skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect there are ways to make something both resistant to harassment and resistant to censorship.

Like, suppose a network was designed with those as its primary 2 goals. I don't think that would be totally unachievable.

DewDrop (I might have gotten the name mixed up with another thing by neyer) and related things seem not inconsistent with decentralized things, and they seem like they could be used for combating harassment. (e.g. by setting a minimum relative reputation for people sending one things in order to see the things, people who were more likely to be targeted could set a higher minimum, while people who no one knew could set a minimum of 0, or even something slightly negative. Someone who wanted to see everything sent to them could set it to the minimum allowed number.) (the relative reputation is constructed based on the individual, and does not rely on an authority thing to work).
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Previous company had the following in their contract:

TriNet Group, Inc. (“TriNet”): The Company’s payroll and other human resource management services are provided through TriNet, a
professional employer organization. This arrangement between the Company and TriNet means that TriNet will be considered your
employer of record for payroll and human resource management purposes and your managers here at the Company will be responsible for
directing your work, reviewing your performance, setting your schedule, and otherwise directing your work at the Company. This means
that the Company and TriNet are co-employers, and you are technically a “co-employee”. As a “co-employee” of TriNet, you will be
required to accept the policies and procedures set forth in TriNet’s Terms and Conditions Agreement (“TCA”).

More or less: income came from TriNet, insurance/benifits all came from TriNet, but I technically worked for $company.
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Someone's been reading too much zerohedge.
So basically capnproto built into the language?
I can't help but agree. This is the completely generic corporate-ification of values to the point that they're meaningless. If I were a Zenefits employee, this would be a red flag to reconsider working there.
Agreed...you grow by entertaining ideas other than your own, or those of the group you find yourself closely identifying with...

As F Scott Fitzegerald said:

A test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Using the Internet just to confirm your existing beliefs sounds a bit too much like tribalism...isn't there something better to aspire to?
Thank you for the feedback. The purpose of this project is to create my own implementation and share that thought. It is not an attempt to say or show that it is better than what is available.
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There are tens of thousands of regurgitations of the basic idea of including relativistic effects but very few sources that have looked directly at the necessity.

It was certainly included. The question of necessity, however, is another matter.

Once again, I must repeat that there are components of relativistic theory that are nearly indistinguishable from classical at such low proportions of C.

For instance, the entire relativistic doppler effect is often cited as a relatvistic effect. However, the portion of that whole large effect that is purely and uniquely relativity is miniscule because the difference between classical and relativistic are negligible at such low speeds (Super-sonic jets are dead snails covered in cold molasses compared to C)

Bear in mind that all the hyper-precise navigation we do within our solar system, from landing on mars to landing on a comet is PURELY NEWTONIAN.

(You should gasp with surprise here... I know I did when I learned that)
Hispters are going to spacemacs already, before it gets a "1.0" tag.

(Went textmate -> sublime -> atom -> spacemacs by myself)
He also came up with FischerTechnik, which is a superb building-block system far sturdier than Lego.

http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home.aspx

Had a lot of fun with this in my childhood.
No it's pretty bad for web developers - everyone stuck on old versions of Safari just since they don't want the new os (or sometimes are on services that aren't supported any more). Whereas there's not much difference between someone on chrome 43 and 46, and chrome auto updates aggressively so we can ignore anything < 40 easily.

Safari and IE are basically in the same boat of users being on old oses also being stuck on aging browsers. It's just that IE has been so much worse that we haven't had time to start complaining about Safari, but don't worry, that's coming very soon.
The billionaires need to extract their rent somehow. (
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Ah, I guess in Scheme it does (I use Common Lisp, where the two namespaces are different). But even then you would need the actual environment there for it to be a closure. The lambda expression is only half of a closure. It's "let over lambda" that is a closure.
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Yeah, I've had occasional mdworker issues, which was much more of an issue on battery-life than anything else. I had a bunch of launchctl shortcuts to disable a number of things when in battery mode (especially since Yosemite seemed like a big regression). What finally got me to switch, however, was mostly the out of control explosion network usage. I made a list of the network services that would run unbidden on my system: https://randomfoo.hackpad.com/OS-X-vs-Linux-JlyTLOwSWOG

(Ironically, by far the worst offender was Google's ksfetch - it had a psychic ability to know when I was on an airplane, and start its unkill9able update process (again, launchctl)).

Of course, there are costs for running Linux on the desktop as well. My original Ubuntu setup had many problems (its kernels were not Skylake friendly last year) and eventually apt got into a crazy situation with some ppa's (never a problem on my servers, since I run LTS exclusively). I ended up switching to Arch, and got it working how I liked, but not without a literal month of yak-shaving. I documented it here: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Arch-Linux-Install-Uf1RAzNYBU3 I've been poking around with Linux since the mid-90s, but even I can't help but shake my head at some of these things.
Yes. You can do the same thing in javascript.

