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Fascism rose in popularity 100 years ago as a political option. Perhaps it is undergoing a renaissance. I have no idea why anyone thinks its a good idea unless you are the person in charge but it seems to attract support.
He is not a joke in his field. He is highly intelligent. He has carte blanche to publish commentary on any topic he chooses, and some pundits will pick it up and say see, this well respected and smart guys says this, listen to him!
You have to find like minded people, and people who want the security of a large corporation are the exact opposite of the risk taking adventure entrepreneurs take. Entrepreneurs as a group consider working for a large corporation to be a major risk, really working for anyone is a risk. Personally I think having a "job" is a major risk but sometimes it is fun to do too, just like building a business.

The people you are talking to are comfortable and not the right crowd, I am sure some work at the company that would love that opportunity.

Just a word of caution, be careful actively recruiting while on the job, it is a fast way to either A get fired, or B get fired and sued for your side project depending on the company. A lot of FAANG and startups that emulate them have clauses about side projects and so you have to be really careful here if you have one of those. I am all for you doing whatever you want, but just make sure you know the details on how it could affect you.
Because just outside the voting booth there are actual people watching after your safety and making sure you aren't coming into the booth with a gun on your head or any other kinds of means of coercion. Also, each candidates can make sure the others aren't messing up with the process.

A bank has no way to know in real time if you are being forced to transfer hundred of thousands of dollars or not.
Depending on what opinion they pull out, I might tweak that and suggest: "What's the argument against that opinion?"

From what I've seen, a lot of people can rattle off reasons they've heard for why a particular thing is done, but have not deeply considered the opposite side of that opinion and what its benefits may be. Ymmv.
Well yeah but have you considered that if you put a mouse in a slowly oscillating catastrophic magnetic field you get a usually statistically insignificant outcome!! Wake up sheeple
I don't see how it isn't a fantastic start.

It signals intent.
My highlight of 2019 was learning emacs.

I see it as an investment, since it will probably outlive me and anything an IDE can do, _technically_, can be done in emacs.

I was previously a vim user and I wanted to extend my editor but I really hate vimscript. I took a look at Emacs's Elisp and I liked it. To my surprise, the ecosystem was updated with my current tech stack (TypeScript, with the Tide plugin). I was really used to vim so I decided to create my own 'distro' and I began recreating some vim editing functionality along with similar keys (Since I'm not using evil mode or anything, I just made a prefix with Ctrl).

At the end I realized I only liked vim because of its ubiquity and keymaps.
Yeah but the consequences for targetted sales with a as product is poorly aimed marketing. The potential consequences for security are far more severe.
I suppose I should clarify some as well; 'traditional' mainstream meditation doesn't work well for me; I've spent up to an hour doing either box breathing or air flow focus breathing as attempts to clear my focus and quiet my brain, and in general it just doesn't reach a desired effect. On the regular though, I would say I average about 15 to 30 minutes a day attempting this meditation form. This may at best allow for 3-5 second times of 'blank' space but never longer.

That being said, I do martial arts, and I would compare intense focus on performing an intermediate to long kata to the generally expressed trance or meditative states; and in those times I would consider it similar to either art or programming flow.

And I think that's where the distinction is, as 'traditional' meditation tends to be a more passive meditation style that doesn't work well with the active needs to essentially distract my brain into a present tense form.
That's where EU GDPR comes into the frame with informed consent for tracking.
In what sense would it be a gateway? Because of the possibility of data exfiltration?
In physics, especially anything remotely related to quantum physics, whether somebody focuses on measurable quantities or not. If somebody has a new measurement technique, something that gives better precision than before, great. If somebody has a new theoretical model that applies to cases that previous models didn't, great. If somebody has a new theoretical model that gives different results than current models, that is great because new experiments can determine between them.

If somebody has a new model that gives the exact same predictions as a current model, lauds it as being obviously the truth, and dismisses all other models as falsehood, then it can be dismissed. This applies to all various interpretations of quantum physics, since they all yield the same measurable predictions.
> I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do.

