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Politics was definitely a problem right after the election, but it seems to have calmed down a lot and nakedly political stories don't seem to make it to the front page anymore.

I would hope this purge would not include stories related to privacy legislation, as I think the topic is very relevant to the community.

I said the same thing when they first previewed Angular2: call it something else. everyone would still know it comes from the Angular team and it wouldn't have pissed so many people off.

Interestingly enough, I used a trie (without knowing that's what it was called) when building the router for my Frontend framework.

https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/Templar/blob/master/core/R...

I can't agree with this. Give people basic income and let technology do what it does.

Question about the hat example given:

The author says that the phone company wouldn't learn anything about google's solution by keeping notes because of the randomization of the coloring. that doesn't seem to be true to me.

Assuming the solution that Google colored in was correct, the phone company doesn't necessarily need to know the frequencies of the edges, merely that they are different: which is learned by recording the results after E^2 selections.

Am I wrong here?

I was working on a live streaming app and considered using FB but their API docs weren't accurate and when I did manage to get in touch with support their reaction was kind of "oh well." At that point I realized it would be a bad idea to put so much effort into something that could be shuttered by a 3rd party.

For the record, FB live docs are pretty clear about not allowing streaming from mobile devices.

Developers that care about privacy should really start to work on decentralized, backwards compatible applications to replace the services we depend on like email and social media.

I know there are already service out there, but most of them lack the simplicity needed to reach non-technical users. Getting people away from these services is as much a marketing and user adoption problem as it is a technical one.

I'm not sure I get your point.

Why is anyone surprised? If we should've learned anything from the last couple of weeks, it should be that it turns out that despite recent progress, America hasn't strayed far from its roots.

The powers of government have long been used as a weapon against various groups over our history. All that's happened recently is the removing of the mask.

>People call things "white" as in insult, they constantly say things like "white people have no culture"

I'm black and I wish folks realized that stuff like that needs to kept behind closed doors. I'm not one of those black folks that tries to twist the definition of racism such that it can never be applied to us. It's ironic that lots of the same folks who talk about "micro-aggressions" are purveyors of them.

>It's a weird thing to care so much about.

I agree with you. It wasn't something any thought about before. But once it made its way into the public discussion, I understand how some people would be uncomfortable with it: especially people who don't know any trans people.

>'m not sure how you can explain away...

I can't and I don't. I think people like Mike Pence are assholes. My personal stance is we should use the age of viability (as arrived at by scientific consensus) as a legal cut off.

>How would such a compromise look like?

Stop legal abortions at the age of viability as arrived at through scientific consensus.

>I personally feel that the conservative stance on abortion is cruel...

In some cases, it is. I'm not agreeing with all the anti-abortion arguments. I have also talked with "progressive" family members that have a cold/cruel absolutist view of it. In their mind, 8 months was fair game, because choice. When it comes to abortion, the assholery cuts both ways.

I read you comment. I get your point on why the state provides benefits for marriage. You're argument that civil unions should suffice misses the point and is ignorant of the facts. The fight for marriage equality is not because gay people are overly attached to the nomenclature, there's a real practical difference between unions and marriage[1].

Also you quoted me in your response, but your comments made no argument against my quote. Care to shed light on why people you don't know getting married deprives you of something?

1: http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/marriage-compa...

>a small % of activists on the left

A vocal minority + rapid societal change + social media echo chambers = reactionary backlash = Donald Trump presidency

>I wouldn't extrapolate much from this election

I would. 60+ million people voting for a man as odious and unprepared as Donald Trump says a whole lot to me. That and pretty much total Republican domination on the state level. The GOP is one state house away from being able to call a new constitutional convention[1].

1: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50672/st...

I was referring to the shift in racial demographics and how unless the GOP cleaned up its act they would cease to be a national party. That was kool-aid we all drank from and it turned out to be poison.

>I noticed that liberals had this similar authoritarianness

IMO this is what distinguishes a traditional liberal from a a progressive. For me, a liberal is basically libertarian with a belief the state can be used to ensure the rights of citizens are administered evenly.

IMO, if someone's actions aren't depriving another of life or liberty, the state doesn't have much standing in regulating that activity. Progressives believe state power can/should be used to protects their rights and their feelings. But, depending on the issue, you'll find conservatives taking the same stance.

Gay people getting married deprives no one of anything. Conservatives that want they're feeling protected are no different than the "SJW" so many of them rail against.

Like all things there are some grey areas. For example, the trans bathroom thing. I legitimately see both sides on that. Abortion is another I see both sides on and believe compromise is the best way forward.

You'll find "authoritarians" on both sides of the political spectrum. In some cases (like abortion) conservatives have their heart in the right places. So do progressive/liberals (environmental issues, for example). In other cases, both sides can begin to see the state as a tool to unnecessarily curtail the liberty of their countrymen.

HN is a bad place to discuss this sort of stuff because you're always risking karma, but here goes.

