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Ask HN: IP Problems with Employer
I am a software developer for a large corporation, and their IP rules are too strict. They own everything I create and even the ideas I have. I have to get permission for every open source contributions I want to make.
I would like to switch jobs to somewhere with more leniency when it comes to IP. Does such a job exist?
https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity that does have an option to delete everything, just did that.
Meaning that innovations like Servo would not happen.
The headline makes a strong claim and the article actually makes this much weaker claim:

Of course, there will be jobs where telecommuting isn’t practical, but in situations where all you need is a computer and an internet connection, then telecommuting is something to try.
They don't show you the dossier if you don't log in, even though they certainly have one.
So you run and you run, to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death!

Something like that? If I remember correctly, the whole Dark Side of the Moon album is one big birth to death existentialism essay...
I bought a house made in 1901 20 years ago - we didnt have the Internet like they do now. I had to get all my stuff at Lowes.
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Except that eating Pioneer Woman recipes on a regular basis will take years off of your life. You will have have delicious years but fewer of them.
That those are different controls says a lot about how Google feels about making it possible to opt out of all their tracking.

That said, since there were some controls disabled, and some enabled, I'm more inclined to believe that they were re-enabled, if not automatically, then via some dark pattern. It's also possible that they were just new tracking points, but one of them was my search history, which I recall explicitly disabling.
> 2. It openly proclaims <10ms STW pauses for GC.

Java's GCs make no concrete claims because they scale from tiny to very large heaps with vastly different object populations and root set sizes.

Some java applications run with 100GB heaps or on 128-core NUMA machines with lots of threads.

10ms pause times are achievable with "modest" heap sizes (~single-digit GBs) if you have some cores to spare for a concurrent collector to do its work, well, concurrently.

If you don't have enough spare CPU time or have a larger heap or a workload without enough breathing room then it would be silly to make such guarantees.

Of course they could easily write "<10ms STW pauses. sometimes. read the fine print"
Most of the places I see javascript being used for layout are not doing complex things that can only be done in javascript. At the very least, there should be a non-javascript fallback so the content is visible and somewhat layed out.

All mediums have limitations.
Nope. Not in the USA. One of the best reasons to use a reputable commercial provider. Pixabay told me via email that their models do sign releases.
Perhaps more importantly, a huge fraction of those "preventable" cancers are lung cancers that could only be prevented by giving up smoking.

> Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women; about 1 out of 4 cancer deaths are from lung cancer.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/lungcancer-non-smallcell/detail...

and from the article:

> About 82 percent of women and 78 percent of men who got lung cancer might have prevented it through healthy behaviors.

Back of the envelope: ~20 percent of all cancer deaths are lung cancer deaths that wouldn't have happened without smoking. That leaves just 5-15% of cancer deaths being "potentially preventable" once you've given up smoking. (Here, I'm not distinguishing between cancer cases and cancer deaths; please point to better data if you have it.)

I'd wager less than 5% of cancer deaths are preventable if you neither smoke nor are overweight.

I think this article, and especially its headline, is highly misleading.
What are your most used shell commands?
You're focusing too hard on the "existence" part and not hard enough on the "thing" part.

If humanity died tomorrow, nobody would be around to call the planet "Earth". Earth is merely a concept held in the minds of people. The concept consists of properties, only some of which involve the physical aspects. For example, lots of other planets are physically present, but only one we call Earth, because we live on it. Should we not live on it anymore, why would anyone bother to call it by a name.

In that sense, sure, Earth would cease to exist if we stopped living on it.

The problem with defining existence as only involving the physical is that it yields a world in which nobody can make sense of anything. You can't simply boil everything down like that and actually live in that world. The very second you started thinking, you'd start ascribing properties to objects that aren't merely physical, recreating the entire debate.

Before you consider existence, think about what "thing" means.
Return the favor how? There aren't any novel Chinese apps worth using outside of China.
I can counter that with my own anecdote, this one from a large university setting, when somehow almost organically a large number of staff began "working" from home. At first it was a couple of people, and as others noticed that there were more and more people not in the office, they opted out as well.

Productivity went through the floor. Nothing got done. Nobody could get in touch with anyone.

After a while the mandate went out, almost apologetically, that people would actually need to work at the office unless prior approval from their supervisor was obtained.

