skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually puts Reuters in a great situation! Because they have a piece of evidence that says they had no knowledge of the restrictive covenants. Sure, it's not an accurate disclosure on the part of the employee. But that inaccuracy only strengthens Reuters position in this case.

You could say "ah, but Reuters never would've hired her if the noncompete had been disclosed." Not sure about that, because a fair reading of the noncompete is that under New York law it cannot prevent the employee from practicing her trade of journalism. If I were Reuters HR, and I saw the noncompete, I might not have considered it a problem (aside from the industry practice of filing meritless lawsuits).
>without stripping the place bare.

Well they are shooting a porn movie, so why not try something new? It's boring if only the actresses/actors are stripping.

"Hot poster action! Uncensored walls! Naughty wallpaper laid bare!"

Or just pixelize. Japanese porn does it all the time.

Maybe even automate the task: Use computer vision to detect copyrighted posters, then apply a mosaic filter to them.
San Francisco startup Zenefits bans sex and alcohol in the office
You can implement bloom filters in redis >2.6 with SETBIT And GETBIT. But I'm guessing this is not your case exactly? I'm curious what exactly you're trying to model.
Hi, I'm an engineer at Nylas. Basically we have a server side process which moves snoozed emails back to your IMAP/Exchange inbox when it's time to unsnooze them.
They actually discuss this in the article, including the concept of oracles, 'reputation', etc. See more at the referenced site[0] or the Youtube video[1].

[0] http://www.augur.net/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yegyih591Jo
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum.

Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for the first smart contract that is actually useful for something.
> I asked what does Ethereum do different than Bitcoin that makes its blockchain more scaleable

But I did answer what it does different. I cited a few of the many things it does different, one of which is an account based model. Another is faster and unlimited sized blocks. And if you care to read more of the development threads, you'd find lots of other solutions. Ignoring facts and continuing to say "The answer is, of course, nothing" is just FUD.

Here's a quote from Vitalik in October:

"Scalability: using a combination of sharding schemes, random sampling, heavy use of Merkle proofs and asynchronous calling in order to increase the potential transaction throughput from ~10-20 transactions per second to over 100000 (or, if super-quadratic versions are used, a theoretically unlimited number). The basic concepts behind scaling have been set in stone for over six months, and our research team is highly confident that the general approach is valid;"

> But if you're just going to throw up your hands and say "put it in the cloud"

Who said anything of the sort? I'm saying it's a hard problem, but it's tractable and takes resources and time. What's that got to do with the cloud??

Ultimately I don't understand the whole negative attitude on scaling. Obstacles are not a reason to not attempt something, and certainly not potential scaling issues. Making the Internet was hard. In 1993 people could have said "computers are expensive.. and think of all the cables you'd have to lay! It's going to be millions of miles of cables! It'll never happen! This whole WWW thing is just a toy fad!"
> Is there any time when I should ever sign one?

If someone is going to pay me a chunk of change not to work in my area of expertise for the length of the non-compete, sure.

If the language only covers things I wouldn't do anyway (like reveal employer-specific information, trade secrets, product roadmaps, soliciting customers, and so on).
https://www.toptal.com/blog/
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/
https://www.ebaytechblog.com/
> It gets even more specific than that, while home owner's associations don't generate laws that lead to criminal penalties when broken, the rules HOA's create are legally binding and have probably a significant impact on many people's quality of life and every day freedom.

HOA rules aren't laws of any kind; they are legally binding only because you have entered into a contract to obey them.

> People living with HOA's have opted for trading in freedoms for slightly higher property values.

Or, they have opted to live in modern homes: HOAs are usually established by developers, and virtually all new development (ISTR seeing figures of 80% in CA) is subject to HOAs.
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Exactly. Why should I care more about a business being able to bully someone than a person not being able to feed their family?
IIRC the ipython developers are also physicists.
So someone should make a business of spotting real houses and telling on.
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I see these like frameworks- you don't want to write HTTP request routing code for every single application you build so you pick a framework.

At some point in the past, there was no framework or library, then people distrusted them because REAL engineers knew the ins and outs of their language and knew best how to write the code for performance, then people began to embrace them in general, now there are so many variations picking the 'right' one can lead to paralysis.

The difference with these services as an extension of your codebase is that they cost a not insignificant amount of money. Typically, the frameworks and libraries we are used to cost nothing or a relatively small amount and then you're done writing checks.

Algolia, though a really neat product, would become very expensive very fast if you aren't careful, and I think you're going to find a lifecycle around these that involves using something like Algolia for something relatively hard to do well (search), then you will reach a point where you have to bring it in house or find something else due to cost.

Hopefully the team will have the resources to bring it in house in some fashion, but at some point, these services will not perform well enough for you or be so incredibly expensive that you have to move to something else.

