skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (limited) understanding, and quoting from the article is that is is around: "holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage".

The first essentially boils down to extra money - if you work X days you get another days pay to simulate a paid holiday day. I'd imagine the second two would combine - if Uber accepts your app connecting and being "for hire" they guarantee you at least the minimum wage, and after a set period of working you get a paid break.
The other side of the coin is that of exploitation - no Uber rides, no income. Sick? No income. Accident while driving for Uber? Your problem, you pay for everything.

If they're employees, they get a lot of rights and protections that maybe aren't common at all in the US. Companies like Uber (and e.g. construction companies, marketing agencies, etc) will push people to become self-employed so that the employer has no obligations or responsibilities whatsoever to the employee. This will allow them to out-compete the companies (like Black Cab in London) heavily, at the cost of the workers.
arent zero hour contracts effectively the third classification?
From a practical point of view I'm not sure there are any criminal activities that have happened because of strong encryption being available? I mean with things like the 911 attacks it didn't seem to make any difference. On the other hand encryption is very useful for financial transactions and the like. It seems the benefits considerably outway the problems.
If the self-employed person can’t afford their own insurance, but their employer doesn’t fund it for them, they often end up without insurance – and if they need to get something done anyway, society has to pick up the bill.
When are we going to let companies pay their employees Slave wages, you mean.
"AMD have something similar so no help there"

It's probably worse for AMD. For Intel now at least we'll probably get the ability to securely disable everything below ring -1.
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Why is it contextually misleading? Are you implying something about how they leaked information from Russia to influence the election?
Any proof for that claim?
There wasn't really a pressing issue in there, was there? If we talk about the same letter that was just a "would've been nice if you had told me", now that he knows there is not much left to do for Intel.
You can build a cheap and heavily shielded ionization or Geiger system, or a more expensive spectrometry system. In this case, Ruthenium is a condensed solid, and would be ideally detected by an air particle sampling system that continuously concentrates air onto a filter, and measures emitted radiation with a detector capable of resolving very narrow peaks in the spectrum. I would pick up Knoll’s book on detector systems if you are really interested in building such a system.
OK, if "CIA impersonated Kaspersky" it is of course implied they stole the NSA tools to frame benign Russian government. NSA tools were revealed by Wikileaks in "Vault 7". This revelation comes as WL's "Vault 8".

Does that mean WL got Vault 7 from CIA and Vault 8 from Russian FSB?

Assange, you sad confused crackpot…
> Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.

So, actually 10 years ago already. Time flies.
I at least provide reasoning for my position. It's basic economic theory that wages are set by supply and demand. Demand only increases in the aggregate from increase in productivity. Creating a mandatory price floor simply leads to less than all of the supply being consumed (which means higher unemployment). That's what price floors do. What they don't do is raise aggregate demand (meaning they don't increase total wages paid out).

>>This has nothing to do with price floors.

The quintessential labour standard is a minimum wage, which is a price floor. This has everything to do with price floors. In fact all labour standards can be assigned a monetary value and the combined value can be considered a price-including-benefits floor.

>>you're assuming that workers have a choice regarding where to work. That is simply wrong.

I don't understand. Why do you believe they don't have a choice?

>>So wrong that I understood your comment was a joke.

I'm certain you were trying to mock me.
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I don't understand why Uber doesn't let drivers choose if they want to be employed or contractors?

Those who choose employed would have strict working hours, performance requirements, etc. and if they miss any target even once would be fired. They would be free to reapply immediately with no penalty.
Also that since they have JTAG debugging access, they have unrestricted access to the normally hidden processor, meaning they can disassemble it, peer into memory, and probably find a method of permanently disabling the ME.
How is releasing factual information misleading?
Suspect that treating royalty like common prisoners would be viewed as "cruel and unusual punishment" by segments of Saudi Arabian society which have relatively little issue with the principle of mass arrests of political rivals (or indeed the cruel and unusual punishments the kingdom does carry out)
Why do you think would they have to answer him anything? He published something, using a license saying you could use it without telling anyone nor giving back changes, and that's exactly what Intel did. And in his letter he acknowledged that.

There was no call nor need for an answer...
It's not going to happen - we tried that before, and it didn't work. Remember the industrial revolution? Real good working conditions and pay in those factories, eh?
Here: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/717458064324964352

Don't thank me.
> What is it going to take to let people offer to work for whatever wage they want?

