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That was exactly my point, too. You shouldn't care about other people's rights just because it affects you. Then you are those people anyway. You should care when it doesn't affect you too.

For instance, you should care that the police is very brutal to black people, even if you are not black and the police acts much better around white people.

Also, he's wrong. It does affect him. All data is analyzed. That includes his data, too. He's just of the attitude that "as long as me or any member of my family which I care about never says anything too critical about the government for the rest of our lives, then we're all good".

In my opinion he's wrong that he'll never be critical of his government. Obama won't rule forever, even if he does like him, and I assume he'll witness at least a few other governments during the rest of his life. Chances are he will become critical of his government, especially if things turn much worse (as the trend is right now). What if the government intends to cut his social benefits? What if the government introduces mandatory army enlisting? And so on and so on. Nobody can stay "non-critical" of the government for too long.

It's also wrong because it's self-censorship: "If I keep my head down, nothing bad will happen to me." The problem is when most people think like that, that's how you end up with tyranny. When little opposition exists, those in power start abusing it.
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The difference has been hundreds of points since long before the merging of the writing test into the SAT. And yes, a 200 point difference is, and always has been, a large difference. I think the standard deviation is generally in the ballpark of 120 points.
> He's not a "person of interest" in these surveillance activities so it doesn't concern him; and it shouldn't.

But, despite not being a person of interest, he's still being surveilled. That should concern him.
The hacker will probably not strongly disagree with what has been said so far.
But he will ask the question, "So what?"
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They don't want road checks for drunk drivers but then
complain when a drunk driver kills someone. They don't
want license plate scans for criminals and drug trafficking
yet complain when they aren't caught.

I think the problem here is not that people don't want police to do those things, it's the belief that the power, once granted, will be abused. Drunk driving checks to catch drunk drivers are a good thing, but what about when a cop forces you out of your car because he didn't like your attitude? License plate scans are also good for catching criminals, but what about if the police store the data forever and tie it to personal IDs of people? Would you want the police to have a record forever of everywhere you've gone?

This is the problem with saying you have no need to. You assume you have already thought of every possible case when in fact, that's impossible to do. The most important part in the fight for personal privacy is in protecting the freedoms we have from potential abuse.
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Title VI, a federal law, prohibits discrimination by race in, most prominently for the present discussion, any federally funded university, which is substantially all of them due to how America does research budgets and federal student aid. Many universities are government institutions, and in the United States government cannot generally discriminate on the basis of race due to the Equal Protection clause of the US Constitution (in the 14th Amendment) and/or the Due Process clause (5th Amendment). Both are generally pretty toothy.

However, a contentious series of Supreme Court cases (Bakke, Gratz, Grutter) have held that universities are allowed to racially discriminate if they do so with the intention of achieving compelling educational interests and as long as their institutionalized racial discrimination is not a crass point system but rather a "holistic" evaluation of applicants which uses race as "one part of" the decisionmaking process.

Racial discrimination is pervasive at US selective universities, public and private. It is described as a minor, marginal policy, but all players understand that abandoning the formal racial discrimination policies would cause instantaneous hits to enrollment of favored racial minorities of roughly 50% or more, as has indeed happened when particular formal racial discrimination policies were found illegal. For example, the Gratz decision illegalized a points system used by the University of Michigan, where 100 points were required for admission and being a member of a favored racial group was worth 20 points. (For comparison: the best essay they received in a year was worth 3 points and winning a gold medal in the Olympics was worth 5. )

Some states have explicitly "No-we-really-mean-it-this-time" illegalized racial discrimination in public education, a policy which commands a supermajority of support with American voters. California is a prominent example. The universities threatened massive resistance. (That phrasing would be understood by educated Americans to be a grave insult. It is a callback to a particular phrase used by a Southern politician refusing to comply with federal laws prohibiting discrimination against racial minorities.) Enrollment by favored minority groups declined by roughly half. Over the same period, Asian enrollment (as a percentage) increased markedly and white enrollment was roughly constant or declining.
I use Tor and block third party requests by default for my random browsing. It's good enough.
REPL's seem to get a lot of love these days. Do they have any advantage over a step through debugger (other than startup time)?
I think there are more advantages in sticking to the "good and honest" method.

