skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, consult a real lawyer.

I don't know for the specific case you've posed, but we've had similar things happen. If an employee moves into a state/country we can't employ them in, it causes a bit of a panic. We either have to 1.) establish the correct legal/financial entities to employ them or 2.) let them go. In theory, you can convert the employee into a contractor, but this has ramifications on options vesting and benefits and so on and is a huge mess. I'm sure there are a lot more caveats to this that are under consideration (again, I'm now a lawyer) that may affect this, so I wouldn't generalize this too far.

I don't think we've ever let someone go for this though, we have once to memory panicked and rushed to establish the entity (potentially paying fines along the way). I may be mistaken, I just don't recall exactly. In any case, we kindly ask our employees to notify us of any change of location, since it almost certainly changes payroll tax even if you are moving to a location we CAN employ in (i.e. even between US states). Also, the panicking is not fun for anyone (including the employee, whose job status is suddenly uncertain).
The Not-To-Do List (2007)
You seriously think a mass consumed electronic device is going to have that feature?

The developer options in android are a hidden feature for pity's sake.
You’re pretty much describing Purism’s Librem line of laptops:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/
> Pills always work

We are clearly on different things.
I don't know what "the general position" seems to be here and I don't really care. My reply to the grandparent comment was on point: the age of a belief is not a valid measure of its correctness.
Some differences:

- CTAP2 supports "user verification", such as PIN or biometric authentication locally on the hardware key. This enables using the key as both 1st and 2nd factor without need for a server-side password.

- CTAP2 supports storing the private key along with some metadata on the device, whereas U2F instead encrypts the private key and stores the ciphertext on the server. While the encryption approach allows for simpler hardware and an unlimited number of registrations, the local storage approach allows login without even having to type (or even have) a username. CTAP2 supports both.

- CTAP2 has an extensions framework in which an authentication vendor and server can cooperate to implement custom features without the browser having to understand them.

- CTAP2 - or at least the companion web API, Web Authentication - is compatible with more existing TPMs and such hardware. For example, it's theoretically possible that some Android phones could receive software upgrades that turn their fingerprint sensors into WebAuthn authenticators.
Look into Jason Friend -- he literally wrote the book on remote work.

https://basecamp.com/books/remote

As for your actual question, I don't yet know of a great resource for understanding which companies are truly remote-first, but would love it if someone had one to share.
I realize now that at some point in the last few years I totally lost any sense of empathy for my co-founder. As I write this I realized that today was the first time I've shown him any real sense of empathy in a really long time. Coincidentally I think we may have actually made some progress in turning things around today as well.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Excerpt from Google IO 2018 keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs
All the questions that the Semantic Web asked itself are reemerging with GraphQL. (exposing the DB schema, querying over the web, returning results based on a structure). The JS script kiddies are just scratching the surface today, but they will eventually have exactly the same questions. (data delivery, data reuse, data semantics, data exposure). They still worship plain JSON. But they will (have to) evolve.
The Semantic Web has solved all those questions already, but in the most obscure manner.

PS: and yes, a graph database is a good start to open your mind.
As if Facebook wasn't already eating more than it's share of battery life.
An open gmail tab solves the problem of an email client.
That's pretty cool! But yeah, I don't have any RDF data sources. I parse lots of plain text and PDFs, and import some databases directly.

And for generating the website metadata, that info is coming from the Rails models.
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And what a great tip it is! "Drive so that if you need to brake, you don't collide". No shit, Sherlock.

In other words, people just need to always drive far slower than what everyone believes they can handle in a situation that they aren't trained for, and everything will be fine. Everyone who collides anyway is just reckless and stupid!

Now please excuse me, I have exhausted my sarcasm budget for today.
In fairness, "do this one thing in a tiny fragment of your time and reap benefits continually" works fine for quite a lot of things around well-being, mostly excercise.
I had this same thought! Presumably, ISS missions do not need total fuel capacity so boosters could be fueled only enough for mission plus landing plus safety margin. Even if they did not wish to change loading procedures they could load densified fuel and then load the astronauts. The delay to load crew would allow the fuel to warm up and expand but so what?
That’s interesting, I had never considered the contradiction in that.
Everyone is slowly reinventing SOAP :)
(Note that RDF can modelize graphs natively, has native support of types, IDs and labels, and has a javascript parsing library, a bit more powerful than JSON.parse()).
There's no reason why it can't be encoded as elevator music - you already hear it all the time, they might even throw in a looping "Thank you for calling. Your call is important to us" to keep you from freaking out.
The problem is that "mindfulness", whatever that mean, was never designed to be a performance enhancer for salaried workers. At its root, the teaching of Buddha was not a business.

