skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no, you are not legally entitled to shut down accounts on the basis of race or national origin, if that’s what they’re doing.

That’s not what the parent comment said, you’re twisting it with an assumption. Slack is not legally obligated to provide Slack accounts to anyone, that was the point.

> they may have to at least return the data: if I let you use a desk at my place and you start doing business there, I am pretty sure I cannot legally refuse you entry and hold on to your papers.

Your analogy is rather confused. The data Slack has isn’t equivalent to your papers that you dropped on their desk. When you sign up for Slack, you enter into a contract outlined in their Terms of Service that detail explicitly what they agree to be responsible for. In particular, here’s the agreement relating to your data:

“Following termination or expiration of a workspace’s subscriptions, we will have no obligation to maintain or provide any Customer Data and may thereafter, unless legally prohibited, delete all Customer Data in our systems or otherwise in our possession or under our control.”

https://slack.com/terms-of-service
The author of that article make it very clear he hates FR and police. To the level that his opinion overwhelms the article.
> Question: If there will supposedly be 200,000 tech vacancies in Canada by 2020, why are tech salaries in Canada so low compared to the US

So that companies can push for more immigration and keep salaries deflated.
I can confirm automatic captive portals work on most wired devices. Those that don't will have to go to http://example.com or similar to be redirected. Word of warning for anyone that implements this: your DNS portal needs to be internal and captive as well.
Oracle has an arcane policy of not mentioning any security fixes for any of their managed products, except for once a quarter. The flaw has been fixed as of 5.2.22, but the VirtualBox devs are not allowed to mention it until sometime in January I think.
> I don't know how that works given how Huawei is a Chinese company, but there you go.

If Huawei didn't care about doing business with American companies or companies that adhere to American regulations, it wouldn't matter at all.
It will take time before decentralised services become mainstream. It's slow right now and we are still learning, we need things to be easier. The backend is basically figured out at this point and we need to focus a bit more on UX.

Regarding torrents, many game clients will use torrents for their downloads, the user simply doesn't see and deal with the torrenting.

Don't confuse self-hosted with decentralised, not the same :)
I said that I'm not sure, but that I doubt it. I then spent some time checking, and couldn't find anything to support your claim. If you have any sources that EU countries are forbidden from employing "normal" Syrian people (now or even before 2014), I'd love to see them. Otherwise, it really feels like you're just trolling to be honest.
For Linux users: the 64bit Windows version runs fine in Wine.
I'm still bullish on Snapchat, but it needs to keep adding new features. It's the only social network that gets ephemerality.

I don't really see a reason to delete Facebook over the privacy drama, I fail to see how it has much to do with the management or anything. Any Facebook replacement one comes up with, would face all the same dilemmas.

What many outside of the privacy-conscious circles are tired of is this whole concept of everything being permanent online. Of having some behavior from years ago haunt you forever. There's where ephemerality comes in.
Very few communities in the United States put quality of life ahead of the needs of businesses.
Maybe Slack just proved that you actually don't have to pick between malice and incompetence.
Introducing AWS Client VPN to Securely Access AWS and On-Premises Resources
Good, high paying jobs are scarce. But if you can speak the language passably getting a job in a Canadian city is easy.
What did Qualcomm do with the Snapdragon 855?
The social network I miss the most is MyOtaku. It was a lot like livejournal but the site was geared towards anime nerds. I used it until about 2008 or so when it just sorta got ate as all my friends from there added me on fb.
This happened to our cofounder as well.

His Slack account was blocked today, with that same message.

The crazy thing is that he's Irish and living in the EU, with no actual ties with the countries being mentioned.

He does travel for business purposes outside of Europe, but again, not in the listed countries.
Now, I can't prove malice, but this does strike me odd:

> "Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome." https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/07/25/1128225/google-has-...

Relying on a deprecated API, only available to Chrome, and forcing a slow polyfill on everyone else seems like a sure fire way to try to push people to use Chrome and make things slow for everyone else.

Whether or not this latest Edge / div debacle was malicious or not, the company has a history of doing stuff leaning that direction.
2018 in Review: The Year of Transition Is Over
"The problems came to a head in November when the Open Street Map Foundation’s board of directors rejected membership requests for “more than 100 applicants” from GlobalLogic, thereby restricting the number of outsourced representatives working on maps for Grab and other clients of the agency.

“There had been a mass sign-up of 100 new accounts on 15.11.2018 from India, most coming from one single IP address from a company “well known” to OpenStreetMap. There had been a larger amount of complaints regarding edits from that company, who provide “mapping services” to other companies,” read a circular issued by the board."

