skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, any sub-reddits in my interests are filled with incredibly shallow or meme-filled posts. Never have I once thought to myself 'This subreddit is way better than [established forum/community] for this'. Maybe it's the short lifespan of posts, or voting style that promotes snark/pandering type posts, but I have yet to come across an awesome subreddit. Also, I agree with you that the more specific you get the less this becomes an issue, but at that point it's usually just a bunch of ghost-subreddits with < 1K users and a single post every odd month.
I know the McRib doesn't have a gram. The article included it - without any indication that it contains probably thousands of times less than a gram - to make it sound scary.
>Put in perspective, this absolutely nothing.

Put in perspective, it absolutely is something. It's the biggest public outcry Google's faced thus far.
If you think it's a first-world problem, ask yourself what the situation in a third-world or repressive government would be where all search and email traffic would be individually assignable and identifiable as it passed through the national firewall and surveillance systems.
What is the difference? All they are doing is giving you a different way of accessing them. It's the same bloody company! It's not like they've created and passed the photos on to someone else, they're just in a bucket with "picasa" written on it.
For those who are interested, pleasingly it's considerably easier to buy/sell btc in the UK these days, [32] and [33] are very functional - I used [32] to buy coins and then [33] to sell some just today. [33] looks much better value both ways but [32] is about as easy as it gets.

* Using comedy numbering scheme in reference to [1337].

[32]:https://bittylicious.com/
[33]:https://localbitcoins.com/
[1337]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
Airlines depend on loyalty, that's why they have significant loyalty programs.

Also that is a crazy comparison, an airline is responsible for getting you to your destination alive and with your bags, it's not acceptable for them to have ineffective customer service. Even if what they offered wasn't so important the fact is you pay money for their services, the deal has to be two sided.
I can't edit my reply, but another comment downstream put it even better than I did:

"Her profile picture is a woman coyly putting something vaguely phallic in her mouth. If it was posted to reddit the slobbering masses would be tripping over themselves to tip their fedoras in her general direction, so imagine what it would be like on YouTube."

Again, a fun, funny photo, in context. In the wilds of Youtube, that will get her plenty of awful comments and come-ons.
Foxconn intern claims PS4 was sabotaged during manufacturing
Umm.. When I pay 1200$ for a plane ticket, I expect a minimum of customer service, and that's how those companies differentiate. The comparison to a free web service is not really relevant.
Register with Bitstamp, provide paperwork (passport + U.S. drivers license is probably best bet), wait a few days for them to process, sell Bitcoins, wire transfer to your U.S. bank account, wait ~ 5 days to clear, profit!

Once you've done this once, everything will go a lot faster next time.

Don't bother with mtgox, there's a reason why there's such a price discrepancy and we all use Bitstamp as the real exchange rate.

EDIT: I just read elsewhere that mtgox is still highly liquid if you're in Japan or China, which means that there may be a good reason for the price discrepancy (high demand in China). But don't bother with gox if you're in the U.S.
What? It's the same sodding data, passed to the same company, how does merging two accounts that they already know are linked change anything?

Also, you can search without logging in, and sign up for as many different email accounts as you want. Are you honestly saying that google asking you to make a G+ account is a serious problem for activists?
I concur with the appreciative comments here, and thank the OP for sharing this, as the speaker touches on aspects of the privacy issue in ways that I had not yet considered.

The ecology of privacy, and the tendency for some to convey said privacy into a transaction is an aspect I find fascinating.

Many thanks!
I came across this in my chat log history today, on a friend who I rarely message.

http://i.imgur.com/EaAVLYZ.png
> It's much more expensive for your body to move your arm+hands around compared to one single click of a finger.

It's less expensive than hunting around for the remote in the couch cushions for five minutes.
"It's the biggest public outcry Google's faced thus far."
Care to share what metrics are you using to define that?

I just dont see this. Including that Google got under fire for closing Google reader, NSA leaks, Wi-Fi data gathering, circumventing safari protections to track users, privacy policy consolidation, etc.
It's not a ponzi scheme by definition, and you don't need to have a copy of the block chain on your harddrive.
I find that many companies related to Bitcoin are extremely unprofessional and they still run their businesses like 3 years ago when Bitcoin was just an internet novelty and not a real currency the way it is today.

Just look at the latest Blockchain fiasco where the guy who runs the company got butthurt over some Reddit comments and got involved in a flame war. MtGox's lack of professionalism is just the tip of the iceberg.

I love BTC and I wish it would take off in a major way, but in order for that to happen people with shitty attitude need to stop running the community. I guess this is why regulation exists in the real world... oh well...
That's the most accurate assessment I've seen so far...
4chan is one of few sites like craigslist surviving through technological fashion waves relatively unchanged, and is largely a foundation of the internet culture onto itself. Culture that was born on the internet however wrong some people count it.

