skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they expect one good keyframe to draw your attention, then the title to help you decide whether to watch. I suspect most YouTube watchers are not in it for the aesthetics, but rather for the content, so a title like "Jelly Bean Factory Tour" can be quite sufficient vs. something like "Amazing amateur video." Your interest in jelly bean factories is probably not predicated on whether the presenter is hot, or whether the beans are a certain color.
Indians Singing Drake Songs
I think this is spot on. A lot of companies I know that are doing layoffs are entirely hands-off developers, except maybe the occasional breaking off with a contracting company.
The integrations are indeed a gimmick. They consume so much space that they end up being shoved into their own channel, where nobody ever looks... so what was the point of them again?
Basic Income and How Tech and Automation Will Change Employment Outlook [video]
I participated Payments Summit 2016 where they presented some hard numbers and you could also discuss with industry people.

50% of credit card fraud is 1st person fraud (you lie about the purchase yourself). Rest is online fraud, which is expected to go up with the chip and pin. The same happened in UK as crooks just moved to different liquidation methods of stolen credit cards. Stolen / copied card is actually the smallest part of the problem and banks estimate that cost of people forgetting their pin numbers is higher than the actual fraud.

The estimate is that all fraud goes online until credit cards get tokenized CC numbers or time based CVV numbers (the card has a battery, LCD screen and CVV changes every few hours).
I think I'll stick with email from now on.
Is there a reason this would need to be a Seattle attorney?
Conservative ideology is focused around defining progress (a term somewhat at odds with conservatism itself) as a return to a previous state of affairs (that may have never existed in the first place). That our civilizations apotheosis is somewhere in the past, not the future. This does not seem a compatible perspective with the idea of the university, which was handed down to us from the ideas of Socrates: to probe the universe, to find the answers to misunderstood and perplexing phenomena; to search for the truth. To a conservative ideologue, the truth lies behind us. To the rest of humanity, the truth lies beyond us.

That's not to say that history doesn't have an important role to play for the forward-thinking. On the contrary. We'd like to get the record straight or as close to right as possible. This often flies in the face of the imagined past conservative thinking seems transfixed upon.
Slack admin can set a team wide do not disturb period.
Users can override if they wish.
Archives are a start, but the problem is most channels are not indexed. There is no "google for irc" of sorts.

Even if the archives are searchable (the searches generally suck in the first place), who's going to know to go into this specific archive, for this specific channel, and search for this particular query?

As someone who was interested in this a few years ago: This is still an open problem for someone to solve. The solution isn't particularly hard, it's just nobody has really gotten to it yet.

(And yes, you may come across the odd irc conversation in your google searches once in a while - but it is not to scale with the immense amount of information that comes out of irc).
Once that law exists, it will be a crime to do what Cisco did, and I'll be happy about that.
Until then, discussing what Cisco did as "criminal" is dangerous. It should be harder to stretch our existing laws to make criminal cases, not easier.

Are you at all familiar with the current U.S. laws and how they are effectively applied? Does RICO ring any bells? Al Capone vs. IRS, perhaps?

This sort of thing has been illegal for a while, so long as you're not considered too powerful to prosecute...
I once worked for a company where it was mandatory (highly encourage and if you did not you might find yourself being fired) to read Alas Shrugged ... with the boss asking you questions as you read it to try understand your political ideology.

No, it is not ok to force someone to adopt a political ideology, religion or any other thought process.

It was a terrible job, a terrible work environment and I quit as soon as I found a new job.
What do you mean by this? I know for a fact that I was paid more than some H1B folks at previous companies, with equivalent titles and experience.
Aaand it's off the front page.

http://i.imgur.com/FQNYhED.png

Isn't that interesting? The story above this one is roughly as old, has half the upvotes, and more comments. The one just below it is a lot older, and has a lot more comments than upvotes. Conspiracy? No, just the audience I guess, but all the same: QED.

> Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go
> In case you did not know, the companies are obligated to pay H1b employees more than the prevailing wage for that position in that county

Where's your data on that? Depending on the company I've been at the public H1B numbers were lower than what I would expect.
How shall I arrange payment? Please post the source as well, surprisingly I don't see much of a difference.
My understanding: free CI runners for everybody, 10 USD promo code to new users. Considering that DigitalOcean has always been giving away 10 USD coupons to non-users, the promo code is quite irrelevant. But the free CI runners are great!
Discord is a bit like Slack but focused on voice chat for the gaming community. It has voice rooms that work as you describe. https://discordapp.com/
> Blaming the tool for this kind of behavior would be comical but for the fact that it's actually scary scary to see someone with this little self awareness.

