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Thanks so much. I watched my grandfather's decline under the disease and it isn't a pretty process. Luckily, we had a lot of kind people to support him to the end, and even to allow him to go out.

Near the end, it was tough. People would think he was drunk because of his movements, but the staff at a restaurant he was a regular at always made him feel welcome, even giving him a special parking space near the back door. Little things like that mean so much.
Tried to switch last month, but messages still didn't sync between desktop and mobile. Untenable. Whatsapp syncs and has E2EE I'd your phone is on and close. Wire might be an option too.

I ended up preferring Matrix via Riot.im though...
The congress.gov link states "Section 230 limits the legal liability of interactive computer service providers or users for content they publish that was created by others." Wouldn't this exempt Craigslist from the act, since all posts are created entirely by their users?
That's why in iso 26262 you can only use certified compiler and tools. Rust compiler is not certified for example.
Sure you can use 3rd party libs, but they must be certified.

I agree dith parent: never use copy paste from internet in safety critical SW, anyway it most probably isn't designed for your use cade.
Personally I always have been disapointed by copy pasting stuff, it was always buggy somehow. In the end I always reimplemented it from scratch by reading the theory
I used to be a freelancer, work as a remote contractor for a US based company.

The conventional and shortcut way is to find jobs on upwork, freelancer.com etc, the difficult but rewarding route is to introduce yourself as an authority for the thing you want to be hired. The best way to do is to put profile online and write SEO optimized blog posts.

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That sounds awful. So much pressure to place on what ought to be everyday interactions!
Ok but for instance research chemicals are legal to posses, so they aren't illicit, but vending them from reddit basically amounts to drug dealing.
It takes a lot more time, expertise, and money to run a website (even a simple wordpress site) than to upload videos to youtube.
Well that would work for simple hillclimbing. In a full genetic algorithm, every member of the population is the product of thousands of previous individuals.
Sorry if the title gives you the feeling of condescension in the title but by Intellectual, I mean people who can assess the situation and can act according to it.
The people who know right and wrong about it.

I am from India and here I can guarantee you that 95% of people are not even aware of whats going on in this social media ecosystem. What it does, what the impact of it and everything. And hence I felt like why people who know that it's bad why they cant get rid of it.

Now coming to your points.

- The human need for social connection (I really feel that nobody really get some valuable interaction out of any social media. The only exception being when you talk to someone special and someone you won't have access directly in your circle.) I think what most people relate to social interaction is via liking other people's posts and also getting your post being liked in return which is equivalent to your 4 point getting the dopamine hit and boosting your ego.

- Ignorance point is right but its also being complemented with the fact that they are being bombarded with these values that these companies have cooked to tell that whatever they are doing clicking and scrolling is somehow adding value to their lives.

- I agree with your 4th point Ego is the only thing that we get as in case of dopamine hit. But do you really want to go that path?

- Fast food equivalent of catching up but again my same argument ? are you really catching up ? or is it the just fake perception of catching up?

- I am running out of time but I also disagree with your last two points about losing contact and detachment because I don't think these things are fulfilled by them. It's just fake values that we start believing in and start perceiving how to be in contact and detachment the way these big companies want us to believe.
From someone who has dated prositutes and strippers.

I can tell you the ones I currently know and have dated have this view.

They enjoy sex. They are going to have it anyway. You are going to pay them with your time, your flowers, dinner, gifts, take them to do things.
Their thing is why not take the money spend it on what they need as opposed to dinner etc.
either way everyone! Is buying it and selling it
I agree. They can send my data wherever they want - as long as they tell me about it so that I can make an informed decision.

Now, nightly is nightly - you don't accidentally build and install it on your system.
But if this behavior is included in other pre-release versions (such as the developer edition), the need for informing the user becomes even more important. I've installed the developer edition from the Arch linux User Repository (AUR), which means that I don't see any release notes or information boxes on the developer edition website when I'm getting the software.

A small popup in a corner telling me that "There's a new way to help improve firefox" after an upgrade/install would solve this. I don't want 15 levels of confirmation and a roll of tin foil - I just want something informing me that my data will be sent to a new receiver, and why.
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This is neither the time, nor the place.
And to make the system better they just took the system offline.

The next Craigs list will be on Tor and will have a child prostitute section.

Congratulations on making things worse.
Every time I see the "guns can't beat tanks" observation, it's usually painfully misguided/oversimplified. I mention this not to justify some "blood of the tyrants" notion, but because it is fundamental misunderstandings of why militaries are the way they are that leave people wondering massive failures like those experienced in Vietnam and throughout the Middle East for the last 50 years occurred.