It's a bit unfair to apply it where it's not meant to be applied and discard it for being useless, isn't it?
> PAM is a thing (unless you're on OpenBSD)

And if you are on OpenBSD, there's login_yubikey [0] (although it uses OTP instead of U2F).

[0]: https://man.openbsd.org/login_yubikey.8
Yeah, I've been a member there for a few years now. Great site, lots of interesting information about unused content in games. I personally worked on the pages for Wario Land 3, Wario Land 4 and Zelda Breath of the Wild, and will contribute a few more things later too.
> the age of a belief is not a valid measure of its correctness.

Exactly. Its correctness is.

The "general position" I'm seeing is that if a piece of knowledge wasn't premised on a contemporary understanding of the world (which is itself, with a probability that approaches unity, also wrong in critical and meaningful ways), it can't have been "right".

Even when it turns out it was, when examined through the lens of that understanding. Hence the mention of willow bark: we didn't even understand aspirin's mechanism of action until the last ~half century. Does that make every doctor who prescribed it before that point wrong, or even just "not right", for having done so?

EDIT: Phrasing
The early internet was extremely useful for getting credit card numbers and warez/serials/cracking tools.

It would seem we have come full circle.
No new parents' bookshelf is complete without der Struwwelpeter:

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486284697.html

Spoiler: It's a terrible parenting book by modern standards, but good for cheering up the parents after the kids are in bed.
If you look at what WeChat has achieved, I can see the appeal (from your average user POV) of having only one app for everything.
So a Facecoin would make lot of sense.
The problem is not one of definitions. The problem is that interpretation and ambiguity even comes into the picture. It should be just demonstrable facts, that no one can deny. We've gotten to a point where "questions" and "opinions" and "sources" are being transmitted and amplified to the masses, so of course we all worry about who gets to control that amplification force.
Ten years ago, when we launched the first Android phone—the T-Mobile G1—it was with a simple but bold idea: to build a mobile platform that’s free and open to everyone.

To what quantitative fraction is Android still free and open (as in speech), and how much of it has been moved into closed-source containers?
I am hesitant about raw news, I think context is at a minimum important. I would much rather read an article published 12-36 hours after the fact that is rich with context and detail. I have blocked CNN from my feeds for this reason, they place a high value on immediacy and I think this heavily degrades their content.
Dude, this system has better conversation skills than me. I mean literally. Well, I'am autistic + esl (+ kinda too why). But still it's kinda incredible that a system is actually better.
Ease of use is certainly something that was in my mind during development. With bitbox.co, you just have to create an account and start dropping files to get going. You can add key/value metadata as you drag and drop. Of course deeper integrations will become more complex, but even then, I want to build a simple "upload/download/search" option that is only a few properties of complexity.
From the article:

> We’ve also built easy-to-use and easy-to-access controls
> so you can decide if you want to see more or less of a topic or publisher.
suppression != not-occurring
I don't think you need a ton of context, it looks like a straighforward exploit for breaking out of a VM on Xen, affects most (all?) operating systems.
It is funny how poorly designed AMD's SYSCALL seems to be compared to Intel's SYSENTER. As a side note, I have been thinking of the removal of segmentation from x86 for a while now.
Their kids have similar genes. But for better or worse I live in a neighborhood full of tiger moms, and they are not necessarily successful. Also, it takes a certain set of psychological traits to be a tiger mom in the first place, e.g., self discipline and emotional control. I don't think I could have pulled off being a tiger mom, even if I had believed in it and wanted to do it.
Your voice guy quit because he knew 15 days from then you'd receive a cease & desist letter from another company?
Is writing mobile apps a bad idea?
Most mobile apps I have used could have been done just as well with a website and there are an increasing number of ways to turn a website into an app. Not only that but websites are getting nearly as much access to the device as native apps.

So why would it make sense to learn two different programming languages, or Xamarin, when you could just make a web page?
I think the fact that people are allowed to invest in gold and bitcoin and lottery tickets shows that the government doesn't actually care about the unwary gambling away their life savings. Rather the government (or those who control it) want to ensure the best investments are kept for themselves. So they place barriers to investment, like accreditation, to ensure only those who already have wealth can participate in the most lucrative of markets. It's not "for your protection" its for the protection of the wealthy.
There is a point here. I am so used to travelling to and from Australia, that I find flights less than 7 hours to be annoying. You go through all he hassle of getting onto the dang plane, but don't have time to experience your flight in a relaxed, enjoyable way.
> Next up, autoplaying video, and those stupid "pardon the interruption" popovers that you have to close to get to the actual page content.