> You asked how much I make and because I’m a good and honest person, I told you. You then asked me what I wanted in salary which I also told you. My expectation is that because I disclosed my current compensation, as a good faith exchange you will offer me what I asked for...

...and if you act in obvious poor faith then this gives me great information about how your company will treat me, just at the exact moment when I need it.
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"Bad Runner", really?
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There are two types of security, Mossad and non-Mossad. Risk wise the latter is more important for average users and the former is unwinnable without unjustifiable difficulty.
One thing I strongly advise not to do: lie about your current salary. Why? If you get hired at the new company and it comes to light that you were dishonest about your old salary (via background check, verifying with your old employer etc), you may be in for a lot of trouble. Your new employer will most likely see this as unethical and raise questions about your professionalism in general.

What guarantee is there that the old employer would give out correct salary information for a former employee? Why does the author of the article assume that the employee is the only party that could potentially lie?

Person X leaves company Y, and her manager is not happy about the extra effort needed to fill her shoes. A month later, someone calls from company Z and asks how much X was making... Why would the disgruntled manager tell the truth?
That is not a good choice per se. If you use disqus you let some third party spy on your visitors, you give away content that belongs to your site to a random service and you require javascript for something as trivial as reading/writing comments. You might as well use Facebook or a random hosted service as your blog
Unfortunately ostich strategies wont make any difference. With the ever increasing quantity of laws and State power over the individual, the chances of you commiting a felony unkowingly are ever increasing by definition. And the State will have all your "metadata" to build up a case whenever they want.

Privacy is a form of Liberty, you loose one and the other will have its final countdown
No. Chattanooga has a slight competitive advantage because they needed the network in place for running a smart grid anyway, so it made sense to just roll out fiber at the same time as they rolled out electric lines, and become an ISP. Of course, I say that tongue in cheek, because there was no real competition in the area; all the big ISP players were indicating they had no plans to fully cover Chattanooga any time soon (they did, of course, immediately start lobbying against EPB).

The incumbent ISPs, on the other hand, have (well, had) state mandated protection against non-profit municipal ISPs, -and- had a huge amount of governmental funding to roll out broadband initially (using the 90s definition) giving them, effectively, a huge leg up against any would be competitors.
I know quite a few people who have admitted to shoplifting in their past, often regularly, and almost exclusively from their own employer. It was often a way to express dissatisfaction with the work, or to 'compensate' for low pay. And according to them, all of their colleagues did the same, and often involved their friends too.

As a teenager I worked at McDonalds for a year. We had pants without pockets, and I was told that this was primarily to keep employees from stealing.
My take on this problem is that most people here do in fact value their privacy and the fight for privacy. That's why Snowden articles rampaged this site for so long. However, the divide comes when the decision to actually change behavior arises.

We know what we can do for better online privacy:

- Use tor for all internet activity
- Pay cash for everything; do not own any credit cards,
or use a service like Blur
- Bank only with banks that don't share our data
- Don't use a modern smartphone
- Use PGP for all email

The list goes on and on, but who here does any of these things? Who wants to sacrifice the convenience of paying with a credit card online and managing their banking with Mint? The threat of privacy violations is not real to many people right now. They either can't or don't extrapolate the ramifications of losing their privacy in the future, or don't weigh the imposing risk as high enough to alter behavior.

Have I changed the way I conduct myself online? Absolutely. I do four of the five things I listed above but I could never imagine a small percentage, let alone a vast majority of people implementing them in their day to day lives. That's the core of the problem that we need to solve first.
Reality is that there is plenty of people willing to stay plugged into The Matrix
Just wondering if people would be interested in a call back / data flow visualization for their entire application ? Would it be helpful ? Are there people looking for something like that ?
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Interesting theme on despair. I think it goes a little deeper - perhaps people feel disenfranchised by establishment politics as well. It gets worse if you assume Teleco A-Z are always watching; you could go the Tor route or GPG or Wickr or Telegram - but ultimately the level of espionage being carried out and for so long makes you wonder if any of the privacy solutions are for real. Sounds a bit paranoid but as we've seen the onion peeled back by Snowden it is quite clear.

