skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's some middle ground, some grey area where whether it's alright is murky. It's kind of pulling the rug out from under people when the policy of a 3rd party provider abruptly changes and suddenly tons of messages become available to the company.

There are a number of things I might mention to a coworker over a private IM which wouldn't necessarily put my employment at risk, but would be awkward for management to suddenly have access to.

A couple made up examples:

"I'm super sick, but $boss is really pushing me to get the report out. I just want to go home and be sick all alone."

"I hate management's decision to reduce vacation days. No wonder we can't keep people around here."

"Did you see Tom's email? It's kinda awkward that he thinks he's a strong contributor to the group..."
> Is first-world Europe now a "foreign mission," in the way that third-world countries were in the previous centuries?

Local churches are ramping up their efforts for a local mission (instead of assuming "Christianity as default") for at least 10 years now. Those with international ties have more international staff around here, too (partly because they lack the influx of new local people).

... Besides that, American churches in particular sent missions to Europe for decades.
> You're working for an employer who has every responsibility to monitor business communication.

Setting aside for a second the unusual ethics being proposed here: it's trivial to bypass official channels if you want to say something you don't want your employer to see. It's fairly standard practice to not put anything you don't want someone else to read in text at all, but rather to pick up the phone--it's too easy for someone to copy/paste a Slack message or Forward an email. This can't be a responsibility of employers because very few employers can live up to that responsibility.
If you're interested in reading the report, I found it with a quick internet search on the title and the author. Here's a link:

https://s3cdn-observadorontime.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl...
Great idea! Congrats!

I have bad experiences with google translate, but this seems like a simpler problem waiting to be solved.

Can you share any information of the percentage of question/answers that are generated correctly?
Given the recently revealed consequences of people using a major third party (Facebook) for user authentication is this really going in the right direction?
This is a good thing. People need to realize work chat is a paper trail...
lcamtuf isn't exactly just "a middle manager"

Is it newsworthy? Not in the scandalous sense, no.
To quote Trent Reznor, "God is an excuse."
> For instance, do countries with low religious adherence have any sort of markedly different character or outcomes than countries with high religious adherence?

Short answer: quite likely. There seems to be a strong correlation between a religious majority and law-making when it comes to topics that touch religious dogmas. For example, laws that make abortion illegal and not allowing same-sex marriage.
You don't see any confounding variables there?
Instant zero fee channel open/close. Plus stellar is also an ICO platform so you can issue your own tokens.
For me the Google cache loaded the full article: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WXaVey...
Xamarin.Forms comes with a basic message passing system built in, which is what I assume the author is using. I've used it myself for a client mobile app project. It makes more sense with an MVVM setup like what Xamarin.Forms and WPF expect for user interfaces, since viewmodels can listen for model state changes that need to be reflected in the UI without requiring loads of explicitly coded delegates/events.
The traditional quote being by W.C. Fields:

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
Thanks! I wonder why it was so difficult for the actual journalist to include it.
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Yup. Depositing in an institutional repository usually takes effort by the faculty member. SciHub bots will put it in SciHub for you!
Then your mistake was having conversations you wouldn't like your boss to read using your company's internal messaging system. How is this any different than e.g. emails?
I have never really understood the notion of needing communication privacy in the workplace. To be honest, without having seen this story, I would have assumed this was a feature of Slack already!

I can't remember where/when I heard this advice but it seems relevant and helpful for this matter:

"Write/speak all communication in the workplace as if the CEO themselves were CCd on the email."

It has served me well.
Folks, this will let employees walk to work, resulting in less traffic, and putting somewhat less pressure on housing prices in nearby communities. Mixed-use development is what a lot of housing advocates have been asking for.

This "company store" stuff is unwarranted negative sentiment. They're just apartments. Along with new housing you do want to have parks and stores.
Which state is this in?

There's a lot of stuff in contracts that are more scary / intimidating / best-effort-squeeze-of-the-big-over-the-small that isn't enforceable in many states. I'm no lawyer, here, though.

