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Your claims are too broad for the evidence you present. A trivial solution would be when you vote online you get texted/emailed confirmation. If you don't respond to the confirmation you get…

1. It's not fair to hand-wave and say "make it fail-proof." It's also not fair to hand-wave and say "It could never be fail-proof." It's also good to ask how secure …

Those statements are too strong for the evidence you provide. A trivial solution would be when you vote online you get texted a confirmation. If you don't respond to the confirmation you get a ca…

If true, I'd argue this is evidence the problem is more widespread than realized (rather than "normal." Just because something is common doesn't mean we should accept it). I think …

This is ridiculous. Now that people know they're being monitored they will make say nice shit on their work accounts and make non-work accounts where they can "be themselves." The syste…

This seems plausible. This is why essentials (salary range, core hours) should be discussed before or on a phone screen. 1. Looks like netflix pays 200-300k http://h1bdata.info/index.p…

The interesting thing, in my opinion, is that all large wires are tracked by our government. We'd do much better to use all of this monitoring infrastructure to stop tax-evaders instead of search…

I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps he does have a copy, and is letting the NSA prove to the world that it will lie if it thinks it can get away with it before releasing them.

I'd go a step further and propose it's systemic problem that will occur with any closed powerful agency with a mission (NSA, Anonymous, North Korea): if you have a hammer everything looks li…

I largely agree with your overall point (that you can't overgeneralize), but I don't think this says "nothing." The fact of the matter is that billionaires wield a lot of power, an…

Not at all. Let's examine this point by point (I'm taking great care here because personally I want to help Snowden supporters make a compelling case) - You should use the most effective wor…

Perhaps better named "How to win my coding interview." Author goes into the specifics he personally expects from an interview. Since he's not positing these as universal standards (an…

"Besides, no shadowy conspiracy is needed to explain that which can be explained easily by incentives and social order." This is exactly my point. Take care with the word propaganda, even if…

What a confusing remark. He says that both it is a "public service" "but still must pay a penalty." I don't understand what that means, why should one pay a penalty for a publ…

That's definitely an interesting theory. And intentional or not, I think side-battles do deflect attention from the 1% issue (as you called "oligarchs"). However, I think you do a disse…

What are you talking about "cannot be solved"? Per the article "The only place that’s still entirely accurate is Wikipedia, hilariously enough." And for tvtome, "It was a user…

I do this too with these types of articles. So much fluff. A real problem in my opinion.

I know what you mean. The piece sounded vaguely angry, perhaps part of what stimulated it is A) Wide use of a strong word ("asshole") sounds angry. It can be funny, but I didn't sense h…

I agree. I think the lesson I've learned is that selfish people will just use your "values" as political weapons for self-advancement, no matter what the value is, even if it's &qu…

Well, that's one analogy. How about this analogy, what would you say to me if I said "Hey I invented a new spoken language, it's more efficient than English?" And what if I did thi…

That sounds rather defeatist, not to mention contradictory to the evidence presented by the article.

I think this article overlooks the multitude of benefits of body cameras. Sure, according to some research they may not reduce violence. But reducing he-said she-said situations can make a much better…

Reading between the lines, the author actually feels this: "Stop making a new language every month. The ones we have are good enough, and it fractures inter-developer cooperation when we don'…

This 100 times over. I cannot estimate the amount of time otherwise brilliant engineers have wasted over aesthetics that really aren't a meaningful part of the code and should be rendered distinc…

"Conjoined triangles of success." Enough said. (note I'm software engineer and a business major)

As somebody who has made things (projects/blog posts) that have garnered mixed reviews (i.e. some insults) I think it's important that we as a community don't turn this into a "saf…

I don't think anybody is arguing that DNA testing could never be useful. What this piece is exposing is that a system we trust to be 99% accurate (because the science, if properly executed is) be…

I don't like this attitude. In fact, some whistleblower protection laws already exist (whistleblower protection act). I'm sure there are forces that act on politicians other than loyalty to …

This could do a lot more harm than good: spambots, or even worse, recruiters. Not saying it couldn't be done right, but it might be involved and go against the HN minimalist philosphy.

I think EFF really understands our ethos [i.e. the prevailing attitude on HN] (I'm not sure there's a name for it, perhaps Pirate Party?). DRM is a farce, nobody who uses those services you …