skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) A lot of companies go to their lawyers and say, "hey, can you give me some standard forms to have employees fill out". Non-compete clauses (for better or worse, and I think for worse) have become a part of that standard contract. Generally, the more standardized your paperwork is, the less you pay lawyers.

B) I fully agree with you that you should never trust someone who says that they don't plan to collect on a contract. Peoples' intentions often change once money is involved. But for a typical software engineer (pretty common on this forum), your skills typically transfer to many non-competitors anyway. If you work for Spotify[1] and have a non-compete, sure, you should fully assume that the non-compete will be enforced if you jump ship for Pandora. But I'd venture to guess that most Spotify employees don't move on to direct competitors anyway, but rather to software engineering roles at companies that do unrelated things.

C) Like anything else, it's a calculated risk. When I talked to my lawyer, he said that many people just ignore non-competes and don't have any issues, but that some people have painful legal battles over them. So before signing one, ponder the following: Are you likely to want to leave to a competitor of the company that wants you to sign a non-compete? Do you think you will want to start your own company that competes? Are you going to be employable among non-competitors? For many people this is a non-issue.

[1] I'm just using Spotify as an example. I have no idea what their employment paperwork looks like.
And the solution to toxic ingredients in food is to make everyone a competent chemist who can analyze the stuff they buy?

While education certainly is a good idea, and helps make society more resilient than relying on centralized authorities, I don't think the successful strategy of collaboration in a society is to make everyone an expert at everything and have no consequences for trying to screw over other people.
They're already free to do this in theory with social network sites that don't require logins to see people's data (i.e. Twitter clones), but hopefully the EU's GDPR would make it easy to bring a case against Facebook if they were using the ingested data for any purpose other than supporting their own users.

The competing social network would probably need to have a privacy policy saying that other sites can ingest their data only if the remote user's "friend request" is accepted by the local user, and the data can only be ingested for a set of prescribed purposes.
That's a year I could spend doing SICP exercises and learning to program in brainfuck. Of course, I would happily turn these projects over to the company and do so with an air of personal superiority regarding my work. And also pick up my paycheck.
I wouldn’t describe Facebook as left wing at all.

That said, pretty much every politician has an excuse to talk about facebook rather than other things. So, that’s what you’re likely to see.
Maybe the "genius", if it can be called that was FB only allowing likes, rather than dislikes. You have to really agree with something to like it, as the default is to not react, and when you do react, most energy is to disapprove of something (for example, negative feedback, online reviews, etc.), so if someone gives something positive feedback it must have nonmarginal significance.

That said, the conclusions are very much expected. If i know what you like, i can know what kind of person you might be.
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Wow! I love this idea. Congratulations! One question I have is what are you doing with the textbook pictures? Also, does the user categorize where the pictures came from so other people studying the same text can have additional questions?
The Secret Messages Inside Chinese URLs
Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem. No one buys groceries with Bitcoin and there is nothing broken with how people buy groceries now.
How to Break Your Technology Addiction
One thing important to Chinese is that the Sunway supercomputer uses entirely China-made CPUs. While these CPUs may never outcompete Intel or ARM in a commercial market, they could be used in computers of the military, nuclear stations and other critical infrastructure. China will then be the sole country free from the threat of US mandated backdoors in CPUs.
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You can "login with Google" on third party sites, but it involves an asking permission screen. The seamless SSO experience only works on Google's own properties.
Have the offline social networks (parents & relatives) really ceded screening to online social networks? Or they consider online profile as one of many signals in their offline matching algo?
SV does tend to exaggerate its importance. Part of the brand marketing, I guess. I also fail to see how Google and FB meeting to come up with new ways of stealing your private data is a good thing.

Seriously, sure, there are breakthroughs made in SV, too. But if you adjust for the signal/noise ratio with all the absolutely useless things that SV comes up with (and that's the majority of them -- exactly because it is only in SV that you can get financing and sometimes even sell for billions stuff like the aforementioned Juicero) you could find that cornfields of Illinois are just as innovative. They just have to come up with something that, you know, is useful.

As for prices... for anecdotal reference, I am paying about $1000 more a month for a two-bedroom on the outskirts of San Jose, in a crappy apartment cardboard apartment complex with no walking accessibility to anything, no public transport, and nothing to do than I did for a place in a Chicago midrise, with stuff like elevators and garages, 2 minutes from subway, 10 minutes walk from some of the best restaurants in the country, walking distance to downtown, real soundproofing etc. etc.