But it's pointless to say that "the source code that, when evaluated, creates a named function, is itself not a function" is just pointless lawyerism.
If the employees see the execs not just paying lip service, but living those values every day, then yes, absolutely.
I like this concept. A lot. Obviously, it all depends on how well they execute the concept.
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We don't want to bet on their content being good enough that it's worth so much money.

And honestly, if there really is a wall that isn't casually circumventable, then I just won't read it. I don't care enough to pay.

If they curated some constantly brilliant content, I'd jump on paying them. But as it is, I rarely end up there anyway.
What makes him anarchist?
There are screenshots on the second page of the menu [1] and directly on the page.

I do agree that putting them on the front page would have made a better experience.

[1]: http://exlcom.jimdo.com/about-exlcom/
Thanks for the comment. Curious, what about that project do you find superior to the alternatives?
And when that growth stops, it's too late to fix the problems. If you can keep things teetering along for a couple more years you can get a few bonuses cash out and leave before it all falls over.

It's the same story everywhere. I wish that it weren't.
If only publishers had put that much thought and effort in sneaking in increasingly bloated advertising in with http requests for content until the ratio ads/content was a 100/1, or in massively violating their readers privacy and becoming complicit in a world wide greed driven surveillance system.

Any ethical policy with regards to ad blocking should start with the word "sorry", followed by a lengthy apology for two decades of utterly unethical business strategies.

Instead, we just get another aggressively anti-consumer move in the privacy arms race.

No tracking if you pay up amounts to blackmail. Publishers like these won't get a penny from me until they apologize and give up tracking altogether. (Of course the fact that Wired hasn't been relevant since the late 90s makes this particular decision a lot easier...)
> Well, Chrome tends to be ahead of the curve on a lot of things

True. Memory/CPU/Battery-usage ist painfully high.

Better Performance? Even scrolling on bigger websites is sluggish at best. The only point of having chrome installed on my machine is because of it's DevTools... but I'm playing a lot with firefox Dev-Edition lately which seems to be superior here.
> Our culture and tone have been inappropriate for a highly regulated company.

> Effective immediately, this company’s values are...

Translation: This will no longer be an enjoyable place to work.
Send an email to the address in my profile. I have some invites left.
Sort of. App.net's big experiment was "charge users money instead of monetizing their eyeballs". Twitter outages and developer alienation helped fuel its initial rise.
Thank you for your valuable comments
I didn't see an email. If you still need an invite, shoot me an email.
This seems like the typical device that would instantly make its way from the streets of (typically) NYC to the home (or remote place not related to home at all) of a security hobbyist in ca. 1990s NYC. Said hobbyist would probably think that this is a phreaking awesome gift from the state.

Or someone would call the number and watch the device to see what happens.

At the very least a couple of these devices would get unplugged.

I can't help but chuckle at the "don't unplug" sign...surely this is some sort of social experiment to see how long it takes until n% are unplugged?
I don't see the problem. I thought privacy was dead.
Ah, but gems like "Russian whistleblowers are more likely to meet with a fatal exposure to polonium" are apparently just fine. What am I supposed to do when people openly insult my country?
At the time everybody called BS on giving to the banks and trickle down economics.

Hindsight even proved it.

Problem is, politicians don't have the courage. Bankers tell them if the change the system, there'll be an economic crisis.
Just chiming in to say that this agrees with my experience completely. I also shifted from Sublime to Atom about 18 months ago, and have no regrets. Atom improves at a steady clip, and the package ecosystem is great. Despite the sniffy negativity here on HN, I've never had trouble with Atom performance or stability. I do still use Vim on the console for some things, and that will probably never change, but Atom is has become my "daily driver" code editor.
The world economy is being held back by debt and bad investments. Personal Debt. Deceitful monetary practices by lenders or investors. (ie real estate brokers encouraging debt) Corporate Debt. Government Debt. (city, county, State, Country, etc) Economies based on sky-high commodity prices. (prices relative to cost of living and relative to debt) Commodity producers financed by lots of debt.

Basically, many people and entities have financed growth by massive debt. The US is now comparatively better and has reduced QE and increased interest rates. This has caused commodities to plunge. (minus the fear-buying precious metals) A strong US dollar and faltering global markets have caused commodities to sink. Oil producers continue to produce in hopes that they can continue to finance their debt obligations.

In my opinion, the economic outlook will get worse-- especially in domestic and international markets where shale oil and tar sand oil is produced. These resources are much more expensive to extract and refine than traditional oil wells. Once these economies fall further (corporate and personal forclosures), the economic outlook will worsen.

