skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it out, very interesting. I've seen a lot of services like that, it would seem weird if none of them is self-hosted like yours.
> it's unclear whether one could just start paying for a Slack account and immediately pull all DM history for something that didn't come with the expectation of corporate ownership

I've tried. In my experience, Slack will not approve your compliance export application without articles of incorporation.
CA sold stolen data.
CA paid out bribes to win elections.

Why are you bringing up facebook giving away data that they own?
I think this holds true for all slack teams I joined online. Online i mean, like golang slack or any other community created slack team I joined. Is this correct ?
It's funny how much hedging and how many implausible hypothetical scenarios there are in some of these comments.
Would any of the authors be willing to comment on how questions are generated (i.e. what algorithm)? Asking as somebody with a casual interest in AI
Work is stressful and communication can reach straight into your brain. People go through periods where they're not handling stress very well, and they will often express ideas that, divorced from the context of the stress and bad feelings they have at that point, don't reflect what they really believe or intend to say in public.
Genuine question: is there a good definition of a "service animal", or can I just throw a vest on my pooch and get the ADA protection?
That sounds very reasonable. And to take it a step further, if they want possession of ideas you have in your spare time, then they should pay for your spare time too! :)
> two employees colluding to exfiltrate sensitive data or something like that

In that case spying Slack usage is simply not enough: the employer should need to spy every single move every employee makes inside and outside the company, which of course it's not possible (well, except if the company is located in a fascist state).
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+1; Time will tell what happened as there should be enough data onboard. These systems are essentially in training mode and new scenarios will need to be accounted for.

I am curious as to why the driver didn't react. I wonder if the system keeps track of the driver as well as I would imagine it has to be mind numbing to sit behind a wheel for hours on end and not do anything... So in this situation, how attentive and alert was really the driver who is supposed to be the fail safe mechanism.
Yes, G-Suite/Google Cloud all use the same system. This is just extracted for companies to use without G-Suite or Google Cloud.
They aren't supposed to in the US. See the "Audio Monitoring" section of this ABA article [1].

Here's another article with more information on a state by state basis [2].

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazi...

[2] https://www.upcounsel.com/audio-surveillance-laws-by-state
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>The "item of intellectual property" would cover copyrighted material, right?

Very much possible, but as someone else alluded to, this clause is incomplete without the rest of the agreement. Somewhere in the agreement "intellectual property" may be defined [better] and it may include copyright, and it might include terms that narrow down what copyright falls within their definition of "intellectual property" (i.e. copyright-able works which pertain to the business of the company). They don't want to own everything... what if I write software for a personal pet project and it causes damages... they would open up themselves to potential liability (unless they cover that, again, somewhere else in the agreement). The entire agreement text is needed for clarity and to make conclusions.
I wish a compromise between willy-nilly dumps of private DMs and their Compliance Exports could have been found. As a user who is not the head of IT this is frustrating. Now frank discussions have to go back to out-of-band channels.

If anyone thinks this won't get abused, think again. I've worked with IT folks of all shapes and sizes over many years and a tiny percentage do abuse the privilege. Including heads of IT. And those are just the ones I know about.
A teacher I had in High School explained a particular portion of history to us about like this: "I can rule via Love or via Fear. People can fall out of Love; People don't fall out of Fear." So this monarch dictated government via Fear, and it worked until he died [which is the point much of the time].

Now, the monarchs may not die. "Facebook Forever" as reality? A 'Black Mirror' episode isn't a far stretch, and to be fair so is the opposite -- both of which we can see in reality today.

Being skeptical of tech companies is great. Behaving appropriately is also great. Going "all or nothing" can be debated. I'm interested in hearing about something in the middle, should such exist.
They had compliance exports and I wish they'd stuck with that since turning them on notified everyone that your employer could now see everything and prevented them from exporting anything private prior to that.

I know why they did this but a compromise could have been found. With this ability someone can dump everything and just read through it with users none-the-wiser. If users read the previous documentation they'd even believe they were safe from snooping and would be notified when it started. At least with compliance exports the users were informed and had privacy.
Something I can't figure out from Mastodon's website is where and how it uses cryptography.

I fear it might all be plaintext, despite the insanity of doing that in the present post-Snowden world, rather than the appropriate end-to-end combined with point-per-point encryption.
This will open up Slack to industries that frown upon creating communication channels between employees that cannot be recorded.

http://bizblog.blackberry.com/2015/07/chatrooms-in-finance-w...
The main thing I don't get from this approach is the idea that deleting Facebook somehow frees you from this level of data mining.

