skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social pressure is fine, the problem is that right now people leverage the law to force their culture of helicopter parenting on people not complying.

Frankly, I think it should go even further, it should be a civil offense to frivolously report child endangerment based only on the fact that children are unsupervised. Even with a protection bill, people will still report parents if there are no consequences, and not everyone on the enforcement side will get the message. Best to level the playing field so helicopter reporters will have some skin in the game.
Glad this is happening. It's not fair to use DMs to form alliances against colleagues in order to increase one's bottom line. That is exactly what I've observed in agencies that run on Slack. If life is a game, this is a backdoor worth closing.
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I don't really see it that way. From a legal perspective, it's just preventing legitimate parenting techniques from being dragged into an over-broad definition of neglect.
Maybe I missed some context but since when are we talking about committing crimes and the SEC or FBI getting involved? If it's that serious I assume they'd just get a warrant and get the logs directly from Slack.

To me that scenario is completely unrelated to the ability of an employer to silently read DMs of their employees for any reason they see fit.
Seems like a really stupid thing to DIY to save money, and a great way to burn your house down.
In BC:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancou...

Kids can't even take the bus to school together. And that's on government, not social pressure. (For Americans) In Vancouver transit is both clean and effective.
I recently bought an APC UPC to protect my DSL modem and phone when the power goes out. I have enough battery powered devices that I can be in communication as much as I need.

Those two devices draw about 8 watts, but the UPC I bought can run for only about 10 hours on that load. It could run a lot longer except that the inverter is scaled to handle a larger load so efficiency is bad. And why the hell is it converting AC to DC, then converting to AC, then converting it to DC in some awful wall-warts.

Since you don't run the inverter for really long times, there is a pressure to put in a cheap, inefficient inverter. However, if you took out the inefficiencies, you could afford to use lithium batteries and produce a much better product for this market. Hell, maybe the thing supplies power to the phone and modem through USB-C and it is just a super-powerbank.

Basically a "micro-powerwall". Safety issues still concern me but smaller scale reduces the odds.
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If I am reading fb history correctly they had a business (apple and party poker ads) even when they were distributed (one server and mysql db per school).
Don't even think about building something like that yourself in your home. If one of the cells gets damaged it can set of a chain reaction which will burn down everything around it. A fire like this is quite hard to extinguish, similar to the teslas that burn down sometimes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYKTTCNUV3o ).
Using lithium iron phosphate batteries might be a safer alternative.
Demodulation via sampling isn't a weird side-case, that's at the core of understanding Nyquist and doesn't line up with the intuition that you just need to "sample each up- and down-deflection of a wave at least once"
Not to defend Intel's dreadful press release, but these vulnerabilities are a little more run-of-the-mill than the Spectre/Meltdown stuff. AMD will be confident they can just patch them and move on.

I did like that they highlighted there would be no performance impact for each of the proposed fixes, incase anybody confabulated AMD and Intel's issues.
It's still mixing and matching. Different cells that have been used in different ways have different resistances. That causes each cell to charge and discharge at slightly different rates. Over time, you'll wind up overcharging one of those cells in relation to the others and burn your house down.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/electrical-bike-starts-fire-in...
That line or reasoning makes no sense. If that were true, then states like California couldn't make it illegal for companies to eavesdrop on its employees(e.g. recording audio, bugging offices). But allowing companies to read direct messages is very, very similar.

Also, what's preventing a victim of harassment from handing over the offending messages? I don't see how this helps anyone.
Well there's Texture, a kind of cable package for magazines, bought by Apple last week. [0] If it works for magazines it could work for newspapers but the tricky part is that it has to be shared ownership and there are a lot more newspapers than magazines.

[0]http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/apple-texture-acquisiti...
In the end that's your responsibility to maintain professional level when using internal company tools.

Not surprisingly the three persons who forwarded me this thread with comments like: "shit", "is this legal or allowed?", or even "I'm screwed if they read my messages" - are the ones who are always trash talking colleagues, pairs and the company itself.
"May you live in interesting times" is a phrase widely thought of in the English world to be a "Chinese curse", though the "Chinese" element of this per the Wiki is possibly dubious. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...)
I read these two as well. Computer Organization and Design and Computer Architecture on my 2nd and 3rd-level computer architecture courses respectively. Glad to hear Hennessy and Patterson getting the Touring award, always had a good hunch about Computer Architecture despite not knowing as much back then.
Li-Ion 18650 cells have different specifications.

Just because something is in the shape of the 18650 doesn't mean that the chemicals inside of them are the same. Tesla's 18650s allegedly don't have Cobalt in them for example. Panasonic / Tesla have been working on "special chemical sauce" to make the cells work better for car purposes.

