skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my longstanding "never write anything in corporate correspondence that I wouldn't want revealed some day" principle seems like a great one.

Seriously. It's not your platform, they are not your emails, they are not your chatlogs, and you should never act as if what you put in will remain private and yours to control.
The parent is correct. It is sad that this is necessary. Similarly, the bill of rights was almost not included at all, because the original premise was that you had ALL rights that were not specifically prohibited in the constitution. That the bill of rights has turned out to be necessary at all, is also sad.

I am thankful for this law, and for the bill of rights, but it is sad that we require either. We were not supposed to.
Thank you, I didn't know about the `cat -` trick to read from stdin (works the same as `echo hi | cat /dev/stdin`). Even after all this time, I still learn something new every day.
The same could be said for most current tech titans. Some are just at different points along their lifecycle than others.
Why I Refuse to Sign Non Compete Agreements
> (IANAL)

That reminds me, I am going to add some of these points to "questions for my employment attorney" for next time I change jobs. It's not very expensive to purchase an hour of an attorney's time and they can answer a bunch of questions like these.
Highly questionable money transfers from the Russians to the Clinton Foundation, but I'm sure there's no foul play :)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-uranium-ru...

"The Hill also reported receiving documents and eyewitness testimony “indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow,” although no specifics about who those Russian nuclear officials were or how the money was allegedly routed to the Clinton Foundation were given. In any case, none of these revelations prove that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton participated in a quid pro quo agreement to accept payment for approval of the Uranium One deal."
We already run a polyglot stack at our company, and we use Docker(nvidia-docker) for our Python environment. With Java there is no need, and it is a lot less work updating and upgrading the JVM and our Java applications. I would use Docker for Java 6 though.
I can't seem find the article where an employer was sued for failing to inform authoritied about a monitored work email that indicated one of their employees was about to commit suicide. I'm not sure what ever happened in that case.
The bit quoted in my original comment called that out already. Of course it's not an issue when it's not an issue...
I see now, interesting, the chart I was looking at completely omitted China for whatever reason, so that was what I was assuming he meant
Yes, well "hopefully" the opposing legal team won't sue you back to the stone age, but hey, it's best to take precautions.
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You may be right, still, modern Java does have some excellent concurrency libs, like Akka https://akka.io
Electoral votes are a terrible way to measure the closeness of an election though. You could win every state by a single vote, and according to the electoral votes it would look like a blowout, but in reality it would have been the closest election in modern history.
Mozilla?
Open-source the application, and have people check the checksums of the .IPAs and .APKs if they want to verify. A simple GUI wrapper for email wouldn't be particularly complicated implementation-wise, so it wouldn't take a security analyst to vet, either.
It's not news that Facebook is gathering and storing TONS of information about its users (and even non-users). Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft are all guilty of the same thing.
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You could build that in your garage with a concrete block or 3/8 steel box and a fire retardant system. Hell you could probably even just buy a sufficiently large gun safe if you didn't want to build something. Actually even a metal fire cabinet for storing acetone and such chemicals may be sufficient but if someone were interested would need to research this further of course.
Before tech, witness testimony was the same thing.

Old boys club keeps it "verbal only", but someone blows the whistle and testifies regarding the conversation.

Technology didn't change anything. You can't have a private conversation at work. Period end of story. If you manage to conceal your communications, not only could you be violating laws (depending on your industry and relevant regulations) but you're likely violating corporate policy and in need of corrective actions.

It's a liability problem for a company if employees are circumventing documentation and potentially covering up crimes.

The way I see it, you have three options:

* Be rich enough to not work

* Get paid by someone who accepts the liability of your work and has the legal right to all of your business communications

* Be the guy paying other people who accepts liability for their work and has the legal right to their business communications

Spoiler, even if you're the last guy, chances are there's lawyers doing the same thing to you.
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For me there's a #4: shared interest groups. There is nowhere else online that people in my town are all discussing local matters together, or.. things like the New York Times podcast listeners club, various car groups, etc.
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Does Airborn have paying customers? How important is the issue that they are trying to fix?
A lot of posts in this thread are not understanding the point of the law. Sentiments such as:

"Why need a law? Just let your children be free and independent. They need that."
"If anyone threatens to call CPS on me I'll tell them to fuck off."

That's why the law is needed! Currently, in a lot of jurisdictions, do either of those two things and your kids can arbitrarily be taken from you, legally, by the government.

