skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't the safe advice been that whatever you do on company resources (except time) can be monitored/investigated by the company? Isn't it generally bad practice to handle personal business on a work phone/work laptop/work desktop anyway due to the assumption that your activities can be legally monitored by your company?

Understandably, if you make a send a message/make a personal phone call on company time to your doctor or spouse regarding some issue then that shouldn't be grounds for the company to investigate just because you were on their time and my reasoning for this is that even when you're off the clock, you can still be disciplined for activities that may portray the company in a bad light (getting into a bar fight after work, for example) so its assumed that you're never really off work.

Either way, if I were him I wouldn't have assumed I could have used company hardware to send personal messages yet still have an expectation of privacy.
Startups can be super challenging for all of the reasons outlined in that article. We put together this guide to help explain some of the mechanics that make startups so stressful. It is primarily based on Jerry Colonna's work. He is a really good guy who has done some of the deepest thinking in this space. I highly recommend his work. You can find it here: https://www.reboot.io

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There are trucks that are supposed to resupply the various stations, transferring bikes from popular full stations to popular empty ones. Maybe they did not have time to figure the patterns to do that optimally yet.

I know it took a couple of years here before it was better.
It verifies that the string ' (secure)' is present, as opposed to ' (insecure)'. I could have made sure it was at the end, though. I'll correct that.
how will you market it? to me a 1 off product like this is hard to make money. I would start with a marketing channel and build out a test ad or whatever and go back wards from there.
For quite sometime I've been thinking about becoming a digital nomad. This won't probably be something for now, but this article provided some interesting points to take into consideration.
Have you tried this?

https://code.visualstudio.com/
Having lived in both Michigan and Texas, humidity is the largest factor in high-temperature enjoyment. In high-humidity, anything over 75F is difficult. But in Texas where the humidity is lower I can easily enjoy >85F.
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If someone finally wins, the best part will be a temporary moratorium on people who think themselves clever telling me how I won't win. Yes, the odds are clearly published and I can do basic math, but I bought a few tickets anyway. Now shut up about it. Even NPR isn't immune, as evidenced while I listened on the ride to work yesterday. YES, I KNOW!
Approximate mental math is really good for doing Fermi estimates, too.
This is one of their other businesses:

http://www.lifemarkers.co/

So I think your instincts are right on. They are going to sell you consulting services.
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I really hate questions like this. Since they mistake rationality for computer-like adherence to a set of rules.

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Imagine a 100 rounds of ultimatum games. In each round, Alice proposes a split of $1 and Bob can either accept or reject. If Bob rejects, the $1 is burned in a fire. How much money will each end up with?

Lets work backwards, as we do in the pirate game.

In ROUND100, Alice knows Bob will take whatever non-zero offer she makes. She can offer him 1 cent and Bob will agree.

In ROUND99, Alice knows that Bob can will accept whatever non-zero offer she makes in ROUND100, so she can make whatever non-zero offer she wants this round without fear of repercussion. She offers him 1 cent and knows he will agree.

Continuing to work backwards, we find that in all 100 rounds, Alice takes 99 cents and offers Bob 1 cent. Alice ends up with $99 and Bob ends up with $1.

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This is obviously (and experimentally proven) not what would happen in real life. In experimental outcomes, Bob rejects offers that are too low to broadcast that he is “irrational”. As a result, Bob is able to negotiate a much higher outcome (around 40%).

So who is more rational? The "rational" Bob who gets $1, or the “irrational” Bob who gets $40?
Agreed. The whole concept is too complicated for the real world, in my opinion. But, if the team is willing to iterate based on feedback, and incorporate some of the advances of other composting and incinerating toilets, the end product might work really well.
I'd been made aware of the possibility of using HSTS redirects to create a fingerprint, but I've yet to see someone make the code available. Please feel free to dig in / contribute / critique.
Classic case of someone who was brought along on a ride (by Zuckerberg) and now wants to prove he could have done it himself (he can't). As opposed to Dustin Moskovitz, who proved that he can.
Have you tried Code?

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That depends on how you define "magic". I typically do so as "cannot be implemented in the language itself", which does not apply to $_, as it can be reimplemented in Perl itself. If i was bored enough i could create a module that sets up a $this variable that acts exactly the same, in pure perl.
Since the provincial government is already giving huge tax credits to the video game industries, I'm wondering the government will be giving Amazon any financial incentives to implement that in Montréal.
This game reminds me of some employee stock option negotiations I've been on the lessor end of...
Thanks guys, that helps me to understand. This stuff is usually explained either as utterly vague blanket advice or in technical shorthand terms. I think it is really important for people who might barely even know what https is to understand how and why the security of it is limited.
WTF? And just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier.
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Did the author just conclude that most people don't enjoy summer (defined as above 70F/21C, not some extreme 95F/35C craziness).