Even WITHIN a company, there are different specifications. Samsung's ICR18650-22F has different specs than Samsung's ICR18650-32A.

Lithium is a potent chemical that is EXPLOSIVE when mishandled. Lithium Fires cannot be put out by a class A, class B, or class C fire extinguisher. Lithium Fires CANNOT be put out by suffocation (they are self-sustaining and do not require oxygen). And sure, the cells are "Lithium-Ion" and not "pure lithium" (Li-Ion is a bit safer), but the potency of the core element here demands caution.

Energy storage works because you're storing energy. And if that energy decides to "stop being stored", you basically got a major, explosive fire on your hands.

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For hobby works (especially since I'm not in high-performance hobbies like Battlebots or RC Cars), I prefer the safety of NiMH cells. They're $2 each, sold by Duracell / Energizer / Panasonic / Eneloop.

The "failure" case of NiMH is that the battery vents a little bit of hydrogen gas (okay, also an explosive risk... but its not a lot of hydrogen). So basically, the cells destroy themselves if you abuse them, but otherwise vent relatively safely.

Furthermore, NiMH cells can be overcharged for days and remain fine. They're a lot more durable than Lithium Ion. In fact, a lot of NiMH chargers don't even have timers on them: a common technique with NiMH is to just keep them overcharging.

NiMH is heavier but otherwise nearly as energy dense as Lithium Ion.
In any case, if you would plan any of that, I would guess that it would most probably leak out through entirely nontechnological channel - e.g. by somebody overhearing in person, or even by a co-conspirator defecting for their own gain.

Cloak-and-dagger games are very similar to building your own crypto: likely to be broken at a fundamental level, never mind the amount of magic security glitter that you pile on top.
And what if the issue is two employees are using Slack to discuss using a competitors proprietary information on a contract proposal? Or two employees are discussing how to arrange the books so that they don't receive margin calls while trying to hide large trading losses?

You can't depend on everyone being on the up and up.
School buses: also consider the weaponization of the seatbelt by the student to annoy their seat mate; the ramifications of extricating dozens of children should the bus ever end up in a position where seatbelts are designed to prevent release...
when you run a polyglot stack with java/python/go/node on top of a cluster of machines, you will love to have them containerized and uniform. It makes scripting and CI so much easier.

or, when you have a legacy app that relies on java 6, but you want everything else to run on java 8, the ability to drop everything into a container with its runtime is a life saver.

source: I'm the devops person that's responsible for making this work
I've always had better luck restricting FP to using things like map, reduce, filter, (etc) inside methods as an implementation detail, but having the structure of the app use OOP.
All the URLs you need to block to *actually* stop using Facebook
Does this actually delete anything or just flag it as deleted?
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I had just assumed this was the case anyway.

I used to be a teacher, and have recommended Slack to an old colleague as a way facilitate staff communication at their school. Additionally my current organization quite often works with children at workshops and the like.

For an admin not to be able to look through DMs is a serious safeguarding issue, so I'm happy this is now possible.
And with that slack is not something I will be using. Way to mess up a good thing.
Not just firefighters but linemen as well.

If those things don't disconnect when the power goes out and have a physical lockout for switch over to battery power they can easily kill someone working on the line.
If Tesla assumes liability for a PowerWall disaster than the $3500 price is a bargain.
Hey HN friends. I too have worked on (and will probably keep working on) this project. It's pretty wild! There are two things about it that I think you'll like:

1) (the obvious) - it allows a user to share a secret with a third party (the "proxy") who, without being able to read it, can then share it with another person. For the purposes of narrating this, we expand "Alice - Bob" to "Alice - Ursula - Bob". Kinda cool.

2) We have introduced a couple of interesting turns of phrase. For example, we "encapsulate" a key (a very common practice), but in so doing, we say that the key in inside a "Capsule". I've never seen this object called a Capsule before, but it makes a good deal of sense - Bob brings a Capsule to Ursula and asks for her help "opening" (ie, decapsulating) it.

I think that we've made some interesting if modest motions forward in the modeling and naming that is required for distributed proxy re-encryption, and I'm curious to know if y'all think so too.
Your conclusion is too closed. There are in fact people who are willing to use "nefarious" techniques to boost exposure to marginal ideas to those who may be in a position to swing opinion, or to perform damage control specifically towards those who may be swayed.

