skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what it would take for google to lose it's star as being such a great career defining place to work? I think it's kind of happening. We need more people out of the motherships and doing new, innovative stuff and defining their own progressive policies in their companies to compete with the motherships.

I get the scale of capital and everything, but the internet is still a changing place and could be so much more if people just said no.
It is politically useful to pick at partially healed wounds to make them bleed again, rather than allow them to heal completely. I hope that MLK would have fought against the current trend of re-opening those wounds and undoing any healing that had already begun.
Or, alternatively, sexual abuse is a current hot-button issue, and this is helping to create a perfect storm of people who feel either exploited by companies and their executives (because they are), or that they don't have a reasonable amount of influence in large companies (they don't), or that so many executives get to fail upward (they do), or that sexual abuse is still not handled as seriously as it should be (it isn't).

Google will have a few bad days of PR, nobody will be able to identify this event in Google's stock price or quarterly reports, and in about three weeks everyone will have forgotten completely about this and gone on to the next series of things to be bothered about.

This much simpler explanation allows the world to keep stumbling along about like it always has, and cryptocurrency gets to continue to be a solution in search of a problem.
Have you considered becoming vegan?
Not particularly, this attitude tends to bite the demographic that holds it in the ass as time goes on. Quite hilarious to observe as an outsider.
Joseph Mifsud: Rush for the EXIF
Exactly. Allow out of band establishment of identity. Phone numbers are more hackable, they are also not anonymous.
It's protesting culture by forgoing an opportunity to shape it.

I do see your point it this is a real resource constraint, but though.
I tend to agree that public services (in the sense of .gov) should avoid using this. But they do need protective measures. Would logging in with a futuristic Aadhaar equivalent be considered less intrusive?
It depends on the contract, but based on one I recently saw for a very sizable startup (several billion raised) - yes. The document I saw specifically stated you cannot say anything, written or otherwise, that speaks negatively of the company regardless of validity.
> he was a college kid who built an app that he wanted

But not a leader of a large organization. That takes experience gained from multiple stages of a career. It is more than luck and timing.
I WENT BLIND
It is indeed surprising because the profit motive is there and it is not limited to just rival billionaires.

Any random guy with enough capital can short the company stock and then place a hit on the CEO.

I would expect stuff like that to happen super often but I don't think I have even heard of one real case like this.
Iceland based hosting is often suggested for sites with potential copyright issues because of their freedom of speech laws. No idea if that's actually true, but it is used as a selling point. See https://www.orangewebsite.com/articles/freedom-of-speech-ame... for one example.
I think the general reasoning behind that type of protest is to weaken the legitimacy of the function (screening interviews) by refusing to either help perform or tacitly endorse it.
I'd be curious what the overlap is. I suspect a lot of those users have edited their subscriptions to see only gaming stuff.

I've notice a number of questions on how to filter out all political content, so I suspect a lot of people are just trimming out the parts of reddit they don't care about.
I'm amazed all the women at Essential haven't bolted....I mean...gross....
If they quit they don't have leverage at Google anymore. This is why unions exist: they can threaten to quit, extract concessions, and not quit.
Outline has a DMCA link...
That seems like the most uncharitable interpretation possible of the above person's comment.
Employees at tech firms have been asking for clarity and transparency on the HR processes applied to employees for the past couple of years.

Facebook, famously, publishes its HR guidelines, procedures, and the steps that it has pledged to take to deal with reports of misconduct, harassment, as well as how disciplinary actions will be carried out against at-fault employees.

This costs the company nothing, and makes it clear to employees where they stand, what steps will be taken if they bring up an issue/are the subject of disciplinary action. It makes it crystal-clear what behaviour is appropriate, what is inappropriate, what is a dangerous grey area, and how it will be dealt with.
I don't have an opinion on whether what google did was good or bad. I'm just a point of "outrage fatigue," especially with protests that come off as gimmicky.

Maybe pushback against google is appropriate, maybe it's effective, but I am sure fatigued by this kind of stuff.
> Did I ever say that?

Yes. Yes you did, by nature of what you said and what it was in response to, which is very specifically a case were taxes raised by 500% over 10 years.

> Taxes usually increase.

A ridiculous proposition on it's face, as it would mean over times taxes always get higher. In the United States, Federal income taxes have fluctuated up as high as above 90% over the last one hundred years. It's not that high anymore, so taxes have gone down.[1][2] The UK has similarly seem fluctuations over time, and it's not currently at the highest it's been seen.[3]

> Do your own research.

If you're going to make an assertion, the onus is on you to back it up.