This is poor journalism. If you read the linked post ( https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2018-Nov... ) it says the complete opposite. The new members were not rejected. (The request to block them was rejected)
That's a bit scary. As a developer, I often test websites performances / features using a VPN. Since Slack is the platform developers use to communicate, it often stays open as I test "from other countries". My Slack IP log likely has accesses from all over the world.
In many places, OSM can be improved with satellite imagery
Does it have an end goal of maximizing profits, though? Couldn't the goal of price discovery be to find the point where supply = demand, without necessarily maximizing profit?

Granted, this ignores the human trait to increase consumption when removed from directly paying all associated costs (e.g., my behavior at Golden Corral)
Plenty of volunteer mapping is based on satellite data. People justifiably get irritated when they actually do a physical survey and then it gets overwritten remotely.

As far as the imagery, DigitalGlobe provides relatively up to date imagery for most of the planet. The errors are probably more from overinterpreting the satellite data than from it being obsolete.
I think you'd really like Matrix. https://matrix.org/blog/home/

Riot is a decentralised team messenger built on top of Matrix. https://riot.im/app/#/home
If they're just doing GeoIP checking, wouldn't it have made more sense for them to just block access from those countries, which would be an inconvenience to their users, instead of retroactively removing their accounts?
Not defending grab, but osm has lots of false negatives. Satellite image does not have to be outdated - you can get less than 6 months old satellite image accurate enough to extract roads and buildings from Digital Globe or Airbus.

Shameless plug: At tensorflight.com we have deep learning models that can do just that.
>This doesn't excuse anything. People in Syria are people too.

I don't get this attitude. Yes people in Syria are people too. Canadian steel exporters are people too, why do does their steel need to be tariffed when exported to United States? Why are American farmers punished when they export their dairy products to Canada, are they not people?

>The internet is a place where you don't even need to have a nationality.

SINCE WHEN?!?! It has never worked that way.
This is not about blocking accounts of people in Iran, which is a totally legit thing to do. This is about blocking someone who is of Iranian origin, but claims to live in Canada for years and has no business connections with Iran whatsoever. Probably it's some automatic filtering hitting a false positive, but question is how that works, what criteria they use to search for "suspicious" accounts? Have they been given the list of accounts by some US agency or they track and profile their users? There's a lot of confidential business info floating through Slack channels, so it's a huge deal for all of us if they data-mine on that in some way.
For more than a decade, Section 230 [1] has protected internet platforms from censorship of user-generated content. Why is Section 230 not applicable here, or is a similar law needed with wider scope?

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

>
It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3) to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
> the teenager said he had spent about £50 of his pocket money to build up a collection of skins

Isn't that the underlying problem? In-game purchases have really disrupted the economics of online gaming; £50 used to be something around the final price for the whole game.
> Question: If there will supposedly be 200,000 tech vacancies in Canada by 2020, why are tech salaries in Canada so low compared to the US

Most of the smaller, newer tech co's are sweat shops. As companies grow and mature a lot of them get better at treating their employees.

I have no idea why we in tech allow companies to make us work more than "X" hours.
The fediverse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
This is the danger when our lives become increasingly dependent on digital middlemen who are not regulated as utilities, where legislation has not caught up, who can proudly declare themselves "just a private company you have no say" and use nebulous ToS violations to shut people down.

When people violate actual law, we know which specific sentence in the written law was violated. We have a chance to defend ourselves. We have (supposedly) impartial judges and juries to help determine the truth.

Tech companies are building parallel institutions for judgment and execution, but building it for themselves and they have no plans to let their users have any say or transparency. It's a digital version of "rule of men" rather than "rule of law" -- "you're condemned because I, the King, say so."

This will continue until external powers (regulation) force the quasi-digital-fiefdoms to open up. Hemming and hawing about "gee, this is kinda harsh" won't have an effect on them.
The All-American Muscle Car Will Outlive the Doomed Sedan
What a great reason to switch to an open-source, self-hosted solution. Fortunately there exist several:

http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/

https://rocket.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://zulipchat.com/
0Flake – Reaching Reliable Non-Flaky Tests
Guessing it's blocking non-US users - couldn't get to it from Australia. VPN works fine, though.
This may sound odd, but my biggest improvement in ability to have casual conversation with anybody came after a few months of beginner improv classes (at Second City). I'm not sure if it was being forced to quickly say _something_, or just being made more comfortable in awkward situations, but those classes did wonders for my long sought-after transformation from "weird conversationalist" to "normal guy".
Switzerland has also "Access Denied".
> Considering the startup ecosystem in Canada, I fear much of that talent will be wasted.

Can you expand on this thought?
This fuel is 3% hydrogen and is claimed to achieve 200% the MPG of gasoline.