This law makes it so that allowing children normal independence is legal. Because slowly administrative agencies started to take a stricter view on what was "safe".
You can tell who here has worked for a large American company and who hasn't.

If you've ever worked for a large American company, you know that nothing you do on company equipment or with a service the company pays for is ever private, and you should never assume it is.

I'll be honest, I always thought Slack DMs were viewable by the admin. As a Slack admin myself, I always assumed I had that ability. Never used so, I never found out I was wrong, but just always assumed it was there.

To me this is a no-op: Anyone who worked for a large American company should have assumed that this ability was always there or could be there in the future, or at the very least, your employer could have always required you to log in and show them your DMs.
I apologize if this seemed personal. I just think that information asymmetry is a type of power differential. HN does not have such a n asymmetry when it comes to chat history.
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It's a tech article, you're overreacting.
IT's amazing that something so simple as a not having a clear vision/mission could take down a successful company but that's the essentially what happened at Yahoo! When I worked there in 2004 it was just confused, chasing competitors and ideas, never deciding on what it wanted to be when it grew up. I left a year or so later and from what I saw it never figured itself out.

I always wanted the company to focus on a mission about being "useful" - like the digital WD-40/duck tape of your life. Finance, news, fantasy-sports, email, messenger, groups, My Yahoo!, Delicious, Flickr... They're all useful. They could have continued to happily and profitably offer all of these services - and expanded to dozens more - under the mantra of being useful to our every day lives, but Yahoo! was never content with that. They wanted to be eBay, or Google, or Facebook, or YouTube or whoever else was a big player at the time, instead of focusing on the customer loyalty they had already generated.

Having that clear core vision/mission seems like a small thing, but not having one crippled Yahoo! and caused infighting, turnover and confusion that eventually killed it. (Oh, and also Mayer was an idiot.)
It's not mass surveillance. It's compliance with the rules governing preservation of records for legal discovery.
so cool they are finally gonna let the parents wander around freely.
It doesn't contradict what I'm saying. If you mean the Romanian case, the ultimate resolution was that 1) an employee has an expectation of privacy for personal communication on personal channels on a corporate machine, and 2) if an employee's personal internet usage is going to be monitored on a corporate machine, they must know before the monitoring begins. The ECHR didn't have any problem with the monitoring in general; what they ruled against was the legality of personal internet usage monitoring before the employee knew about it and agreed.

In the ECHR case, the employee's personal communications over an instant messenger were being monitored just because they were happening on the employer's machine, and without the employee knowing ahead of time. That's the no-no. But Slack is not a personal communications medium; it's maintained and administrated directly by an employer for the explicit purpose of work-related communication. In the context of the ECHR case, Slack doesn't qualify.

Circling back to Slack and the GDPR: as a direct result of the GDPR, Slack now needs to align their desire for full employee auditability with full data transparency. There's a tension between competing regulations, but there's no contradiction here.
I have done a lot of extensive read and thinking on the subject for my startup (we're now doing digital real estate transactions leveraging the Blockchain, but months ago we were exploring the idea of a platform to create/fund communities). [0]

The pioneer in this field has certainly been Adriano Olivetti in the 1940/1950s, back when Olivetti was an amazingly successful company. They were market leaders in typewriters, so much that they bought the US-based Underwood, and they were pioneering computers in the 1960s.

Olivetti built a "quasi-socialist" company campus in Ivrea (outside Turin, Italy), which was really innovative for its time. Kindergarden, schools, services, etc, all available to Olivetti workers and their families. Think of it as a combination of a Google or Facebook campus, with an Italian, pragmatic, honest twist.

Now, let's get back to Facebook's proposed "campus" or "community".

I see a few problems here:

1) providing rent to FB employees is a form of employee retention - you have a strong incentive not to leave Facebook, or you will lose a rent likely more affordable than outside the campus, and your neighborhood friendships.

2) Most of these campuses are done to project an image of an amazing, cool company. Therefore, expensive architects plan expensive buildings in a way that cannot be easily replicated elsewhere. When building costs are "subsidized" by the need of "grandeur" of a company, it's the wrong incentive at play. Look, for a counter example, at the Nightingale project [1].

3) Many architects and thinkers have written about the subject. In particular, Christoper Alexander and Leon Krier, among others. The short summary of their conclusions is that "top down" almost never works; "bottom up" does. In essence, you have to plant the seed, provide initial resources, and get out of the way, letting people and communities figure out how they want to organize their life. A good counter example? The planned city of Brazilia. I studied it, and visited it, and it's an urban design nightmare. [2] - so much so that, to cite just one metric, Brazilia has 4 to 5 times the number of pedestrian accident (in proportion of the population) of other Brazilian cities.