In reality, it's well-known (not just by techies, but everyone) that when you "delete" Facebook, you're only really deactivating that account. Your data has already been mined, your data has already been sold and moved onto another server, and even if Facebook wanted to get rid of you, the Channel 4/Guardian expose has illustrated that data has been sold. The damage has already been done.

Instead of trying to get people to leave, there should be pressure on sanctions from affected governments. The only way to stop this level of data misuse is to ensure that Facebook is fined adequately. Instead of trying to crash the stock price, fine them $10k for every user breach, to the tune of several billion.

My biggest worry from this scandal is that the anger will die down, and the world will be told that you can get away with this level of data breach. Equifax have largely got away with their breach, but if Facebook and CA can get away with outright giving data away for profit then all we'll see is that the line hasn't been crossed yet.
Doesn't that make part of the agreement a tautology, though?

"I will promptly communicate to the Company ... during my period of employment, and I agree that any such invention ... shall be presumed to have been made during my period of employment..."

Wouldn't a simple assignment clause during the employment term be both clearer and provide the same rights?
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> I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good developers I know, because they're people who can afford to be choosy.

So you and your choosy developer friends work at a place where IT can't access your corporate email?
>Javascript and Python are very popular dynamic languages, this doesn't make them good dynamic languages.

JS in particular is a very bad example of a dynamic language, the other "very bad" example being classic PHP.

This, mostly, because of weak typing.

Many of the problems attributed to C, a statically-typed language, are also due to weak typing.
That would be constructive dismissal, and (certainly in many parts of the world) you could take them to an employment tribunal over it.
As a society, we're having a very hard time adjusting to all kinds of social media.
Because it is illegal in many countries to access somebody's personal communication even if it uses eg. a corporate email address?
This is true in theory but not in practice. I know of a few (somewhat disreputable) big law firms and prop/hedge funds that primarily hire from competitors. They can offer better partnership terms or pay because they don’t spend on research, training, or developing their own talent. Let the competitors do that, and we can skim off the cream talent-wise. It’s good for wages, but is that really fair play? Does it have a chilling effect on R&D investment?

They’ll say they just want quality employees, but interview with them and they’ll care little about your skills. They always want to know how much business your clients brought you, seek traders with a good "track record", ask how much profit you made, with the implied understanding that you will bring them that business.

IMO it’s fair to strike a balance, so companies can earn some returns on R&D, and employees can get fairly paid. Your employer shouldn’t lock you out of working forever, nor should competitors be able to hire away instantly by paying $x+1.
*The CLAUSE explicitly says "or item of intellectual property".

We can't conclude what the agreement means by "intellectual property". See comment to sister reply. We need the entire agreement text to make conclusions.
>I’ve tried Clojure a little bit and it seems like a nice language but I’m not convinced by the lack of types. Why wouldn’t you want types?

Clojure has classes and types. How can it be untyped?

Machine language is untyped.
It seems nearly every single post where someone suggests people delete their Facebook accounts always has some comment pointing out that the NYT, or Medium, or whatever the article was published has a Facebook share widget or something like that.

IMHO, those comments might as well be "First Post!" for all they add.

> it doesn't mean that readers must be burdened with a popup that asks them to log in to Facebook before viewing.

The first step to that world is getting people off Facebook so it's not so ubiquitous that making a request like that seems reasonable.
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Pretty much every employer I’ve ever worked for has laid claim to all IP I produce, even on my own time using my own equipment at home. This is a very common clause in any tech company’s employment agreement. If you’re going to run away from these, your employment options are severely limited.

The “within 1 year” thing, however is one I haven’t seen before. Ugly!
If the owner or GM has enough time to dip into Slack DM's, or even emails, the company has bigger issues.
Not clear to me if conventional cameras can make use of this. Or special hardware is needed.
In calm seriousness:

Can sb compare the technical feats and the scope of the data collection by the obama campaign and the trump campaign?
Pipenv sees the wrong constraint. It just aggregates the constraint for pbr that it sees.

