skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're hilariously wrong, due to your ignorance.

As someone who has written thousands of black hat articles just like these, even in the same vertical as discussed in the article, except more specific (certain niche European destinations) -- well written, for what I was paid -- I can say that articles like these are paid for, and violate Google's guidelines.

There's on article that I'm particularly proud of that involved inventing all sorts of fictional romantic adventures on an island off the coast of Spain that included specific anchor text about cheap hotels for that destination. Creative? Sure! It was almost as good as a print ad, even though it's likely that few real readers actually read the thing. Violating Google's guidelines? Fuck yes!!

Google has no access to the bank accounts of these writers to verify that the links were paid for. The search quality team can't plum the e-mail accounts of everyone involved to see that said articles were commissioned to include specific anchor text.

It's quite difficult to establish objectively whether or not the writers were paid for this. However, I can say that whenever black hatters write these kinds of articles, we're instructed by the client to include certain anchor text types, and to vary the anchor text for different articles in the same campaign.

Further, botted traffic adds another ugly layer to gaming SEO. The publisher just has to 'look' legitimate. The traffic can even be semi-botted by offices full of Indians using software for that purpose.
On the contrary, I would suggest listening to Ram Z Paul (http://www.ramzpaul.com/)

You claim that people at HN experience privilege, and in some sense I agree most of us do. And yet as proponent of a progressive agenda, you also have a different kind of privilege. Most normal people will automatically identify you with the "right" side. You will never have to fear being labelled a racist, sexist or anti-Semite. For example, why is it that you automatically turn to very patronizing language when addressing people you consider insufficiently educated in their privilege? Could it be that you are used to having your sense of moral superiority go unchallenged?
please make sure you read:
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2013/12/18/charles-stross-takes-on-...

It will hopefully make clear that your argument is flawed.
I said noting about what you should or shouldn't do, but I did point out that your tone was combative. And your reply is that I have bullshit. Well, that really speaks for itself: You're a fair-minded, egalitarian, meritocratic, open- minded fellow until called on the toxicity of your tone. Then you become fully abusive.

Tell me why anyone should expect that you are this way when discussing gender, colour, and stature, but miraculously transform into an open-minded and welcoming person when discussing technical ideas?

I'm open to discovering new things, but my bet is that you're rude and bullying about everything, not just this topic.

One upon a time businesspeople would drink together, because alcohol would lower inhibitions so it would strip away the false friendliness and you could discover what people were really like.

Now we have the internet, and no alcohol is needed for people to drop the pretence of civility.
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These surveys might help you decide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_livable_cities

I personally would consider these cities (safe, strong tech community):

Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Stockholm
Could you say more about file I/O?
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I tend not to click on links advertising pages that are hacked. You know, not that many zero days on Chrome, but still seems like a risky click, as they say.
I use a system called Crouton[1] that installs a full Linux (Ubuntu or Debian currently) in a chroot (so that it still uses the Chromebook's kernel and x11 config). It works extremely well for my development needs. I do Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Clojure. The only real downside is that my particular Chromebook, an Acer C7 with a new SSD and 16GB of RAM, is still only a dual core Celeron. That makes some things awkward (starting the JVM for leiningen when I do Clojure/ClojureScript takes more seconds (around 20) than I'd like)). Using a jedi integration (Python code introspection, refactoring, execution) for Vim is also really slow when first loading Python into a buffer (the solution, never leave my vim, is acceptable to me). To be fair, neither of these things were exactly instant even on my former i7-based Retina Macbook Pro.

Long story short, I can alt+ctrl+shift+f2 and get to an Ubuntu install where I have XFCE installed and access to a real xterm + tmux + Skype. It has all of my dev tools (c compiler, python, jvm) and can even do Android development. I can alt+ctrl+shift+f2 and go back to normal Chromebook stuff. I use Chrome plus a special plugin in ChromeOS that lets ChromeOS and my Crouton/Ubuntu install share a clipboard. Combined with Chrome's normal syncing, I sometimes forget which environment I'm in when browsing the web.

If you can follow some instructions and want a cheap dev laptop that is no fuss for the basics, I'd recommend a similar setup. These days, I'd probably go for the 14" HP, although I haven't checked to make sure I could upgrade the HDD and RAM to acceptable specs.

[1] - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Good Point. There are services like viglink, skimlinks, and others that will dynamically insert links after the content was written.

I have to wonder though if these specific posts were linkbuilding posts, because of the location of the Authors. (i.e. Tampa - where copypress is, and blueglass was.)
Just a note, this site literally crashed my iPhone.
Virtually any service that can feasibly be arranged and delivered online is fundamentally about trust, and you don't even need Bitcoin to solve many of those.