That's outside of this bigger experience we're all having about the necessity of respect towards those who hold different opinions and can demonstrate a systematic world view to get there.
By blob I mean an archive dump of every message and the metadata you're describing. If that dump is hashed, selectively presenting messages in the dump is obvious.
yeah I think it's feeling the HN effect already

(a bit ironic that it doesn't have https enabled)
Well no, because the whole point of the article is that fractional reserve banking doesn't actually exist and that there is no money multiplier.
Yeah, the blacklist approach to legislation is much preferable to the whitelist approach, at least in terms of human rights and societal evolution.
The ECHR said that the employer has no right to access any private employee communication, even if it happened at work.

That contradicts what you’re saying quite a bit.
That, too, yes.
Right, and most of the times, if state have different life times, then it should be in different classes.
You're right, 8 bits is small enough to just store in a table.

This trick will work for any number of bits though. You might not want to use 2^64 entries in your table.
Well, that's only if the person actually knows that the conversation isn't private.

I would also like to point out that the person you were responding was talking about interns, so were arguably 'actually' children.
It would make a lot more sense to take your unfiltered and undiplomatic private conversation to a nearby private establishment. If you are remote and can not do this I would simply use a not supplied by work phone. This is for your protection and whoever you bring along to vent. There have been at least two occurrences in my career which have forced my hand on employee communication and in both cases, a blanket refusal was not an option. If you don't want to say something publically don't assume anything your company pays for is private until our society changes its views on where the expectation of privacy exists.
No, the result I mentioned is not for those countries/territories. It is by mainland Chinese students.

See: http://ncee.org/2016/12/pisa-2015-results/

The range of schools in PISA is much broader than the top sliver of students in Phillips Exeter etc you mentioned.
Ask HN: Are there any downsides in using img-based tracking with Facebook?
The standard solution for Facebook sales tracking is having a JS snippet that loads _something_ from Facebook. However, the snippet also contains a <noscript> section that provides an example of tracking the same data with a simple 1px image tag.

The JS snippet is problematic both from the privacy standpoint and also because it's overhead is way bigger than 1px image. Why people continue injecting FB JS code into their pages? Are there any downsides in using the img-based solution exclusively?
https://archive.is/UY1Lv has the virtue of working with Instapaper, if you need that.
Non-business accounts update to the latest version automatically. If you login to an old non-updated account using a new device, you get the old version. We might eventually notify old accounts that they have to update, but we haven't needed to do so yet. If you pay close attention to the requests by https://www.airborn.io/demo, you can see "v2" :)
> I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.

Agreed this can lead to abuse. But investigating employee behavior while using employer provided communication platforms doesn't immediately fall under abuse. No more than police subpoenaing phone records during a criminal investigation would.
Approximately 15% of the population have an IQ less than 85. Education isn't the solution for this group. For most in this group, picking strawberries is challenging and rewarding. (For the lower 1/3 of this group, picking strawberries is too intellectually challenging as it is.)

Hand-waving and saying 'job training' and 'education' isn't a solution for about 10% of the population. I don't know what the solution is. But, the number of people who are excluded from the marketplace due to tech is increasing rapidly. Not good to have 15%+ of a poulation unemployable. Leads to breakdown and instability.
Well, it would be competitive for Marriot or Sheraton to launch a new company to compete with Expedia or Orbitz. It is somewhat less competitive for them to buy a startup that is already doing that, but if they gave the startup a lot of money, so it could better compete with giants, then that would help increase competition. But to buy a startup only because you want some leverage against Expedia and Orbitz, and to let that startup die, is unfortunate in several ways. It wastes the efforts of a lot of good people, and it allows the total amount of competition in the system to decrease.
While we're on the topic, I was surprised to find just how poorly maintained TWRP—the standard custom recovery distribution for Android—is. Decryption of encrypted partitions is just broken many devices, for example. Issues pile up across the respective repositories as designated "maintainers" ignore all inquiries. Doing the work to fix something yourself requires piecing together the arcane knowledge of TWRP's build process from multiple tutorial posts on forums in various states of obsolescence. Then you need to understand from where whoever did the original work for your device pulled the library binaries that are inevitably sprinkled across its repository under vague commit messages and no other documentation. It seems no effort was put into securing the project's continuity in the long term.
I find the whole social media attraction very puzzling. I used Facebook first in 2009 or so. I logged in a few times a month for the next 3 years and then my account was hacked. I now have thousands of Greek "friends." Facebook discovered this and blocked my account so now I can't even log in and I have literally no reason to call them to prove I'm me and get access back. It simply has no value to me. Yeah, my wife and older kid are on it, but I see them in person every day, so...

The friends I caught up with over the years were nice to hear from, but then I realized there was a reason we had drifted apart and there was no reason to wake up sleeping dogs.