Of course the work atmosphere was pretty dysfunctional to begin with (the secure setting of a university job attracts people who don't like to work very hard) but it was rather interesting to watch it play out.
using occam's razor i reject your conclusion because you are assuming that there are a bunch of smart people engaging in discussion.

this is an extraneous assumption in your theory. and thus, in humorously recursive fashion, i have used occam's razor to disprove your conclusion about occam's razor not being useful. needless to say , a theory with fewer assumptions about this discussion doesn't assume that the people having it are smart. (i'm not saying they are stupid!!! ...how about the default non assumption that they are merely average )

DISPROVE THAT! :)
I would be happy if more companies were open to giving 1 or 2 remote days per week. Breaking up the daily monotony of a commute for even just a single day makes me feel a lot better and less stressed. Makes it easier to do things like pick up your kid after school.
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Interesting that you say that. I've seen Google to suggest some interesting and relevant information in the last few years. I use a Windows phone now so I can't comment on Google Now since the desktop/browser version didn't really take off.

I have my calendar and email setup on my phone with contacts sync also enabled. When I get to work I have one of those pinned tabs on chrome set to inbox and all my searches on my phone and laptop are on Google. Adblocker is installed on my laptop so I never see ads there but after searching for property and a bed for the last few weeks, the ads I seem to be getting on my mobile browser point to just that. I've actually ended up buying a couple of items online because of google's suggestions (GPU, cellphone, gas heater, etc). So I think it depends on how much data you feed it and how you feed it. As for suggested places to visit, I can't comment much since I don't use that feature.
Thanks for the link. Based on some of the screenshots posted over there it indeed looks like what I've been observing on my machine (version 47-something).

Not a problem really. Never used Chrome before. Only installed it out of curiosity and also for testing purposes. Within the first day of using it on my development machine it became clear I wouldn't be using this piece of software in the future either.
I use https://backupsy.com/ - essentially a cheap VPS with slow but generous storage options.

I think ovh also has an option for 'lots of space but don't worry about the other things'.
> I can't imagine how anybody will actually install one of these. //

You run a shop, a convenience store. Until recently you were making a living for you and your family but a group of teenagers have taken to hanging out outside your store. They do petty criminal damage, graffiti, break the bins, that kinda thing. What's more troubling is that they verbally abuse your clientelle and provide a hostile environment. Your clients stop coming because they're intimidated, rightly or wrongly, by this crowd of teenagers: they don't want to be asked to buy alcohol, and jeered at if they refuse, just to get a pint of milk and some bread or get their morning papers.

You call the police, who send someone a few hours after the teenagers have left, or on occasions clear them away; but they just come back.

Installing a "Mosquito" high-pitch noise generator means that the teenagers will be put off congregating here, they'll meet perhaps at the park over the road, or go to the skate park, or meet at each other's houses, or ... the harm they'll suffer is extremely limited. The benefit is now that the community can again use the store in a relaxed way, you can now make a living again. The teenagers end up playing football or skating or something, not intimidating people trying to use a convenience store at least.

Some people perhaps complain about the noise, but once inside it doesn't affect them, it's a minor inconvenience as they enter the store.

Can you really not see the benefit nor imagine someone using such a device?
Whoops! It actually said 2061 but my fingers autocorrected that for me :/
A table, with piles of books, organised and labelled by volume, just like in a book shop, really how hard is this?

I know this is Hacker News, I know we can be pedants, but jings!....I'm waiting for someone challenge my assumption that there's a table(s) holding them up.
> Golang's more recent async GC changes begin to resemble Erlang's per-process GC in how they would affect overall system performance.

They resemble generational GC more than anything. Generational GC has some of the advantages of Erlang (though I think the traditional HotSpot generational GC will end up working better than the one Go is going with) in the minor collections, but not in the major collections.
According to their calculator[1], it's $15. Less than $10 seems unreasonably low for what you're asking.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
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I remember using the Kalman Filter in my Advanced Macroeconomics class to calculate economic cycles out of the GDP data of my country!
Science (Doing and reviewing it)is an art, not a science.
That's not how the economy works. Without savings/investments you cannot produce goods or services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule_savings_rate
I have the same issue. Running a Plex server (~6TB) at home, and thinking I need to put my media in a more accessible location. Are you using Amazon Drive as the one true source and syncing it locally to use with your Plex Server? Or are you pulling/streaming directly from ACD?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. I'm saying that my original comment had nothing to do with enterprise. It may well be that operating systems without package management are unsuitable for enterprise. I personally think operating system without package management are unsuitable anywhere; my comment, however, was descriptive rather than prescriptive.
The one's listed here are great. Been using one for over a year now.

http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/paris-france
As long as the world is looked this way:
Socialism is still an enemy which talks about income equality (Fair share of goods and services)
Capitalism is still a friend which brings the income inequality (Winner takes it all)

We are not human anymore. We are the crazies who put end to a planet much faster than any other animal can do. may be thats what human really means.

