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If you read the fine print, software can't fall under the 'work for hire' provisions. At all. People think so, but just saying 'work-for-hire' in a contract isn't valid (enough). There has to be a explicit copyright transfer process backed up by paperwork.

I ran into this myself, but decided not to get in a tussle with this client who turned out to be ripping off customers, not paying me, etc. etc. Things had been progressing along under the assumption the company owned the copyright, or I was implicitly transferring copyright, and to go and try claw back everything I'd written would have been perhaps futile (the courts would not have thought much of my change of mind) and a very big time and money black hole.

I thoroughly pay attention to contract matters now. I never had a bad client before and none of the stuff I'd developed before either seemed valuable enough. But writing _all_ the code for a startup that ... oh, I don't want to take about it :)
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"What's the alternative here?"

Supply and demand :)

The state can't tell cities to 'build' - as cities don't do the 'building'. Private contractors do.

Methinks they could make some state-level zoning laws or something ...

But if there's incentive to build people will build.

If there's not a not of building in the Valley ... it might be due to zoning and regulatory issues, perhaps they could streamline? :)
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Can you expand on this? What I have in mind is where to draw the line between your personal life and your interactions with others. Posts on public forums (including HN)? Your Facebook page? Your github repos? Someone else writing a blog post about an experience they shared with you? I sympathize with some of the intent. It's increasingly difficult to have a private life. I just am wondering how practical it is.

I know the Right to Be Forgotten doesn't necessarily include all of these, but I can imagine it be expanded in a way that's doesn't seem to be much of a "slippery slope".
Same here. I have above average hearing (30 yo as well) and I hate so many high-pitched tones. But in a club or a bar I can barely understand anyone :(
github with contracts as text files?
Except it's not. The data is gone from the google index but you can still find it.
While I don't think we have those, there are anti-marten devices for cars that are supposedly outside of the range of human hearing. They really hurt.
This is from my friend. She's a Property Manager, but I suspect the post will resonate with a lot of programmers.
Ahh, so I assume not something a typical employee could do. Thanks!
I have met him and he is generally a very decent guy, but like I said his perspective is informed by specific experiences.
With all due respect, I think the position OP's advocating is that people need to start defending the right to have what you're calling a "personal life". Our lives are no longer personal, at least in the sense of information ownership, which is what we're talking about. The term's continued usage is a polite lie involving curtains and a cheerful aversion of thought.

RTBF is reactive policy-making at it's worst. Resources are finite. Make those companies spend resources doing something useful for our rights.
I'm planning to visit Thailand and I'm mainly interested in the scenery and nature. Since you had the experience what would be a good town to visit?
Remember where conservatives tend to live. Getting anything better than a 28.8 kilobit/second modem isn't easy. Eh, for you city folk, that's a 0.0288 megabit connection. The decimal point is 3 or 4 places to the bad side of what you are used to getting.

As tolerable internet makes it's way out to rural America, you can expect to see a change in the average political view on the internet.
First, auditing the hundreds of millions of lines of code that it takes to build an OS and userspace every election and midterm is completely unrealistic. Especially given the degree of code obfuscation that is possible.

Second, at the silicon level there's billions of transistors in a CPU, silicon in general is prohibitively expensive to audit, and you can do malicious things by just putting in nigh-undetectable changes in dopant levels:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/surreptitious...

Third: you don't need to hide the hack forever. You just need to gain enough power in the election that you can suppress any further investigation.

Given the parade of hacks that make the HN front page every week, at all levels of government and industry, given that the well-funded and incredibly paranoid US military inadvertently deployed backdoored chips, given that existing voting machines have had demonstrable amateur-hour exploits in them:

http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/voting-machine-hack-watch-vide...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/135461/article.html

is it really that difficult to believe that voting machines can be hacked?
That may be a temporary bodge solution to this, but the final solution is to eradicate the kind of legal implications that being an employee entails, aside from the only fact that it is no different than you selling a service to the employer during the contracted working hours. An employee is nothing more than a consultant that, most of the time, works on location, and should legally be treated like that.

Obviously that wouldn't stop you from signing your work away in a contract, but at least removes the whole "it's a different kind of transaction" legal mentality from it.
> the professional creative market

This is not true for the animation/CGI/effects industry where Linux not only looms large but is growing.

