skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is seriously misinformed. It seems to imply that noncompetes can restrict employees from working in their field. That is not the case in New York. Post-employment restrictions are only enforceable to the extent they protect a "legitimate business interest" of the former employer. That interest does not extend to preventing former employees from practicing their trade. Employers use noncompetes abusively all the time. The problem is not the state of noncompete law. The problem is the nature of the legal system.
Haptic Input Case Study: CHORD KEYBOARDS [pdf]
I asked about something similar at the offer stage: invention disclosure and assignment. I asked several times and the recruiting team told me that "everything I needed was on the website [where the job offer and the related terms were]." I even asked "No, I mean the forms you'd ask me to sign upon accepting the offer when I'm hired." Still nothing.

Sure enough, as soon as I accept the offer I'm presented with exactly what I was looking for on that very same website.

Somehow I think "never attribute to malice ..." doesn't apply to corporations.
"ag" that thing is blazingly fast
Same experience here. I regret buying a yearly subscription as I just received the same product two months in a row and another one I got a couple months back.
How Silicon Valley May Be Impacted by the Brexit Vote
I generally like 1pw but haven't forgiven them for not yet fixing the opvault security hole on android. Must be about a year now. Raised it with support when a big Android update came along a few months back. "Subscribe to 1pw for families" was their suggestion.

I'm actively looking at alternatives now.
The common piece of advice that you get is to run your employment contract past a lawyer. That's good advice. If the landshark is any good they'll tell you what is industry standard and what is overreach. You don't need no website, you need a professional network and some sense.
You've seemingly ignored the main thrust of my point in order to quibble over what I meant by optimising redraw. Seems dishonest at best.

Do you agree or disagree that a domain-specific layout language with would be faster to render and animate than a general purpose programming language interacting with the DOM? This seems like an undeniable yes.

Do you agree or disagree that such a layout language could supplant some of the uses of JavaScript over the years? This too seems to be an undeniable yes.

So it seems undeniable that modern browsers would be faster than they currently are on the metrics you criticised them as compared to native apps, which seems to be your primary concern.

And you can claim gzip is good enough to eliminate any space savings a more expressive language would yield, but the fact is people still minify their JS and CSS for significant savings, which means even small differences matter; further, domain specific optimisations have significant effects, and a precompiler could perform advanced common subexpression elimination passes to further compress beyond what gzip could dream of without affecting the semantics your layout.

So theoretically and empirically it seems my point that trading off rendering speed for network speed is not only well motivated, but already settled in my favour.
You seem to talk about a completely different use of VPN. The "VPN server you route all internet access through" is a glorified encrypting web proxy. There's no "server" in WireGuard as far as I can tell - it's only peers which expose whole networks behind them. Both use cases call for very different solutions: The corporate-style VPN protects your networks and remote endpoints from someone random connecting to them. The glorified web-proxy style VPN needs to mainly encrypt all the outgoing traffic.

I doubt WG is a real candidate for the case you're talking about.
When I used to use Taxi's in SLC (I am still a resident), I had to call two companies at a time, then wait 20 minutes for one to show up. The taxi cab drivers aren't FT like larger cities (according to a long-time dispatcher of Yellow Cab), so have (or had, this was a few years back) had preference of fares or shifts, skirting regulation.

I now use Lyft (for pricing and the drivers), then Uber (if Lyft is unavailable).
Well that might be so, but the syndrome I was addressing really is the approaching hour. It might happen for example if there is a regular slot for "our Australian correspondent" at the end of an hour. It's supposed to be at 8:55(ish) but sometimes it's delayed or advanced. Either way, the Australian correspondent should be aware the news at 9:00.00 is a hard boundary that is going to cut him off, but surprisingly often he doesn't seem cognisant of that at all. It doesn't matter what the time zone differences are - hour boundaries are hour boundaries! (okay there are exceptions - but the Australian correspondent is not reporting out of South Australia which has a half hour shift).
It's a very good tool.

Meld is the equivalent under Linux.
The straight forward answer you'll get is to study a pure/applied science in university up to MS or PhD level. This is probably half of the answer. The other half is being voraciously curious in many many areas and actively self teaching (deliberately or not) through reading, practicing and generally immersing yourself in whatever you're interested in. Working on "big problems" requires experts across fields with unique perspectives and knowledge. Getting a PhD for XYZ might mean your smart, but not necessarily unique.
Not even the right continent for me.
Earth is too large to lose a significant portion of its atmosphere. It can (and does!) easily lose a significant portion of its helium.