I can't see how it's enforceable that once you cease working there, everything you do for one year is presumed to be related and subject to the same work you did for the previous employer/Client. Also, that might imply that they'd owe you money, right? I can picture a judge turning to the counsel of this company and asking that question.
With Google G-Suite you can also set up the Vault so every e-mail ever is stored indefinitely even after deletion. Same goes for Drive and Groups.
I for one as believer find phrases like "non-Christian Europe" (or "post-Christian") sad and intriguing given that European Union has its roots in Christianity and was so deeply shaped by notable Christians, incl. Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers. I think without common beliefs it will be more difficult to keep and develop the union.
> the world assumes a similar scandal is on the way.

I see no-one assuming that.
We have an allreduce op in nGraph to support data parallel using OpenMPI, and are investigating the best approaches to integrate with frameworks. We also plan to add more collective communication ops to support model parallel in future.
20 bits of the password hash. I can't think of a way to use that information maliciously, can you?
They aren't searching your apartment. They're searching the office you use in their building.
There's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places
There once was a time when satire was just that, satire. When dystopian fiction was understood to be that, dystopian, portraying a potential future. When books like 'Brave New World', 'Fahrenheit 451' and '1984' were written. Where cyberpunk was a literary genre where corporations were more powerful than nation states.

Now, things are different. Facebook is building the set for a real life Truman show [1], Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..) has found stiff competition in the rise of censorship on the 'net, 1984 is treated as a user manual by those who prefer to see the world in terms of 'good' and 'bad', Brave New World is just another story - nothing to see there, move along. Where institutions like the EU are trying to dissolve national borders and national identities without offering a believable identity in return, leaving the population grasping for a handhold and ready for recruitment by any strong identity group which catches their favour.

There is supposed to be a Chinese proverb saying 'may you live in interesting times' , to be directed at those one considers to be their opponents. While the proverb seems to be made up, times are interesting in many ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
One of the authors here: First of all thanks for the great disucssion here, it really motivated to write another follow-up article.
There were some comments asking for more practical advice which is totally fair as this was supposed to be more informational and creating problem awareness.
What else would you like to see covered in a follow-up?
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In terms of $12 a month WoW is a super cheap way to spend your time.
I agree to a certain extent. I'm not a fan of legalese and do think things like TOS should be much simpler. To have rational consumers who think critically we need to remove hurdles for people to think critically. But here's my main issue. Our economy and governments are built on the premise of rational consumers. If that basic assumption isn't in place then let's stop the facade, call it out for what it is and change the system. Let's look into a technocracy or epistocracy. Let's stop pretending that America can function as an unfettered capitalist nation and really it needs elements of socialism to function properly and reduce concentration of power and wealth.
>That is saying you can't work at all for a year after your employment terminates, because anything you produce during that time is presumed to have actually been created during your previous employment, and so belongs to your ex-employer.

But it's not. Inventions != copyright or code produced. If I author a book after employment they don't own the rights to my book. If I write code after employment they don't necessarily own my code or rights to it.

Yes. This is WAY CRAZY because enforceable or not it abuses the information and resource availability asymmetry between company and employee.
School shootings are a primarily American phenomenon driven by internal terrorism.
I may agree with result regarding Slack. But your argument doesn’t really work if you consider who owns a rented apartment, leased car, or company phone officially allowed to be used for personal matters.
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There’s a housing crisis and employees are affected. If they want more people to work at Menlo Park, they need to address it.
"Silence on the Wire" is still my favourite security book!
Like Gary Bernhardt's notion of a "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" —
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
My understanding is that there is an insane amount of data stored in the light field captures that must be streamed seamlessly to the headset. Can someone shed some light (heh) on the technical issues surrounding light fields?
Seriously folks, that the fuck is going on? Every day I read the news it's like I'm in a dystopian novel. Yesterday there was the parole-as-a-service startup announcement, today 'The Circle' leaks into reality. Lots of startups are issuing basically 'Kongbucks' and a self-driving car killed its first victim. Looking forward for the first corporation to want to become sovereign.
Unless you seek really good real time system use NodeJS otherwise Go.
I use NodeJS and MongoDB to handle upto 6k req/sec on two quad core server on AWS with average latency time less than 60ms with each request hitting Mongo at least 2 times.
New version of JS i.e. ES7 is way more productive than Golang syntax.
Because the company you work for owns and pays for the platform you're using.

