skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasons for privacy are always so contrived. "Dystopian futures", "enemies trying to ruin lives" etc. etc. It never resonates with me.

I think what the author is trying to say is that if you live an open life with few secrets, then your life will be less stressful. He's encouraging us to really reevaluate what we keep secret b/c when you sit down to think about it, it's most likely all in your head.
Too late - Paul McAuley's _The White Devils_ has ad-covered GM butterflies in it, for example...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_vest#Legality
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
I can't even imagine about what privacy is going to look like in 20 years, or how society will adapt to deal with it. What seems missing from his thought experiment is how to address privacy for things that concern more than just a single participant.

I don't particularly worry about my individual privacy, or care about securing my things. If someone managed to get a hold of my email, I wouldn't be very put out. I don't encrypt my hard drives, or even back anything up. My lack of security and privacy hygiene, however, doesn't extend to my work stuff. I care about maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of that stuff because it's part of a social contract (and I suppose also an employment contract) that I have with my work and my clients.

Instead of his diary example, what if he had asked his friend "Can I copy all of the emails off of your phone, or all the phone numbers in your addressbook?" Maybe they still wouldn't care, or maybe they'd now have to take into account the fact that all that data also involves other people, and maybe they wouldn't find it acceptable for you to give our their cell phone number to anybody who asks.

So much of the data that we accrue is increasingly more interconnected with other people. I feel like that's where we run into trouble, because there is no universal consensus around what's private and what isn't. We have rudimentary laws protecting the smallest subset of data which the government has decided should be considered private, but everything else is a value judgement for individuals (and is part of the current internet company land-grab).

I feel like his position is going to be harder and harder to maintain, as more and more of the "personal" data he's okay with sharing includes other people's data.
> Things like the 9patch editor seem horribly misplaced (you probably don't want your devs to be editing those...)

Um, what? I can think of plenty of times when I've needed to edit 9patches myself. Mind you, most of those times were when I was working in a startup, and we didn't have a dedicated UI/UX person, but this feature would still be incredibly handy.
Long-term antibiotic effectiveness may be a dead thing.

Perhaps it will be, or at least it will for the medications we currently use. However, if we lose current antibiotics before finding or developing alternatives of similar or better effectiveness, human medicine is going to regress by decades and many people are going to suffer horribly. It's not just the obvious direct benefits of antibiotics we're going to lose, it's everything else that will go with them.

Dumping antibiotics all over the place via food production methods is absurdly wasteful of what might be a limited resource. Even if the eventual loss of current capabilities really is inevitable, putting back the date when it happens as much as possible to allow for research into alternatives could literally be a win on a global scale. This change is long overdue.
I could see this leading to some interesting community discussion: "So, who's the ONE guy in the neighborhood that doesn't discard his Visa ads, and is responsible for all the mail we get?"
Find a business owner that needs web development done that doesn't have time to do it herself or knows a little bit less about it than you.

You can charge that business owner now. Any language will work and there are trade offs for each language.
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I cringed when I saw "informal survey," but this seems to be in the important bit -

"In most cases, the scam began through Facebook and ended when “Gary Jones” gained access to the victim’s email account."

Unfortunately it doesn't make a lot of sense without context that I can't fine in the article. Was it phishing?
of course it is, but it just generally helps looking at it from multiple perspectives if you aren't directly affected, so you aren't affected more by one side of the argument, and perhaps even have a better, more informed perspective than some Indian people who may have been raised to think one way or another, sticking to one of the sides.
A citation for what, exactly? That they shouldn't have kids when poor, or that they aren't physically forced to have kids? The former seems like common sense, but I could try and find a citation for the latter (that very few pregnancies are caused by rapes).

Could you give some good examples of why a woman would have kids then wind up on welfare? IMHO the only 2 reasonable examples are raped women and widows.
Thank you, blah32497. That's exactly what I was trying to say, and wonderfully succinctly put. :-)

It could also mean reevaluating what you've made public, and deciding what should be secret.
are you /u/kaax?
I don't want to be mean but if you are going to be pedantic, it would help if you were correct ... :(

Please Google it or something. I have used it correctly, I think you do not know ...
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I think it is almost guaranteed if you know the steps to take.

Step 1: Go to college, which you can do very nearly for free these days, and major in something useful, like (say) computer science.

Step 2: Get a job using that useful degree.

My grandpa took 8 years go to to college, by taking every other year off to work. There isn't much excuse for people these days except not having the knowledge of the above two steps.

If you fucked around in high school, that is also a barrier to going to college. But you can go to community college (they let everybody in) and then transfer after 2 years. It's a common occurence.