In details:

oslo.utils==1.4.0 requires:

- pbr (>= 0.6, != 0.7, < 1.0)
- oslo.i18n (>= 1.3)

So, poetry will take the latest version of oslo.i18n which requires:

- pbr (!= 2.1, >= 2.0)

Poetry will detect the conflict and backtrack oslo.i18n to version 2.1.0 which requires:

- pbr (>= 0.11, < 2.0)

This is compatible with the requirements of oslo.utils and pbr==0.11.1 will be installed
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We did #1 at a previous job - the users wanted their common countries in a list of countries to appear at the top of the drop-down (US, Canada, Germany, etc) and not in the natural sort position. It was something that practically never got changed once it was set up, so the update problem was handled manually via DBA scripts.
I wasn't trying start a political flamewar. I noted in parenthesis that Obama's use of this sort of analytics was less deceptive.
I think that the link that CptJamesCook posted validates my original comment on this.
It also might be a product, Google's Identity Aware Proxy (IAP). https://cloud.google.com/iap/
I've never heard of that phrase before, so I went to look it up. Apparently it has different meanings to different people when it comes to CVTs. I haven't experienced any of those different issues.

When it comes to accelerating and high RPM, I just don't mash the gas pedal down. By pressing the gas pedal on my car just enough, I can accelerate past other cars without high RPM just fine.

Gas pedal management is definately different with CVTs and other types of transmissions if you want a good driving experience.
Last time I signed one it was very weakly worded. I laughed and said "I'll only sign this because it's completely unenforceable here". It was a bit awkward.
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"People can't be free to think for themselves because they'll make stupid decisions"

I know you're not making that argument specifically but that's sort of what it boils down to right? That bad systems which focus their power will win out over good systems which don't. It's like the argument that keeps coming up in the China VS USA threads where people worry about the US because it handicaps itself in science with its regulations and concerns over ethics.

I don't particularly disagree with what you're saying because it feels true but it should be pointed out that it's an awfully nice excuse for people with power to see themselves as benevolent overlords.
Airborn needs to charge more for their business users. If there's one common lesson on Indie Hackers, it's that everyone (including customers) stands to gain from charging more.

If Airborn creators on on this thread: how did you think about getting people to pay while making the source available? It doesn't seem commonly done.
What if those two employees collude to do something like that via their own private phones? Should employers have access to those too?

It doesn't seem to me like any of this really does anything, since there are (and should be) plenty of ways that employees can communicate without their employer having access.
i guess that depends what do you think democracy should look like. it was plenty broken before zuck was admitted to harvard.
Well, one is a platform provided specifically for work related communications (again, like your email). Also, read the above linked article which discusses wiretapping:

>employers are given an exemption for calls made “in the ordinary course of business.” Courts interpret this to mean that employers can eavesdrop on all business telephone calls but cannot listen to or record messages it knows are personal.

Also:

>ECPA also applies to audio monitoring of the workplace. Employers can install recording devices in any location that is used primarily for work. But employers may not conduct audio recording of nonworking areas such as cafeterias, break rooms, or locker rooms. In practice, this means little because employers are not required to notify employees that they are being recorded and employees are unlikely to discover the hidden microphone.

So there is an obvious legal distinction between communications which are intended to be work related and those which are not. In your cafeteria example, no, they should not (assuming this article is the entire story.) However, your slack messages are not considered the same as a cafeteria conversation.

Again, I'm not a lawyer and have zero real knowledge here, but I think it's silly to expect privacy in your work provided messaging system.
Great way to comply with GDPR! Also presumably reduces your data management overhead slightly, although it seems you're still storing data on your own systems[1]. This reminds me of SpiderOak's "No Knowledge" claim[2].

[1] https://www.airborn.io/docs/security

[2] https://spideroak.com/no-knowledge/
Yeah, you can attach mailboxes to other users with Powershell.

You could also just create a mail rule that sends a copy of every email everytime someone sends and receives one and they wouldn't know.
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yep. incredibly dangerous. UL would not be impressed. [I have worked in lithium-ion battery design and testing for >10yr]
Yeah, the US judge selection process seems especially bad. Here in germany the issue of partisan judges comes up rarely, at least. I wonder why. Maybe that has to do with the highly partisan US politics, thanks to the US FPTP voting system practically allowing only 2 opposing parties. Hell, don't you even elect some judges in the same way?!

Also seems like we have a somewhat high bar that should filter the worst people... you need a 4 year legal education and after that have an up to 5 year trial period til you got a life long position.
My thought exactly.

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Because facebook tracks you even if you don't have an account.
> What is the material difference between having employees save DM logs in an auditable, authenticated way and being able to view employee DMs?

> When you are reviewing an auditable log of information related to an employee, you don't necessarily want to have to ask the employee for that information, nor do you necessarily want them to know you're reviewing it.

You just answered your own question.

You might not want them to know you're reviewing it but they most certainly do want to know that you are.
Yes, for AVX-512 acceleration.
(Disclaimer: I don't know much at all about the current standards of encryption)

Is this security not already standard, and not practiced by companies like Dropbox? As a side note, I like the collaboration aspect and one-person-per-paragraph is a pretty smart idea!