It is a piece of art as a service and and opinions vary about it wildly.

My 2c.
So really the only way to identify high quality information is by what some would call "peer reviewed, authenticated content". That means you know something about the person who generated the content and a bunch of people (who you also know something about) review it and vote it up. Thats why a large percentage of high ranked search results come from wikipedia and stack overflow/exchange and quora.

LinkedIn and Facebook are leading the market in the authenticated peer reviewed content business, which is locked in to their platforms, and which search engines cannot index.

Extrapolate ten years down the line, and that means a scenario where existing search engine leadership is severely compromised.

And thats why the push for G+. Its do or die.

tl;dr: the goal is to have search access to authenticated peer reviewed content, and to mitigate the risk of existing market leaders in that space from cannibalizing the search business, and with it the lucrative advertising business.
Its terrible place to waste your time on..
Is it possible to predict Bitcoin? https://www.facebook.com/coinalytics
I can say that that's actually somewhat of a real concern. There are companies that only program in pairs (pivotal for example) and others that try to emulate them. I have personally experienced pair programming being pushed as SOP.
AA won't ever go out of business... they're "too big to fail." I'm sure they'll just be absorbed into "US Government Airlines" when that time comes.
It's the same with The Something Awful Forums. It is $10 to join, and it really helps keep the trolls out. One of the best communities on the web.
UN OCHA and Geeklist talk on building tech for Social Good
OP is [depreciating term about sexual preference]
I guess I'd wonder what they consider a "strong non-U.S. accent". I've had plenty of interaction with support center agents whose writing I would find impeccable, but at the same time, I could barely understand what they were saying.

I think this will be less of a problem in the future as it seems everyone (except those of us in English speaking countries) is learning English. I think the unacknowledged down-side is that we don't place nearly enough emphasis on learning other languages (in the U.S.).
I agree with Crockfords sentiment that all the parts of JavaScript that are like Scheme can be considered good.
> I have no idea why people talk about huge corporations like they have hive mind and are in total unity?

Am I the only one to find this statement ironic?

One of the biggest arguments against Google+ and its drive to one account/real names is that individual people don't have unitary identities, let alone companies.
Definitely, which is why I tried to just buy a few (fractions of) bitcoins just for the historical fun of it, but as intensely skeptical I am of all the bitcoin craze, I was still shocked at just how awful MtGox is. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if I could code something better.

Just to tell people that as amateurish as they may think these exchanges are, it's actually much worse.

Makes you wonder how a company like CoinBase even got funded by YC, come to think of it.
Are you really trying to imply that Google does shitty software? Based on a single failure of spam/obscenity filter? Your reality distortion field must be really powerful.
I have to say a lot of this stereo-typing is entirely accurate, and definitely made me have a chuckle or two.

Thanks for posting!
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Coin2Pal That's the best info I have about them. So use with a pint of salt. I had no problem with my transactions yet.
He is looking for referals!
What are your credentials to say this without doubt?
I wouldn't personally call Crafty "huge", but it certainly is monolithic in the sense that the bundle comes with two renderers, input management, game loop, sound, entity-component system, and so on. Which is a bit, ironic given the main goal of ECS is to decouple systems.

IMO it would be a much nicer library if it was just the ECS, with add-on modules for rendering, sound, etc.
Is the competition still alive ? The header indicated '1995-1998' and I've not found any page that seems recent or with the last result of the competition.
This is part of the scary naivete of Bitcoin boosters. It's as if how to set up and run computers for serious financial systems was never worked out by anyone before. There has to be a Bitcoin exchange that isn't run by clowns ... hasn't there?
David Bowie’s 2002 predictions about the future of music
I can't tell you how excited I am that you shared my work and that it's enjoyed.
I mean, I don't wanna get all Sally-Field-at-the-Oscars but the photos and project took ages to plot and it makes it really worth it when so many get to see it - even worth getting soaked to your underwear to get the shot of Big Ben on Christmas morning!
So a ga-zillion thank yous.
(And they are very definitely not faked or overlayed or multiple shots - as someone says - in the second last photo you can spot a car, presumably with someone in it...)
Not at all! Technically, it's a pump-and-dump.
It seems to me that anything that stops a huge proportion of youtube comments from being posted is "a good start".
I'm waiting for a Twitter video platform to settle these issues once and for all ... Google really needs more competition where users feel they are forced to do things because they have no choice.
Missed this - For me it was a little less than a month from inquiry about the job to an offer. That didn't seem unusual for them.
My Thoughts on Google+ (YouTube)
This is a very nice article!
I agree that it's a crazy comparison ... but I've heard non-technical people say very similar things. I was trying to point out that our perception of our industry's practices may not be the way others perceive us. Other misunderstandings are:

"I can't believe they just shut down my favorite application for doing X" - spoken by people without paid accounts.