I can imagine some will feel censored to a degree. There is some stigma to knowing about privacy and technology. Try talking to a lamen even casually and you might as well be wearing a tin foil hat. Even @moxie's recent thread on HN echoes that.
Previous discussion from the last time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313702.

We have since gotten new problems and a few new features (such as a newsletter to announce new contests).
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So a few people have moved to a few different services that provide more privacy.

The truth is that the King has always been able to have anything intercepted ever since the first letter was written. Way before 9/11 GCHQ/NSA had things pretty covered and they certainly had capabilities to fully bug anyone of actual interest. You know these people even have your school reports if they want to dig back that far?

What has changed is that one can talk about security matters without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. That is about it for me.
It's 5+ years old. I've been using it since at least the late 2000s.
I ditched my phone about a year ago. This works for me because I use hangouts for all calls and texts, but I'm not sure if this actually gives me more privacy - now I just have my communication routed through google instead of verizon.
Regardless I love that I ditched the phone. Beyond privacy, spyPhones are a scam.
I changed some stuff, but it was when the reports came, not because of the movie.

My changes:

- Don't use gmail for private email. Self hosted it instead.

- Switched to Firefox (from Chrome), changed my addons (https everywhere, privacy badger and mublock).

- Deleted my facebook account.

- Tried to get my friends to use a self-hosted irc server + mumble instead of skype - but that didn't last for long sadly.

- Changed from google to duckduckgo, but I'm constantly using the !g command anyway.

Sigh. I don't think any of this matters much anyway.
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He deserves to be (at least as much as Jobs or Gates). A lot of the internet uses his software
Methinks, you forgot to add the link to the content. Correct?
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Down vote? That was a legit answer. I'm not saying one is cool or not but that document reads like a contrived C# sell sheet for anyone considering Swift.
> ...don't we also believe in a global workforce?

Tell that to the national governments that make it difficult for me, as an American, to move to their countries. We've got tons of treaties that require free movement of goods and capital but, very interestingly, I think, few that deal with the movement of people (labor) and almost none that make it an easy process (I realize there are zones where this is possible, such as in the EU, I'm speaking as an American).

> Is the implicit argument we should have a different system to allow a greater supply of tech immigrants but with a more flexible visa, maybe even grant residency status thus eliminating this kind of soft exploitation?

I, personally, would prefer a system of multi-lateral "free labor" agreements. If the US wants to let in workers from country A, then those workers should be 100% free to come to the US and work, no strings attached, no industry preferences, nothing. BUT, the same should also be true for US workers who wish to go to country A, otherwise, no deal.

This would create a truly more fluid workforce and, unlike with H1B, would benefit everyone instead of a few big companies and the handful of workers they bring in each year (while hurting everyone else).
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A phone's native location capabilities (as they are currently) are limited to GPS pretty much - which is often insufficient for figuring out if a customer is inside the JC Penny or Macy's in a large shopping mall

Even better (for stores), they want to be able to see if you are walking past the Men's Shirts section and perhaps send you a notification that the specific shirt you were looking for in the past is now on sale - thus individualized local content!

For more, see things like Estimote:
http://estimote.com/
As someone who has used xfce 4.10 before switching to i3, I am very impressed of the progress the Xfce team has made, especially UI improvements. They are consistently picking up the latest good designs and implementing them in their simple, no-bullshit manner. Great job!
No, the problem is that when nerds come to the party, the party is despoiled by them. It's not a nerd problem, it's a party problem.
Citizenfour is suspiciously well produced. And Edward Snowden is extremelly good. This all is probably the stage in which we realise of this and all is simply going according to the agenda.

"THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society consti- tute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smooth- ly functioning society." ~ Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda (1928), Chapter 1 - Organizing the Chaos
Again, wrong. Nerd culture has no misogynistic dark side. But women have a very anti-nerd dark side.
I started using MEGAsync instead of Dropbox. As a non-american I think this is one of the few ways I might be able to change things. Maybe the recent pressure from payment processors means that it works?
I think the point is to take the high ground in all cases. There's some old saying about telling the truth being a stateless transaction, ie you don't have to remember what BS you told.
While the article correctly describes the basic situation, not all of the advice presented at the end is good (unless you are a really strong candidate).