As a liberal, I will say that liberals drastically overplayed their hand the last 8 years. Many of us have been saying for a while that the language, tenor, and actions of recent liberal movements was ultimately counter productive.

I understand and share the demand to be treated decently and equally, but admittedly things kind of got out of hand. Micro-aggression, safe spaces, trigger words - all things that have good intentions but the people who advocated for them were often, to put it kindly, un-diplomatic.

With "demographics" on our side, many of us constructed this alternate reality where America, ready or not, was going to bend to our will - our worldview. And so we poked the bear. Over and over and over again. Then it woke up, tore our heads off and left us wondering what the f*ck happened.

You can't run an email server from a residential address b/c most ISP's block port 25 and 587. That being said, there a project called mail in a box, that attempts to be a plug and play solution. You'll have to host it on a VPS provider (Digital Ocean, for example) and even then you'll have a hard time keeping your email from being black holed by major email service providers like Google.

Can I ask what your email stack was? I'm working on a project that's a cross between TOR and bit torrent to provide free (encrypted) email to the masses that doesn't monetize data. I've been on a crash course of all things email lately.

The world's growing dependence on mega-services provided by the likes of Google is why I started the Free Data Foundation.

The goal of the project is to support OSS that can replace "free" services that subsist on our data. Interestingly enough the maiden project is tentatively called Tmail (short for torrent mail).

It works somewhat like TOR in that it will depend on volunteers to host nodes that will communicate with existing email providers (outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc) and relay the mail over 80 to RPis preloaded with MDA (mail delivery agent) software.

The goal is be able to expand the service to allow people to sign up for email accounts without running their own software (a la gmail).

It gets way deeper than that, but I'll leave it there. You can follow the project at https://github.com/freedatafound/. I've also bought http://freedatafoundation.org but there's currently nothing there.

Everyone has an agenda. Here's an idea; judge a piece or organization by the quality of the work. I'll read pieces from the National Review even though I don't share their bias. Why? Because they employ good journalists and check their work.

Even without the cesspool of comments, I won't read Breitbart because the editorial quality is non-existant. Same goes for crapy left-wing blogs like RawStory.

No, it's not designed to be anonymous (although it will force encryption). The goal is to provide a free, community hosted email service to regular non-technical users.

It is similar to TOR in the sense that it will rely on volunteers to host nodes and/or relays. The goals of TMail and TOR are, however, fundamentally different.

I just started the Free Data Foundation. The goal of the project is to support OSS that can replace "free" services that subsist on our data. Interestingly enough the maiden project is tentatively called Tmail (short for torrent mail).

It works somewhat like TOR in that it will depend on volunteers to host nodes that will communicate with existing email providers (outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc). The reason we need these nodes is that it's practically impossible to host an email server at a residential location because ISP's block port 25. Also most people don't have the desire or knowledge to maintain an email server.

Users can host their own delivery nodes (which will be plug and play software pre-installed on RPi's). These nodes communicate with the volunteer's host nodes over 80, thereby bypassing the ISP block of port 25.

There will also be an option for people hosting delivery nodes to share their resource with people who can't/won't host their own nodes which will allow people to sign up for email accounts without running their own software (a la gmail).

It gets way deeper than that, but I'll leave it there. You can follow the project at https://github.com/freedatafound/. I've also bought http://freedatafoundation.org but there's currently nothing there.

> I think it is rare to see some news that is not biased one way or another

I would posit that part of the problem is the implicit assumption that biased != factual. This assumption is true on both sides of the political spectrum, but it takes on a different character for those on the right.

I understand the sentiment that prompted you to post this, I'm just not sure what you propose is any kind of a solution. If anything I believe it may make things worse by affirming the bias != factual assumption.

I'd never heard of this, but it seems like a pretty innovative solution. It's refreshing to see money go to apps/ideas that actually add something new to social media.

Awesome info. I would love to see some of the illustrations as gifs.

Friendship is an opaque, organic process. No one understands how to "make it happen." So it pretty much becomes a numbers game. The more people you are in steady contact with, the higher your chances of that process taking hold. Before 30, people are in institutions that provide this kind of environment: school.

Work can provide it as well, if you want it to. A lot of people aren't comfortable with trying the process there because, unlike school, it's really hard to avoid someone if things go sour. For this same reason there's usually a little taboo around workplace relationships.

Then there's the knock effect of having a couple real friends in our youth: all their friends become our acquaintances and maybe even our friends. The numbers game at work again. All these acquaintances make our social circle feel a lot bigger than it actually is. This is what makes the drop off after a certain age so hard. When we look back, it felt like we had so many friends, but most of us really didn't.

I feel you. I'm in my early 30's too and have felt just the way you describe.

I agree. Once you have kids, especially when they're young, you don't have the time to sit around on the couch with the boys. I came to terms with the fact that I don't actually want friends anymore. I want relationships based around common interest in tech, politics or a hobby. Other than that, I'd rather be alone.

While I think your tone stinks, I agree that it's over. Even if a recount ends in a tie there's no way a Republican congress hands the keys over to Clinton.