skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No, you're right. Someone like, say, you, should get to decide, preemptively, what a contract between two parties should or should not be allowed to include. Because you know better than the parties actually doing the negotiation, right? Why should we trust that the relevant parties know what's in their own interests?"

When one party has far more power than the other, and the clause in question is only there to screw the worker over and prevent them from working in their chosen field? Yes. There is absolutely no reason why a worker would want one of these clauses. They get railroaded into them only because they need a job and don't have negotiating power.

Stop pretending that everyone has the same negotiating power.

"Yes, there are."

No, there aren't. A company is not entitled to make money. Especially not at the expense of someone being able to feed their family.
More inspiration: https://www.mapbox.com/platform/
The paper in the HBR seems to define "toxic" quite differently though:

..."otherwise skilled employees who ended up doing real damage — employees who had been fired for egregious company policy violations, such as sexual harassment, workplace violence, or fraud"...
The most important difference, IMHO, is this release puts at risk a vulnerable minority. It's like the difference between 'discrimination' against white-skinned Americans and against black or brown-skinned ones:

The majority controls almost all the levers of power and institutions, from Washington to the state capital to courts to law enforcement to industry to medicine to everything else. They can and do create structures and make laws to protect themselves, and make a phone call to a buddy if those don't work. People in this group have the empathy and understanding of the rest of the majority, who see you as individuals (for example, they don't tend to write ignorant, thoughtless blanket stereotypes on HN - about their own group; or police don't pull you over when they see driving).

If you're politically weak, you're powerless; you depend on the goodwill of the majority, which historically has often attacked you. Ultimately, there is no way to protect yourself - they can kill you and the institutions won't care, or put you in jail if they don't like you. And your only appeal is to more people in the majority; you're trapped. It's a precarious, dangerous position to be in.
Not only is there no evidence of carrier collusion in the U.S. market, the idea doesn't even make logical sense. Cartels are inherently unstable.[1] Participants only have an incentive to continue colluding when everyone is making money. T-Mobile is barely breaking even, and Sprint is actively losing money. It's absurd to argue they are colluding to protect a status quo they don't benefit from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel#Long-term_unsustainabil...
I'd rather live in the unbreakable world because then the oppression is out in the open / forced.

People expect stuff to just turn up on Pirate bay, extraction tools etc.
Can you point out a counter-example?
"recursion" is calling a function from itself. You usually want this to terminate at some point, though, and thus will have some kind of branching, so it's not "en abyme".
Ironic, how a corrupt government tries to pursue corruption.
I think you'd want to dive into history books. Almost all European contries (that were close to Russia or Russian Empire) did that at some point of time.
MIT Researchers Created Eye-Tracking Solution for Your Smartphone
From El País, a little over an hour ago:

In the case of the Spanish subsidiary, the Tax Office is analyzing why Google pays so little tax in Spain despite making multimillion-selling. With this action, the Agency's technical investigators seek to determine if the international structure of the world's leading Internet search engine is not legitimate. Toward this aim they will try to prove that functionality the group attributed to its Spanish subsidiary are less than they actually performed.

The record is linked to an investigation into possible tax evasion. The company, known for its Internet search engine, has spent years in the crosshairs of Finance for its tax system, as part of their income managed through Ireland. Thus, it could be artificially reducing its business in Spain and lowering its tax bill.

Tax Office searches Google Spain and Google Ireland for evidence of tax fraud

http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2016/06/30/actualidad/14...
As the OP points out, this may suggest his age. I'm in my mid 30s and I have no idea what Mr. Robot is, but I certainly do know who Rambo and Terminator are.
I actually expected rm -rf / to do just that.
Companies lobby governments to create or maintain favorable tax environments, governments look to be friendly to business. Everybody is being rational, so nobody is responsible? Everything is great right?

Your business does not deserve my money, my support, or my respect if you are not proud to pay your fair share for the common resources that are the foundations of its success.
moving the eMMC to a new phone's mainboard is probably also not a likely scenario.

Data recovery is, however, which is why I don't think one-sided promotion of ubiquitous hardware-locked-FDE is a good idea --- it becomes a tradeoff between others getting access to, and you losing access to, your data. Is it more important that this data be accessible by no one but you even if it means you might also lose access to it, or that you not lose access, even if it means others can access it? Hardware-locked FDE is suited only to the former case.
Silicon Valley, where people compare the necessity of Internet to that of water.
Host lunch and learns at your office.
Go to a public speaking club before work or after.
Join some meetups.
No one at any of those care about what company you work at.
>I've received two temporary bans myself for mentioning ethereum in a comment

You should've seen r/Bitcoin following the DAO debacle, nothing posted/discussed but that.
The fact that it exists in Afghanistan (if Wikipedia is to be believed), at whatever frequency, doesn't address any of the questions I brought up.
It doesn't sound like Digital Ocean handled this very well. You are allowed to give ample time to the site owner to disable the offending content. And then the counter-notice process starts to get it back on-line.

