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LinkedIn is a great example of how your platform can be useful to people in spite of a horrible UI, bad infrastructure, and grossly inconsistent user experience.

I swear the amount of times I wasn't sure if I actually accepted or sent a connection request is way too high. The endorsements are begging to be rigged, and the website is absolutely dismal in terms of social functionality - it pales in comparison to almost every other social media platform.

The only reason it's still popular is because it doesn't need to be any better to do the one thing it does best, which is to be a search engine for recruiters.

That all being said, I maintain an active linkedin profile and I use it regularly.

It's usually that the results are different, not better necessarily. I've done the reverse too; where I start with !g and then used DDG because I was unhappy with the results

My bro, it's truly an honor to have my first HN comment stalker. I feel like I finally made it

Right, bro? That's what I'm saying. Misinformation is no bueno

I actually switched back to DuckDuckGo because I've found it's a better way to use Google than google.com

The cheat sheets and the bang commands are awesome. The no tracking by default is obviously a great benefit.

When the results are not as good, or I have a feeling Google will do it better, I just prefix with !g in the search bar and with no additional hassle I have myself a Google search.

My search engine life has never been this good.

I'm not sure where you can justify inferring that extra information. From what you've described, the context simply doesn't exist outside of your mind.

I can think of several areas where Java support for tooling is unobviously superior when compared to C++.

The SDK for the Arduino is good example, so is the Unreal game engine, the tooling support in Xcode for iPhone Apps, the support for static analysis via Clang, the auto formatting support via clang-format, the support in Windows eith Visual Studio, the support for autocompletion in UNIX text editors such as Vim and Emacs with the YouCompleteMe daemon and client (which leverages clang).

So if Java is an example of superior tooling, it's not really an "obvious" one

For an international corporation, in a global economy, a government is just another customer. They can and will sue, like an upset customer can, but will anyone go to jail for this?

I'm actually not sure. The significant difference here, between the US government and any other government, is certainly a valid one. This is the government that oversees the country where their headquarters are located. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

I have no doubt we are witnessing an event that will have an insurmountable influence on legal systems across the globe. Either way, a significant precedent is being set here.

> He also doesn't believe the Snowden leaks, and thinks that when it comes to the pursuit of justice, the government should be trusted with everything.

Not believing the Snowden leaks is akin to denying the Holocaust IMO.

It's completley delusional to reject the validity of empirical evidence on the basis that it does not align with your preferred political narrative.

Me either. Media is definitely not my use case. I'm running FreeBSD in a VM on top of OS X as a host anyways, so graphics support is likely more stable for me for that reason.

I think Lumina is looking really promising, though. I recommend giving it a try if you have the time.

I'm curious, what languages have better support for tooling than C++?

> Python and Go

> 99% of the cases is fast enough

This claim is unsubstantiated hyperbole.

> The reason they are dark corners is because they don't come up in real code.

Thank you!

It's amazing how much FUD is spread using examples that would never pass code review! (or even be submitted to code review unless you were playing a prank on your coworkers).

> Edit: I'm also playing around with FreeBSD for my development environment, since I can use Mate on there. To be honest, I don't really need a DE these days anyway, since I only use terminal and a web browser. I should look into just using a Windows Manager.

FreeBSD has good support for DEs with XFCE and Lumina, anyways. At least I've never had a problem.

> But investigators can get access to basements, cars, knives and guns and use them to solve the crime. In this case, post-crime, there is no way to gather information that could be important.

Which is irrelevant to how these individual items are used to actually prevent the crime from being solved.

While encryption prevents access to information that may or may not be useful, guns are used to kill witnesses that are never found, shovels are used to burry bodies that take decades to find, cars are impounded or destroyed after a getaway, I could go on. Often enough, even if any of these items are found, it doesn't help solve the crime because the criminal was simply too smart.

I fail to see why encryption is being treated differently than any other legal thing we, as free and innocent citizens, have access to. The cynic in me believes the only actual difference is in the level of familiarity the majority of the voting population has with this particular legal thing. They seem to have, unfortunately, been misinformed and poorly educated about this issue and technology in general.

