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Ask HN: Found employer snooping on my machine while away – why?
Hi HN,

I've been off for a few days (sick with flu), and noticed my employer (via motion detection recording) going through my work machine while not present -- after business hours, while no one else was present at the office. This has now happened two days in a row.

Is there any legitimate reason for my employer to be snooping? They've been opening & closing tabs, opening shells, looking through files, etc.
The Advantages of Mobile Apps in the Healthcare Sector
It is a nuisance - it should be fixed by making it mandatory to harvest it.
Looks pretty advanced for 1980s tech. The army passed on it because it didn’t perform better than alternatives they already had.

The army might have bought in on this if they had mounted a turret or some offensive weapon system of some sort though, otherwise to them it’s just a toy.
A coworker got the battery replaced but was not notified by Apple.
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Yes, I would recommend to use `rand_chacha::ChaCha20Rng`, which is equivalent to `rand::rngs::StdRng`, but is guaranteed to be value stable.
I’ve never liked to listen music to “pump me up”. I’m very fond of music, having been raised by a classical composer and a choral regent. Recently when I was experiencing anxiety due to the unexpected, untimely death of a pet, I used “lo-fi hip hop radios from YouTube. Precisely because it’s music that I wouldn’t ordinarily enjoy.

But: back then when Infected Mushroom and Skazi were top of the pops artists, I lived far away from work and had a long, boring, stuck in traffic bus commute. Psytrance excelled in making me feel alive at moments where I was basically stuck in a box.

That’s not how I need to feel at work, ESPECIALLY when it comes to coding. Maybe I’m not a super hacker type that just has programs flowing off his fingers — I have to think hard, even about naming functions and classes.
Well I for one think Electronic Music has too many sub-genres. Like if you change the timing of the highhat or the type of synth you're using it catapults you into a different genre. Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented?
Congrats on the launch even though this feels like a "faster horses" solution instead of something like, I don't know, universal healthcare like the rest of the developed countries (and actually also non-developed).
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I honestly feel that the best we as an industry can do about it is to start referring to biometrics as "amputationware". As often and widely as possible.

Until the public perception about them changes, vendors will keep pushing the scheme ever further as a silver bullet.
I don't think confiscation would be fruitful.

Based on the (inevitably) scarce information, my guess is that the parents neglected the subject during the childhood, she grew up used to "passive entertainment", and she developed an addictive personality.

If this is the case (see the part where she mentions she's easily bored), removing some means would just transfer the addiction to other ones, potentially (but not necessarily) more dangerous.

An approach would be family therapy, as the parents also had a causative role.

Of course, all of this is a wild guess.
You can add DEC/Digital to that list. It is just that Sun died later than them.
As you mentioned Etnica in another post, Etnica in Dub is also highly recommended : https://etnica.bandcamp.com/album/etnica-in-dub
The quote continues:

> It is in these eastern Länder where the AfD has gained the most ground. Fear-mongering arguments against immigration and an Islamic takeover continue to attract scores of German citizens whose future economic prospects are less than rosy.

Not everyone is happy. You can have some people unhappy while others are being better off.
If you're a caveman it would be stupid to play with fire. You dont have any medical care to treat burns and it's dangerous, but because we did we started cooking, then melting metals. So what is stupid at one point becomes knowledge at another point.
This is a Google dev site, so it's heavily weighted to pushing Chrome and features that may not be the best approach for small/medium businesses.
> The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are "recharged" by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone

That's a good step 1.

Step 2 is realising that introverts often do get energised by one-on-one or small group socialising, or socialising in a more meaningful way around a real shared interest.

Step 3 is realising that the concept of introversion/extraversion generalises past social interaction to preferences for levels of external interaction / stimulation in general. So for example, some people may not be super-sociable, but may love lot's of external physical stimulation (music/lights/exercise, etc), others may love to be exposed external ideas (or alternatively have a preference to only be exposed to small amounts of these things).

^ This is the notion of introversion/extroversion captured by the MBTI / Jungian Type Theories, where Extraverted Feeling (Fe) roughly function corresponds to the popular notion of extraversion, but there are also Extraverted Sensing (Se), Extraverted Intuition (Ne) and Extraverted Thinking (Te) functions which present differently.
Now working for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0. Sats are spinning around a globe, but scanned area does not appear. Works fine on Edge but it's screen reader can't handle the companion article.
It is a repost as YouTube removed the original.
I know we're veering somewhat off topic here, but I wonder how true this is in practice?

