skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy is impossible for me to implement alone, because I'm just one guy in a room, not able to resist a nation state.

But it doesn't have to be that way. What if there was an organisation - let's call them "the NSA" or "GCHQ," whose mission was to ensure the privacy of its citizens?

Then we'd get better encryption, stronger tools and we'd have a nation-state on our side fighting all the others.

All it takes is a change in the politics.
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Thanks! Probably the best collection of SaaS related articles I've seen on the internet.
That is the business version of the Nuremberg defense.
22 year old working in firmware department of major silicon IP company here (you can probably guess who - obviously standard disclaimer about I don't represent them).

My company selling IP rather than hardware makes it a bit easier, but: management is realistic and reasonably versatile. Attitude to proper technologies (e.g. using Github instead of releasing tar bombs over FTP) is good. Documentation is good, bar "don't document that or we will be sued" situations, which are too common. Testing sucks in certain areas but is good in most.

Obviously at my age I don't have much experience, but I thought the alternative view might be nice.
Well, that's eye-opening. So the rot seems to have reached materials science?
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Like… the shareholders would not agree to that?
playful engagement can also be useful or even important. I think open-mindedness is more important here: you need to be able to absorb new concepts and accept experience into your action during the practice. I think that's why people with autism (looking at it through the Intense World glasses) can learn some things really fast, although they don't intentionally train certain things.
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This case is a beautiful demonstration of the dynamics of both "free market" and regulation. Free market dynamics demand (in this case as in all cases) that large players must never compete on prices or wages (as your competitors have the resources to fight back, so competition on price just makes everyone worse off). On the other hand, regulation was used both to stop an exploitation by the market (antitrust), as well as a tool wielded by capitalists to strengthen their stranglehold (patents).

It is perhaps worth reminding that the interplay between regulators and the market, and their co-evolution, have taken a different historical path than in Europe. While in Europe big government preceded laissez-faire, or at least, evolved hand-in-hand, the US was largely unregulated for many years. The result was that Ayn Randian titans took control of pretty much all power in the US, advancing the "economy" but at the same time practically enslaving the population. It was after many years of cries for help by the American people, and a long struggle led largely by the press, that Teddy Roosevelt was able to strengthen the government, wrestle back some power, and save the people from feudalist oppression.

Ironically, many Americans forgot what the US looked like when the government was powerless, and the market was allowed to roam free. People like Ayn Rand, who sadly came to the US just as the wheel was turning, didn't see the suffering that their romantic fantasies had brought about when playing out in the real world.

Obviously, as patent law demonstrates, regulation can be (and is) abused by capitalists. As the world changes, power shifts, and players adapt new strategies in this constant power struggle, both the market and regulation need to evolve hand-on-hand. The big question is what will play the role the press once played in exposing the workings of the intricate system of interests that is the economy?
You should not attempt to make this sale.

Serious companies will not pay you in Bitcoin. Serious companies disproportionately can actually attempt to pay market rates for engineering services. Signaling desire to be paid in Bitcoin tells serious companies "I do not wish to do business with serious companies." and, while it won't convince them to pay you in Bitcoin since no power under earth or heaven will do that, it might convince their decisionmakers to go with someone who is not a joker for their professional services. This will cause you to systematically get paid far below-market rates for your services.

Why won't serious companies pay you in Bitcoin? Let us count the reasons:

1) Why should they? They already have a bank account, which can issue checks and wires. This is what they use to pay substantially everyone.

2) They have layers of processes and scar tissue built up around payments, precisely to make sure that something like "And then the bookkeeper looted 80% of our assets without us knowing it" could never happen. None of these processes contemplate Bitcoin. They're the bones and sinews of the company. You will not succeed in changing them from the outside. As tptacek how likely you are to even alter fairly inconsequential details of a large company's procurement process, like how long it takes them to physically issue a physical check which all parties know only actually takes a minute of typing and Ctrl-P to create.

3) Serious companies have serious professional advisors like lawyers and accountants, and serious professional advisors are very risk adverse. They're going to come up with all sorts of perfectly serious reasons why issuing payments in Bitcoin is a high-risk low-reward activity. For instance, in Japan, you need to keep your books in yen. That's non-negotiable. Even if the numbers you use for management of the company in something really exotic like dollars, the official books must be in yen, and the National Tax Agency will occasionally ask you for line-by-line justifications. Your accountant is going to hear "Bitcoin transaction" and start trying to fit that into double-entered yen based bookkeeping, and if he actually understands what Bitcoin is doing, he's going to say "This sounds like a whole heck of a lot of work. Why don't we just pay them via wire transfer like we always do? Also, I'm having difficulty valuing 100 BTC for the purpose of paying withholding taxes on our payment to him. I sort of don't want to lose my license for assisting with tax evasion -- can we please pay with a wire transfer?"

