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I couldn't help but think, although the article is focused on academia, that doesn't mean these issues don't exist in industry or even other groups of people (families, friend groups, etc). I don't necessarily think the answer is always 'niceness,' although on some level everyone is deserving of respect, in my opinion. However, I also respect myself enough to leave situations that are not healthy for me (sometimes that is easy to do, sometimes not).

I could imagine in academia it could get especially tricky, if one was in a tenured position, working towards an career in academia, several years into a PhD program, etc and essentially facing a decision to possibly lose an opportunity for some academia goal or to continue to work with some dysfunctional person or group until the goal has been met (finishing degree, getting tenure, not giving up a hard-won tenured position). I mean, there are problems in industry too I guess, but the nature of the academia career track seems to make 'just leaving the dysfunctional situation' a much more meaningful decision, that could essentially end one's academic career or reduce its trajectory. If I don't like the dynamics at a company outside academia, it is relatively straightforward to find a new company to work at with minimal consequences (in fact, the move could help my career).
> Three-Day Opening Weekend over $550 Million in Worldwide Sales; Is the Biggest Entertainment Launch of 2015, beating Jurassic World

I think this will be overshadowed by Fallout 4 next week.

According to Steam there were ~500k people playing simultanously (new record, beating GTA V). Given the huge amount of people that are still waiting for delivery of their copy, plus many people who start playing on the weekend (because of adult stuff during week days), plus high amounts of players who bought it for PS4/XO... My naive miscalculation results in 10-20 million players, which results in >1 billion dollars.

On the other side, my hobby-coding and other social activities stopped completely since tuesday night. I admit being a Fallout fanboy, so this is heavily biased.
I don't know in what type of business you are, but in gaming if one server breaks, it's not the end of the world, nobody is going to die, or lose money about it :P
Maybe its not so much getting off Facebook as it is a change in lifestyle.

I'm curious if someone conducted a study to see the effects of a group of people who have never used facebook use it extensively for a week. Maybe their happiness levels also increase.
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Speaking from Germany, Facebook is not important in my circle of accquaintaces. On the other hand, a friend currently working in Denmark tells me that Facebook is the de-facto social operating system over there.

So it is not a HN / Valley exclusive thing to be ditching facebook, but there are probably regions/groups where the social cost of leaving is higher than the discussions here suggest.
Africans who are not from America generally realize that their society has a lot of problems, which really isn't there in America or the 'developed' countries. So they try to learn what they can to improve.

African Americans have internalized their class status so much, copying 'white people' has become equivalent to not being black.
> Interestingly (in a sad way), I couldn't find any African American assistant professor professor in the list of ~100 schools I got for that field (although I did find "African Africans" and "African Europeans" or whatever you call being black and not American).

That leads to a question not often discussed. I have seen in other places too that black people that are from outside US fare better in US than African-Americans. Is there a point in which the years lived under systemic racism have side effects of learned helplessness that amplify and perpetuate the initial problem?
Yes. That really impressive. That's really a rare trait. The more impressive thing is the following from https://www.waterfoxproject.org/#about

> wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web

At 16(or even at 20) understanding free and open web and the importance of it and take action for consecutive 4 years is really awesome. We need more clones of you. Thanks Alex Kontos.
But .. the argument that this includes everyone is provably wrong. The GP doesn't have FB. I don't. Any social circles including him or me have to live with the fact that yes - you might have to use something different to contact us.

If you have only 1 or 2 of those in your network, isn't the big 'one IM service to rule them all' idea dead? If you already are at a point where it's "FB for most, except for mail/whatever for X", is it a big step to "everyone chooses what to use again"? The overhead is already there, no?

All I can say is: This works fine for me. I have neither FB nor WhatsApp (I stopped using the former a long time ago and never joined the latter). People can reach me just fine and ~probably~ get a faster response from me anyway. I really don't understand this whole concept. "Overhead" to contact someone? Let's be real here: Either you care about contacting someone or you don't. If you don't, then I'd just not name them a 'Friend'. If you do, the mental exercise to open a different app (like - mail) shouldn't even be worth mentioning?
> so loops are often needed

I'm a Lisp user and have learned and used Scheme in projects.

I strongly prefer loops over tail recursive iteration. I also prefer higher-order functions like map/reduce/filter/... over tail recursive explicit variants.
Oh yes sure, Svven doesn't post tweets for you or anything like that.