I can't find a lot of testing done at this sort of speed with regular cars. Racing cars and some high-end sports cars are exceptionally strong and allow you to survive a 200 km/h crash - often with only very minor injuries - but I'm really uncertain that this is true for a regular family car. Do you have any further data on this? Given how many regular cars I see driven at this sort of speed when I visit Germany, it'd be interesting to know!
$9k is fairly artificial in that it comes from the $9k ERCOT ORDC (operations reserves demand curve) meaning they did a study awhile back looking at Texas GDP and the cost of lost load and judge it to be ~$9k per MWh. This means when the optimization software has a shortage of their operating reserves the prices jump up to that level.
And whoever happens to be below it at the time.
This appears to be a Chinese totalitarian state shill account.
Maybe a modified version of this skyscraper escape system https://i.redd.it/5ltd9qizlh621.gif ?
The assumption here is that she has an addictive personality (in this case, to social media), and she's impared in (at least) daily responsibilities.
That only suggests the earlier version wasn't consumer ready. And people injure themselves with mass produced consumer ready vehicles every day.
I'm not an expert on that since I'm self-employed, but imho that's not completely accurate. Most contributions aren't completely tax deductible (pensions: 86/88%), and many of them share a max deduction limit of 1900 Euros, so you'll quickly get above that if you're earning an average salary.
Why Codeigniter Framework Is Preferable for Development
Nations that are free today will not be free tomorrow. People today have been too afraid to stand up to dictators, and dictators are encroaching everywhere.
robots.txt is a tool to control crawling, not to specify how you would like your site to be displayed (or not) in search results. If you don't want search engines to include your site, set:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

while to block just Google do:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">

See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710

If Googlebot is not respecting robots.txt, and is crawling something it's been instructed not to crawl, let me know and I can file a bug?

(Disclosure: I work for Google but not on Search, speaking only for myself)
I am not sure what your comment is suggesting? Literally the third sentence is:

> Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series looking at the books, authors, and ideas capturing the zeitgeist in various countries this summer.

Isn't capturing the zeitgeist exactly trying to understand what's occupying the thoughts of a country? Also I think you're greatly exaggerating the speed of "fashion". These are all issues we have been talking about for a long, long time. From tolerance [1] to education [2]. I don't see at all how this arcticle talks about a irrelevant topics, I can assure you these are all isssues we have been discussing for a longer time now.

[1] since the refugee crisis it's one of the main themes of political discourse. We also experience a rise of the right and far-right and many are not sure how to react to this change of the policial landscape and where tolerance ends. I was quite active in politics 4 years ago and I remember it being important back then (which was even before the refugee crisis) because I had contact with a group organizing a counter demonstration to a far-right gathering.

[2] During my time in school i was in one of the first in a new system and when I finished (5 years ago) many switched back to the old system. Our pisa-scores are still a major point for public dicsussion.
I agree with the parent - there isn't necessarily an aggressive interpretation (although it could have been worded in a more neutral fashion).

Based on my personal view, this is a case of addictive personality, caused by parent's poor education. I imagine the parents placing her in front of screens for her entire childhood, in order to babysit her. This is a long shot, but it's an educated guess.
Tangential, but India insists on thicker plastic bags for recycleability. And yet we have seas of plastic bags and bottles floating around. Would we be better off with thinner burnable bags and clean incinerators?
If you can find it an audio recording of this lecture is also available and it is one of the best lectures in the series. Feynman really brings forward the "soul" of algebra and the illustrates how powerful the art of abstraction is. Audible has all the audio lectures for sale, which is how I got them on my kindle, and I have also seen them floating around the net in other formats. I wish Caltech would release the audio material like they did the books!
OpenBSD -stable binary packages
I don't know why the Julia people need to bash Python/R whenever they can.
Perhaps if she started a fire while reading.

I’m a parent and based on that experience I expect the subjects episode was part of a larger pattern.
Ghengis Khan doesn’t look around at his pillaged kingdom and think: “i guess this is enough, maybe we should establish more competition to enhance our long-term success as a community.”

No. He keeps chewing on brisket until someone else forces the issue.
Please be accurate. Correct would be: They removed a book they consider anti-semitic. That is quite different from what you stated.

But great to include the source.
You say that now but there were people complaining about people spending too much time on books back when generally available books were new.
Ask HN: Employers, do you use dark web databases in background checks?
Now that lists of accounts are stolen from websites regularly and published on the dark web I've wondered to what extent the victims need to worry about site memberships showing up in background checks.
Why an AWS VPC Is Like the London Underground
Monoculture was bad when it was IE6, it's good when it's google. At least that's the SV Groupthink.
As laptops are repaired, this database would need to be continually updated. I would imagine getting an internet connection and just using the Apple site (or a dedicated API endpoint) would be much easier.
> Unencrypted usernames, passwords, and user IDs

I am shocked... SHOCKED!

