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The problem is that the average or "mainstream" person does not care about privacy, or even human rights. Not really.

The second they learn that tor can and will be used to spread "hate speech" or the classic CP, Drugs, Terrorism, the "mainstream" will (and is currently) demand that Tor sacrifice privacy in the name of defending Social Justice, stopping terrorism, ending CP, or catching drug dealers.

Under new board of Tor, and this new direction I fear Tor will cave to these demands.

Edit..

and just to be clear. Social Justice is not the same as Human Rights. People of late seem to be confusing the 2.
Fructose is not the same as sucrose -- and they have different properties. The same is true about how its consumed, and how fast it's absorbed.

(In fact fructose -- present in fruits -- can even be worse than table sugar: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/evidence-shows-some-su...).

That said, I seriously doubt the problems in american diet is "overconsumption of fruits", so they are quite right to stop people eating all the other sugary-containing crap first.
Why OCaml instead of other functional languages such as Scala, Haskell, Erlang, etc...? Is there anything unique about OCaml.
in a large company, if the main products are management politics, as you say, a capable critical thinker ought to be able to dominate that game, instead of focusing on relatively unimportant priorities like "shipping".

if someone tends to get marginalized, by definition that means they are ineffective at "getting things done".
Email should be there now.
They absolutely can and they have, warrant canaries are pseudolegal nonsense. Judges do not tolerate such things.
" Easier to negotiate against big entities like HR as a "little guy" because you have similar info to them (which they pay for)."

This if upside down - in fact - it will reinforce class.

Do you know why your employer may ask in an interview: 'How much did you earn before'? Because they know if they offer you a little bit more than before, you'll probably take it - even if it's 'under market wages'.

Someone who earns very little can be held to that lower income, and there's also a social stigma to it: if you're a low-income earner - you will be judged as less valuable than high income earners.

People will judge the value of people by how much they earn - making it very difficult for working class people or students to move up.

Also - it's a deep transgression of human rights. Your finances are your private information, nobody should have the right to see them unless there is a case for 'public good' i.e. public officials etc.

Also - your idea of libertarian in this case is a little upside down - this is the opposite of classical liberalism. It's massive government overreach. Classical liberals would be very weary of having the government interfere in one's private life.

By your logic - your bank account, your investments, land holdings etc. etc. could feasibly be public knowledge.

All of those supposed 'good things' are intangible - there's no evidence they will happen (or are good). It's classic socialist folly: a 'do gooder idea that really is just more state control.

I have no doubt that in some cases, income could be public information - for example, state officials should have to publish certain kinds of information - especially stock ownership and business contracts so that we can ward off corruption.

But in general, we should be deferring to privacy.
Lua was originally a configuration language. Its syntax is very human readable especially for just data use cases, but you can add functions etc too.
I can't disagree more with this statement. Echo chambers are dangerous. Just because everyone in the room agrees doesn't make it a good idea.

The kinder term for contrarian is devil's advocate. If no one else will, you need someone to present an opposing viewpoint.
The X was smart phones. Unfortunately, Apple and Samsung made all the money there.
Your pay level relative to everyone else is the principle way the company acknowledges the value of your work. If I am making the same amount as a total underachiever, it signals that the company either doesn't care about my work or thinks I am also an underachiever.
> demand from a voter to behave in a mature, educated and responsible way.

What does that mean? Votes voted either "Leave" or "Remain." That's it. It's a binary choice.
Ask HN: How do you plan out projects?
I find myself having a hard time planning and sticking to developing any sort of web apps. I have so many ideas but they all tend to be abandoned after I hit a roadblock that I can't seem to get past.

How do you plan out creating new projects?

What steps do you take to insure a smooth dev process?

What advice/practice/reading materials can you give to a jr dev who can't seemed to make ends connect?
> He said a few things that feel like promoting a non inclusive environment.

source ? because I was unable to find anything that promotes "a non inclusive environment" in what Mr CrockFord said. Can you tell us exactly what CrockFord said that feels "non inclusive". Can you also precisely define what you mean by "non inclusive".
What the heck? Its there one minute then deletes when I refresh. Ok, an article link is: https://twitter.com/bob_beck/status/772205499949481985 and http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBSD-A...