Thanks for pointing this out, I'm thinking about changing the Twitter app settings to read-only. All it does is parse your home timeline to get the tweets so read-only is enough for Svven.
It's definitely an interesting way to look at how VR and robotics could affect us depending on the direction we take with it. I'm sensing a whole lot of Wall-E in that.
Stigler's law - that is, the fact that eponyms often deny credit for an invention to many people who were relevant for it - is one of the reasons why I try to avoid eponymy where possible.

The other reason is that eponymy is often a symptom of laziness. Rather than finding a good, descriptive name for something, you end up with an eponym that is not at all evocative of the meaning behind it. For example, and without putting too much thought into it, Amdahl's law could have been called something like law of scaling or law of bottlenecks.
> homogenous country

please stop with this homogenous country bullshit. Finland like any other western country has a significant amount of other ethnicities, more than 10% in the case of Finland. And it's not like people are the same if they are of the same ethnicity.

And even if it were especially homogenous, how would that matter?
Good point, I hadn’t considered the new generation of mobile-first users.

> I'm not sure if a proportion of users who write documents in a specialised software (like Word) is significant enough.

I thought that most computer users learn to use computers while in school, for which they use a word processor to write essays and reports for the teachers. From around 2004 to my graduation in 2009, my middle and high school’s teachers even required essays to be typed and printed, so that they wouldn’t have to struggle to read students’ handwriting.

I guess some students prefer writing essays on paper, but those students probably wouldn’t become potential Emacs users.

Am I missing a common backstory for programmers that doesn’t involve using computers to write reports for school?
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A friend has been really trying to get me to read this ^ and I just can't finish it.

Our world and species is not so noble as to roll over and quietly take it like the author's many many assumptions suggest. Nor would we be above being so petty as to start global wars to take what's AustraliaCorp's.
iOS and Windows Phone architecture are already much better than Android in this regard.

Also Symbian had a relatively good security architecture, with its micro-kernel and the permissions model introduced in S60 v3.

Android security lags behind, because Google doesn't want to force OEMs and providers to provide updates. Additionally the OS architecture makes it pretty easy to extract an APK and reverse engineer it, even if written with the NDK.

But in any case, the best exploits are social and there isn't any help there.

Most of the users get p0wned trying to find stuff for free in dubious sites, and installing it, instead of paying for the real deal.
Here in Cyprus we have guaranteed minimum income benefit of 480 euros since 2014 http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1105&langId=en&int...
That's bullshit. There's actually a little man inside the transistor pulling a lever.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luy74c89IH1qf00w4.png
I don't just start feeling down but I get angry at the BS on FB. I have a neighbor who always does the "my life is so great!" spin on FB, but living in the same street we see more of the reality than maybe some other people. I can't be on FB because it would mean calling people like her out on their BS, she is ugly (sorry but she just is by anyone's standards), her children are awful spoiled bitches, her constant posts about how sporty she is are lies and all she really does is spend money on sports shop brand names she can't afford. It's a true lifestyle spin that really makes me dislike her and worse ... I dislike myself for feeling like I should care and for not speaking up. So I try to avoid the negativity and BS (I learn about this person through my SO who reads it out to me sometimes). The problem with FB as I see it, is that it doesn't bring people closer together but pushes them apart because instead of being involved in some dialogue, face to face, you are left to silently judge and be judged.

But if your town has a "buy, sell, give away" group you should join, those are great.
To be fair, the introduction states that it is broken and links to two papers as to why.
>but RC4 is broken and should not be used.

I think the author is pretty clear about that in the first chapter. And it's not because it's "broken" that it's not interesting to study it.
I've installed and abandoned ownCloud several times, mostly because it is far too heavy for what I need and I had concerns about its security. I also had to set up EncFS on my local machines for client-side encryption of sensitive files because there was no way I was trusting that to ownCloud server-side.

It took more work to set up but I have Seafile self-hosted on the smallest DigitalOcean VPS and it works beautifully. $5/month, plenty of space for the amount of files I need to sync across machines, and my data is in Germany which is great (I'm in Europe). Native client-side encryption is built-in to the client so I have an easier configuration on local machines, and it does most of what I need.

