiler produces the fastest code" or "our compiler produces the safest code"? This is simply the compiler market optimizing for what it's customers want.
@Jach:

Seriously, you can. Just based on your comment alone:

> an i7 with free electricity mining all the time at 8 MH/s would make about 9 US cents in a month

This means at the current rate you will make

0.09/470 = 0.000191489362 BTC = 19148.9362 satoshi

Oh, and the calculator you linked to is crap, it only gives 3 significant digits of BTC, which is quickly becoming relevant.
I do wonder why the NSA even had the idea to ask Torvalds to commit a backdoor. After all, they know that the code is open and inspectable by anyone...
> A more conservative rule would be not to use C where security is a concern, unless you know what you're doing.

Which if you follow my posts, you will see that I defend C and C++ should be replaced by safer systems programming languages, that exist since Modula-2 days.

Having said this, C and C++ are still used everywhere and will outlive most of us.

So when using them, for whatever reasons, at least one should take care to use the best practices regarding how to write secure and safe code in those languages.
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No coincidence. 3 of the posts against Google were all #1, #2 and #3 before the HN thread was started on 4chan.
The article mentions people who are (iirc) some of the largest Let's Play creators as among the people who are taking action. If enough of them permanently move to a different uploader or disable YouTube comments then that will be something nontrivial.
Be sure to look at the full original size, they are amazing.
Anyone with MH/s-level farms from GPUs have turned them off months ago (or moved to Litecoin). There's some new 28nm ASICs that use less power per hash than the larger nm ASICs, so eventually those will face the same fate as GPUs from power costs (not so much from hash rate -- there are only a few TH machines on the near horizon), but the next 30-60 days isn't enough time to make that happen.
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You have zero proof that this all matters to any significant portion of the userbase. And I was arguing that pissing off the small part of the user base that wasn't happy with Google in the first place doesn't matter. And I stand by my argument. The majority wont care and will enjoy seeing relevant comments from their G+ friends under YT videos.
Yeah, I'm actually surprised feminists aren't more unpopular at times, because they do this with essentially anything resembling activism that isn't feminism: they go in and insist that members of that group focus on their form of feminism to the exclusion of whatever the group's actually about. (Often making use of the fact they have far more contacts and influence in the media to portray any dissent as women-hating and abominable.)

Same's been happening with Russel Brand and opposition to the current political system here in the UK.
Nonsense math effect: quality of research perceived higher when unintelligible
Just imagine playing Battlefield 4 on it O.O
If you are in that position, why not just have your entire Google account under a fake name?
Ask HN: I have 1 year before starting to work at Microsoft. What should I learn?
I'm from Brazil, almost getting my CS degree. Microsoft has offered me a job as a Software Development Engineer.
Because of visa bureacracies, my start date is 1 year from now.
So, HN, what kind of skills should I brush up?
Care to provide ANY facts beyond anecdotes that their expertise is not used for filtering Youtube comments?

BTW you did make a claim that Slashdot would give filters to Google so there is that.
Meh, I opened all three of those in new tabs.
Past vs Passed (Grammar)
I always find it silly, when sorting Amazon search results by avg. customer review, that the top results are the ones with just 1-2 reviews and 5 stars. It's pretty unhelpful.
I'll wait for the anandtech review
I would love to see some before and after in the wild stats using this configuration. Whilst it would be an apples versus oranges comparison, it would at least show that this config works compared to the default. Maybe a Blitz.io rush test?
"Presuming ... that 100% of DOA customers posted a 1-star comment"

Compare the stats on Dec 24th to Dec 26th, I bet they'll be an interesting change.

Christmas is only like 5 weeks away; its not like they released in June or something. A very large fraction of PS4 shipped probably are covered in gift wrapping paper right now.

Bonus points if they had the sense to ship a one month warranty five weeks before christmas... it might be bad, but it can't be that bad, or can it?
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Darn, you are right...
It's not sad if it's true. But you / we are still here, aren't you / we?
From my own experience, Bitstamp is ridiculously easy to use.
Simple solution: remove the undefined behaviour from your codebase.
Guess which country has the highest Twitter penetration rate? Saudi Arabia
Where is the Android version? Too mainstream for you?
The biggest reason to use jQuery is the extensive ecosystem. Nearly every JS problem has a jQuery extension-based solution.
I understand her frustration with Google+, because I share it myself. I spent a long time thinking Google might help to save those parts of the internet I loved. They've certainly been a powerful player on things like the fight to preserve net neutrality:

http://www.google.co.uk/help/netneutrality_letter.html

and SOPA:

https://www.google.com/doodles/sopa-pipa

... the difficulty, for those like me who thought Google might keep the internet alive is that it feels like betrayal to have them come out so strongly against anonymity.