I'm reminded of an example which I believe was given by some libertarian writer, perhaps David Friedman. One big role of governments and private institutions is the regulation of service industries through testing and licensing. In many places it is illegal to provide legal advice without an official license, often from the government. But all you need is email and public key cryptography to solve that issue. A certain legal expert, known only by his public key, could develop a good reputation for providing good service in some jurisdiction, let's say California. He need not be legally licensed in California or even live in California. You can just email him your question, arrange some electronic payment (okay, Bitcoin could work here), and he can respond with legal advice signed with his private key. Bingo. You know for a fact that you received legal advice from someone with a good reputation for providing legal advice, which is precisely the point of government licensing for lawyers.
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Posted on Twitter an hour ago: https://twitter.com/Turkguvenligi/status/417099879463129089

"openssl.org/ owned ;) http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/21425720 …"
I live in FL and the tech scene sucks. I think you've convinced me to spend some time there!
Their security certificate still appears valid.
Only if you're willing to keep your computer well-maintained. Most users don't. The Registry is an outdated piece of junk, but thankfully Microsoft has made it less intrusive in Windows 7, and is making moves away from it with 8/8.1. It gets so clogged and filthy over time – like a vacuum cleaner's air filter - that loading application defaults takes ages. This is, however, less of a problem on newer operating systems.
Hi. I'm Gwen Bell. I stand behind everything I wrote in this piece, but I chose not to publish it because it was pretty harsh.

The person who submitted this is not me, but I guess they found the commit. Must have been digging. If you have any questions, feel free to reach me at gwen@gwenbell.com.
Better title "The Valley is not what I Thought it was"

If you are a competent dev and you try and fail at starting your own thing, get a full time job. They will pay you enough to afford you your own place where the only person you have to clean up after is yourself. If you can't get a full time job, you probably are not the dev you thought you were, and you probably should head some place that has marginal areas where you can fall. You probably don't even have to go as far as Singapore.
>I don't think anybody is using Swing willingly -- or enjoying it. Besides the "uncanny valley" effect to native widgets, it suffered from the start from the main negative of Java's culture: it was overengineered. On top, it underdelivers in many areas.

Just out of curiosity, what other gui tool kits have you used that you compare Swing too? I always wonder what gui toolkits those who decry Swing have experience with.

Myself, I've used Win 32 api, MFC, SWT, and gtk. Imo, Swing is by far the best of those; relatively consistent api, a wide variety of widgets, customizable, ... True it can be very complex (ie editor kits) and some things are/were missing for a long time (close buttons in tabbed panes). Also true that it doesn't look 'native' on all platform, but no gui tool kit can. I have not used Qt, but it seems to be equivalent to, or surpass Swing in all those areas.
If you really don't want to take my word for it, Google explicitly states how the links that TFA addressed are clearly in violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

"Here are a few common examples of unnatural links that violate our guidelines..." (3rd bullet point)
Erlang has been using M:N very successfully and managed to have good latency and fairness while sacrificing performance. The hard part about M:N is doing it without a VM.

EDIT: To clarify I believe you are too harsh about M:N, and that Erlang is excellent proof that M:N has its use cases.
$ curl www.openssl.org
TurkGuvenligiTurkSec Was Here @turkguvenligi + we love openssl _
A lot of the issues surrounding M:N threads are a result of poor operating system support. The central problem is that a syscall blocks a kernel thread even when there are more user level threads to run.

If operating systems supported something like scheduler activations (a 20 year old technique), then this becomes less of a problem. The gist of it is that every time the kernel thread would block, or gets scheduled, instead of returning back to where it was executing, it upcalls into a user level scheduler which can then choose to schedule user threads. Its a shame that this technique isn't more common.
Depends on the complexity of their schema, and how many and of what complexity any stored procedures they relied on were.
None of them seemed to act like that was their view when we were looking at 0% inflation. The general attitude of mainstream Keynesians was that we were on the verge of an unstopable downward spiral if we didn't act in that very moment...which I remind you was driven by housing prices crashing back down after their biggest bubble ever. In reality, people don't sense inflation or deflation as it is reported by the CPI, PPI, or any other price index. They sense it locally on a product by product basis. And it is still entirely uncertain as to the relative attribution of reduced income vs deflation as a cause of reduced spending.
I read it differently. I thought she was referring to her difficulties finding traction without being a Git pro or Tumblr addict.
Forgive me for the ignorance but why is this significant if at all? Honestly curious, not being facetious.
You can always run browser in a vitrual machine. Or open it with a text browser like Lynx or Links. Or use wget to download the file and read in text editor.
This is a genuine concern. The other risk is that you get XSS into a Chrome / privileged Javascript context, which is probably the simplest way to get reliable arbitrary code execution in e.g. Firefox.

