skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well she cannot babysit every employee, and I understand her and understand your point too. All are valid.

She needs to save the company and that's her choice.

If you work for Yahoo you choice is either [optional: bitch and] comply or find a better place to work :)
Good for you. I think the great thing about "strong copyright" is that authors can opt out of it. That way the attitudes of majority do not get pushed down to everybodys throat. "Strong copyright" provides a foundation on which different groups can establish different copyright policies (such as copyleft or public domain) freely.

In comparison you can't build alternative copyright policies with "weak copyright" because there is no control. Instead a general policy is forced on all work.

I believe that choice is good, and that is why I am pro-copyright. You are free to relinquish control over your work, but allow me to make my own choices on my work.
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Yes - also even a user who only wants to use client side Java outside of the browsers may be in trouble because of the automatically installed browser plugins that are part of the Java installation process.

It's incredible how far and fast client side Java has fallen because of Oracle's tepid response to security concerns. I've developed many internal apps for client-side Java and supported them for over a decade. I don't think I'll develop another.
Google Chrome, under Settings, Advance Settings, Content Settings.

I have all mine ether set to not allow or only after click to play.
> An interesting example appears in SQLite's copyright page [1]. They acknowledge that, even though the code has been placed in the public domain, some legal teams may advise their companies to purchase a license.

This is very interesting. Can someone here please elaborate on it?
> Most estimates put the number of remote workers between 300 and 500.

Which estimates are those?

Overall, this post reeks of victimizing.

> So yes, remote workers are keeping Yahoo from being the “absolute best place to work”.

Stop attacking a strawman! Nobody's arguing that remote workers are the one stumbling block between Yahoo and mountains of glory. But there's clearly a culture that needs to be attacked, and if one of the elements of that culture is that remote workers ARENT LOGGING INTO THE VPN then maybe Yahoo shouldn't have remote workers for the time being.

It's also cute that DHH chose not to disclose that he's releasing a book about remote work (which, you know, might be a slight conflict of interest.)
A well-worded email claiming to contain a PDF CV of an ambitious graduate could easily be opened by a CTO.

Or "Check out my blog... (I specialise in Javascript so please turn NoScript off.)" The possibilities of social engineering are scary.
I see your wonky authentication bypass and raise you a local privilege escalation that is 100% reliable on every distro that's shipped a 3.3-3.8 kernel (last 18 months or so)

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/260061

bad times :/
The author is just as out of touch as Mayer is in her morale-killing decision. The author seems to have a bone to pick with those of us who would dare to have a life outside of work. If I earn a seven-figure salary and bonuses out the ass, then I'll happily put in more hours. Especially if the livelihood of others depends on my performance. However, in a wage-slave position, expecting double (or triple) output from employees is idiotic and borderline evil.
When to send marketing emails
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Then Perl and Scheme are more similar than I thought!

See http://scheme-reports.org/2009/working-group-1-charter.html
I think Greeks + Romans + Indians increases the odds significantly.

The Indians had an understanding of the required math...

1. Binary numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number#History
2. Zero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number)#India
3. A brief history of Indian mathematics: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Indians.html

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I'll be honest, I was really hoping in the middle of looking through this that it was going to burst into a game of Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego.....
So there are two ways I can see to fix this. Either make setting the time always requires a password, or, add a signal that time-sensitive processes can listen to that gets tripped whenever time is altered.
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should that control extend to the right to make further copies?

Sure, they bought it, it's theirs. That question makes as much sense as asking if car owners should be able to give lifts with his own car.

you've effectively eliminated the creator's control over their work

No, the creator did that by relinquishing part of his work to other(s).
His hardware needs are pretty spartan, but he needs: an iphone, PDA, laptop with an ssd, computer, usbsticks, a kindle and an ipad. I guess I don't want to know what non-spartan is. Or was this some obscure form of sarcasm?
Gruber summed up this sentiment as “Yahoo employees have
been allowed to work remotely, and they have not
excelled”.
In other words, Yahoo is a rudderless basket case, so
it must be because of those 2-4% of the work force who are
“goofing off”. Heh.

How the hell did he contort himself into inferring that from what Gruber wrote?!
Why else would you have a vasectomy or tubal ligation if not for contraceptive reasons?
I know it as "Glück ist Erreichtes minus Erwartetes.", pretty much the same.
I think this is probably the best point to be made over Yahoo's change in policy -- there just aren't that many remote workers at Yahoo. With the emphasis they'd put on this particular change in policy, it's natural for people to conclude that Yahoo thinks that having everyone come into the office to work is a significant change necessary to right the ship. When so few workers are remote, can that really be the case? Does Yahoo know what they're doing?