That being said, these services are fantastic for people like me that love to build cool stuff and focus on the hard problem that WE want to solve, instead of all the hard problems in the world that must be solved to solve ours. Raising the chickens and grinding the flour vs. going to the store when baking a cake, etc.

I bring up Algolia because of my positive experience with them, they are a very nice service, quite easy to use, and just a generally pleasant piece of a tough project I had recently.
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Maybe a deeper sense of 'applied' science if you program your experiments ?
Right, it seems to gloss over this rather obviously in the lease example. The 'take rent every month' clause just seems like an overengineered automatic payment system.

The interesting clauses in leases are the ones that require tenants, for example, not to trash the place, and landlords to fix things in a timely fashion, not enter without 24 hours notice, etc. These disputes seem to require a human arbitrator to determine, for example, who's fault the damage to the apartment is.
Yes, it seems like the more trivial the subject of the patent, the more widely used it may be and thus the larger factor to multiply for damages.
> An enema kit, bottle of lubricant and a business card

To be fair, that might happen anyway.
"Hum... Not outright. Non-compete clauses were created because they are useful and important."

To who? Not me. I've never once benefited from a non-compete clause. They've always been used as a tool to threaten.
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Indeed! Kudos to you, sir. Love the aesthetic, color palette you chose, and overall IA.
Jupyter was used by the LIGO team, are these the same ?
> There's a lot of talk about replacing Uber/AirBnB/Facebook/etc with decentralized applications but I believe those things are still at least a few years away.

At least a few years? LOL. I would give it 20 years.
well, I'm 7 emails and 4 phone calls (on two of which those assholes hung up on me) deep into trying to get zenefits to approve a commuter parking reimbursement, including having to send screenshots of the submitted claim in their system to one of their employees because he couldn't see it. And I still don't have my money.

Also, apparently I was rude to the supervisor I spoke with two days ago. Yet somehow their behavior -- wasting my time and repeatedly hanging up on me while on hold -- is totally cool.
Unless the job is going to pay you in yachts, no. There is absolutely no benefit to you signing one.
The only thing I use Yahoo! for is for fantasy sports. They recently started trying to compete with sites like DraftKings by using obnoxious pop-up ads for it all the time. Very poor execution with that as well.
I agree with almost everything in this post with the exception of taking others for burgers and asking them about their salary (directly or indirectly).

Most people will not feel comfortable sharing their salaries or salary scale (company information) with someone they don't know or just met. Thankfully there are sites such as Payscale and Glassdoor where people share salaries anonymously so you can lookup the salary scale/ range for a company.

Even if you can't find it for company A that you are intending to work for you can always do a comparative market analysis; look up salary info for company B or C who are in Tech and in the same area/ domain and you can use this information to at least get a baseline or as leverage in the negotiation.

In fact this is something I blogged about a few days ago https://dreamjobexec.com/7-tools-help-get-tech-dream-job-hin...
based on two blogposts, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11133676
The measure probably passed in order to discourage porn from being shot there.
To add to your comment, the SkyActiv engines are Atkinson-cycle engines, which improves efficiency by holding the intake valve during the beginning of the compression stroke, so that the exhaust compression ratio is greater than the intake compression ratio, extracting more work out of the exhaust gases. The disadvantage of this is that the engine has lower power density (it won't get the same HP/liter ratings that a similar Otto-cycle engine will). This can be made up for by adding an electric motor to make it a hybrid car, or by adding a supercharger (which makes it a Miller cycle engine).

2 strokes are terrible engines generally, because they have very high emissions, usually because they release unburned fuel in the exhaust.
Yes, "pro-capital" as in "favoring the owners of the means of production."
"by Ethereum app in c++" I mean writing that logic in C++, of course it won't run on Ethereum network anymore after that point.
I've never heard of this either, sounds creepy.
Check out Concise [0] or Roaring Bitmaps [1] before rolling your own compressed bitset scheme. Wish I had known about these sooner.

(I realize now this is offtopic, as this is bit fields not bit sets; nevermind, but still it's interesting!)

[0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.0403.pdf

[1] http://roaringbitmap.org/
I think he means that the acceptable ads program is just extortion with a shiny fake narrative on top. Which seems pretty obvious to me.
If a young woman has equal potential as a future doctor or computer scientist, then sure, it's zero-sum whether she picks one versus the other.

The problem is, there are undoubtedly a large number of young women out there who have the potential to become great programmers and love their careers, but for whatever reason, they're ending up becoming average doctors instead and feeling just so-so about their career choice.

In the latter case, it's better for both the women in question, and society in general, to support their becoming computer scientists.
No. Do not sign them.
>Don't you see that if Apple takes a hard line that they don't backdoor their phones it is far easier than if they do it for the US (or US/UK) but not for others.

