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They can however make recommendations for regulations, and influence U.N. regulatory guidelines.

This could make a low-staffed EPA significantly more effective, because then it would only have to pick and choose regulations to implement/try to pass.

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On that point, does that mean Rust libraries tend to have logging hooks or are all errors emitted by Result's?

What about non-fatal errors such as retries in a GUI library that loads an image from the web, how are they logged or otherwise propogated to the developer?

On a related tangent, what reasons are there not to publicize votes and voters in discussion fora?

I think it would be very interesting to be able to identify "voting blocks" and voting patterns on HN. I'm not saying HN should implement that, but it could make for an interesting experimental feature for forum software.

Google Streetview link?

But you can read the dependency list or even the code and decide whether to use it or not?

I feel like having "safety net" sections is a smell, too. Maybe it's due to limitations of the language? I'm not a C expert.

Safety nets make it seem like you're handling edge cases in a vaguely specified, ad-hoc way, which is prone to forgetting to add the safety net in at least some places, while the nets themselves are easy to mess up as well.

Could this code benefit from more typing perhaps? Automated checking of pre- and postconditions? Are there C (macro) libraries implement that in a usable way?

Thank you!

Fighting terrorism has never been about saving lives or reducing human suffering.

It's part of an ideological war between democratic and totalarian ideas, backed both by coporate interests (the "defense" industry) and Russia.

It's all about power and it has always been that.

It has a meaning:

Vote for candidate A whose compaign is centered around looking "strong".

What if you think it's a private investigator because they're plainclothes officers?

Your points relating to Uber stand, I'm just wondering how it'd work in the case of an individual feeling like they are being shadowed.

Do you think such an organization could exist in the light?

I've been considering a comparable project, but more focussed on opsec/infosec in a file sharing context. However, I've felt chilled by the possible legal consequences to me and my family if I enter this arena.

Bootstrapping myself to have great opsec seems like a really tough task. I feel like I'd have to repeatedly burn hardware, houses and identities if I want to stand a chance to reach "opsec heaven" where I can freely persue projects such as the Spook's Cookbook or the Pirate's Cookbook.

I first got the impression you meant something like "the Red Menace", but I take it you meant:

Engineered paranoia is still very real and a danger to our societies because of its reality-distorting effects that can result in violent overreactions.

Did I get that right?

I think it's especially doable as a programmer. You only get ~5 productive hours a day, so why not take a long lunch break and do some exercise in between?

In the EU this is soon going to be solved by the PSD2 system. Coming in November 2018 or later, depending on how soon the regulations are finalized.

It's a mandatory-to-implement protocol, which will allow consumers to give 1st and 3rd parties API access to their bank accounts.

former -> formal

Thank you for your perspective. Could you perhaps give me some reading material?

Are you of the opinion that the amount of surveillance conducted on citizens is reasonable in the context of the balancing of civil liberties and the dignity of individuals vs. geopolitics and struggle for power?

I would like to see these issues improved by decentralization (regulation to prevent the centralization of power in private enterprises) and transparancy (making it easier to spot subterfuge for everyone), but I don't yet know exactly how to built such a system and if it could work. The CIA/NSA approach is antithetical to that.

Edit: I personally doubt the efficacy of surveillance because I think it disproportionately impacts citizens, while high-level state actors will generally be able to work around by having good opsec and using high-quality encryption. That's also how I ended the GP, but you don't seem to have responded to that. What is your opinion on that?

And violating the privacy of U.S. citizens is helping to stop nation state actors how? Do you think that is proportional to the threat?

Besides, last I heard a certain underregulated U.S. company enabled this mass manipulation. (Hint: it starts with an F.)

And you think the KGB is bothered my these measures in the least?

Which is great, because now the developers can do their side jobs while their customers provide them with coffee.

They seem to get the racial/sexual/agist profiling right at Schiphol (Amsterdam). I'm a white male in my twenties, and consistently get the patdown. Half the time that includes my inner thighs and the side of some guy's hand touching my balls.