I could go on and on, but let me just conclude with this: most of these company-driven initiatives are dead from the start, and they are set to produce only aberrations. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope to see something different emerge over time.

[0]: https://www.fabrica.city/

[1]: http://nightingalehousing.org/nightingale-village

[2]: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20632277
> I had purchased

These strike me as the likely cases, yeah. Taking company-specific software seems like it's either useless (why would I even want some random inventory management system?) or spectacularly illegal, like taking a stock trading algorithm.

But I can imagine someone wanting random quality-of-life tools, though honestly just asking for those would probably suffice. And people certainly take expensive proprietary assets and programs that employers buy, though I'm not sure that really fits with the top-level fear of "our programmers stealing our data".
Happiness is subjective, and if short term dopamine dumps make one happy, then one should spend (not waste) as much money as they please seeking that out.
Meh, I got a good laugh out of the video of Giuliani talking about shit with the title bar calling him a Security Expert.
Bear in mind my opinion is coming from the US ITOps perspective, outside of this my opinion may not travel as far pun intended re:the rest of the world.

There are a lot of out of touch concerns here in regards to privacy. I think this basically shows the diff between INDependent devs and employEE devs.

At any point in time a company who owns and pays for all IT related accounts and services can look, monitor, export disable, enable, delete, log or secure their systems as they need to either by compliance requirements, legal, policy or for any business or nonbusiness reason at anytime.

At the least you do not have a right to privacy to at the best limited privacy when communicating on a company provided communications platform.

Most companies worth their salt have this written down in their company handbook or manual etc. Most companies also have reasonable "you may use company systems for limited private exchanges"

This is even more true when the company has government or gov facing clients or does business in certain market sectors like Finance.

It is good to see the new kid on the block (Slack) is growing up and getting more focused on its core business clients: companies/b2b.

The same goes for company provided laptops, equipment.

I think it is also super important above all that the vast majority of people and companies enter into these things in good faith and reasonableness. We just do not live in a world where the honor system can be the only safeguard for these things. And of course with all things businessey -- the more money is riding on top of something -- the more important it is to be wise in regards to risk in and out of business matters.
This discussion is veering off course. Well made adblocking removes 'native' ads as well. Product placement is irrelevant to my point, as it does not utilize my stolen demographic info to drive marketing decisions. And though you delude yourself into thinking that you are successfully ignoring ads they are still influencing you in subtle ways.
Yes, many have stated these views, but it is only with the advent of Christianity that they've been given a rational foundation.
This was my thought, too. Use a point-based versioning-like scheme as a string (1.1.25, 1.1.26, 1.1.26.1, 1.2, etc). You will have to worry about adding prefixed 0s, though, as powers of ten are increased if you want it to sort correctly, and of course there is presumably a hard-limit on the size of the string.

It might be possible to have a table that keys to the first that has a level and a value. For 1.1.26.1 above, it would have the rows (1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 26), (4, 1) (with keys to the table rows). Not sure exactly how to write the sql to join it all together and sort it, but it seems possible, at least if you have some known maximum number of levels.
Yeah, if they're not going to let me have any say in matters that directly affect my ability to put food on the table for my family then I'm glad to walk. If your prospective manager isn't willing/able to go to bat for you on things like this it's a good bet they're not going to be willing/able to go to bat on lots of other things that matter while you are there. Not worth it.

Or, if they really are your only option at the moment, you can also sign with the intention of claiming you did so under duress if sued, but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that.
Remember, Trump lost the popular vote. If we had moved to a direct democracy system, assuming as little changes as you say will, he wouldn't be standing in the White House now.

The reason for crypographically secure voting is to stop any form of election-interference that could happen, because that naturally would be the biggest concern from moving to a digital solution.
That is close. The single 12V port packs enough amperage that I could wire the two devices in parallel. I'd still have to make cables to connect to the devices. (The phone in question is a cordless phone connected to a landline. It probably should take usb-c but it does not.)
After some high profile incidents states started passing laws to protect the children of reckless parents but in their panic they didn't spend enough time defining what endangering a child really means. Child protective laws are difficult because you can't just enumerate the list of things that could harm a child so they need to be somewhat vague but the way words like "endanger" are interpreted by people turns out to vary widely (shocker!).