Just like they presumably own the computer you use, and any other platforms/equipment supplied so you can do your job.
Regretfully the negotiations didn't get far enough to get to this point, although I told them I would have to discuss things with a lawyer if they wanted it signed. Then we would have at least had a "why" to go with it.

Thankfully the deal fell apart for other reasons, although I shouldn't have been surprised by any of it.
That would be fine because that someone would not be a competitor of the company. Although you have to consider that if you earn money while being paid through such an agreement your earnings are partly deducted from them. So if you find a job which pays the same as before, your old company will only need to pay until your income reaches 110%(125% if you moved for your new job) of your old income. You are also not allowed to "maliciously refrain" from working in that time. (But that is interpreted quite lax for the employee)
What this author misses is that California also has a law[1] that makes unenforceable contracts that claim ownership of anything employees do on their own time with their own equipment. Passed in 1979 (amended 1991). I think other places hoping to create "Silicon $X" need to put anti-non-compete and this law in place to even have a possibility to create a similar culture to the Valley.

(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

(b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.

[1]https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
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No one, myself included is going to give facebook the benefit of the doubt. To say that they’ve used it all up and then some would be an understatement.
IMHO, the greater loss is that of community. Religious institutions fostered social, business, and civic community. That in itself helps reinforce ethical and moral norms as you don't want to screw over your neighbor and become ostracized. Community also helps people not slip through the cracks of loneliness and mental illness. Frankly, as a kid I remember the number of people at my church who would have otherwise been unlikely to find friends or a marriage who were able to do so because church brought them together.
Government, law, and economics certainly behave like religion so that makes sense. All require collective faith in the abstract 'good' and when one pillar falls, the others bear more weight.
Yes, thank you! https://lyrebird.ai/
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The user of the app is still copying the text verbatim and transferring it to the server, which is distributing.
Fair enough, but it wouldn't have made any difference. Disagreement with this particular aspect of the local culture will get you a downvote, not a discussion. Any discussion, if you're lucky to get one, would be better described as a re-education lecture, to teach you the "facts" of "how things are".

Jonathan Haidt has studied this psychological phenomenon quite extensively and in my opinion it does a good job of explaining the recent unusual behavior of the public, it's a shame no one's interested.

The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc
Let's clarify a bit, this is for the employer owned Slack workspace. If you have the client and have your employer workspace and then another random workspace that is not owned by your employer, then they can only see the messages on the workspace owned by the company.

And this is meant for backups really, it's not going to be easy to just follow random conversations of yours on a daily basis. If they want to go back and dig up some dirt they can though.

That said, if you are worried about it, and working on a computer owned by your employer, you should just assume everything you do is logged. Because some do that.
I consider myself Christian but I quit church because it was a snake pit, and I don't believe in hell at all. I think that churches didn't keep up with the times. These days, a priest should discuss the implications of many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, I think.

Here in Brazil (probably in USA as well?) pentecostal churches seem to be reactionary congregations, people that long for the "good old family" with SAHMs and providing husbands - with some reason, because the "Brave new world" with full freedom for everyone is not exactly cozy for the dim-witted ones.
Not if you're living in one of their cells.

Your employer pays for slack and it is a work related tool, just like your emails. If you want to have private communications then send a text. BTW they can also search your desk because, you know, it's not yours.
The generation of my grandparents were the last in my family to be religious, in the Netherlands.

Loss of the moral component isn't what I see, that's not what I'm afraid of. I don't think Christian kids are less likely to commit that sort of crime.

But I feel a sense of community has been lost, people used to know each other from church, used to celebrate important life events from birth to marriage to death together. Now I only know a few people in my city.
I would be surprised if that's the case for paying customers...
Google and Facebook both love to hover up all data they can lay hands on, love to insert themselves as middlemen, and are crawling with marketing speak.

As for the moral compass, remember how Eric Schmidt was eaten alive by a horde of upset Google employees after smugly declaring privacy dead? Me neither.

Your overall point still stands, I just disagree that Google is remotely pure.
> Java8 won't be supported after January 2019, Java11 (LTS) will be release in September this year

So we basically just have 3 months to migrate to the next LTS version??
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Is this available for Gsuite as well? My former office had employees mocking others for their age, gender, etc. No way to show management without revealing I'd found a way to spy on them.
"Tiring and meaningless" eh? As opposed to your meaningful and engaging strawman reply?