The biggest problem is investing in expensive resources, financed by large debts.
This is why companies are socking money away at astounding rates- debt is crippling the global economy.
Because? Because it's slow? Or because it's weakly typed? See it that way: Everyone and their todler can program in js, including experts of PHP, Java, Nodejs. With thousands devs, we'd see an explosion of apps, and many good quality ones in the marketplace. If there's a way we can embed V8 at an X Server level, open all OS APIs to js, sandbox while still optimizing the RAM resources, assist with the type-checking, the benefits would be huge.
Not nearly the same amount do that, I assume.
well thats awkward.
If you want to do mutual exclusion using distributed locking then you end up in a painful place (as the article points out). In general you can't distinguish between a process that is running really slowly and a process that is dead. So when confronted with a non-responsive lock owner you end up with two unpleasant options:
1) Assume the lock owner is alive and don't do anything. This approach guarantees mutual exclusion but isn't especially useful because it gets stuck when things die.
2) Assume the lock owner is dead and take the lock. This doesn't guarantee mutual exclusion but "probably" works if you make the timeout "long enough." This can work correctly if you have a realtime system which will monitor the lock owner and kill the owner if the lease on the shared resource expires (this would probably require a special hardware/OS/programming language stack).
He does not necessarily keep even vested equity. He most likely loses unvested equity.

I have no idea about the termination clause for his contract, but it is a definite possibility to lose it all.
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>truly awesome platform-specific-at-first apps (subethaedit, quicksilver, textmate, coda),

I've had the same thought in my head for a long time now but haven't been able to put it the way you did; completely agree. There was also a time when OSX supported things like .psd previews, built-in *.iso mounting, and unzipping capabilities right out of the box when Win XP didn't.

This is part of what initially got me to become a big Mac fan, but as time goes on it seems that there are fewer of these unique advantages as modern Windows becomes more competitive. This also makes me all the more disappointed to see Apple's apparent lack of OSX advancement and shortfalls in reliability/usability.

The interesting thing for me is that I never would have thought that Windows would ever be competitive with Mac again for my attention, but the feel of sloppiness in Apple software is slowly moving me back in the other direction. Once Windows has things you mentioned like better platform-first apps, emacs bindings, and a better shell, I think I might fully commit to that switch.
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There is a huge memory leak in Preview since El Capitan and the display of PDFs sometimes fails when you zoom in. I have no idea how many users are affected by this, but it seems strange that Apple hasn't fixed it yet. Perhaps it is just a tricky bug.
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> Payment, or ads that we'll try and keep ok. The response is, we'll weaponize and win.

You really got to realize this is not about showing ads, ie. some plain jpg/gifs--which a lot of people would accept--but loading tons of tracking scripts that slow you down and violate your privacy. So yeah, I'm gonna protect against that, I don't deem it as an acceptable choice.
The issue there is, in the process of not getting f--ed by a US corporation are they not getting f--ed by their own government?

There are a whole lot of people making judgements based purely on numbers, but poverty when you see it isn't just numbers. Even analytical folks like Bill Gates will admit to their stark ignorance toward what poverty actually is until having seen it first hand. There's no substitute for seeing what is actually happening.

I agree talk is important and having this dialog isn't meaningless, but there is quite a lot of pseudo-intellectualism and general disconnectedness where people with power are more concerned with the next step in their career rather than the roles of the office they're actually occupying. Or some notion that the ideas of protecting the ideas of net-neutrality in the west are some sort of modern day "white man's burden." If I needed to fix my roof today and you told you I couldn't have just a hammer and screwdriver because they can't separated from the whole toolbox, I would be heartbroken.

While openly violating net-neutrality isn't going to benefit any politician looking for votes for their next seat in public office, the reality is that net-neutrality has been violated all over the world to the tremendous benefit of the people. It's important to note that, while net-neutrality is mostly upheld in the US, the US suffers plenty of blind spots that result from the biases in general news media, social media, and reporting.

Also, to address your original point, implementing nothing will also have massive issues for decades. Your commentary falls under the same heading as the people intellectualizing the problems without having a stake in it. I don't know where you live or anything about you, but go check out rural India some time and find out what real poverty is. If you've never seen it with your own eyes, you honestly have no idea what it is.
fn main() {
Err("ERROR").unwrap_or_else(perr);

}

gross.
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Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/clever-bank-hack-all..., which points to this.
Meh. I've never seen a corporate values statement that wasn't warmed over claptrap. The very idea you need a mission statement or list of values means the coolness has left the building.
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Having used both this and gifs.com (formally gifyoutube.com) I can say that I prefer the latter. It's as simple as replacing youtube.com with gifs.com in the URL[1].