> encryption in the wrong hands can also have terrible consequences.

So can literally anything in the wrong hands, though.

Encryption is either secure or it isn't. You can't have a middle ground. It's unfortunate that under rare, and very particular circumstances criminals can perhaps evade crimes because they have access encryption, but it's also unfortunate that they can get away with crimes because they have access to guns, knives, vaults, cars, basements, gasoline, matches, duck tape, chain saws, shovels, etc...

Yet we don't cripple the effectiveness of these items for the sake of preventing crime. Doing so would only harm the quality of lives of the vast majority of innocent people who we trust to use these thing for their own benefit as free citizitens of a free country.

> Look at history. The encryption the Nazis had created helped them commit terrible acts of war and it was the backdoor the Allies discovered that helped bring justice to them.

Are you suggesting the Nazi's were the only ones to use encryption during World War II?

You forgot to mention at least 9 other nations (including the USA)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_cryptography

Even more obvious is the notion that innocent civilians use encryption to protect themselves from mass survelence and needless data collection.

Is the end goal no longer total information awareness? [0]

Side note: that was a rather scathing and slanted article you cited. It would have been nice to see the simple facts of the case presented in a neutral light.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

Can you cite a case where encryption has obstructed justice or prevented a crime from being solved?

In other words, they're sticking to their story.

No mention of the iCloud password reset either.

It seems that, outside of what's used in Cocoa, the Swift language is pretty volatile right now. I would hesitate to commit to a large project that didn't involve the App Store.

I think it's clear that, in light of what's been going on, we need a more diverse ecosystem of P2P networks in order to protect the integrity of our private communications. So I support any effort to experiment in this area

> Maybe I'm too empathic

It's interesting that your empathy would necessitate that they had feelings to begin with.

Looks like Kurt Cobain was wrong about that one.

See: "Something in the Way" - Nirvana

> his house raided by the FBI and all his computer equipment impounded.

Thanks for reminding me to set up Amazon glacier for my FreeNas today. Jesus Christ, the world is a messed up place.

> fragile white guys

> An unfortunate sacrifice, but necessary none the less.

Whoa. Seriously? You claim to fight against discrimination and you use this kind of language? Can you name an event in history where an "unfortunate but necessary sacrifice" of a particular category of human being ever resulted in a net-good? I can't.

And what do you mean by "fragile", exactly? I'm starting to nervously suspect there's some underlying subtext here.Are "tough" white guys are ok?. They're certainly more sexually attractive. That's been pretty well established.

Full disclosure: I'm not really the prototypical HNer. I started coding late in life, due to many different reasons. To be (perhaps too) honest, I used to have few interests outside of partying.

In college, I was in a big fraternity. I was the only "minority" in my pledge class. So I know what it's like to be called a spic and a beaner. I know what real discrimination feels like. During this time, I spent a lot of time with white guys who were "not fragile". These guys were sexist as hell. This was in the 2010's and at a very liberal college town of Boulder, Colorado. I have to say, for all the overt sexism I witnessed, I never saw these types of white guys get as much shit for being sexist monsters as the nerdy white guys with the hentai wallpaper/t-shirt/whatever seems to get.

It kinda breaks my heart, I'm not going to lie.

So, point blank, is it just the skinny, fragile, white nerds that are the "pale devil"?

That's pure hate.

> 98% Hispanic sounds anything but diverse. Diverse doesn't mean "not white".

The demographics of a particular High School != The demographics of an entire city. Do you consider Miami to be a diverse place?

You also missed the larger point: we didn't know we were "not white". For the record, most of our teachers were Irish Americans.'

Maybe it was more like 90% I wasn't striving for accuracy. A few kids were "real whites" now that I think about it. They never really mentioned it. The rest were black or hispanic.

If you read my rant above, you'll see that there's more than one side to this. It's a little patronizing to the people she thinks she's helping.