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The most damning condemnation of the open office is its exclusively for trendy paid corporate work. Nobody ever told a student to work on a term paper at a singles bar. No open source guidelines book ever claimed open source software can't be written unless the author sits at a table in the middle of a wild day care center. No one teaching themselves anything ever heard they'll never learn in a quiet room, they need to try and learn at a Katy Perry concert.

Another topic often missed is megacorporations work remotely all the time. In fact I've never met most of the people I work with because they live all over the country, and I work with hardware all over the country, in fact I'm working on a (private) cloud image later today and I'm not even sure what state its physically located in. If the corporation says you're going to work remotely because that outside contractor is 1000 miles away or that director lives 1000 miles the other way, its obviously inherently correct because the corporation said it. But if a mere human being says something similar about his work environment, its obviously wrong because only corporations can be correct. If my boss says she's going to be 100 miles away thats great, if I say my boss is going to be 100 miles away thats inherently evil and must be suppressed.
I think the replacement argument breaks down because I don't expect the countries I'm aware of where homosexuality is punishable by death to have anything like the protections for personal liberty that Arkansas does.

I haven't put a lot of thought into it, but from a practical standpoint, my argument would be something along the lines of a similar sentiment to Mr. Schmidt: "If you're homosexual in a country where that's a death sentence, please keep your head down until you can get out. Learn how to encrypt everyting. Don't rely on any third-party providers that you can't trust. Don't hand the murderer your own noose." And that sucks, because it's brutally unfair, but "brutally unfair" is assumed when talking about nations where homosexuality is punishable by death.

From a moral standpoint, my argument would be something along the lines of "Murder is a horrible evil and homosexuality is not. We should be able to reserve more tools legally to track down murderers than to pry into someone's personal sexual preferences, and I'm lucky to live in a country where (generally) things are seen that way, most of the time." We already do reserve more tools legally to investigate a criminal case; privacy can be encroached upon by existing common-law methods. The question of interest is really, are your water logs and Alexa conversations priest-and-spouse-like or best-friend-like?

Possibly more importantly: how does the replacement argument map to practical action? If we decide that we don't want to allow collected logs to be subpoenaed for murder trials (or we decide logs should be legally banned from being collectible---that'll make a lot of personal-improvement projects illegal, but let's entertain it for a second), how will that help homosexuals in countries where it's punishable by the death penalty? Those countries will look at our worst-case-scenario reasoning, say "That's nice," and then go on to log citizen activities anyway. The "should we" argument has absolutely no bearing on the capability argument, and if we're going to bring other nations into the risk model, we have to talk capability.
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Keeping an open office quiet is certainly helpful, but for some people it's visibility rather than noise that's the biggest impediment to concentration. If you have to do it then maximizing the number of "back to a wall" desks and ensuring that there are reasonable partitions if you've got back-to-back workstations helps somewhat, but it's never going to be a friendly environment for those who don't like to be overlooked while concentrating.
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Right, and the police asked for this data on the off chance it recorded something useful during this period.

They aren't assuming Amazon holds everything said in proximity of the device.
This would set a very frightening precedent. Will they also fine reddit every time a misleading story is submitted to a subreddit?

Most of the fake news articles made during the election were poorly written hoaxes with the goal of collecting ad revenue. Without any of them, Trump still would've won. But even if a foreign nation is spreading propaganda through news articles, unless it calls for violence or other crimes, I don't see why Facebook has an obligation to remove them.
It would not matter if homes were available for $100k, this family appears to be utterly destitute. This story should not be about housing but services for very poor families. I suspect this is why this family continues to stay in Silicon Valley in defiance of common sense; they would be homeless in El Centro or Tijuana also.
Disclaimer: Only splitting hairs here with my bare hand. But, as far as broken semantic concepts go, “the least optimal” is somewhat entertaining. Two opposite superlatives plugged together — is the sum total of that supposed to be “mediocre”? Otherwise, “the worst” would have been much clearer.
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I'm not sure that what people believe about Snowden is inextricably tied to people's perception of location tracking. In fact, I speculate that there are probably some people who both think Snowden is a traitor and think that corporations or the government shouldn't be location tracking them. (That's ignoring the futility that is speaking in broad strokes about "the general public".)

Furthermore, I am not sure that any of those are necessarily a given. I'm not advocating for breaking apps or an abrupt shift to no location services, I'm not dismissing your average end-user's needs/desires or insulting their intelligence. I'm hypothesizing that there might be ways to get non-GPS location services out of the hands of a few big players. It theoretically wouldn't make your phone cost more money, but it might take the time-money-effort of people who build the systems (maybe open-source?). I'm trying to appeal to the people who build the systems and brainstorm ways to do that, not really rally the end-users to this particular cause.
Good cooler wont help, the bottleneck will be in CPU.
Problem is Poland isn't really burning that much coal.

