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He was communicating out of band to unknown parties that his communications are being monitored.

"If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines?" This question does: - Identify terms you don’t understand - Ask questions wher…

Looks like he's got another potential gem here: http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models/

We don't seem to hear much about 0xdata on hn.

> The problem with a cashless society is that if all payments are tracked or controlled by a third party Problem for you but imho one of the key motivations for getting rid of cash…

I was just musing earlier today on what if IEC, IEEE, IETF, ACM, leading schools, etc., came out and drew the red lines of what engineers are willing and are unwilling to do. That'…

I guess this is a whimsical aside/ I looked that up and got this sample of that book: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/CS5860/2011fa/documents/Gr... Looking up Stepanov's book, la…

It's a great question. Reminds me of Uber and its new policy of monitoring location of customers few minutes after drop off "to improve service". It is also true that if Alexa was …

I can not agree with applicability of that aphorism in this case. We have had a very vocal feedback loop of raising issues ("stupidity", "misunderstandings", "neglect") with OP con…

> Its like the technologist handed STASI their wet dream while trying to improve the world... The error here is assuming that for all technologists "[handing] STASI their wet dream…

That is true and that makes GM just another intelligence asset then (like the rest of the entertainment business).

>> runs the function on each item in the original collection and inserts each return value into the new collection. some poor schmuck new to FP will come around, read that and scra…

> the lawyer-fixer and humanitarian Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn the humanitarian. Funny. That should tell you all you need to know about the Mr. Singer and the New Yorker.