Sure, I guess Gilroy might compare with Chicago prices slightly better (but then, houses there are at least 2-3 times as expensive as a comparable Chicago suburb; and Chicago wouldn't stink of garlic, either). And a place 3 hours away from anything... why would I want to live there in the first place?
>Serif fonts have objectively better readability

This claim is often repeated but questionable at best.

>subjectively they're much prettier than anything else

They might be pretty to you (and this is such a subjective claim that using it as evidence for favoring serif fonts is pointless) but users are pretty used to sans UI fonts at this point, and there's 0 reason to alienate them with something "prettier".
> This isn't to say that for definite the instructor would have had the insight described in the parent post, but it is to say that you can't rule this out just based on the information that as a passenger they didn't have the insight.

That's a senseless digression though. Again, the criterion to use when deciding whether autonomous vehicles are safe is whether autonomous vehicles are measurably as safe as human drivers and very much not whether we can "rule out" the possibility that the machine might be subject to failure modes that human driver are already known to have anyway.

For every scenario and hypothetical like this one you can imagine where an autonomous vehicle would fail, I can come up with an equally hypothetical reason why they're better (hell, just read any of the media coverage of them). Both arguments are meaningless without numbers and analysis, c.f. this very article we're discussing.
I am not Japanese, I can only marvel at the complexity and subtleness of Japanese culture. But I sort of get it, you start interacting with anyone and it opens you up to the pressure and the questions and with Enryo you can't really talk openly and be accepted. Would these people be happier living outside of Japan?
Yes? Why would you not want it to be cheap? Current self driving LIDAR units costing $75,000 seems like a pretty major barrier to mass producing the things.
For what its worth, every single java application I use broke entirely with java 9.
Do employers have the same tools with email?
Is there any way to find this article not behind a paywall?
I wonder why Romania isn't mentioned at all. It's part of Europe.
This high-quality comment and its followup (so far) are why I come to HN. Thanks!
Uber is damaged goods!

What's next their going to kill a bunch of kids trying to help their blind friend out of the street? I mean the headlines this company writes!
This is not completely true. Been able to pull DMs via the Discovery API.
I'm talking about SAML setup for GSuite.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-set-up-federate...
Exactly. I'm surprised they couldn't before.
Nice work Andrey! Good luck with your $1000 MRR challenge.
That is in the plans. If you are deploying the computation, you don't want to be dragging the compiler along with you. Right now we are generating C++ for the model, but we haven't separated out a runtime from the compiler, and to save compilation time we reference constants directly in memory rather than emitting them into the source.
The problem with your previous comment is that it's not even clear from what are you dissenting.
Yes. You can access Outlook365 and Exchange via APIs as well as Google Apps for Business.

Plus Calendars, etc. Anything that uses LDAP locally and now through the 365 APIs.
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A place where people are not allowed to demand discriminatory treatment of people based on national origin is not an "echo chamber".
why presumably due to GDPR? I would think it was a possible GDPR problem for them in the future. Specifically, you wrote it based on expectation it was private and now it is not, when did you give permission for sharing that data?
The smart people will have anticipated this, and their message logs will paint them as good for the company.
> People with power and wealth could still be toppled when you exposed them to the truth. How in the fuck does that even come close to happening today?

I have doubts that this happened regularly in the past, usually wealthy/powerful were allowed to be toppled by their enemies. I don't know the details of how Weinstein got toppled after so many years of being protected, but my gut says that the people who were protecting him no longer felt like it was worth it to continue. In revolutions, it's not the people that overthrow the dictator, it's the court/army which allow the people to overthrow the dictator, in order for them to install a new dictator[0].

> How do you overcome marketing that is engineered to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities you are not even aware of?

Become more aware of your vulnerabilities so as to be aware of when you're being exploited. I recommend mindfulness and then making note of when you're being triggered in either a positive or negative way. If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a thousand battles[1].

> How do we patch our society and governing systems from being pwned?

