skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, an employer has to make the content available in some form in a place where employees will see it, not just anywhere. Traditionally it's a wall display of posters in a cafeteria or break room. Trying to fulfill the requirement by putting the posters up in a broom closet of the CEO's office would be forbidden.

I think the employee has a point with the pop-up. Wall posters aren't a good way to reach technology workers. Some kind of digital notification like a pop-up or regular reminder email would be more sensible. Remote employees can't see a poster at the office, for instance.
Amazing amount of cognitive dissonance in these comments. Simultaneously happy to pat oneself on the back for automating some task yet thinking same can’t happen to you because ... ?
Don’t spear & shield yourself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_force_paradox
I taught my kids compassion about homeless people. (I have experience with it)

But I don't want them going near crazy and/or drug addicts that will rape or rob them.

Street smarts are just as important as compassion.
That'd be pretty funny :D

Like for example, if the entry for root in the joke /etc/shadow was the hash of "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!"
It does: https://support.1password.com/explore/linux/

There is even a cli: https://1password.com/downloads/command-line/

Not having a native gui is not the same as "not working".
They did however take $200 million in VC funding in November: https://blog.1password.com/accel-partnership/
So are you guys seeing unionization efforts picking up any steam?

I've seen it reach the collective conscious more in the last two years in San Francisco, but I'm not at a FAANG to see if its really permeating. As in at a bar or courtyard it might not be the most outlandish topic of conversation, compared to an idea immediately scoffed at since all of us made conscious financial decisions to pursue high paying jobs without union dues. People are curious about the benefits.

My only observation is that multiple of the largest publicly listed companies in the world are right here, and that the high compensation has nothing to do with what's possible. If compensation reached ratios with housing that haven't been seen since the 1980s, then the compensation would still be substantially higher on average than it is today. For reference, it means fully owning your house in 5 years. Not the 8-11 year situation that even highly compensated FAANG workers experience. But compensation may or may not improve with unionization, with the reality that higher comp outliers might disappear. The employees may have more say in other perks such as the company towns their employers have created in south bay. Overall at this point I am seeing net benefits, distinct from the public sector blue-collar work that unions have become associated with.
That’s actually a good idea. It was simpler to set up the Javascript redirect. It I were to go that way, I would probably redirect IE6 to a “neverssl” subdomain (which also would be useful for dealing with WiFi capture portals).
A pro-union statement may be a "political message", but it is also content that has special protections in labor law. As the article says, as part of a legal settlement over alleged labor violations, Google is required to print out and post a statement of employee rights [0] that begins, "FEDERAL LAW GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO: Form, join, or assist a union;...Act together with other employees for your benefit and protection;"

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/googles-settlement-on-speech...
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even at the lowest setting the world gdp still shows an exponential growth. doesn't seem sustainable to me, at some point efficiency in industrialized country has to flatten out, even if just because there are so many customers to sell products to so there's an equilibrium somewhere to be reached, especially since increase efficiency suppresses wages reducing demand.
This opinion presumes anything can adequately solve the problem without significant downsides.
This is brilliant and I can see so many use-cases for this in particular across manufacturing, travel, transport and logistics in heavy asset maintenance organisations - very many organisations pay over the odds for such sensors that don't give this level of flexibility, cost and scale. Unsure if the product has a hardware platform interface for direct integration, however that would be great to plug into existing asset management systems.
A Guide to Linux Privilege Escalation (2018)
It's significant that she did this on her own. You need multiple people for protected concerted activity.
This sounds like you're saying that 50 years ago there was a single climate model, upon which significant consensus among scientists had been reached, that predicted a 1C temperature rise. I've read quite a few articles and discussions on this topic but have never heard this before.

Am I misunderstanding you? If not, do you have a link that discusses this?
Would you care to educate me on why that is bad thing? (I'm a Jr web dev, it's not that obvious to me, although I suspect such a 'graphics-first' approach on the web leads to difficulties with resizing, responsive design, etc?)
Is Twitter Down in Europe?
Man, I disagree. For large enterprises, six months is a ridiculous pace to package/distribute a new major version. The fact that it is just enhancements does not matter. It may seem simple, but most implementations have that integer as part of the deployment path. The aggressive deprecation/removal in the 'major' six month cycle has been rough. If this is my local workstation, no worries. It creates chaos on work systems, however.