I don't know the answers, but those are the questions running through my mind right now.
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The space industry's go-to place for minute by minute updates on any launch is Spaceflight Now:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/status.html

Here's the last couple of updates:

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013
1527 GMT (10:27 a.m. EST)
"It appears that although it achieved Earth orbit, Dragon is experiencing some kind problem right now," said John Insprucker, SpaceX's Falcon 9 product manager. We'lll have to learn about the nature of what happened. According to procedure, we expect a press conference to be held a few hours from now. At that time, further info may be available."

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013
1524 GMT (10:24 a.m. EST)
ANOMALY. SpaceX is reporting some type of anomaly on the Dragon spacecraft. Deployment of the solar arrays was supposed to occur at T+plus 11 minutes, 45 seconds, but on-board cameras did not show the panels unfurl as planned.
SpaceX's webcast cut away from the solar array view and went to a slate.
Amazing how we the more we advance civilization, the better we are at ignoring 10,000 years of human wisdom. I suppose it's never a bad thing when someone rediscovers these tidbits for themselves.
Oh don't get me wrong, I know if I was in any sort of leadership role at Stripe I'd love reading all the comments.

Where I'm coming from is (a) I'm sure the folks at Stripe know that there is a high demand for them outside of the North America (and now the UK), and (b) Is another comment on an HN thread saying "please come to [my country of residence]" going to change the pace or manner in which Stripe is rolled out internationally? I doubt it, but I've been wrong before.
What a piece of shit. This article is a heteronormative sexist big piece of shit. But besides that, if i leave the office early, i have finished everything i had to do, I don't fucking care if someone stays 5 hours longer because he don't know how to manage time, for god sake.
>In the last couple of months I saw a couple visualizations

Author is probably referring to this: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/ or similar

Examples:

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432026155/2001-a-space-...

BLADE RUNNER (1982) http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/4438993828/blade-runner-...

STAR WARS: COMPLETE SAGA (1977-2005) http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/13347201975/star-wars-co...

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3512965847/the-wizard-of...

HARRY POTTER: COMPLETE SERIES (2001-2011) http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/12390371286/harry-potter...
Commonly consumed amounts of water don't make you ill. Commonly consumed amounts of sugar do make you ill.

Is it an exaggeration to call trans fats toxic? Your body can use them to run, but if you eat them, you'll get sick.
You guys are doing a fantastic job. Keep it up!
Sony has released 8 detailed images of the PS4 UI
I don't see anywhere that people are blaming remote workers for all of Yahoo's troubles.

People are starting to care about Yahoo now and not just look at them with pity. Mayer is trying to clean up that company. When you are turning around a large institution like Yahoo, you're going to piss off a lot of people. These are all signs that someone is actually trying to turn things around there, instead of continuing the status quo like the previous CEOs did. This is just one of many moves.

I think remote work is great, but reading elsewhere shows that there was a lot of abuse of the policy _at Yahoo_. When a policy is rampantly being abused, you can revoke it until you can figure out how to better measure its effects. I'm sure they will re-institute this policy once they have better control over it, but that probably won't get any press.

I still have a generally favorable opinion of what Mayer's doing so far, and will try to hold my personal judgement to see how Mayer's moves affect Yahoo in the long term.
To be fair to Yahoo, nowhere do they mention that the remote workers are at fault for the company or the workforce struggles. They only want them performing better.

I'm pro remote working, but I can't see the fault in that.
I'd say E-Mail signatures. Officials should get a big fat warning sign for E-Mails that contain either no signature or a signature issued by an untrusted party. The private keys to sign mails would also have to be encrypted in a way that infected systems could still not send signed E-Mails. I'm thinking a hardened USB stick with some kind of biometric scanner as the only place to store the key. You'd send a blob of data to that appliance, it waits for your authentication and then it sends the signed version back to the E-Mail client.
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Using a live CD based OS for sensitive transactions is one pretty simple way.
Hmmm... Well... there are ways:

a) disable flash

b) disable java

c) disable any plugins really.

d) use chrome (at least)

e) do not allow downloading of any file. Instead use chrome's plugin to open any word/etc files in google docs.

f) Use a chromebook. Chromebooks can't really execute programs like windows machines can, so it's fairly safe. And worst case is you expose a sandbox machine with no private data other than caches, that can be set to be cleared on sleep or whatever. Bonus security points:

- if a chromebook is hijacked, it will only be hijacked until a reboot during which time the chromebook does a sanity check ensuring the OS is exactly intact. If it is not it just reinstalls the OS from ROM. Basically no long-term compromised machines.

- The only time chrome's sandbox was ever completely bypassed allowing arbitrary code execution was using a combination of multiple chrome exploits (now closed) and a windows data execution prevention bug. That can't happen on linux (and the chrome team works to further solidify that sandbox). Pretty much almost impossible. And if it is quickly patched and vuala.

g) browse in private browsing mode only

h) When visiting links (like facebook) manually type in the url to ensure nothing is spoofed.