Twitter's probably even worse. I signed up for an account, then thought "what the hell am I going to do with this?" and never logged back in. They "closed" my account last year for lack of activity.

But I "get" Reddit. I "get" HN and the other online fora I contribute to. Those actually provide value to me. Facebook & Twitter? Not so much.
Then of course, if the hardware is provided by the employer...the Second and Third Rule is already broken, game over.
While whataboutism is definitey toxic to conversation, I've noticed a lot people tend to throw accusations of whataboutism around when they are uncomfortable with their hypocrisy being pointed out.

This is also highly damaging to discourse.
Where did you see that? According to the sources I looked at Belgium has a rate about 20% that of the US. The US's peers in murder rate seem to be Turkmenistan, Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Yemen:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
I understand the intent. And this makes sense. I'm just saying that we're seeing a case of "negligence is everything except what is specifically mentioned as being authorized".
You can also rule by utility and dependence. People don't just love FAANG, they need FAANG because they provide indispensable tools which yield vast utility.

You can also use addiction as a strategy to create dependence, but this is a strategy: users will inevitably realize there's more harm than good being done. It also means you're at risk of become a fad. I actually think Facebook's pivot from user engagement maximizer to social fabric platform reflects some internal awareness of the vulnerabilities of an addiction-focused business strategy over the long term.
It's called a loyalty card, not a "we'll spy on you to get you to spend more, the discounts aren't for your loyalty but to get you to use the card" card.

This is what so many people on the thread don't seem to get. Most normal people take this stuff at face value. They assume it does what it says on the tin. They apply human decency and an expectation of a normal human, fallible, porous memory to a frightening, insatiable industry that has no decency and an infinitely perfect memory.

Facebook, they assume, lets you connect to your friends. Facebook never say "in return for a free photo sharing and messaging system we will spy on everything you and your friends do, track everything you do on the internet, figure out what makes you tick, your loves, hates, wants, 'secret' desires, tie it all up in a bow and sell it to anyone who'll pay us, with your name, email and phone number attached".
I've always assumed that was the case. Company stuff is company stuff, don't assume otherwise.
If a government directly does it, it's not called terrorism. I don't think I've ever seen a headline that contradicts that.
I mean, how do you think your email is handled? Your internet traffic? This stuff has been monitored and recorded by companies for decades, why would Slack be any different?
Not OP but in my limited experience the MVP slot is mostly held by Django, with Node + typescript, Go and Elixir being the “safer, faster” variants “kids” are using.
This is the "what about leaving room?" variant described in the submission with either (a) a smaller range of available values if you're limiting yourself to single characters and/or (b) less efficient storage.
What do you mean by life times?
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It doesn't make sense to refuse solutions that solve part of the problem, or that make the problem more manageable. Perfect is the enemy of good.
Now the harassers are doing more and more to harass and leaving more evidence behind. And you have a more compelling case, "they were on Slack, they were on email, they were texting, they set up their own ICQ server..."
The company should not provide funding for a channel used to harass people.

You're being a shit if you trivialize harassment in the workplace, but you are being an idiot if you are paying for the tools used to hide it.
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But the problems we had with the last election weren't caused by fraudulent voting. Everyone voted properly, it's just that another country spent some money convincing us to vote the way that they wanted us to. Even if we moved to a direct democracy system and gave everybody unbreakable crypto, it wouldn't stop them from watching TV and sharing junk on social media.
In every case I've heard of where someone was pressed for misrepresentation, it was for actively misleading the other party.

Verbally agreeing to the NDA then not signing might count. Signing a fake name would obviously count. Editing a digital contract before signing might count, and not highlighting the edits in a "track changes" negotiation would probably count. If you returned the papers and said "these are all set" or something, I guess you might be at risk.

But just... not signing a thing? If someone puts it in front of you without negotiating or asking for consent, then accepts it back unsigned? I've never heard of a lawsuit arguing anything even close to "I handed him a paper, so he should have spoken up to tell me he wasn't signing it", and I can't imagine it'd go anywhere.

(On which note, every NDA I've seen has been explicitly brought up to ensure that I was ok with it. But I guess that's not universal?)
After dropping IRC supoort, this makes two controversial changes in a very short span of time. Did something change at Slack?
No it doesn't. It literally just removes liability from the corporation.

If you've ever dealt with toxic work relationships, you know that stopping harassment isn't going to come down to how you are allowed to pass notes.
No it wasn't but neither is it in this case:

"After spinning off the steel business and adding schools, it changed Jiangsu Zhongtai’s name to Beijing Kaiwen in January."

They got rid of their steel business, went into education, and change its name to reflect that.