skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is how people get into this position “boss”. There might be, that one guy gets promoted, then department is growing and first guy makes his old buddy to a manager. He’s loyal and that’s good, but this new manager isn’t able to manage anything. There is also situation when owner of a small company retires and leaves his company to the kids. Horror for employees is about to start. There are no perfect bosses, that’s clear. But it’s time to leave when you see after couple years, that your boss is a real nutjob.
Astronauts successfully grow meat in space for the first time
I mean you could argue that about actually curing cancer and extending our average longevity, maybe there is some additional cellular state we aren’t aware of that is being selected out

So that’s not a good enough reason for me to say “lets not pursue these obvious ideas we already have the technology for”
So you think turkey bombards areas where they still suspect US troops to be around?

I understood the news so, that the US forces left. And if there are some remaining, than at know headquarters. But before they were patrolling the area together with SDF. They definitely withdraw from that.

CNN source, telling similar, but yes, aparrently also do not say anything about whether all US troops left the area.

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/syria-turkey-mi...
This is Vader is Luke's father old.
> Do you think a union would hold any power

Power over whom?

China? No.

US Companies? It depends on the context: how damaging would a strike be, and how much of the important people can you get to join?

In the context of pro gaming, I have serious doubts that any union is viable outside games with a franchise model. There are just too many hungry people and too few spots at the top to ever have a meaningful strike.

Even with a franchise, the result of a Union forming may just be the dissolving of the franchise model (or the failure of the game as an esport) rather than the Union achieving political power.
I don't suppose the lack of legitimacy of the CCP will make anyone more likely to recognize Taiwan? Anybody? Oh, well.
I don’t know about SNL, but the thing that pisses me off about Blizzard is that they have been parading around as a company that supports human rights. They recently held a pro LGBT+ event, they’ve held numerous humanitarian aid campaigns and they even have a statue outside their headquarters that features one of their core values “Every voice matters”.

You simply can’t do all that, and then go against democracy and basic human rights like this, and then expect people to not call you out for your bullshit.
> revealing that American values were never freedom and democracy

Dunno about you, but I draw the opposite conclusion. The reaction so far has made it clear that a lot of Americans value freedom and democracy, and that they see these corporate actions as unacceptable.
But aren't FIFA a bunch of morally bankrupt scam artists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA#Corruption
Which niche are you in if you don't mind me asking? It's only been a few months of me trying to get more involved in open source myself and I'm still trying to understand better how these ecosystem/communities work.
Or queened!
or show complete geopolitical weakness. I am hoping for the spine growth.
To love is to accept suffering.
it pushes innovators out only in the short term
Two considerations here:
1. Is the password private info that the employer shouldn't access?
2. If it is private but someone sees it anyway, should they act on it?

For (1): This is similar to any other private info stored on company equipment. The employer shouldn't actively access it in most cases, but it is generally expected that the employer will access if it has a good reason (in this case, detecting a weak password is a good reason).

For (2): This is similar to accidentally overhearing someone's private conversation. Normally the polite thing is to stop listening, but if you have reason to believe it indicates harmful behaviour (like in this case), the right thing to do is to report it.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say.

Do you feel the FSF is irresponsible? If not, what are you trying to say?

Can you share any specifics? What evidence do you have to back up your claims?
As corporate responses go this one is pretty activist. Compare and contrast with other weasely statements made by other CEOs lately.
So what's the policy proposal here?

Give some government agency release approval authority on all production software builds?

There is a gross mismatch between the pace of change and the pace of any available mechanism for regulation.

If this is indeed a problem, the solution will have to be a cultural one, not a technocratic one.

In the meantime, this kind of criticism makes me roll my eyes and wonder how much the author actually knows about how hardware and software are actually developed in the year 2019.
Password rule N+1: "A password must contain at least one word from our list of banned URLs."

At a former job I could not go to one of global corp Tata sites, because tata.
Summary: "We're sorry. Also, we're not stopping." Neoliberals always align with the fascists. Profits over people.
The thing is that the mechanics of how to implement a cryptocurrency are changing rapidly, and the most common cryptocurrencies still have major technological flaws, and I'd hate to see a state enshrine those flaws into law.

Proof-of-work has a bunch of issues surrounding electricity usage, transaction scalability, and latency. It's not acceptable for a commonly-used currency to take 11 minutes to confirm transactions, nor is it acceptable for it to use more electricity than Ireland to do so. There's a bunch of research on fixing this, from various proof-of-stake systems to new consensus protocols to Nano's precomputed proof-of-work to Iota's tangle. But none of them have the track record that Bitcoin does, nor do we know if they're secure under concerted attack, nor do we know whether they'll lead to eventual centralization of power and the ability of a few actors to rewrite the ledger. I'd like to see more experimentation in this space and some actual usage with special-purpose applications before it gets rolled out by fiat across the world.