I'm writing this because it helps to understand where Violet Blue (the author of the article) is coming from, if you realise she was one of the first people to be banned by Google for having a non-standard name:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-too-much-un...

... and has ever since been a strong proponent of the fact pseudonyms are important:

http://mynameisme.org/violet-blue/
Or make a G+ page that allows pseudonymous comments for YT videos. Simple as that.
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41% of Internet users in Saudi Arabia are on Twitter. the population there like to talk and express their opinion which makes twitter ideal for them
Tokyo City Symphony
I cashed out all my coins at $144 over a month ago now and I've still been waiting for money to show up. One the one hand I feel annoyed at losing out on the huge rise in value, on the other hand this huge delay makes me feel justified in escaping this terrible system.
France may tax publications protected by DRM at a higher rate
Allowing HTML unescaped? That is like the college undergraduates security mistake.
Fake names get your account suspended. (Real names get accounts suspended too, if they look fake enough)
Wow, if this is true, then Linux Torvalds was kind of a dick for even daring to be outraged at the earlier accusation that Linux could have a backdoor in it. I mean he basically called everyone idiots for even thinking that such a thing could be possible.

I'm not saying he accepted to do it. In fact I'm pretty sure he said no to them. But him acting so "shocked" about the accusation earlier, when he knew that they did ask him to do that, feels pretty disgusting to me.

He should've admitted that he was asked to do it, but didn't do it. What's the worst that could've happened?! It would've just invited more people to take a closer look at the Linux kernel to make sure Linus is telling the truth, but there's nothing wrong with that.

So even though I doubt he did it, I think much less of him now, for not being truthful to the community, and even attacking the ones who dared to question him about it.
Now is the time to convert your bitcoins to cash, because this wont last for much longer :-)
And even more:

"send_timeout 2;"
Mobile clients from another continent will "thank you" for this setting when they cannot open your site.

"error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log crit;"
A way to be unaware when something is wrong with your server. Nginx produces not only "crit" errors, but a bunch of very useful warnings, that need attention.

"limit_conn addr 10;"
Chrome and Firefox usually open more than 10 connections. And btw, have you ever heard about NAT?

"Most browsers will open up 2 connections"
15 years ago this was true.
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My understanding is that units that support any kind of satellite positioning system but that don't support GLONASS are subject to fairly hefty import tariffs in Russia. My S3 supports both the US and Russian systems, and is excellent at gaining a fix.
You think such people are sitting around posting their vital, dissenting, dangerous opinions on Youtube?
At the risk of crossing the streams, this reminds me of the 4Chan thread also currently on the front page- "Actually interesting post [0 comments]".

A very good article, I wish more people I knew had the patience to read it. Perhaps then they'd get as upset as I am about all the NSA revelations.

Edit: That all came off as a bit pompous. What I meant was, it's hard to get people to care about their online privacy if they're not fully aware what they've given away, and I think this article covers that well.
Seems that way :)

I think I should try to make that clear: I think that the article is fine. And I think it is alright to base a first conclusion on the reactions of the top-channels, and to report about those reactions given the context. The example given is just an example, and doesn't claim to be more, but it is a convincing one, especially combined with the other reports claiming the same thing: That the promotion of discussed=controversial=trolly comments on this G+ inclusion, as it seems to work now, is a bad thing for Youtube comments.

And isn't it true that Google did say they will try to improve that? Could be taken as an additional point going for that observation.

Note that I agree that this is not final - to be totally convinced about the topic, we have indeed to look at more data (and give it more time). Maybe Google will provide an argumentation following that. Though this is a hard problem to analyze objectively anyway, the subjective impression is what matters.

PS: I don't think your argumentation warrants downvotes!
Just create an account with "John or Jane Smith" or any other believable combination of common names.
> You have to understand that very few people are willing to write this much on the Internet for public consumption by total strangers -- we are very unusual people

Seems you're a bit out of touch with "usual people" - or at least "usual people" under the age of 35. I do agree HNers are unusual, but if anything I would say they are more likely to be concerned with what they share publicly, not less.
Okay, in the hypothetical world where 1 satoshi is worth some huge amount of USD more than it presently is, if you suck up the electricity cost now (which I believe would be less than $1 USD per day for an i7) you can get a few satoshi that may one day make that up-front cost worth it...