Only if the site owner ignores the notice should the VPS be turned off entirely.
I think you missed the word 'Europe'.

And of course, in America there would never be such a thing as carrier collusion, that's totally unthinkable, so what those carriers in Europe were up to would not at all be done on other continents.
How reliable is this compared to both services you mention on your homepage?
No, but we do this after we were asked by the legit government and according to international law. While the US did that out of their own whim, even when UN said clear "NO".
I have to agree with Wyager here. Governments create incredibly challenging tax rules and environments. Those rules are hard to understand and they cripple the growing businesses. The small business just can't compete with the big player in managing their tax affairs. This hurts even more when you know that after all the hard work that you do, your tax money isnt even being spent in the right places. After the UK decided to bomb syria, though i still paid my tax, that became more and more painful. I didnt like what the government was doing with my hard earned money. Syria is just one thing in the line of many. There are so many things the government spends money on and it all comes out of taxpayers pockets. The ordinary citizen -- in reality -- has very little say with what happens to that money. That's why i dont blame people that avoid it. I can understand their reasoning.
From http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html

"Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month.

Looks like they forgot to multiply it by 100 (at least in the definition).
Bitcoin’s meta problem: governance (part II)
It's part of an old joke (crops up in Yes Minister, may go back further): in Germany, everything is prohibited except that which is allowed; in the UK, everything is allowed except that which is prohibited; in Russia, everything is prohibited including that which is allowed, while in Italy everything is allowed especially that which is prohibited.
In the app I had built (for NBA) I think we just asked people for their carrier name. Or we may have used a lookup service - I don't recall.
Without looking up the statistics, I'm confident that "being outed as a cheater" is one of the leading causes of people being "harmed violently" by their spouse.
You'd probably be hard-pressed to find a gmail user that doesn't speak at least one of those languages.
I Expected Nutella :(
Cool product! Will give it a try for my startup.
I think this depends on what you consider “real development”. I always thought people don’t do any "real development" on non-unix systems. As far as anything Internet or modern goes, Windows is far, far from the standard. I guess that’s the point of this compatiblity layer, after all.
That might be something that foreign speakers find easier to get right because they have to actively learn it, and the words are more different in other languages so they wouldn't confuse the concepts.
The article specifically said these were all static sites.
Agreed. If we are going to tax corporations then why not a flat tax on the gross revenues. In the U.S a 3% tax rate on gross is the approximate revenue the IRS currently collects. Pass the expense to your customer if you are in a low margin business.

A business can't tell their landlord that they owe no rent because they are "unprofitable" ? Why then do we accept this excuse from the businesses who benefit the most from our public systems.
He definitely doesn't sing Trump's praises that much. In fact in the very next sentence he says he disagrees with him on some pretty key issues of his platform.
Thanks for taking a look and for your feedback! Do you have any recommendations for us for alternative pricing?

One of the things we tried to accommodate is that teams can be paid for by the individual members instead of one entity having to foot the whole bill. This was one of the common complaints we saw about Slack, where large communities enjoy using it but had no way to pay for better service.

You can use Semaphor for free just like Slack, with limited historical content retention.

Also, for what it's worth, I use Signal daily for personal messaging, and my own experience with it has been great. We think of Semaphor and the team/business context as as having pretty different requirements (and therefore somewhat different underlying crypto structures) than individual messaging. The biggest differences are about message retention and what happens when you want to invite a new member to an established conversation.
Why does NPR have such a specific sound?  It's in the microphones
Ask HN: How does Airlines travel vouchers/promotions/subscriptions work?
I am not a lawyer...

That is partially correct, but the host (DO), still needs to ensure the content was removed. If they pass it on and the account owner ignores it, DO could potentially be liable.
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Average voters are too dumb and uneducated to appreciate that complexity or the effects it has. People who do would rather participate in that tax scam.

The reason politics is full of vapid stupidity is that powerful entities want it that way. If the population wasn't distracted by guns, abortion, and gay sex they might actually be paying attention to issues that matter.
His answer should have been "sales, marketing, and business dev", which is the other half of the equation once you have developed a working product.

It sounds like he wants to get others to do all the work and reap all the benefits because he is the "idea guy".

I would move on.
Software Heritage, the “Library of Alexandria of software,” launches today
The EU wants this done quickly because the uncertainty is killing investments and the economy.