I'm still looking for a good self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV option that doesn't require PHP or MySQL, but as this data is less sensitive I'm happy to trust it to FastMail for now.
On HN, a user has the right to delete what they posted within the deletion time window. It isn't legit for you to bring it back onto the site. Between that and the threat in your comment above (now flagged by users), you're harassing him. That's not allowed here, so please stop.
It's not, though.

In Germany the minimum safety distance is taught in driving classes and severe violations of it will be fined like any other reckless behaviour.

The rule of thumb is "as much of a distance as you pass within two seconds". This scales wonderfully with speed and easily covers the reaction time and breaking duration.

Sure, in urban traffic the typical safety distance is usually less than a vehicle length, but with both tailgating and cutting in on someone constituting reckless driving offences, that's not a huge problem.
Having a speed gradient across the lanes is for limited-access divided highways only. Left lane / right lane == fast lane / slow lane is not applicable to ordinary streets.
I hate to say it, but they used the same argument about paper letters. It's all nice and well, but it's not about the need, it's about the can. There simply needs be an ethical alternative, like Wikipedia was the alternative to closed-platform Encarta and co.
Does this apply when you're not fooling any person? As in, you're not trying to impersonate a police officer per se, you're fooling the vehicle's police detection into assuming a police vehicle is coming.
You are talking about "users" a lot, I doubt the author actually tried to suggest that this was used in some kind of "product" rather that if a encryption can be spread via tweet it makes no difference how you try to ban it's usage, the bad actors ARE going to be able to encrypt their messages, you are just banning honest citizens usage.

Potential bannable use-case for this "bad crypto" is some criminal organization messaging each other and if they are smart enough to use this they can also come up with good password which makes the banning again completely irrelevant and the kicker is that criminals aren't going to use this "bad crypto" they are going to use something even stronger
It may sound weird, but this is not that big problem in Finland. We don't have too much that sort of arguments. Our politics is lot more consensus/compromise based than U.S. politics. This means people disagreeing in quantity can be sorted out. But the big parties can veto this stuff for no apparent reason what so ever.

Our left is more communist than U.S. left. Some of them don't give a shit what is "living wage". They think government should give them all excess money possible. And if there is no excess, then take loan to support some arbitrary standard of living for everybody. "You don't have to pay debt" "tax the rich more".

But people don't really believe them. Most Finns still think that "average Finn is somewhat sensible person". The whole multiparty system can exist, because we mostly agree on stuff. It's just the details that are different. When I go to vote, I don't think "how to save the country from the evil Kokoomus". I think what party could nudge the system to better direction.

Being cohesive small nation state is cosy. But the hivemind can be scary at times. Currently police is trying to pass internet surveilance legistlation and it's not much protested. Because "average Finn is somewhat sensible, they would not do this if they didn't really have to".
Thanks for your all hard work and sorry for the few times I was part of the anti-Mono crowd in the early days.

It is quite a valuable work, and if I would be running a business for mobile dev, Xamarin would be on top list vs C++ (which I use as a hobby currently).
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You're confusing highway with freeway.

A highway, as defined in the CVC, is the generic term for any public road on which the Vehicle Code applies, even if it's one lane each way:
'360. “Highway” is a way or place of whatever nature,
publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for
purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes street.'

As for the speed limiter, a 25 MPH hard limit is ridiculous unless they were limiting usage to streets with a 25MPH limit.
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> Either way, it's not a highway, so that section seems irrelevant.

(IANAL) "Highway" means road or street[1]:

> 360. "Highway" is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes street.

(I've never actually heard highway used in common speech that way; only in the vehicle code, but that I think is what would count here.) The article also seems to indicate this was El Camino Real, which is also CA State Route 82.

[1]: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d1/36...

It should also be here[2], but that page is blank for some odd reason.

[2]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpand...
You are misunderstanding. They can drive on roads with 35 as a posted limit, but are limited to driving 25 mph themselves. The law sets the cap, not Google.

From https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...

An NEV/LSV is a motor vehicle that:

- Has four wheels.

- Within one mile can reach a speed of more than 20 miles per hour (mph) but not more than 25 mph on a paved level surface.

...

Local authorities, by ordinance or resolution, may restrict or prohibit the use of NEVs/LSVs. An NEV/LSV may:

- Not be operated on any roadway with a speed limit above 35 mph.

...
Well, look at the opposite case. If you're in a market where your competitors are IPOing left and right, then most likely you'll be doing pretty good as well.
Driving substantially slower than the speed of traffic is extremely dangerous because of the potential speed differential. Relative velocity matters.

