skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and there's a reason some places have laws against bugging offices. One key thing is that everyone should be clear on what's recorded and what's not, and "if it's written down" at least has the virtue of relative simplicity. Probably if it's not supposed to be fair game for later investigation it shouldn't be logged at all.

I think part of the trouble is that we spend too much time at work for most people to actually be productive the whole time -- if you buy the notion that it's reasonable for people to be at work to work, and they shouldn't be socializing whathaveyou, then logging everything seems more reasonable than if you recognize that no one can actually be a drone 40/hr a week, then the surveillance starts to look like de facto surveillance of stuff other than the job, which is more worrying.

I am in the privileged position of doing freelance work, on my own machine, mostly remote. As such, if I'm using a client's communication systems it is essentially guaranteed to be work related, so having it logged doesn't bother me; if I'm not working I'm using something else. But being monitored for half your waking hours five days a week feels much more onerous.

I suspect some of a this is tension with reasonable expectations of levels of monitoring from when less of our communication was via the network.
Yeah. I've been focusing on office apps rather than "any apps", and I removed the window manager based on feedback here and elsewhere that it felt too "heavy" and unnecessary. Also, the app store was actually the Firefox OS marketplace, which was shut down. (And to be honest, the apps in it weren't super useful for Airbon to begin with. There weren't very many apps for "serious work".)

Under the hood, it's theoretically still super easy to add/install apps in Airborn, though, and Firefox OS's marketplace server is open source, so maybe in the future?
>Google for Work

The current name for this product is G Suite.
We were defending the petrodollar in Iraq. i.e. attempting to maintain American hegemony. Viewing all recent conflicts through that lens really helps to understand. "Yellow cake" and the like is just how it was sold.
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I didn't believe it at first. There's no running from this war.
patrick[at]priceintelligently[dot]com

Always happy to help where I can when it comes to pricing.

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Interesting tool. How do you get the efficiency score among the $1000 spend users?
These things aren't related. For example, California is not a right-to-work state but it has banned noncompete agreements since the late 1800s, except in a small number of very specific situations.
From the tail end of the OP:

> I’m a Computer Scientist. We don’t have unions and we don’t collectively bargain. Basic workers rights are our responsibility

I've always been bothered by this question. Why _don't_ we have unions? What is it about the tech industry that makes it so resistant (especially in the US) to labor organization? I work in the EU for a US company, and my American colleagues universally seem to find the idea of collective bargaining _preposterous_. Often, they even seem offended by the idea!

Is this a particularly American trait, or something endemic to tech?
Is state guardianship not possible then ? Or arrangement with the bank ? No credit card, get cash at the bank counter when needed... I really have a hard time seeing this as an unsolvable problem, let alone scary or heart breaking.
I also wondered where the 80 comes from.

I further wondered if throwing in a point estimate as well makes sense. For things that are along the lines of "definitely X, but the sky is the limit. Well probably closer to the lower bound."
I'd have to be pretty desperate to sign such a thing.

Or maybe if they pay me 3 times the market rate. And that's without the "1 year after termination" craziness. For that, I'd ask continued pay (3 times the market rate, remember?) for the duration of the clause.

If this means walking away from a dream job, so be it. Can't be a dream job with such a clause.
You mean like the bill of rights?
I think what baffles the mind is, that a state law is required to ensure this in the land of the free. How did things evolve to a state where this is necessary?
The Service Worker doesn't simply check a signature from the developer, it checks the source code against the version on GitHub. So, to know whether it contains a backdoor, read the code on GitHub.
Dunno email, but Patrick's Twitter handle is Patticus.
A lot of medical guidance comes from busybodies who have no ability to perform cost-benefit analysis (e.g. pregnant women and caffeine). SIDS risk is around 0.5 per 1,000. The major cause of the decrease since the 1980s seems to be the decline of smoking. Everything else is noise for something that's already low probability.
Ok, sure, but let the parents know instead of calling CPS, right?
I had the pleasure of working with one of the best electrical (motor) companies in the states, and decided to sit in on the journeyman electrician course (because sysadmins want to know everything), and I was surprised to find out that DC is what is used for the large high-power long distance transmission lines. I think there are probably quite a few applications where DC might be more appropriate than AC that haven't been realized yet.
What is an ESB if not a collection of shim layers? What you said in the second sentence is one of the purposes of Mulesoft. Creating a unified and consistent shim layer for all of the legacy systems you can't replace.
It's like facebook in that the employees had a guarantee of privacy (insofar as most private communication is private; obviously the recipient can expose the message, or someone can coerce you to login to your account). Some people are waving this away with, "oh, probably the employee signed some contract saying that it wasn't private" but even if that's often true it's of course sometimes not true. Certainly I've never signed a contract with that kind of clause, but I've generally worked for small companies.

