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Most people would agree that what you do as a child shouldn't be held against you as an adult, provided you've learned from your mistake. I'd say that what happened to you is a perversion of justice.

You've paired your sense of helplessness with a need for divine perfection to reason away the purpose behind the right to be forgotten.

There are people who have been faced with injustice, who haven't succumbed to letting it affect them forever. There are people who have paid their debt to society and shouldn't have that perpetually held against them.

> Despite the fact that, in theory, the right to be forgotten would benefit me greatly, I think it needs to go. It's a complete waste of resources because it can never be effectively enforced.

There is no law that is completely, effectively enforced. Laws against murder aren't effectively enforced, murder still happens all of the time. However, laws allow public action to be taken and give recourse to victims.

> no way I could get every search engine to comply

There are a handful of search engines people use. If Google alone complied, that would probably eliminate 90% of anyone who would ever search for you online.

> Ultimately, I've come to terms with the fact that my history isn't too much of a bad thing. If someone doesn't want to do business with me because of it, then I've just filtered out someone with superficial prejudices.

In a way, you have the privilege of being able to filter out opportunities. A few words in someone's history can effectively bar them from being hired or finding a place to live, leaving them with little to no opportunity. About a week ago, there was a post by an HN member about such a situation [1].

In the end, bills need to be paid and people need to eat. If someone has dependents, like the guy above [1], they will suffer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16708224
Laws change (get broken) when establishd consensus shifts (hey everyone: women should also have the right to vote!!). Crypto/Blockchain doesn't going to change how consensus works (nor is it supposed to). It's just the digitalisation of laws/currency etc.
Edit: But Crypto/Blockchain allows you to opt out of laws/currency without physically leaving the country.
>Why Immutable Data Structures

>... Rust, being what it is, does a good job of discouraging this kind of behaviour, and keeping it strictly controlled when it's necessary, but the standard library doesn't provide collection data structures which are optimised for immutable operations. This means, for instance, that if you want to add an item to a Vec without modifying it in place, you first need to clone the whole thing before making your change.

>Data structures exist which are designed to be able to make these copies much cheaper, usually by sharing structure between them, which, because this structure is also immutable, is both cheap and safe. ...

Seems pretty straightforward. You'll still have some benefits to immutable-data coding-patterns because it requires only read access on a value, not write, all the way up to the moment you want to swap values (if ever). Making that faster is a worthwhile goal.
The saying in those fields is "the rules are written in blood". The Therac-25 (a medical device) is taught in practically every CS Ethics class for having changed software development practices for such things.

The cynic in me thinks self-driving will require the same, the rules and conservative practices will only come after a bunch of highly publicized, avoidable failures that leave their own trail of blood.
You are misunderstanding what I'm saying. I never said the purpose of Agile/Scrum was to turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team. That's not the goal. That was never the goal.

You know, you can spend a lot of time mucking around with your C compiler also if you don't know what you're doing. The goal of your C compiler isn't to make you a programmer. It's to help people who already know how to program do it better/faster.

Process doesn't replace software engineering. It takes people who already know software engineering and lets them move as quickly as possible.
I think you have caches in your browser or on your network. When I visit, it is blocked on the main page.
Why not trust Linux? No activation, full control over all the processes. Seems like a good solution for people who "care".
The author doesn’t post to HN that I’m aware of, I’ll ping him. Thanks!
I would add a logic analyzer before oscilloscope. You can get good ones for pretty cheap now. https://www.saleae.com/ It is so nice to be able to see what is actually going on when debugging interfaces.
And what happens when the false conviction is overturned?
It's not being siezed because it was allowing adverts for sex.

It's being siezed because it collaborated with criminal gangs who were kidnapping children and selling those children for sex.

People who think Backpage was helping law enforcement keep track of child rapists should read what Backpage themselves admit.

For the "they help law enforcement" argument to work Backpage needed to have kept the orginal ad text submitted by the criminal gangs and then either report that to law enforcement, or have it available to turn over when given a court order. What they actually did add a filter that removed words suggestive of illegal activity and then post the ad anyway.