Even if it were true that an essay or article couldn't be disseminated effectively without Facebook getting involved at some point, it doesn't mean that readers must be burdened with a popup that asks them to log in to Facebook before viewing.
I'm glad that this isn't going to affect the free tier users (rather, they'll need to provide legal reasoning for it and consent) since there are a bunch of communities on slack.
Does anyone know about using one of these to create an offline archive of a voice? Are these things always connected to the internet? I really love the idea of saving voices of loved ones as if they are photographs. Or of moments in time (your child's voice, etc.)
By harder, I meant problems more intellectually challenging to solve. Compare hard questions in Chinese Gaokao exam to the hardest questions in SAT Math:

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-examples-of-hard-Chinese...

By the way, SAT Math questions are generally considered a piece of cake by most good students in East Asia (and they often get 800 or close without much extra preparation), which says something about the level of average American high school math education.
It's not that CA is just gathering data and using that data to target ads. That's normal. But they've also been using fake news, spy operations, honeypots, and other tactics in order to manipulate people. They've even boasted about their ability to manufacture sex scandals by sending prostitutes to a political opponent. That goes above and beyond what is "totally normal happening all over the place".
Random rewards for money should be regulated as gambling.
Assuming for a moment that atheist are the friendlier folks in general, what makes you think that people become atheists after leaving christianity behind?

When taking an atheist perspective (I'm not an atheist, but I hope I can fake it well enough for a moment for the purpose of this discourse), I'd describe the shift that happens in "Western" societies as "swapping one superstition for another", not "leaving superstition behind".

Or did Tarot cards, miracle healers and summoning the dead (and the like) become atheist tools and practices recently?
what if your cafeteria conversation is recorded on a camera without your consent and used as an evidence against you? is it legal or invasion of privacy?
Indeed. Between war, television, and the sexual revolution, Christianity's social position of control was eroded decades ago. It's just taken a while to propagate out.

This summer Ireland holds its referendum on repealing the constitutional ban on abortion. That will be a key final landmark in Western Europe. https://www.repealeight.ie/
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Every employee agreement in the US I’ve ever signed includes a section where you’ve given your consent.
because "they're likely to be attractive to employees who want to live within walking distance.", which is good for retention and recruitment.

Plus, the types of companies we're talking about have wads of cash that they're not returning to shareholders (yet). Real estate investments could provide better returns than a a number of other financial instruments. Win-win. :)
> If graphics is not the biggest issue, what is then in your opinion?

Graphics is the biggest issue, but the issue isn't at the API level. It's in the driver and hardware differences below that layer.

The "tax" as you call it, comes mostly from the hardware drivers leaking through the abstraction. Part of this is AAA game developers fault since they are attempting to use all the GPU with edge-case tricks to eke out more performance.
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It's not your personal property.
Per your last paragraph. Yes, not just from the mega-evangelists like the late Billy Graham but from ordinary Christians in South Korea, for example. This has been true for a couple of decades at least.
Decentralized platforms aren't a business. The decentralized model scales remarkably well for a very small cost because there are hundreds (or thousands!) of instances that run at a small scale and communicate with the broader network. Many volunteers run small instances that cost only a few dollars a month to maintain and are often supported by donations from the users of that instance. You can even run your own instance if you want. Even if one instance fails the network as a whole doesn't even feel it. The financial model is totally different and very sustainable, much more so than the proprietary model even.
That still means that I must offer the entire source code for my TCP stack to the world. That's not how any other free software license works - if I'm running a GPL'd TCP stack like Linux's, and I've made modifications to it, I don't have to offer the sources for it unless I'm distributing the program. Merely using the modified code to be on the network does not imply a source obligation.

I mean, it is probably reasonable, in the abstract, to have licenses that say "You may not modify this software internally and use it at all unless you make the changes public." Plenty of licenses have required that. Those licenses are non-free in the FSF sense, and they have rejected such licenses before.
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I dislike Slack as much as the next guy, but I honestly thought this was already the case. It was in general for work emails, why would it be any different for another office communication tool? Shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.