(Did a decade+ at Oracle, and now at a shop three times its size. You should understand inflexibility and moving at the speed of business. :P )

There still are quarterly patches to the LTS releases (7u241, 8u231, 11.0.5), with the next batch due the second week of January for all the LTS versions - 7/8/11 on the Oracle side, 8/11 on the Adopt OpenJDK, and other OpenJDK implementations possibly supporting all three. Almost every other organization I've talked with is sticking to the LTS, with plans to jump from JDK 11 to JDK 17 when it comes around. (and hearing the woes of all the folks still trying to get past JDK 8)
A lot of comments mentioning alternative password managers.

TFA:first line

> LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity,

LogMeIn is remote access tool, not password management for websites.
Sure, this observation is not a definitive proof, it is more along the evidential lines.

There is also a class of deciders that can decide for an infinitely large class, which cannot be decided computationally, yet is not complete. I'd say humans most likely fall in this class, since they far exceed anything we can do with the best algorithms we've dreamed up, yet also cannot solve everything.

Of course, you can always say there is a yet undiscovered algorithm to fill the gap between state of the art and human performance, but at some point that hypothesis is less well supported by the evidence than the uncomputable mind hypothesis, and I'd say we are well past that point.
Why would your package manager require root to install packages? Can you not perform user-only installs?
The (IMO fantastic) Android app can pull your password file directly from Google Drive and other cloud providers. I'd assume the iOS app does the same.
> KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows

> LogMeIn, Inc. is a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration, IT management and customer engagement

Totally separate products?
What Gödel does is the following: he constructs a sequence of symbols which is not decidable (i.e. there is no “proof” of it or of its negation).

Then (and this is super important) he explains that IN THE STANDARD INTERPRETATION that sequence of symbols can be translated to “the sequence of symbols corresponding to the number XXXXX is a statement which has no proof” (and has to be true) and that very sequence corresponds to that number XXXXX.

But those two things (the construction and the interpretation) are totally separated, and goes to great lengths to keep them so.
> I don't know about you, but "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities." seems pretty political to me.

It's about as political as informing someone they have a right to be paid the minimum wage.
You cite the Wall Street Journal as a respected institution, but I know I've seen them do this. Part of the problem with this type of thing is that publications often go out of their way to erase the existence of an aritcle if they intend to delete it.

Here's an example of an articles scrubbed from existence, including from the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170301000000*/http://www.wsj.c...

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/hillary-clinton-vs-foia-144...

It's also unavailable, but searchable via google. Google simply shows a 404 page from the WSJ as the top result. The WSJ has never formally retracted this either.

Now since this is the WSJ, obviously the article was copied wholesale and pasted into blogs and the like regardless, so it can't be completely scrubbed. As a matter of fact, a search for:

"The filing was a response to a FOIA lawsuit brought in March by conservative organization Citizens United" will bring up many blogs with the full text of the article, but that doesn't change the fact that WSJ silently scrubbed the article from the internet archive, their own website, and the google cache.
The farmer replaced the hunter gatherer but not with a robot, the work was still done by humans, and in fact they continued to hunt.
The industrial revolution too, automated parts of labor but didn’t take the human out of the equation.
This is a different situation though, it’s not equatable in the same sense. The problem with this type of automation is that the early bird will inadvertently kick the ladder; hopefully won’t turn into a feudal like society where the lower class entertains because this, as it may sound decent, is in fact a power imbalance that could easily turn into abuse. History shows us time and time again power patterns. And we should not be only hopeful it will not turn into that, we should actively make sure it won’t. In my honest opinion.
I believe it's free now - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure...

Though hopefully they simplify it for cases such as yours.

Putting Cloudflare in front is also another cheap option.
If they really fired her for just this bagatelle, it speaks more against Google.

I don't know why there is this pervasive desire to strangle developers. This is a pretty recent phenomena in my opinion and certainly nothing close to a requirement to develop great software.

If I were an employee at Google, actions such as this would let me seriously consider to look for other work. The requirement for the code review for internal tools already seems awefully restrictive.
Just noticed, it's down for me as well.
Almost irrespective of the website that it was triggered on, it represents a huge waste of her time, as well as that of the hapless employees forced to click through her automatically-created popups.

It also weaponizes the internal browser to advocate for political causes.

It shows such stunningly bad judgement that they are entirely justified in firing her.
“ However, the real gold for marketers is from word-of-mouth discussions. Those conversations with your friends when you recommend a TV show, a brand of clothing, or share a news report. This is the most valuable kind of marketing.”

That’s saying quite a lot.
https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2019/02/the-curse-of-milk...

It's already posted.
> It's taking features than have shown good cost/benefit, and not taking those that haven't.