I suppose there's nothing preventing a company from using facebook as a corporate communication medium. That'd of course not a good idea since they don't have access to some of what goes on at facebook. The same thing was true for slack. Some companies used slack without considering that the data wasn't really under their control, which was perhaps not a good idea. This change is akin to facebook recognizing that blunder, and "fixing" it by making DMs between employees available to their employer.
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This is so different than old company towns. Those were built around remote factories where no housing or stores or services of any kind surrounding them - they were more like Disneyland, in the sense that everything comes from there. Facebook's "community" is using all the generic terms for every decent sized development in America right now. It's 60 acres - you could walk outside of it in a couple minutes, and you can drive to all of Silicon Valley. There's no "company store" - you can live and shop wherever you want.
The man, the myth, the legend.

He’s going to roast your pricing but I’m sure you’ll grow a ton from it.
I wonder if you could create a toxic legal liability by assigning an IP right to the company. E.g. create a trademark about bestiality or pornography, and assign it to the company. Or file a toxic patent (it doesn't need a lawyer). Obvious difficulty to find something you can publish while avoiding legal liability yourself...
Wow. I didn't know about Yahoo! Music. That was definitely a service ahead of its time. I can see why it failed in the early 2000s (less trust in internet transactions, slower bandwidth) but it's basically the same service that Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc, offer nowadays.
beta or tata.
WTFPL is essentially an ideological stance against the concept of intellectually property. To use the software you have to partially reject the importance of license compliance.
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looks interesting .. Doesn't AWS provide rightsizing recommendations?
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Elsevier are disliked for litigation against scihub+libgen, IIRC? Also might be noteworthy that they have a long controversies section on their wikipedia page (including lots of things I'd never read about until now) while Springer and IEEE have none listed.

I couldn't find ACM, what does it stand for?
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Are you sure they're not closing due to declining attendance? I cannot imagine a healthy church being forced to close because it can't get enough donations to match a quarter-percentage-point property tax increase.
Communication over an employer-provided tool is not private communication.
Could the world be less dangerous now because kids aren't riding around unescorted on buses any more?
I can't seem to edit my comment, so I'll comment on my comment instead:

To put this in a broader perspective, because I'm tired of the comment-sniping that doesn't seem to lead anywhere:

I find myself already a bit uneasy with the whole idea that an individual can write away their freedom to spend their daylight hours tethered to an employer to the point where their every (productive, sunlit) hour needs to be accounted for.

At the same time I can understand that this is how things are, and we are trying to be human within that sphere, and perhaps for many this is not so bad as long as they can live in a microcosm of society within this world. That includes gossip, complaining, semi-secret conversation, and even romance (while that's often not smart).

I'd really prefer to engage with those who employ and get to dictate the behavior of said employees, instead of comment-sniping where we never bridge that 'gap' between me, a self-employed, individual (because I reject all that), and someone who actively is 'in charge' of people who submit to it.

I do realize that my wording in itself is not neutral, but I hope acknowledging that helps bridge that gap a bit at least. And I have counted those 'in charge' as friends in the past, plus I know I'm not a typical 'person', so I'm open to learning to understand this whole thing.
Glad I read that. Thank you. I probably be taking a look at the rest of that book.

Is it worth the full read?
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If I remember correctly, we did have a lab full of TI Lisp machines at the time. Never used them myself, though.

The interesting point, though, was that the specific goals were not clearly related to the fundamental reasons for doing it. And as it turned out, most of the research topics (but not all, IIRC) were really boosted by work in graphics co-processors.
There's a number of stories about children being taken from parents for dubious reasons, who end up dying in foster care:

Removed from parents because the father smoked marijuana at night when the child was asleep, child murdered by foster care parent with a history of violations: http://fox43.com/2014/11/06/2-year-old-taken-away-from-paren...

Removed from parents for "drug use and homelessness", died from neglect in foster care: https://www.abqjournal.com/1113809/caregiver-arrested-in-dea...

Removed from parents because baby had a bruise from when he bumped his head while feeding, died in foster care: http://fox40.com/2017/08/17/after-baby-dies-in-foster-care-b...
A lot of times they'd buy up companies just for the developers and then kill the product, like with Astrid Tasks (at least Microsoft didn't kill Wunderlist after acquiring it).