Disclaimer: I work at gifs.com

1. https://www.gifs.com/watch?v=jhyANGHDDH8
Apple Maps over Google Maps on a phone every time for me, and I live in Norway, not in the US.
Which will be funny when they start serving malware directly from their servers.
AFAIK there is still an ecomony, economising, and has been the whole time.

1. Mainstream (maybe lobbied) view that growth is constant and without it we're all going to die.
2. Incurred debt trying to achieve #1
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> Note that for well-known procedures, all variables that are free in the lambda are also free in the caller

I don't think this is right, unless given an unnecessarily strict definition of `well-known`. A contrived counterexample:

let example x y =
let f =
let z = big_calculation x in
(fun t -> if t then z else 0) in
(fun q -> f q + f y)

Here f is bound to a known function, which is only called and never escapes. All of the known-function optimisations should apply. However the variable z is not in scope at the call sites of f.

Optimising this example effectively is a bit tricky - the 'standard' thing to do is construct a closure that contains z (but need not contain a code pointer, since all call sites are known), which is itself contained within the closure for (fun q -> ...). A more aggressive method would be to discover that all references to f are within (fun q -> ...) and inline the free variables of f into its closure, avoiding an indirection.

It's quite a fun subject - there are various implementation tricks for curried functions and partial application too, which aren't very important in Scheme but are crucial for ML.
I took the parent comment as a RICO case metaphorically.

There are quite a few interesting undeveloped analogies across the greater hip hop industry vs. startups.
I think I only had a noticeable mdworker problem (stuck process) once in my nine years of using Macs. Maybe I'm lucky to have had SSDs for a long time, but mdworker is something I rarely notice (in contrast to storedownloadd and others).

I think I use Spotlight almost a couple of dozen times each day to find documents, applications, and sometimes e-mails. So the productivity gains outnumber the marginal cost enormously.

Also, there is a healthy ecosystem around Spotlight. E.g., I use Alfred, which allows you to define use/custom workflows.

BTW. If you use Alfred, this is one of the nicest workflows I found recently: https://github.com/bevesce/unicode-symbols-search
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I had a good deal of insight into how this played out at the very top. Behind closed doors there's actually support in a lot of good places, but there is quite a lot of political posturing from people that have a stake in the nationalistic angles. It gets votes.
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www.apilimit.com is a service that does this exactly.
He was removed involuntarily.

> Zenefits also removed Conrad from its board of directors, while adding three prominent investors, according to an announcement on Monday.
I switched to Google Wallet. PayPal would take forever to send money and has done nothing for years to innovate. All they do is buy startups (Braintree). I think this is entirely true - when the founders leave, companies stop innovating.
Safe harbour is dead, long live EU-US Privacy Shield
I know a Matt Scully...lol no way does he work for the DHS
> > You wouldn't allow OTA updates of your router or PC... Now would you?

> Have you booted an internet-connected Windows 7/8 machine recently?

No, because I use GNU/Linux.
Every time I check HN, there's a new crypto tool, encrypted databases, and tips on hardening your servers. No matter how secure your system is technically, there is always the requirement to make parts of it "insecure" (in the sense that people buy enterprise encryption, but expect the company that sells it to keep a spare copy of the keys to recover lost data just in case)

The reality in cyber security is that people provide the weakest and easiest point of entry to compromise any computer system. Until the business side and process side of things improve, shit like this will remain common.
I guess this won't work in OpenOffice.

Does it use actual TP, or the dumbed down 2-turn system of Firaxis' "reimagining"?
Actually, that feedback was one of the motivations to continue working on it, even though a complete rewrite was needed, for many reasons.
ThinkPad screens have been getting better. I'm actually pretty happy with contrast/brightness of the FHD IPS on my X250 (color gamut definitely could be better, but at least it doesn't do dynamic contrast like recent Dells), but the new screens, like the X1 Yoga's new OLED screen looks fantastic (I believe that'll be a 100% Adobe RGB screen).

Whenever I switch back and forth, I'm always shocked by how many PC laptops do trackpads so terribly when the Macbooks have been out there for years now.
I thought the licence terms disallowed running OSX running on anything other than Mac. Of course, I always clicked 'Agree' without reading the licence terms.

I have been thinking of something opposite: run ubuntu on Mac.
It won't be free software, but you could probably get them to give you the code with a license that isn't free.
"I regard intelligence as made up of tangible, mechanical and ultimately understandable processes. We will understand the intelligence we put into machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives—that is, well enough to be able to render their behavior predictable enough that in general they don’t cause unintended damage."

This is the new representative quote for the word "hubris" in my brain.
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