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> Their strand of Christianity seems to be very liberal and open to both change, and a variety of lifestyles and choices - it just seems, to me, such a shame that to be a part of such a positive community you have to believe in God.

You should try asking your friends if you have to...I've heard many times that churches are happy to welcome anyone into their community. Of course, they likely wouldn't want to be lectured about how they're wrong, and I imagine you could expect some pressure to convert.

> I don't think people need the "guiding light" of religion to live a "good" life but I do think that we could all benefit from a secular version of religious gathering, I just wish we could figure out am effective way to do so without religion.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe it isn't possible for humans, or is extremely difficult. Having a shared constant to believe in, whether it is true or not, might be a pre-requisite for group binding. A monarchy can be a decent substitute, but is much more fragile, whereas religion can endure extreme scandals without losing followers.

There is also a theory out there that humans "need" a religion of some sort in life, and if they stop practicing, their mind will seek out another (see the rising social disunity in the West over various "-isms" whose followers are now more devoted than most religious people in the past.)
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Which shows how lucky we were that WhatsApp got such widespread adaption.
You can hammer nails with a firearm, but I'd hardly call that the most effective tool for the job.
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I too am interested in security related topics. I don’t know what that has to do with this tweet. High profile contributors to the community changing jobs is pretty common, so I’m not sure why a tweet about this particular case is noteworthy.
Totalitarian surveilance? While you’re at removing that from the workplace don’t forget to instigate democratic revolution in your company as well.
In the UK they're allowed to monitor work email[0]. I'm not sure how that compares to the rest of Europe.

In financial services they monitor all kind of chat rooms, especially after the LIBOR scandal. Every chat I open gives me a disclaimer saying that chats will be monitored.

[0] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/rights-at-work/basic-...
Please state the relevant law that it'd be breaking, I'm genuinely curious. Compliance tools are built into most cloud and enterprise offerings that allow this. Do you not have experience of enterprise/cloud email offerings?
You are assuming that harassment was direct, sending messages to the accusers. My impression is that this was a group chatting privately about the accusers either making fun of them or coordinating actions.

While this can be done through other channels (in person or private cellphone) allowing it on corporate infrastructure without monitoring is not acceptable.
If you look at their origin, they come from Christian teachings about the image of God in every person. The alternative is might makes right, which was the norm before Christianity.
"As part of our growth and in support of upcoming changes to EU data protection law, we’re launching new tools and features and updating our Privacy Policy and User Terms."

That sounds like a convenient marketing bullshit bogey man to me.
Hasn't Photoshop had this tech for a couple years now? I remember seeing on HN a video of Adobe demonstrating it at a conference.
>If Facebook indeed violated the 2011 consent decree, then the FTC can fine them up to "thousands of dollars a day per violation [per user]". This presents the FTC with the opportunity to send a message to these data hoarders: protect the data you collect, or else.

No one ever seems to get the maximum fine in America, often because it would "destroy the company".

But we're willing to execute living people.

As the old adage says: I'll believe corporations are people when they execute one in Texas.
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My desire for the Xeon Phi comes from the hunch programming it feels a lot like programming a top-of-the-line Xeon Platinum from 2028. Core counts have been steadily rising.

And since the latest models even have virtualization (which I need to work) so, at least for me, Phi is just one Intel GPU away from the perfect desktop workhorse.

Seymour will have to forgive me, but I think we're all plowing our fields with chickens now.

That and my side project of putting a dozen Octavo SoCs on a PCB along with a ethernet switch chip to build a single-board cluster. If only Intel had an Atom part with ethernet, RAM and USB in a single package...
How about ask the intern being bullied to show the bullying messages?
Rocket Chat is something I've been looking into. It's...well pretty amazing so far. Open source, self hosted, bridges to slack fairly reasonably, and gives IRC style permissions. Slightly nicer for the "I'm not always logged in"/"We need a log bot" issues IRC has had.
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I was curious about this individual (my new ancient-hero-of-the-day) and came across this https://streetapologist.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/celsus-vs-t... for anyone else curious. Also

> secular humanist, former Muslim

My opinion is not evidence, but here it is anyway: You made the right decision, here.
I'm naive and happy to learn more, but my understanding is the "top down" conversion was for control, no? It's much easier to control an empire if everyone agrees to the same set of rules?
If your Gmail account is through work (i.e. not a personal one) they already have access to it.
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A lot of people don't realize they're actually still living by Christian rules. Take a look at social-democrat governments and for example their stance towards immigrants. Impossible to understand without knowing The Good Samaritan parable and other stories in that vein. It's post-Christian as in post going to church, post creationism and post hell and damnation. But it's a reduced form of Christianism nonetheless.