I'm curious the number of devs that stayed at Yahoo past a year from these buyouts versus those who were like 'fuck this' and started looking for new work.
> Utah lawmakers said they were prompted to pass the law after seeing other states

Smells like political posturing.
What if you work part-time? And spend your spare time on a side-project? Will they pay for it?
You're viewing this from the wrong perspective. GPL was designed to protect the user, not somebody else. To give and ensure freedoms to inspect, edit and redistribute.

The user of a GPL webapp is afforded none of those freedoms (except what is sent) and that might go some distance to explain why there's so little GPL activity in this area.

AGPL ensures those freedoms. That obviously makes it pretty undesirable for commercial deployment but that's not the goal of the license, enduring freedom for users is.
"Hackers" historically developed such a depth of understanding of some system that it allowed them to modify and subvert the system to suit their needs. The people here who have built power systems for Battlebots and are familiar with the variability in specifications for 18650 cells and are saying that this isn't a good idea for reason X, Y, and Z, those people are the hackers.

The people that are saying, "a battery's a battery, I'll just put it in a shed" are dabblers. They don't understand the technology well enough to do it safely, so they just build it with the assumption that it's going to go FOOF someday.
There really isn't any good reason for OS vendors to not add such a library to their operating systems these days .. except for the fact that they're all asleep at the wheel, having been overwhelmed with the idea of making their OS's browser-centric ..
That's pretty neat actually.
On A) a diyer could solve this the "nuclear" way by storing the batteries underground or submerged in a deep tank of fluid.

Of course, then you run into cooling and maintenance access issues.
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a few years ago i posted a question:

Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS @ 30+ ?
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997624 )

after reading all the answers and recommendations, i decided to study CS in 2015.

it was quite challenging in every sense: time/money management, high drop-out rates (~80% fail or stop studying cs at my university), lack of math skills - school was far far away.

now, i finished it and i can say, i definitely don't regret it. it sharpened my mind and changed my mindset in a positive way. i've got absolutely no problems finding job offers (mainly as consultat or junior software engineers (i.e. IBM)) although i am now in my mid-thirties.

thank you, hn community
So something like this is not advisable? Check out the reviews on this. https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-Permethrin-Clothing-R...
Oh! If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about selling custom domains? Or if there are resources you can point me to, that would be helpful, too.
I wonder whether you got downvoted for your choice of words. I'll try using bigly in a sentence when it can happen organically and see whether the same happens to me.
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Here is the source medium article for those who cannot listen to the video: https://blog.matters.tech/10-redux-tips-from-the-trenches-55...
Hasn't been tested in court to my knowledge, but my understanding is that leading IP lawyers who otherwise disagree on a bunch of things about the GPL (Eben Moglen, Lawrence Rosen) agree that e.g a modified GPLd publicly accessible web server doesn't count as distribution.
Eh. Of course "hacker" has some overlap with "danger", but that doesn't automatically mean "smart" - Radioactive Boy Scout was an essential hacker. (Now get those newfangled JavaScript contraptions off my lawn; kids these days, calling themselves hackers! waves stick)
Link to the actual law, in case people want to discuss the law and not their own preconceptoins:
https://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0065.html
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I do think it'll always be fair to consider total lives lost per usage metric, regardless of if people were in the vehicle or not. The lives of drivers & passengers have equal value to the lives of pedestrians.
Couple of comments about Yahoo being dead or killed off... Yahoo is still around doing the exact same things it's been doing.

It hasn't even changed it's name. Technically it's bigger now that it's merged with AOL.
An argument could be made that the US government should try to make nice with Kaspersky, instead of provoking them to be an enemy. Then maybe this would have played out differently, with a bit more sensitivity to US concerns.
> chainsaws, cars, and many other types of motorized or heavy equipment

You know what a bunch of those have in common? A ton of effing safety measures.

Chainsaw chaps, ROPS, etc all exist exactly because those things are so dangerous. The power density of an e-bike is at least one if not more orders of magnitude less than a 40kWh bank of batteries.

He also has the potential to not only burn down his house but kill a lineman working on the line if the power ever goes out.
The standalone identity offering is a “Premium Edition” offering that is usable with or without GCP or GSuite but also is an upgrade over the “Free Edition” available to GSuite and GCP admins that allows creating managed identities for users that don't need GCP licenses.

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7319251
The company I work for (more or less B2B SaaS) does everything quick and dirty. Good gut feeling brought them far, but there is next to no data apart from total sales and some basic google analytics. Stuff like A-B testing is far away.