Also Regensdorf is really pretty busy and all you're doing by going slow is pissing people off. If you want to go that slow, that's what side streets are for.
It's not the internet, it's screens. Whether TV, computer, phone, tablet, or else, watching a screen regularly for an extended period of time has a significant effect on humans who are social animals.

There is enough of scientific data and studies over the last few decades on the tv screen to reach a scientific consensus but commercial interests and public relations have prevented this consensus from reaching the general public. we have less data for videogames and internet and smartphone but it's already shaping towards something similar.

And there is more than simply replacing actual human interactions by screens, for example most flat screens emit light frequencies in the blue range that have effects on the body and mind, impacting sleep and linked to macular degeneration.

Though that being said, facebook due to its format and content has a significant tendency in making people feel bad about themselves.
In France it is 524€ per month with a usually undisclosed Christmas bonus.
right now on hn: http://qz.com/546799/a-study-forced-people-to-quit-facebook-...
I don't know about you, but people raging behind the wheel because I'm in front and driving safely gives me schadenfreude... It might be less safe on the whole, given that angry people drive more aggressively, but they would have driven aggressively anyway, so... meh?
Yes, I would be a HUGE advocate of them sharing this data. Autonomous cars can share their data with human drivers in the vicinity to alert them to situations on the road. Perhaps each vehicle (autonomous and human-driven) could contribute to an open network of data that any vehicle in the vicinity can access and process to alert their drivers or take necessary actions to protect the safety of all passengers.

Would be interested in hearing legal opinions about whether this data would only be shared if the individual car owners 'opt in' or if the operator - Google - could mandate the sharing of this data while the cars are on the road.

Trying to think of downsides to an open shared platform of such data.
First time I've read any of his writing. Initial thought was it must be an attempt at humour, but bits of it read as a genuine gripe (perhaps veiled in humour). Poe's Law applies heavily in these situations (intersection of Microsoft, US world views, international standards, Europe).

ISO8601's definition of the first week is particularly relevant, as many of his comments relate to when a week starts (he believes it starts on a Sunday), and when the first week of the year starts (AFAICT he seems to think it's whatever week has the 1st of January in it).

The 'dates in a particular culture' is the entirety of what this article is about. The 'Danish culture' doesn't treat dates peculiarly - they align with ISO8601 by the looks of it. It seems to be more of a discussion of dates in the US culture.
That MV police blog post says the traffic officer stopped the car to "educate the operators about impeding traffic per 22400(a) of the California Vehicle Code."

Sounds like a Dukes of Hazzard episode where the Duke boys are driving a piece of junk and Rosco gets them in his speed trap. They explain that the car is incapable of exceeding the speed limit, so he gets them for impeding traffic.
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Anecdotally...

The lion's share of my friends, and their friends, and their friends, are not on and posting to Facebook almost at all. For most of them it's just an app to schedule events.

A lot of the now college students a generation younger than me are using it like Twitter if at all -- self-promotion for the ones that are like event promoters or self-styled social movers, and passive consumption of that traffic.

The only reason I'm on it at all is because I moved pretty far away from home, and folks in my parents' generation and/or geography in the last year or two seriously dug into it en masse. So, I post to remind Mom I'm still alive.

Messenger is a thing, WhatsApp and Instagram are things. But the core Facebook is hollowing out with the people I interact with, and they're quite the opposite from Luddites or technophobes.

Success for that company is a assured as their ability to acquire the next big social connection app. When they stop making good bets, we'll see how they're doing I guess.
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> I mean you can't increase rent past the point people are able to pay.

You can increase them past the point that people on lower wages/basic income can pay, driving them out of desirable or semi desirable areas to cheaper areas. See London as an example.
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It's scary how facebook managed to replace the internet in the language as if those people thought that it was facebook that making all this happen when it actually is the internet.

This is a dangerous confusion to make for people born in the internet era.
> I also had to set up EncFS on my local machines for client-side encryption of sensitive files because there was no way I was trusting that to ownCloud server-side.

Did you host OwnCloud yourself? But you didn't trust the software with your files? In what way is the SeaFile solution you are running now more trustworthy?

> I'm still looking for a good self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV option that doesn't require PHP or MySQL, but as this data is less sensitive I'm happy to trust it to FastMail for now.

http://radicale.org/ is exactly what you are looking for.