It is irresponsible from the Tories to not have called article 50 the next morning. The sooner this gets done, the better for both the UK and the EU.
That was also my first thought, but after consideration, there's more to "mise en abyme" than simply placing a story within another.

I think in France everyone learns this term at least in high school, specifically applied to literature, and the way I was taught is that something in the inner story reflects something in the outer story. So for example, you'd talk about the "mise en abyme" of a specific relationship between two characters. This brings it a bit closer to self-similar recursion, but I agree it's still quite different and generally not about fully self-referential concepts (IMO Wikipedia goes a bit over the top in that regard).
Hey, he stole my ASCII sword idea! http://vorpal.js.org

Although I would argue he found a better use for it.
where exactly do you think these documents were public? the Clinton camp itself said they were hacked
If you have a startup with any user generated-content, keep reports like this in mind when choosing your service provider.
Sorry! Ironically (since we're using Google's Golang) Android has been the hardest platform for us to finish. We've got Mac, iOS, Linux, and Windows now, and are running Android internally but it's not release ready yet. Should have it within a few weeks. It is likely to require a newish Android version though. Thanks for taking a look!
This could also be abused, just as the libel/trademark/copyright laws can. Imagine Microsoft kind of money behind a smear campaign with untraceable funding.
> How's the UX of wire?

No UX complaints here. I don't think it has ephemeral messages, but you can delete per-contact history of end-to-end encrypted msgs. There's a neat doodle/whiteboard feature. The surprising killer feature of Wire has been the quality of audio, which may be due to their hiring of former Skype engineers, http://www.wired.com/2015/08/wire-declares-war-on-terrible-c...:

"You know that vague hissing noise that’s omnipresent during your phone calls? It’s called “comfort noise,” and it’s totally artificial. It’s placed there so that when you hear those brief moments of silence between each speaker’s vocalizations, you don’t think the call has disconnected. In Wire, there’s none of that; it’s actually a little jarring, not hearing anything at all when no one’s speaking ... a Wire group call is also set up in a sort of virtual space. Sound comes through the app in stereo—you really need a headset to experience it—and the app’s post-processing is able to delay it by a few milliseconds in one ear or the other. The effect is that even though you’re all on a call, it will always sound like Mary’s sitting on your left, Mike is right in front of you, and Stephanie is a few seats over to the right. Your brain doesn’t have to re-identify a voice every time it starts speaking."
He wants to get interns to do business dev. He actually said that to me.
Can we contrast the aggressive Amazon platform vs customer dynamic with other cloud providers?

Why would a new company opt for Amazon at the risk of being copied and competed with as we're seeing with Netflix, Twilio, and numerous Amazon store vendors? Why not go with Google or Microsoft?
Just to clarify, unconfirmed transactions get dropped from the mempool after 3 days (default setting).
I just interviewed at autostore:) They seem have really cool and clean technology and the one person I had contact with so far seemed really nice.
SSL/info sec/whatever noob here. Why can they produce certificates for, say, google.com without the permission of Google? Or am I reading the article wrong?
Who knows if they actually hide tax data in the calendar. No-one [0] would suspect that. Bring down the service to dodge the taxman.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-probe-spain-idUSKCN...
Good luck trying to hit "Reply-All" when the email is sent correctly (all recipients are BCC for their own privacy).
Well, that's me! :-)
Ask HN: What technical skill do you wish your non-technical manager had?
(More options will be added from the comments)
Any programming language
The Unix command line
Systems Administration
Strangely, I thought Foursquare with its checkins would add event scheduling (future checkins), but I guess they went a different way.
“Let’s spell this out,” Rid said. “We have a foreign intelligence agency that is picking sides, that is doing a sophisticated hack and influence operation in support of the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the US general elections. That’s craziness, if that’s actually the case.”

Yeah, having foreign intelligence agencies interfere in sovereign elections does suck.
Learn, Code, and Write
Oh no, they apparently keep those documents in the calendar. And they've brought it down!

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...
Tai Chi
Elizabeth Warren Hits Apple Music's 'Treatment' of Rivals
I was trying to understand how Airlines come up with various subscriptions and vouchers to increase the loyalty of customers.

Are there any such programs that have been successful so far ? Or what are the reasons behind failure of such programs ?

I would love to know more about this. Thanks in advance
> Yes, there is a concentration of mining power in China, owed to their low costs of electricity.

It's actually due more to the low costs of building a datacenter. The electricity prices in WA state, for example, are lower.
Sure, something that worked like a Bussard ramjet, but without necessarily funneling all the particles through the craft itself, would still be useful. Grab all the hydrogen (and any bonus dust) within a few kiloclicks and throw it backwards at relativistic speed.

Well, if one know how to create such an effect...
> If some incident was going to result in a few more people getting struck and killed by lightning, that might well get a similar reaction.