A Dutch right-wing politician once said if you would only leave the good parts of the Koran you would have a book the size of a Donald Duck (1). Well I guess we already did that with the Bible.

1) Donald Duck is a weekly magazine of comics in some European countries. It's about 44 pages
It was eye opening to me when I went to Asia and realised there’s practically no difference in culture when comparing Europeans to each other, and when comparing them to various Asian cultures. I don’t mean that in a bad way, but Italians and Fins (on average, of course) aren’t as different as they might have been led to believe, especially when both are compared to a Vietnamese.

Warning: gross overgeneralisation.
Wow. Ya know, for every case this might "help" solve (workplace harassment and the like), I just can't help but say ultimately it will hurt far more.

"But employers/managers/execs will operate more responsibly with more data about their employees!"

Will they really? I think they'll be able to operate more "powerfully" with respect to controlling employees... but with that power I wouldn't be surprised if the abuse outweighs the positive utility.

Additionally... this is going to kind of kill the culture between people (ESPECIALLY REMOTE) using slack. Do you really want to talk about your weekend, or forge any type of bond over chat now? Why would anyone every do anything rapport building over slack now?

Yeah yeah "but managers/employers won't be that extreme, you're being extreme." There's a lot of cases in the past where I've thought "sure an exec or manager wouldn't do X" and then sure enough, there it is at the top of HN, and the company is going under.

So...someone else on here speculated correctly. It's clearly a selling point for employers since they're the main target to increase revenue. Unfortunately I guess that means using it for interest groups goes out the window though.
Do I have to sign up to see a demo? Where is the "show"?
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Ah, Europe might be different. In the US, if your employer owns the platform, they have the right to all the messages for compliance. We view this as "if you have something private, don't do it on corp channels." This is usually fine unless you're harassing someone or engaging in something against corp ethics.

https://www.privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/workplace-priv...
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There will probably be something else to blame after facebook, until people realize there is an inherent problem with majoritocracy that just cant be solved. As the elites are unlikely to go back to authoritarian regimes, it will probably drag things towards libertarianism.
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I wonder if anyone has tried to do a 1:1 mapping of early 20th century robber-barrons and the current 21st century tech gods.

Seems like there would be a lot of aspirational lifestyle overlap.
This is about managing the identities and permissions of employees, not end-users.
I'm surprised that Slack was so widely adopted without this capability already available.
My immediate thought was to store the information in a doubly-linked list type structure in SQL. Obviously the space efficiency is not optimal, but I am surprised that the article didn't even point this out.

The table could be designed with a unique PK, the todo item, and some binary or bool field to determine first (head) and last (tail). You would then add 'previous' and 'next' fields that would be updated for insert/delete/updates.
Like everyone else I'm more shocked that this wasn't available by default.

I'm not sure if this applies to the last (work) Slack I was part of. The company blocked it over a year ago and presumably deleted it shortly after. I just checked and it is deleted now.

As far as I know, since it was setup by a middle manager (who lasted two weeks) and then blocked, it was probably on the free plan as well.

I'm not really concerned for myself, as I always assume all my interactions on a work machine are monitored, but people did occasionally send me things that they probably wanted to be off the record. Not sure if I should warn them that there's a (small) chance that their messages could now be read.
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Everywhere in the Bay Area has a severe housing shortage. Even with $150k+ salaries, there are very limited housing options available on the peninsula.

The Bay Area's land-use policies are directly responsible for the absurdly high housing costs and terrible road congestion. Too many jobs are in office parks, too many houses are in far-flung and low-density areas.

If Facebook can build 1000 apartment homes that would allow their employees to walk to work, they stand to benefit in huge ways. If that development can help subsidize 200 apartment homes for people who have been displaced by the skewed housing market, all the better.

At least that's how I read their motivations.
It's got enterprise auth, they could just as easily login to the Slack account themselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Really? I like to consider myself much more privacy-minded than most, but I would expect an email assigned to an employee to be used for official business purposes should definitely have a paper trail that higher-ups can audit if necessary.
*can access.

In some countries it's illegal for employer to read employees private messages.
Every big enterprise on the planet has your email to whip-out and read if legal issues arise, whether that's for internal reasons or for something like SOX compliance or running into problems with the SEC. It's a total necessity for big public companies.
I'm finding myself in a situation where this is actually kind of welcome news involving a workplace bully who operates via DM.