If you desire to speculate in Bitcoin, you can acquire it in the same fashion as you buy Magic Cards, Beanie Babies, or shares in Google: get paid in dollars, then buy the thing from people who sell it for dollars. (I would feel negligent if I did not say "But you should not speculate in Bitcoin.")
Well it is a bursty workload, depending when people commit, so some spillage into public cloud probably makes sense, with base levels on private infrastructure. But they do say they intend to do most in house.
Food Crises and Political Instability in N. Africa and Middle East (2011) [pdf]
"If you are able to charge your car via power you generate [...] During outages [...]"

What outages? If every house is self-supporting, I can think of few disasters that would simultaneously kill all those power sources, and those likely would kill your house and you, too.
It's over, isn't it?

No. It is not.

Simply because something is technically possible doesn't mean that it must happen.

Simply because a thing does happen doesn't mean it must be allowed.

Legal protections can be created. Governments and corporations can be legally obliged to turn over or destroy records. Failure to do so can be subject to audits. The operating presumption is that the surveillance is happening, which should oblige a tremendous benefit of the doubt to anyone challenging or refusing such surveillance.

At another level: surveillance countermeasures will become more prevalent and effective. Small-scale tools such as data fuzzers (running a constant set of quasi-random Internet searches and traffic from your IP, generating white noise to frustrate microphones, laser-blinding cameras, whatever). If you've read Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, the nanobot wars he describes are likely to become a reality -- your own personal defense devices seeking out and destroying surveillance bots. People realizing that a principle of least privilege and of least capability should apply to technologies: "smart paper" may be nifty and keen, but one of the advantages of plain old dumb paper is that it's not electronic, and doesn't have arbitrary programmatic capabilities. When we've got a record of microprocessor bugs being placed in electric teakettles and irons, the benefits of solid cast-iron cookware or other dumb-as-rocks tools are clear.

http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-accuses-china-spying-imported-...

At the government level, pushing back against elected officials (hey, California, when are you going to dump DiFi?). Massive lawsuits against corporate spies can have similar chilling effects on them, as well as loss-of-business. There remains considerable power in collective action, so long as people are willing to use it.
When I started working on my thesis, I immediately set up my entire document directory for it to be in Dropbox. At the time I paid extra for versioning but now I think it'd built into even the basic model. This also saved my friend when she was in writeup and someone stole her Macbook.
I would not be drinking to de-stress, as per the football manager.
What is the danger of inserting and browsing an untrusted USB drive?
Free as in speech, free as in beer, free as in-app
There's a clear definition of what is free software:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

The EU should not invent its own.
Well, one of the best examples of "practice leads to excellence" is given by the story of Lazlo Polgar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

> László is an expert on chess theory and owns over 10,000 chess books. He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born". Before he had any children, he wrote a book entitled Bring Up Genius!, and sought a wife to help him carry out his experiment. He found one in Klara, a schoolteacher, who lived in a Hungarian-speaking enclave in Ukraine. He married her in the USSR and brought her to Hungary. He home-schooled their three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players.

Their three daughters:

Sofia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zs%C3%B3fia_Polg%C3%A1r

> In 1989, at the age of 14, she stunned the chess world by her performance in a tournament in Rome, which became known as the "Sack of Rome". She won the tournament, which included several strong grandmasters, with a score of 8½ out of 9. According to the Chessmetrics rating system, her performance rating was 2735;[3] one of the strongest performances in history by a 14-year-old.

Susan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar

> On the July 1984 FIDE Rating List, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked woman player in the world, and remained ranked in the top three for the next 23 years. She was also the first woman in history to break the gender barrier by qualifying for the 1986 "Men's" World Championship

And Judit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

> Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person to do so until then.
A strike involves work stoppage, it's a very different tactic than mass resignation.

In 1999, Major League Umpires Association (MLUA) were not able to legally go strike so they opted to use mass resignation as their negotiation strategy. It backfired, cost 22 umpires their careers and led to decertification of the union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Major_League_Umpires_Assoc...
I'm sorry but that article neglects any mention of court opinions (many of which I have read, as has any law student) which interpret the law and say otherwise.
Hard to separate nature from nurture when you school your kids on your own area of expertise. Had he tried to make them into expert musicians or downhill skiers, his experiment might have more weight.
Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put together a good sentense.

Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.
if you are from Oregon what makes you so competent about Italian problems? The fact that you haven taken a look at a bunch of articles posted on the internet? Or rather do you have some Italian relatives or have you attempted to start a business in Italy? Because a positive answer to this last question is the only one I would accept. I am offended because I feel that there is a strong judgmental sentiment towards Italy by people and media especially in the UK ( but also in the US) that is alimented only by superficiality.
The skill levels are more disparate in intro classes too.
Hmm, how about display TCP payload only, capture SSL without ssldump, filter packets by process id?
Due to recent events the government has maneuvered itself in a situation where any rumor of misbehavior has become a realistic expectation.

Even forms of denial are most likely worded by an army of lawyers leaving it pretty much open like a lyrical poem where you have to put in much guesswork to figure out potential "true" meanings thereof.
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I think that deliberate practice is both better and worse than actual practice; you need both.
Hidden behind an extra click? Okay I'll bite. I'm on my phone, but that's fair as most people would be as wee I imagine.

Let's see. Game section, and the top free game I see is Disco Zoo. It's advertised as free. It's described as best new game.

Tap.

Okay, let's see, still free. Swipey Swipey swipe. Pretty pictures, Game Center, and oh look! IAP. But yres, I need to tsp to see those prices.

I wonder..,

So yeah, it's battleship meets zoos. You earn gold in game and use that to fund your battle shipping excursions. I guess if I'm impatient I can just buy more gold. Yep.

Yes yes, I see your point! The game is clearly not free! I have to buy that gold instead of playing the game.

Thank god the EU is there to tackle the horrors of Disco Zoo.

Seriously, the only dishonesty here are the people claims of suffering from this.
I think Tim Cook is ready for a run for Congress. It's classic politician - "we're doing the right thing, and we're not going to disclose to you how much it costs you to do it, because it's the right thing, and if you don't like this just STFU and GTFO". Indeed, what the gall has the shareholder to ask the executive how much the policy costs him! One should soundly reject this novel and outrageous concept of executives reporting to shareholders the actual results of their pet policies. The less shareholders know, the better. Especially when it comes to the question if the decisions taken by the management rely on public subsidies - shareholders don't need to know if their wellbeing depends on taxpayer-funded handouts, that would only disturb them. Just trust the Supreme Leader, he's doing the right thing.
I asked about and then proposed what you call a data fuzzer about 3 years ago. Instead of not using Facebook, get your computer to use it when you're not and muddy the data collected on you. Friends would know the relevant period to ignore. Same with other sites where user content is allowed.

I haven't actually seen a "consumer" data fuzzer though outside of Twitter and Twitch bots.
The complicated part is owners who try for higher ROI buy shares away from holders with lower expectations. This is a challenge for capitalism as it encourages Tragedy of the Commons.
Story doesn't match headline.
People said that about PvZ2, so yeah. People aren't a good barometer for these sorts of things. No wonder they fool themselves into ignoring price tags on things.
No, but to draw an analogy that is actually vaguely close to what we're discussing, if some people behave in way X, which is not good for them, or for wider society, we need legislation allowing them to avoid behaving in way X. Yes, that example is exaggerated in the opposite direction from, but far less than, yours.
10,000 hours (or thereabouts) of practice is one prerequisite. But you have to practice the right things. And for most people that means there needs to be some structure to their practice, some feedback from existing experts. Otherwise, how will you know what needs improvement or re-adjustment.

In the fantastic book "Lessons on the Fundamentals of Go", Toshiro Kageyama addresses this very topic in the introduction saying, "Of course one cannot make progress in any discipline without effort. 'There is no pleasure without pain.' Pleasure is progress, and pain the pain of effort. Study in the wrong way, however, and the result may be just pain with no pleasure at all. One must, without fail, learn the correct way to study."
"We have lost Bitcoins" != "All the Bitcoins are gone". Headline doesn't match actual quote -- BI are editorializing.
Right... that's not going to trick us into advertising on Reddit again, which is one of the biggest wastes of ad dollars out there. You couldn't sell Makeup to the /r/makeup forum. They just don't click on ads, let alone buy anything. We joked about how you're probably better off advertising on a gay porn blog. I actually tried it. And I got more sales than on Reddit. I've tried 3 separate times and all three were wastes, I've read articles about others trying and they found it to be a waste as well.

They're doing this to try to get their (often stereotyped as snarky and condescending) users to click on ads for the "good of the world". It won't matter because their audience's clicks don't convert into sales.
This move is so people on Reddit stop using ad blockers, which is clearly effecting their bottom line.

I don't think it will work, since Reddit already uses non-intrusive ads and the majority of people block ads on principal alone.