You can also simply become a tradesman at community college: Plumber, welder, electrician, heating/AC repairman, etc. From what I can tell, there is no glut of people in these professions, people just don't want them. 51% of Americans are now on government welfare, and that's a lot easier than working hard.
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False. I promise.
And I suppose women should also think twice before putting on that slinky dress, or walking down that street at night, or going out with that guy?

Victim-blaming is victim-blaming, regardless of context. The person who behaved wrongly in these circumstances is the person who uploaded the pic to a revenge porn site, not the person who took it, full fucking stop.
while the highschool story they spout sounds great on paper, a lot of their primary growth in the early days were early /b (4chan) threads for pics.
This is the question you most need to answer. Why is this project, of all possible projects, a good scientific bet?

Biology is complicated, which makes layman explanations a challenge.

Perhaps the best you can do is lay out in clear terms what you know and what you don't. This compound has been shown to be XXX±XXX% effective against these three cancers. It has also been shown to kill 90% of test animals. These three respected theory papers [1,2,3] have highlighted the fact that, if only the animals hadn't died, this compound would be more promising than YYY,ZZZ, and QQQ. Furthermore, in these references [4-10], making the modification we propose to make (9DS) in other related substances has been shown to reduce lethality by 100x. Our goal is to explore this alteration to see if we can address the lethality of the compound while preserving its anti-cancer properties.

Give people the references, and some laymen will dig all day long. Motivated people are really smart.
And initial latency/page weight?

Even wikipedia would work great as a client-side app with json, bu then you want to open 30 tabs and you can feel it lagging.
Yes, Dystopian future doesn't resonate with me either, but a Dystopian past would. I'm sure there's a scary example from history.
There are two cases here.

First case: I am totally against slavery and any kind of coersion. That is what we have a government for.

Second case: Psychological problems. We can't actually solve for those people by forbidding prostitution (or whatever the cause du jour is).

If wages are still so low that people literally can't survive, guess what? You have a glut on the labor market, probably because of decades of government policy that encouraged people to have more children than the society can economically sustain. Don't blame that on capitalism. You have to either take the medicine (reduce social benefits) or be permanently sick.
Everyone is using $100 ec2 credits for coin mining, that's why everyone is overpaying for spot price at the moment
You don't have to imagine contrived futures to see why privacy is important. You only need to look at the present, or even easier, the past. Rational people dominate neither governments nor society. Privacy and secrecy are the first line of defense that the oppressed have against prejudice.

As far as "enemies trying to ruin lives", it's wonderful that you are so privileged as to even be able to think of that as "contrived", but you would do well to pay attention to other people's situations.
Do you need a way to manage and register domain names for customers?
I am making a service that allows non-tech businesses to easily create websites, and I find that the hardest part of the process for them is registering and setting up domain names.

Is there any interest in some kind of API to manage domain names that are on the customer's account? So maybe it uses OAuth to authenticate the user and then a token to make calls to the API on behalf of the customer. This would eliminate a significant amount of difficulty on the customer side.
I would disagree from the reddit threads revolving around snapchat and nude pictures and 4chan threads. I would think its a mistake to think its not used primarily for sexting.

I don't have any data either but I think comments like op above are really trying to legitimize a sexting app. Lets take the recent Tumblr acquisition. Most tumblr blogs involved porn although they were able to legitimize is it as a better blogging service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
Except that some people really do have people who want to ruin their lives or at the very least a motive to use information against them.
on top of the fact ads are disposable. The user stories feature is really a way to make their ad business viable.
Read the paper from the Nix people, it's fantastic: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf
It seems a lot of mid-sized companies like to call themselves "startups" because of the hip factor. Even though they fail to fit into the definition. Incidentally, here's a good Quora discussion on the definition: https://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship/What-is-the-proper-de....

Anyways, I'm happy to have shared something helpful. Good luck!
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I don't know if you just really like the platform, or you're on Microsoft's payroll (as this is HN, I'm guessing the second), but you're coming across as the hard-shill.
It's predicated on that idea because that is the essence of the world we live in. Americans vote for their government, and that government's sole legitimate purpose is to ensure American prosperity. The same is true for the Swedes in Sweden and the Germans in Germany, etc.

If you take this as an immutable truth, I think you've already created a game where the only winning move is not to play, a tragedy of the commons on a global scale.

There is nothing magical about the border between, say, Germany and France. No natural phenomenon exists to create a necessary boundary there. It is an accident of history, and the idea that people either side of the boundary should behave according to their own clan's interest at the expense of all others would seem absurd to us if we hadn't grown up with the notion that we all come from a home country.

