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Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
Fully agreed. I've implemented a bad equivalent on top of UDP myself. It should be easier given how common a use case it is.
And what about the just reverse?
The thing is, Facebook already proved that hateful people will happily spout bigotry and threats next to their real name and a photo of themselves. I can't believe Google isn't aware of this.
ya. click the "remote datasource" link on the right.
Sigh. When are we going to stop trying to use things that are not meant to be identifiers (ip addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, SSNs) as identifiers?
I think they're a strong supporter of the Second Amendment as per the way they interpret it; they have filed a number of briefs in support of cases that fit their definition.

Let's stop with the farce: your complaint is that you don't like their interpretation, and so you choose to change the topic and blur the issue on a completely different thread to grind that ax of yours.
> Create forums where mature people are inclined to participate and you will get great discussions, whether these posts are authored by anonymous people or not

No doubt that works well in some cases, but the average YouTube video is not such a forum.

Google has a problem ("The comment section on many YouTube videos is an insane cesspool"), and they need to address that problem. They don't really have the option of just moving the goalposts.

Moderation is another option that can work, but it may not be practical with something as enormous as YouTube.

They certainly could have done a better job of this, because the reaction is fairly predictable (people go insane over far more minor changes... OMG-CHANGE!1!), but it doesn't seem an unreasonable move in the abstract.
I have found that if a person calls themself an Entrepreneur; they usually have delusions of grandeur--and
hide behind that title. They go through life wondering
why no one wants them around. Kinda pathetic.
Bitcoin was designed with a pruning ability, which can delete unnecessary data from a local copy of the blockchain. Based on the Bitcoin website [1] the blockchain as of 2012 is less than 100mb when pruned.

[1]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
how so? google makes linking to wikipedia rather irrelevant. Although of course it's the very linking to wikipedia (et al) that makes google so good.
Nice lib ! will be quite usefull on my next pet project ,thanks ! that's why I love HN , one always find very smart folks that share bits of work.
The only time i've ever seen threading really work well is when it only includes the headers, like with email or newsreader clients, and there's a separate frame altogether for the text (which makes it in essence follow a flat style.)

But threading the text as well just makes long discussions difficult to follow and unreadable as the margin starts to get cramped.

Which on HN is apparently part of the reason they do it the way they do.
One of the great features of the internet is the fact that you can remain anonymous under a username if you want to. I, personally, have never chosen to use a username that is not identifiable with me--but I realize there are people out there that want to (or need to) remain anonymous, especially if they post content (comments or even other content).

That's one of the great features of the internet itself, and honestly it's a shame that certain companies like Google wants to force using our real names on everyone.

It does make sense, though, that if a company such as Google owns multiple services or sites, they would want users to use the same accounts across multiple platforms. However, I don't see why you can't use different usernames or personas across multiple services: just log in using one account, but use several different public usernames (if you want to do that) across different sites.
You bring up an interesting point to discuss.

I see this kind of "shock" throughout the techy mainstreamy politcally correct communities. It seems to me that the people that take issue with bigotry are themselves somehow weak through some kind of insecurity manifesting itself as a desire to fix this perceived "injustice". Because, you know, muh feels.

4chan just doesn't care about your feels. It's funny to say this (see how I am distancing myself from 4chan to add validity to my argument?); but I do think more communities could learn something from 4chan in this aspect.

On a related note; I saw that outrage thread linking in the 4chan post about this black chick getting some dude fired and what not about a non-PC joke at a conference. Then, in the HN thread [1], to my pleasure, at least the top comments were mostly absent of the typical reddity/facebook etc. white knighting "This is why women arent in tech!" nonsense.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667
"Choose your own rating" would be a nice feature.
I don't understand why the post you linked would have been flagged. I see nothing at all wrong with it.
most stock brokers don't know wtf they're talking about. that's because most can't even beat the snp. most hedge fund managers (intellectually the smartest of the smartest bunch) also can't beat the snp.

you are correct in that you should stick to your core competency. as far as investing, on the side you can invest for shts and giggles but if you think that the market is somehow not that efficient when there's 100,000 ivy league grads who spend 18 hours a day researching in the same markets then, i'm not sure what else i can tell you. trust me, i know a ton of people from wall street. for example, most people who work in private wealth management (people with 10m+) get the stupid bunch out of the entire stack of investment bank. the smartest trade for the company and institutional money/ engage in billion dollar transactions.

now an interesting thing is to study about 1000 hours on the stock market and valuation principles and then invest in a sector you have domain expertise. then you may have an edge.
even then you will realize that there's not much of an edge b/c in my old job, i would just expense $10,000 bucks and call you and your bosses and your competitors' bosses up and get the insight into the industry and info i needed to know to make my decision to pull the trigger. so combining commercial due diligence mixed with my investing acumen and access to 100 institutional stock brokers (not the plebeian wealth managers) would ensure that i have an edge.

hope this helps. don't want anyone to lose money.
It's not just Russia, but India too has started deploying its own GPS system, called IRNSS comprising 7 satellites primarily covering the Indian land mass.