50g of helium per second would exhaust the current level of helium in the atmosphere in about 2.3 million years. (Atmospheric total mass 5.15e18 kg from wikipedia, composition of the atmosphere by volume from http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/slides/climate/table_1.... .) That may sound like a long time, but consider that the earth is 4500 million years old.
Euro 2016 – Football Infographics
If this existed, I would implement it today. Even better then that, I would insist that our tag manager implement it.

This goes beyond display ads. Your standard ecommerce site is littered with tags from all sorts of things and each one carries risk. You might be running any/all of the following:

- Web behavior analytics tags (Mixpanel, Heap, Optimizely, Google Analytics, etc)

- Site performance tags (New Relic, etc)

- Conversion tracking tags (Adwords, Facebook, + a thousand little ad market platforms)

- Remarketing tags (Facebook, etc)

- Social sharing tags (Facebook, Twitter)

- SSO tags (Facebook, Twitter, Google)

- On-site survey tags

- Live chat tags

... and more

Listing them out now makes me realize how absurd the situation has become with third party tags on our site. Having this feature would go a long way in protecting our site's performance from bad actors.
If we had unprivileged cgroup subtree management in the Linux kernel (which is something that I submitted patches for, but were rejected) then you could actually use cgroups on GNU/Linux with a browser not needing any privileges.
I actually find the documentation to be awful. Take the installation guide:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/tutorial-install....

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/

PostgreSQL tells you "If you are installing a pre-packaged distribution, such as an RPM or Debian package, ignore this chapter and read the packager's instructions instead" whereas MongoDB actually lists specific instructions for each platform (including distro).

It's similar all the way through. They tell you "why" something was done but not necessarily "how" to get something done. And the manual format with chapters simply isn't suited for the web. There is fantastic content there. It just needs someone with a UX hat to structure it in a way to make it easier to use.
That sounds pretty legitimate if the laws don't actually protect people, and have been corrupted by wealthy interests, such as taxi medallion owners. Or if the laws are outdated.

Ubers are consistently safer than taxis, provide better customer service, don't intentionally take long routes to scam you, actually take credit card instead of pretending their credit card reader is broken, don't refuse to drive you because you have luggage or are going a short distance or are living in a bad part of town, etc etc.

It turns out that Uber's rating system is much better for people's protection than whatever laws and background checks taxis are subject to.
What we learnt from a month of FactorBot
You're right. Non-solicitation agreements and non-compete agreements serve slightly different and overlapping purposes.

Technically, non-solicitation agreements only prevent solicitation. So they can bar me from hopping to a competitor and calling up all my old clients to bring them over. They don't prevent me from joining a competitor, having all my old clients find out, and having them then decide to join me.

Thus, a non-compete is often simply a stronger form of non-solicitation. That's also why you sometimes see non-compete agreements which apply to a geographic area.

They're also often regulated in tandem. AFAIK, both are unenforceable in California.

For what it's worth, I think the harms done by non-competes far outweigh this limited argument. But you can't argue that there isn't an argument.
That is strange, Spotlight seems to do this for me. I rarely have to type more than 1-2 characters. YMMV.
I still enjoy my regularly delivered artisan hummus, but I'm weird like that.
Sure, but these are stupid laws.
uh... isn't the whole point of "States" because a larger controlling body is a bad thing, and many groups want to make deals in their own ways? so then a Company WANTS to make deals their own way "Noncompete Pact" deals, and now you're telling them they can't do that... and you think by driving away these companies by not letting them do what they want, that you will somehow compete better? for what? the 50th spot on the economic rankings list?

idiots.
handbrake (the video transcoder). It just works. given the mass of containers and video formats this is a little surprising!
It's interesting to see 35WPM for that. I read somewhere about half-QWERTY with one hand up to the 65WPM range.
So let's say you're offered $500k a year to work on some cutting edge secret technology, something that improves the relevance of web search results by 50%. The company would be crazy to not have a noncompete. What else stops you from going to a competitor and applying everything you've learned to their product? You're basically calling for the effective end of most trade secrets, that aren't easily enforced directly. Alternatively, you'd have yourself take a huge paycut in exchange for the freedom to quit (or get fired) and live the life for a few years.

Edit:

I'm rate limited, but the replies below me claiming that China has no obligation to abide by our patents are mistaken. They've signed up to various treaties that do require them to respect American patents. They choose not to, and we mostly choose not to retaliate for it, for many reasons. Maybe we should.
Because in real wars the body count and the physical destruction is what matters.
Many reputable companies won't ask for a ridiculous clause, and you might choose to work for them, instead. For example, all of the IBM employee paperwork I signed (after selling them a startup) had notices of where California law gave me additional rights compared to the rest of the country -- and of course, no non-compete. I quit 3 weeks later, no hassle at all.
I generally use VLC by default, but I've found that it frequently stutters in decoding files mounted via sshfs, particularly when I use the scrub bar. I'm guessing that's because sshfs introduces some latency on seeks that upsets the decoders, but other video players don't have the same problem.