"That company has so much money you think they'd do X" - (most commonly this one is "add my requested but obscure feature) - spoken by someone who doesn't realize that a company can be well-funded but "burning through cash" unprofitable.
The Sony PS4 Makes Its Debut
Libraries are the solution, +1. A handcoded solution to this would make me cry.
NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux
The fundamental problem is that G+ is a Facebook imitation.

It's the sincerest form of flattery... of your competition.
> AA fulfilled their duty to get the bags to the baggage carousel. Not their fault that most airports rely on the honor system.AA fulfilled their duty to get the bags to the baggage carousel. Not their fault that most airports rely on the honor system.

I don't think that is the way the legal system defines duty and fault.
"No one likes being tricked by a company that leverages a monopoly to force unrelated services and nonconsensual exposure onto people's lives."
4chan is a place like no other, only because of the anons. It's my guess that most of them have an emotional scarring of some sort and use it as a resort/rehab.
You tell people they can buy things on the internet with bitcoins that they can't otherwise buy on the internet.
So has anyone given it a play yet?
Why python? The API could have been a simple textual one (or maybe JSON, or whatever) and piped to/from the robot programs. That way, robots could be written in whatever language the authors like. It would also help sandbox the robots from the game server.
I went to this talk in 2011 where Gavin Andresen tried giving bitcoin away to anyone that emailed him: http://blip.tv/amherstmedia/making-money-gavin-andresen-igni...
S was developed by statisticians, for statistics — so it's really no surprise that web programmers come along and say "ew that's weird, why does it do that!".
Well this chap won't be joining their loyalty program now will he?
> I guess it is a complete coincidence that popular "we are now hacker news" thread appeared on 4chan and four posts against real name policy on Youtube are now on the front page of HN. All submitted within 24 hours. /s

Possible. But on the other hand, that topic was a relevant topic here the last days anyway.

> Is the bit about 80 n-words in a comment relevant?

Yes, it is. Not alone, but given the argumentation that Youtube-comments did get even worse because of this change. Note, I can't judge that, Youtube isn't working for me atm. But she shows the argumenation and combines it with Youtubers leaving the plattform, at least for commenting. Failing even basic spamblock-checks is relevant and surprising (especially for Google, as Gmails spamfilter is great).

> Put in perspective, this is absolutely nothing

Wouldn't say that. Even if it's a small but vocal technically minded minority complaining: Ignoring those is not a good idea for a tech-company in for the long run. Look at Microsoft…
With this particular issue, unfortunately, these rift wing looney sites have actually been reasonably accurate, and are the only outlets reporting on these issues.

That's the problem with excessive secrecy and a neutered mainstream media who has devolved into a press release factory. The press cannot afford to report, so they do not extensively publish stories unpopular with the government -- because doing so would lead to their access to politicians being cut off.

This stuff is reasonably true, although the headlines may be blown up a bit. My city paid for municipal wifi using grants from the state and federal governments. One of the significant grants was to provide access to street cameras to police cars via wifi networks.

If you look in police trade journals, you should be able to find references to some of the more big brother technologies. Look for grants if you are so inclined. License plate reading technology and highway traffic management systems would be a good place to look.
I don't think that the person who posted that comment deleted it. I think his account got hell banned.
When Wikipedia was little (when I started in early 2004, we were #500 in the world. I was seriously impressed), and I was just someone who volunteered to answer a UK press enquiry then another one, we were in the technical press a lot.

The trouble with the technical press is that they are whores. Cheap diseased ones. (The press in general arguably is, but the tech press are so blatant.) Previously whores to print advertisers, now whores to ad-banner trolling. So unsubstantiable bullshit is the order of the day, because IT GETS THE CLICKS.

Some of you aren’t whores, but you know damn well you’re few and far between. The rest can fuck off, thanks.

Wikipedia should have ignored the tech press from the start. Anyone not selling something should too. Taking someone seriously just because they pay you attention is not a good idea.

It’s so much nicer dealing with the mainstream press — at least they can spell “journalism.” They can’t work computers, but anything you can’t explain in a difficult-to-corrupt soundbite you can’t explain.

Frightening thought for today: the tech press have figured out how to make money from journalism on the Internet, and this will be the only style of journalism to survive.
>Are you really trying to imply that Google does shitty software?

I'm happy to make that argument. We are talking about a site with user comments that allowed unescaped HTML [1].

One of the frustrating things about using Google services is that over the years it has become apparent what a mess the user accounts backend is. There must be a dozen or more different 'types' of youtube accounts (depending on age, if they opted in or out of various levels of gmail/g+ integration over the years etc), so it's no wonder the attempts to consolidate and merge that mess has been so buggy (although I can see why they are desperate to simplify the situation). With the high staff turnover at Google, who at Youtube still remembers the difference between an account that opted to be tied to a gmail account in 2009 and one that didn't? (I think at some point that latter became impossible; I seem to remember that I lost access to my oldest YouTube account because I kept refusing to provide email and/or phone number information and in the end they just killed that type of account).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/pranksters-have-a...
I have been considering giving LuggageForward[1] a try. They seem to handle the customs aspect in a way that works the same as if you carried the bag with you. Their rates are quite attractive as well.