I'm moving on very soon, but I've shared many of our interactions with management, management has even seen first hand how he openly insults other engineers.

Instead of doing anything about it, management announced we had been acquired and over the course of about 12 days slowly resigned leaving us with the new company.

New company promoted the bully.

Hopefully others speak up as I have and this new feature can help some people get relief from the guy.
Previously if compliance exports were turned off, then later turned on, users would receive a notification that all future DM's would be available for export by their employer.

My understanding is that now the entire archive is readily available for download, including the content from before compliance exports was turned on.
Yeah I agree I noticed that myself.

Any other social media can be abused in roughly the same way. Twitter has its bot problems, and I'm sure given enough popularity mastodon will face the same issues too.
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> totalitarian surveillance

> got offended

> Bullies

> soul-destroying shithole

It's funny how these sort of comments always come from recently created throwaway accounts.
The US and Pakistan are Contracting Parties. Carrying out drone strikes against citizens of one of those parties constitutes hostility against that nation in my book. I'd wager to say that if Pakistan would carry out drone strikes on US soil, the US would count that as an act of war on the side of Pakistan.
I was under the impression it WAS legal in Europe as well after being litigated to the Court of Human Rights[1]. The requirement is simply that they inform you ahead of time that they can (and will) monitor your email.

In the US there is usually a form you sign at your hiring that says you understand the company may monitor your email. It is couched in terms like "to ensure compliance with laws and company policy" but the actionable part is that they assert the right to monitor it and you agree to that (or you don't work for them).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/business/european-court-e...
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I think you're mixing up the way businesses run and how society should run. Two different things.
I would like to hear a clear articulation why a secular or atheist has good reason to believe there is a moral standard they should live by. I've never heard of such a thing. Mostly it is just handwaving that "everyone knows it's good to be tolerant and kind." History would suggest otherwise.
To build on that a bit, I think one of the main issues with comparing one's own experiences with others' is that each person's brain is wired differently, so how one perceives, internalizes, and reacts to an experience is not necessarily how someone else does. I think it's the same kind of thing that makes one person like a food that another person hates, or that causes one person to like thriller movies while another doesn't. In the same way, I think one person can spend a lot of time and money on an activity responsibly and positively, while another person has a higher chance of succumbing to deleterious interactions that become habit or addiction. However, the fact that some people can enjoy a game responsibly doesn't really excuse the game maker from taking advantage of those who can't.
I don't know why people assumed they couldn't.

Before this, they would've been behind, at max, a subpoena, right?
Cryptography is, at its core, easy to explain to the layman. (PBS explained it fairly well on a kids' show a while back, I believe.) A GUI wrapper made to send secure emails isn't a particularly difficult thing for your average user, either.

You could make it as simple as downloading an app, going to get you physically registered, having the govt. official input relevant keys into the app, and then:

Type In Your Preferred Candidate Here: [INPUT BOX]

[SEND BUTTON]

With an automatic reply saying "Thank you for voting!" at the end of it.
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This is the flip-side benefit to living in Right-to-Work states. On the one hand, it's nearly impossible to unionize, but working as a contractor in Virginia, I had an agency try exercise the non-compete against me when I tried to take a job directly with their client. That client happened to be the Society for Human Resource Management. Their management laughed at the attempt and had a lawyer send the agency a letter explaining that Virginia was a Right-to-Work state and the non-compete was unenforceable.

In North Carolina, another Right-to-Work state, my government contractor tried to exercise the non-compete I had with them to prevent other companies from competing for the contract. My co-worker had us all sign up with his lawyer, who defended us breaking the non-compete as unenforceable in NC. The contractor didn't bother taking the case to court and was only using the non-compete to bully employees who didn't know better.

I've been hearing about lobbyists working to make non-competes enforceable in Right-to-Work states, and I'm not surprised. The point of the laws was to defend corporations against unions. I imagine the fact that it protects individuals against companies is undesirable to the powers that be.
This seems like a great way to burn down your house and potentially injure firefighters coming to your rescue. Seriously this is quite a few leagues above normal DIY territory. Proceed with caution.
Judging by listings in the month jobs posting, the vast majority of hiring companies won't look at you if you don't have immediate and long experience with their current tech stack.
While I'd agree with you as an entry level candidate, with experienced people, I've found the language is often the most important thing on the list. Often above salary. I would say it is more commonly number one than any other factor. I only know of a few programmers who have shifted through more than 2 languages in their careers (20+ year type careers). I don't have brilliant insight as to why. Perhaps the fear of starting at ground zero? Imposter syndrome? Feeling of throwing your past experience down the drain?
Which tech are you referring to?
That's intriguing. You're just hosting it at your house? How hard was it to convince your family members to try using it?
It may simply be an indicator that the brutal suppression of apostasy is illegal in those countries. If people have other options for social networking beyond religion, and they don't have to fear for their own safety or livelihood when abandoning their parents' religion, there isn't a whole lot that any particular religion offers that can't be obtained more cheaply from other sources.