If you look at the emmisions per capita:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?name_desc...

Germany, which has a considerably cleaner grid, has still higher CO2 emissions per capita and has a greater population (80mln vs 38mln in Poland).

That being said the polish grid is long due for a massive overhaul, but - especially now - there's no political will to do it even though over 77% of the population would welcome switching to cleaner sources of electricity.

I personally count on renewables becoming cost-efficient soon - which could be a major driver for change.
HN isn't nearly as partisan or as politically homogeneous as you think (though definitely more of the latter than the former). Every comment in this thread so far is negative.
Tl;dr woman fails to complete paperwork correctly and gets form letter in response.

This article is pure clickbait.
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So the real issue here is that U.K./EU marriages do not give a right to British citizenship. Additionally she did not provide her original passport during the application, that is why she was denied. It also sounds like since then they've changed requirements to make it unnecessary to be with out your passport for 4-6 months.
Interesting question, let's try to split the three categories:

- Clear fake news ("sgift lives in ..." and a false value)
- Clear true news ("sgift lives in ..." and a correct value)
- Opinion

The first two shouldn't be too hard, but also not very interesting. Most 'fake' news is more or less a matter of opinion, so you can debate as long as you want if it is fake. I don't see how that could be decided outside of a courtroom and I don't know of any trials that have ended in less than 24 hours.
The Ministry of Truth ... obviously ... which year do you think you are living in?
I trust the German government's ability to declare an objective truth that we can all use to make decisions a lot more than I trust Mark Zuckerberg, at this point. Only one of these entities is accountable to anyone. Voting may be flawed but it's a lot better than Mark Zuckerberg effectively having absolute say over what is fact and what is not.

Democratic society relies on us being able to agree about basic facts. The press used to do that for us, however imperfectly. Google and Facebook have taken all their revenues and also are major conduits of news, and yet have corrupted this function of the press. If they want the revenues they should accept the responsibility too.
This happens every day in the UK and other countries

I agree that there are countless examples of people deserving of citizenship (through marriage, children, etc) who are denied by bureaucratic rules, and are often separated from their family as a result (or the entire family has to move).

This one's slightly odder though: someone who (being Dutch) already has the right to live and work visa-free in the UK, is being instructed to leave.

Given the information in the article (and assuming it's correct), there's no legal justification for that.
What other car brands offer similar a safety feature ?
So how much do we hold back technology and the use of it to protect against people committing crimes with it (as mentioned above)

This data when used properly (which is probably the case 90%+ of the time) helps to make the world better, or provides efficiency for the company who uses the tools.
>I know why politicians don't care about the consequences of such actions, but I'm always surprised of the support here on HN for such actions, when the horrible, slippery-slope consequences should be obvious.

Now, just to point out, but "fake news" at this point has tipped elections and, in at least one case, led a man to go shoot up a pizzeria.

I like free speech as much as the next guy, but Germany has hate-speech and incitement-to-violence laws for a reason. In addition, if Facebook is going to work as a de facto monopoly, it should be treated with de jure public utility status. It's not a start-up competing against five other social networks anymore: it's the first or second most-trafficked website on Earth, and the single most common news source for internet users on Earth.

If there really were five different social networks with their own approaches to fake news and lively competition for users, I wouldn't favor state action until the line of incitement is crossed. As it is, Facebook holds a monopoly.
I wonder how this would affect fake news sites like the Onion? Are those going to be verboten?
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Mods/OP: Given that the server hosting the original URL is currently offline, and the post linked to above is so well-written, perhaps it might be worth changing the article URL to the latter?
This thread started with the idea that someone might want their Alexa records as evidence of their innocence. I doubt that an innocent person would commit a crime to remove potentially incriminating evidence from their voluntarily offered evidence.

The prosecution very well might subpoena those records if they thought there was value in so doing.

Edit: grammars
Shes not being asked to leave, only being asked to make preparations.
I've been writing Go for the last 18 months, and seeing it dissected side-by-side with C [0] is causing some epiphanies that I wouldn't normally get to see in day-to-day programming.

Excellent resource.