[1] http://www.luggageforward.com/

Disclaimer: no affiliation at all with them. In the end I never tried them because I now travel with carry-on only.
You've convinced me that the satellite would probably not in the end recoup it's cost. It makes intuitive sense that the most dangerous and costly fires are those close to civilization that can be reported quickly. I was mentally working with a probability of something like 35%, but it probably should have been something less than 5%, without running any actual analysis.

I wasn't trying to imply that the total figures were the likely savings, which is why I explicitly noted it as the cost of an accelerated response vs. a typical response, whatever that may be.
I occasionally get emails with the results of recent submissions, and just got the standings by following the instructions, so I think yes.

Try submitting one of the sample 'bots and see what happens.
Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide
I understand your frustration with trying to do this "internally", but stay positive and keep with it. If you (and like minded supporters) keep talking about "best practices", your peers _will_ notice and _will_ start playing with them in their work.

At our workplace, we have a monthly hour-long "Lunch and Learn" where we all meet to do three things: listen to someone share some interesting code they worked on that month (which helps to generate some enthusiasm and spread some knowledge around); talk together about a specific best-practice; collectively review some code with a focus on using that best-practice to improve the code. It is a very simple, low-cost, low-time-cost way to formalize the fact that you want everyone to pay attention to these things, and (in our case) has really stimulated a desire among the developers to improve their code practice.

To implement this, put someone in charge (or take charge yourself :) and just start asking people to contribute. You will probably find there is a lot more interest in this than you think.

Also, be sure to go easy on yourself and your peers as you try to change habits. If you look back at code you wrote, say, three years ago, you will probably say to yourself, "What was I thinking? I could write that so much better now." In the same way, three years from now you will be able to say, "What was I thinking? I could [test|commit|organize|pair-program|etc] that so much better now."
Lenovo $99 tablet getting 5 stars on Amazon
That still happens, anecdotally a recent blog poll found Perl still being voted the third ""best"" language for a bioinformatician, after R and Python.

[1] http://computationalproteomic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/which-a...
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Yes, I gave it a couple of plays some days ago.

It is a bit buggy, I experienced several crashes on my iPhone 4S. It is a bit hard to get the business going, and you can very easily get your company owned by investors that makes all sorts of changes to your business :-)
> What happens to the price when only people with 500Ghash/sec+ can make coins next month?

What do you even mean? That's what pools are for. You can make bitcoins even with a shitty CPU (but will probably spend more on electricity).
No so much a case of having 'come so far' as 'bouncing back'; the first satellite in the GLONASS network was launched in 1982, after a decade of development. IoC was 1993.

International access was offered in 1996, but this coincided with a decline in funding and waning of coverage. It took until 2011 to patch the gaps in the constellation.
See the other top 20 posts on HN about how lack of anonymity will ruin youtube and G+ because of the not so hidden assumption that anonymous commentators result in a higher level of commentary. Talking about 4chan is a political statement.

I like 4chan because its the standup comedy of the internet. Most of what you hear you wouldn't say to your mom, both are funnier if you're a bit drunk or whatever, some level of edginess and offensiveness is not just tolerated but expected... So I like 4chan and I like HN and unsurprisingly I like the intersection quite a bit. And I'm hardly alone. I subjectively think the overlap in the Venn diagram is huge, perhaps approaching majority.

Finally, in isolation from the obvious social and political issues, its a hilarious parody.
Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Purpose_...
Heyo.

I'm Ger, the guy behind this - saw a huge spike in traffic and thought it very much looked like a HN frontage incident.

I built the app in just over three months; alternating between development and marketing a day at a time.

The game is still at an early stage (read: quite buggy) but I'm working on it everyday to improve stability. Nevertheless, I've a ton of nice feedback from people who love the game.

I'll be developing the app over the next few months so expect to see plenty new features.

Happy to answer any questions you guys wanna throw out there.
CRAZY: See how much information is stored in your smartphone photo
Hey guys, here is a hack we worked on the last 2 days. It's a website that locally processes an image and displays the EXIF information. You can also add more than one picture...
BitStamp just hit $470 an hour ago, and you can definitely withdraw from them.
I'm really surprised Microsoft hasn't bought the company yet already. Kinect is the key differentiator for the Xbox versus the Playstation, and it can't be a positive thing for Microsoft's supply chain for a key manufacturer to be bought up by Apple.
And to truly be hipster; iOS only.
It amuses me slightly that I get prompted to log in with my Google account when clicking the +1 button below this article.