Hydrogen has 3x the energy so that gets us to 9%.

Let's say hydrogen has 4x the efficiency of turning energy into miles (which I think is a reasonable estimate), so that gets us to 36%.

This stuff may be denser than gasoline. It's 60% water. Let's make the extremely generous assumption that the rest of the stuff occupies no space at all, giving a density of 1.7kg/L. Gasoline is 0.7kg/L, so that's an improvement of 2.4x which gets us to 86%. Still more than a factor of 2 short of the claim.
I've never understood the charm of having an always on, listen to everything home assistants... Why? Just why?

To be honest though, I do have Google assistant on my phone and vibe recognition turned on... But at least that's an option. With these in home assistants, voice is the only mode!
Tech is killing Street Food
I always felt worse about stopping and accelerating again in a car because the cost didn't go to my muscles but to the environment in the form of lots of extra pollution.
Data Warehouse and ETL That Is Suitable for Your Business
PAY TO WIN: How Developers Use Microtransactions to Hack Our Brain and Wallet
VB.NET has about as much to do with VBScript as Java has to do with JavaScript. VB.NET is largely just syntactic sugar for C# since they both utilize the CLR. While there are differences [0], about the only one that people typically find when moving to C# from VB.NET is the fact that there's no equivalent of Visual Basic's With statement [1]. The differences of opinion about C# and VB.NET are almost entirely personal preference.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_C_Sharp_and_Visu...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...
And why? I mean, which kind of problems with Facebook you want to mitigate? (Data privacy? Attention? Social isolation? Polarization?)

"A new Facebook" is likely to have the same pros, and cons, as the original one. Unless you are interested in this kind of problem-solving: https://xkcd.com/927/

PS: It should go with [Ask HN] in the title.
It needs to be as close to convenient in order to catch the masses.

Even on the technical side, most tech products have convenience as a selling point to being more productive/effective/agile, etc.
War is suprisingly expensive
U.S. and more than a dozen allies to condemn China for economic espionage
Oh, you lie, or else you are profoundly ignorant. Apple is THE WORST environmental offender. You have swallowed their marketing BS.

I have a dozen perfectly functional recent model iPads and iPhones at the moment that have come into our donation program. They are LOCKED by default and there is no way to unlock them. The people who donated them don’t even know they are useless and there is no way to get in touch with them.

Apple could easily allow us to send a request email to have them unlocked, but they do not. They obscure the email and they refuse to forward an unlock request.

Apple wants to grind up these devices so as to maximize the sale of new devices. That process is horribly inefficient compared with re-use. It is an atrocity against the planet.

Apple is environmentally monstrous in the name of profit.
Haven't used any of these, but this is what a quick Google turns up:

http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/

https://rocket.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://zulipchat.com/
It gets better when you compile that C code as C++, as ?: has a different precedence level.
I quit, but no rage required. Just boredom.
Just because he said that he has no connection to Iran does not make that true. If you carefully read the tweets, Amir says that he travelled to Iran. It might be that Slack did something ridiculous, but that can't be seen from the data.
Depends on where you draw the line for ancient. In the Iliad, Achilles spends a fair bit of time discussing his feelings--mostly, to be sure, of suffering disrespect or of mourning his friend. The main actors of the Aeneid don't have especially stuff upper lips, do they?
Well I'm glad somebody does! Regular people are losing big time here--facial recognition tech has a huge false positive rate, and probably a ridiculous false negative, rate, too. It's junk, but they keep pushing and pushing for it like it is some miracle tech.

I always thought the weird face makeup in those dystopian sci-fi films like Johnny Mnemonic were just there to make the street hacker type characters look edgy, but in fact, even back in the '70s and '80s, the authors were on to something.
It is Christmas. Here is how stores work with your emotions
Umm... if you’re still running Android 4.4, you have many far more significant security issues to address than your choice of VPN protocol.
Finding that it's not open source when you expect it to be (almost everything on github is open source).
If you find something is worse then you expect it to be you get disappointed.
Any IRC mobile app recommendations nowadays?
Collaborative photo documentation mobile+web app
I present this simple solution for construction companies to collaboratively collect and mange and store their photos on a map-based environment.
Site workers are authorized to upload photos to cloud -> every photo is geotagged including direction and caption, and uploaded instantly.

Owners love it as they know exactly whats happening on their work site...

https://www.filiocorp.com/
As they now reveal, he actively refused to have his articles translated into English - to prevent international audiences and subjects to expose him.

I am Austrian. The German speaking world is not the center of the universe, it is provincial.
One caveat to Matrix is that I wouldn't recommend making an account on matrix.org. In my experience, their homeserver is so massively overloaded that it's almost unusable.