I actually wonder if it's more taking features that have proven sexy, and ignoring the rest. I still think that the single biggest source of verbosity - and design damage in some of the newer APIs such as streams - is that Java hasn't implemented extension methods. That costs me time and money on a regular basis. By comparison, the cost of fall through by default in switch statements is that I have to use a linter. Which I already have to do for a fistful of other reasons, anyway, so, while this -> operator certainly scratches an itch I've had, it doesn't move the needle much in terms of productivity or code quality.

edit: Should add, in C#'s defense - .NET's lightweight concurrency was initially implemented as a library. C#'s async/await came later, and is just syntactic sugar as far as I've ever been able to tell.
Parent's complaint is specifically that he can't remember which books he read.
Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math
That resonates... I'm actually afraid of what I may become taking that path. :)
I share my KeePass file using a Dropbox like service. I use Keepass2Android as I run android. Works really well.
I run KeepassXC on Linux and Mac.
I'm not sure this is entirely true. While I agree that we might be automating our work away, it's not zero-sum. New technologies and industries will develop creating new spaces to automate. There are tons of things that computer scientists in the 70s couldn't even dream of. I'm sure there will be things we couldn't even imagine in 50 years. I'm not saying the rates of growth and decay are the same, but it's definitely not just all decay.
It’s just down period.
The caching problem can be fixed through other means. Signed HTTP Exchanges[0] seem like a promising solution.

[0]: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...
It didn't end well, but, the majority of people who are homeless are invisible, they don't appear to be any different than the average city person. The people who are being complained about are by in large people who are in need of public health services that have been slashed since the 1980s in the United States or never existed. I don't have a solution
It sounds like she went through a code review process for the change, would that count?
And they talked about why in more detail here: https://rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david-tea...

Edit: Fixed typo. Would also like to add that their use of VC money appears less risky than one could assume.
China has 90% of their funds in US bonds by now (called dollars), and what good does that do them ?
In denmark we have something called Pressenævnet (Danish Press Council), they can not fine companies but they can force them to have a have an article that says that there were an error in their article, they can also send them on to other institutions if they think that it was criminal negliance. They also post all the cases publicly after they are done. What they can do is defined in the "The Media Liability Act", and what they see as pad jounlalism is defined in the "The Press Ethical Rules" both are linked below if you are interested.

Example of case [english]: https://www.pressenaevnet.dk/case-example/

The Media Liability Act: https://www.pressenaevnet.dk/media-liability-act/

The Press Ethical Rules: https://www.pressenaevnet.dk/press-ethical-rules/
LogMeIn owns LastPass.
Unions are are one of the largest political forces in a lot of areas.
I believe GP is referencing the fact that LogMeIn also owns Lastpass.

Edit: Looks like a million and one other people replied at the exact same time I did, sorry. :3
Researchers find blood test may reveal a person's age
If you're trying to get senate.gov onto the HSTS preload list, you have to redirect http://senate.gov to https://senate.gov before https://www.senate.gov

Maybe their tester applies the same criteria - although to me that feels a bit unfair...
LogMeIn owns LastPass
Ask HN: How are companies/governments being infected with ransomware?
Companies, health providers, local governments... The list goes on and on

What is causing these entities to be targeted? Why not target companies with much more money?

How are they getting infected? Why???
`this` in JavaScript: finally an explanation that makes sense
The company owns LastPass, so it’s several things, actually.
The tool was for privacy and security, not advocacy right? Sounds like she abused her position as a security engineer.
Again, labor/union messaging has protections that political campaigning does not. If you were a manager and you told your employee to throw away the pro-union pamphlet that you taped to your cubicle wall, your manager would be putting the company in legal trouble.
People are acting like higher ups essentially approved this because of a code review process.

The logical leaps people are willing to take because they think the ends justify the means is interesting.
The headline probably needs qualification that the fine was in Europe, not the U.S. I was shocked that any U.S. regulator would attempt to push against the First Amendment in this way. It's a different story with more context.
> LogMeIn is remote access tool

LogMeIn the company owns LastPass [1], a popular password manager.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass
I assume that she was an at-will employee, and this does not fall under the rubric of 'protected activities', so they can fire her for any activity.
I'm still not sure what to think of that.

I don't think there's much of any "evidence" to prove it and a hack like that is pretty.

Then again nobody ... did anything after that either and everyone responded kinda awkwardly about it.

I can't help but wonder if they got it dead wrong, but anyone clarifying or suing to prove otherwise would expose something else and so ... nobody talks?
Print out and post is not the same thing as injecting JS in the browser. Was she part of the legal or compliance team?
I read Seeing Like A State exactly around this time last year, and boy did I enjoy it. It somehow went well while reading Nassim Taleb’s Skin In The Game. One was an application of the other.
These popups are security popups, the ones you would get from your antivirus/firewall and carry a certain Management endorsement weight.