(Common sense, anyone?)
It's even worse - simply using the same wifi point as your other Google accounts or even your friends will deanonymize you.

Trustable local software (so not GApps/Android) and a mix network is the only way to get anonymity.

I'd personally like to see communication apps that use TOR for messaging, with the option to explicitly break anonymity for voice calls - leaving your location untracked most of the time.
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Ah, I didn't know that. I had heard that Apple had relaxed their restrictions a little, but have not tried it myself yet.

When you speak of an Apple ID, do you mean a free one, or the $99 publish-to-the-appstore type? The difference doesn't matter to the LGPL question, of course...

There's some good discussion about LGPL and app stores at https://lwn.net/Articles/526355/ - the comments give a good explanation about why you could get away with a LGPL app, even though there's no free way to re-link the program.

Now, if you could use Xcode to install an app on your own phone, without any other account or gatekeeper, then presumably (I guess), GPL'd apps could also be allowed on the store?
Heh. Qt was released in 1995 and the The Cathedral and the Bazaar was released in 1997 with the OSI being formed in 1998. This means Qt pre-dates the term 'open source' by approximately 3 years!
So I work in information security and I'll tell you i haven't seen good standards around this. In some places IT people regularly look at emails or web traffic, which i think is wrong.

When I go into a company I make sure we put a policy in place that to review an employees emails / web traffic / devices we need to have Legal and HR sign off on it unless the person being investigated is part of one of those groups then it is one group and an executive.

This covers me from legal/HR fallout and it covers the employees because they know we aren't just sneaking around looking at their stuff, it creates trust.
Whatever happened to e-textbooks?
The 'limited' aspect seems rather toothless if a clear policy of "we monitor everything" is valid.
That's an extremely poor assumption. Any home user's computers would be on their ISP's network. Should they have the right to access any of the stuff on it?
I assume, if this kind of content got to the point that most of the good stuff was behind a paywall that some sort of review system would spring up.

Hopefully it would be more granular than just at the website level, perhaps being able to drill down to a specific journalist / category / article / whatever.

Maybe that feedback loop would shape things in a way that I would be more willing to subscribe to a entire publication vs cherry picking individual authors or content.
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Even simpler mechanisms clog and I don't think this scraper can do such a good job, but this still could be better than a septic tank or others alternatives.
As I mentioned in another comment, you don't want developers focusing on lines of code. The directions have to be much clearer, such as the goals of finding unused code or improving performance.

If resources are handed out based on how bloated a project is, you would quickly discover how creative developers can be in increasing the relative "importance" of their code.

Systems are composed of lots of things, and sometimes a tiny piece is the most complex and critical. A measure of lines of code should not prevent you from adding 3 more people to a tiny project, and removing a person from a team with a giant code base.
Yep. Very first thing I do when setting up a work machine is enable full-disk encryption, both to protect company assets from theft, and protect any sensitive material from prying coworkers/management.
LGPLv2 is compatible with the app store. It certainly goes against the spirit of the licence, but does not break the letter.

See the comments in https://lwn.net/Articles/526355/ for a discussion about LGPL and VLC on the app store.
Trust your instincts and lose this weirdo's number. Real money with real people behind it will be super clear and easy to identify.
I hear you. I'm not saying it _is_ scammy, just saying my scam-radar pinged pretty loudly.

I'm all for ease-of use, but the flow went:

* Ah, a new service I could use!

* Sign up, cool, that was easy. Just needed my email.

* Verified my email with the 6 digit code, that's cool, sorta like Square.

* Sign in... Verify identity... OK, that makes sense. Hang on a tick, you want a copy of my ID? That's the first thing I'm asked for? Who's asking?

It's the who's asking bit that made me stop in my tracks.

I'm in the same boat and have eaten the high fees in order to get paid quickly when I was first starting out. It's a great service, if it's for real...
As an auto enthusiast for a couple decades plus, I can really appreciate the approach and attitude Bill Ford seems to be reaching to achieve. The inventor and innovator side of me enjoys the often blase notion of "disruption" that comes with SV culture, but I've still got distinct reservations about the general "practical ethics compass" of the approach, to coin a phrase for lack of a better one that I know. Where SV and Auto culture meet in the middle definitely interests me.

