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Anecdotal agreement:

I spent some time using online dating several years ago, but I wasn't really sure what I was looking for. I messaged a lot of women, got ignored by a lot of women, went on a couple of very unfulfilling dates. The issue was that (for me and my targets) when you log in there's just so many people. So you use very brutal winnowing to filter down to a manageable set, but (obviously) you can only filter based on the info the site gives you: Height, weight, religion, ethnicity, facial appearance. In so doing you throw away tons of potential matches that you'd have got along great with, but the people you're left with aren't really "matches" at all. They had no particular reason to talk to me, and I had no particular reason to talk to them. "Hello fellow human; do you wish to discuss current events?"

A couple years later (after a fairly unhappy but very educational relationship with someone I did NOT meet on a dating site) I tried online dating again. This time I had a very specific idea what I was looking for, and used keyword searches to find potential matches. I quickly filtered it down to 3 possible matches in my city, one of whom was far and away the best match. I messaged her, she replied, and 4.5 years later we're still happily dating.

I think online dating is great if you have very specific criteria and you're trying to find someone who matches at all, and need the ability to perform a hard filter on a large pool of people you know don't match. Online dating is terrible if you don't really know what you're looking for, and you're just trying to find people to talk to.

(And of course, that goes both ways. Online dating is a horrible way to meet someone who doesn't know what they're looking for, because they're likely to use very arbitrary was to filter the pool down to a manageable subset. But it's great if your target does know what they're looking for, because if you match, your message will really stand out.)
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You recall incorrectly.

(Originally it started about "ethics in video game journalism", but it took about two minutes for them to pivot to attacking women.)
You don't recall correctly. The whole thing started with false accusations of unethical conduct against a particular female game developer (Zoe Quinn), followed by harrassment campaigns and personal threats against that same person.
> Mohammed originally considered himself a reformer

And Jesus didn't consider himself starting a new faith ("Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.") Irrelevant.

> It's not helpful to single out Islam as particularly militant

Have you actually read the original texts, the Bible and the Quran and Hadith (as these two are the equivalent of the Bible), to compare? I think the huge difference is more than obvious to anybody who does. That is, that whoever actually reads can't deny it. E.g. ten commandments versus 75 commandments only about sharing the loot (including the female slaves):

http://www.clearquran.com/008.html

Or 10 commandments versus 164 jihad verses:

http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/jihad_passages.h...

Or simply compare: the Christian martyrs are those who were thrown to the lions. The other martyrs are those "who are killed while killing the unbelievers." The idea of heaven with 72 virgins always ready for sex with the died fighters is also quite non-comparable, but explains the motivation for wishing the death.

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Or can you quote something testosterone inducing in fighting for Christian God or being in heaven? This is from the real site ("a project of the non-profit Islamic Supreme Council of America organization devoted to providing educating the public regarding Islam, Muslims, Islamic belief and law, and Islamic spirituality (tasawwuf)"): "Arousal and verses about the houris" http://eshaykh.com/halal_haram/arousal-and-verses-about-the-...

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We are really lucky for all the people who don't take the religious texts seriously.
I dunno - there's an argument to be made (which I'm not sure which side I'd come down on" that having a trusted CA say "Oh _those_ certs? They're ones we issued from a no-longer-trusted-root of ours! We can do whatever we want with that!" is at best disingenuous and quite possibly just timeshifting abuse of trust. The "trust" lies in the organisation, not in the individual certs. Pulling them from the root program shouldn't absolve the organisation from continuing to treat them as security-critical and shouldn't absolve them from abiding by the rules for them.

I don't want to pick on Cloudflare or Comodo right now (see my other comment in here), but if someone were to propose a rule change that says a CA's trust obligations extend to all their old retired trusted roots as well as their current and future ones, I'd be inclined to agree unless I heard a very convincing argument against it (that had some strong protections in place to stop some of the obvious abuse possibiulities).

Thought experiment: what'd happen to a CA with root trust, if they negotiated to update a root cert, replaced their old one in all the trust stores, then sold their old private key to $badpeople?
Any "ethics" stuff in the original allegations against Zoe Quinn was false in the first place, as anyone involved could have verified with about five minutes of research.
You're recalling incorrectly.
At what point does "I will perform this task for compensation in the amount of $X" become illegal?
I'm pretty sure that's the joke.
What's freaky about lazy journalism?

Edit: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
> But the tools are real! Just very primitive.

