skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very good and worthwhile encapsulation of the major problems with the "nothing to hide" argument, but also with the externalities and emergent privacy-invasions that can occur with the aggregation of seemingly innocuous data. (See: the author's example about inferences that can be made from one's purchase histories.)

The other thing I'd add to this discussion is the question of what you're sharing with whom. The who of it all matters a great deal. Amazon collects a lot of data about my purchase history, for instance, and while the ramifications make me somewhat uncomfortable, I accept them. It's part of the shopping experience, and it's part of Amazon's business model. But take that purchase history out of context, and put it in the hands of someone looking for a very different set of inferences about me. A healthcare provider, for example, who can make startlingly precise inferences about my lifestyle and my likely state of health from my Amazon purchases. This scenario seems farfetched today. And I trust Amazon to be a reasonable steward of my information, and to maintain some sanctity over the context in which it's aggregated and analyzed. But I'm scattering plenty more breadcrumbs around the internet in my digital travels. I can only imagine the novel and ingenious ways they'll be used in the future -- for me, hopefully, but just as easily against me. It all depends on who's looking at my data, and for what purposes. Those people, and those purposes, might be very far removed from the people and purposes I'd originally envisioned when I'd shared my data. In most cases I can't really control that. That's what scares me.

Data context matters a great deal. So does the presumed aggregator of the data, and so do the presumed consumer(s) of that aggregation.

I think it's important to make this point to the general public, because the typical bogeymen (the NSA, Google, Facebook, etc.) don't really mean much to most people. When you conjure up the NSA, your average layperson will shrug and say "I have nothing to hide from them." Just mentioning the NSA brings up a fantastical frame of reference: a frame involving terrorists, leaks, Jack Bauer, and Edward Snowden. Most people, in that frame of reference, find it so far removed from their daily lives as to be almost comical. This breeds apathy. That apathy gets you the shrug and the dismissal. But conjure up a different frame of reference -- being denied health coverage because of purchase histories, or being turned down for a job because of image searches -- and people seem to get the idea.

We need to do a better job educating people about a) closer-to-home implications of privacy erosion, and b) examples of data, seemingly mundane, that can be aggregated to powerful effect. Yes, the big stuff matters. We should be making a big fuss about the NSA. But that's not the rhetorical starting point that's going to get Joe Sixpack to care. In some cases, it might even be counterproductive.
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I'm not the least bit an apologist for the UK government, but I don't believe it's true that they have installed thousands of security cameras watching our every move. Similarly, I have never seen an "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear!" banner anywhere here; but again, I can't claim that they don't exist. My anecdotal understanding is that almost all security cameras in the UK are privately owned and generally passively monitored (e.g., if there's a break in and the recording hasn't been overwritten, then that specific tape may be analysed).

Otherwise, of course, I stand by the sentiment that one has a right to privacy and the 'nothing to hide' argument is spurious.
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It persists partially because tech industry workers are especially susceptible to class confusion. That is, the startup culture stock option lottery deludes them into thinking they are a part of the ownership class rather than the working class. Thus, they allow basically all of the fruits of their labor to be stolen from them.

That, and powerful lobbyists keep anything from changing.
Not really surprising, considering how outdated their site was (visually, at least).

Edit: Users with accounts can migrate them to Twitch.TV here: http://link.twitch.tv/switchaccount
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My general impression, having seen the 'inside' of such processes, is that everyone would be better served by mandates around open data than continued interpretations and amendments around FOIA.

1.) The most common sort of requests (salary schedules, the outcomes of past competitive bid processes) are for information that could/should simply be public in the first place.

All this stuff can simply be published as part of a normal workflow rather than manually compiled on a per request basis.

2.) Compliance could be checked trivially via API rather than having to wait for failures to bubble up over time and potentially raise scandal.

3.) Proper funding could be allocated and structure put in place to build and maintain these services. As it is, there's a good chance any given request lands on the desk of some plebe who lacks the knowledge, tools and authority to handle the request correctly or efficiently.
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Right, because it's always that easy to just say "F U boss, I'm outa here!" Oh, wait, I have to feed my kid and pay the rent this month... oops.
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In California, computer professionals paid under ~$85k are required to be non-exempt (hourly) and should be paid overtime [1]

[1]: http://www.shrm.org/templatestools/hrqa/pages/california-min...
This seems to be C/C++ code. The article said that C and C++ were not type safe, so "doesn't seem to have any type errors" within C/C++ doesn't mean that it's type safe.