Find the planet faster which is immune from crazies
Build those rockets quicker which can fly my kid to a safer place.
I am using https://online.net, works good so far.
I noted that even though I was already logged in, it still asked me for my password (and then 2FA token). That is one step at least.
Oh, shoot. I even searched but not far back enough, nevermind. I found tangential comments in threads, but I had not seen direct mention of Ganeti in a while.

I was very intrigued when I saw docs for parts Python, parts Haskell.
Here's how I explain it to laypersons: "given two hypotheses, Ockam's razor tells you which one to test first"
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

If you use exactly 500gb it would be be $15 a month for standard storage.
Out of curiosity, I'm wondering why you say: "Charitable organizations don't give homeless people privacy for fear of the human things they will do, like drink, use drugs, have sex, etc."?

I know very little about how most of these organizations are run, but my thoughts would have been "most organizations aren't very well funded and have a limited amount of square footage to work in. If the goal is to get as many people into a warm bed as possible with your resources, than the best way to do this is probably packing as many bunks into an open area as you can, rather than trying to split to floor space into private / semi-private rooms". The end result obviously has some unintended side effects, and I'm certainly not saying this is the best way to run a shelter, but I also don't necessarily buy that a charity set up to shelter homeless people is also looking to dehumanize them, but rather simply working with what they have. But maybe my interpretation is too charitable (no pun intended).
I use three different browsers.

Chrome : Work related applications only. Minimal extensions.

Firefox: Locked down. (NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock origin) For general web browsing and searching.

IE: For gmail and google apps and nothing else. I like to see google frantically suggesting I use chrome every time I access GMail !
They also have their "SoYouStart" brand which sits halfway between their Kimsufi offerings and their normal OVH offerings.

It's also worth checking out online.net - like OVH, they also have a decent range of decently-spec'd-but-cheap servers on offer. Unlike OVH, they only have a single brand, but within that they go all the way from lightweight, ultra-cheap Atom-based servers all the way up to multi-CPU beasts.
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We have to thank the community for the amazing work in this release - Stateful application support, laptop development in one command and cross cluster service federation. Onward and upward!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
Brexit has put the UK in an impossible position. This Venn diagram explains why
So, Art - Math = Recursion, and Art - Recursion = Math. Now try to remove Recursion from Mona Lisa and see what Math you'll get.

Please don't use equals sign unless you know what it means.
Tldr, we were worried about running out of disk space, and setting up distributed logging is hard. So we decided to shoe horn our JavaScript app into lambada and justified it because some thought was put into how much effort it would be to undo this one day.

The author also touches on price and at their scale is saving money, and recognizes that one point will come where it's actually more expensive, but doesn't want to care about that because "infinite scale" is too cool.

From the article:
> While there is certainly an argument for calculating the exact point at which EC2 vs API Gateway and Lambda is more cost effective, we believe that the latter’s ability to scale “infinitely” almost immediately makes it worthwhile.

The takeaway here is that if you don't have time for operations and you don't have a lot of traffic you can pay someone else to worry about this.

Finally one of the reasons the author lists is that they don't want to have to setup logging ( which is hard to get right, I get it ) but at the end of the article they admit they use another service/plugin for it and that it's not that great.

Careful, when you get to the scale that this stuff is not cheaper is also about the point where you need to understand all the gory details of distributed logging, or you could use splunk, but now you really aren't saving money.

Seems like something like a periodic task that is not your main business ( read: needs to run 24/7 ) might be a better fit than cramming your entire app into this architecture simply because your background workers are not busy enough yet to justify being on 24/7.

Having said all that, the rest of the points touch on refactoring their app so that much of it can run from an s3 bucket, and this in my opinion was best part of the article as its good advice for anyone that wants to have things fronted by a cdn.

At any rate, good luck with the entirely serverless architecture. Parts of it are cool, parts of it are a recipe for save time and money now and pay for those decisions later , and managing this is just another form of technical debt, sometimes is worth it, but can be dangerous when seen as a silver bullet.
A fully open system can have a ranking on articles and reviewers (voters). Wikipedia has no ranking on articles and no rankings of contributors/reviewers (at least initially). So these are different systems.