Users don't want ads (because it's somehow intruding on your space), nobody would be willing to pay for the site, and Reddit gold was seen as class warfare (haves and have nots).

Anything that even seems like Reddit wants to bring in money is shunned immediately by the user base.

Like most anti-capitalist Utopian groups, it's doomed.
You might want to switch to decaff. You're being a bit of a dick.

In the EU the price you see is the price you pay. Weights and measures are standardised so people can compare proces across different stores.

In the US the price you see is less than the price you pay. You add sales tax. That makes it harder to compare prices.

The problem isn't that apps cost money nor that they offer IAPs. The problem is the lack of tranparency with apps. This means that good quality apps with honest procing are penalised by lower quality apps that hide the cost in IAPs but describe themselves as free.

You only need to look at the App Store to see how dysfunctional the current system is.

I realy don't know why you are so aggressively dismissive of something that would allow developers to advertise their software at a sensible real cost and not have to compete with shitty "free" apps that hide the cost in IAPs.
Does this disprove your implicit point though? The problem is any position which doesn't cost a lot is attracting way too many people for the amount of possible work.

Meanwhile, the expensive parts - i.e. all the applied physics needed to prove or disprove theoretical physics, is not receiving appropriate funding.
If Tim Cook would actually say "yes, our green energy project has costed us N dollars so far, and it is a good thing because that's what we do and because government actually pays us back M dollars of it with that sweet taxpayer money" - that would be free market. Well, except for the taxpayer money part, but that's hardly Tim Cook's fault. Instead, no actual information was given, and people asking wrong questions were told to shut up or get out of the investment. I'm not an Apple shareholder (except as part of broad index funds) and probably never will be, but if I were, I'd like my executive to be more open and ready to answer hard questions than that. Of course, the swooning of people who had their cause supported would probably bring Cook much more in feel-good PR than actual transparency would bring him. So, the irony is he's probably doing what's good for the ROI, but not in the way his fanboys may think or like.
The EU isn't defining "free software" they are defining the permissible uses of the word "free" in advertising. This has nothing to do with software per se: if someone were to sell an orange for "free" but after eating the first two segments you had to pay more to get at the other segments then the exact same regulators would be getting involved.
Ah yes, the Diver philosophy. Let me get right on that. Anyone else want to work a fourth of the year?
>I have the same problem. I've spent the last few years tied into the Microsoft ecosystem. Decided to move to the Mac as I got a hand me down MacBook Pro. About 9 months in now, I'm pretty stuck. With respect to liberating data from the ecosystem, it's pretty hard. It's also pretty hard to escape the interoperability problems. For example, I've become dependent on AirPlay, iCloud, iWork formats, iPads and associated apps as well as all the extra metadata I've meticulously pumped into iTunes that it doesn't update the files with.

So how exactly are you "stuck"? I've used Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and (for the last several years) OS X, and I have no issues moving between those. And I'm a pretty hardcore user, also using stuff like Logic and Final Cut Pro.

You can easily export your iPhoto photos, you can sync your calendard with Google, you can save your Pages documents in .docx or rtf format, etc. And you can easily move mails.

As for iTunes, given that you really "need" those metadata (which is usually superfluous stuff, like people spending eons tagging their music collection and less time actually enjoying the music), the solution is quite simple for a hacker: write, or get (there are some on the internet) an Applescript that writes those metadata to the mp3 tags.

There also several third party apps to help with that stuff (I usually do it manually or with small scripts I write).

It's funny how some people say that "most of the stuff they do is in the cloud now" and then others complain how they are locked in with some platform.

Of course, if you wanted ultimate flexibility in moving between Windows and Mac, you could always have run something like MS Office or OpenOffice on your Mac, checked your emails with Thunderbird, used Lightroom or something similar for your photos, Vox or something similar as your music player, Chrome or Firefox for browsing and such.

Integration, though, involves some loss of flexibility. If OSes and apps were designed with the concept of moving stuff to another OS/app at anytime as a priority, then they would only catter to the lowest common denominator.
I was working as a City Planner and an elderly black man was sitting in the visitor chair across the desk and looking out the window. He'd come there so I could say "no". He wasn't a first time developer. He'd known he'd get no when he'd been sent to the office with my desk. That's why he hadn't come there first and now that we'd gone through the motions and. the anticipated "no" had been said he asked if I fished.

A little. I like to take my son.

You will never regret a moment spent fishing with him.

I'm not waxing wistful for my childhood or for one I didn't have,. I'm waxing wistful for my first years as a parent and for the things I did and wish I had done more
Every new C# version there is less reason to switch to F#. I have considered it multiple times but sacrificing ReSharper would be too much of a trade off for what F# is offering.
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