> With 32 satellites in orbit, GPS pretty much serves as the global reference. The US doesn’t share military grade signals with countries but civilian signals, in L1 (1575.4 MHz) and L2 (1227.6 MHz) frequencies, is free for all. But as is true with all innovators, it’s believed the US practises ‘selective denial’. In times of war, and sometimes even otherwise, the signals can be corrupted. Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan says, “During the Gulf War, signals from some satellites were interrupted.”

> Amid such uncertainties, when the default control and navigation systems in defence projects are equipped with GPS devices, a country’s security rides on these radio signals whose control lies elsewhere. For this reason, in its upgraded BrahMos missile, India has added Glonass receivers to the standard GPS receivers because Russia, unlike US, gives access to military signals.

http://forbesindia.com/article/real-issue/isros-very-own-gps...
That's the problem. It was at #3, then immediately dropped off. (see the comments)
HEY GUYS DOWNLOAD THIS IMAGE AND SAVE IT AS A JS FILE!

Red squares. Red squares everywhere.
I needed a good laugh tonight.
Are there any GPS monitoring stations in Russia?
looks good ! is it the same sauce as the deluxe ? another best seller in France is the 280 for 280g. Not a big fan , but that's the biggest sandwich avaible here.
See also the movie "Zelig" by Woody Allen.
Some folks probably should feel tied down by their reputation/ego. Casual sexism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. for a laugh brings the entire discussion down to a level that I don't have any desire to participate in.

I think anonymity is awesome. But, 4chan is often on par with YouTube in terms of the quality of its comments. Sure, there's some smart kids there (some younger friends of mine are regularly channers), and a few not-as-smart oldtimers who ought to have grown out of it by now.

Notice several comments spend a lot of time talking about the people who call out sexism (as white knights, for instance). They're the kind of sexist who thinks that because they don't believe they are sexist, when they say sexist things, it's not actually sexist. The same kind of racist that says racist things, but because they have a black friend who's totally cool with it, it's all good. The kind of folks that do this are mostly young, mostly white, mostly middle class, and mostly assholes who should stop and think before they speak, whether it is an anonymous forum or not. Racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic behavior is racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic, and 4chan is full of it, on a scale that no non-anonymous forum would ever be.
Well first you're assuming that those that created the system consider known identity to be a misfeature, even beyond that necessary for payments.

Trustable/trusted doesn't mean trustworthy in the sense of an individual citizen's expectation of privacy, it means that you have given the entity your private information, in trade for service and convenience.

The irony of old spy tradecraft is that we all possess hardware that could conceal in plain sight anything that previously had to be hidden completely, the existence of electronics or recording/transmitting ability (including film) would immediately indicate the role of the person as someone engaged in some kind of espionage. Now we can all carry sophisticated sensors and communication devices in most places, and all but cameras in many others.

What physical audit would tell you if the MEMS sensor in your device has been repurposed for audio pickup. (Assuming that the capability isn't already in the firmware, or that simple observation of the signal output (including power fluctuations) could reveal the same information to the microprocessor.

The only case I'm aware of where the courts have blocked this kind of surveillance involved an OnStar vehicle system using an analog cellphone which could only serve it's intended purpose or the government's, but not both simultaneously. This is not an issue with digital and IP-based systems, which can easily serve two masters.

Ah, you're use of "trust" again, Intel CPUs have features that actively work against you, such as with vPRO. I would agree that a non-cellular PDA and Mifi are superior to an integrated device from a privacy and personal autonomy perspective.
This one covers it pretty well: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
I think that this is more about China specifically growing its internal development than it is a Snowden effect. Don't get me wrong, I'd be incredibly uncomfortable hosting a non-US site reliant on hardware or software for countries very complicit with the illegal data retention of the NSA for years now.

I think that freedom and liberty are very important, and that our own government has consistently compromised both for the benefit of a small few.
A Purposeful Lack of Understanding
The trend began before 9/11 and the modern US surveillance state as we know it today began, and has actually slowed since the Patriot Act.
Anonymity isn't why.