It' not at all comical. I think the part you don't get is that this is the _main_ reason why most people started trying out slack to start with. People were using chat before slack as well. The reason they tried slack was because of the notifications, alerts, integrations and history. When you get these features, the tool becomes very different from irc and this is what the post is about.
Some day, 30 years from now, people will look back on the term "big data" and laugh at how naive we were.
Exactly. These popsci articles aren't really based on any scientific facts.
> a return to a previous state of affairs (that may have never existed in the first place)

If chasing a state that never really existed wouldn't that make conservatism some sort of defacto progressive utopianism?
Not as strong on the history part to know about remove them with land army. However, I agree Ho Chi Minh was brilliant at strategy. Far as our opponents go, I particularly was impressed with whoever realized that Americans would likely pull out if they saw enough messed up stuff on TV. That's one of reasons they started doing stuff near places like churches. It was a brutal strategy but it worked quite to their advantage. They proved America didn't have the guts to keep up a war against Vietnamese. Many couldn't even watch one.
ShapeShift.io hack post-mortem report [pdf]
‘Utopia for Realists?’ – a review
Nah. I think there are more than a few of us around. I mostly avoid using my smart phone and I don't have a data plan. I had to buy it because I was travelling abroad and it was a light device I could use to communicate and take photos with. Most of my work is done on my laptop.
> The advocates of diversity in higher education claim that learning requires the robust exchange of ideas, which is enhanced when students and faculty have the greatest possible variety of backgrounds. They argue that exposure to people from different backgrounds breaks down unfair stereotypes and promotes understanding of those who come from different circumstances than oneself.

Huh. I thought that the advocates of diversity in higher education were saying that it is fundamentally wrong to have an applicant pool and a worker pool that is biased on some aspect that has no known scientific reason to be intrinsically biased in that way, no plausible hypothesis for why it would be intrinsically biased in that way, and plenty of known reasons to be extrinsically biased. You could say it's fundamentally wrong because it's morally unjust, or you could say it's fundamentally wrong because it's losing you out on a large fraction of qualified candidates, but either way it's not because of second-order effects like these people bringing new viewpoints and ways of thinking.

I would imagine, for instance, that if a hypothetical Harvard noticed that most of its current and prospective faculty were Boston Brahmin, it would primarily look to diversify its candidate pool because there are tons of other good candidates that they must be overlooking. There's probably also a secondary effect of diversity of thought, and there probably is a bit of explanation as to why it's easier for well-established, well-connected families in Boston to produce Harvard professors, and a tiny bit of that might even be genetic intelligence. But it seems implausible that a well-functioning recruitment process would primarily attract this crowd, and the conclusion would be that the process is poorly functioning, not merely that it is poorly accomplishing some secondary benefit of diversity.

If you accept this reasoning, then it's pretty clear why Prof. Hasnas' experience -- as the "executive director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, whose tripartite mission is to produce high-quality research on matters related to the ethics of market activity, improve ethics pedagogy, and educate the broader, non-academic community about ethical issues related to the functioning of markets" -- involves a lot of discrimination on political viewpoint, and there is no contradiction or hypocrisy in wanting discrimination on political viewpoint for a job in such an institute but not wanting discrimination on genetics. Candidates applying for such a job probably have an extensive academic history of expressing opinions on markets and ethics, and whether they are libertarian in those forums is absolutely relevant to the recruitment process. (Their political opinions they yell on Facebook is of course a different thing and much more off-limits, but I don't believe that's what the professor or his committees were referring to.) A well-functioning recruitment process for such an institute should be biased on what those candidates have written on these topics and what viewpoints they've argued in favor of.
But what's the alternative? Don't give anyone even the meager means of living? Communism? (that worked out well). In the coming years, tons of people will be out of jobs and incapable of participating in the shrinking not yet automated away economy, what do we do?
Thanks. I didn't know about that full data download.

For more in-depth information (e.g. company accounts), you can go here:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/help/welcome

This information is all on the public record, but was previously only available on payment of 1 pound per document. Now this trial service makes it available for free.
In RTP, since that's where I am:

https://www.caktusgroup.com/

http://www.redhat.com

https://www.sciencelogic.com/

https://www.ansible.com/

I moved from Python to JavaScript a few years ago primarily because the market just isn't there locally.
So, it starts with a slightly different form of sleezy behavior: Google paid a university to write "academic studies" that Google would then claim demonstrated that Google wasn't anticompetitive.