That said, the article did say that Java was type safe, and you can write that same expression in Java. I don't recall whether the result is undefined in Java.
From that list, workers with disabilities are also exempt?
This looks like a great concept. I would recommend changing the main photo to look a little more yummy and appetizing.

A couple of questions:
- Who develops the meals?
- How do you determine someone's nutrient needs?
- Where is the food prepared and by whom?
- Do you plan to sync with any wearables?
Can we contrive esoteric situations where this feature would fail spectacularly? Yes.

Do they matter in reality? No.

Make it an optional feature to be toggled with an interpreter flag. People like me can turn it on, you can keep it turned off.
It shine for business apps (aka: the most common of it).

Is more "batteries included" than python. You can do a full app with just Fox, because it include reporting, database, database designer, form builder, menu builder, OO, procedural, SQL, a really good grid. Seriously, I have only know of 2 great grid controls: The VFP one and the DevExpress for Delphi one.

Have a truly good grid was something damm useful. Manipulate data was easy, you could make a app only around the grid!

But all of this included.

And this could be made to work for the end user. So, your reports could be designed by a end-user. Or build forms. Or menus. Similar to lisp where everything are the "()" in fox everything was a table. A form? a table. A report? a table. A class? a table (if designed visually. You can make everything in text like a regular program too).

You can make dynamic the whole app if the developer learn to use the language fully.

Was also relatively easy to grasp. A power user could work on fox with a dozen of commands (and remember: The grid, like a excel spreadsheet, was enough for a lot of task), but in contrast with acces, you can "upgrade" the mess to be more professional.

Is simple for a programmer, too. My first programming class was with foxpro, and at the end of it we have made a FULL app with menus, forms, tables, reports and mini programs.

The closet thing today? Perhaps the django admin, but it is far less powerful and constrained.

The weak of fox was that MS prefer to push Acces (and both fight for the same kind of user), it neglect the DB engine pushing for sql server and, well, neglect the language.
Yep, most HN readers are probably exempt due to the "computer employee" exemption:

> Computer Employees: Those who work in computer-related occupations, for example computer systems analysts, computer programmers and computer software engineers, are exempt as long as their work involves a combination of primary duties that include applying systems analysis techniques and procedures, consulting with users to determine specifications, and designing, developing, analyzing, creating, testing and modifying computer systems and programs.

Edit: State laws sometimes offer more protection, e.g. California, for non-high salary professionals.
That's not too far from my own experience. I didn't get more than a quarter of the way into it my first two attempts.
Damn, this is clever. Nice job!
Hey, I've been learning iOS dev on my own since the beginning of the year, try these:

-Stanford's Developing iOS Apps Course (free on iTunes U)

-developer.apple.com (unpaid account), gives you access to plenty of code examples to learn from and programming guides

-check out raywenderlich.com, objc.io, nshipster.com to name a few

-stackoverflow

-youtube(!)

-and if you can gather a few bucks, I'd recommend Big Nerd Ranch guide for Objective-C and the iOS programming version too

-IRC

Good luck!

Edit: formatting
The surveillance state already has a tangible impact on political speech and the spread of ideas. Consider heated political banter between two individuals (who know each other fairly well) in private:

Person 1: "I really hate that Politician X lied about Y"

Person 2: "Yeah, he really deserves to die."

Person 2, though he's probably not thinking of killing Politician X, now has to think twice about saying this if it's over any wires.

But the intent of the message is to express extreme hatred for political hypocrisy, not to actually kill anyone.

The idea of destroying the government used to be a thing people could discuss in private, and while it rarely panned out to anything, it helped spread political ideas.

Now if people say these things in private, they are at serious risk of being targeted by the NSA or other agencies that have access to their communications.
That is insanity: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17e_compute...

The computer employee exemption does not include employees engaged in the manufacture or repair of computer hardware and related equipment. Employees whose work is highly dependent upon, or facilitated by, the use of computers and computer software programs (e.g., engineers, drafters and others skilled in computer-aided design software), but who are not primarily engaged in computer systems analysis and programming or other similarly skilled computer-related occupations identified in the primary duties test described above, are also not exempt under the computer employee exemption.

I worked at a major defense contractor as a mechanical engineer, and they worked really hard to make sure all of the engineers were classified as exempt. We filled out a questionnaire every year that was definitely crafted to proved that we were high level employees and therefore exempt. Yet they still paid OT anyway to avoid future liability, if you worked >45 hours a week, we got time and a half for every hour above 40. Considering most people worked ~50 hours a week, everyone collected OT every pay cycle. I actually funneled the OT off into a separate bank account for spending on vacation, it was that consistent.