See e.g: http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/d... [PDF warning]
You're also more likely to be imprisoned, executed, and conscripted, and less likely to win a custody battle or get the first lifeboat from a sinking ship. But I think listing these things out is pointless in itself. We might as well list every disease we haven't acquired and every injury we haven't sustained.
If they can replace the front page html, they could probably also replace the source code distribution with a backdoored/trojaned tarball. Or someone else might already have done so, since who knows how long ago, using the same exploit.
This shows that website security depends on far more than just deploying over SSL.
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I dont see any evidence that this was a large scale effort.

As another poster pointed out as well, these might be affiliate links dropped by a widget like skimlinks,etc...
A few clicks to get to:

1. Wii U
2. Yogawear
3. Blackberry Q10
4. HealthCare.gov
5. HP Chromebook 11
6. The Lone Ranger
7. Galaxy Gear smartwatch

No idea why those couldn't fit on one page.

Methodology is a little unclear too. From the site:

"24/7 Wall St. only considered flopped products that met three criteria. First, the launching company must have invested significant resources in the product’s development and marketing. Second, the failure had to occur in 2013 and require significant response from the company. Third, the product’s failure had to end up inflicting sizable damage to the company’s bottom line, its reputation, or both."
So inside of EU/US you do use dedicated server providers ?

AWS is effectively (almost) a transit-only network. That has pros and cons. On the plus side, it should have decent connectivity anywhere. On the minus side, if (almost) any link at all on a network is congested, that will almost certainly congest AWS traffic too. They're relatively unlikely to have long-running issues. Also : they're REALLY expensive.
Is this the site that offered you free SSL certs?
> So only feel guilt if you help reinforce the imbalance (like commenting on a girl programming, which carries an implication of noteworthiness (since it was noted) and thus perhaps surprise (which could imply by extension social wrongness)).

Why is it wrong to consider a girl programming to be noteworthy or surprising? If it's true that females are underrepresented in programming or technology careers, which is the whole point of most of this thread, then this reaction seems completely appropriate.
In many ways PostgreSQL is fairly similar to Oracle and it also supports its own version of PL/SQL. There are tools to automate migration of both schema and data. I reckon the real difficulty of such a transition is updating application code (and legacy code) to work with PostgreSQL.
> I've always thought that Chomsky was a bit of a kook.

If the past six months have taught us anything, it should be that sometimes the kooks are right.
There are a lot of places to go in the U.S. for tech hubs. SF just happens to be very "unique" among them. I have never seen the issues the author describes anywhere else than SF. The good news is that if you don't like SF then there are surrounding areas which are relatively normal (but still expensive.)
Go is moving to contiguous stacks in 1.3.
If I'm just a "hacker wannabe" then how did I write my own complete blogging system from scratch:

http://bitters.gwenbell.com/

Keep hating, you wear your jealousy on your sleeve...
I didn't explain that( was edited ), of course you start at with n at 1,2,3... and so forth. But you can decide when to stop, and so I made two cases.

Anyway; you gave me a good exercise to practice on. Thanks.
This is an interesting resource. If anyone wants to take an even deeper dive into the code and philosophy underlying jQuery, I recommend reading Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig. Amazing book.
Who is in the favicon?
but what if they set-up the server side so that the server returns different results depending on the browser/OS?
Yes, there is. I have a Samsung Chromebook with 3G from Verizon built-in. I am very impressed with this laptop and battery life. The next model will have the LTE capability.
Exactly this! Bitcoin is much more interesting as way of representing CREDIT, not MONEY. Credit is much older and much better way of representing of how humans make contracts with each other. Money is a sideline invention we did to make it possible to pay soldiers for fighting. (Soldiers are inherently bad credit risks because they kill and die for a living).
Pool operators are usually quite savvy. Most miners will just do whatever their pool decides on.
I'm jealous of all you reading some useful sounding books. Every time I try anymore, I lose focus or start falling asleep :P. Anyone else have this issue and any suggestions? Coffee doesn't work - I've tried.
The question that is whether the assertion that diluting the value of gold by introducing to serve as a second currency actually did improve the lot of the less wealthy. Historical evidence suggests that a fiat devaluation hurts the poor (well ultimately it hurts the rich when the poor overturn the wealthy in revolution). Moreover, the architects of this policy failed to see in-retrospect-obvious problems like arbitrage destabilization of bimetallism as the gold-silver exchange rate was, effectively fixed by law. Suffice it to say my confidence in their ability to be correct about the complex net social effects is low, given they missed this crucial, first-order economics problem.
But what if the page uses HTML5 audio to "jump the gap" and reprogram all nearby electronic devices to attack you on 1/1/2014!?
I said:

> My questions are actually genuine and not rhetorical. I would appreciate responses, or perhaps corrections of my impression of the concept of privilege.