As these systems become more complex it requires more energy and complexity to maintain the systems, this additional complexity creates a larger attack surface and more internal fragility. Solving these problems requires more energy and complexity, exacerbating the problem and delivering diminishing returns on additional complexity. Systems should to be designed to collapse in a way that minimizes losses of knowledge (especially of why they collapsed) and with mechanisms to recover quickly using the accumulated knowledge to build more robustness into the new system, this would be an anti-fragile system. Centralized, too big to fail, institutions (Facebook, et al) are a major component of fragility in our current systems[2][3][4].

I think you can avoid the marketers and advertisers by learning how they operate, nobody gives away shit for free, so anybody that claims that is either a marketer/advertiser trying to lure you into a bait/switch or is using you as the product (TANSTAAFL). Be flexible and avoid lock-in to any single service/company, always be ready to drop a service when they start acting against your interests or the interests of society as a whole.

[0] CGP Grey, Rules for Rulers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

[1] Sun Tzu, Art of War - https://sites.ualberta.ca/~enoch/Readings/The_Art_Of_War.pdf

[2] Joseph Tainter, Collapse of Complex Societies - http://wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf

[3] Nassim Taleb, Antifragile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile

[4] JP Crutchfield, The Hidden Fragility of Complex Systems - http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/FOCS.pdf
This should not be surprising to anyone. You're giving your data to a corporation who has every incentive to give it to your employer. The only real surprise here is that they weren't doing this earlier.
Honestly I don't feel there is any need to run Java in containers. The war/jar file is its own container with its own dependencies. The JVM still makes the same syscalls as it would inside a Docker/Kubernetes container.

In fact I would rather look at serverless architecture before considering docker/Kubernetes.
Literally in the sense that calculus is literally college-algebra and trigonometry?
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yet when the US practices protectionism it's the end of the world. Reality is that our 'allies' get rich by abusing trade agreements to act as middlemen for China
Slack...the big brother you never asked for!
Googling the title from an incognito mode browser session appears to work.
As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.

Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern accounts into multi-channel guests after that. Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone's messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons.

Edit: I'll say this is still not an ideal solution. I don't go into private communications unless I have to, and I'd rather have the option to review specific DMs / private channels than dump everything. I really don't want everything; that's more than I care to see. Also, to clarify, I'm in the US and our employees are well aware that communications on company-operated platforms should not be considered private. I want them to be careful how they communicate in writing, not because they should be worried about me, but because they should be worried about Slack getting hacked/leaked. With the recent Facebook news, I should have thought that sort of concern was obvious.
I assume they’ll start paying their employees in Facebucks that can only be spent at the company store?
There are two possibilities here:

* Jack Dorsey has no technical knowledge about Bitcoin, or

* Jack Dorsey invested in Bitcoin and wants his money back.
Technically this was possible before this.

Since the email to each slack user is an @company.com address all you need to do is take control of the employees email address, reset the slack password and login as the target user.
People didn't want to believe that FB and Google (and the rest) tracking and collecting all that data would really cause harm. Denial (because something is really useful and/or a large part of communication with all your friends+family runs through it) is a strong force.

What changed is that this breach made it harder for people to pretend all that tracking and data harvesting "will probably turn out fine".
Too funny -- about a month ago I built a web site backed by a Google Sheet so that my father could easily update content. Great idea with Sheet2Site and good luck!
Honestly I didn't realize my Slack DMs on my work account weren't private until I saw this. I assumed that since my employer pays for the account, any message I sent was being monitored.
This "mostly left wing company" enabled Trump becoming president. Without FB this wouldn't have happened. I don't know what's left wing about FB, although for us Europeans left wing in the US is mostly right of the right wing in western Europe so that could explain it a bit.
That's what I'm thinking. I mean... of course employers expect to be able to have access to communication done by employees in the course of doing their jobs. They've been able to do this with every (archivable) communication medium since the invention of writing. Where is the news here?