That said, you should be careful what you wish for, because someone might just take you up one it.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates

2: https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Free_Resources/Federal-Inco...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni...
Yes, but with massive ongoing operational costs. That's not sustainable.
Watchtower – Monitor for PII Across SaaS Tools
How to fight spam if sender identity is not known? Currently I get at least a few marketing calls a week and don't know how to make them stop other than blocking the numbers.
You made me sad. Hopefully we can see eye to eye some day.
For a while I couldn't understand this "delete facebook" trend. I've had a Facebook account forever, but have never felt the desire to waste my life endlessly reading garbage on there. I set it up to give me notifications in three cases: when someone contacts my business page, and when my wife or my mom posts something (the latter being very infrequent, usually pictures of my kids!) Otherwise I use it for a few local groups I care about (motorsports mostly) and to look up an old friend occasionally. Occasionally I'll glance through my feed when doing one of those other things—maybe once a month or so?

But now that I think about it, it's obviously like any addiction. An alcoholic can't just have a beer every once in a while, and I'm sure it's just as unhealthy for a lot of people to have Facebook on their phones. So, this sounds like a healthy trend.
Canada Ratifies Pacific Trade Deal with Australia Close Behind
I'd like to say 'good job' on reddit, but they grew despite making a horrible job, like the redesign. I 'm glad it's doing well anyway.
Can you imagine a search engine developed by union labor? It’s actually funny if you think about it.

Side note: Do you think police officers act with more accountability or less considering their unions status? As if anyone else can shoot innocent people and take paid leave.
I'm saying there's a good change Rubin's lawyers could convince a jury that Google wrongfully avoided paying him the compensation that was due. This would almost certainly cause the public to view allegations of sexual assault with greater suspicion.

The point is, while Google itself determined that they had enough evidence to conclude that Rubin harassed someone, they probably didn't think they had enough evidence to convince a jury. All I'm saying is that the company should choose the least harmful option. Sometimes, being inflexible does more harm than good. For all we know, bringing this to trial would have made Google and the victim look like the bad guys, while the harasser looks like a hero standing up to a deceitful corporation. Instead, Google played it safe and chose not to risk it's reputation (which is an act of self interest) but also to avoid risking the reputation of the alleged victim (which is a benefit). Was this the right decision? Ultimately we'll never know short of inventing a time machine, but saying that Google unambiguously chose the worse of two options is short sighted.
It’s like checking the fridge when you’re not even hungry. On steroids.
> You legally cannot not have insurance, if you make over a threshold (in part due to Obamacare), which has made the issue worse.

Huh?
Confusion by who? I’m sure the same people who are “confused” by Amazon’s use of “serverless” would also be “confused” by terms like lambda, cloud formation, cloud trail, Redshift, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, Aurora, OpsWorks, Mechanical Turk, etc.

Just like everything else in technology, if someone is confused by tech jargon, they should research it.
Here's an epileptic claiming iPhone X triggered a seizure
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8291119

Many people on reddit claim to have had headaches from their phones, though some are convinced it is related to the display https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneX/comments/91krbq/headache/
Preponderance of the evidence would be the standard if Rubin sued Google for wrongful termination, not the standard for evaluating allegations against executives - the latter is entirely up to Google. Rubin would have to convince the jury that he was terminated wrongfully against Google's argument that a credible allegation against senior management is enough to terminate with cause.

> Google doesn't impose criminal punishment, and I don't think anyone wants that to change.

GP never suggested that Google hand out jail sentences, just that they shouldn't be giving $90 million severance to Rubin when many employees who got fired for a lot less egregious behavior got nothing.
>No, he coerced them into it - if you have a position of power, and you say "have sex with me", effectively in exchange for your treatment/employment in the company

Unless you've got info beyond what was in the times report, you're making a TON of assumptions about the nature of the relationship.

As I said, it's wrong and he should be fired for having relations with a subordinate no matter what the circumstances were. But to dive Right into "do this if you want to stay employed" when you don't even know which party initiated the relationship is a bit unfair.

Unless Google or the woman in question come forward with more info, I don't think it's at all fair to just assume the worst about everyone involved.
As long as they have both that would be amazing.

Phone authentication is better than nothing and lowers barriers to adoption.