Edit: To those downvoting, sorry, I'm just curious and I think some of us were unaware of the differences between Airborn and other services, which I've now learned can still view your data
> Google Play essentially did this with AOSP: embrace and extend with proprietary features.

No, it didn't. Branded Android has always included Google proprietary apps and services (Google Play is the most recent name for that), and AOSP is a cathedral model open source project driven by Google which has whatever bits of Android they both can and choose to make open, it's not a community open source project they embraced and extended with proprietary features.
oh yea i think you are right.
Check out PISA 2015 which tests Chinese students from 4 provinces (200+ million population). They are on average above Massachusetts, the top scoring American state, in math.

Note that fewer percentage of Chinese youths attend high school than American, so that might skew the comparison.
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That’s probably a very good reason to fall back to WhatsApp or whatever else for things I don’t want my employer to read.
The report ignores almost all of Eastern/Southeastern Europe. I don't think they can rightly make their claims about the whole of Europe based on that...Northwest/Western Europe, sure, but all of it?

Countries not included:
Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia (and Kosovo), Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece. Plus none of the small city states or island countries of Malta, (Iceland?) (Cyprus?).

They even include Israel (not European??)
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> Sure, they could, and as it turns out, that seems in
> practice to make them more likely, not less, to not only
> use but also contribute back to the permissively licensed
> project.

This is a common argument from MIT/BSD/Permissive licensing folks, but there are many counterexamples.

NetApps entire OS is based on FreeBSD. There is no WAFL filesystem donated back to FreeBSD.

Isilon (now EMC/Dell) is based on FreeBSD. There is no OneFS distributed filesystem donated back to FreeBSD.

Apple MacOS is based on FreeBSD. There is no HFS+ filesystem donated back to FreeBSD.

There are many examples of corporations donating back to permissively licensed projects, but enough counterexamples (I use the storage space as that is what I'm most familiar with) that I don't think in general you can say that "in practice... it makes them more likely.. to contribute back."
Yes, there are ways to do it. The question is how to do so efficiently. Recursive queries don't benefit from indexes as efficiently as, for example, the solution outlined in the submission.
>> I'm still very confused as to why you believe that your communications over a company owned platform should/would be private.

Is this a generational thing? When I got my first job, there were cultural norms about not making personal calls on the company phone (this was a time when people still used paper for memos) or using company resources like copiers.

While I realize times have changed and things appear much more relaxed today, I don't understand why people would even think to use company owned devices/servers/resources for personal stuff for anything short of an emergency.
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In the US, once you commit a crime, it'll follow you for the rest of your life, even after you paid your time and money.
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Crime,religion, health/life expectancy/education are correlated with wealth.

Do you think atheists countries have higher life expectancy because of atheism or wealth?
Mixed batteries of unknown provenance/capacity without balancing isn't something I'd want in my basement personally.
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… but we are all Facebook users
It's an email replacement. Seems like an obvious choice to me.
It still works that way - I'm an atheist and I met my wife at a local church.
You seem to contradict yourself. For example, you say:

> While I like many aspects of the being part of a religion, what I like is completely viable without the religious aspect.

How do you know it's viable without it? What evidence do we have of that? You claim:

> I have some good friends who are very religious and in chatting with them I can see the benefits of community, helping others and being inclusive..

> it just seems, to me, such a shame that to be a part of such a positive community you have to believe in God.

And:

> I just wish we could figure out am effective way to do so without religion.

I'm an atheist, and I've slowly come to accept that the communal aspect that you're describing is unattainable without religion. Or at the least, I, like you, have not "figured out an effective way to do so without religion". It seems to me that you need something transcendent and non-material to bind people materially. Isn't this the lesson of the 20th century "isms" (communism, capitalism, socialism) - the supplanting of religion with ideology, and it's disastrous effects?
Always assume any communication on your work network can and will be monitored... If you want a private discussion, best to do it in person or on your own devices, not using any company resources.
Most "encrypted communications" means that no unauthorized third parties can view the data as a result of the encryption. However, even if Dropbox stores your files encrypted, they still have the keys to those files and so could be coerced into decrypting (them through a warrant, for example).
With the housing challenges in SF I think you will see more and more companies questioning the “there’s no better place than SF” mindset.
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Most companies I've worked at recently have some sort of mechanism in place to prevent this. Portable drives disabled, email attachments monitored, etc.