The other thing I'd really like to see is automated central banking. I don't buy the "you never need a central bank; let's just have a deflationary currency!" arguments, but at the same time central banks have a lot of problems with measurement, fairness, and incentives. I'd love to see the whole institution replaced by a computer that automatically maintains stable prices by giving money to everyone to expand the money supply and sucking it out (taxation?) to contract it, which was Milton Friedman's original idea when he came up with monetarism. To my knowledge nobody's really building this, though, and it requires solving some thorny problems in how exactly you measure price levels.
A collection of mainstream news sources, various government reports, and speculation.
Yep, we don't have to worry about our allies, who we have encouraged to be where they are in Syria, who helped us in iraq and syria, are going to be decimated, causing untold amounts of new refugee crises. Nothing for us to be involved with. We have no part in this happening.

But in reality we did. We invaded Iraq. We let chaos reign there, in major part because we disbanded the Iraqi army and did nothing to replace it, remember there were no real plans for the post iraq world. We caused this.

Yes, before us there were endless warms between confusing groups. But we made it worse.
Your opinions are interesting. it deserves a thread of its own posted on a real forum, and I love to continue to discussion.

> By contrast, the Chinese Wiki gets to party like its 1992.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

On one hand, I'd say it's a gross mischaracterization of the Chinese Wikipedia and the Web in general. Many millions of people now has unprecedented accessed to the Web, and due to the current political atmosphere, various forms of populism has reached its full heights online, not unlike the English-speaking world. Wikipedia is not free from it.

Meanwhile, I'd your description is somewhat true. Due to the cultural barrier created by the Great Firewall, if you are a daily viewer of Wikipedia, it's likely that you are already a more academically-inclined individual. It's even more so if you have an account and make edits.

If the Great Firewall doesn't exist, and the Chinese Wikipedia has high popularity, I guess the community's attitudes towards newcomers will be very difference.
Why Train What You Can Code? Rekall: A Compositional Approach to Video Analysis
If it was public I highly doubt there would be such efficiency.

If I was a judge on the panel and I knew there will be little to no public scrutiny, and even when there is scrutiny like the article it zero details are given and no punishments, I wouldn't try nearly as hard to protect people's rights above everything.

Especially if the only people arguing for it is the government, there's no one defending the people except the judges themselves. All day long they live in a security bubble listening the most paranoid people in the country.

It's just too convenient of an excuse to say that they are simply getting it right every time so nothing to see here.

Secret courts are never an adequate solution IMO.
"All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are."

That is such a beautiful quote.
No way is Lean more evolved than Coq.
People really need to break down salary analysis by region.

If a skill commands a higher salary, does that mean I can actually get paid for it more in Houston, or does it mean that it's only used in tech hubs which pay way more to keep up with cost of living?
Almost all Americans can agree on freedom of speech.
The west should quit pretending that the majority of Chinese hate the CCP.
Thanks, I thought it could be fixed somehow
Why is this just now being called out? The current administration is doing the same as the Obama administration.
How do you deal with auto-complete propagating spelling errors?
I notice more spelling errors showing up in our code base and I think it's because auto-complete/Intellisense. When you write a function definition with incorrect spelling (e.g. FindBeginining()) people will happily hit tab or alt-space and infuse it into their code.

It's bugging me but I seem to be the only one.

Do people have rules about weeding out those errors, running spell-checkers on their code or doing code reviews?
Cutesy names for your employees/coworkers always comes off as creepy and cult like to me. Huge red flag when choosing where to work.
i have all of the records, yes suing is definitely a consideration at the moment, the new ceo has promised to find middle ground / some sort of resolution after devcon
With Windows Virtual Desktop, the bad old days are coming back
The NBA said "the person can say what he wants on Twitter, even if we don't like it". Blizzard banned the player for a year, took his earnings from the tournament, and fired the casters that were interviewing him.

Of course there's nary a peep about Blizzard.
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Very good point. On the other hand, I'm a somewhat passionate proponent of the mentality because it provides more frequent feedback loops and to me it seems to effect more actionable change in some situations. But you're right, I hadn't thought before that it's inherently much more flawed (read: unfair) than formal voting systems.
Nasty tribalism in that part of the world is holding everyone there back. However, they are not intelligent enough to understand this, they are just undermining each other.
lol i don't doubt you
Yeah, the iPhone is as much someone's identity now as it is a product.
Anyone can be a victim. Thank you for sharing!
Interesting thoughts. I see the future of transportation being owned completely by big tech - Personal Mobility as a Service style
> The player politicized their neutral platform. The NBA fined players that wouldn't stand for the anthem for the same reason.