So, just anecdotally, VLC isn't perfect, but I'd agree that it's generally quite close.
> Do you agree or disagree that a domain-specific layout language with would be faster to render and animate than a general purpose programming language interacting with the DOM? This seems like an undeniable yes.

No. I don't believe this is true. With CSS as a declarative language, we can do global optimizations that are much harder to do than with a general programming language (especially one that's as hostile to static analysis as Scheme!)

> Do you agree or disagree that such a layout language could supplant some of the uses of JavaScript over the years? This too seems to be an undeniable yes.

Sure, but that's not worth slowing down so many Web sites for.

> And you can claim gzip is good enough to eliminate any space savings a more expressive language would yield, but the fact is people still minify their JS and CSS for significant savings, which means even small differences matter

Sure, but it's not worth trading off the rendering performance.

> a precompiler could perform advanced common subexpression elimination passes

Not with Scheme, it sure can't! You can do those dynamically, but not statically.
I use Pocket a lot because it has integration with my Kobo ereader. That said, I find it often fails to parse an article that Instapaper or Readability handle no problems. That is my only complaint with it.
An interesting book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...

A review:
Carr—author of The Big Switch (2007) and the much-discussed Atlantic Monthly story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—is an astute critic of the information technology revolution. Here he looks to neurological science to gauge the organic impact of computers, citing fascinating experiments that contrast the neural pathways built by reading books versus those forged by surfing the hypnotic Internet, where portals lead us on from one text, image, or video to another while we’re being bombarded by messages, alerts, and feeds. This glimmering realm of interruption and distraction impedes the sort of comprehension and retention “deep reading” engenders, Carr explains. And not only are we reconfiguring our brains, we are also forging a “new intellectual ethic,” an arresting observation Carr expands on while discussing Google’s gargantuan book digitization project.
Probably not, per the official document[0]:

> a provider may report aggregate data in the following separate categories:

> The total number of all national security process received ... in the following bands: 0-249 and thereafter in bands of 250

[0] https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/422201412716042240...
DesignGridLayout is based on canonical design grids.

https://designgridlayout.java.net/grids.html

The heuristics are hand coded.

I created DGL because I wanted visually correct, easy to create UIs. Here are some usage examples. (I probably won't ever design a "fluent API" (method chaining) ever again. A DSL would be better.)

https://designgridlayout.java.net/usage.html

Next time I do interesting UI work, I'll port DGL to that platform. I won't wrestle with constraints solvers again for anything but the most trivial efforts.

Mea culpa: I use Bootstrap for web stuff. Good enough for trivial UIs. Last time I checked, a few years back, I couldn't figure out how to use CSS to align text baselines between columns, or how to space those baselines vertically equally.
This idea is cute, but it’s a poor substitute for a real writing tutor/coach/teacher.

It repeatedly returns: “Your response seems incomplete, so we set your score to the length of the original sentence. If we're mistaken, please drop us a line with a screenshot of this screen”, without any indication of how to fix the solution to be acceptable. I suppose it’s fishing for some specific keywords?

It doesn’t seem to have any full natural language model or conceptual model of the idea of the paragraph, so it can’t point out awkward or confusing phrases.

The proposed “par” and “record” sentences are not especially clear or elegant prose, or even especially short for conveying the ideas in the paragraph, and the metric (fewest characters used) is in general a weak heuristic for clear writing. The prompts don’t offer any list of essential vs. superfluous information, or even an explanation of the paragraph’s context and audience, so a proofreader/rewriter has to guess precisely what the author needed to say, and what the appropriate tone/style is.

I ultimately don’t understand how this game teaches writing any better than just trying to rewrite random sentences found in a book. Or for that matter, just having an email conversation with a friend about some random topic.
Total Commander is an essential Windows tool.

TC ultima prime is a package with lots of useful Windows apps like Notepad++ included http://tcup.eu
"Very fast" in this case is not enough for restyling. It is incredibly performance sensitive. A 2x slowdown over the optimized C++ (for example) would be unacceptable.
People mean different things when they say "writer," and it's worthwhile untangling a few different types.

* Writers who make a living writing

* Writers who don't (yet)

* Fiction writers: Novelists and short-story writers

* Poets

* Journalists: reporters, war correspondents, editors

* Bloggers

* Corporate: Technical writers, Marketing copy writers, etc.

* Academics all stripes

These categories aren't mutually exclusive, but they each represent a different type of writing, which itself requires a different practice, approach or method.

There are, in fact, many handbooks for being a writer, and almost all of them are written to serve a particular type of writer and not others.