In the case of Utah, things like letting your children walk home alone or go to the park by themselves was already considered perfectly fine by Utah's Child Protective Services (who supported the passage of this law) but they were still obligated to open investigations when someone reported these innocuous events. Now they don't need to.
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Ask them for their email address and/or phone number, while telling them you're leaving Facebook

Whoever writes you back is worth keeping as a contact

When I moved to another city my flatmate threw a secret party at my favourite bar

400 people showed up

After 5 years I still keep in touch with at most 20 of them

With most of them I've been friend since long before that night
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Right, and that sort of thing does not seem capable of maintaining a society's morality.
Your problem is with people, not slack, they can just go to skype or whatever tool they want.
The author mentioned that the Clojure project never had to scale. My guess is that the size of the Java project demanded concurrency and the Clojure project didn't. Overall, this blog is light on details and heavy on how the languages/projects made the author feel.
Wow, so hard for me to grasp. I didn't know. When I was young I used to climb on trees all the time. I remember one incident where a neighbour called my mother and told her that I was doing that and that she should tell me to stop this as it was dangerous. My mother told her that this was none of her business. For such a drastic measure (taking ones child away) much more severe neglect is needed here in Austria (e.g. drug abuse, violence,...)
> an unaffiliated service

Unaffiliated? The company a customer that is paying Slack for a messaging service, that certainly isn't 'unaffiliated'.
Probably because those are very ideologically charged positions, ones which correspond with a high amount of discriminatory ideas. No one is required to tolerate that kind of thing.
Yahoo was great for like the 2 years between when the web started becoming useful and when google figured out search.

They never figured out what they were after the hand edited index of the internet stopped being its reason to exist.
Mine was unbearably slow even with Cyanogen installed. How is it working out for you?
FYI, google has a dashboard that shows all/most/some of the data in your account. Go through it and remember the US government can access it (likely with some form of Warrent or paper required)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600911
All of the links seem to throw application error.
Over the last ~decade, far too many episodes of Max Headroom have changed from "metaphorical warning about growing social issues" to "literally happening today".

However, for what I believe will be the most prescient fictional warning about where society is currently headed, see Sleep Dealer[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZw2Hxdq1QE
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The New Yorker has a much better article that came out 6 years ago.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-silent-str...
Reading the comments it seems nobody is concerned about this broad access leading to sexual harassment of women who are constantly exposed to glances and stronger forms of abuse and may vent in a private channel, or may have discussed intimate concerns with friends (now past conversations are also available). Nobody paints the picture of the boss reading girls logs? This is pathetic. US, land of the well paid slaves.
I'd be very interested in seeing a Lineageos that does not include Google's proprietary and closed source Google Play Services. I understand you can download Lineageos without Google Play Services however a hundred different things you wouldn't expect the os depends on will stop working including GPS and even notifications.

I think it should be an ambition of the project, while remaining open source, to fill those holes. There are open source workarounds in the wild but they are not so easy to use. Google works against them with seemingly every update to android, and Lineageos helps Google by refusing to support signature spoofing. The mechanism by which use of alternatives is even possible.

Lineageos says that it supports an experience free from Google Play Services but in practice use of Lineageos without it requires a custom build of the operating system. Which is too bad, I think that would be a reasonably large portion of the potential user base.
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I'm not sure I'd even take most corporate code if it was offered to me. It'd potentially drag me into any future breaches or noncompete violations, and have no upside I can think of. I'm honestly struggling to imagine why devs would bother taking most code when they leave a job.
Technology is not bad. There are bad people that use it. Generic i know, but these technologies had the potential to provide solutions to some problems we as a world we face.

Nuclear energy could have been proliferated to move to different energy source, instead it is was weaponized and used as a tool of politics. Cool for those guys i guess.

The same goes for big data. We could have collected data on everyone and mined that shit to gain more insight into all sort of things from medical to societal information that you just can't see in studies. We could have learned so much. But instead some smart guys figured out how to use it to convince you that you need a wi-fi crockpot and gerrymander districts in their favor.

Guns made killing people easier, ok. But you can't kill everyone in the world with one gun. Marketing used to be billboards, now it's in your life. The issue I have is that scale of the whole thing.
>The records already exist in the case we're talking about.

Perhaps it is then illegal to save these messages?
Ahahahaha... I believe many a burnt out trust fund kid in rehab would agree with you here. Sometimes I wonder how many people would end up dead or in rehab if they didn't have to go to work everyday. Not everyone, but a fair number I'm sure.