I guess what I find more appealing about Auto industry culture is the general notion of accountability (give or take) with respect to products. Auto companies are not nimble, should not play 'fast and loose' with regulations like safety, and they have public shareholders as well. This is a different model - one that I honestly believe serves the Auto industry well - because there are perfectly reasonable avenues to take SV-like approaches - it's called R&D, and taking stuff out racing. WRC. BTCC. Le Mans. All sorts of different avenues!

This isn't to give Auto companies like Ford a free pass when they make mistakes (Firestone and Ford comes to mind) but rather acknowledge that there's still merit in their approach to creating, manufacturing, and supporting products.
Good luck finding one. The clauses that enable this kind of monitoring are boilerplate employee contract and company manual stuff.
Why? Do you only work for companies that employ children?
The ACM copy isn't in archive.org's Wayback Machine due to robots.txt.
That is exactly what i was thinking - making this produce compost instead of waste intended for a collection facility would be not only more useful in developing areas, but could even improve the urban gardening/homesteading movement. and lets face it - in developed nations, it is us crazy hippie folk who would buy this anyway.
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"We assumed spherical turds to make the maths easier for engineering the prototype."

Then again living in the USA has accustomed me to commercials which represent female menses with water, dyed light blue.
Sure, but I'd agree with karpodiem that this is likely decades from now, i.e., more than 20 years before half of suburban households drop their car for a autonomous taxi service. Computers took over a decade to really penetrate. 10% of people owned a computer 20 years ago, but no uses a self-driving car today. Further, the financial and regulator roadblocks are much larger for cars than computers.
What a ridiculous strawman.

I should not need to explain that you can monitor installed applications without reading the contents of someone's gmail tab.
I have found http://flexboxfroggy.com/ a good way to learn some parts of flexbox, thought it can't really cover edge cases.
While this is true, I was specifically addressing the comprehensibility of the core perl5 VM sources - so the existence of N other VMs seems orthogonal to me.

Or: I agree with everything you said apart from the implication that what you said is a counter argument to what I said - it seems to me that both can be true without conflict.
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Maybe big corporations, there are tons of small companies, which constitutes half the economy that don't do this.
Sounds cool. Also sounds like most marketing pieces. So, anybody read it that can give us a quick review of whether it's worth the money?
As long as you view Perl, whether 5 or 6, in the light of C and assume it should function like C, then there will be lots of little things that seem odd and pointless. When you accept that Perl implements some things that C has no concept of whatsoever, and uses them to it's advantage throughout the language, then many of these little things start to make sense. Specifically, Perl uses context to change behavior, and lists behave differently depending on context.

This is really no different than how Lisp uses parenthesis in a different way than C, except that Lisp has the benefit of being more visually distinct so people that are familiar with C and C-like semantics don't immediately assume they know what's going on an why when they see Lisp constructs. Perl is different as well, but it often looks similar enough to cause people concern before they know what they are really looking at.

As for this specific example, arrays evaluated in scalar context (as opposed to list context) return the number of elements in the array. There is no array length function or method, as it's superfluous. 0+@x is the number of items in @x, and 5 < @x tests whether @x has more than 5 items, since < imposes scalar context. There are many, many places in the language where context is used to simplify operations, this is just a very simplistic example, but it should illustrate why sigils are important, as they change how operations are evaluated.

Put simply, it's not possible to make a coherent criticism of Perl's use of sigils without understanding context and how it's used within the language, and factoring the benefits and drawbacks of that into your criticism. To criticize without this knowledge is to do so from ignorance (in the literal sense, not as an insult).
It is not clear to me exactly what you mean by "managing distractions".

I disabled Notification Center on my Mac because I couldn't find a less drastic way to stop Apple from popping up notifications irrelevant to me (e.g., a new version of iTunes is ready to be installed).

Does that qualify in your eyes as "managing distractions" correctly or not?

Would it in your opinion have been better for me to learn not to be bothered or distracted by notifications -- to change myself instead of changing the Mac, in other words?

ADDED. Even though I never use iTunes, I have not been able to figure out a way to stop my Mac from trying to upgrade iTunes.
Most of the people I know who use CitiBike use it as one leg of their commute. One of my coworkers, for example, takes the PATH in from New Jersey then bikes to the office from there.