If you're scheduling cargo shipments, it strikes me as both easier and more "primitive" to have one tool that can load, move, and unload cargo in response to commands, and an entirely different programmable tool that issues the commands.
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Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms
Hey, Rich Hickey got to tell a bunch of Rubyists at RailsConf to stop using objects.
Because with gaming journalism, they’re literally copying developers’ PR statements – zero reviewing, zero own opinion, and it’s still presented as review.
> after cleaning up my diet, my migraines were cut in half. I get a cock eyed look from doctors, when I say my treatment is this natural thing, or dietary.

If your 'natural' treatment is just dietary change, that is actually a very valid way to reduce migraines. Your doctor should know that.

Some chemicals in foods are known and some others just suspected to trigger migraines, for instance Tyramine is highly suspected of triggering migraines. For me alcohol has a huge impact on the severity of migraines or just triggering them all together. I've eliminated alcohol completely because of it.
"This seems almost completely useless" - seems pretty harsh. Someone making a cool project, open sourcing it, and documenting it really well is something that should be praised. Of course Google is going to do much better, its a company focused on search.
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Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

(As mentioned at your link.)
No, it is not even remotely hard compared to the other technical feats their engineers have accomplished in the past.

If they actually wanted it, it would get done.
Can't tell of this is an onion article or real life
>Modern anonymity breaks generally work by getting code to run on your local system

Would you have any reference to specifics on this? Fine if not ofc, just genuinely curious.(and agree that you're right)

Yes though, I would not recommend using a local machine to browse/etc

E.g. contrived:

Local->VPN->ssh/vnc/etc to a temp box->tor->internet

In this scenario, if the box is found and compromised before it's wiped, the anonymity of the VPN is important.

Regarding using a sim, they can only get rough location from tower usage/signal strength(I wasn't talking about using a burner phone, just the sim+a dongle(careful buying these)). Agreed this can get more granular quite quick, depending on area between neighbors it could be specific enough right away.

Like I said, last resort, shouldn't happen. I should have stated destroy sim after use, don't get lazy and reuse.

>Of course this level of paranoia doesn't really apply to your average web browser.

Agreed heh, hope we have more general awareness/prevention of commercial surveillance as well.
You know, sometimes it would be better to just let market forces do their thing. The downstream effects will be interesting and far reaching.

Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
I think the point is less about how they are surrounded by people who want to date them and more about the fact that should they chose to, they have the option of any of accepting a date, or even asking for one themselves, from the typically plentiful group of single people who are seeking their attentions.

Ignoring these opportunities in favour of having a computer mediated interaction where they are able to choose precisely what they are interested in... does fit the definition of "picky". Most people probably have their own personal reasons for it, but that doesn't make it less of a fit for the dictionary definition of picky.
Yeah, it's long past time to reconsider whether GNU's ideology is actually working - if you have an organization that's dedicated to "freedom" that's firing people because they receive too much harassment, something has gone wrong.

I've been of the opinion for many years that GNU is delivering something more like "freedom for people who are in our situation." There's the counterintuitive effect where moving things from hardware to firmware, i.e., enabling (at least in theory) the end user to change how their computing works, makes a system less "free" in the GNU definition, because the standard for measurement is how computers used to be. There's the fact that GNU has never prioritized the web platform (possibly because Stallman doesn't use a web browser, and instead emails URLs to a server that replies with a lynx -dump of the page, reading the response when he checks email the next day), and so, one, there's very little support for a freedom-respecting web browser, and two, there is basically no attempt at solving the JavaScript trap, on the grounds that not running JS is better. There's the complete lack of an ethos on cloud computing other than "Don't," despite the fact that GNU comes out of the university environment where all your computing was controlled by someone else, namely the university sysadmins.

So, ultimately, there's a long history of the GNU folks not anticipating ways in which people have their computing freedoms infringed and basically going "Well you're doing something wrong, stop doing that." It's sadly quite unsurprising that the same ideology means that when an employee is harassed in a way that the executives haven't personally experienced, they assume that the employee must be doing something wrong.
First off, I'll freely admin I only made it through about one page. I have two main thoughts on this subject.

1. I grew up with Catholicism. It isn't my moral system but it is a reference point. In the catholic moral equation there are two poles: God, and the devil. God is good, the devil is evil. What does the devil do? Torture. Torture is the lower bound of the moral equation, it is the worst thing you can do.

2. "We", I use the term we very loosely here, we support a system which tortures -- we pay taxes, accept the authority, defend the shores, etc, of an organization that tortures, and voluntarily associates with torturers.