> At the direction of CEO Carl Ferrer, the company programmed this electronic filter to “strip” —that is, delete—hundreds of words indicative of sex trafficking ( including child sex trafficking) or prostitution from ads before their publication. The terms that Backpage has automatically deleted from ads before publication include “lolita,” “teenage,” “rape,” “young,” “amber alert,” “little girl,” “teen,” “fresh,” “innocent,” and “school girl.” When a user submitted an adult ad containing one of these “stripped” words, Backpage’s Strip Term From Ad filter would immediately delete the discrete word and the remainder of the ad would be published. While the Strip Term From Ad filter changed nothing about the true nature of the advertised transaction or the real age of the person being sold for sex, thanks to the filter, Backpage’s adult ads looked “cleaner than ever.” Manual editing entailed the deletion of language similar to the words and phrases that the Strip Term From Ad filter automatically deleted—including terms indicative of criminality

Clearly, the "they help law enforcement" argument is fucking bogus.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
Exactly. Also, they're a private company. They can do whatever they like with their data per the ToS. Why is this even a concern?
CNN gets stuff wrong from time to time, sometimes badly wrong. But I would stop at seeing this as a structural problem, they're not lying wholesale, all the time like Fox does and even though I'm fairly sure they have a bias - just like almost every other news organization - unless you are hyper partisan yourself it likely won't influence you.

The Sanders/Clinton controversy may be a huge issue to you but what the likes of Breitbart, Fox and so on are doing is on an entirely different scale. All this besides the fact that Clinton stood a much better chance against Trump than Bernie Sanders ever did. She even won the popular vote.
Perfect example of a system doing what it's supposed to, but that's not the right thing. I don't believe it was headed toward the center barrier - I believe it was neatly avoiding it. Here's what I think was happening:

The car did an admirable job trying to stay in that left lane. Each time it saw a red and white diagonal lined barrier, it gracefully edged a comfortable distance away.

The problem is, most humans catch on, "Gee, three scary-looking barriers in a row! Maybe they're trying to tell me something. "Maybe this road is closed."

But I assume the car's system perceived each one as in individual, isolated obstacle to be handled without making inferences. And it did that much well, and when it realized the third or 4th barrier was impassable, it had to cross the other side of the yellow barrier and it did that well, too.
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I expect the coming allegations will detail conspiracy to commit a crime and/or RICO between the people running the site and sex traffickers.

The key thing that will need to be proven is the complicity of the admins, although if they are already seizing the site I expect the authorities have what a judge or grand jury feels is enough evidence to warrant the seizure.
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Was he a good teacher? I’ve enjoyed his witty banter between songs and always wondered how he’d be in front of a whiteboard.
This is not that vague. If I post a comment about prostitution on HN, HN is not liable (HN is clearly not a sex trafficking site), whereas the operator of The Erotic Review is definitely within scope of getting fucked.

This is about eradicating purpose-driven websites related to prostitution. Backpage's C-team did some really, really bad stuff. No jury is going to convict the CEO of Reddit because someone somewhere posted a comment about prostitution on a subreddit. Section 230 still exists.
These satellites are in MEO (1150km) which is relatively sparsely trafficked. Here is a good visualization http://stuffin.space/ . If you zoom out MEO would be just above the dense sphere of space stuff in LEO.

And if you think 4.5k is a lot wait until you hear about phase 2. Thankfully that is in close LEO and without constant propulsion things would deorbit in a matter of weeks. See https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/17/spacex-testing-its-own-satel...
What if you flush a lot just to mess with anyone testing it?
I am the same as you, but I worry the opposite. Using an encrypted VPN in a sea of unencrypted traffic paints a big target on you that says "Im doing things I don't want you to see". You can bet they are working on / can already decrypt and some three letter agency is targeting specifically VPN traffic.
Okay, sure. They changed the arm core. But the IO, the single USB port (internal), the video core, the lack of sata, poor SD card speed, these all remain.
If the CEO of Google orders google engineers to make it easier for sex trafficers to advertise kidnapped drugged children for sex, then yes, I'd support legal intervention in Google too.

People seem to think that all Backpage did was run ads.

That's wrong. You should read what they actually did.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
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Just use your browser. On desktop/laptop, the official app is just a browser engine with a custom icon to appear in your dock/task bar.
I do this all the time and it works remarkably well. Amsterdam and the roads around it are pretty dense, up to 6 lanes each way in quite a few places with all kinds of flyovers and multi-lane exits.
I'm trying to learn right now. I'm probably doing this backwards but:

I'm starting by soldering together kits for modular synthesis. That's teaching me all of the technical skills and ensuring I have the right tools. Some friends to help correct my shitty habits have given me the right skills and equipment to build.

Then I know how to assemble things, so now I'm trying to build my own very simple circuits. Once I can breadboard them, my friend can help show me the ropes to get PCBs printed and then I can manufacture my own things.