You can be anonymous on Hacker News very easily. Most people here are.

It's the lack of a karma system that is why people on 4chan post whatever they like.
You are reading too much into these comments, I think. Just because there are some annoyances on HN doesn't mean it is the embodiment of pure evil.

> Imagine where you'd be forced to go if HN didn't exist, for example.

A better HN. It is possible: HN was such a place a couple years ago. And it can only get worse if the community keeps taking itself too seriously to allow even light-hearted criticism.
> because google is doing the equivalent of forcing you to link all of your different reddit identities together

As someone who has lost count of all his google email ids and Google+ profiles, I'm telling you that that's just not true. They unified Google sign-ons, and that's all. You can always create another Google/Gmail id to comment "anonymously", or even make and post new videos.
hahaha. love it. if you long usd at the same time you're technically hedged. you should just figure out the ratio and maybe you can stat arb that across various currencies.

otherwise, probably not the best idea.
Chomsky: Fight Back Against NSA Spying Or Be 'complicit'
>It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause."

It's not about "the law", it's about justice (the concept of what's "good").

Owning slaves was once OK with the "law". But I'd say, I'd very much agree with someone in 1850 illegaly helping slaves break free, because he had a "legitimate political cause".

People should care less about what's legal and more about what's moral. (Admitingly, the second is harder to define. But that's the conversation worth to have, instead of just blindy assuming anyone who did something illegal "deserves" jail).
It's weird you chose that strawman because actually people do need a permit to operate large fires in public and I am pretty sure a convicted arsonist would be denied this privilege.
It's surprising they're more risk-averse.
That referenced bill there is pretty weak and shouldn't be used as an excuse that "something was done". What happened to the bill by Rep. Zoe Lofgren that was supposed to break the teeth of DMCA 1201 by allowing circumventing DRM for non infringing purposes? That was the real thing.

UPDATE: It doesn't seem to move anywhere:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1892
Completely agree. Google needs to pay attention, it isn't just some haters complaining about the top dog anymore. The backlash is coming from even long time fanboys.
IP addresses vary.

The entire point of my phone number, or my email address, is to identify me. Email doesn't get sent "to whoever is interested", it gets sent to designated people. How are those not meant to be identifiers?
I really like the FCC, and I don't like government agencies very often. I've interfaced with them when reporting illegal telemarketing and when getting an amateur radio license. They've always struck me as very accessible, responsive, efficient, and transparent. Although most of their job is regulation, it always seems like they approach the task with a sincere goal of actually serving the citizenry and making communication work well and fairly. General kudos to them.
Which is why so many citizen groups have sprung up to film police. There are two such groups in Austin, there's a nationwide Copwatch organization, etc. Every experienced activist knows the first thing you do when police arrive on the scene is pull out your camera and start recording. It reduces the odds of someone getting hurt dramatically. It also reduces the odds of cops lying in court (though it does not prevent it entirely).

These days, when I see a black or brown person being detained by police, I tend to start recording from a safe distance. There's just too many instances of police violence in my city for me to consider it a safe situation (in the last year alone Austin police officers have shot and killed multiple unarmed black men...one was shot in the back of the head after a bank robbery he had nothing to do with...he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time).

I didn't always feel this way about police, but these days, I view them as dangerous and unpredictable; since I'm white and middle class, I have a lot less to fear from police, but I recognize the extreme power imbalance there, and I'm much more aware of the history of police violence than I was in the past.
This is exactly the level of humor and intellect you'd expect from 4chan. See how I didn't say anything there?
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/307/

relevant to the first xkcd: http://xkcd.com/917/
mostly accurate
I think the closed ecosystem is what will deter people from using it coming from the standardized Node ecosystem with NPM.

It's basically a lock-in, which I don't find appealing. If Meteor fails or moves on, you're stuck. You can't just swap some NPM modules around.
This is hilarious, liked it. Here's another one:

[315 points] You should work from Starbucks.
[262 points] Why working from home or Starbucks is a bad idea.
Dear Google, You Just Crossed the Line
The World’s 1st Desktop 3D Printer for Metal
This is the London I remember from early morning July 8th, 2005, the morning after the bombings. Was walking around to find a ride to the airport, couple of blocks from the double-decker wreck. Wish not to experience the same again.
Please, please post this. Or if not would you be willing to share it privately? This is the sort of reading that really gets my rocks off. My email is in my profile if you're interested at all. I really would love to see this.
One of mine was "password1". All the hints were things like "usual", "standard" and "the one I use everywhere". Although not unexpected, this is scary: Not only are people using the same password everywhere, they're using THIS password everyone.
Nonsense. The world can always use another joke. It's rough out there.
Core dev here -- I've been doing some work here and there on framework security and I'd love to talk about the security problems you're running into, if you wouldn't mind shooting me an email sometime.
Good thing they included that super awesome streaming audio widget so I would have something to listen to while I looked at the website. I wonder whose music they stole?
you mean like a cloud based VRMS written in javascript?