Especially the "Don’t give a hard number when asked what you want." is a red flag for many hiring managers and they usually interpret such reaction against the candidate, for example: "He's indecisive, doesn't know what he wants, doesn't know his value" and similar over-interpretations.

I'd say it's much better for the candidate to anchor the number a bit above his expectations and lead the real negotiations from there.
This repo just uses http://eval.in

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Ask HN: Which cross browser bookmark sync tool do you use?
I use chrome, firefox and safari during my day.

Managing my bookmarks across them it's pretty hard!

Do you know any sync tool that can handle bookmarks from those three browsers and make them synchronized?
I've always browsed in a sandbox only, since the revelations however I also bought a couple of vps and now tunnel my traffic through one of the servers. This is a very cheap measure, 15$ a month, that probably increases your privacy but also attracts more attention to yourself. A more inconspicuous solution is probably a public vpn service, but those servers are not under your control and you won't be able to make sure that the service does what the advertisements promise.

I don't bother much with email encryption or pgp, I've written down email as a loss in the privacy department and don't bother with trying/hoping my emails are private. So my gmail/hotmail/yahoo inboxes are for fluffy stuff only that doesn't really matter.

Mostly if I need to securely communicate with someone it will be on a private irc server where everybody has his/her own certificates and I can check to see if the server is untouched etc.
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Is there a particular covert agenda that you see Citizenfour as promoting?
It's also broken in Chrome v40
Dispersing your activity around several different services is surely better than just using a one-stop-shop or all in one solution?
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recursive link?... :)
Ok, but what's causing overeating? Viewing human behaviour as a sole function of free will is reductionist at least.
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Snake oil sells almost as much as sex does, unfortunately.
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Racial discrimination, neatly quantified: "Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth. She points to the first column. African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says. She points to the second column. “Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.” The last column draws gasps. Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission."
Capitalism in general lends itself to institutionalized repression of the minority, and I don't claim to have a solution to that. My gut tells me that the government forcing private business is not always the right answer (though it sometimes is; I'm not anti-regulation in general). Perhaps my gut is wrong, because I can't come up with a higher-level solution.
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Lying about your previous salary as part of negotiation is fraud. Don't do it. Use other techniques to negotiate a higher salary.
>In other words, would we care if Bangladeshis or Siberian Russians displaced Walmart, or farm workers? Probably not. We'd say, yay, more and cheaper products... but as soon as that workforce threatens tech --uh-oh, no, we can't have that. Immigration bad.

Is that suspect? I'm neither for nor against immigration in principle: I'm just seeking to optimize outcomes for me and my in-group.

We have a bias against people acting in their own interests when they have a public trust to act for the good of all. An ethical governor would ignore the fact that his family lives in a certain town when trying to decide where to put the new state prison.

But citizens of a country are under no such trust. It may not make Mexicans particularly happy that we have a giant fence down south, but this is not a betrayal. Foreign nationals are fellow human beings and it's great if I can help them, but I'm not under obligation to do so at the cost of my own or my neighbor's economic well-being.
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The correct course of action, therefore, is to decline to give your current salary. The article is correct, at least in my recent experience: indicate that your current salary isn't relevant, and say what you want to make. They'll come back with a counter-offer which you can then choose to take or leave. It helps to be willing to leave it.
It is highly upvoted because many people have found it useful. Contrary to your question, it's a question with many uses.

>That's not covered many other places? (...)
>There's probably 100x more C# information than elisp on the internet.

So what?
I guess it is the Parole media player one, due to lack of decoders on OpenBSD. The lack of decoders is purely my speculation, so it's likely wrong.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

—Martin Niemöller
This is a zero sum game to some extend: employers will prefer to hire beautiful people even if they're less proficient than social misfits. On average and a grand scale, this is catastrophic.
I would usw tab instead of space, so everyone can adjust their indentation width.
Why didn't you ask that question, then?

A general concept with many uses is useful for many, and would have stayed.