[edit: mods can you update?]
I didn't mean that it's a third-rail issue, but rather that different communities (and the individuals within) can have completely different standards of what constitutes "misogyny" and it's better to have discussion about it beforehand rather than after an incident, and it's a mistake to assume judgment calls are obvious. If they were, this thread wouldn't exist, right?

Fundamentally, I'm wary of any argument that relies upon "sound judgment" when we see time and again that there is no consensus on what that is. It's like when you see "clearly" in a math paper. OBVIOUSLY it isn't clear to me, otherwise I wouldn't be reading it.

Online communities have values re: misogyny that range in permissiveness from "ban men entirely" (your 'safe space') to the 4chan /b/ model. You can see that there is indeed a spectrum of opinion and that the entire spectrum is dense with examples, and surely everyone thinks theirs is the most reasonable in that given circumstance.

In the extreme 'safe space' model, someone like Crockford would be right out for (e.g.) the implicit misogyny in reflexively valuing masculine physical strength over more typically feminine attributes. You could counter "but the community is not that kind of safe space and doesn't require that level of metaphorical precision" (and I would agree with you entirely) but then we're having a discussion about our common expectations around a community's values.

You can decide, in your experience, that your particular set of biases reflect the zeitgeist. You can conclude "my ruling will alienate the least amount of people" or "this action will give people the sense that justice has been done" with whatever ethical or societal minmaxing strategy you choose. The core task is this: we live in a world that includes all of white nationalists, misogynists, deeply traumatized people who feel pain simply from reading certain words, and all manner of non-normative people; who are you going to exclude, and will you do it implicitly or explicitly? "Just the shitty, grudge-holding radical feminists on Twitter" is a low-hanging fruit, there are plenty other groups to consider.
MDMA doesn't give you the level of thirst for water that you're describing. It does generally make you feel warmer than usual, but there are plenty of ways to cool down other than drinking water (drinking water helps, but going outside works too). Also, it doesn't have the same effect as alcohol on your sense of judgement, you can do stupid stuff on it but generally you're more aware of what's going on.

That's not to say it's for everybody (people with heart defects probably shouldn't mess with it, and IIRC it can deplete serotonin in the long run if overused), but the main risks appear to come from those who take large doses and/or mix it with other drugs (through their own fault or by a dealer cutting it with something else).
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12417261 although no-one commented.
It's a common misapprehension but it's just not correct. There is no such thing as a fiduciary duty to minimize taxes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und....
IoT finding its footing in augmenting other systems rather than revolutionizing them

This is key. All the companies that are trying to start from scratch and build something big are failing or are hitting huge roadblocks due to high learning curves. On the other hand, those that are starting with simple, one-feature, even buttonless devices (philips hue, chromecast, echo) are the ones that are staying afloat.

I'm in this niche, and have been hit hard by this reality. IoT is definitely coming, but right now it is SO young, immature and fragmented, that it takes a pretty skilled person to use it in any meaningful way.

People need to be educated, and the best (read: only) way to do that is to introduce them to IoT one piece at a time. And these pieces have to be reliable and consistent. Until then, the switch on the wall has nothing to worry about.
Tor is no longer secure; the U.S. government paid Carnegie Mellon (CMU) to research ways of de-anonymizing users by inserting specially designed packets into Tor user data at controlled nodes. [1]

Nearly a year-and-a-half after CMU canceled a Black Hat presentation, hints were dropped that CMU's Tor-related efforts may not have been for research purposes only. An anonymous tipster claimed the FBI had paid CMU $1 million to unmask Tor users. A quasi-confirmation popped up during the DOJ's prosecution of Brian Ferrell, who was allegedly assisting Blake Benthall in running Silk Road 2.0. Ferrell and Benthall were both swept up in the wake of a Tor-related FBI raid known as "Operation Onymous," which began a few months after the hastily-cancelled Black Hat talk.