Perhaps when manually verifying an identity via the QR code add an option to generate a new id not tied to the phone number.
Oops - I've corrected my comment. I was confusing ESET UK with the parent company.
Reminds me that Kierkegaard has written about Google:

"A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. In the present age a rebellion is, of all things, the most unthinkable. Such an expression of strength would seem ridiculous to the calculating intelligence of our times. On the other hand a political virtuoso might bring off a feat almost as remarkable. He might write a manifesto suggesting a general assembly at which people should decide upon a rebellion, and it would be so carefully worded that even the censor would let it pass. At the meeting itself he would be able to create the impression that his audience had rebelled, after which they would all go quietly home – having spent a very pleasant evening."
Non-disparagement clauses are usually worded in such a way to prohibit making disparaging statements even if the statements are true. The disparagement is based in the fact that it will damage the party's reputation, not on whether it is true or substantiated or not. (It all depends on the wording of the contract of course, and also how the courts are likely to interpret or enforce it, which is why professional legal advice is so essential in these matters.)

For some examples of how non-disparagement clauses are commonly worded: https://www.contractstandards.com/public/clauses/non-dispara...
There are totally fine sexual and romantic relationships involving consenting "ownership". That part shouldn't necessarily make him sound creepy. The part where he managed to make it all the way up to the executive level at a company like Google and still be dumb enough to have those kinds of relationships with employees is the part that deserves attention.

As others have already pointed out, any relationship with an employee in that kind of environment is exploitative by nature.
How does this work? I get an error?

sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 f....
DMCA Safe Harbor is the term you’re looking for.
> Is it disparagement to report facts without attaching an opinion?

If the facts can reasonably be expected to damage the reputation of the other party to the agreement, yes, generally (subject to any specific exception in the agreement, such as the common one for accurate testimony in court proceedings when legally mandated.)
And IBM shifted to use Apple Macs.
The article doesn't really mention the argument that Apple is making in court.

They are seeking a judgement based on the legal concept of patent exhaustion.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S...

If Apple buys a cellular modem from Intel, for instance, and Intel has already paid Qualcomm to use their standards essential parents to manufacture those cell phone modems, then patent exhaustion holds that Qualcomm cannot force Intel's customers to pay to license those patents all over again.

Until a judge rules on this, you really can't say that Apple owes Qualcomm anywhere near that figure.

There is more information on the FOSS patent blog:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2018/10/patent-exhaustion-keeps-q...

Edit: I think this FOSS patent blog entry from last month does a better job of laying out the basic issues.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2018/09/apple-foxconn-et-al-want-...
Ocaml has both! You have a (very powerful) module system, serving purposes of encapsulation and namespacing, and other more powerful abstractions, and you also have dynamic/message-passing style OOP available to you.
Volunteer or donate to the Veterans' Greenhouse non-profit. They're applying recent advancements in computer science to agriculture specifically to reduce carbon output and water consumption by industrial agriculture. https://veteransgreenhouse.org
The IP is public in the sense that a pub's door is public. You're welcome to open it. The bouncer may throw you out without explanations (maybe you wore a hoodie, idk). You walk in under terms. You don't have some birthright to lurk there and harass the customers.
Have you considered posting this on www.codeforces.com? They have the biggest active community of competitive programmers, and I'm sure they'd find this fascinating.

You'd also probably get a lot of good feedback from competitive programmers.
I have no idea whats up and down in this case, but it is good to see engineers waking up to the power of collective action.
> A lot of the popular unrest facing both corporations & governments today is people learning that conflict gets results.

Conflict likes workers peaceful protests, union negotiations, and various acts of civil disobedience against the government are in a broad category of "conflict."

Corruption, violence, harassment, threats of violence, libel, literally burning parts of the world to the ground, incitements to violence, swatting, disinformation campaigns, and genocide are in another very broad category of conflict.

If your use of the word "conflicts" mixes anything freely from both two categories then the sentence I quoted is meaningless.

> The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally, but that's where game theory is taking us.

If you are talking mainly about any of the things I mentioned in my first category of "conflict," then this sentence isn't persuasive.

If you are talking about the second category only, I don't understand the relationship to the article.
When negotiation fails, unions extract concessions by trying to prevent anyone (members or not) from doing the work.

Unions are rather weak when they can't prevent employers from hiring strikebreakers.
Or cite the compact? Even though IL has gutted big sections of it in court, id imagine a blatant water pull deserves an assumption of being covered?
Show HN: Stay with founders in San Francisco
I think you're confused about network programming in general. In a post like this, the assumption is that the concurrency is happening over a single network interface. It doesn't matter really. The most conspicuous limiting factor on a POSIX-compliant system is the number of available file descriptors. When you listen() on an address and accept() a connection, the networking stack allocates a file descriptor for that connection. Then you can handle more connections.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ac...

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/li...

Beej's guide is a popular intro, but I'd bet any text on network programming covers sockets.