Actually, I'm not. Maybe, I should be?

Commence anecdote: When evaluating which of 2 positions to accept, I settled on {CompanyX} because of the CTO, who seemed like an excellent person to learn from. Something like 20 years in leadership & a linux chops that I'll probably always be envious of.

By the time, I'd accepted the offer & taken 2-weeks to get settled into a new town, he'd left the company (quite the surprising red-flag for me)... but was still monitoring Github as part of the changing of the guard.

The first issues I filed at {CompanyX} was "we are sending passwords in cleartext(!!!)".

It wasn't 5 minutes before CTO-LINUX-GURU shouted me down. "IT'S HTTPS, NOT CLEARTEXT!". His message was sharp, and the obvious subtext was that I was dumb.

Well, if you say so... I let it go, and kept my head down.

Months later, we had to reset a bunch of user accounts because those passwords were being logged (in cleartext) to emails, and also saved to error logs when users had a difficulty logging in.

After 8 months with the company, I'd finally had enough. 2 months after I left, the friends I made there called me to tell me they were looking for work. The company had run out of money, and laid off a bunch of engineers.
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I am in agreement with you. It seems it is more work than it's worth to develop this taxonomy.
And the noise, and the things falling from the sky when they crash.
I can commiserate, I had the same feels of loss when Acorn closed down.

When I was a kid they held the same affection for me as some kind "nerd football" team that you'd support out of all reason. I used to think "if they'd have just done this then they would have won!". With hindsight, as an adult, that seems so sweetly, childishly naive; I was a funny kid. :D

It convinced me though that you shouldn't tie your dreams to someone else's commercial organisation unless you're a major shareholder.

The happy ending for me was that Gnu/Linux and Free software nicely filled the void in my heart. No one can take it from you and it's never "finished". Cheers Mr Stallman.
(That's so naive of me; I must be a funny adult too. :D )
FAA bans recalled 15-inch MacBook Pros from flights
This. Comment.

Of note: Gas requires a pipeline. Take a look at some recent well-meaning protests around pipelines; they've likely had the opposite of the desired effect.

Compromise would be way better than "my way or the highway" extremist positions.
I'm amazed how few people have cottoned onto the fact that if you wanted to steal a copy of someone's fingerprint, all you have to do is wait for them to go to their favourite restaurant and steal their empty glass.

Most people wouldn't even realise that the glass wasn't the target...
Metal is the same, often it's the true(TM) fans who come up with the micro-genres as a way to beat people over the head for not knowing that "foo" is "bar".

It's the pretentious of wine culture applied to music basically.
The electric car as a talisman of false hope
Very nice, kinda unrelated but how did you pick your colors for title / background for each subgenre?
AMD Renoir APUs Could Arrive with Zen 2 Cores and Vega 10 Graphics
I think it is all about the money. The reason anyone even gives a shirt about paints and when they happen is because someone equated it to money.

An A/B test somewhere reported that pages that paint faster make more money... And at that point the race is on.
Depending on what happens in the next 6 years in all major democratic powers, I may or may not still agree with that sentiment.

edit: 6 years isn't long enough to figure it out. Let's say a decade.
This wouldn't be a problem if people wrote programs in languages that have proper type systems that can correctly classify failure.

I'm thinking of types such as Maybe/Option or Either.

I hate it for example when a C/C++ function has to return a -1 in case of failure.
The former - encryption is cheap and lost revenue is expensive.
Another annoying thing is that flaring pollutes more than running a peaker. Literally win/win.
Hi @Fradow, thank you so much for this kind message.
Yes I planned to allow for personnal preferences with the creation of a Closet section inside the app. But in the way you say I didn't think about it yet, it's true people can have different sensibility to temperature, I will try to get this information for my little algorithm to adapt the propositions.
Yes the swipe is something that could be awesome! I really want to implement it in the next version of the app.
Thanks again for your feedbacks!
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No, but he did write "There is at least one known exception", the misleading part.
Definitely on the other hand.

The writer, if anyone, could consider the future of stronger AI without the artificial stupidity. Then he, too, would stumble upon the great joys of folding multiple sources of falsity into a single tablet, a simulacrum.

I vouch for that uncertainty. We must agree to disagree to all have a look in the mirror, when we can't discern between AI and that. For any number (> 0, to be perfectly rational) of times, because it is a duty and a necessity.

However, I would not be so sure of myself today if it weren't for my wife; she keeps the existential dread out. I don't actually have a wife, but I do have a brain. One makes ends meet.