Standing for the national anthem is not a politically neutral action. FORCING players to stand for the national anthem is not a politically neutral action.

It's common, but that doesn't mean it's neutral.
I was being vague on purpose. He was doing more than FWU.
That seems incredibly naive. of course they do have the incentives, wanting to get rich. They do have the economic freedom, at least enough to do very creative software and hardware engineering. The evidence is there.
"token sale" SAFT whatever it's all the same thing
Why not make an anti-spam/harassment ITC bot, and Take Back The Web from Slack?

It's really hard for me to understand what Mozilla's mission is these days.
Not recently.
Very slippery slope, friend. Practically anything can be construed as political views and/or speech. You're asking for a police state.

Free speech protects you from the government, not your peers.
The last XBL bindings have been removed from Firefox
FSF fell for the hit piece.
Presumably the $500,000 in donation specifically to help victims of controversial ICE practices will have significantly more beneficial impact than the $200,000 in GitHub services they'll provide will do harm. And arguably, it means they're taking a loss on this particular business to both uphold their commitment to their customers and uphold their values regarding immigration practices.

Given the level of complexity of the issue, I'd say it's at least... not a bad attempt at walking a very narrow line here.
This is Vox, so don't waste breath looking for a policy proposal.
> And you're displacing fossil fuel use with a material that can be recycled, so instead of constantly mining for fossil fuels, we can just extract the material once.

I was wondering about the recycling aspects of Lithium.

According to Wikipedia, it's not a thing (yet?), because mining lithium is 5x cheaper than recycling. But they're working on it...
Sorry, wasn't clear and was really making two points that are tangentially related:

1 - highlighting that total revenue generated directly impacts the amount of money available to players (as in there is a legal document outlining this)

2 - Ownership groups and the league as a whole have made many decisions based on an assumption of 49% of future revenues generated, so reductions in that future revenue stream are a lot riskier than "we just won't make as much profit." It's possible that for some teams, the reduction in revenue could actually force them to operate substantially in the red.

Once again, just want to be clear that I'm just pointing out the actual financial situation and that I still think the NBA should and could call China's bluff. It would likely sting in the short term, but China has invested so much in building up the NBA domestically that it will be really difficult to just delete it without any kind of backlash.

Long-term, I imagine the NBA is going to put more resources into the Indian market to reduce their reliance on a single overseas market.
He was doing a lot more than just the password. I was being vague on purpose. The password just exposed him.
I have had multiple great bosses, a few meh ones, and a few ones bad enough I quit.

Good bosses were involved, communicative, and supportive. Bad bosses were absent and/or acted like obstacles.
The China market is often framed as a mortal necessity for companies that have no more room to grow stateside.

What we forget is that this assumes infinite corporate growth, which is literally impossible, despite being demanded by shareholders. We need to drop this notion that every single year has to result in growth. Corporations no longer have the option of settling into a market segment and developing a harmonious relationship with society. They grow like cancers, consuming everything they possibly can ad infinitum, and this unquenchable hunger is the only reason they find themselves making compromises to appease China.
you can also have up to 10,000 TestFlight users now i believe...
In my experience, getting repeatedly lucky seems to be more a function of how often you put yourself out there rather than anything else
I agree. I would say that it's not a mistake that political views are left out. Race, color, sex, and national origin are things that you are, not things you believe. Religion is the exception and I'm not sure how I feel about it being included. I think that it's important to not discriminate merely because someone follows a different religion, but some religions have some pretty awful beliefs. I certainly wouldn't be comfortable working with someone involved with WBC.
So yes, I have this crazy idea that it’s a “virtue” to present facts when it comes to stuff like insulin.

How much “usefulness” are you “getting done” by spreading scientifically proven false information?
"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole."

I don't think it's unfair to presume that the author wasn't considering "people" to be "nations" in this context.
Bye, Github!

I'm quite sure concentration camps were originally more "wholesome" than murdering endless legions of innocent people... How on earth can you in one sentence talk about child trafficking being bad and then know that children are being abused by the same fucking institution that's supposed to protect them?

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm kind of hurt probably from my own naivete, Github ain't any different than anywhere else-- all hail, profits before people.

Canceling my private repos later today.
WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
Been an Android users since the first Android phone (HTC G1), before that I was on Windows Mobile. If Apple opened things up I would switch in a heartbeat. I doubt it will happen though.
I would love to see protesters at Blizzcon wearing the HK protester attire.
> See the differences?