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
"Now the World Needs to Hear the Message Even More. Let's go."
>"The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy being taken care of,” he wrote. “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”"

I don't understand why Americans are so concerned with what happens in somebody else's bedroom. I don't give a single flying f about what two consenting adults decide to do in a bedroom. There are all sorts of sexual kinks that I find disgusting and sometimes disturbing - but it turns out it's not really any of my business. The second you introduce a non-consenting adult, or someone not old enough to consent, then we've got a problem.

Otherwise - why do you care? It's none of your business.
That should be up to Qualcomm how they price their royalties / construct their payment agreements
Why would the technical bubble of the old internet be so interesting and diverse, but the technical bubble if today is so "one-note"?
> It turns out that abuse prevention is hard and costly

This should come as Tshirt or coffee mug.
Why?

I built my house with union labor. I think I got a much better result.
This is literally what stopped me from learning D a few years ago. I started reading about it, got intrigued, did some tutorial-style stuff, decided to try it on a real project, and then realize that meant having to figure out which toolchain or choice of standard lib to use, and just gave up and used c++ as usual.

If I was already familiar with the tradeoffs, or if I was very motived to learn D, I'm sure this wouldn't have been a big obstacle. There were plenty of resources explaining the difference and I'm sure there are more now. I'm just saying, anecdotally, that this was the roadblock for me.
You can test out the sealed sender feature on the beta releases of Signal: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318471-Ho...
It's… complicated.

> The use of the term [extended ASCII] is sometimes criticized, because it can be mistakenly interpreted to mean that the ASCII standard has been updated to include more than 128 characters or that the term unambiguously identifies a single encoding, neither of which is the case.

— Wikipedia[1]

I would agree w/ Wikipedia here: the term is ambiguous at best, and misleading at worst.

Hacker News delivers its pages in UTF-8, so saying they're part of the box drawing characters in Unicode is not incorrect. Nor is the statement that they're not part of ASCII: they're not.

That said, the box drawing characters exist in Unicode, I would guess, largely because the IBM PC included those characters in the numerous character sets it used. Particularly, in North America, it used the character set known today as "Code page 437"[2]; other regions had other character sets w/ similar names, and they usually had at least some (though not always all) of the box drawing characters. IDK if the PC itself included them because some predecessor had them, but it wouldn't particularly surprise me if that was the case; the Atari and the Commodore had similar characters, though not exactly the same set. And again, they might have had them b/c of a predecessor; for all I know it's turtles all the way back to the first person who drew a table on a clay tablet :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
Vote for Trump, that's the way half of the country handled it and it is not such a bad way, works for them.
Yes, because there's an infinite supply of completely interchangeable workers, and no costs associated with hiring or training.
> In retrospect, that was a bad call -- because in 2018, the optics of sweeping credible harassment allegations by a senior executive under the rug and then guiding them out the door with a $90m settlement is something that sickens and angers many individuals.

And then, not three months later, investing substantially in his next venture...
Uber will exhaust its financing before self-driving cars arrive.
This is the official Facebook response on using your microphone: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-ph...

According to that, they do not listen for ads.
> You say it will be ignored, but here we are after the shooting. And gab was not willing to take it down. Nor did laws help.

What was the direct/specific threat that Gab refused to take down?
Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot update is now live
Apple's argument for not paying is that the royalties are for patent licenses which they have an implicit right to. They purchase Intel's radios and due to patent exhaustion, they have a right to those patents for use of the radio (since Intel has already paid those license fees).
Or actually look into why Apple are refusing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332647 This comment sums it up pretty good.
What flag does your boat fly?

http://www.hri.org/docs/LOS/part7-1a.html
How are they doing now?

I think that the experiences diverge the most as adults actually. Kids don't have many responsibilities and most go to school. Minimum wage jobs as a teen can actually be fun. You're surrounded by coworkers your age and everyone slacks off. It's low pressure in the sense that you and your coworkers don't care about getting promoted or fired.

As adults, rich kids can choose fulfilling, fun careers (or none at all). The non-rich slave in unfulfilling, soul sucking jobs, constantly worrying about money and retirement.

It's not the cool toys or expensive experiences that make wealth attractive. It's the ability to not work a 9-5 job without the fear of starvation or poverty.
Amazon Announces $100M Donated to Charities Through AmazonSmile
Poe's law?

https://siftery.com/recaptcha/alternatives
The day they force the new design (remove old.reddit.com preference) is the last day I use Reddit.
Are you sure you're talking about v3? I don't think v3 will display anything no matter what browser you're running, instead it's up to you to do that.
I think he/she is making an analogy between his life experience and the claim against Apple. That is, 'I [won/built a business worth] a lot of money. [Family/other companies] suddenly felt I owed them something. You should refuse as they are only seeing dollar signs.'