I'm also sceptical of Linux having a small share of big data/machine learning since this is adjacent to servers where Linux dominates- would you mind sharing your sources? Nvidia's CUDA is cross-platform, this sets a baseline for whatever response AMD is planning.
What’s needed is large amounts of new housing in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, etc. etc. The most reasonable places to put it are near public transit and near office parks. These cities don’t really have a whole lot of “out” left to build on.
Huh, not sure I understand all of it but good information nonetheless; thanks!
I suspect that micro and niche manufacturing is going to be a thing. If you have a high value product that you can sell a few hundred of a year, then you might be able to have a sustainable business for your self out of your garage.

There are already folks doing this for small markets, especially for high quality goods. Jeans, knives, various EDC items, wallets... these markets are only going to grow.
Effectively legal? It is legal. I can privately crawl the web for all references to "John Doe", "johndoe.com", "/u/johndoe28", etc, and save them, because it's all content that John Doe chose to make publically available, whether on his own website or on forum posts or Facebook or what.

There's probably some point at which the ways I use that data can be classified as stalking or harassment, but simply collecting it is allowed.
It was burying our heads in the sand at the very time when it's most critical to be aware of how we and our industry are affected and involved with politics. If someone in the tech industry who provided significant support to the incoming administration was also involved with YCombinator, the timing would almost be sketchy.
I don't know about AMD drivers but Nvidia's Linux drivers are so iffy. For one thing, I often notice some flickering of one of the windows that I have on the desktop (it's totally random and it usually involves some window in the background. But the biggest issue is that I can't suspend my PC because once it wakes up, GFX driver just goes nuts and everything starts to stutter and every window's corrupted and the only option is to hit the reset. Drives me nuts :(

I'm glad that AMD is still not giving up on Linux!
Your analogy is flawed. Being removed from a google index because of a court order != being wiped from peoples' memories by force. As far as I know the technology for wiping memory doesn't exist yet and unless you are equating the google index with some kind of exo-cortex and even then the analogy is quite a stretch.
Does this tell us anything that is actually useful?

Caffeine keeps us awake. So does light, especially blue light. We knew these things.

But is there anything new or useful here?
You should read up on the law differences on everyday things in countries you are visiting before going there. Avoid breaking the law at all costs as a foreigner, cause even in more 'civilised' places going through the legal system isn't pleasant.

This guy broke the law, maybe he got scammed by corrupt police but he wouldn't have been in the first place if he abided by the law.
When I go with family to the shooting club, we have these hearing protectors that double as hearing enhancement. This seems like a natural extension off the range.
I'd thought the same. In theory, this would contribute to sprawl. In practice, you have to know a bit of what's been going on in California to recognize that the proposed law is squarely aimed at these suburban towns, and they are all already sprawls as it is anyway.
A state-mandated streamlined process (for cities not meeting their mandate) is exactly what this bill is proposing.
I'm not the person you responded to, but here's my take.

I can respect someone I personally dislike. I can also respect someone who disagrees with me. I can even respect someone who makes my life harder, though I might dislike them for it.

But I lose respect for a person for many other things.

Once you tally up all of the factors, I do have trouble respecting most of the Trump voters I've personally encountered so far (not many) because I sensed too much intellectual laziness or cognitive dissonance.

Once you tally up all of the factors, I'm not sure that Trump voters come out ahead of non-voters in aggregate.
As opposed to when I leave having started the project there? I have never gotten anything remotely close to a real answer of what I'm supposed to do once I commit the original sin of thinking while I have a salary. It's not like the moment after I quit every line of code I write is mine free and clear. They own the foundation unless otherwise resolved. They already have all the power.

I didn't plow ahead, I stopped once I thought it might have potential. I really only tried for the few months, after that they kept asking me permission to close the request and I kept telling them no. (I was pretty pissed).
I like football. Manchester United is my fav. I always watch all matches of this team with my boyfriend. He is a huge fan of football. I think this game inspires him for regular trainings. Now he's preparing for the local game and even started to buy steroids for sale at http://daddyroids.org/ to increase strength. I want to get tickets to a football game with MU for him.
They do already have clear interfaces that do this. Some modules have less clear interfaces, but if you followed what they were saying they actually said that it would have been easier if they had subclassed some of the code and followed the way that most folks were writing atomic code.

And there was a function with the bane "validate" that didn't, well, validate. In a bit of code that rung alarm bells.
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Let us not lose sight of this: the enforcement of the "right to be forgotten" is a form of censorship.