This is from the autoplaying video/audio update already available.

I agree that modals are probably next (hopefully the "hold on a second" modals that appear when you leave the document window). It will be interesting to see how that's handled.

I appreciate Google's attempt at trying to fix the web but not everything is evil. Anything that has a mass effect and is generalized like this should at least offer some sort of opt-out. The whole point of web applications is that most if not all features should work indefinitely past, present, and future.
See scrollaway's response above. A lot of the text you already read is robot-generated. More than half the words in this comment were generated via autocorrect or auto complete in some fashion. It's still useful and thoughtful though.
Ask HN: Can machine learning be used to reduce lag in video calls?
A friend of mine suggested that a generative model created at the start of a video call may be able to reduce audio and video lag during the call, particularly on a weak connection.

Do you agree?

Does Hangouts/Zoom/FaceTime/Skype do this yet?
Adaptive Brightness: "solving a problem that's been solved numerous times, but this time using machine learning"
Sometimes projects like this are spun up to merely retain executives/high performing employees. I've seen this happen before where employees at large tech companies are encouraged to start things inside the company instead of leaving to go to startups.
I saw someone mention on Twitter earlier today that this is something we’re supposed to see a lot about at WWDC.
This reminds me of waitbutwhy's article on neuralink[0]. Language is an inefficient means of communication. It require niceties and good grammar just to get a simple point across, especially with unfamiliar people. The question is, do we really want to optimize communication?

It feels disingenuous to optimize only your end of the conversation, but it could also be really helpful. Hopefully we find a more openly efficient means of communication soon.

[0]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
AI assistant calls could start with a modem style handshake to determine whether they can conduct the transaction much more quickly with an Internet API. I'm sure it could be much shorter these days, but hearing the same noisy handshake today would be amusing.
Root, remove, unroot.
As xur17 points out, these devices support an on-device PIN like smart cards. The protocol also has support for future devices with biometric authentication, which could give you all three factors in one device.
I used to do this. I once ran across a prod HRC VPN subdomain and got myself banned from r/netsec.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/5wizf8/hillaryclint...
>> if 4 is prime then all numbers are prime

>Is a true theorem (and things along these lines)

Saying "4 is prime" "primes are non-composite, ..." reduces to error; at least one of these premises is false.

?
I don't mind it, occasionally, but lately it seems like every single thing...
Considering Religion, there's a lot of evidence to suggest that is true.
> Is expert opinion valuable even if it is right no more often than coin flipping?

Most coins are 50/50, not 75/25.

Also, the answer entirely depends upon whether there's anyone out there who can do better than 50/50.
https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a has been around in one form or another for a decade or so.

It looks dead in that repository though.
But you may still get notifications of requests for the link that you don't request.
I remember when I interned for PayPal, one of my first exposures to corporate communication was an all company email from David Marcus, where he mentioned that he had seen PayPal employees not paying with PayPal at places on the corporate campus that accepted PayPal, and he suggested that they should find other jobs.
Right up there with the noun version of "ask".
Kurt Vonnegut made me more mindful before I even knew that was a word. In A Man Without a Country he relays some advice given to him by his uncle:

> I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Since reading that ten years ago I've done that almost daily. Often I'm only saying it to my dog but it certainly has made me appreciate the small moments that can be wonderful.
Yes, I was thinking about the Dells of the world, too. But it's bigger than that as, say, Dell hasn't sold any valuable consumer targets since the Venue smartphone in 2012. I suppose telecoms have enterprise products, but they're more interested in cooperating with the government where it doesn't cost them much (hey, consumers already hate them), in exchange for regulation/legislation that protects their business (hey, consumers have nowhere else to go now).

Valid point on how we let law enforcement do its job. The other aspect of Apple's success here is timing. We don't trust government or law enforcement as much as we used to, and a new balance has to be found, perhaps by lawmakers who have foresight of both technology and human rights.
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Justice for Elephant Starved to Death as “Punishment”
They could have just depreciated Notepad in an effort to push their app store.
Hoping to peak your interest, Stoicisim and Buddhism are a lot similar than they seem.
The way I see it, Buddhism talks a lot about the idea of "mind workout" (meditation) to be able to draw conclusion (insights), whereas Stoicism uses only discourse and logic. The conclusions are roughly the same though, for example the emphasis on equanimity, happiness and virtues in both philosophy.

In practice, and to draw a shitty analogy: using logic, you know you shouldn't eat that cupcake because it's 800kcal. You can also curb your sugar addiction so you don't feel so hungry for cupcakes.