Whether or not I was lying then, I am unable to express any more clearly or convincingly that I am willing to learn.

And I believe I have explained what doesn't make sense to me.
google resets PageRank on expired domains.
$ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36" www.openssl.org
> He has said in the past that people with “strong” accents can’t be good CEOs

No, he said that people whose accents make it hard for others to understand them will likely have a hard time.
Goddammit! Nobody!
> So, why did you feel the need to respond as you did?

Yes, I know you set up that preemptive shield against dissent. Or preemptive shield against dissent that seems reactionary, or angry, or something of a similarly negative emotive kind. I felt the need to respond because I found it objectionable.

> If that's your response, it seems to me like you should really grapple with the challenges they present before jumping in here to comment.

Challenges. Let's see..

As for the first article, as I've already said, I already knew (in an intellectual sense) that being poor is a disadvantage. So yeah, not as if my worldview was shattered there, or that I shake my fist against the skies over not having a harder lot so that I could brag about having overcome it later or something else that might make want to not be from the middle class for some reason. What challenge? I already agreed...

As for the other one, well it didn't really challenge any of my beliefs about gender (in)equality since it actually doesn't give any arguments, anecdotes or data. It's an assertion. With an analogy. If anything I'm mad because of how thoroughly unchallenged I was, and how I don't know anything more about how it might be a woman (which I am not, surprise). If I want to know how it might be to be a woman (or not be a man with my specific attributes), I want to read about other peoples experiences, not a fucking video game metaphor. How is that going to enlighten me in any way? But I've found that men in particular are just supposed to sit down and be handed the immutable facts about gender and society (and from a man no less).

> As someone who grew up very poor, it makes me chuckle that you can't see the connection.

I'm in dire need of enlightenment it seems.

> If you find this comment grating, well, let me translate it into geek-speak: before jumping in to comment, please Read The Fine Manual. :)

Honestly not sure what that last reference is. mmm, something-something console game/board game, I think. -1 geek point to me.
Why not just pass it to an infinite number of processors and use a nondeterministic Turing machine?

But with an NDTM, even NP-complete problems can be solved within polynomial time.
This is the key point where the public blockchain seems to be of use for voting: transparency, which we have zero of in current machine systems.
http://www.startssl.com/ does that.
I think most SEOs agree that as long as links are what connects the internet, they will be an important ranking factor.
Oh sorry, 'apt-get' has spoiled me (somehow I've never knew what was the official home of openssl).

Not cool at all, and apparently the guys running the site haven't took notice yet.
You're a dick because you're wasting _everyone's_ time. _Everyone_ click links.
I don't thinking to appropriate to call her a wacko. I would describe her writings as expertly crafted works of misandry and post-modern obscurantism.
Nobody; it's the text "OpenSSL" squished into 16x16.
It just says OpenSSL
Ah, then everyone will be bitvoting for the candidate that will get them the widest-screen TV possible.
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They did that on purpose, their intent seems to be to bring awareness rather than destruction.
I'll answer your question: whiteness is exclusionary by definition.

You're not going to "allow" the comment to go "unnoticed and unchecked"? Please. What are you going to do? White-men-in-general are going to be talked about in a negative way. I welcome it. Hatred is warranted when it's hating the oppressors; it's called "punching up."

And it doesn't even matter if you scoff at that language, which is the great part, because people are quickly realizing that, for example, for all the celebrity surrounding the non-violent Nelson Mandela, he was ultimately a utilitarian when push came to shove...
Gold mining doesn't have a fixed cost either. Different locations have different costs per gram of mining and refining gold, and whether it is worthwhile or not to mine in a given location depends on the price of gold.
Why did they do it then? The links weren't topical and they weren't affiliate links. Is it that hard to figure out the motive?

Edit: Are they using http referrers so reward the correct affiliate?
The easiest way to try the ChromeOS UI on another platform is currently on Windows 8, where if your regular Chrome build is set as the default browser it will run the ChromeOS desktop environment/window manager in Metro mode (you have to close all the desktop windows for this to work).

Likely way more work than you're interested in but on Linux:

Follow most of the steps on this page: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructio...
then:

export GYP_DEFINES=chromeos=1
gclient runhooks
ninja -C out/Release chrome # May take a while!
./out/Release/chrome

... this produces a build of Chrome very similar to the one run in ChromeOS (we use it for 99% of UI development & testing on our Linux workstations). You can run this and get a feel for the desktop environment, window manager, etc. Similar steps will work on Windows but with use_aura=1 defined in GYP_DEFINES, and chrome run with --open-ash on the command line.
Is it? You mean like how those Scandinavian countries do exactly that and now there's no longer any wealth being... oh, wait - you actually don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Feel free to design your own cryptocurrency that does that. Nobody's forcing you to use Bitcoin.