Censorship is not the suppression of any information, it's the suppression of some types of information by some types of actors [1].

If someone gets dox'ed and their private address gets exposed to the internet, asking for the information to be removed is not censorship, but protecting private information. Having revenge porn removed is also not a form of censorship, but protection of the individual. It is very important that privacy is protected, especially because spreading (mis)information can destroy someone's life.

Of course, the right to be forgotten can be misused. That's why it should be carefully encoded in law under which circumstances the right can be applied.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship
How free would your speech be if it was recorded for posterity with no way of controlling it? Just something else to think about.
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It seems completely alien to me that a third party could claim ownership of something I've built because I'm using a craft / skill that they pay me to use too. I live in the U.K. And work as a contractor. I've seen odd looking IP clauses in contracts but have amended them or felt confident I can sign them irrespective.
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How about any personal information illegally obtained (the act already a crime most likely) be defined illegal unless already available legally.

However there is still a question of, If a content be blocked globally if its illegal in some country. No IMHO.
"Because people have no problems in the classic quiet room, one person talking sound test environment, it tends to slip through the simple screening tests."

This is exactly why every time I've had an Audiology test, I've never scored above "Average - Above Average", even though I can hear nearly every fluorescent light ballast, powered-on TV, etc. From my own personal tests that I've done with soundwave generators, I can hear up to about 20khz.
I do like it when security polices are compiled into the program and like it even better when they are impossible to disable. That way programs avoid getting out of sync with best security practices since they will start crashing for all users/developers. Not just users of X but not Y. However programs that try to work with pledge/capsicum/seccomp/others are great but always going to be in a very small minority. So something like SELinux and Apparmor being able to enforce policies on arbitrary software seems like a necessary seatbelt.
It's important to note that the actual faucets of ISK into the economy are actually few. Off the top of my head I can think of only three: destroying pirate ships, running missions, and collecting destroyed ship insurance. Every other "faucet" of ISK is really just shuffling it around to different wallets. A huge corporation has a large moon mining operation going and selling what they receive for large amounts of money in Jita? That's just shuffling ISK from a player's wallet to another player's wallet. And in fact, the game takes a small tax out of selling those lucrative assets, so there is also a constant sink of ISK out of the economy. And considering the number of trades going on at any time, those small taxes build up to what is probably a larger amount of money than you might think per day, offsetting the actual faucets pretty nicely I would imagine.

The beauty of the economy is that most lucrative assets do not generate ISK, and are highly temporary. The moon mining materials go into ships and modules, which explode permanently. On their way to exploding permanently, they sink ISK out of the economy via tax on selling (if sold) and money required to actually manufacture something.

This is probably why the price of stuff stays relatively even. If the price of a ship has gone up, it's likely largely due to supply/demand rather than purely inflation, as last time I played (this year) the price of minerals had stayed approximately the same. There might have been a little inflation, but no hyperinflation that I could see.

EDIT: Thought of a fourth faucet: buying commodities for cheap and selling them for more at an NPC-run station. Because those commodities are generated and bought purely out of thin air by the game systems.
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I mean, yes this is awful and shameful but is it really news? It has always been the case that you have virtually no rights when entering or leaving the US especially with regard to protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
any personal information illegally obtained

You're right, that should be removed. As you say, it's already a crime, so that wouldn't need any additional support by the RTBF.
But the spin is that it is the Russian tool that is based, not the American Facebook.

Welcome to propaganda.
Something like Blue Apron?
What are some examples of clauses that looked odd that you signed anyway?
If you're talking about fixed prices in EVE's economy, you possibly don't understand it very well. There are very few fixed prices in EVE, most of which are things like skill books which by necessity have to be generated by the game systems. Or commodities, which have no real use outside of buying and selling for some small profit.

All useful items in the game are sold to other players, and the price changes over time based on supply and demand, or other traders just being cutthroat about selling their items. I made a decent chunk of money by putting up buy orders for items to get from actual players, and then selling those items to actual players for several hundred percent markup. (that was just how the price was at the time) Occasionally a single item could become entirely worthless to sell because other traders would get into price wars to make sure their items sold first by modifying their sell price down by a small amount. Or buy price up by a small amount.

Recently there was a large war, and the price of a lot of the popular ships went up because the large alliances were buying large amounts of them. Possibly the price of manufactured items went up by some amount as well due to minerals becoming more scarce from alliances consuming huge amounts of them to fuel their war.

