Ask HN: Can you please invite me to Lobste.rs?
Let's invite each other to https://lobste.rs
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Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48
on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:11PM (#11602249)
Why don't you? instead.
Homosexuality: Nature’s True Altruists?
Ask HN: Should I learn Python?
And what about Rust?
Ask HN: Great online communities?
It would be nice to have some thing like HN and maybe not so USA-centric.
Fairphone
Re:Bill Gross – Banking/finance “permanently damaged” [pdf]
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:55PM (#11220364)
This interesting! Never thought of it this way. Is there any kind of research showing that electric power to run the servers and hardware (which gets old and must be replaced) has a lower impact than boxes and vhs tapes?
Ask HN: Any site that coordinates boycotts and/or ethical purchasing?
Re:$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:20PM (#11212252)
Don't forget that the Chinese (or any other country) are terrorists.
Ask HN: How to fight copyright laws?
I see there's a lot of opposition to copyright lawshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_copyrightwhat's the most effective way for ME to fight copyright laws here in EU?I have several sites I could leverage if that is useful. I'm also a fairly good coder (most of my code is in the Public Domain).I don't want to discuss about copyright laws but to FIGHT them, but how?
Re:Does anybody find this Scheme code readable?
on Saturday February 27, 2016 @07:33PM (#11189167)
I want to learn scheme but that is too much for me. So either
1. That is badly written code. 2. I'm a bad programmer. 3. Scheme's syntax is ugly.
What do you think?
Does anybody find this Scheme code readable?
Re:Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for...
on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:41PM (#11185808)
What I don't like about Haskell is repeating the function name.
yeah :: Num yeah = 3
repeating yeah two times is ugly.
Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:34PM (#11183094)
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum.
Have you done this before? I tried to learn Ethereum (as an average developer) but it was over my head.
The GNU Name System (gns)
Re:WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:23AM (#11157374)
I know. But you can't expect countries and people to be ok with it, just because the USA wants it. In an ideal world there would be no boundaries or wars and we would live in peace. But fact is that I don't like being spied by NSA. And while this may be expected by a government, what pisses really off is the way HN, eff.org and USA-oriented blogs speak about non USA citizens. From their point of view we are either terrorists, non-humans or some kind of evil, deprived of all kind of rights.
From the point of view of democracy the USA is the worse.
Re:WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:13AM (#11157148)
Well, the USA should mind its own business and fuck off. Too harsh? Ops. You spy and start wars in others countries and expect it to be ok?
Re:WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:31PM (#11156297)
Hacker News is too USA-centric. What if Italy spied the USA? Including the metadata of all citizens' calls? It's that ok?
Re:WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:29PM (#11156289)
And what are his personal motives? Provide some sources.
Re:Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:03PM (#11147113)
Do you think it would better to link to that site? Instead of suggesting an addon my self?
Re:Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:03PM (#11147110)
Yes, I was thinking about uBlock origin, but would an "average" user be comfortable with it? That's the problem.
Re:The Unsuitability of English (2015)
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @04:50PM (#11146750)
In english words change meaning just by slightly changing accent.
Ship, sheep buy, by sheet, shit
see also http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/homophones-sam...
Also english doesn't (compared to italian) is filled with exceptions.
Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
I want to encourage the visitors of my sites to install an addon to protect their privacy. What is the single best one?
Re:Ask HN: I see discussion of Apple and FBI but little talk about non...
on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:19PM (#11142010)
Yeah downvote me fauckeradf'sjpoisgf
Re:Camlistore – open-source personal storage system for life
on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:32PM (#11138842)
I started using it today and seems nice and lean. The only problem I have is the amount of projects trying to fix data permanence.
IPFS Tent BigChainDB etc.
Right now I'm starting to use camilstore, what if in the future I want to move to another project? I hope there will be tools to do help with migration. See: http://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture
Re:Ask HN: I see discussion of Apple and FBI but little talk about non...
on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:29PM (#11138393)
Makes sense, thanks.
Re:Tell the White House to stop asking for encryption workarounds
on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:38PM (#11138191)
I don't understand. Isn't the court's right to access useful proofs? To me all this seems paranoia.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to receive payment? No bank account or PayPal
on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:27PM (#11138146)
Everything outside of USA is called a terrorist.