Meanwhile OT for software engineers is seemingly non-existent for effectively the same job. I'd love to find out who got that loophole passed.
I guess we just use four-dimensional spacetime only when it's necessary and treat it as good old time-that-marches-on when we don't have to.
I found the next clause in that sentence - "and their managers" to be interesting. Wouldn't the managers be exempt?
My initial impression of this app is that it's a cool demo of OCR technology, but I'm not sure how useful it would actually be to blind people. How would they know if they are taking a good enough picture of the text in the first place? How do they even hit the button? I could see using one of the hardware buttons as a shutter could work, but I don't know if you can do that in iOS.

(Note: I'm neither blind nor an iOS user so I do not know how blind users use iOS. Please correct me if I am wrong.)
Ask HN: Cloud Open Source vs. Saas for a startup?
Trying to decide between using all cloud apps or open source:

option 1 (all cloud):

- AWS (Our app )

- CMS Wordpress.com

- Email/Doc Management (Google)

- Accouting (Xero)

- CRM (Solve360 CRM/Highrise CRM)

or option 2(open source):

- AWS (app/wordpress/roundcube/owncloud + civicrm/sugarcrm)

- Accouting - offline (quickbooks/GNUCash)

Or a hybrid (which it seems like what most people do). What do you think and what is your experience?
I guess this was inevitable after Twitch was acquired.
FBI exploits vulnerabilities in old versions of TorBrowser. Solution: only run latest version of TorBrowser.

Did I parse the article correctly?
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Well, "strict" might be a better name for your "strong".

I don't think it's any less precise a concept. Java type system is less strict than Haskell's, has similar "strictiness" to Python or Ruby (while quite different in static typing), and is more strict than C, or Perl.
I don't think "wanting money for profit" is "evil/bad", but the pharma industry has in the past done some arguably unethical things in relation to marketing.

Anyway, my point was that me being greedy is completely irrelevant. Even if I am, hypocrisy does not make one incorrect, and what does it have to do with the substance of my comment?
Sounds like Twitch is slimming down after Google buy. Smart move. Google cares about the demographics of Twitch a lot more, I'd imagine.
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Don't know about you, but if I have to work overtime it is because of bad planning.
Note that a bunch of the things on that list are exempt from that particular law because they are regulated specifically by a different law.

HR regulations, always fun!
A CD has a lot of overkill for basic speech. Doing a test here with some speech samples, 2kHz is ugly but intelligible, 1kHz is a mess but mostly understandable with effort, and 600Hz is almost useless for trying to find words (without any practice or computer assistance, of course).
Unfortunately, there is no legal difference between sharing with Amazon and sharing with the government, according to a regular commenter. This is because you cannot (apparently) have an expectation of privacy in things you share with a third party, unless it falls under specific exceptions.
Kind of sucks access to old videos is gone. I remember watching a lot of Arab spring and occupy wall street streams live as they happened on the site. It's a shame to lose those videos and the interesting historical info in them.
That's an exemption from the federal minimum wage (the "MW" next to it). It seems to be designed to encourage employers to hire disabled workers they might not otherwise employ, though I don't know whether it has positive effects in practice. It does have some provisions aimed at reducing abuse, such as requiring employers to first come up with an objective test of disability relative to the job in question (e.g. this person performs at 80% of the capacity of a typical non-disabled worker), then to determine the prevailing wage for non-disabled workers in similar jobs, and then to pay them no less than e.g. 0.8 x prevailing_wage, which can as a special exception to the minimum wage drop below the usual minimum-wage level.

PDF: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs39.pdf
Great work! Would you consider making some research to reveal what is the performance overhead? In my opinion that would bring some unique value you probably won't find elsewhere.
Well perhaps there's a bit of that, but perhaps the value add of a well researched and more personable site fits far better, but people are too often expecting choice as the number one driving force in their decision making process instead of being asked to make appropriate decisions on their own wishes.

For those people I suggest they consider their fundamental reason for taking a vacation in the first place.