Included in the information handed over to Farrell's legal representative was the following:

On October 13, 2015, the government provided defense counsel a letter indicating that Mr. Farrell’s involvement with Silk Road 2.0 was identified based on information obtained by a “university-based research institute” that operated its own computers on the anonymous network used by Silk Road 2.0.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160225/07295633707/silk-...
The way you see it, you could put there physics, engineering or any other hard skill just because you have to communicate what you've learned.
I'm hopeful that inclusivity/SJW will destroy itself through its own messed up principles. Eventually, many members of those groups will mess up one of the unwritten rules of the club, and see what it's like to become a social pariah for innocent speech. For example, look at the backlash against Lena Dunham, a pretty prominent SJW, over what she said about OBJ.
That was the author's argument, that Singapore is against the Western view of human rights, so running human rights software would be seen as subversive by the government. He then undermines his argument to instead promote the privacy aspect of Tor by saying that the Singaporean government is fanatically anti-corruption. Privacy hides corruption, so promoting that aspect of the tool doesn't make sense either.
I referred to the people on /r/the_donald, as a group
Credibility is another question entirely - Look, that's how democracy works. People vote, some are gullible in both parties, some have received fewer education, some newspapers will be biased until we mandate them to only publish information of the leading party, and, yes, politicians lie. It may not be the best system we have. But that's the best system at the exception of every other we know today. No-one gets to discard the results of a vote based on how they think things should go.
Agreed. Or San Diego.

I also thought the comment "our unique position in micro/nanotechnology coming from a long tradition of watchmaking" was very odd. Basel's long history with the chemistry industry goes back to 1800s, with more influence from the dye industry than than clock making.
There has been an uptick in user of discredited techniques to screen in recruitment, stuff like MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), lots of pseudo science without measuring validity.

It seems like HR have been told to find people with soft skills and so they manufacture something that will give a rating and then rank candidates by that.
Why don't you tell Chinese citizens who have government control their online behaviour 'for the purposes of social betterment' to 'relax'?

"Scandinavia tend to want to identify as a more social culture whereas others will want an individual based society."

Why do you speak for 100% of Scandinavians? How about the large portion of those who want nothing to do with this law? Shouldn't they be able to opt out? Let those who want to 'be social' (as you say it) publish their information online. The rest can have their basic rights to privacy protected.

While I agree that it's probably not a huge deal overall - it is definitely a issue of rights and privacy, and a fairly serious one.
this looks more like a company than a side project?

The blog says the company has already been acquired by another big company...so how can you sell it?
Why on earth were you downvoted? That seemed like a sensible comment to me.
UK drivers present a danger driving in the US (and visa-versa) because they are accustomed to driving on the opposite side of the road than in the US.

One can't generalize the driving habits of all American from those that drive in Georgia or Louisiana.

Compared with most countries, many American drivers get drivers education in high school as part of their high school education. In other countries they get it later in life which makes them more dangerous drivers.
Discord do have an experimental canary release for Linux.

deb: https://discordapp.com/api/download/canary?platform=linux

.tar.gz: https://discordapp.com/api/download/canary?platform=linux&fo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/4bu7lm/discord_...
What if you could produce braille on a touch screen?
Governments that have a reason to be concerned about Tor are already concerned about Tor. And governments that are concerned about Tor won't be more or less concerned because of its mission statement.
Can't say I've tried it, but this approach looks very promising and has a nice, very composable API https://github.com/ocamllabs/reagents

Regarding Rust v OCaml, Rust is a nice language but solving a very different problem. The type system is far weaker than that of OCaml's, it's less expressive (more verbose) by virtue of its sometimes-GCless GC. Rust is meant for system programming, and OCaml is rather more general purpose and pleasant to write in, while remaining incredibly performant.
Because by default, all government data is public. How much you pay in taxes is contained in government data. That's great for transparency, researchers and journalists and makes corruption much harder to get away with.

Only when there is a compelling reason to keep the data secret which outweighs the public interest (such as the identity of a rape victim) is the data kept secret. People being embarrassed by people finding out how much or little they earn isn't a compelling enough reason.
Why under src/gnu ? It's not a GNU project, it's not under GPL.
I'm not sure that's the reason. Are these language police really suggesting new versions of words for every gender they invent?
The WSJ isn't encouraging critical thinking here - it's making self-described "critical thinkers" feel like they're important and valuable people, thus convincing them to read the WSJ.
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Or travel with them and show them the world, even if in short glimpses now and then. Not some 5-star resorts or similar bubble-sque places, but real countries, real people, like backpacking but with kids and relatively safely. Keep the experience physically and mentally at least a bit demanding.

and climbing for staying fit
Hmm, weird. The URL is the same.