Tanks exist for a very specific reason in modern militaries; they are effective in combatting deeply entrenched or armored enemies. When the modern tank was conceived in WWI, trench warfare brought the conflict to a grinding halt, and a tanks were the solution. WWI was a ground war fought by regular militaries. Many modern conflicts are guerilla wars fought against irregular militaries. Guerilla forces do not control battlefronts at strategic positions that require armor to penetrate. Guerilla forces do not have emplacements that cannot be defeated with small arms. Guerilla forces do not field any armor of their own.

Likewise, most features of modern militaries that were developed to fight other nation-states prove nearly useless against irregular combatants. Aircraft strike buildings and armor that guerrilas don't have, or combatants that are indistinguishable from the general populace. Navies fight ships that guerrillas don't sail. Modern EWAR disables communications and technologies that guerrillas don't use. Such capability is lost upon an insurgent force. This misunderstanding is (in some ways) a bizarre sort of American exceptionalism, where we seem to think that the more expensive military will always win, despite the overwhelming evidence to that not being true.
Because it has a significantly worse user experience.
The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debts
Decentralized is the ultimate tech fantasy. It never happens at mass consumer scale. There isn't a single example of that in the last 25 years of the Internet. The reason it never happens, is because most people with a heavy tech-tilt don't understand normal users at all. They fail to understand that they're an extreme minority in terms of product behavior.

You can dig back a decade or whatever on HN, it's a non-stop talking fest about decentralized, everytime anything negative happens, whether this or Facebook or whatever. And yet, ten years later, nothing. Everything mass consumer tech is centralized.
I like to sign up for this service as well. But Stripe is not supported in my country. Why not Paypal? Or maybe cryptocurrency? :)
Ask HN: Why are frameworks necessary when plain HTML/CSS/JS are simpler?
I just started to learn react and I was making a simple Login form with it.

I was thinking to make it similar to the one I had made before and it seemed very much simpler with plain old HTML and CSS.

Even though the styling is similar to follow, it's very much simpler in plain CSS. Just add text to classes instead of searching for the style in one of the many files.
Until you try to install it on your tablet and finding out you can't use it there.
I don't have any issue with Russia engaging in this sort of behavior; Vladimir Putin isn't a moral leader, but he's just pursuing his own interests as rules of russia. I have a big issue with the various Americans who have accepted or solicited his assistance.
Such selfless dedication to the customer. If only you were as dedicated to causes that didn’t involve making money. You seem to not be able to set boundaries for yourself, but somehow still work tirelessly, for what?
Thanks for your comment, and the others in the thread too. I think I must be tinted by how it works in Sweden. First of all, the word "trafficking" there is most of all associated with the trade of minors. Also, soliciting sex ("prostitution") is not illegal for adults. Buying the service is. This has some interesting implications. It caters to the "conservative base" who does not want to see fully legalized prostitution. It also protects "workers" who can always go to the police. It also makes it very clear, that unfortunately, there is a market for sex slaves, especially for children. Some will apparantly make an extra effort to pay for abusing a child. Given human nature, I expect these low-lifes must exist in the US too.

Which is why the Prohibition thing rings false with me, especially the alcohol one. Alcohol was pretty much enjoyed by everyone to various degrees. Buying sexual services, while popular, not as much. So it's an analogy, but not the greatest. (Also ignoring that most sexual services are bought by men, while alcohol was/is used to a much larger degree by both sexes.)
The difference here is that you expect Google to collect -a lot- of data about you and your browsing habits. You can also be quite sure that they'll want to keep that data to themselves.

When my data ends up at a third party, especially without my knowledge, I'm much more concerned about it being sold and or shared further.
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It's incorrect English in many places. Right on the landing page, for instance:

Replace them with a real live preview feature to help you concentrate the content itself

If you don't know what's missing from that sentence [hint: it's a missing preposition], you are probably not a native English speaker. There are numerous other examples. It's important that apps like this have good English copy.
Who gives a shit about Reddit? I’m talking in context of the law that is mentioned in the original article
waiting for a new site to spring up in response...
Sweden has more rapes per capita than any country outside of sub-saharan Africa. Whatever system they have they can keep.
The irony of your statement when it was the leaders of the free market managing the finances...
> There is no downtime anymore. You can never truly get away from work in an age of 4g connectivity everywhere.

You can. Get rid of your phone. Most of us don't have a job that actually requires a phone, and it's really as matter of your work willing to take advantage of the fact that most of you won't push back when pressed. You can take advantage of the fact that they won't pay for you to carry a phone.