There are other providers, though, and hosting your own instance isn't too difficult.
Well said! About this particular case, what rules are applied?
State of European Tech 2018
I was using Mattermost for quite some time and really enjoyed using it.
Kasie Hunt on Twitter: “I'm Out at Facebook”
I assume every locality has their own set of police priorities. In the case of Mark Rober's video, it's clear that his local police don't care about package theft. The thieves know that, and exploit it. Hence it was necessary for him to do his own thing outside of the law to try and deter people (or at least recoup his losses with some YouTube revenue).
Me and some of my colleagues are also Iranians living abroad, and this morning our account was deleted! We were already thinking to move to a self-hosted solution (rocket.chat likely), and this is a good reason to prioritize it.
We’re coming for you Mickey Mouse
It's a seperate download, not anything that you can get with the normal VirtualBox installer.

On an unrelated note, have you considered a third-party X server for windows, like Xming or VcXsrv, for use with your WSL apps?
I'm not sure that will actually calm traffic in the short run. Till every car is self driving I anticipate the mix to let to a lot more reckless overtaking abd weaving back and forth between slow autonomous vehicles.

My hope is that with autonomous vehicles having known reaction times we can actually get rid of fixed speed limits entirely.
The main use case some of my family members use it for is sharing pictures. I'm not keen on putting my children's pictures on a pseudo-public social network, so we make very ample use of Apple Photos. It won't work for everyone, but the people in my family who care (even the >80yo members) have iPhones and are capable of operating the Photos app. The nice thing is that there is commenting functionality and the shared albums don't count against your storage quota (AFAICT).

I also tried Slack initially, with no real success.
Pretty sure the contract is going to be in Slack’s favor. They had all the leverage when somebody agreed to it.

https://slack.com/terms
I wondered the same thing. My mother was a registered nurse who rarely ever took us to a Dr unless we were very sick for several days. For colds she simply treated the symptoms. If we had a fever it meant bed rest and sipping 7-Up to help settle the stomach. The only time she took me was for ear infections and tonsillitis.
When decentralized systems are illegal, only criminals will use them. Anonymously. And very likely, using your devices as botnet slaves. But pretty much, you get what you select for.
Because this isn’t about content, it’s about OFAC designations. That’s the office in the US Treasury department that says who Americans can’t do business with. They’re the ones that enforce sanctions and Iran is on their list.

Penalties for noncompliance are stiff and there are no safe harbour provisions.

(IANAL but I have implemented systems to check OFAC lists at other companies and seen it result in similar situations)
Mattermost is a self hosted slack clone. 95% feature parity in my experience - we use it as our primary chat tool where I work, no issues.
> I hope people continue migrating to http://MeWe.com which has a clear privacy bill of rights at its core and zero ads. It makes money in a far more traditional approach by charging for "pages" and extended emotions etc.

What is the guarantee that they stick to this and not got FB route later. Why should I trust "Sgrouples Inc."?
He’s kind of an odd one. I think this might be about his citizenship, not his ethnicity. And his behavior:

https://twitter.com/a_h_a/status/1059225338650144774?s=12

The notion that the US conducts military operations “only” to exploit oil is a popular one but it’s not very nuanced thinking, and dances close to extremism. I haven’t spent the time to read what else this guy espouses but I suspect the ethnicity card is being played to hype up some drama when there are other issues at play.
"disappointing: failing to fulfill someone's hopes or expectations."

I think you're viewing it from the "expectations" side, while	binarycrusader, pawelmurias, and I are viewing it from the "hope" side.

If this were open source under a license that makes sense to us, I think all three of us were thinking we'd like to use the code to do other things. That's just a hope.
Migrating to Mattermost from Slack and transitioning all the data is easy. My team at work transitioned to Mattermost a few years ago. https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html#mi...
I can only base this on discussions with ZoL maintainers.

From my personal look, there could be significant mess due to attempts to "remove duplication" or similar moves to make the code more linux-like. While ZFS is not the rampant layering violation some people accused it of, there's significant amount of code there (and funnily enough, there's actually overlap with some less-known linux features)
LibreOffice on iOS – some insights
No that's not how it works. Currently a belief in the inevitable arrival of AGI is a secular religious faith with no basis in hard science. We have plenty of real problems to worry about (like anthropomorphic global climate change) before we waste time making public policy to prevent something that may never happen anyway. Your concerns are silly, akin to worrying about an alien invasion when we don't even know if extraterrestrial life exists.
Your claim is far too strong, that is merely one theory, evidenced by a posted link from/by/for virologists. There is not a field-wide consensus to support that by any stretch.
The law isn't a magical paragon of morality.

When the law is as clearly wrong as this one is, it should be violated.