>[[...]

>To what extent and with what side effects? If to access the phone they had to disable all security for all users would that be appropriate? [...] //

I think I must have misunderstood the situation. As I understood we were talking about Apple having the capability to access their technology and them refusing to use it for individual cases following issue of a warrant and personal intervention of the SoS. That is an entirely different proposition to what you're suggesting - the a company be forced to design a system with a particular back door. That doesn't appear to be in the information I read about the IPB but I stand to be corrected as necessary.

If [as it appears to be the case here] Apple, say, have the capability to disable security on all phones then I can't see how the findings in this case change the ability of another state - China, SA, Syria, as your examples - to demand that Apple push changes to disable the security of phones. It's not like China will say 'oh, USA courts found it unconstitutional so we better not ask Apple to do it'.

FWIW I don't really trust the government; as you say "Bully for [me]" if I don't have things to hide. But I was attempting to answer the comments saying 'why isn't everyone up in arms, they're all sheeple'.

Another aspect is, your notional MP being snooped on for unwholesome reasons means that the entire fabric of the British legal and political system is corrupt. If we're at that point then I dare say the Secretary of State will just call in Apple bosses and have their partner's fingernails pulled until the bosses agree to push a firmware update.

48 man-weeks vs Apple's tens of thousands of man weeks per day [from 115k employees] seems pretty small cost. There's no reason Apple couldn't/shouldn't be compensated for that time. TBH in the USA situation it would surprise me if TLA-agencies wouldn't write the code (if they haven't already), they really only need Apple for the distribution keys I expect.

Good points but I'm afraid I remain as yet unswayed.
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2016-02-bioengineers-open-source-laser-..., which points to this.
Is it safe to assume the open tracking is just embedding some custom tracking image into outgoing mail?

Sounds like another client-server app with the developers' server between me and mine (eg my own imap server, be it self hosted, gmail, iCloud, fastmail etc)
i've known enterprise sales guys making $1m+ per year, cash comp.

a YP seed would get you 30 work days...
Right, the standard contract term is called 'consideration', meaning that for a contract to be valid and enforceable, each side must be giving up something of value as part of the transaction.

There's a pretty good summary here:

http://www.wolfbaldwin.com/Employment-Articles/Non-Compete-C...
I agree that X is not true, but object strongly to the idea that it would lead to Y.

If the courts threw up their hands and said "It is literally impossible to adjudicate this issue of the binary kernel module", then who is left to enforce the copyright law? If a court said that, and an individual/company wanted to ignore the GPL, then they could put all of their code into binary modules. If a company's proprietary code is in a binary format, there is no one available to enforce licensing rules, and the company knows those two facts, then what reason does that company have to fear from the GPL?

Please provide an answer to both questions independently, so they are both addressed and no assumptions are left invisible. My answers are 'no one' and 'none'. I'd like to hear what you think the answers to those questions are, then I'd also be curious to hear what you think the logical outcome of the binary kernal module license issue being unenforceable would be.
You can even have sub-county regulations, too. You can have county taxes as well. But unless you're in a big city, they tend not to matter much apart from, like, not being allowed to have couches and garbage on your front lawn or something like that.
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> Not knowing Objective C or Swift

I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.
That actually reinforced my point: the green movement in the western world is disproportionally strong compared to the actual consequences perceived today, and the expected consequences from the optimistic projections people believe in.
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Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Tor Traffic
I agree with you. I think the best overall approach is to apply the scientific method. Set hypotheses on what will work what will not, test, look for evidence and adjust accordingly. or the startup metaphor of reaching product market fit or pivot
I do not know any python so I am somewhat bias but. Why not start with simple JavaScript and interact with a simple REST API.

With as ubiquitous as JS has become it gives students the ability to just open up a browser and try programming from the convince of a web browser.
This makes me wonder what those two holes in the shroud of USB A style connectors are for. After a bit of googling it looks as if they are to provide a bit of tension against removal. I'm sure you could repurpose them to lock the usb drive into a USB port.
As for the styling part, This is actually a relief to see since I am using Radium and it looks like some of the styles I have will work without any modification. Any other styles I would have to rewrite anyway.
That doesn't help the poor librarian that will now spend 3 days going back and forth with the platform while the front desk has to explain to the various users why they cannot get their articles from Journals for which the library already has a subscription.
so... a minimalist beeminder?
Heated my apartment two winters ago with litecoin and dogecoin mining.

Too late for ether.
The overwhelming skew in the CS population suggests that women either believe CS is not accessible to them (which isn't-- or should not be-- true), or that the community is unwelcoming to them (which is a problem in of itself and should be corrected, and means that motivated women are turning away from a field that would otherwise excite them).