Whether you can actually get a single satoshi from a pool is another story. If the pool uses PPLNS, you might not ever. I think most would object to you for being misleading. If you want bitcoins, buy them, or get an ASIC miner and don't use a sucky-ass CPU or GPU.
Better solution, don't use languages that allow undefined behaviour.
Didn't they already try to sell their tech to Apple before they went to MS, but got turned down?
If anonymity matters you should not have been using Google as a way to remain anonymous prior to this.
This is probably bad news for leap motion who was surely hoping apple would acquire them. Maybe google will acquire leap?
"Don’t you think it’s better to damage the entire society in a broad spread, than having a few individuals taking all the damage? Of course you don’t, you are hypocrat liberal white people"

No ... but if you write the same exact blog post replacing "terrorism" with "automobiles", you can make a very good argument for outlawing cars.
My guess is one of the project's goals it to reach programming. If that is the case, Python is a great language.

If the goal was simply to make fighting robots, something more agnostic would be cool. That said, the system enforces a 300ms response time per robot, so compiled languages would have a big advantage.
Agree. They should implement some sort of algorithm that takes the star count into account.

On another note: isn't it amazing that there even is such a thing.. A $99 tablet? This was unheard of five years ago.
In terms of politics, the same could probably be said about the US, the EU or China.
This is part 3. Parts 1 and 2 are:

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartI.html

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartII.html

Part 4 will be on December 4th.

All are interesting and important, but this movement isn't even a movement yet, and all this highly technical (legalistic and linguistic, not so much technology) writing is still in the theoretical foundation stage.

Our MLK isn't here yet. I wonder if our society can produce or support one. Sometimes I even wonder if that was a design goal.
Except that OpenID is a distributed protocol, which the Internet should so obviously use for authentication, not FB/G+.
Look at the new page instead of the main page.
Frequent occurrence of a word common in a large subculture hardly constitutes "spam".
Debate beats brainstorming
Thanks for the reply and the correction!

Ok. So you have me on one thing: it wasn't originally intended to be used as a personal identifier. You learn something new every day.

But then according to your very own link, it has universally been used and repurposed for this exact thing for the last 45 years, without issues, and with duplicate SSNs no longer being a problem.

I'd say that sounds like a very proven form of identification. So what problem do you (OP / ams6110) have with people using it as such?
I bought it, but it kind of just stops after you name your company and product. You read two emails, then you're left on your own to figure out how to do stuff.
The UX people at Google must be wondering whether to venture into work on Monday.
The service is free, you are the product, stop acting like a customer.
Search for alternatives of don't use the service at all. "Vote with your wallet."

Edit: customer in stead of costumer
If you look only at the latest youtube thing, it might not be the worst google's been through. But if you look back at all the examples you compiled, two of them happened in the last 6 months. I don't know how it's all perceived outside of the "tech community", and maybe people don't care after all. My impression of all this is that it's a lot of bad press, in a fairly short amount of time. It's definitely changed my view on google, and I guess the question that all articles / speculations / blogspams are trying to get at is: how many people's views of google changed as a result to the recent events. And is that number big enough to start worrying google?

A common view, from what I gather, is that being a "data-driven" company, google has probably run the numbers and concluded that whatever "outcry" is going on, it is the result of a small group, and that it is not going to threaten their business. I am usually wary of such non-arguments. I really don't know what the short-term/long-term effects of all this are going to be (if any), but I don't think that any company can really predict the full extent of "bad press" either. So even if it's a relatively small percentage of the user base, writing off this movement as being "insignificant" seems a little unwise.
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@Jach:

I specifically addressed electricity costs in my original comment.

My point was, you can make BTC even with a shitty CPU. Whether it's worth it is a different question.
First try:

"I'm the last survivor of a dead culture, and I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead."
We won't be able to find any common ground on this matter. I belive that subjective impression of random journalists or channel owners doesn't matter at all. So we'll agree to disagree.
Here's the context: http://lwn.net/Articles/568202/
jQuery has a lot of useful things, such as a good selector engine (although can be inefficient if you abuse it), lots of easy to hook into plugins, and helpers such as `scrollTop()` & `$(window).on('resize', ...)`. I'm a huge proponent of Angular, but jQuery still has its utility.
Ha, this outrage is quaint. You know what it reminds me of is when Facebook made their big interface change a couple years back and everyone was all up in arms and signing petitions to change it back. Anyone remember what the outcome of that was? Nothing.
Your argumentation is valid yet I bet that you are very unlikely to invest all your money in Bitcoins thus you will not run out of USDs or Euros, whatever. Let's see.
I think you proposal is good.