It's not a free for all space to put random messages into.
LogMeIn owns and runs LastPass.
They acquired LastPass in 2015.
from an outsider perspective i can say that to me This is a security tool and it should show popup for restricted sites and/or flagged sites. if its intent was a general notification extension like office emails etc , nobody would have cared. But since it is a security tool even if your action is not malicious the expectation of security only updates is breached, which is what i believe is the core issue. More so the employee is a security engineer, the fact that this is most likely something they would be aware of and proceeded to do this change anyway is something which is extreme-ly worrying. It raises all sorts of questions like how safe is google infrastructure from rouge employees and how does this affect data collected by google and handled by googlers.
Not compared to business interests and certainly nowhere near comparable to their political force in European democracies where sector wide bargaining isn’t banned.
What is the purview of a code review? Is it only about making sure the code meets technical standards, or are reviewers expected to comment holistically?
Thanks for the link. This section caught my attention:

> I was interrogated about separate other organizing activities, and asked (eight times) if I had an intention to disrupt the workplace. The interrogations were extremely aggressive and illegal. They wouldn’t let me consult with anyone, including a lawyer, and relentlessly pressured me to incriminate myself and any coworkers

Sounds more foxconn than Google to me...
ye, can't load anything. few minutes ago it said twitter is over capacity. did pewdiepie break it? lmao
”Over capacity”.
There's a lot of other reasons stuff is expensive in NY. Europe is heavily unionized and somehow they still manage to build subways at a lot less than $1 billion per mile.
This isn't how extension development works? The APIs for calling the notify methods already exist. Depending on how their tools work the diff could have been

1. A list of one website on which to notify

2. The static content to display on that website in a predefined (provided by the browser) popup context.

While I grant what you're saying is possible given the dev's access rights, it's not required for the functionality described in the article.
LogMeIn owns LastPass, a password manager
What value of Climate Sensitivity is assumed in the model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity

Edit: Found it in sec. 9.2 in the manual. It's 3.

https://www.climateinteractive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/1...
> Just like imo we’re going to use every drop of oil for plastics, lubricants, composites, military and legacy applications.

Still a pretty open question. Those uses are powerfully subsidized by the fuel applications- aside from military use, all the things you listed add up to <2% of all oil. There is a massive oversupply.

Oil processing involves reforming molecules catalytically into other forms of hydrocarbons. It's not just separation. If fossil prices increased substantially, it would be very difficult to predict if natural hydrocarbon sources would be cheaper. Natural oils are quite cheap but narrowly distributed, unlike crude oil, and form different mixes when reformed by various processes.

The bottom line you should take away is that we absolutely don't need oil. We could replace it totally with natural sources using essentially our current product chain (eg steam cracking facilities) at a very reasonable cost. It's far and away the smallest problem with not using oil. To put that in context, it's a smaller problem than making steel without coal/coke, which is a solved problem. India makes nearly all their steel with natural gas.

I'll also point out that silicones are much better products for most lubricant and plastic/rubber uses. Oil is cheap and usually inferior, except for most engineering plastics.
> IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company

Anyone know the likely reasons your average Googler might have visited this consulting firm's site? Like, was Google sending employees to it for some reason (why?), or would it have just been by chance or because they read Google hired them in the news and wanted to see what they were up to?
I've insistently read these note-taking AskHN entries in pursuit of something akin to TaskWarrior[1] and TimeWarrior[2] but for notes/journaling, all command-line, portable, fault-tolerant and time-tested.

At one point I thought about building one in Python, but it seems like jrnl devs were thinking alike and made it happen.

@cbanek thanks for sharing this golden nugget as it will help me dump my disorganized brain somewhere for persistence and search-ability.

[1] https://taskwarrior.org
[2] https://timewarrior.net
That extension is not limited to privacy and security concerns. One of the sites the extension warns about is Dropbox, and few people would seriously describe Dropbox as inherently insecure or as violating privacy. What is true is that some interactions with Dropbox may be in breach of other existing policies that Googlers must follow, such as wrt. proprietary information and the like. Googlers are also required not to violate labor law.
No syncing built in, it just works on a file and you can use whatever service you want to sync that file. Most of the dropbox-style services will work (although on mobile sandboxing can sometimes be an issue).

On Linux keepassxc is great, with strong browser integration and even has a good extension for integration with ssh-agent.

I don't use iOS myself, but a quick search shows Strongbox as a decent client. On Android I use Keepass DX which is very good by the sync support isn't there. Keepass2Android is better on that front, but has a much worse UI and no support for the new biometric auth process, only the old fingerprint-specific one.