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This is just semantics. Typically wages are valuable--I don't know anyone who is being paid in smiles. Ostensibly when work is done and paid for, value has been created.
This will just set up the ability for any government to censor any website, as other countries will use this as a précédent if it gets through.
And this is a good representation, because this way it doesn't allow you to outsource your carbon emissions to countries that no one looks at (not on map, or not considered responsible for anything by activists).
You're not British, are you?
If it would be sufficient to have high PSNR only in the 'regions of interest', then you could use something like this [1], which uses a CNN model to predict a map, and a multiple JPEG encoding to achieve variable quality compression.

[1] https://github.com/iamaaditya/image-compression-cnn
I can't refuse a valid search warrant on my apartment because something found within "might incriminate me" for something else.

Take criminal cases where they find drugs in your system and use that to make it look like you're more apt to commit said crime.
Compare and contrast the slipperyness of this slope with defamation laws. It's of course quite possible to think those laws are also problematic, but we have more information about whether they are a descent into madness.

(Or choose some of the other restrictions that Germany places on speech)
Slightly off topic, but this brings up the issue of whether data maintained using technological means is correct. And how can the correctness be verified or refuted? For example, suppose Amazon does provide data in reply to the warrant. How is anyone sure it's the data from the specified device at the time in question? Database errors happen all the time. It might be possible to use other means to assure that the data is correct, but it's unlikely anyone with the necessary knowledge would be assigned to this task.

Similarly, in LA, there are no fare gates at metro train stations. Occasionally police stop people leaving the station to check whether fare is paid by scanning the transit smart card. What if the card malfunctions? What if the scanning device outputs the wrong information? I have no way of contesting or verifying the information on these devices. It would be me, the passenger, held to account, not the infrastructure technology.
"It's a pity that they don't teach journalists how to think"

It's a pity that you can't humbly disagree with someone over a differing opinion, rather than framing them as ignorant and unaware of some basic truth that you're privy to. It's not just off-putting, but it's also inaccurate.

Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject.
Surely comfortable survival and providing for your family are valuable.
yep. i've been using this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...
This should be "quoting command line arguments the right way for passage into applications developed using Microsoft Visual C, and linked to its C run-time library that parses the command line string and calls main or wmain".

There is no general correct way to quote command line arguments in Windows, because every application receives just a character string which it parses however it wants.

There is no single specification for the syntax by which arguments are delimited within the command string.
>Without any of them, Trump still would've won.

Then why is Breitbart planning to expand into the French and German markets precisely on the eve of French and German elections? Do we think that these websites themselves actually believe they have no political influence, when they seem to be deliberately operating as ad-fueled propaganda outlets for the far-right?

And don't think I'm just being partisan. If World Socialist Web Site was pulling this stuff I wouldn't be happy either.
You've always been able to make this guess from lights on/off, windows, etc. It might have become easier to some people.
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We have coal, so we use it, like other countries did before. Wind/solar farms don't work well here because of the weather and are expensive. Nuclear plants would require foreign technology which is very costly, and so far nuclear plants here are just a dream, a way to drain the public funds into the pockets of "nuclear plant construction" committee, which doesn't do anything useful (it doesn't help that the public opinion is against nuclear energy because of the Chernobyl, even though all of our neighbours have nuclear plants anyway).
That's absurd. Investigative police work is the process of ruling out possible suspects to arrive at the truth.
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I'm running 4.5GHz @ 1.4V on an i5-6400, doesn't get hotter than 60 degrees under full load with a watercooler.
what would be the point of making preparations, if not to do it?
Probably they'll have to have a clear indication that the "news" article is a humorous piece and not real news. In Poland, our Onion equivalent (aszdziennik, a pun on Nasz Dziennik ("Our Daily")), has such a note under every piece they write. Recently, they also often have a note saying an article is indeed real news instead, because reality has a habit of beating even the best fiction...
Nanny state has to make sure that wittle people are getting the right information, hmm?

Looks like Germany can't fully shake off its fascist past.
Luckily Germany is a democracy, unlike Oceania.
I agree with your first point, however I'd still argue that (for my job) it's a waste of money to even have an office. I much prefer going to an office, however the overhead cost simply doesn't make sense, even if it's what I prefer.
So a largely disrupting law will be passed on an EU xountry, based on ALLEGATIONS about Russia messing up US elextions...

I find that funny and tragic at the same time.
The Ministry of Truth.

The UK has had to deal with fake news for centuries; it's called the tabloid press.
Ah. Ultimately, unfortunately, to me it ultimately is. Not the "Haha that's hilarious, he slipped on a banana!" kind, of course.

