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I didn't say they're identical, but they do seem similar in spirit.

Indentured servitude: you either obey the contract, or go to jail.

Non-compete: you either obey the contract, or go work in a different industry (in effect, become poorer, since you have to start over).
I too use enpass. Syncs your password vault to OneDrive, Dropbox. (It's just an encrypted file)
LOL, buttcoin is deflationary.
This, IIRC, requires an older version of 1Password. Version 4, from the "Who moved my cheese" discussion of 1Password's most recent subscription changes.
Ahh, right. Thanks for the refresher!
That is so cool! Just what I (and so many others) are looking for. Can it handle typesafe's config too? https://github.com/typesafehub/config/
So for new tech people getting started in their careers, make sure you save up 4-6 months of income so you don't have to put up with this garbage. They say money is power, but before that, it's freedom.

Don't allow yourself to be pushed around. If you aren't strong enough mentally yet to do it for yourself, do it for the other people in the field who aren't strong enough.

If they offer to pay you to train your replacement, tell them to pound sand and walk out. Be prepared financially.

If they try to force you to sign a non-compete, be willing to walk away until they make it fair and reasonable.

If they try to get you to sign away all your IP, tell them no.

Companies don't expect you to read that contract you are signing, and most of them just pull a boilerplate contract off the internet. Almost all of them are grossly one sided to the company. This includes taking ownership of anything you've developed in the past on your own.

All of this is easy if you have 4-6 months of income saved up. You are in high demand; companies will wither on the vine without good, efficient systems running them. Now, but even more so in the future.
I like this plan, but I'd imagine in Alfred Nobel's will there is something requiring that the peace prize be awarded only in Norway.
On the other hand, I was once in the same position. (The acquiring company was actually one of the most vocal backers of non-competes in their state over the years.) It was made clear that we either signed or we'd be immediately terminated.

I did sign. It was actually written narrowly enough that I didn't expect it would be a problem. And it wasn't when I left fairly shortly thereafter.
To me, postponing architectural and technical decisions might be a viable option, https://blog.ycombinator.com/minimum-viable-product-process/
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Boise is my back pocket destination. If/when I get sick of California nonsense, I'd move to Boise in a heartbeat. No family there, just like the low key outdoor culture and low cost of living.
> "Their support for Hezbollah, Hamas, and other problematic groups complicates things too"

Both Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations. This is true according to the US, EU, Israel, Saudi Arabia, ...). Iran is developing nuclear weapons which they said will be used against Israel, but Suni Arabs states such as Saudi Arabia are very, very worried as well.

I was just a few miles away from 9/11 when it happened. Please, never, never minimize terrorism and state sponsorship of terrorist organization.
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I use Keepass 2. With a plugin, it's synced to Dropbox, where I can access it on my Android device with one of the compatible apps.
How would you imagine an Iranian traffic jam? Picture it in your head.

Now watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RjSXqUpSM
The newer tendency to mark threads with numbers so that people at least know there is context to a particular mid-thread tweet seems to help somewhat, but the general problem remains.

It also fascinates me how badly editors' choice of headlines to make people more likely to click can screw up the debate because many people respond to the clickbait headline without clicking, and end up drawing conclusions that aren't at all supported by the article. Presumably this is also a problem on facebook, but I deleted my account there some time ago.
Congratulations for having the patience to write out long strings of characters on paper and type them out repeatedly, but that doesn't sound very safe.
There is quite a lot of evidence that species of animals that work in cooperative groups engage various forms of behavior that seek to equalize outcomes for the group, even to their (individual) detriment. Notable examples include apes.
>Non competes are silly beyond measure.

Maybe. Maybe not. Here is a mental exercise for you.

Suppose that you meet a cofounder with a fantastic idea, that requires a modest amount of research to work the kinks out of, and you bring almost zero value to the equation other than having the vision to know that their idea is great - and of course, your willingness to work 100 hours per week until you're both rich off of it. They bring almost all of the value to the equation and have a great resume and background and degrees in that field. You're a code monkey or something. maybe you're a good one, but you certainly don't do the work of fifty or a hundred engineers. maybe 3-5. sometimes. you're nothing special.

so you enter into a contract with your partner under some terms, doesn't really matter what. you're cofounders.