Finally, the troubleshooting exposes you to a bit as you have to understand what's going on.

Learning and watching on the side take the basic exposure and distill knowledge from that.
An honest question. Are any of these autonomous driving systems open source or peer reviewed in any way? If not, isn't it really weird that we are talking about regulations even though the underlying technology is not even peer reviewed? How do we know (mathematical proofs, etc.) that a self-driving car manufacturer has done a good enough job if all of that is proprietary?
Free market will judge the right price. Lots of people put free content out there, some of it pretty good. Not as good as Code School's content, but people have to see the value difference. Just because you put a lot of hours in doesn't mean people will appreciate it and pay more for it.
I'm not aware of a messaging service that lets you delete the recipients copy of a message, so I'm fairly surprised about people's reaction to your comments. Am I just not aware?
I certainly took the article to be implying that this was new behavior, but now seems to have been something they secretly started back in 2014 or so.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17203114/facebook-mark-zuc...
We have accents up here???
Why did my mother never tell me this?!? I thought you guys had accents!
> my Chromecast showed weather data for the vpn endpoint

That is pretty awesome. I feel your pain and that is why I haven't gone and flashed my router even though I finally bought one that will let me.
There is confusion because there has been a seemingly deliberate effort to conflate sex work and human trafficking.
Ask HN: Should I join a startup or do open source work to get an internship?
Hi, I am currently a first year software engineering student (in an Italian university) and I would love to get an internship at one of the big fives next summer (2019).

After doing a bit of research I've figured that since so many people apply I need to do something to get noticed among the competition.

I have found two ways to do so: contributing to an open source project from one of those companies or joining a new startup created by ex-students of my school.

Which one do you believe that it would be a better time investment? The startup has a cool idea but since it is a startup provably it will not take off.

In both cases it will be free work, one in form of open source contributions the other in writing a nodejs backend.

Which one would look better on a CV?

Do you believe that the open source work could lead to some kind of referral from someone inside the company and give me better luck in getting the internship?

Thanks in advance
>and some larger studies, suggest the availability of such online services actually reduce violence, homicide, and sex trafficking. See for example:

What study was this and how do we know its results are accurate and apply in this case?

Edit: Also, hopefully we as a society should be looking to reduce, not increase a trade where a human being has to sell themselves like a piece of meat.
Get either a Hakko FX888D or a Weller WES51. I personally prefer the Hakko, but both are excellent stations that cost under $150 which will serve you for years if you take care of them.

A note - soldering stations usually come with a cheap conical tip as a starter tip. Pay an extra $20 or so to buy two chisel tips: a tiny one for fine work, and a big one for larger work. The flat surface allows you to apply more heat to the joint. Take care of your tips (ie: keep them tinned, don't leave the iron on too hot, and don't scrub too hard with the brass sponge) and the tips should last a few years without trouble.
Yup. The Pi has been based on ARMv8 architecture since late 2016, the same architecture that the latest Apple mobile chip(A11) is based on. There's plenty of room to grow in the Broadcom line. The only part that really needs attention is the bundled GPU which IIRC has never been updated since the RPi has been introduced.
+1 I was using thicker solder for a while and it was a mess. Getting thinner 60/40 flux code made a HUGE difference in my ability to build boards.

It doesn't have to be super thin but thinner is 100% better than thicker.
Hopefully this will spur more constituencies to legalize regulated prostitution instead of having to excuse children being forced into slavery for the greater good of legitimate sex workers trying to make a living.
Doesnt it feel good to post about what interests you, on your own terms, without a care for if anyone even cares, and then it blows up?
He said Captain, I said...
I use CircuitLab, which is very helpful from a testing standpoint. As a coder, one of the things that really stresses me about electronics engineering is how untestable everything else, and CircuitLab gives me the ability to mock up simple unit-test-like circuits and see what the expected values should be, including when a power source fluctuates.

It costs a little, if that's a concern.

https://circuitlab.com
Just wondering, is this negatively taking advantage of Github Pages in any way?

I vaguely remember that Github Pages agreement mentioned not doing something like this, I might be wrong though and be thinking of something else.
You might want to watch the film Jane Doe, which details some of the court cases.

OR read this: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...

tldr considerable legal effort went into getting backpage to remove ads for child sexual abuse, and Backpage vigorously fought that effort both in court and using technical measure that made it harder for law enforcement to rescue the children.
It will very much depend on your background, available funds and whether you are interested as a hobbyist only or you have some more serious plans for it.

What I have found is that having a dedicated space for your hobby is probably the best way to help.