Quantity has a quality all its own. Something that is acceptable at a small scale may have unacceptable consequences when done at much larger scales.
Not due to budget, but due to incentive structure. Low ranked military would avoid potential liability at all costs and just stay put if no order is issued.
Because elections have strict secrecy requirements that bank transactions don't. Once you cast your ballot, it can longer be associated with you. So if someone hacks the election equipment to alter the ballots, there is no way for you to find out that your ballot was altered or to reverse the alteration. In contrast, fraudulent bank transactions are routinely discovered and reversed.
i don't think this will work. telling a story is not watching youtube and gaming is not digital product design. the first two are leisure and the other two are toil. sure it might work for two days but i will guarantee you will be experiencing withdrawal symptoms and you will be back to square one after that. you can't just wave a magic want and substitute leisure activity with toil. your mind might want you to, but your body simply won't let you. try watching netflix and reading a book as substitutes. or go rehab by changing your environment to somewhere less digital.
Not sure I understand that. If I want feature X, and <app> doesn't have feature X, then that's a negative. Doesn't mean <app> is not "good", but it's certainly criteria by which to judge it.
> I completely agree. I used vanilla Emacs for about a decade before finding list-packages

I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a nice stable one. You may or may not use, or know about, all the "applications" available for it. New stuff comes along that you haven't heard about; you might occasionally want to review things; and it doesn't really matter if you don't.

I've been using it for the usual handful of decades and have gone through phases of using one exciting new thing or another, but I've dropped most of them - I no longer run builds from Emacs (I do recompilation in the background in a separate terminal), nor read mail or use version control software from within it. I don't use evil and my colour scheme is mostly black-on-white. My .emacs has ended up almost back where it was 25 years ago. (In fact it still has references to Epoch and Lucid Emacs in a couple of comments.)

The two additions in the past couple of decades that have made a big difference to me are Tramp (a nice upgrade from ange-ftp) and the ability to set non-integer line spacings.
Maybe they're confident that WhatsApp does have backdoors because they put them there...
The irony..
This is why TEMPEST is critical.
I have been playing with that idea, as some kind of activist political stunt but I am pretty sure my country has limitations in place to prevent/forbid the selling of vote.
Those friends/coworkers won't make it in the long-run, even if you can convince them in the beginning.

You need someone that is hungry to start a business, sick and tired of working for someone else, and will sacrifice their free time to make it happen.

I've tried at least half a dozen times in the past to start a company with friends/coworkers..and most failed miserably for this reason.

Some people just aren't meant to start or run a company and want the stability and security of being an employee.
You would think that the constitution would have included a passage about peoples right to keep and bare armaments being necessary to ensure the country stayed free...

Nah. Lets redefine "arms" to mean "guns", assume for some reason the constitution needed to give the government freedom from itself, and ignore the whole thing as archaic and outdated.
> my behavior is not abusing the content creator in any way

Abuse[0]: Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.

You go somewhere that use ads to finance the content, while making effort to block theses ads/thus the financing. It's certainly the improper usage of his website, to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. The benefit being access to the content.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse

> Meanwhile the negative sides of advertising and ad tech are well-documented.

Then why not avoiding anything using ad tech? The negative sides of smoke from cigarette are well known, I'm still not there trying to keep smoking while trying to avoid the smoke.

Personally I have no issue with most ads. The only time I ever had an issue with them was over Engadget were I got 2 auto playing ads over the course of a few days, I just stopped going there. What are the negative side that you lived? That was the only one that I lived, a slight inconvenience, while everyday I get hundred of positive side. There so many content creator that I care deeply about that were able to live out of their content, that would never been able to otherwise.

> Not to mention the fact that I am not the person responsible for giving advertisers access to someone's website.

You are responsible for accessing it...

> If anything I'm going easy on the content creator

You are going easy on him? By accessing his content without respecting the terms he set on accessing it. That doesn't sound like anything generous.

You act like you deserve the access to the content and now you even act like you reading it is some sort of reward for the content creator. That entitlement is seriously wrong.
I don't dispute any of that. But what it means is merely that compliance will never be perfect. Companies will always test the limits of the law and look for loopholes.

Like with tax compliance, this will always be an arms race. But if the law raises the bar, they will jump a little bit higher on average.

It doesn't have to be perfect. Privacy is not black or white, and trackers themselves are anything but perfect.

I recently looked at the list of what Google thinks I'm interested in. It's funny. Supposedly, I have a particularly strong interest in vehicles and buying cars. In fact I don't even have a driving licence, never owned a car, never will.

The list goes on and on like that. They must have rolled the dice to come up with things like "Flowers" and "American Football". I feel my privacy is completely safe with these geniuses :)
The goal is to give women a welcoming place where they feel comfortable contributing and can find support and mentorship that is geared towards them. For example, in your typical tech circle, you might have a gender ratio of 80% men and 20% women. If a woman asks a question to this group about an experience where being female is relevant, she will likely get most if not all answers from a male's perspective. This obviously can be off-putting, especially if she is forced to justify her experience instead of receiving any useful advice.