I think the prevalence of aggregation on holiday sites is simply causality of these companies not having a clear direction for their business. After all, it's easy to aggregate everything with the money and time to do so. But where is the value add?
Is this strictly for books? Because audiobooks are a fairly well established way for the blind to read those. Does this work in any way with periodicals, webpages, and newspapers? They often have unpredictable layouts. Letting a blind person read the front page of the New York Times print edition would be a pretty great accomplishment.
Granted the consequences are almost aways greater for the pedestrian, but running someone over is very detrimental to the driver as well - there might be severe criminal or civil liabilities depending on where the accident takes place, among many other consequences
Why do so many European and UK based SaaS companies charge in USD only?
So let me get this straight: Breaking into other's computer systems to gain unauthorised access is only illegal/unethical for the little people - is that right?
You could see this coming when they gave everyone 7 days to back up their archives before they would be deleted. I'm sure most of their employable employees jumped ship since then.
I think even better is to have a subtraction that returns a different type, where you can't prove that a > b. Where you can, I don't know that I object to the compiler tracking such things, though I also don't actually use a dependently typed language.
Why choose this over audio-books and advanced TTS software? As qrazhan noted, it's very difficult (unnecessarily so) to use in the first place. (ie. electronics are already the way to go, why would you care about print versions vs. digital versions if you're blind? they all sound the same).

I wonder, is this something you yourself use? Are you blind? In which case, I'm sure you're aware that this is not how assistive software works. Sorry, I just don't get it.
the way you say that makes that series seem so long, but the dresden files books are really short.

wheel of time book length: 300.000 words. (series x 13 3.900.000)

Dresden Files book length: 100.000 words. (series x 26 2.600.000)

the wheel of time has an epic feel to it and the dresden files are really fun action books.
Why would they jump ship? Twitch.tv has been booming for the past couple years. If anything, they were just already moved to the twitch team.

This has little to do with the viability of the company/site and more to do with getting rid of what is basically a generalized, predecessor version of their already highly successful specialized streaming site.
I agree, and I think techies shoot themselves in the foot trying to thread the needle by demonizing government data collection while justifying data collection by tech companies. For the vast majority of people, the idea of companies sharing private information amongst each other is a lot more scary and concrete than invocations of 1984, etc. If you want people to be scared of government data collection, what will do it is the prospect of that date being shared with employers, credit card companies, etc.
Well put.

Steinbeck's "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quote also comes to mind here. It has far more broad application than merely as a suggested explanation for the failure of socialism to take root in America. I find it is a very useful shorthand to describe a great many interactions between labor and ownership in this country, whatever the industry.

The tech industry is especially bad in that regard. It's not just the startup culture; it's more general than that. Many programmers have serious ego issues (as in, big egos and unjustifiable arrogance) and, in a somewhat amusing and baffling way, believe very strongly in the notion that the software industry is a meritocracy.
Most stayed & most will get the benefit of the Google acquire =)
I've noticed something strange: no one who recommends that article wants to put the core argument in their own words.

Edit: never mind, I missed the second link, whose first comment has a good one (assuming it's faithful to the paper):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4958033
So let me get this straight: enforcement should be bound by exactly the same rules as citizens - am I correct?
This looks to me like a cultural problem, not only in the IT sector but in all sectors where high performance is a measurably inductor to profit. I hope this case sets a precedent and will lead to employees whistle-blowing organisations where overtime goes untracked and unpaid.

It's ridiculous that employees would work their guts out for companies that they don't hold significant shares in without receiving even normal hourly pay.
HUD navigation could be cool, but anything that takes attention from driving like showing text messages is a terrible idea and should be banned. Distracted driving is incredibly dangerous. Even hands free phone calls are distracting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safet...
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Well, you'd probably have to introduce a type such that every time you subtracted n from m you must prove that m is at least as big as n. Which would be a pain.

As usual, I really suggest playing with Agda or Idris to get a feel for what sophisticated types actually look and feel like.
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Wait, if you work overtime in the U.S. you do not get compensated for it?
To the extent that's true (IANAL), it's the kind of thing we need to be making the first issue of. That's all I'm saying. Bringing up "the government" takes a lot of people out of the argument from the outset. It turns them off. It prompts them, subconsciously, into the "I have nothing to hide" mindset. So instead, we should talk to them about what it means to share something with any third party, and what other third parties those guys can share your data with -- and what that could mean for you, in very practical terms, with proximate, real-world scenarios.
Why not do a single freelance project and live off the money? With the products you've built you can easily charge $100-150/h or more.
Google Glass app that reads what's in front of you?! O.O
Fantastic read, thank you
Not exactly... it's kind of like asking whether peeping into someone else's home at night is only illegal for the little people. For you and me, it's stalking. For a police force that has presented probable cause, evidence, etc to a judge and been awarded a search warrant or wiretap, it's normal investigative technique.
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FBI has, in one case where the exploit was spotted and made public (and they probably knew it would be, since it was deployed so widely), exploited an out-of-date version of TorBrowser. No guarantee that they don't use zero-days elsewhere or won't in the future.

This is why I think TorBrowser should switch to Chromium. Whatever you have to say about Google, Chromium is unambiguously more secure than Firefox.
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