Now here is the question: what is the outcome for you if as you begin to prove the technology together your cofounder gets a fantastic, amazing offer from a huge mutibillion dollar company, for millions of dollars, to leave you, join them, and compete with you. They don't want you, you don't add any value. Your company doesn't have any assets or IP. They just want your cofounder to go leave you and compete directly with the company you poured a lot of time into together and co-own.

if your cofounder does that, then this is awful for you. you've just wasted whatever time you spent working together as you don't bring all that much to the equation. your company becomes non-viable.

So how do you avoid this? Well you can trust each other: you can straight-up say at the start of the partnership, hey (cofounder's name), I know you bring a lot more value to this venture than I do and I am honored that you are letting me help you bring this to market. Before we enter our partnership, will you PROMISE me that you are not just going to leave and start directly competing with us?

Your cofounder says, sure, okay, I promise.

If they're a person of their word, this effectively solves the problem you had been having.

The thing is, this is a non-compete agreement. That's literally what it is. The legalities don't matter.

Do you guys think this agreement is "wrong"? After all your friend is severely constrained and must refuse offers of millions of dollars to leave your joint company and compete with you, if they keep their word....

I am not asking about whether courts should enforce these contracts. I'm asking whether the agreement itself is something that is wrong to enter. Is it wrong to ask for and receive that promise?

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EDIT: Despite my very clear signposting, a lot of people are misinterpreting this. I was asking what you all thought about the morality of such an "extreme" example.
I did not include any value judgment.
So the two sides arrive at the "correct" amount of pay. How is that a problem? If someone wants to offer an employee more money, shorter commute, better perks, personal unicorn to fetch coffee from Starbucks, employee tells the employer "bye" and moves.

If an employer finds someone who can do employees job better or cheaper, employer tells that employee "Bye!"

Will the job market become commoditized? Sure. And it is absolutely great. Commoditization increases access to products of the said market.

[Edit: It is highly amusing to see people's reaction in this thread. It is akin to a toddler stomping his foot saying "Mommy, I don't want to!"]
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I use KeePassXC [1], which is open-source, and I sync it across my iPhone, Windows laptop, and Linux desktop via Tresorit [2] (like Dropbox but end-to-end encrypted). It's secured with a password that I know, and a keyfile that I have. I don't sync the keyfile and always manually transfer to new computers.

I also use Arq [3] to automatically backup to S3 every hour, and I also do manual backup to my external backup drives once in a while.

[1]: https://keepassxc.org
[2]: https://tresorit.com
[3]: https://www.arqbackup.com
“What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”

— The Matrix, 1999
Is there a similar project for Ruby?
Quite often investment is delivered in tranches where a chunk of the funds are delivered at different stages as milestones are met. Just like you don't get all the entire student loans at once, you get them year by year assuming your grades/extracurriculars meet the criteria.
Morning-after edit: streamed phone video, or even just a conversation with photos, would be much easier.
I found this link: https://www.earthrights.org/campaigns/norway-complicit-human...
but haven't read it fully.
I live in Idaho, so I can speak to this case specifically.

Idaho is a very rural state. Most of the population is in Boise, but every district in the state has a representative. This means that the wills of the city goers can't overrule the wills of the larger state as a whole, even thought it has the majority of the population.

Now, something to know about rural America is that it tends tomostly care about two things -- religion and the right to bear arms (this is a generalization, of course). As a result, the elected officials typically campaign on those points, and everything else is glassed over. Thusly, many of the elected officials serve special interest groups under the guise of a bible and a gun, and the rest doesn't really matter. It's not lack of intelligence, but lack or priorities other than these.

And that's how Idaho residents put up with these types of laws being put in place.
Why down voting a true comment about Iran supporting terrorist organizations.

If what I stated is not true, down vote and please correct me.

I was a few miles from 9/11 when it happened. Please, never, never minimize terrorism nor state sponsorship of terrorist organizations.
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Yeah, this is euphemistically called "gardening leave" in the U.K, and is normally full salary.
Android version also the first thing I set up on a fresh phone. Fingerprint unlock, can input passwords directly into most apps (it matches sites to apps automatically) as well as Chrome.
In India four to six months notice is extremely common requirement.
I'm not familiar, but I know that 99% of the current startups that are using the ICO model are not targeting what made Bitcoin popular.
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Amen!

How do you feel about the marketing, though? I don't object to my daughter reveling in dolls, fancy clothes, and Playmobil, but I do object to specific character brands being pushed at her. I feel they collapse the imagination space too much.

I have, somewhat shockingly to my sneering internal 13 year old boy, allowed My Little Pony branding through my relatively strict anti-brand filter, because the female characters are surprisingly reasonable.