Another example is exposure. Even in a purely meritocratic environment, those who get exposure will be heavily weighted, even sometimes exclusively, towards men. This can give the impression that tech is explicitly for men. Carving out a space for women's minority voices to be seen and heard over the hoards of men is useful for those women and other women considering getting into tech. Representation matters, and seeing people like you succeed gives you confidence that you can succeed as well.
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They also do a lot of "financial engineering", like stock buy backs. All these machinations to benefit the very few at the top. It's like the last dash for a land grab. Get it while you can, and it will all end in tears.
You don't need this to determine that someone goes to your site—they're there. This is for tracking people as they go to other sites, and for determining what other sites the people on your site have gone to.
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For what it's worth, I took up running, changed my diet, and found that both of those in combination did effectively nothing to address my ADHD symptoms. I'm a lot healthier now than I was before I discovered I loved running, but to this day I use medication because it's the only thing I've tried that makes a meaningful difference.
In other words, virtual hosting does provide some incidental "privacy". However, looking at the web as whole, not simply focusing on certain large CDNs, most HTTPS websites actually do not require the SNI extension. "Modern" browsers send domain names in the ClientHello plaintext automatically, by default, even though it is not required.

Then there are HTTPS websites who require SNI but do not actually check the name in ClientHello is the same as the name in the Host header.^1 Any name sent in the ClientHello will suffice to retrieve the correct web page. "Modern" browsers again blindly send more than what is required in that situation.

As such, it is the HTTP client, e.g. major browser, that is leaking information in plaintext unecessarily. "Modern" browsers are useful for displaying web content. However when it comes to retrieving it, they are less trustworthy. Too much is happening in these programs outside the user's awareness and control.

1. AWS Cloudfront is one example. It is possible to send a less descriptive, arguably more private, CNAME in the ClientHello whilst sending the known domain name in the Host header. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977961
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Yeah, I don’t want to upload.

I would really like to have my app learn the user’s speaking style from their data and be able to write out diary entries each day in their own “voice”.
One example is looking at the coverage The Hindu gave the BJP, RSS, and Modi before he came power and after. Before they were critical of BJP when it warranted, but since they came into power the coverage has been fawning.

This sort of comparision can be made across the spectrum of the news media. They are smarter than outright jailing journalists.
The difference is scale. With ML Face recognition we can identify people in real time, without some safeguards we very rapidly reach a point where we can track anyone anywhere.
Imagine if every camera in the city of London could identify you, forget metadata we will be able to actively track individuals taking public transit across a city and identify every individual who the interact with.
> Religion

For the most part, leaving that one because there is a whole rat's nest of complexity to untangle that varies by jurisdiction and region of the world. Religious freedom is a generally well-respected (from a legal perspective) philosophy in many countries, but at the end of the day, in most of these countries, those freedoms are seeing a great deal of erosion due to the progression of human rights.

> poor social skills with women

Frankly, if someone is bad at speaking with women, then there is an issue of individual social skills. I would argue that if someone is "bad at speaking with women", they are bad at speaking with people in general, but they just assume that because of gender, that they can set aside or be forgiven their poor social skills.

> avoiding sexual tension that naturally arise

No. Sexual tension does not "naturally arise" between men and women any more than gay sexual tension arises between men and women participating in gender exclusive communities. If "sexual tension" is a problem for a heterosexual individuals when they are in a mixed gender environment, but not in a restricted gender environment, then those individuals have a self-control problem, not a sexual tension problem, since there is always the possibility that someone from the same gender will find them attractive and create "sexual tension". I don't know if you meant something else, but
Hey HN, this was something I wrote for myself and my team. It’s sort of my ‘Principles’ (Ray Dalio) of design. It’s not supposed to be too comprehensive, just a good, simple starter - hence the ‘Tips’ in the title.

To address a few of the comments here: in the first section I mention that I’m specifically not going to talk about UX which is a huge article itself. Hopefully people can find some value in the content that’s there rather than judging the content that’s not. I realise that design is very opinionated, but if you read this with an open mind you may find some useful tips.

It’s the middle of the night here, but I’ll try responding to everyone when I wake up tomorrow
Did he really support the Chavez regime? That’s something I’d like to know.
it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound, it does nothing to fix the underlying problem.

Why do we need a society of black engineers when we already have a society of engineers? Willingly Segregating yourself off from the rest of the engineering community does nothing to help the general engineering community to accept black engineers.