I'd expect that those who have a real need for religion will likely gravitate towards smaller cults that are more specifically tailored to their preferences. Perhaps those who would prefer to believe in aliens than in angels will become something like the Raelians, and those who prefer fairies and pixies will join an aseembly of neo-animists. No doubt the Jedi Order, Pastafarianism, Discordianism, Subgeniusism, Order of Stendarr, Cult of Cthulhu, and similar pseudo-religions will continue to enjoy the affiliation of people who want their "religion" to be fun, and somewhat ha-ha-only-serious.

I think the fears over "Muslim invasion" are largely unfounded. The high religious adherence and over-median birth rate will probably attenuate within one or two generations, as the children and grandchildren of immigrants embrace liberal democracy and assimilate to their new country's native traditions. This will likely manifest earliest as homosexuals outing themselves and abandoning their parents' enclaves.

A large number of people only declare a religion because of discrimination by the religious against the non-religious. Once declared non-religion becomes a significant minority, there is much less incentive to pretend. Like the article said, only the most strongly committed will remain. And then they will die off.
And the sender deletes the message?
They are fine for sorting! You just need to think about things differently.

SELECT user, text FROM (
SELECT u.user, text, row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY user ORDER BY rank) as rank
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN items using(user)
) ranked_items
WHERE rank < 4

This option works for unlimited top-n without creating a bunch of unnecessary columns in the response.
As I do not know which country you are from I really hope you checked before if what you did complies with the legislation as for example in many european countries this would be very illegal.
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>But why don't they? Aren't the problems nearly the same? And if not, how?

Concrete example: Common Lisp is very strongly typed. So it almost never automatically converts from type to another, except when it makes total sense (i.e. the square root of -1 will return a complex number).

So, if there is a type mismatch, it will be caught (at runtime) raising an exception. Now, you would think "yeah but my statically typed language will check this BEFORE the code runs". Yes, but in Lisp, the exception doesn't terminate the execution, it enters a mode in which the system asks you what to do next.

Thus, what you do is, you go back to the source code, to the function with the error, you correct that specific function, compile that specific function (which happens almost instantly), and then resume execution of your program. This means that the previously "invalid operation" will be run again but with the new definition of your function, thus the code will continue running without said bug.

So, all in all, it's very nice to use...
I don't think so. The employer has all the rights to look at company emails, there is no right to privacy when using the company's email addresses. There are quite recent verdicts in Germany IIRC, considering if it was unlawful termination if your employer uses information gathered from your emails as reason for the firing. Looking at the emails in the first place was totally lawful, IIRC.
Why is this surprising? For years employers have included proficiency with a specific brand of tool (language) as part of their job descriptions. And in the Bay Area anyway there is often a lot of talk about being able to use any language you're comfortable with in the interview process, but in practice unless you use the language(s) in the stack you're interviewing for it's a harder sell.

I self-select myself out of jobs that have specific languages in the job listing if I can't honestly say I've used them professionally.
Like I've said before, learn how contracts work people! First, never sign willy nilly. second, you always have a right to mark out and modify parts and present them back for acceptance. Third, each thing is a separate contract, don't assume because you accepted the employment agreement that also means you have to sign (an unmodified) anything else like an nda or non-compete.

I just got out from under a biotech non-compete of two years recently, but after talking with friends in the legal friend they just laughed and said they love getting non-compete tossed because they are mostly unenforceable.

As a senior sysadmin I always saw it as a sort of test. I'm going to be entering the company into contracts (with the isp for example) so I better be able to actually read them and know how to modify and negotiate them. It's one of the things I tell my teams too... stop signing anything anyone puts in front of you, and that includes HR!

These are the sort of issues on the tech side that a MBA in a role like CTO/CIO should be catching and correcting. As for employment agreements, there is a lot of stuff that HR does that ought to be consulted with counsel but isn't, and is therefor is questionably legal or enforceable.
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