The universal basic income.
The society has agreed upon a certain set of rights that all employers should grant to all their workers, and a certain minimal set of "benefits" that every working person should get - in this particular case, "holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage". Going below that level is considered exploitative.
Here one can find more info about capsule networks:

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https://hackernoon.com/what-is-a-capsnet-or-capsule-network-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKoLGnq15RM
Does anyone know if Intel ME being compromised and the recent Tanenbaum letter have anything to do with each other? For example if the researchers discovered the use of Minix through this compromise.

The articles referenced in Tanenbaum's blog post don't really reveal the source of the Minix discovery, other than it was due to some recent discovery.
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How are you using DAU here?
If Uber can't make enough money to have and pay employees like all the other taxi companies have been able to for decades, they have failed as a company and need to move aside. Simple economics.

Besides I doubt Uber is struggling financially, it's one of the largest companies in the world and did so by paying their drivers only a fraction of what they'd earn as regular taxi drivers. Mind you the cost for customers was similarly lower, but apparently, too low.

Uber is one of those companies that lives off of investment money, using that to be able to dive under the price of their competition and putting them out of business. I'll shed no tears for them.
I've been on HN for 7-8 years and there is a difference in the last two years. I've seen a lot more one line comments with sarcastic, jokey, snarky, or flippant content.

Some were always made, but they were very consistently downvoted years ago. The solution I think is to implore those with downvote powers to do a lot more downvoting. In a way it is all custodial duty that cannot be automated.

It can feel mean to downvoted a lot, but there are no shortage of sites where peanut gallery comments are the norm, and I think we should continue to discourage them here as much as possible.

Note: I do not think political or contentious comments are a problem, only the glib.

The guy that replied to you with: "Everything dies or turns to shit in the end." is a good example of what to downvote.
And the main question - did they found anything NSA-ish in there?
You can zoom in app?
Interesting example. Transport encryption provides basically no real world security at all. The fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of millions of credit cards with full PII available for sale so it is almost certain that whatever PII you are sending over your highly secure connection is already in the hands of criminals.

The only security you have is the fact that there aren't nearly enough criminals to exploit all of the info that has already been stolen so there is a very low chance that you will be a victim of identity theft, but it has nothing to do with transport layer encryption.
Self-employed people pay their NHS contributions the same way that companies pay for them. It's not a question of can/can't afford, it's a % of your earnings.

https://www.gov.uk/self-employed-national-insurance-rates
That's kind of clever:

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Eutectic_20water_20heater#151...

Although rendered kind of pointless with modern on-demand boilers.
This has nothing to do with price floors. In your first message, you're assuming that workers have a choice regarding where to work. That is simply wrong. So wrong that I understood your comment was a joke.
Apache-licensed code can be used in GPL projects. Just not the other way around (as noted in your link).

[ADDED: WRT GPLv2 specifically, the quote from the link is: "the FSF has never considered the Apache License to be compatible with GPL version 2, citing the patent termination and indemnification provisions as restrictions not present in the older GPL license." However, note that the quote specifically says that it's the FSF's opinion.]
It's such a pity that there is no real competition in that area. (Unless you go the totally different architectures such as ARM or RISC-V.)

AMD had the chance to differentiate from Intel here, instead they blindly immitate the same customer-hostile stunt.
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It's a very common way for such "hacking" events. Finally getting through PlayStation X, iPhone Y or whatever security is often shown through a screen shot like this. Proper explanation and details come later.
It's the best option available to them because Uber's driven out the competition. Like, people choose to work at Walmart because it's the only employer in a fifty mile radius - for example. They can't work for a local store or start their own anymore because everyone's going to Walmart.
You mean finally cracked again.
1. It is disingenuous to say that WikiLeaks doesn't publish bad news about Russia. When panama papers came out they actually attacked the source.