But the pathetic lack of scientific education/knowledge in the general US population is laughable.
Some US health insurance plans already offer discounts to members who keep their BMI within the normal range.
> Also, Germany does not export its nuclear waste, dear France.

I guess this is incorrect :

Gorleben Nuclear Waste Repository. The waste comes from Germany's nuclear power plants, was reprocessed in France at La Hague, and the unusable remains then sent back to Germany in spent nuclear fuel shipping casks for final storage, according to the contract with the reprocessing company, Cogema [0].

But even if it comes from France what's the matter? If nuclear wastes go to Gorleben it is obviously because the city allows it, because they have a deal with french firms and they have facilities to store it. If you want to blame someone for it blame the city.

In contrast I am sure France does not 'export' its air pollution as much as our dear Germany :p. And France does not have much of a say in that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorleben#Nuclear_Waste_Reposit...
If your schedule permits, you should definitely blog more often. Your comments here are so well thought out.

PS: Gitlab is awesome, keep up the good work.
That's not necessarily true actually. Monopoly isn't a terribly complex game, but if you play it correctly you must either buy or auction every property landed on. It's mostly an auction and money management game, and there are decisions to be made
You could say that a library on a college campus is sort of like an open office. At least my university's library did have several large, open rooms with lots of desks. But, lo and behold, there's a huge emphasis on being quiet, and you can even be asked to leave if you don't cooperate.

Also, my school's library wasn't just an open layout. There were tons of desks in little alcoves and hidden corners all throughout the multi-story building. There were also lots of completely enclosed, private rooms that you could rent for hours on end if you needed lots of verbal collaboration.

Very rarely (basically never) have I seen an open office that was as well-designed as that library was with the same emphasis on quietness in the open portion of the office.
A democracy that also has a shameless history of censorship
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This reads like like a knee jerk reaction empty of substance and tailored for headlines. How would you ever enforce this effectively and fairly in practice?
> I won't overhear the the conversation my colleagues are having about a pain-point I solved 2 days ago.

Listen, I agree that this happens. But in my experience it happens so rarely that it does not outweigh all the negatives of having to drag a bunch of people to the office against their will day in, day out.

As for slack and such being a poor replacement to face to face, I'd say that it's because not all people are cut out for remote work. For me personally, I don't like it when somebody chats me up about things that are better suited for a slack (or even email) conversation. Things like getting the spec details buttoned down (which is actually the bulk of shop conversations, unless you're at a very early stage in your project) - you'd want to have a paper trail/reference to go back to once you start implementing. And remembering details from hallway conversations is hard, so you have to distract people from their work again or get blocked.
That's why in serious criminal cases we have trial by jury and not technology. If your only evidence is a 20 second recording from an Echo, you shouldn't be going to trial.

Poor DNA evidence/practices have wrongly convicted people, they have also exonerated people that were wrongly convicted.
I remember overclocking 12 years ago and upgrading the cooler and thermal paste was standard practice. Is something different this time?
That was an excellent read, as Vernor Vinge usually is.

I've certainly used anti-surveillance arguments like "what if some employee misuses the data", and I mean them, but it's not my fundamental objection. On a much deeper level, I worry about surveillance as an inherent harm. Partly as the death of privacy (a right in itself, to me), largely as a de facto power transfer to the state.

I think Seeing Like a State is right when it argues that states depend on 'legibility'. If it can't be logged, measured, or predicted, it can't be handled on the statistical level where states have to operate. And so everything that increases the legibility of our lives eases the real power of the state, without any need to expand its legal power.
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Why is it good to make them sit in a quiet library as long as its a silent quiet library not of their choice?

Cost of space is penny wise and pound foolish. If you're paying $200K all up with bennies vs the dev is generating maybe $1M of revenue, if a better working environment makes them 1% more productive or 1% less unproductive, that means it makes sense financially as long as it costs less than $1K/month for the extra space. Treating employees better than prisoners or factory farmed meat is more expensive, but not $1K/month/employee expensive.

Its like "saving money" by giving employees flipped over 5 gallon buckets to sit on instead of chairs, or forcing them to use 00s decade laptops instead of new ones. Or an even better analogy is its like saving on labor costs by hiring the absolute bottom of the barrel instead of the top rockstars. If you thought you were saving money by providing an inadequate work environment, wait until you're saving money by hiring people who can't fizzbuzz or even helloworld. You'll really be rolling in the savings then.
I guess Germany needs the money ever since they get flooded with terror.. i mean refugees.
> Nobody ever told a student to work on a term paper at a singles bar.

Counterexample: In college I did most of my work in our library, which was of course an open layout.