But on the whole, it's a struggle. Every other product my daughter sees at Target is a branded Disney product, and even though she's never even seen most of the characters animated, she's drawn like a moth to a flame.
How do those holding opposing views of mathematical realism account for the presence of such plants and similar computed natural phenomena?
The majority of 9/11 attackers were Saudi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

Iran is our natural ally in the region.
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It's immensely disappointing that this comment section has has an abundance of comments on iranian socio-political issues, while completely devoid of any discussion on dynamics on moduli spaces.
Ollie, why pmOS and not Meego or Sailfish? What do you want to accomplish by starting from scratch?
I was miles away from 9/11 when it happened. I could see the smoke from the WTC buildings when looking south on Broadway Ave.

Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organization according to the US, EU, and Israel. Iran is a state sponsoring terrorist groups. There must be zero tolerance for terrorism and terrorist organizations. There must be zero tolerance of state sponsorship of terrorist organizations.
X marks the spot.
Please quote this in context! The author is criticizing those stereotypes.
> You are in high demand

maybe. it may just be people willing to sign one-sided agreements are in high demand.
Nope, the company is called shifty jelly. They've still got other iOS apps though so it wouldn't surprise if they were taken down.
How do we start the process of getting an amendment protecting encryption added to the Constitution?
Any such IP would have been assigned to the company you are forming; if the large corporation wants to use it, they need to aquire the IP or the company itself, in which you are part owner.

There's no need for a non-compete here.
Serious answer: it's not about his kids, it's about him living vicariously through them.

Oh, and building his twitter/thinkfluencer brand
This is such sad news. RIP.
Agreed on use of keepassxc - fantastic utility.

I don't, and wouldn't, use dropbox or any other non-free non-self-hosted system to manage the storage or synchronisation of my secure data, so it's unison(rsync) and/or ssh'd between desktop and laptop.
Years ago I was put on a PIP. A year later at the same company I was promoted. The things I learned about managing my time while working towards the PIP goals still serve me well today.

I know others who have had similar experiences.

Whether or not it will turn around depends both on management's sincerity in providing the PIP and the employee's willingness to accept that he or she actually needs to change something.
It's a very simple question, you know.

Love it when topics on China or India pop up. You get all the same subservient pundits posting, but anecdotally the Chinese bots have spelling on their side.
What do you mean by scam? Do you have any links to support this assertion?
Looks more like a map of smartphone + fitness tracker equality.
What are the hidden requirements of your question?

As asked you can just use gpg https://www.gnupg.org
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Game would be much better if 3 women were shown to choose from, instead of just 1 at a time. Maybe that feature could be added to the project by someone: https://github.com/attogram/shared-media-tagger
As if computers haven't killed enough people already.

Somebody posted this here a few days ago joking about self-crashing cars: http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-model-s-au...
Interesting, I don't think I've run into another mathematician who sketches on large sheets of paper like that (not that that means there aren't any). I do know some architects who like to work that way, and it used to be common in engineering (rarer in recent years), but mathematicians seem to always be depicted working either in notebooks, on the backs of napkins, or on whiteboards/blackboards.
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> Where is the quote from?

Coincidentally, Google isn't just in the business of releasing mosquitoes, but has other useful functions.

https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi...
the alternative is that personal insurance for all non-autonomous vehicles goes through the roof and all motorcycles die.

i have a bike. i love my bike. i don't know how long i'd be able to ride it if autonomous cars take over.
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It was Israel that bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor. If it had not, Iraq would have had nuclear weapons making action against Iraq very difficult.

It is Israel that tests US weapons systems in real world combat situations giving a tremendous amount of feedback to improve the weapons systems.

The Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun":
It was Israel that stole the MIG fighter jet that enabled our government to understand the operating characteristics so as to train US higher pilots to fight the MIGs.

Israel serves as an "aircraft carrier" for the US where many, many weapons are stored. US troops train with Israelis.

It is Israeli drone which protect NATO troops in Afghanistan including German troops.
Israel is the 3rd largest exporter of weapons technology to India after US and Russia.
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There is no IP in the situation I have outlined. (I said this very specifically: "Your company doesn't have any assets or IP. ").