2. They are hosted out of Russia.

3. They actively take sides in political battles. Hardly the stance of an objective "journalistic" organization.
Big brother knows best.
> "GraphQL is amazing" articles

Considering how bad most of the web technology is, anything reasonably designed is probably going to be overhyped. It's important to realize that graphql is not some kind of magic graph query language, it's actually a very simple RPC protocol allowing you to submit multiple calls per network request in a tree shape (which is a very neat idea btw). It also has a schema. You still have to solve all the hard problems yourself, but there is a hope that since graphql is relatively popular and not as dysfunctional as SOAP or simplistic as a typical bespoke schemaless one-call-per-request RPC protocol (e.g. non-HATEOAS "REST"), it might be ok target for writing some actually useful utility middleware libraries and dev tools. That's pretty much the whole reason for all the excitement.
Where should I start if I want to dip my toe in this topic? Have a few years of web development experience and a Bsc in software engineering in progress.
We wouldn't need to have this conversation if the title said TLS.
Are you sure you aren't moving the goal posts of middle class? I would say that dentists and computer scientists still belong perfectly to the middle class.
>A day before he was supposed to hand himself in, he was raided

If you're fleeing the country to evade imprisonment, why would you wait until the day before you're to be taken into custody to do it?
This seems like a perfectly reasonable tweet in the context of discussions about Russian meddling, clearly it happens on both sides.
Wikileaks is compromised. The source of the leaks is beside the point. Their communications on Twitter over the past year or so leave absolutely no doubt that they are willing to bend the truth to support the Russian agenda. Everything Wikileaks and Assange have written on Twitter has been pure unadulterated garbage since the days of the presidential primaries.
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For a very good explaination on that topic, see the following 32C3 presentation:

"Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops"

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor...

Also, the paper by the author is worth a read:

"State considered harmful - A proposal for a stateless laptop"

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.p...
Does this generate any conflict at all, or do people just accept it?
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I actually think for objects like phones, the 5th amendment should apply. Phones contain way more information about a person than any other medium in history. It contains so much information that I think we should consider it an extension of the person.

At some point we will have devices actually embedded in our bodies collecting every thought. Should those not be considered part of us and thus protected under the 5th amendment?
And we clearly see which side Wikileaks is on.
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On what basis?

“92. ... The drivers provide the skilled labour through which the organisation delivers its services and earns its profits. We base our assessment ... in particular on the following considerations.
(1) The contradiction in the Rider Terms between the fact that ULL purports to be the drivers’ agent and its assertion of “sole and absolute discretion” to accept or decline bookings.
(2) The fact that Uber interviews and recruits drivers.
(3) The fact that Uber controls the key information (in particular the passenger’s surname, contact details and intended destination) and excludes the driver from it.
(4) The fact that Uber requires drivers to accept trips and/or not to cancel trips, and enforces the requirement by logging off drivers who breach those requirements.
(5) The fact that Uber sets the (default) route and the driver departs from it at his peril.
(6) The fact that UBV fixes the fare and the driver cannot agree a higher sum with the passenger. (The​ ​supposed​ ​freedom​ ​t​​o​ ​agree​ ​a​ ​lower​ ​fare​ ​is​ ​obviously​ ​nugatory.)
(7) The fact that Uber imposes numerous conditions on drivers (such as the limited choice of acceptable vehicles), instructs drivers as to how to do their work and, in numerous ways, controls them in the performance of their duties.
(8) The fact that Uber subjects drivers through the rating system to what amounts to a performance management/disciplinary procedure.
(9) The fact that Uber determines issues about rebates, sometimes without even involving the driver whose remuneration is liable to be affected.
(10) The guaranteed earnings scheme (albeit now discontinued).
(11) The fact that Uber accepts the risk of loss which, if the drivers were genuinely in business on their own account, would fall upon them.
(12) The fact that Uber handles complaints by passengers, including complaints about the driver.
(13) The fact that Uber reserves the power to amend the drivers’ terms unilaterally.”
I'd expect agents to be organized and well versed in the goals and procedures of departments, not smarter or better at any random thing than any other human.
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I don't want to get too deep into imagination, but the details of the ME/PSP story make it seem like an outside force of some sort is compelling them to add this stuff to their platforms.
Correction on Harmony. The phone company offers adequate DSL.

The article doesn't mention that the build-a-house rebate program has a "buy local" clause so you will pay more than if you buy materials at a major building center.

Jobs: Harmony is a reasonable commute to Rochester, home of the Mayo clinic, a huge employer of not just doctors and nurses but orderlies, clerks, etc, and then all the support businesses like medivans need drivers, etc.

(Source: Harmony is my wife's home town.)
>I have a US perspective so I'm interested in why this ruling was made.

Your "USA perspective" reminded me of a concept called "court rulings as informal tariffs". Basically, when a foreign company is tried in the courts, the rulings will often favor the side that's aligned with the country's own court. (In this case, it's the UK drivers.)