Given this, I've had a huge change in my political thinking over the last 5-10 years. We are bad guys. Maybe not the bad guys, but we are bad guys. It is wrong to assume reasonable people will support us. It is wrong to assume that reasonable people are our friends. It is wrong to assume that if people are educated, familiarized, empowered, etc. that they will support our continued existence. This has made me much more politically conservative in a lot of ways.
Can't upvote you enough!
You don't see my point? You're frustrated and defensive, and all I've done is address you by the wrong gender.
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Why would it be cheaper to hire young people? Google doesn't give a pension.
Warning: Someone's cranky.

It's a technical talk. It's much better to hear from people who are being attacked regularly and have a track record of dealing with it rather than those who have no clue.
No we should just use encryption. If you don't think google/fb/Apple aren't all under the same order then please pass the koolaid.
I was actually thinking of giving LibreBoot a try until all this drama broke. Now it just seems like the personal soapbox of a particular individual, which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in its viability (especially given how ambitious it is).
Was hoping this was referring to Johnny Cage of Mortal Kombat fame. Left disappointed.
>Yeah, it's long past time to reconsider whether GNU's ideology is actually working - if you have an organization that's dedicated to "freedom" that's firing people because they receive too much harassment, something has gone wrong.

There is no proof has been disclosed indicating the person fired was for receiving too much harrassment and with the responses of the rest of libreboot devs I don't think such a thing happened at all.

>There's the fact that GNU has never prioritized the web platform (possibly because Stallman doesn't use a web browser, and instead emails URLs to a server that replies with a lynx -dump of the page, reading the response when he checks email the next day), and so, one, there's very little support for a freedom-respecting web browser,

Besides https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ ?

> and two, there is basically no attempt at solving the JavaScript trap, on the grounds that not running JS is better. There's the complete lack of an ethos on cloud computing other than "Don't," despite the fact that GNU comes out of the university environment where all your computing was controlled by someone else, namely the university sysadmins.

Are you sure https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/ doesn't solve your needs?
From what I gather, the intent of a lot of Cage's work was that the listener take a few minutes to observe and contemplate the sounds, natural or man-made, being created spontaneously in their surroundings at that particular moment and place, rather than just consuming a series of precomposed, pre-programmed notes.

Given the increase in the average pace of life since Cage's time, and the increase in the number and variety of distractions and intertainment accessible to modern humans in the developed world, it would seem that opportunities to "detach" in a socially acceptable way are becoming more and more scarce, and thus more and more valuable.

Was John Cage just ahead of his time?
That's a standard clause you include in a contract to give you an out if things get so bad you have no choice but to cut the client loose.

They're not offering a safe harbor, they're offering a non-discriminatory service. Those are two different things.
> What would you suggest Tor be used for?

Well, ultimately it should be used for general purpose anonymous browsing (i.e not logged in or logged into an pseudo-anonymous identity) since those activities help shield those that truly need the security.
Good, this "Age Bias" trend is worrisome and more attention should be brought to it.

I wish them luck in their lawsuit.
Let's not put asbestos like fibers in everything please: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d...
Computer science unplugged is great. Aimed at kids, but if starting out it may provide a good framework. http://csunplugged.org/
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Hey dang, could we change the title to something closer to the actual title ("More engineers over 40 may join lawsuit against Google")? It doesn't seem neutral in my opinion.

As written, the title implies that Google is guilty of doing this, but it's still unclear what the outcome of the case will be (as the article itself states).

The only update here is that a judge ruled that this could become a collective action. It remains to be seen what the ruling will be.
Why do you assume that this is limited to gaming journalism?
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No that's C60 which is 60 carbon atoms in the shape of a geodesic dome. Carbon Nanotubes are completely different, they are long and stringy and get tangled up in cells and break them and can't be removed.
I understand that many on HN want to defend 4chan. While I am a firm believer in free speech what I find fascinating is that they paint offensive and disgusting content as humorous and worth debating.

That being said, the board disappearing or losing popularity to the point of unusability is significant in a couple of ways to me.

The first is that the wild west of the internet is coming to a close. Everything is being watched and "safe havens"/"rotting pools" are threats to an organized leadership.

The second is that these kinds of groups have staying power outside a name. Can they migrate to new ownership or will they stay? I personally believe that 4chan will slow to a crawl and eventually viewership will die out.

The third is about trust. 4chan is not anonymous unless you are behind trusted proxies and/or share ip addresses with harmless strangers. However, since the data is stored on the site, they have free reign over what they can do with your content. As a result, 4chan is only a "safe haven" because it is notoriously caustic.