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-and-george-mason-unive...

One of the professors, who was the author of many of those "studies" is Joshua Wright, who thereafter took the FTC Commissioner position in 2013. Note that the Google checks to GMU started the same month as the FTC probe began.

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/24/googles_insidious_shadow_lob...

The FTC investigation around this time had found significant cause to go after Google:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-o...

Despite this, the FTC decided to close the investigation without any significant change on January 3rd, 2013:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/googl...

And the Google-paid advocate above, Joshua Wright, was signed in as FTC Commissioner just ten days later:

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/joshua-d-wright

Note that the close relationship between Google and this White House have been well documented. Googlers are some of Obama's top contributors in the previous Presidential election, numerous Googlers have taken high-ranking positions at the White House, and Google executives or representatives visit weekly. So I have a hard time buying that any of this is coincidence.

And the rumor is, that within like a month of Joshua Wright resigning, the FTC started investigating Google antitrust again.
I did this in Korea. It even had wifi.

Not as comfortable as you might think.
Same boat. I built in 2009 and have a Q9450@3Ghz and a Radeon 5870 with 8GB RAM and a one-time top of the line Intel 160GB X25-M SSD. Still works great. There's only 1 thing I don't like about it, with 3 monitor outputs enabled the idle temp on the GPU is pretty hot (~86C). I'm hoping a newer machine will bring that down. Single output it's about 57C, so a huge difference.

But I got tired of 190F slowly being pumped out of my case and into the room.
Its replacement is finally on the way. I preordered Intel's Skull Canyon NUC[0]. Got 32GB of DDR4-2800Mhz memory and a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro PCIE/NVME M.2 SSD. I'll be dailychaining a single DisplayPort cable to 3 new LCDs as well.

Pretty huge leap in performance. It just made sense to stop building new computers and jump on the NUC bandwagon. All I do is development, League of Legends and the rare CSGo. The ~Geforce 750 performance levels that NUC will provide will be enough. The inclusion of the Thunderbolt3 port for an external GPU case really put my mind at ease. Not that I intend to utilize it, but I'm glad it's there. Same upgradability as any other machine. SSD/RAM/GPU. The CPU is soldered, but I never once replaced a CPU after building a computer anyway. Other than the few Athlons I killed from overclocking in ~2001.

Probably upgrade more often if these new gaming NUCs are as good as I think they'll be. Next upgrade for me will be 10nm + Thunderbolt4 NUC. And the final perk, all-Intel so it'll work great with any Linux distro natively. That's worth a lot to me.

Unless Intel failed hard with this thing, which I highly doubt.. it's Intel.. I'm all-in on NUCs from here on out.

[0]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102...
I appreciate you actually addressing the concerns with some evidence. :) The CDDL would then knock out the patent side of the issue far as that licensed material goes. That Oracle keeps doing things like trying to copyright the API's and such might still be a risk. Not to mention it's hard to defend against a company like that whether they have a case or not. So, some residual risk there.

Good that there's significant work going into it. Although my comments don't seem this way, I'm actually a fan of multiple codebases being developed for UNIX for diversity purposes. Especially preventing one-bug-hits-all situations. I also wanted IRIX and other defunct UNIX code open-sourced for that reason. I'll give OpenSolaris bunch as doing better than anything else based on a legacy, commercial UNIX. ;)
This strikes me as a vast generalization. I think that the author of the article is also including people who have conservative economic views (he calls out libertarians as a marginalized group, who are socially liberal and economically conservative). Surely there's nothing about economic conservatism that flies against progress or probing the universe.

While I am not conservative, I believe there is a lot that can be learned from those with a conservative viewpoint.
This is incredibly timely for me. We have grown from a team of 2 to a team of 18 in the past year, we're all remote and we literally huddle around Slack and warm ourselves to it's glow from morning till night. It's the core of our company culture and our comms.

I think Dave (the author and founder of 1password) is feeling the same thing I'm feeling as a CEO. It's a kind of weird anxiety that creeps up on you as the company scales and you feel like you're always-on from the moment you open your eyes to the moment you close them at night. I think it's a symptom of a virtual office and team. A real office on the other hand would provide that very real sense of driving home in the evening that gives you a very solid separation from work, the team, the opportunities and the issues.