I think you will be fairly safe. However... I doubt most people will go that far.
I don't get the sense that Yahoo was attempting to blame all it's ailments on remote work. DHH is reading that into this. Is it a component? Perhaps. But not the root cause.
But the issue here is not only the end users, but also publishers and others who could potentially make a business out of selling this authors work without paying him one cent. There is in my opinion little reason to want to get rid of ones copyright, it's better then to declare that it can be used freely without charge for non commercial use for example. Or if the intention is to sell it, simply not using any DRM schemes at all.
Limiting the 'spontaneous' gambling is part of what you have to do to comply with Gaming Commission rules - you have to include ways to limit the amount of money deposited or gambled, and you have to provide a mechanism to self-exclude, or ban yourself from playing.

I'm more interested to see if these guys get shut down or if the Gaming Commission would turn a blind eye. I notice no available contact details on the site or domain name registration. (Good for avoiding the law, bad for making me trust you with my money.)
Lack of sleep alters human gene activity
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298948
i imagine the intention is post hurricane, e.g. to survey the damage.
Lots and lots of math. Linear algebra, calculus, statistics, vector calculus, tensor calculus, group theory.

Physical chemistry, astrophysics basics of course, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics.

Good luck.
get rid of managers - see Fred George and Programmer Anarchy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-CF7klLdA
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Penelope Trunk is entertaining, but sometimes you need to take what she says with a grain of salt because she is trying to stir the pot to get eyeballs/$....this is one of those times.
It most certainly is NOT new. We were writing about it at MessageLabs (now part of Symantec) years ago (in 2007 or earlier IIRC).

What's surprising is that I gave a talk twice for Schneier's company Counterpane on tour with him in Texas, to a small room of people, including Bruce, covering exactly this topic, around that time.

Disclaimer: I no longer work there but I created their anti-spam software.
One large company with an uncertain future shutting down opportunities to work from home is an opening in the market for several smaller companies with more upside to their futures to offer such opportunities to new hires. In a diverse business ecosystem with free enterprise, customers like you and me decide which companies' products and services will be monetizable, and the companies decide which personnel practices help them meet market challenges. I know of a SaaS company, much smaller than Yahoo but apparently growing and profitable, that has an explicit "results-based management" policy. That means the managers don't care how often their developers come into the office, and as long as developers finish their projects with reasonable quality and speed, and keep up with their support tasks (ALL the developers do rotating shifts on support, to stay near customer concerns), then the managers are happy. Not all companies can organize that way, but then again not all companies have to organize just like Yahoo either. Yahoo is one model of running a company. The 37 Signals model appears to work for 37 Signals, but not everyone wants to follow their model. Each company gets to try something out, and we consumers get to pick the winners.
Passivedns - DNS reply logger, useful to see DNS history
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For extra credit, figure out the surprising thing we can build now that won't otherwise be built until the year 3000.
I can't believe how much coverage this story has gotten, particularly in popular media. I expected lots of dust in the tech community, but CNN has been publishing op-ed's everyday since the announcement.

I just don't get the idea that the remote workers are slacking off so much that they need to make a sweeping policy change. If the remote workers are performing properly, then it's a 100% obvious management issue. Managers aren't properly managing remote workers and the hiring process is unable to properly weed out slackers and lazy people.
This is what you should always ask yourself before you start making sacrifices for your company:

"If the CEO had to choose between firing me or taking a pay-cut equal to my salary, what would he choose?"

The answer is almost always immediately obvious.
Why does every one think they know better than Yahoo's CEO about how to manage Yahoo itself?
Druckenmiller Sees Storm Worse Than ’08 as Retirees Steal
> There used to be a website where you could buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (without the trademarks) for a lot of smaller price than the official version. That business doesn't lasted long.

I'm not sure what you mean? CentOS and Scientific Linux, the two main RHEL clones, are doing fine, as is RHEL itself.
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Although SQLite is supposed to be in the public domain, some jurisdictions don't recognize public domain, or some corporations might have legal teams that get very uncomfortable about the lack of an explicit license. In that case, you can pay $1,000 for a piece of paper that says you have the right to use SQLite. It keeps lawyers happy.
Considering Facebook and Apple devs getting owned by these exploits I think the answer is yes. That you even know what a plug-in is does make you in the minority, but considering who has been victim so far you should not sit back with such a smug attitude.
Ullman subgraph isomorphism
See also the "Unlicense" for something explicitly designed for source code: http://unlicense.org/. I find this preferable to something like the MIT license because it doesn't include the annoying requirement to include a copy of the license with the software, which is especially problematic for e.g. javascript libraries.
System time or what is displayed to the user? Because they are two different things on some systems.
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