If you want privacy use a private channel. Your employer's work tools don't qualify.
You should not assume your communications are private if there is no end-to-end encryption. Also, the employers are often required to do this because of regulations. (I think those are silly regulations given that end-to-end encryption is so easily available nowadays, but the companies don't really have a choice here.)
I think the EU would have something to say about that: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/05/landmark-eu-ruli...
Why can't the recipient save a copy of logs?
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So in plain GPL, it isn't or it's ambiguous?
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In context, here is a great video from the Belfer center on nuclear bomb making and what are the hard parts [0]. Getting the fission material is the hard part, and in order to get plutonium nukes you need a enrichment plant, i.e. a reactor that is not meant to produce energy but breed plutonium.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhQOhxb1Mc (at min 47, he starts talking about the hard parts)
How does it work, an outlook 365 admin(?) Can read anyone's email that they want? Do they essentially just log onto the normal Hi as that user?
with or without my consent?
I was always under the impression this was already going on. I don't see the surprise here: there shouldn't be any expectation of privacy with regards to conversations between employees happening on company virtual grounds.

Heck, in my previous company when we wanted to talk about something off-the-record, we'd even physically go off campus due to the sheer amount of walls equipped with 'ears'.
> I think "directly benefits a vast portion of the world's population" is a vast exaggeration.

How exactly does it not? There are more college-aged people than ever, and a good portion of them wouldn't have access to a substantial amount of research without Sci-Hub. Similarly, there are more pre-collegiate students than ever who are interested in research. Both of these groups directly benefit from having it. Indirectly, the rest of the world gets more progress and a better standard of living.

> Sorry, don't see the upside or even much ethical excuse in supporting something that is demonstrably evil just because it might have a beneficial side-effect.

Demonstratably evil? I'd love for you to clarify on that.
I think if the employer provides the tool, it is their data.

I know there are different traditions in other places where they consider something like work email to be more of an employee owned or privacy issues. I always thought that was a bit wonky and it is easier to identify who owns what by ... who owns it.
Because they typically can be easily falsified.
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Ah, got ya.
Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg. If a fully featured app or service is free, then you are the product. Collecting and selling user information is pervasive.
You mean like with Google's G-Suite? Admins can always change your password to one that they know and log in with it. Even with a 2FA policy, they can generate backup codes to use. Generally assume that yes, corporations can read their corporate email accounts. However, they may have policies that prevent their staff from accessing other employees email accounts without a specific need.
There are few books written on Cassandra, Riak and Berkeley DB Java edition. They might be useful to you.
One of the posts I wish I could upvote more than once. Thank you.
I think the majority of the evangelism will move to places where there isn't a traditional evangelical movement.

Some of the fastest growing conversion efforts in my belief system (Pentecostal) has been in Africa and Asia.
Sounds crazy to me. I believe in California non compete clauses are unenforceable in court.
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"I think the shifts have been so rapid that we'll really need to wait a generation or two before we can say that some of these countries have fully cast off religious practice,"

Christianity is not the only religion. On the generational time scale, Europe (considered as a geography) may be trading Christianity for Islam.
I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Despite being located next to Google or Facebook, these will likely be apartments being rented out like anywhere else with no particular employment requirements.

Though, they're likely to be attractive to employees who want to live within walking distance.
I get that it's hard to pass up on the money. Once you take it though it's hard to not look hypocritical. Especially since he gave them a large amount of the data that was abused.
You can read a short article about it on Time.com, but it's a short article not an investigation like Haaretz had done.
http://time.com/5208531/israeli-airstrike-syrian-nuclear-sit...
>I wonder why Romania isn't mentioned at all. It's part of Europe.

And Italy, that besides being part of Europe is indirectly home of the Catholicism/Catholic Church.
That's backwards. You're working for an employer who has every responsibility to monitor business communication. Slack can't "give" something they were never supposed to control in the first place and only have by accident of architecture. This fixes an old bug.
Ah, I work remotely, so I normally don't worry about that sort of thing.
Democracy is not in danger, this is exactly what democracy is.
Like it or not but he is quite a telling representative of a big part of the population.
And democracy means majority rules. As simple as that. Consider it in light of 80-20 %% rule.
I consider the security of the 5 char API acceptable, but it still leaks 20 bits of information about the password to HIBP, so it's certainly not 100% safe.
It's about time. This mass delusion was bound to stop with the development.
The main Mastodon instance probably can't do that. But then I think you're missing the point of a distributed social network.
In the "things learned from Ruby" section:

Focus on strong object oriented programming

What I've learned from Ruby is to favor functional programming concepts - minimize side effects, isolate state mutation, etc. Ruby is definitely OO, but when my Ruby code is more functional it's less buggy, easier to understand and move around, and generally less convoluted.
GDPR was mentioned in the announcement email (though not for this line item).