That being said I agree with you: "mindfulness" in isolation is just a buzzword, which is what this article is trying to say.
My dad has the exact opposite phrase, if someone tells him "We've been doing it like that for 20 years already!" he just very dry responds "And you've been doing it wrong for those 20 years."
Unfortunately it only works with Azure (at the minimum AD federation with Azure if you have some on-prem)
Changing my perspective from "I wish I didn't have these thoughts/feelings" to "how can I deal with these thoughts/feelings productively" was a game changer for me.
Unfortunately I think you'll find that not everything can be solved, and that you'll always have some anxiety. It would actually be strange if you didn't, everyone has these thoughts every so often. The trick is to not let them take over you, and just move on.

I suspect you're doing this without realizing it; you're analyzing your anxieties until you understand them, and then they stop happening over time as you stop giving them so much attention.
you ideally want something like Xprivacy, which is unfortunately no longer supported

Install something like Netguard (same dev behind Xprivacy) -- which functions as a firewall (vpn) b/w apps and the internet. Turn on logging. Watch all the apps you have installed phoning home and services like graph.facebook.com every few moments.
Yes, except what we are talking about here is the computer doing the work of composing content, not merely transcribing it.

It is relieving the human of the work of actually thinking about what they want to say and how they want to say it-- that's the thing that the human should be doing, and needs to know how to do to be an effective thinker and an effective participant in society.

How a person speaks and writes tells you about how they think-- that is what language does; it opens a window into the mind of another person. With this tool, I am no longer looking into the mind of my conversation partner, I am looking into the mind of some sophisticated statistical aggregate of a huge population of Google users.

This kind of thing is a huge insult and injury to human communication.
You can Google it, but school districts across the country have created bans on publishing pictures of students and those bans are enforceable by law.
Technically speaking, nothing.

Windows has a lot of users just because they're familiar with it.

The same goes for Debian derivatives. A lot of people's first Linux distro is Ubuntu, so they get familiar with apt and don't have a compelling reason to use anything else.

I'm a perfect example. The second package-manager I really interacted with was Alpine's "apk", and that's only because I've been working with Docker pretty extensively over the last year.
Or I can wait 16 days for the GDPR, and hope they fix it by then.
Which was/is?
SYSENTER is also awful.
I don't think it's that slight a difference - password reset is akin to a door that you have to break open. The reset is obvious, there's evidence.

A password-less login, the email can be deleted and unless there are logs of last login, and the user notes the pertinent detail, then the intrusion can be covert.

Having someone unknowingly have a key to your apartment is much more of a breech than discovering a broken lock that you know needs fixing.
As someone who meditates daily, I would be surprised if meditation had substantial therapeutic benefit for anything beyond some behavioral disorders.

Meditation for me is about truth seeking. I emerge from zazen feeling as though I understand myself and the world around me more honestly. It has long term implications for how I think and behave, certainly, but probably not in any medically interesting sense.

I don't expect studying physics or building a deck to change my health outcomes measurably. Meditating isn't different in kind.

The value that I gain from "just sitting" is not something I can articulate very well in words. I would certainly encourage others to meditate daily, but meditation won't mend broken bones or unclog arteries or replace neurotransmitters the body can't produce enough of naturally. It's just sitting, after all.
Weirdly app stores taking a cut of every in app purchase incentives curators in the opposite direction
Say the same people responsible for the overhyping headlines. Obnoxious!

Meanwhile at University of Wisconsin, Madison:

Study reveals gene expression changes with meditation

https://news.wisc.edu/study-reveals-gene-expression-changes-...
I don't think our society is broken, at least not more-so compared to any other generation.
Coming from iOS, with all the disclosures about how Android leaks to Facebook much more I expected to see permissions locked down a lot more.

There's a difference between "I want to put a location in my status update" to "I want to upload my location 24/7 to Facebook's servers so they can profile the crap out of me".

iOS makes this difference. Android doesn't.
>brute force the cryptographic key, which should be infeasible.

Not only infeasible - physically impossible, in fact (barring quantum computers). Just 128 bits of entropy would take 1e16 (10 quadrillion) years to brute force at 1e15 attempts per second. :)
I suppose if you consider The Onion fake news...
Baidu’s self-driving cars require more human intervention than Alphabet’s Waymo
It's a very parochial read of the 1990s that remembers Microsoft Windows as a place where 'obvious things' just 'didn't work'.

From Microsoft's point of view, when they held >90% of the PC market, what would be the point of even thinking about interop?
Not directly. But sending input masquerading as the vol up/dn and button on the EarPods is a potential attack surface.
So the head of "encrypted messaging" at Facebook is now on a "this will go down on your permanent blockchain record" project. WCPGW???