To be clear: I'll never go back to a physical office, both for my own benefit and that of my team's.

I became aware of this problem with being always-on recently. I also started giving rather short unvarnished answers to questions on Slack and I realized something had changed. I've put it down to having no sense of quiet time. I don't mean not having any 'quiet time' but having no 'sense of quiet time' because someone might have messaged me. So even if I set myself to away, I'm still checking in just in case I dropped the ball because someone is waiting for a reply.

I've changed two things so far to try and fix this:

- Taking long walks (in addition to my regular bike rides) with Slack off.
- I still code, so I turn Slack off and set my alarm for 1.5 hours from now or whenever I need to be back on. Then turn Slack off.

Things I'm considering:

- Banning Slack after a certain time at night (for me personally). Perhaps 8pm.
- Banning Slack for myself until I'm "on" in the mornings.

Being a remote team I see Slack as absolutely essential and I don't think we could do without it. We are very productive via slack and we share music, jokes, news, ideas for blog posts and many other things via Slack. We also do our voice calls via Slack and we don't use video on purpose because it's distracting. So for us, Slack won't go away any time soon. I think if you can manage it, it's an amazing team platform.

On a broader note: I think digital addiction is a real problem. I think it's subtle and it involves checking the same thing more than 20 times a day in a non-productive obsessive way. Think Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, hitting refresh on a SaaS thing that gives you a quick endorphin or adrenaline rush and of course Slack. I think the symptoms are subtle, the behavior is widely accepted as normal and it's destructive in several ways.

So I think it's important to develop a discipline that allows us to exist online safely, productively and in good health. I think what this discipline is is just beginning to emerge in our culture because the problem of digital addiction and being always-on is only beginning to be recognized.

~mark.
Wasn't that Google Wave?
The Nuremberg Trials[1] / "Nuremberg Defence"[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529855
It was the other way round. If you see the bottom of the 2048 page (https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/), it is mentioned that "Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer."

2048 was created over a weekend and is actually a very poorly designed game but went viral, arguably because of HN. The 2048 craze prompted the creators of Threes to publish this incredibly detailed and lengthy writeup on the creative process of Threes: http://asherv.com/threes/threemails. Threes, on the other hand, is truly a very well-executed piece of art and magnificently designed.

The developer of 2048 wrote a post about his viral success here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704800 (couldn't find the article as it has since been removed). Kudos to him for giving credit.

At the end of the day, both games left their mark on the games industry and is an excellent example on the effect of cloning and virality.
The Soviet and Chinese relationship was an interesting one. Mao disagreed with Khrushchev's liberal (compared to Stalin) policies, and China and the USSR became enemies. Vietnam (and Mongolia) were close Soviet allies to protect themselves from Chinese domination.

China allowed Soviet military aid passage through the country, but once the threat of having an American client cf. South Korea was waning (early 70s) repaired relations with the US and invaded Vietnam (1978).
I wanted to post my favourite quote from the article, but honestly, it has too many gems to pick just one.

>Another friend told me a security officer once confiscated the mangos he was taking as a gift — but only the soft, ripe, delicious, juicy ones, which the officer said were classified as a liquid and therefore banned.

> On the return trip the pilot announced the plane needed to make an unplanned stop — to refuel. The plane descended onto the runway in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the passengers shuffled into the airport. The crew proceeded to take up a collection. That’s right: They hit up the Dakar Jaguars middle school swim team for gas money.

>Days before, the local paper had published a story about Camair-Co’s new fleet under the headline “Flying Coffins.” The government assured the public that the planes were safe.

>I bought my ticket and boarded the Camair-Co flight under lighted signs that warned of bans against flying with opium or uppers or “palm oil, honey, etc.” I’m not a savvy enough traveler here yet to know what the “etc.”
Aside from if he's right or not, that is the belief one would expect him to hold, his other option is "looks like I'm a bad investor after all".
I believe conservatism partially covers the "second moment" as well: for instance, one might think that civilization has progressed further than it has ever in the past, but it's accelerating towards a state of affairs that will "overshoot" and end up being worse than some future state.

Maybe we conceptualize political views around higher moments of progress, like jerk-progress and snap-progress.
It's the law: https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/wages.cfm
That's very unfair. The author took the time to share his knowledge about legal issues surrounding startups and, as is customary when legal matters are discussed, he provided a disclaimer to avoid personal liability but that doesn't mean the article is inaccurate. You won't find anyone offering free legal services on a Medium post.