I finally got rid of my phone about a month ago. Started off deleting all the apps, stopped carrying it. Finally, took a roofing hammer and smashed it to bits. I may purchase a pay-as-you-go "brick" and leave it in the trunk of my car for emergencies, but otherwise I will never have an internet connected device that I carry on me at all times. It's needless for most of us.

You can talk about how convenient it is to have things like Maps at all times, and to be sure that is convenient. Just requires a little forethought and planning. Don't give into the FOMO, smash your phone.
you know every ICO must have a telegram group besides, GitHub and whitepaper.

assuming 5 million of the 200 million are there for the ICO's :)
I've never seen "sighted" used that way. I would have assumed sighted is the opposite of blind. Is it commonly used to mean almost completely blind?
You people need a European style masters, which require a Bsc in CS (or closely related like math/physics with a CS minor). Such masters are 2 years of study to prepare you to start a 4-year PhD program (so the Bsc-to-PhD route is 3+2+4 years).
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Go start GunTube and make a buck or two!

I was reading earlier today people are uploading their gun vids to PornHub.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-b...
Wire[1], another E2EE chat application (using libsignal, just like WhatsApp and Signal itself), does not require this. It also has open-sourced its client and server applications[2], and is in the process of documenting how to run them yourself.

It also has a pretty solid API[3].

One downside for JS haters, though, is that while the application isn't a wrapper for the site it is still Electron.

1. https://wire.com/en/security/
2. https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server
3. https://developer.wire.com
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This won't work. Purely because of thermodynamics. We already have devices that suck water out of the air - dehumidifiers. They don't collect enough water to drink.

Similar concepts were tried before:

- https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-w...

- https://www.waterseer.org/

They're all bust because it can't work.
Where did I suggest that the FBI do anything? But I wouldn't go so far as to think of them as the "poor Feds"

No argument from me on the people in Congress, they forgot that they're supposed to work for the people long ago. but I'm afraid that I don't think it will matter who is in there, if I'm being honest about it. You're not going to get a room full of a bunch of old rich white people to agree on anything #1, but the real problem is money. I hate to use a sound byte from the talking heads on a 24 hr cable news channel, but we really do 'need to get the money out of politics' -- anything short of that is pissing in the wind.
> You can also be quite sure that they'll want to keep that data to themselves.

I've traditionally made the same argument. I still mostly believe it WRT Google. Facebook's current woes with Cambridge Analytica has hurt my confidence in this some.
and third was exposure to the Sun

That capitalised "Sun" will no doubt unintentionally amuse UK readers of the news...
Interesting and verbose. I was thinking of starting with a google sheet though...
That sounds interesting. Do you have any sources for that claim?
> Even LA and NY have lots of parts that many Americans may not consider as living "meaningfully in the present" from the point of view being able to work on advanced projects like "Fifth Generation" computing.

I could have put it clearer, but my understanding was that China still has a non-trivial population that is not involved in the "advanced economy," in a way that would surprise most Americans. That is, subsistence farming, less-than high school education, etc.
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Plenty of people also met through newspaper personal ads...
Of course we lost. The people always lose. I stopped using cloud services without end to end encryption, except email/sms, years ago, soon after Snowden's revelations. I simply don't see any other solution. I just wish more people cared, that we could do a real boycott and hurt some companies. A few corporations going out of business would be a miniscule price to pay for privacy. Not enough will ever care though. It's sad but true. Convenience trumps everything.
Because final on local variables is pretty much useless and var and val looks too similar.
No, it’s not arbitrary, it’s all quite consistent and in a similar direction.
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Are these people working overtime all working or putting in face time?
I can vouch, this works!
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> I don't see any hint of that expectation anymore

From what I've seen, in a sample size of three commercial workplaces with software projects, I think it varies from person to person and company to company.

At my current enterprisey gig, my perception is that some of my colleagues are very poor at setting boundaries with work, especially in terms of signing out of the team's slack after hours. This isn't forced by the environment, it's people choosing to remain plugged in. Some of my other colleagues are much better at setting boundaries. I managed to last about 1.5 years in my role before checking my work email or work slack outside of business hours.

In previous gigs at a small company I've seen far worse culture in terms of crunch time to hit project milestones or close deals, but also fairly positive leadership at times from the CEO telling people to go home.