I'm convinced that random tourists vote can't have the same weight as recognized experts in the field who know the subject well and whose judgments are appreciated in their form and content. I'm convinced of this because it is the fundamental principle of the referee's review.
I highly recommend this.
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Hey guys, this is my first Show HN, I'd love to hear some feedback from you. :) Let me know what you think of the reader and the UX in general.
That's great, thanks!! How about uptime and support/response issues? Of course, I am not expecting any fancy support for < $10/mo., but just to know, have you had any issues and 1st-hand experiences?
> It seems like it could be a real time saver in those cases where you're not really participating currently but want to keep up with the project.

Yep, very. Just imagine!

"So, guys, the new feature we onion maybe needs to beat the liver by the twenty and. Josh, you we'll get the baby to Reese pony ability customer. Let me know if super busy ved communication."
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HotSpot cares a lot about proper defaults too. I don't think that there's a significant philosophy difference between HotSpot and Go there. The philosophy difference is, as you say, that Go is opposed to adding configuration options, while HotSpot does have those options (per customers' requests).
CSS is good enough. It's overdesigning that makes the web the crap it is today.
Good virtual reality could make remote working a lot easier. Face time is important. I don't know if VR meetings could fully replace face-to-face, but I feel they'd go a lot further.
Yes, but — as soon as Cascading Style Sheets existed, browsers should have had a sane base so that http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ looked like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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> Millions of websites have compatibility problems on one or more of the major browsers, leading to a poor user experience.

Can we just let these older browsers die out by not developing for them? Surely the users using them will update once every website they visit is broken.

Personally I only add the html5shiv and make HTML5 elements display block.
It could work more like the open source software project model: you would get your respect from having several "accepted pull requests" to the literature. The difference is that your PRs would be better framed in terms of identifying your specific contribution.

As it stands now, the publishing model is the equivalent of writing your own version of the project -- with no easy metadata about your specific innovation -- and asking it to be accepted or rejected as a whole.

With that said, it's understandable why to keep doing the latter version until academia has standardized on the former.
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For a minute I assumed you were referring to King, Jr. He used some writing, but relied much more on oration and protests.

But yes, the Protestant theologian is a great example. The short time delay from the printing press to the Reformation, I think, highlights the immense power of the written word.

In modern America, I suspect the medium is more likely to be television than text.
>> With go you can take a C++/python programmer and have them writing production code pretty soon

In my experience, learning Go (and by that I mean fully grasping the ways of Go, goroutines, channels, selects, interfaces, type switches, etc) takes at least a year for someone whose background is C/Python/Ruby. Then may be it's just me.
Terrible article, however, as a remote worker myself I see both advantages and disadvantages.

1. Some people's lives are better suited for it. This is especially true in the summertime when the kids are home from school all day.

2. Having an office is still very nice. Sometimes you simply can't get work done and home and need to come to the office.

3. Collaboration tools are awesome. Working with remote teams has never been easier if you have the right tools.

4. When you work from home you actually get more done. This seems strange, but you can actually get more done since there are no random impromptu meetings nor is there the guy that chats you up all morning with a cup of coffee in his hand.

5. Design sessions are better done in person. White boarding remotely doesn't work very well still.

6. Remote workers work at night. Give an employee a laptop and he'll work till 2:30 in the morning until the work is done.

7. Meetings tend to be shorter and more well defined. When people are co-located, there is a tendency to abuse people's time with meetings that have no agendas. When you have to organize people for a meeting, your forced to do a better job planning. That's been my impression at least.

I favor some sort of balance. 2/3 days in office 2/3 days remote seems like a good balance. this allows people to collaborate in person when they need to, but have a flexible schedule for the rest of the week. This sort of schedule actually is a productivity boost and is better for employee morale.
Some people do work under a certain amount of hours to stay on assistance. You are correct, the system needs to change to make it possible to succeed. I have a cousin that made just a little too much ($20 or less) and lost about $200 in food assistance. Many face the same sorts of choices with housing benefits, child care, and so forth. The problem more lies in the cutoffs for assistance making it such that many people have to make horrible choices to be able to not get assistance. It isn't being content, it is trying to eek by.

You were able to do it, but some folks can't. The system doesn't help, and they don't know how. Some folks, in your situation, might have died. You were armed with a college education, which meant you had more opportunities than the local retail spot. Add a wife and/or children and/or severe health problems into the mix and it becomes much harder.
Evolution may have moved at a furious pace on a much warmer Earth
Don't forget the menu item "Scanning" in Settings > Location. It "improves location" by scanning wifi and bluetooth _anytime_ i.e. even when location is turned off. I like the sneaky location of the menu item (no pun intended).