Yes. But I think the exclusion you're talking about is a good thing, IMO, and not really what I'm talking about. I've literally added citations to scholarly research, or made a word a hyperlink to a related Wikipedia article and had them deleted without explanation.

Ironically, I've added a few whole pages and had them go largely unchallenged--I suspect this is because adding pages is a less visible event to those watching a topic.

I don't think Wikipedia should lower their standards. It may be that there was some very good reason my changes were reverted. My underlying complaint is really just that there's a lack of visibility into why changes were reverted.
It's possible to discern "privacy" VPNs like PIA or an OpenVPN/SSH tunnel to your house from corporate ones like Cisco Anyconnect, etc.
So RMS resigned from the FSF and his role(s) at MIT, but he's still on with GNU?
I agree that Blizzard is reasonable to want to limit political speech, including speech related to Hong Kong, on their event broadcast.

However I think the response was totally out of scale. They banned the player from competing for a year, rescinded winnings, deleted the VOD of the event, and fired both casters who were interviewing him. Would that have happened if a player on stream said something else political and inflammatory? No way.

Example: https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/20/16913072/overwatch-league-... $2000 fine and a 4 day ban

An $x000 fine and y game suspension is a punishment in line with this offense in literally every professional sports league.
Not OP, but at my job, managers are fairly hands off.

> What happens if you say "no" to them?

It's not adversarial, it's a meeting of the minds to ensure we deliver the best product to our customer.

> who fires who in such structure

Termination is usually Director-level call, Managers are mostly for other HR items.
The rationale for removing it: https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/text/...
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It's better than "Gits".
I watched a variation on this in a lecture hall, when the head of school attempted to log into the system and types UsernamePassword into the username field with a big projector running.
I take it you missed the part where I said " None of t hat seems like something that would require anything more than an extension that handled additional metadata"? I'm not saying don't add additional data that can be fast indexed and trackable, I'm just not sure why it requires a rewrite from the ground up and isn't additional data that is tracked tacked onto the file metadata. I mean, what is that not going to be able to support that just the new metadata would? The difference is whether you also have a hierarchical location stored or not.

The only thing that comes to mind is ACL tracking and it getting a bit complex from different access types, but I can think of a few options to work with that already.
That... doesn't really seem the same.
Tangential but sometimes it is interesting to use a passphrase that you are ashamed of, that way you are never tempted to reveal it.
This article is a straw man argument that conflates ideas that there is an inevitable progress in technology, like Moore's law, with a claim that you can do anything you want with technology because it's inevitable.

This article is anti-technology, pro-regulation propaganda.
For all its flaws, innocent until proven guilty is still the fairest justice system. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a high standard of proof.

Because we use this standard, it is natural for people to look for reasonable doubts when talking about accusations.

That is how western society works. And for very good reasons.
When I saw your comment my first thought was "Bluetooth" but in the context of the article, I can't figure it out either.

The Microsoft Word example is terrible too. The ribbon didn't fix anything, there's still too much to fit on screen at once. The old menus and toolbars were at least scannable, since everything lined up; the ribbon requires much more hunting to find what you need.
How does this "outrage machine" affect the actions of the Chinese government? If people get outraged enough, will they vote against the communist party?
> If the precident is set for breakable encryption/back doors, this will absolutely be used to "supoena" people's "brain information" in that context.

I believe this would be a terrible idea because people's recollection of events isn't going to magically improve just because someone connects to their brains directly instead of asking them some questions under oath. Add dreams and other literally crazy things that go in people's minds and there's a big filtering problem. Judicial systems that take "brain dumps" to be the truth would remove the need for human judges, and so we'd end up with a "Minority Report" plus "1984" plus "Skynet"/"Terminator" situation...people's brains being dumped (or "hacked") all the time and any information in that dump used against them to detect pre-crime and stop it. The logical conclusion is that all humans in the future are going to be in prisons run by robots, unless they're wiped out like we've seen in many books and movies already.
US pushes to fund western rivals to Huawei
Interesting that the stock price of Activision Blizzard is basically unfazed.
> Such a secret key would be very valuable and it's almost inevitable that someone with access to it will be willing to sell it to criminals for the sort of money those criminals will be able to acquire with it

Wouldn't a similar argument apply to the secret keys at the roots of Microsoft's and Apple's and many other organization's code signing systems? And the secret keys at the root of SSL security?

We've already apparently decided that it is OK to rest our security on the idea that careful organizations can keep secret keys secret.
Associated Press appears to have live updates here: https://apnews.com/5bf8e9bfa25c45ef9d4dfcef352e26a3
Damore was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes - even he confirmed as much with the press. Ironically enough, you can find that information and the memo through a quick Google search.