Having a dedicated desk it means that all my stuff is immediately ready when I have few minutes of time to do something, test an idea, etc. No amount of hardware will help you if you will have to set it up on your desk and then clean up every day. At least that's what is working for me.
I have a chinese hakko clone I got for $120 - it's good enough for my use.

Get a small airfilter/fan if you're going to solder a lot.
Thanks for posting! networked-aframe is great, can't wait for it to continue to improve.

We're the creators and maintainers of A-Frame and just went through the last YC batch as Supermedium (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16318151). Let us know if you have any questions!
LOL, (go ahead HN downvote this but this is funny)
I've seen it in the sense of comparing individuals that are competing for a job in the jobs market. For example, if a new, inexperienced person is favored for the job over a more experienced person, the more experienced candidate is said to have negative market value for the employer.
The timeline, 2200 in the next 6 years is mind boggling.
For those low on cash, or who want to dive in a little before seeing what soldering station, multimeter, power supply, oscilloscope etc. they want...

First buy a breadboard (or more than one). Buy the resistors and wires you need in the near future. You'll need a crimper pretty soon to cut the wires.

A good power supply is nice, but you can make due with a battery holder and battery at first, say, a 9 volt.

Look at some simple projects you can build, and get the capacitors, LEDs, inductors etc. necessary to build them.

When you want to start soldering things together, get a soldering station, solder and stripboards. Also get solder flux . Soldering is much less of a pain when you have flux, depending on what you are doing.

As the comment section here attests - a soldering gun is hot. Solder is hot. You have to be careful.

Digikey.com and Mouser.com have many, many electronic parts. Adafruit.com has a lot of cool projects and guides. In fact, I would recommend you watch some Adafruit videos, read some of their guides etc.

After you learn some of the basics, you can take a step up and get an Arduino and muck with that.
That one is ugly. If AP can't even steer around huge trucks parked on the road then that's a very serious problem.

Interesting how everybody claims it is 'the drivers fault' when in fact at that moment the driver is the autopilot software. It - and not the person sitting in the left hand front seat of the car - is driving the car.
FCC gets the final say because SpaceX headquartered and launches from U.S. That said in theory SpaceX will have to comply with regulations of all of the countries where it wants to operate. Some of those countries undoubtedly will pass laws/regulations to protect domestic telco incumbents.
It should be illegal. It is in many countries.
When I read satellites & internet, latency is the first thing that came to mind.

But at the altitude the satellites (will) operate, that adds about 8ms delay (round trip for satellite immediately above, might be slightly worse). In contrast, the fastest round-trip to a geostationary sat is 233ms. That's a big improvement.
This will be interesting. Especially if you look at the territory laws in the UN Space treaty. I look forward to when we see our first off earth based corporation, and won't be surprised if it is a SpaceX child entity.
Want to be happy ? Don’t listen to all of these self help charlatans .
Try running Dota 2 on Windows then run it on Linux (it is available to install from Steam for Linux) and then get back to me.

Last time I tried it a few years ago, it was ~10fps on linux, and a solid 100+fps on windows.
>but you never hear about the same checks for the buyers. Why is that?

New Zealand requires buyers to adopt safer sex practices or be fined. I don't know to what degree this is enforced.
this is why anti discrimination laws exist, work on applying that.
I think 3 months is the expiration for unemployed meanderings to be fun. I quit my last job to pursue a side project full time and it went from every day being bliss to every day having a film of meaninglessness over it. Humans are social creatures, and it is strange how important just having other people who care about what you are doing is to making it seem important in your own mind. I am debating finding a co-founder just so they can look at it sometimes and be like 'yeah seems good' :/.
Add an always-on VPN tunnel to your router with the tunnel exit on someone else's (not Comcast) network.
> when you forgive someone you never forget?

I'm sorry, are you arguing that not forgiving governments, elected officials, and people in positions of power and authority (or those seeking such power) is a problem in our society? Like, the US, the country that elected Trump, is having a problem with forgiving/forgetting past transgressions?

> but there are far more reasons to forget.

If there are that many, why didn't you name them?

> If this was the case everyone would hate everyone.

Hate isn't the issue. We're talking about real world problems with consequences. Evil doesn't just go away because you forgive it, people who are harmed are still harmed, and costs incurred need to be paid. If you just forgive and forget naively, that means the people who are hurt just keep paying, over and over. And the people who take advantage of it just keep winning forever.
Just at the wrong scale. Try "closing a large town where trafficking occurs".