One option would be to give out some of the data that is behind HN, namely the information about who has upvoted which article. This should make it possible to create mashup which would try to learn whose thoughts about interesting arcticles match mine.

(No need to disclose the actual usernames, some anonymous identifier would be enough)
there's still no nodeList.prototype.forEach. You can(and should) make it but it's pretty sad qsa was implemented without fixing the most basic thing about its result.

Also jquery neatly abstracts single/ multiple element operations making for shorter code.

Use jquery 2, it's tiny and gives you the tenseness without the extra code for all the old stuff.

Or cut a few pixels from the top of a single image and save bandwidth that way.
What's hypocritical about not wanting to live in a surveillance state?
> If that is happening immediately on boot, then hopefully the temp sensor or overall temp system is flawed and can be fixed either by a Sony patch or really quickly in their manufacturing process.

Which does not change the fact that it is dead on arrival for the customer.
I would also like to see an article about the characteristics of failed innovators. What parts overlap and what parts are different? Of course, data on failed innovators is much harder to come by.
> I'd much rather the money used for something useful like science.

Think how absolutely amazing and useful would such a thing be for science. With such data we could learn a lot about behaviour of people, groups, traffic, resource usage, etc. and use it to optimize the society even further.

That there are bad sides doesn't mean that there aren't any good ones.
you're right. "The goal of the NSA’s eavesdropping was to prevent automobiles".

Wow, now it's clear we need to outlaw cars.
You may have missed the bigger issue of powerful multinational corporations waging an all out war on the concepts of anonymity and privacy in the internet.

If that is "irrelevant", I suggest you read up on the course of human history over the past century.

Are there other more acute priorities, sure. But it's also important to maintain a society where we are actually free to address those other priorities without completely surrendering our identity to public commercial exploitation.
The ridiculous length of this guide is a testament to the fact that it is still really hard to host your own mail.
Same problem here. The can make a tool to move stuff from one account to another.

It seems like Google is suffering from the legacy issue.
My browsing habits are pretty much along the same lines, but I expect it will become much harder to do so in the following years. Between the feature creep and the monetization of idiocy, I expect we will lose even more diversity than we already have; on the software side, privacy-enabling features will just slowly disappear, as a smaller and smaller proportion of people will have the technical prowess to even care about them, let alone use them.

As for the Eternal September... I used to think it had been just a momentary problem that led to the unfortunate demise of USENET. I am starting to wonder if it wasn't, in fact, a first symptom. Programmers from my generation ought to have been so happy to see this happening -- the WWW available to everyone, connecting everyone. If only it weren't for the wrong reasons. The taste of my dream turned out to be a lot more bitter.
This is why the liberal arts need to survive. Because since at least the Greeks, man has known that persuasion involves more than simply a structuring of facts into aesthetically pleasing syllogisms. But there are some folks who forget that logic begins and ends with axioms, and if your axioms don't map to anything about the world, all your arguments are navel-gazing. One goal of argumentation is to convince other people to accept your axioms, which will not be achieved when you scoff at them for being so illogical by not accepting -- a priori -- your arbitrary and private set of rules.

tl;dr -- Logical operations are universal, but not the axioms.
> Who honestly talks to their friends via Youtube? It's really not a social networking site. People use it to enjoy watching videos and occasionally make a comment.

This is the heart of the matter, Google views Youtube differently than everyone else. We use it to watch videos, not to communicate with friends, and don't consider it a social network - when we want to discuss a video with our friends we share it with them.

Google wants you to discuss it with your friends on Youtube (or G+) instead of posting it to Facebook (or wherever) and discussing it with your friends there.
Do I think gay people post or comment on videos about the experience of being gay in a society that is often homophobic? Yes.

Do I think feminists post or comment on videos about feminism or rape? Yes.

Do I think transgender people post or comment on videos about being transgender? Yes.

Is there a subset of the above people that wouldn't want their YouTube activity known to their family or employer? Yes.