In these cases you could buy a bike and leave it in the city, but there's a very very serious risk of bike theft. It's easier to pay for the CitiBike membership and not have to worry about it.
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To be fair, see: https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
It's like a redistribution of wealth scheme. Welfare checks go to the poor who use their welfare to purchase lotto tickets. Some ends end back in the governments hands and some lands in the lottery operators coffers. Anyone know how much lottery officials and employees earn/make?
As a kid in the 80s I wrote a program in Basic to randomly pick lottery numbers and print them as fast as it could and stop when it matched a predefined number.

Watching the program spin for hours disabused me of any notion that the lottery could be won. It was a good way to get a feel for the ridiculous odds involved and to this day I've never felt tempted to play the lottery.
The phone still contacts the network for E911 service. Locate the phone on your desk based on signal strength to towers. If the phone moved every day it would be easy to uniquely identify, but even if there's some false positives who cares? Then simply access the application processor through the baseband processor which is likely the same chip and pwnt-by-design given its secretive nature and the stakes.

The only reasons we trust Intel processors is because A. we have to, and B. we (think) we can audit all of its communications. Neither of these is true for a cell phone.
> mistake rationality for computer-like adherence to a set of rules

I might be mistaken but I think in terms of economics that this is literally the definition of rationality.

Your experimental example is with real people. Real people are not rational actors (as a rational actor is defined in economics). This is considered by many to be a major flaw in traditional economics.
geexbox is the closest thing i can think of. You can even use http://www.geexbox.org/iso-generator/ to put the movie and the os on disc/usb and boot to the movie basically.
Nice, same thought process here.
`brew install ffmpeg` does not appear to default build with network support, so mac is unlikely affected. Although I'm sure there are many mac apps that use ffmpeg and may have it compiled with network support.
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Just because it seems some people aren't aware, Code from Microsoft is also a pretty cool C# IDE. It's arguably way better than Visual Studio in a lot of ways:

https://code.visualstudio.com/
> When you speak of an Apple ID, do you mean a free one, or the $99 publish-to-the-appstore type?

I don't know. Is that something you're interested in? Why not look into it?

> Now, if you could use Xcode to install an app on your own phone, without any other account or gatekeeper, then presumably (I guess), GPL'd apps could also be allowed on the store?

Again, the problems with the App Store are specific to the terms, conditions, and restrictions that Apple chooses for it. Whether or not you can side load your own apps using Xcode doesn't change that. Problematic App Store terms are still problematic. "Yes, you can build an app under <license> for your own device in Xcode" does not automatically mean, "Yes, you can distribute apps with <license> on the App Store."
The issue isn't whether they do it routinely, but whether they're entitled to do it. Most small companies hire people using boilerplate employment contracts and employee handbooks, too.

My point is that they don't have to intend to make monitoring possible for it to be possible; it's practically the default.

Also: pay close attention to what 'Spook23 is saying downthread about discovery. Your employer doesn't even have to want to monitor your stuff; all that needs to happen is they get sued, and if you've been mixing business and personal comms, it can all end up in scope.
These outcomes assume you can live rich (having ~98 coins) in the same space as poor pirates without them stabbing you and taking your coins! Real pirates would distribute more evenly for fear of death after distribution.
I care about working in IE. I don't care about working elegantly in IE. Polyfills are fine.
I also skipped Q&A and awkward cold introductions when using dating sites. I just straight asked them out and usually got a yes. I don't even read profiles they're usually all BS anyway, you meet the girl and she admits everything in it was a facade for work/school peers or judgemental family who found her account what she was really into you discover in private.
The book has negative reviews on Goodreads and no reviews on amazon.
> iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.

Are you sure this is what you think it is? For me that app is always just an iCloud continuity app from my Macbook - like Safari or something.

I do have Siri app suggestions on the spotlight screen, those are typically useless.
Nice callout. Thanks.
Recursion is exactly the same (as induction) because it also requires specifying what to do in a base case. I guess I think recursion is a more instructive term than "working backwards" because it speaks to a rigorous programmatic approach.
I really love questions like this.

The insight obtained from from comparing the computer-like rationality to what would happen in the real world is truly fascinating to me.

Also, your example of Bob negotiating fits in very well with the theoretical computer-like rationality. Alice's offer of 1c is equivalent to an offer of 0c nominal in the hypothetical case.

The real-life 40% is more a commentary of utility of money as opposed to decision making. I think that you're conflating concepts.
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(In case anyone thinks this is more amazing than it is: it runs on Windows only right now. But presumably someone will start working on Unix ports shortly.)
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