You want to work for a company where people signing in to company slack/Skype when they are meant to be on leave are kindly but firmly hounded by colleagues and management to disconnect and go actually have their holiday.
Ergh... Probably the worst places to find work. A saturated market of freelancers that will accept any price to do any work. OP you're better than this!
I'm guessing the parent comment meant their term.

i.e. see beyond the need to focus on short-term sugar highs for voters, to get re-elected every 2/4/6 years.

Politicians think short-term for the same reason public CEOs so often do: near-term placating to retain their position.
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Don’t forget the video dating.
Was this not widely reported, or what? You don't even have to go to Wikileaks. From Wikipedia:

> The Washington Post reported: "Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Basically, all of these examples came late in the primary - after Hillary Clinton was clearly headed for victory - but they belie the national party committee's stated neutrality in the race even at that late stage."
> The goal of the legislation in question is specifically to help individuals that have been coerced, against their free will

The key is in the definition of coercion. Was violence threatened? Is a person physically restrained? If so, that's coercion. When the law starts to deal with "psychological coercion" it denies agency to adults.
I didn’t say it’s arbitrary. But it is specific — “ask me about daily life but not about the long term” and frankly it is too easy for flawed people like myself to think “too complicated” and just avoid the situation altogether.
Well yes, for small simple static projects vanilla HTML/CSS/JS(with jquery though) is probably simpler. The problem is when you reach "real life sized" projects. When a project should do more than show a form and a few images and some text.

Frameworks are useful to standardize how many developers in a single project develop together. It also eases binding dynamic views to datasources (databases or API:s or similar). And as a third i'd say that many of the everyday "gotchas" are sorted out in mature frameworks so the developers can focus on the stuff that actually matters.

I am - on the other hand - one of those who argue that frameworks also bring a lot of evil into development. Especially in JS where frameworks are built on top of frameworks which are built on top of frameworks. But I wont bring out those arguments here since the question was "Why to use frameworks" not "Why to avoid them".

Happy Hacking!
It’s just a matter of time before there is a code like “selling new pink shoes for roses” in the clothing section. Will they shut that down too?
Congress is a bunch of idiots. Online ads are probably the #1 spot for sex slaves to be found and returned home. Instead they drive everything to dark nets and offline methods of acquiring clientele, and thus making it harder to police and save lives. Not to mention all the freedoms this can potentially take away.

I'm against sex traffickers as much as the next guy, but this is not the way to stop them.
If you view CS education as merely credentials to obtain a job, and if you view the job as stringing together NPM modules and libraries to bang out simple CRUDs and websites, then in fact the CS MS degree is entirely in the piece of paper (the education itself has no value).

As is the case with the BS, you can learn all of the material from books and papers on your own without having to shell out thousands of dollars to a college.

The real money quote, though, really applies to both BS and MS degrees:

> I believe that the purpose has, in some ways, shifted to be a cash cow for the university in question.

Universities as a whole shifted their business model to focus more on revenue. This is a multi-decade trend that many people have discussed, and are currently debating in the context of the massive student loan bubble.
That's simply not true. Apps aren't allowed to access photos without permission on modern Android (6.0+) and you don't need to grant the app full access to photo album just to share an image. Androids intent system always handled these use cases better than iOS did.
There's no doubt that working outside is infinitely better than working in an office. In my street, garbage collectors, arguably, for some people, one of the least attractive and least qualified jobs in the world, sing every morning. They're happy and they're singing!

If you hear someone sing in an office it's because they're either crazy or have been fired.

But there is also something to be said in favor of repetitive, low-qualification work. It frees the mind while you're doing it: you can think about something else, or even, yes, sing -- and most importantly, it doesn't follow you home.

Modern mid-level office jobs where you're constantly tethered to the company, at all hours and even during "holidays" (if you can get any) are the worst of the worst.
But Facebook gets all your metadata which sucks.
You'd better use something like Threema or Signal.
Not without explicit user permission, no.
The GDPR is only a momth away, I've already sent a complaint to the local data privacy officer about Firefox' constant violations of the requirement for explicit consent (see: CliqZ before), so let's hope the hammer swings hard this time.

If Mozilla still can't see why they shouldn't automatically transmit analytics and studies for everything, they deserve to be sued into the ground. Same with Google.
Just remember that T18 can be detected prenatal, those parents decided to have her.
OT: It doesn't bother me personally, but I'll never understand why they added an unnecessary barrier to entry like that. Not many serious people are going to join a platform that risks them getting quoted in the press as "X tooted that ...". I guess it was supposed to be a funny parody of twitter?
Wire has a very complicated UI. My mum can't use it and most of my friends don't really understand it either.
Telegram copied WhatsApp which in turn copied SMS which is very simple and easy to understand.