The idea is, we can't objectively analyze rulings purely on its legal merits. Instead, there's always a country's (unstated) self-interest that's entangled in the judgement. (E.g. our home-grown London drivers deserve more money instead of USA's Uber executives.)

The USA would have the same bias. If a Korean company like Samsung is being sued by American company like Apple in a USA court, it's likely that Apple will win. Likewise, an American company like Google will lose more rulings by the EU than EU companies.

Again, it doesn't mean Uber is innocent. It's an observation that we didn't see the same government scrutiny about UK ride-sharing services like Hailo (subsequently absorbed by Mytaxi) about classifying contractors as workers. UK taxi drivers are generally contractors[1] but Uber attracted the ire that other ride-sharing apps didn't.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-70025-...

(EDIT: thanks for correction kbart. I was reading about Lexus and had Japan on my brain.)
You have to call ideas from 30 years ago "modern" languages in order to distinguish them from retrograde bullshit like Go.
> You don't raise employment standards by making low standards illegal.

Actually you do, in almost every case from the length of the working week to health and safety to the right to paid time off.
Related, by the same author:

"Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops"

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor...

Also related:

"HN: Intel ME is finally cracked"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669262
And without paying roughly £40m in VAT that they avoid by selling through 'non employees'.
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Thank you for that great explanation.
In Android (for example), one would use an observable stream bound to the lifecycle of the host. Most folks do this using Rx and add a custom operator for unsubscribing on the host DESTROY event.
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> I don't understand why Uber doesn't let drivers choose if they want to be employed or contractors?

I do. Employees are a cost and a liability. They have to be paid weekly/monthly instead of per gig. They would have to be paid even when there's no rides. They have to be paid for if they end up sick, unable to work, on pregnancy leave. They need to have payments in their retirement fund. In the UK's case, they need to pay for the NHS. They need to buy them a car, and pay for upkeep, maintenance, damages and fuel.

And they would fall under normal worker protection, so no, they wouldn't be fired if they missed any target even only once, there's procedures and legal requirements and such before formally firing someone.

So it's completely in Uber's interests to only do contractors, no obligations or extra costs except for whenever they do a ride, and I'm fairly sure the compensation per ride is much lower than is necessary to operate a business.

Where is the employee's benefits in this? Does Uber pay much more than they would earn working for a regular taxi company? I mean sure it's a job that people can do whenever they choose, but not doing it is a luxury. Assume most people need a 40 hour work week, or the income of one. Can't get that with Uber without working 80+ hours a week, and even then it depends on luck, supply, demand.
Has anyone looked at the Hive repository and could point to the parts that show that the agency is impersonating Kaspersky?
> you could argue that all economy is about exploiting workers

Ah, so you're familiar with Marx?
There's a computer in your computer so your computer can computer while you computer. These guys just found the keyboard.
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unfortunately, you are just a data point for investors risk calculations.
ME is a useful part of the system. It is in charge of watchdog timers (I think) and mid-level power management. The problem is that it is persistent and opaque. If the operating system were responsible for configuring and managing ME, it would allow it to perform these tasks without being so odious.
That serial numbers are traceable to where and by who the device was bought? Nope, pretty sure everybody knows that. What this agent probably didn't know was that laptops aren't bikes and the serial number is available in more places. In OSX you can see it by simply going to the Apple menu > About this Mac.
It's indeed nice to imagine that the people behind Intel are relieved that somebody finally found the kill-switch they left behind in the monster they had to create.

And the AMD people now thinking hard how they can leak hints to their kill-switch in an inconspicuous way, too.

But that's indeed imagination. Unforunately, we don't (yet) know much about their motivations.
This article was on HN yesterday and got downvoted/flagged. Seems like the russian trolls are back in action.
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Spoken like someone who doesn't understand encryption.
> US perspective

i.e. perspective of country where labor laws are not actually enforced.
You will never make above what the market will offer for your skills. To make money in excess of what you can earn for your skills, you must have equity in the entity. Switching jobs is getting more for your skills, but is still participating in the market for labor.

Working for the government - say as a soldier or social worker - doesn’t mean you deserve more than an investment banker. Your choice was to work for that industry. Perceived impact on society does not translate into wealth. Free markets determine pricing. A soldier earns whatever a politician says he or she does.

Any employee of Uber can leave at any time. No one is forcing them into that economic situation. Plenty of examples of people who grow up poor become rich despite not having well connected parents.

What changes to the system are you advocating for exactly?