Has anyone had a similar situation? How to handle that?

I'd love to do estimates and proof them right or wrong. But bundled feature releases, marketing and season all end up in the same number of "total sales this month". So far I did not manage to make them at least track churn/retention in a detailed way.
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https://blog.justuno.com/understanding-facebooks-new-policie...
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Thanks. This differentiation seems to be purely based on the pricing -- the feature set is perfectly usable for a SaaS offering.
The Google search comparisons in the article are strange. Google did not win the search engine war because it had integrated ads, I think it won because the search results were so much better. There might be some indirect connection - less revenue because of a different advertising model, leading to less investment - but I rather think this was just about the technology not being there. Which is maybe not that surprising when coming from curated links and suddenly fighting, well, Google.
I think the main issues it that it's always "on" and sourced with an unknown usage history. And it seems like it's placed in a location where if things were to go wrong, without proper mitigation, it could cause serious harm.

The chance of injury is probably higher with Chainsaws and cars as you say, but they are not in constant use, and usually have safeguards in place by a regulatory board.
What interesting questions about crypto trading/investing can you ask?
Hey, guys!

Could you send some interesting questions about crypto trading and crypto investing?

I'm going to make an Interview with a professional trader and want to prepare for that.

From my side I have something like this:

1) What is more profitable: buying tokens of ICOs during ICO or after exchange entrance?

2) Prices of cryptocurrencies are dropping so fastly and deely. What should I do?

3) What are some good cryptocurrencies trading under 1 cent?
A couple of things. First, the USA and UK are regulated differently - while you might be right that it's fine in the US, it may not be in the UK. I'm from the US, so I don't actually know, but there's a good chance here given Europe's data privacy laws.

The other is that this might not be legitimate advertising at all. Depending on what eventually shakes out regarding Cambridge Analytica's intent, there might be fraud in play, and conspiracy to fraud to various actors that may have assisted in some fashion. I'm not saying for certain, just raising the possibility as this unfolds.
I fail to see why not signing an agreement you disagree with is unethical.
I bet having a babysitter represents a higher probability of harm to the child than a stuffed animal ;)
It is incredibly blunt, at least for compliance exports — all you can do is export the whole workspace — and once exported it's just a ZIP of thousands of JSON files. There is no tool to look at it with. When I had to do an export I found a PHP script somebody had written to turn the JSON into thousands of HTML files, but otherwise it was grep and jq.
Thank you for sharing. This is seriously cool stuff. Please write all this up in a blog post and do a Show HN. :-)
There is a difference between a new born and a 7 month old. The latter is extremly unlikly of suffocating on a blanket or a stuffed animal and calling CPS in this case is abhorrent. There is certinaly a step before you call someone to take there kid away
AWS does provide rightsizing tools (https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/cost-optim...). However, we find it bit heavy duty for many customers, as it involves S3, RedShift, etc. Some customers may want simpler ways to analyze their environments.
yes, they made all their patents public awhile back. also: https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+battery+teardown&oq=te...
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Without a job, you don't eat. That alone is massive market power.
Mumble mumble Samsung Note 8.
> Joe Williams, explains that it all comes down to being able to trust something built yourself — as opposed to what a company says is right for you.

Disingenuous at best. Joe Williams had zilch to do with the construction of any of the actual components in play here. I don't really see the difference between this and "final assembly was done in America".

"At the right time of day, if you squint and tilt your head a certain way, it looks like I did it myself. Pulled on those boot straps real hard today!"

More cultural nonsense that exists in the heads of people who are otherwise dispossessed of anything of real value. They concoct these myths about their own individual abilities then, to hide the shame their culture implies is real if they don't go to the moon on their own.
Even back in the day, I preferred Altavista. I have never perceived yahoo or any of their products as good, or used any regularly, other than a few that were acquired like Flickr.
As a design person, I think it's pretty terrible. But it is also terrible with such conviction that you can't help but wonder, "hrm, I suppose this is good?"

With that said though, even though that particular page looks terrible, I think properly implemented page can look pretty compelling.
>> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cv-web-en.pdf

> (a bit ironic that it doesn't have https enabled)

That sounds like an interesting trick... MITM the CV of a famous security person in order to land a security job?
> China is (unoficially) close to being the largest Christian country in the world

Do you have any reliable information on this?
No, but the mainstream impact of that nice site was probably just too low.
In Utah? Perfectly sane. The law just codifies Utah CPS practices. Other states with similar laws? You could have your children confiscated if they weren't in visual range.