International cooperation results in governments trading off the prosperity of their people for the prosperity of people who are not party to the same social contract, and in doing so subvert and compromise their democracy.

Only if their own people don't accept the trade-off, perhaps because they feel it is in their own long-term interest, or perhaps merely because they feel it is the right thing to do.

Here in the UK, every now and then there is a story about how we're still giving aid money to some relatively advanced country, maybe one that now has far greater financial power than we do, and often people find that inappropriate. On the other hand, we also send aid to countries that have been hit by a tornado or tsunami or earthquake, and I've never heard a single person object, even though it's ultimately their tax money that was taken involuntarily and spent on their behalf to help someone else. Intent matters.

The problem with this approach is that it results in "take it or leave it" sorts of agreements.

Maybe it does, for a while. You'd probably get the same thing if you enacted a power of recall for elected representatives who their voters didn't feel were living up to their promises during their term in office.

But after a while, people would learn that compromise is necessary to get things done, and that if everyone sticks to their guns then nothing gets done and we all lose. And then what used to be take it or leave it changes more into what's the basic foundation we can all agree with, or at least some of us can agree with for mutual benefit with the others free to walk away with no hard feelings. And then we'd be getting somewhere.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

-- Often attributed to Cardinal Richelieu
I have a Google doc with the same exact title of "Ideas." Yours is far more extensive though.
A lot of it is due to the limitations of HTML. For example, HTML is why Gmail paginates about as well as PHP app from 1998, instead of allowing you to just scroll through all of them like a native client.
There's a vicious pack of wolves roaming one floor of the server complex.
So samstave put it better, but essentially my argument isn't ad hominem, it's attacking the notion that YOUR secrets mean nothing to ME, which can be generalised to ANYONE's secrets mean nothing to ANYONE. Which is obviously untrue.

Yet that is the conclusion he comes to.

The other possible conclusion, as I noted, is that he has previously been unaware of Free/Open Source and Creative Commons based licenses. In which case he needs not talk on secrets but rather on licensing.
Your use of the word "practically" is very generous. I'm not sure I could have proved my point better if I had created a fake account to reply to myself saying exactly the right things to prove my point.
It is not clear to me how your citizenship or lack of it has to do with your internship prospects. From an immigration point of view, assuming you are legally in the country, there is literally nothing that any company has to do extra to hire you as an intern. It could simply be that that specific company was being stupid.

I have been in the same situation you were some years back. No C.S. experience; I had just moved from an EE background to work on Machine Learning. I was at an incredibly good school but still getting an internship seemed atrociously hard. Especially considering that people who had a C.S. background were not being grilled that hard in interviews. The problem is social proof. At the moment, you have a severe lack of social proof. Maybe, it is your school; maybe it is a question of abilities. It doesn't matter. Stop overthinking about things that are out of your control.

The solution? It may seem futile or simple but just keep going. Take concrete steps. Do more networking (which you are already doing), do prepare more for interviews (the standard algorithm/datastructure prep), rebuild your resume (feel free to ping me or post your resume on this thread and someone can critique it). Also, it is not the end of the day if you can't get an internship. It is one way to getting a full time job _but not the only way_. You can do other things: Google Summer of Code, hack on open source projects (which you should start doing yesterday, an excellent way of acquiring social proof), working on research projects with Professors (high profile ones that have good industry connections).
It's called a model release.
I don't think releasing those photos of Anthony Weiner is the magical clear case of "journalism" that you think it is.
It's a futures market.
Nation states are not people.
The benefits of privacy go somewhat beyond what you've listed. As I often do in these conversations, I suggest starting with Daniel Solove's paper, "'I've Got Nothing to Hide,' And Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" link: http://tehlug.org/files/solove.pdf
Well, right, but this isn't fraud, or libel, or sedition, or (to my knowledge) child porn, or anything necessarily cast as an unprotected form of speech.

It could potentially be categorized as 'obscene', but that's true (or false) of a given image regardless of how it was obtained or how it's distributed. If porn sites are still legal in the state of California (they are, right?), then so should images on this site be. If they're being displayed unlawfully, on grounds that they were illegal obtained, or are being illegally distributed, then I don't understand why a successful prosecution couldn't be had on those grounds already.
At my university (Waterloo), this is a pretty good everything-you-need-to-know, but of course it's mainly for UWaterloo students (Canada) http://stephenholiday.com/Unofficial-Waterloo-USA-Intern-Gui...
Where ever it is, there would be local laws. Next,the US reserves the right to prosecute its own citizens even if they commit what the US thinks is a crime in another country, regardless of local law. On top of that, there may be an extradition treaty in place.