A fourth thing I found interesting was that the solutions to the 4chan problem were financially motivated rather than technically. Selling passes or threatening slowdowns sounds like a bullying. Im confident there are ways to offload parts such as using torrents as the post/image/video database rather than keep it. Turning 4chan into a "protocol" rather than a "website".

But Im not suprised the site will be put in this position. Its basically a place for people to look im the mirror and wank off. It will probably not evolve to anything more than a place of contreversy because thats what makes it successful. Theres so much goo that can come out of free speech but the only things 4chan attracts are insecure rodents that want to pretend they are bigger than they are.
As a 49.9 year old programmer who is only just getting used to being ignored by startups and journalists, I can sympathise and support this.

But the onus of proof is going to be difficult to come by, isn't it? Unless the HR rep has specifically said "You are too old to be employed here" then they can simply cite a myriad of other excuses as to why they couldn't employ you.

Will be interesting to see what the published median age of developers at Google is. The article said 29 but I wonder if that is an official figure or done via some other form of guesstimation.
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I'm highly interested in learning about genomics. What's the best way for an electrical engineer(signal processing,information theory,graph theory) to start gaining more insights in this field?
Because you eliminate entire groups of people without considering other attributes - if you met someone and only learned their religion some time later, you might find its not as important to you as you thought. If you rule it out before you can make that discovery , you never know what kind of people you have closed the door on.

Of course I'm someone who married the person who couldn't be more different in politics, personality and background - 17 years ago and going strong. So naturally my perspective here is biased - on the basis of criteria I thought were important to me at that age, I have no doubt I never would have considered her if I saw her profile and went by he facts and figures.
Not OP, but I've increasingly been searching within published papers and books for information.

Rather than rely on Internet re-tellings (sometimes reliable, sometimes not) of what's in such references, got to the source.

The availability of technical articles and books through (extralegal) services such as SciHub and LibGen means that the quality of information online has increased greatly. Not that articles and books are always valid, but they tend to have a lower bullshit level.

If you're into older sources (1924 and prior, some after), The Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, as well as other archival sites, have a wealth of information.

Google's Ngram Viewer is an amazing way to trace the emergence of specific terms (and occasionally names). I'll often start my search from Ngram Viewer, find an early period of pre-emergence of a key phrase, and look for first instances of mention. For technical papers, further drilling down to references can turn up first instances. I've used this successfully numerous times to track down idea origins (or near-origins), examples being the concepts of money as based on energy (Frederick Soddy -> H.G. Wells -> A.C. Clarke -> Kim Stanley Robinson), or the modern misapprehensions of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" metaphor (Jacob Viner -> Paul Samuelson -> FEE/Leonard Read -> Regnery Press -> von Mises/Rothbardian Libertarianism -> General popular use ~mid 1960s).

Wikipedia can be useful, though you want to rely on its references section for verification. Reddit's "Ask" subs (Science & Historians) can be useful. For programming / inforamtion technology technical info, StackExchange is pretty good.
You can organize the books in Calibre, e.g. with tags and other metadata. Then use a Linux desktop search engine like Recoll or Beagle to index both the content and metadata, https://www.linux.com/news/linux-desktop-search-engines-comp...
>Why did only black people get special treatment?

White people weren't / aren't systemically discriminated against since before the founding of this country. come on son, log off lesswrong and learn some social context.
> a last bastion of freedom and anonymity (not Tor-like, but where the UX is designed to not have profiles and usernames) and free discourse on the internet.

I don't think I've heard of anything from 4chan that wasn't being done on Usenet 20 years ago.

Usenet still exists. It's fast, simple to use, costs from cheap to free, has at least one infamously Libertarian/troll friendly provider, posts can be utterly anonymous via remailers, and it could handle in its sleep the volume of traffic, text posts and binary files 4chan gets.

If people on 4chan prefer to keep the site on the web - which is historically a terrible place for free/offensive speech, since the main feature web forums provided over Usenet was their moderation capability and control by a single entity/individual/opinion - they could pay for it.

If its own users don't care enough about it to keep it going, there's no reason for it to exist at all.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12363012
Yeah, requiring graduation dates so they can know an applicant's age, and telling the applicant that's the reason, is pretty blatant. Unsurprising though.
To all those younger programmers who might drift by these sorts of articles saying "Don't care, not my problem" - I can guarantee with 100% absolute total certainty that (unlike other racial or gender etc. bias issues) this one WILL become your problem in the future unless you become part of the movement to stamp it out...