It's that simple.

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The age of artisanal stupidity, beginning the day with a goblet of poison :')
I don't understand the mocking. If they would get back in the SUVs anyway, then yes, they did something. Maybe tiny, but at least a part of a wider change. For some that straw, plastic bag, and a keep cup may be the way to start thinking of something bigger. If not, they saved a straw, a bag and a plastic cup - I'm happy they did. (just acknowledge it's a tiny part and move on)
Don't blame democracy for the sins of pseudodemocracy.
Another big difference is that native UIs are usually way more rigid than HTML. For example a scrolling view in majority of applications contains cells of either the same width or same height. The frameworks are optimised for this. HTML can’t put any expectations on content size by default.
Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of glaciated Ethiopia
Something like the PodRide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKq1fGtXFM, perhaps a little bit bigger.
Mass media feels like a direct impediment to democracy. When what they publish consist of the same crap all the time, it may seem as though that stuff carries more weight than it really does.

I wonder to what degree the mass media are responsible for the current political climate.
A hacking club could be set up around the same idea: 1 hour of coding in silence and no rules outside of that. Pizza and beer provided!
Can anyone shed light on what MITRE Corporation is and what kind of systems they build?

I could not find that information from Wikipedia or the official web page.
This is what it usually means when something is "Chrome-only" - developers like me usually try to stick to standards, but don't have the time or resources to do thorough testing of more than one browser. If it works on Firefox, that's gravy (and my current project does, from a cursory check), but I can't guarantee it in the same way that I can for Chrome.

i.e. this particular dev probably tried it on Firefox/Linux, or got bug reports, and just decided to put up a disclaimer.
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Needs HTTPS.
Also you can be an extrovert with severe social anxiety. At least that's what I consider myself, because I don't share any traits with introverts other than being considered shy, because I struggle in social situations.
I mean... It sounds like he was right, in the sense that sending passwords verbatim over HTTPS is completely normal and fine.

Obviously (not) logging cleartext passwords is the kind of thing you learn in Security 101.
I agree that having a battery which can be changed without opening the laptop case might require to make the laptop much thicker. However, Apple could do a lot to make battery service easier, so that anyone who has the correct screwdrivers can do it in 5 minutes. This would also cause more batteries to be exchanged for old age and thus further reduce the risk of fires.

And, as this recall was about the MacBook pro, there is much more space for battery placement than in the smaller devices.
WeWork files for long-awaited IPO
"If only hunger could be satisfied by such vigorous rubbing!"
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Thank you for your response.
Sorry for seeing it so late.
Apart from ATBS [1] I'd highly recommend Think Python [2] and its derived interactive version [3]

[1] https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

[2] https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

[3] https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.h...
WeWork Reveals IPO Filing
I'm from the Netherlands and I like this website. For us it can take months before you know how much your hospital visit will cost you. I broke my arm a couple of years ago and it took 6 months for the bill to arrive. I maxed out my €885 deductible, an additional €65 for uncovered medicine and €20 for the sling. I sort of knew this so I could save up for it but knowing this up front would have made me less nervous.
Alabama space center will manage NASA’s lunar lander program
It seems like everybody is an introvert these days, or is it just me that thinks that?
It is perfectly possible for younger generation to be less capable in something, to be more violent then previous generation and so on. And these developments can be objectively measured too.

Kids who are being raised in communism are bound to behave differently then the ones who are being raised for capitalism/democracy. For that matter, generation that grew pre-WWII and during it was raised completely differently and towards different values too - especially in Germany. They were in fact taught to obey much more. You was not in fact supposed to think for yourself, while in todays world it is more of an advantage.

The real question is how much of this complain is "real" and how much is just politics to push for changes author would like. And how much of what is real change is bad and how much is actually adaptation to more competitive more free world.
I had a chuckle while reading this: Switzerland is currently starting an evaluation of a new ground-to-air missile defense system.

The Swiss military decided that due to the enormous cost of the missiles, the evaluation will not include a firing test, but rely on a big questionnaire for the manufacturers of said system.
That material is covered in all STEM curriculums as part of the Calculus sequence.

For most students, the sublimeness of getting to the Reals and beyond tends to get lost in the grind of lectures, problem-sets and exams.

Feynman had a knack for getting straight to the essence of a subject, that's why people love him so much.

As for algebra + geometry with physics, there are people who have cut a path to that (see texts by Hestenes), unfortunately, it requires some mathematical sophistication and most curriculums simply don't have the time to reach that level for undergrads, given the way that they're structured.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/14/britai...