The creative writing departments of America have produced piles of writing about writing (about writing -- gaah ... self-referential recursion! No one escapes a medium describing itself.).

Some of the classics are:

* The Elements of Style - Strunk and White

* Politics and the English Language - Orwell
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

* Hemingway on Writing
https://www.scribd.com/doc/156100470/Ernest-Hemingway-on-Wri...

* Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style - Erasmus (the opposite of Strunk...)

* And so on...

The best handbook of all, though is simply the study of great writers whose work you love, as the author points out. Anyone serious about fiction or prose should dive into the 19th-century Russian and French novelists, Virginia Woolf, an annotated Shakespeare, etc. It's all there just waiting for us. In that sense, every piece of good writing is a handbook on writing.

(Fwiw, I made a living as a reporter and editor for about 10 years.)
That doesn't refute my point. No data collection still leaves a greater probability of issues being left unresolved for a longer period of time. Also, the code is open source. You can see exactly what data is being collected.

To address your point, it's not possible to be aware of the benefits you're missing out on without data collection.
I personally think California made the right call banning them outright. The rest of the country would do well to follow suit.

I'm talking about short-term, individual ways to solve your own noncompete problem.
Data point: in Brazil I'm perceiving just the same as what you're describing in America.
I'm surprised no one has cited this:

http://xkcd.com/1695/
I hope you are right...will see how it goes on the negotiations table. Freedom of movement is still required to access the EU market.
A time honored classic: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland.

https://books.google.com/books/about/If_You_Want_to_Write.ht...

Another nice one is Stein on Writing

https://books.google.com/books/about/Stein_On_Writing.html?i...

Of course, what most writers will advise is that you just write a lot, and get good writers to critique your work. Writing, like most arts, takes years and years.

Today, there are various web sites that will "crowd-source" critiques of your writing, in exchange for your critiquing other people's work (also good practice). I've used critters.org quite a bit but there are several other big ones these days.
If you just need to be able to wake it up manually, use something like etherwake to send the wakeup packet. It's not integrated w/ synergy, but is the WoL equivalent of "wiggle the mouse and wake it up."
Late to the party but ... Google Maps. So buttery, extremely reliable, and so many form factors where the experience is the same: superb. I'm afraid it has become such a daily utility that perhaps people don't appreciate just how amazing Google Maps is.
I don't understand what you mean. Could you explain?
> This feels like a problem that is getting amenable to a technological solution.

While it's certainly possible to apply some technology to this solution, it actually amazes me that people don't spend more time reading and negotiating these.

If you're an engineer, your employment contract is worth literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. The idea that you wouldn't at least read and understand the whole thing yourself (and seek professional counsel if necessary) is ludicrous and a terrible way to live.

One sneaky thing which companies do is only giving you paperwork (including a non-compete) on your first day of work. During negotiation, I always insist on seeing a copy of what I'll be asked to sign before agreeing to take the job. Anyone who refuses this is trying to pull something over on you.
* mint,
* git + gitlab ce,
* webstorm + nodejs,
* chromium
I wish I could find it, but the CEO Phil Libin gave a talk about how to price goods. He split pricing models into 3 camps, based on how they deliver value over time:

1. Fixed price goods correspond to items where you realize the value upfront, then over time the good decays. Like food, physical goods like clothing, etc

2. Fixed price subscriptions correspond to services which deliver constant value over time, like a newspaper or utilities

3. Freemium subscriptions start free, then charge more money over time, and correspond to services which deliver increased value over time. Lots of free 2 play games work this way, with people paying hundreds of dollars as they get serious. He also argued that Evernote was in this camp, since as you store more of your information in Evernote, it becomes more valuable to you

So charging a one-time fee for evernote is mismatched with the value delivered. They would get payment as a one-time event but the more you use it, the more it costs them to support you, without you paying them more because you like/need it more.
Except when it's 4 pm and you want to go to the airport from Manhattan, at which point none of the million cabs are interested in picking you up.
The Alpha paper, "Genetic Fuzzy based Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Combat Aerial
Vehicle Control in Simulated Air Combat Missions" is open access and available online:

http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/genetic-fuzzy-based-artif...
Maybe most likely, but not necessarily obvious. While there's no popular module for kernel written in something else than C (as far as I know), there are known ways to write working non-C modules.
> Somehow I think "never attribute to malice ..." doesn't apply to corporations.

Indeed. Refusing to disclose terms until you've started the job is abundant evidence of them being employee-hostile and manipulative.
Thanks for considering it! For what it's worth, there is dual BSD/GPL precedent in various places in Linux (e.g., most of the drm GPU drivers, NTB, etc).
Does anyone know how everything work? Does it hook into the NTFS filesystem with special apis? The indexing is insanely fast. I wonder how they make it happen.