All that is to say: you don't sell apples for $5 every time ;) Though the price of certain base goods, such as a common mineral, might only vary by +- 0.10 of an ISK in general.
It's obvious what you mean, but it's not obvious how or why an EU law means Google has to change data in their datacenters in the USA for someone searching from Brazil.

It is very simple. A country (or union) can require businesses that operate in their country to fulfill a set of rules. One of the rules could be that it should be possible for any user of the service to remove their data.

Although a country cannot enforce these rules globally in the strict sense, it can forbid the company to operate in that country until it operates within the boundaries of the law. Some companies will relent to get access to that market.

(Whether this is a good idea is another question.)
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> make good decisions on a scale of several years

I work with government often. I am often outside begging to be given access to help my community with one civic project or another. Interactions that take hours in open source communities, take months to coordinate with City staff.

I'm the last one to advocate taking the brakes off the car, but there are many many many parts of government where decisions require several years only because everything takes years to do. I think there is a perspective, if you step back to imagine this world, where we as citizens can participate and make the turn-around quicker. Not everywhere. Many government functions require care and caution and sober second/third/fourth thoughts.

But many of these actions need not take years, if we could re-imagine something better. And right now, the lifeblood of government runs like molasses, not because each slow process has been intentionally made slow, but because the processes and practices and hierarchies are structurally slow at their core. That's not clever slowness. That's a calcifying fossil.

I personally think giving citizens more decision-making access will keep civil servants on their toes, keep them learning, and speed up the cycle time in many needlessly slow areas of government.
There are far more sources of information than what John Doe explicitly puts out there. Those are probably the least of his worries.

What about the embarrassing things other people post about John Doe? What if this harms his ability to provide for his family?

What about things fabricated by others to silence or overtake John Doe?

edit: (adding the point below)

Just because it's legal to collect, manipulate, and profit from this mass of information 'somewhere' doesn't mean that concerned groups of people shouldn't try to make that process harder or impossible.
I agree with you regarding "Let there be light" referring to the Big Bang. However, it's not unreasonable to assume that there might have been another source of light for these plants to grow. Alternatively, even if there wasn't, do you not think that a God who could create the Sun and the Earth from nothing would be unable to make plants grow without the Sun? It seems that many so-called 'rebuttals' of the Bible try to disprove it by explaining why some events are physically impossible, but what is impossible to an all-powerful God who created the laws of physics themselves? Is he not able to bend them to His will?

If one tries to nitpick on every little detail in the Scriptures, they will have a lot of occasions to do so. It is quite easy to find apparent contradictions by interpreting the Bible in a way that is suited to your goal. It is not, however, a proof that the Bible contradicts itself, as it relies on a specific interpretation. When it come to religious matters, very few things can be proven or disproven.

The way I see it, Christian faith is about being humble. You can't find God if you read the Bible with a self-righteous, know-it-all attitude, trying to disprove it line by line. I found this[1] page to explain this point of view quite well.

You cannot apply the principles of science to metaphysical matters, because science concerns itself purely with the physical, tangible world, and has no answers to offer regarding its origins, its meaning, etc. Science and faith do not contradict each other; rather, they complement each other. I like to think of myself as a highly rational individual; mathematics and programming, for example, delight me. Yet I have no issue believing that the Bible is true, and that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the creator of the Universe. Does that make me a fool? In the eyes of some, yes. Is it possible to be cognitively biased in a specific area yet highly rational in others? Absolutely. But to say that reason precludes faith is simply incorrect.

[1]: http://www.christiananswers.net/q-comfort/contradictions-bib...
I think the issue is more or less clarified behind the scenes. Have a look here from AMD's bridgman

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
>Google is slipping
Or maybe Google is monetizing. Trusting an advertising company to not forward you advertising is somewhat naive.
I'm pretty sure ships have always, or at least for many years, had some kind of collision boundary with each other, with stations, etc. Case in point: a highly effective tactic to keep huge ships that take forever to align for warping from actually getting into warp, was to take a small ship and "bump" it, causing it to get out of alignment. This was used in portions of space where aggressive actions on ships (such as warp scrambling) would be met with swift destruction.

I think they recently changed it to be mass-based though, so you can't really bump a Freighter with a Frigate.
I thought it was just me. This article says absolutely nothing of value.