I've come to dislike flying for the humiliating and demeaning security theater I have to go through for it. No way I would risk going through that in the U.S., where it's presumably worse and where I'm not a citizen.

I can barely convince myself to go to family weddings if I have to pass through Schiphol for them. At least with Schiphol I don't have the risk of being detained (or marked a terrorist for having encrypted data/voicing anti-authoritarian opinions/having contact with Muslims, "no rights applicable"), and if I were anyway I could defend myself well as I'm a somewhat savvy citizen.

I already go through great lengths to fly via small German airports, where the security measurers aren't dehumanizing. Perhaps I'll visit the U.S. by boat sometime.

Perhaps you could add a mention of the license on the project page and/or at the top of the file?

If I'm understanding you right don't have a former license yet. You could use something like MIT, Apache 2.0, CC0, GPL, LGPL or WTFPL, that would fit your comment.

I think MIT or Apache 2.0 would be the safest choices (if you don't have a preference for GNU/copyleft licenses).

I'm afraid a HN comment won't hold up in court as proof I have a license to use a work.

I'm Dutch, so no. Discourse is the only tool I know I have here.

The reason I'm invested in the U.S. political system is that it produces something resembling international jurisprudence ("if the U.S. is doing it, we should too!"), because it influences our policies through trade agreements and the U.N., and because many U.S. companies are very influential internationally.

That, and Trump's climate policies affect every conscious being on Earth.

You can vote for one of two near-identical parties but the vote will be decided by Facebook.

Vatican Shadow is an artist that makes music about the War on Terror. I would recommend "Remeber Your Black Day" or "Death Is Unity With God".

It's a spiritual continuation of the work of the deceased UK artist Muslimgauze who's released 90+ releases so far, and who has dedicated over half his short life to making music to protest the Israel-Palestine conflict. There are still quarterly+ releases of his work 18 years after his death because he left a huge back catalog of unreleased work. At his peak he was making an album a day, and if you gave him something to listen to he'd return you an "improved version" the next day.

Muzlimgauze's intent was to call attention to, and make people read about the Israel-Palestine conflict; I think Vatican Shadow has a similar intention.

Imagine they would've each killed 50 citizens on average. I think that's a very high estimate. I think 5/terrorist would be high, but lets pad the estimates.

That's 40.000 deaths since 9/11. Was it worth it?

Was that worth harming your culture, making your country more hostile to vistors and citizens alike, while spending (very roughly) $660.000.000.000[0] on "counter-terrorism"?

Couldn't that money have been used more effectively, for instance on cancer research or programs to reduce obesity?

40k deaths over 16 years is nothing. It's how many Americans kill themselves in a year, while orders of magnitude more Americans die of heart failure, diabetes and cancer.

And that's a very high estimate of the additional deaths-by-terrorist that might have potentially been prevented, maybe.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/11/u-s-spends-o...

They do, though. They make the body scan and if you jeans with a suspicious 'steel' trouser button, or if they're made of thicker material than is most popular (so basically Levi's 501), you get the patdown, first your waist and then your inner thighs all the way up to your balls.

Literally 1/2 times I've flown I've had my balls touched. I wish I was kidding.

Why are you posting this? No one is attacking Solomon.

HN rules dictate one be civil, and if someone isn't being that you can flag their content. This is worse than a "why the downvotes" post, it's "pls be nice guyz i love Docker it great company".

Honestly, I think this is a really strange top post. It feels to me like this is an attempt at manipulating the discourse by providing social proof for Docker and by discrediting the posters that are unhappy about the direction Docker has been heading.

What's the license?

I wouldn't, I don't even consider the U.S. for vacations because the only way in is through TSA country.

If I want to have my balls fondled by men in uniforms I can just go to Craigslist. At least then I'll have a safeword.

No, that discussion and article are about Janit0r and his BrickerBot software.

This article is about Hajime, a sophisticated trackerless BitTorrent-backed botnet with resillience and stealth functionality. Self-professed greyhat.

Still relevant to this discussion, though.