The skew is indicative of a problem. We should fix it.
This is exactly why I've stayed away from this stack wherever possible!
Actually I hear DNS is often used with cloud APIs as a way to have botnets and trojans contact the mothership for things like instructions or wiring payment to decrypt drives, etc. It used to be they were at the same domain names, but folks got wise and started banning domains, so now they use domain name "trials" and random domain names to resolve to changing IP addresses at scheduled intervals. Or at least that's how I remember hearing it described. So DNS is as critical to botnets/bad guys as anything else is online.

Also, since registries are global, all it takes is one country refusing to follow the rest of the world in trying to block spammers from registering domains, and DNS resolution becomes part of the solution. Of course they could go elsewhere but at least CloudFlare wouldn't be part of the problem.
a 30% rev share if you have over 10mm pv / month

for them to maintain a hashmap with your url in it
From what other articles have said, they've actually been doing a ton of paper shuffling on the backend using human labor (by hiring a ton of people with all that VC cash), which means that engineering has a lot of work to do if Zenefits is going to be profitable at scale in the long run.
i see a browser plugin/app like "Cloud to Butt"[0]

that detects phrases like "I would bet my ass off" or "I bet you that" or "I wager" and converts them to a prediction market link - creating the market if it doesn't exist or just linking to it if it does.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
I'm trying to frame this as less of a problem and more of an opportunity. Sadly, pornbnb.com is already registered. :(
What if Nvidia provided good ⋆BSD drivers? According to the answers from Greg Lindahl and Eugene Miya on Quora to the question "Why is the OS landscape of Supercomputers dominated by Linux instead of BSD?" [1] the Linux dominance is largely an historical oddity rather than due to some inherent superiority of Linux.

If for some reason supercomputer builders could no longer use the best GPUs in supercomputers, would they stick with Linux or would they follow the hardware and switch to a ⋆BSD on the compute nodes?

[1] http://qr.ae/RUortF
Like? PHP is faster than both Ruby and Python. Only scripting languages that are currently faster are Lua and Perl.
Hello,
I have a little Etsy shop and was wondering how to get technical people’s attention. How do you find gifts for female family and friends (when they don’t already have something in mind)?

As for the shop itself, the photographs need improvement – I set up a small lighted space on my kitchen counter and am working on this. Shop: http://zebbles.etsy.com
Engine blocks used to be made of cast iron, but they've pretty much all moved to aluminum because of 1) weight, and 2) that higher thermal conductivity. IANAME, but IIRC the problem with iron's lower thermal conductivity is that it created hot spots which could cause pre-ignition, so you had to use lower compression ratios to avoid this. Aluminum has more uniform temperature so you can boost the compression ratio, which gets you more efficiency and power.
Thanks for the mention Rafael! Would be happy to see if we can help grinich. Just shot you an email if you'd like to run a data test.
We want to count the number of users, including guests, who are currently viewing a resource. To count guests, we plan to count unique IPs, so each IP should be counted at most once even if it connects to several different servers as a result of load balancing.

The approach we're moving towards is an augmented bloom filter where each "bit" is actually an unsigned integer counting the number of items hashed to the position, allowing us to add and remove IPs to the filter as users come and go (just rehashing and "subtracting" the IP when it leaves). This lets us ensure that IPs are not counted more than once. SETBIT and GETBIT would work with a normal filter, but they can't increment multiple bits, so we'd end up needing to lock.
But why? Seriously, I don't see why this is an issue.

If I rent out my home and a couple stays there. I imagine some sex may happen there. I wouldn't care.

If I rent out my home and some people have sex on camera there, and the house is returned to me in the same state, I don't care.

Why do you believe this requires a law...?
"Lol. The data on a form filed for a porn shoot at a particular location will not find its way into the hands of someone renting on airbnb."

Hmm, if I understand you correctly, you are mistaken. If the permit is filed, the homeowner and the nearby homeowners will get paper notices taped to their doors a couple of days before the shoot (like this: http://www.wehodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/filming-...). The property owner would see the notice, and neighbors push back against nearby filming here all the time, even if the property owner does not see the notice.

And also: commercial users of your property for shoots treat it much differently than casual travel users will. There will be a big crew, they will have bulky/heavy equipment, they will be focused on getting a job done and they won't care about dinging up your walls, etc., in the process. A week later, you will discover something broken.

Many people who let their home be used for shoots are in the industry (so they have built-in sympathy for the workers), or they are insensitive to damage because they are being paid a hefty fee, or they pay a specialist to manage their property during the shoot. They can do this because they will be paid several thousand dollars per day for the use of their home. The AirBnB rental fee would not approach this.