Why didn't HN prevent me from posting this? It usually does.
Can you elaborate on how a FP language might be implemented without a garbage collector? How do things like closure/lambdas wok without GC? I tried to lookup "substructural types" but wasn't able to find anything.
That is very cool, thank you for sharing. I'll see if I can put some weekends into my part of the solution. Prefab seems like it may be the only hope for making existing proprietary software accessible; I want to make it easy for businesses with accessibility requirements to do the right thing well.

Maybe in the future we won't need computer vision to reverse-render display elements, one can dream.
If your phone still uses Micro-USB Type-B, I highly recommend these Monoprice cables which ground the data pins during charging:

http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13166

(This makes a data USB port appear to the phone as if it's connected to a wall charger.)
I sincerely do believe that as technology has become more accessible and more "normal" people get into the industry, this has lead to things being more about politics and less about solving problems. Sometimes I even think that ordinary people like arguing and drama and willingly misunderstands each other just to not get bored. True aspie-nerds don't need this, they have other interesting things to fill their head with.
This is actually not that different from the therapeutic index of paracetamol (Tylenol)[1]. Paracetamol is a super safe drug when used exactly as directed (both dosage and not taking with alcohol), but taking any more than prescribed can be fatal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol_toxicity
I have these and they work exactly as advertised: https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Specialised-20AWG-Charge-Sho...

$6/each (when you buy a pair) and they do rapid charging with absolutely no data connection. There are many other branded ones that are over-priced so avoid those and try these. If you don't want the Micro USB tips you can buy the standard USB adaptor to place inline between the outlet and your existing data cable.
Please, please, PLEASE don't put a 1.3 mb background image on your landing page. It took 27.67 seconds to load on my connection, and killed meaningless bandwidth. Children in 3rd world countries don't have access to the bandwidth you just wasted!
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So, what's interesting is, I would often consider many small bits to have a _lower_ cyclomatic complexity number. That is, whenever I've used tools that measure this kind of thing, the solution is always to take the big things and break them up into many, smaller bits. It's possible that this is bias in the tooling, though.

I think some of this comes down to individual preference as well. It's like that joke, would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? In this admittedly very stretched metaphor, the former are relatively monolithic codebases, and the latter are relatively modular ones. I know that I used to prefer one hundred-line class to ten ten-line classes, but now, much much prefer the latter. My experience talking to people about this is that people fall somewhere on this line, often in different places, and that makes it harder to understand. The action that I'm taking to reduce complexity can often be perceived as increasing complexity, depending on where the other person falls on that line.
I agree about Manning quality. They are sometimes late in delivery (eg, iOS books come out later than the competition).
That's the amazing thing. For all their talk of "inclusivity", when they find anyone disagrees with their goals or methods their strategies revolve around: public denouncements, banishment, and going after people's livelihoods. All the warm-fuzzy talk belies one of the most viciously aggressive anti-free-speech political machines ever assembled.
Users shouldn't think about you (2005)
Sounds more like underparenting, but at any rate I'm not sure you can expect noobs off the street to know how to conduct themselves in a horse barn, a learning curve you acknowledge with "everyone who spends a lot of time around horses is very aware."

As far as the disparity in phone usage goes, people with horses are doing an actual activity, improving their horse skills, and generally consuming their time with personal development. AKA "hobby," I guess! This is a luxury these days, especially if the regular horse people you see at the stables need rides to get there (99% of under-16s where I come from).

Lots of teens have parents who work too much, which puts horse activities on the "no chance" list. In this way, phones can be seen as a latch-key and support network for children and teens with (relatively) absentee parents. Now, not all of them are this way, but network effects work in IRL society too, not just on the internet.
Jeremy Rifkin: “The Zero Marginal Cost Society” – Talks at Google
The Sloppy Battle for the Future of Craft Rye
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
Egyptian police use gay dating apps to identify 'criminals', tax dodgers are being identified by their lavish lifestyles on instagram.

I don't think there was ever much doubt information can be used against you.
There are cheaper options than this, but mind: Those aren't completely trivial devices. They have to negotiate to get more than 100mA(?) and for that negotiation there are two protocols: Apple's and, I think, Samsung's, (which is used by everybody in the Android world nowadays) And the negotiation has to involve both, the supply and the device. Cheap devices sometimes only negotiate with the device and then draw too much electricity out of the supply, which can be damaging.
Check the README :-)

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/README?rev=...
Lecture 3 – Mechanics of Bitcoin
>Why can't you teach them directly?

For the same reason that you can't learn riding a bicycle from a book.