That was the other posters point. You may not agree with it, but don't act as if there's no validity to it.
With such a large percentage of the population of not just the country in question in the article, but also the entire world, I'm not sure they can be seen to be "the other" to the same degree as the Jews were, given how common they are.

In 1933, there were an estimated 15 million Jews worldwide[1], 9 million or so in Europe. In Germany, with the largest Jewish population, they accounted for less than 1% of the populace. In India today, Muslims account for close to 15% of the population. According to wikipedia, they're very close to 25% of the entire world population. There may be some vilification going on, but when the other group is as large as that, I doubt you can expect a similar outcome or as much of a one sided narrative in the places where it's attempted.

1: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-pop...
Because they'll also want to encrypt soldiers communications back home, not just between each other. When the soldiers are talking to their friends and family. It isn't E2E if friends and family aren't using the same software.

It's the whole idea behind Tor. Interests sometimes align.
Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rKOigGZ...

(Sorry for the search pop-up, I'm not sure how to get a cached version without it.)
"And by placing the will so high above circumstance, it projects an untruthful image of equal opportunity in which the unfortunate should have just tried harder."

This seems to be the thesis of the whole piece, but ignoring the role of free will is self-defeating. Recognizing that people can make decisions, and encouraging them to make good decisions, is ultimately what leads to better outcomes. Telling people that they have no free will doesn't lead anywhere useful, even if it's true.

You can still acknowledge that improving opportunities for everyone is a good thing without dismissing the importance of good decisions.
None of these steps involves looking up a face in a seventeen million page binder of faces with names and associating names, government ids, traffic violations, credit scores, etc with the person.

I don't think people are worried about computer vision identifying Human vs Not Human as much as they are about the (not humanly possible) pinpointing and following of every move.
Well one major thing is that tramp is inside emacs so you can configure it with elisp, which is a major plus in my mind.
The main problem with tramp is that Emacs is single threaded (and elisp threads run one at a time), so networking operations can be iffy. On most normal connections it works fine in my experience. Another reason to use sshfs is if you're switching between Emacs and a separate terminal, you don't need another connection. That goes away with vterm since now you don't need a separate terminal (it fixes a lot of the traditional problems with ansi-term, shell-mode, and eshell. Although there's a good argument to make for using eshell as your main shell).
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"Apple sued Williams in August, alleging that he breached an intellectual property agreement and a duty of loyalty to the company by planning his new startup while on company time at Apple, spending hours on the phone with colleagues who eventually joined the venture."

If that's the case, then "no" that shouldn't be allowed.
> there's no reason to ever buy the product again once you've done it once

Actually I did it once about 10 years ago, and since then they've added a bunch of new diagnostic analyses they will perform, including a couple that are relevant to my family and I've been tempted to do it all again.

(although wait, do they need more saliva, or do they just re-run my existing sample?)
Can anything be done on a mobile device yet?
> Posting about what you imagine woman might feel to the extent that it crowds out actual women saying how they feel (e.g. being the top response) is a problem.

I don't control where my response sits, so it sounds like you're saying the problem is that I decided to speak at all. I am having a hard time reading the comment any other way than "don't express opinions about how you imagine a woman might feel".
It also depends on the purpose of your website.

Are you publishing data to help/inform people?
or do you want traffic on your site (for ads)?

Examples like Wikipedia is about sharing information, not so much about growing traffic..
I did Learn Go With Tests which was my first intro to TDD and I found it enjoyable even if the author is little overly pedantic about his preferred testing approach.

However at work, I often find that I feel like I can't write unit tests before starting code because I just don't know how it's going to get built until I start poking at the code.
I'm not sure how to break out of this
Under US law 'unauthorized access of a computer system' is hacking, so writing someone elses name and DOB would qualify as 'hacking' in the legal sense.
Wow, 40f! I doubt I could handle much below 55, but I suppose with time it’s possible to adapt.

Yes I think the saltiness plays an important role, especially the magnesium. It’s similar to taking a bath with epsom salts.
> Is it worth putting the effort to learn now?

As a big emacs guy, I say it's only worth putting in the effort if you really enjoy the process of crafting a tool that fits the shape of your mind and bending your mind to fit the shape a tool. I personally get a lot of pleasure out of improving my text editor, but I don't think most people will/do.

Depending on your choice of IDE and your proficiency with vim I think the efficiency gains you'd get from switching to emacs will be relatively slight.