I disagree. How many things cause people to die in higher numbers? We wouldn't have time to read about all of them.

If you are suggesting that stereotype and demonization of Muslims isn't involved in the response, I have a very hard time believing it. Just look at those things here on HN (where apparently it's ok to say those things about Muslims; the TOS apply only to other groups).
Tomb with a View: Ancient Burial Sites Served as 'Telescopes'
Yeah, but I'm on DigitalOcean and I got a takedown just the other week for something a user uploaded. I removed it and informed them within the hour and all was good.

It's possible they ignored this type of thing or that they just didn't want the mess...
Yes! Personally, I think it's very exciting, just as you said. In my estimation two of the key components are a database, and user management. Lite Engine has a User API the gist being it allows users to signup to your service, Lite Engine handles sending email signup confirmations (ie click this link to confirm your registration), and handle password changes and resets, also via email. A user of my service can configure their own SMTP, or I'll send X number of emails a day on their behalf. Then users of your service can login, and perform actions based on the permissions you assign. So you know, a forum, ticketing system, whatever, as SPA's are possible. I have forum demo I'm working on that exercises all these features.

So, you could use a service like netlify, neocities, or even github pages to host your HTML, CSS, and javascript, and make CORS calls to lite-engine.com for the backend. Single page apps with no server. I think it's possible with Firebase, but I don't see anyone doing it, and I personally prefer to work with SQL for larger systems, I'm betting others do as well.
Possibly, but that's not why they are paperless. I'm guessing the goal of going paperless is much less about being anti-investigative, and more about convenience, environment, etc. It just happens to have some aspects that are possibly anti-investigative.
Most comment threads on HN only stabilize after 24 hours, if you want to draw long term sentiment information from comment threads I'd suggest to only do that after the threads are archived. Initial responses and final picture can be quite different.
New in AWS Marketplace – Enterprise Data Protection from Ionic Security
I asked the author if he could put together a dbmon so we could compare apples to apples. Unfortunately, React is not a good representative of modern virtual dom overhead/performance. On dbmon, React is somewhere between one and two order of magnitudes slower than many virtual dom libraries (e.g. mithril rewrite, inferno, kivi), with render times in the 60-100ms range (vs 2-10ms range for the other libs), and proportionally similar results in vdom benchmark.

As far as I could see, Monkberry doesn't implement the search space reduction algorithm that the libraries above do, and uses only mapped reordering, so I'm curious if its compilation+mapped reordering combo can outperform search space reduction w/ a virtual dom overhead.

Anyways, regardless of how well it does against vdom libs that do take advantage of hidden classes etc, I really like the execution of this project.
Not for people already comfortable with VPSes and firewalls and SSH keys and command lines and apt-get. For everyone.

And that matters, because as I learned the hard way, being able to do it just for yourself isn't enough. A social network is social. If you're not on it and everyone else is, you still lose.
I think we need a new set of HTTP status codes similar to HTTP 418 "I'm a dishwasher".
I think these are a bit like steroids though. They don't work on their own; you still have to train.
The problem is that thanks to the complexity of the tax systems and the interaction of international tax treaties the tax avoidance/tax evasion boundary is fuzzily defined and at the end of the day only a judge can decide on the legality.

So if a company, instead of staying well within the boundary decides to skirt it (and I'm sure that they take into account the probability of being caught on the wrong side in their minimization process), it is only fair that they get a visit from the tax man.
I think that thinking can happen in different modes depending on what is useful for the domain you're contemplating. When I am programming I often "see" programs as geometric or organic interlocking structures. I find that I don't really understand a program until I can visualize its structure. On the other hand sometimes I use language and dialog to think out a problem. I remember a specific incident where I was laying in bed on a hot day and I thought "I'm laying here constantly sweating" and then I thought "sweating sounds like a Chinese name" and that's when I realized I had been thinking in Chinese where sweating is pronounced "chu han". You could argue that language-style thought is "translated" from deeper concepts, but I think that goes without saying because there must be some layer of thought that is pre-representation.
Wait, Android doesn't use LUKS?

Argh. Just give me a stinkin' smartphone that runs Linux. These are solved problems, people.
Update: Digital Ocean sent a statement.

"We received notice on behalf of a trademark holder that a customer of DigitalOcean was hosting infringing content on our network. DigitalOcean immediately notified our customer of the infringement, and the customer was given a five day period to resolve the issue. The infringing content was not removed within the specified period even though several notifications were issued. Per DigitalOcean’s terms of service, a final reminder was issued to our customer and, when no action was taken, access to the content was disabled. The infringing content was subsequently removed by the customer and all services were restored in less than two hours."

5 days seems to be ample amount of time.