p.s. - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vrms
Debt: The First 5000 Years is a broadly informed anthropological perspective on various human exchange systems and a masterly evisceration of the set of common misconceptions the author dubs "The Economists' Creation Myth".

For a detailed case study of the development of merchant banking (the direct predecessor to modern systems), a fantastic biography of the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty Amschel Meyer Rothschild is available on Amazon Kindle. Interestingly, it was written by a self-exiled Israeli Jew who gained access to family archives in order to compile the work.

There are many others but nothing really holistic that fully takes in to account modernity.

(Apologies for the delayed reply: I'm switching continents at the moment!)
I deleted my entire Google+ profile and was nagged with the following as soon as I logged back into Gmail next time:

"Update your account
Create a public Google+ profile and get great new features in Gmail"
They probably are.

I think you mean hanged.
I've seen too many discussion that didn't happen because people were stymied by political correctness.

It's there because it's constantly stopped, and it should be there.
As an Australian, my viewpoint into Silicon Valley culture is through HackerNews. What are the main differences then?
Well, would you want some nice flock of Russian drones flying all other the place? With no ability to block navigation on these drones? I'd think not.

On the other hand Russia is probably the last country you should worry about. Nobody there is really interested in provoking the US to military actions. People in power in Russia have kids studying and living abroad, all over the place. In US, Europe, New Zealand, UK, etc.
> It seems to me that the people that take issue with bigotry are themselves somehow weak through some kind of insecurity manifesting itself as a desire to fix this perceived "injustice". Because, you know, muh feels.

Being empathetic is a weakness?
SSNs, IPs and Phone Numbers get reused. People often have multiple email addresses.

(Bonus: Yahoo! email addresses get reused too.)
What startups need to know about TPP, the secret global trade agreement
The Rule I Followed to become a Great Developer
I am a Google fan, but this move by shoving something down everyone's throats isn't very Google.
"way back in the day, if you wanted to respond to a post or whatever on the web you went to your own website and posted a response and linked to the source you were responding to."

Amen. I still do it this way most of the time. Too bad the Web has not standardized on a form of pingback - that would allow these distributed conversations to actually work. Right now we're stuck with looking at our referrer logs, and that is very clumsy.
On the other hand, I can just picture the Russians saying to themselves,

"Everyone will think we are using it to spy no matter what we do, so maybe we might as well..."
Will it be suitable to use SteamOS not only as a gaming platform, but also as a general-purpose operating system - i.e. the new Windows for gamers? There might have been a hint in the article, but I didn't quite catch it.
> Do what? Expose evidence of government corruption? It is written in the law that this is exactly the case.

The law does not permit breaking the law to further expose corruption though. That is the role of an appointed (and trained!) inspector general. Or, if necessary, a special prosecutor.

It would be one thing to reveal evidence of wrongdoing that one happens to fall into as part of their normal duties. Going further beyond that is illegal for good reason, as otherwise those who are impersonating high-ranking officials for purposes of espionage would be literally indistinguishable from those impersonating the same officials for to "dig for dirt".

Put another way, if your logic applied Google would have not merely the right, but the obligation to constantly scour through their GMail archives, G+ private messages, and everything else they have access to, for evidence of wrongdoing. Is it your position that Google should be doing this?
About a review site for products that people of their age could find useful. The site could earn money through affiliates (e.g amazon e.t.c).They would have to write the reviews for each product.
Cease and Desist for copying css? You just made the programmer in me cringe. The nature of the world is that people will develop on other peoples work, hell even plainly copy it (there are countless tumblr clones even down to the css), simply fuck it, focus your energy on improving your own skills and building a business. Holding this sort of mentality of will bite you in the future, I have done this, where you either waste time "encoding" your code so its harder to rip, or waste so much energy getting in a circlejerk with others that you waste valuable time. I understand you spent a lot of time on your site, but at the end of the day its just a parallax effect man. Here are some wise words from Jayz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU
Stallman-as-a-service

Written in either Go or JS, of course. Preferably both.
Great example of selling an experience compared to just selling a product