Then to stretch a bitter point.......

Failing all that, of course we know the US will kidnap.... sorry, "render" people.... All that's needed there is for them to define blackmail as a form of terrorism. Heh, then I suppose one could justify a drone strike!!!
Don't quote them an hourly rate. That means nothing to them. Tell them they will get X for price $Y (flat fee all inclusive) and they are more likely to go forward.
I thought it was iBacon. Honestly, the new Bluetooth in nice, but we really need iBacon.
Well yes it is ridiculous. If you want to blame this game of "everything is journalism" then probably we should revisit the whole notion of freedom of the press.
This is an important story. Comcast in particular is already a monopoly, and just might be the most hated
company in the history of man--by customers and their
own employees.
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Learn Python/web.py. Powerful framework with no learning curve. More importantly, proportionate to how easy it is to learn, it gets the job done, fast.

Anything that saves you time is good, because there will be a lot of repetition. If you're doing web development, use single quotes instead of double quotes (to save shift keystrokes). Use Jade/Coffeescript/SASS instead of HTML/JS/CSS. Learn jQuery. Use Bootstrap instead of doing your own design, unless you also want to sell yourself as a designer, but tell clients you'll also provide design (they can't tell the difference). Build up a library of code that you can reuse (basically anything you find yourself copy/pasting or rewriting between projects). Use quick-and-dirty solutions instead of long, conventional ones as long as (a) it results in a net decrease in time spent, (b) the product quality stays the same, and (c) the client doesn't know or doesn't care.

Build MVPs for clients from start-to-finish by yourself instead of working with others unless the overhead is compensated by money. Learn how to write, because being fluent in English will get you surprisingly far in a market where a lot of your competitors can't use punctuation.

Charge per-project, not per-hour. This way you're rewarded, not penalized, for being a fast worker.

Experience: freelance programmer here who dropped out of college and never had a job; making enough to survive and spend the rest of my time on other things.
I'm a huge fan of the nix/guix projects (initially I was super excited to see a guix because I prefer scheme, but actually the Nix language is wonderful). I'm really surprised the Nix package manager doesn't have a bigger following with Mac OS X people (it's a lot more capable than homebrew, and you get binary distribution for free).

One problem I ran into as a ruby guy was building gems that needed to link against a C lib. Part of the beauty of the Nix approach is that it isolates everything. The "proper" solution I guess would be to package gems as Nix packages, but it seems like there probably should be some way to let a utility know the proper build flags for a given lib.
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> I can't even imagine about what privacy is going to look like in 20 years, or how society will adapt to deal with it.

You might like the book "The Light of Other Days"!
>Its much more of a vital decision than what looks good (apple fans), its about what gets the most real work done.

Jeez, talk about responding to a fallacy with a fallacy...
They are going for the masses, but my mother complains to me about it (the compose experience). She's 60.

Don't get me started on the emails she loses in the Promotions tab.
I like the message but dear god that website looks like the Neopets store front I made when I was 10.
You would have to connect to WiFi, which is $8 (honestly worth it if you would use internet at all on flights over 2 hours).
So long as there is a line in the sand of privacy, assholes will figure out how to abuse it and make people miserable.

And there will always be a line in the sand somewhere, unless we completely abandon the very notion of privacy. It just so happens that line happens to be somewhere around "nudity" right now.

So don't get caught up in where the line is. For can you not picture the exact same story in Victorian times? "Oh, but if only we as a people were not so prudish, to be upset about an ankle..."
The article mentions the removal of the authentication step from the old bluetooth protocol, but mention then nothing about security of the new one.

What about the security considerations of letting unknown devices send data to your phone?
Two other pieces of information would be great here.

1) What is the URL in question.

2) When you click the 'why not' link what does it say?

The other (possibly not relevant) question is whether or not you have any Google advertising or not on your site. I'm not suggesting that there is a 'pay for play' here, what I'm looking at is that when you use 'AdsenseForContent' or (AfC) the only way Google can know what sort of ads would make sense on your page is to crawl them first. If you had AfC ads on your page and Google wasn't crawling them, then that would suggest that your URLs are black listed for some reason. At Blekko our crawler tries to avoid sites that are either patently malicious (they've got known exploits in their pages) or on a list of malware/childporn sites, or have complex page structures that don't involve recursive crawling loops.

What is the URL of your site?
Free Wifi is usually a benefit of being a frequent flyer. For Southwest, you need to be an A-List Preferred member (50 flights per year to qualify).
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