The cofounder doesn't need to bring anything with them to the company that wants to acquire them. I was super-clear on this point.
not assuming anything. just looking at the results. from poverty to riches in 70 years, civil harmony and > 1bn people, clearly the proof the party doesn't know what they're doing.

the truth is the PRC is ruled by technocratic geniuses. Even their critics admit as much. most of them are engineers. you SV Cali republic folks ought to be eyeing this as a model of development + progress can be done right at scale.

but i get there's years of propaganda to see through to get to that point.
This is less and less the case, as weird as that sounds. I'm finishing my degree not because I'm learning anything, but too many managers (and academics) have point-blank told me they just want to see that I've been "initiated".
Classic. It is always the politicians who screw things up.
Let's hope this translates to on-ground political changes. The current neo-liberal plan for the decapitation of the Middle East does not bode well for the world.
I can confirm this option still exists in 1Password 6 (I'm using the iCloud sync but I see the option for dropbox as well). I'm not sure how to get the license though. I only see the upgrade path that I took - not the outright purchase.
I use Vault from hashi corp for everything.
How is it that brilliant, genius people who truly help our world become a better place die young, while people who bring nothing but destruction and war, live for decades?
MacOS 1P can still do it for current version and next version, as per their blog post. iOS 1P still does too.
Terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. 9/11 was a terrorist act. Iran supports terrorist organizations. If Iran had any true respect for 9/11 it would not be supporting terrorist organizations.

> "Iran is our natural ally in the region."

Alies don't support terrorist organizations.

My understanding is that the problem is the government and not the people. I fairly confident that the people of Iran do not want to support terrorism nor do they want to support building atom bombs.
"Suppose that you meet a cofounder with a fantastic idea, that requires a modest amount of research."

This is IP.
Because you can offer processing-intensive features to customers who bought the device several years ago without requiring they buy new hardware! Look at the changes to what you can do with a Nest Cam, an Amazon Echo, and a Google Home compared to when the hardware was released. Particularly when you want to do various machine learn-y things on the data. Can't go retrofit 1M consumer devices with TPUs, but you can use them in the cloud.
I guarantee the majority of companies don't even know what's in that contract. They just pulled it off the internet because someone said, "Oh crap, we need an employee agreement. Google one." or "Find someone else's contract agreement."

If they go through all the trouble of recruiting you, interviewing you and deciding they want you, they'll be willing to consider revising it, especially since they probably didn't give it much thought in the first place.

Just raise your concerns in an intelligible way and don't be an asshole about it. I just did that for a contract. I said, "I can't give you all my inventions, I have a ton of them." They didn't even realize that was in the contract and they revised it. Poof. I got a fair agreement.
I only skimmed the notebook, but the code looks fairly inadequate. The pandas portion, for instance, treats the data frame as a dumb array and critically ignores grouping functionality which should offer a tremendous speedup. Moreover, for the exact same task pandas should never be slower than NumPy.

Benchmarks are hard to get right but this one falls way short of saying anything at all about performance penalties incurred by various libraries and abstractions.
This seems short-sighted.

The question, "Do I even want to work in Idaho?" Has got to be raising itself to employees and prospective employees already. Do you want to add another reason to make the easy answer no?

Meanwhile, you're amassing a stockpile of unhappy employees who don't want to be working for you but feel they have no choice. Do you really want to grow the number of employees you have who are trying to do the minimum?
This was terrible news today. It made me genuinely sad. I hope she rests in peace while all the humanity honors her.
I copied a sentence from the quote and did a search for it. The only result with the sentence was this HN post.

Thanks for the snark, though.
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I left the following comment at the blog:

For this example, idiomatic Pandas would look like this:

def gen_stats_pandas2(dataset_pandas):
grouped = dataset_pandas.groupby('product_id')
stats = grouped.aggregate(['count', 'sum', 'mean'])
return stats[[('product_order_num','count'), ('quantity','sum'), ('price','mean')]]

which is simpler and about 500x faster than gen_stats_pandas() in the example:

%%time
res1 = gen_stats_pandas(dataset_pandas)

CPU times: user 8.48 s, sys: 32 ms, total: 8.51 s
Wall time: 8.58 s

%%time
res2 = gen_stats_pandas2(dataset_pandas)

CPU times: user 16 ms, sys: 4 ms, total: 20 ms
Wall time: 17.6 ms
+1 for `pass`. I wrote a handy Bash script [1] that lets me easily search my passwords without having an exact match (e.g., `fpass fin cap one` quickly finds my password info for "Financial/CapitalOne.gpg"). It makes pulling up passwords so much easier as I only need to remember fragments of how I stored it instead of trying to remember exact folders and names using auto-complete to find the password.

I also use iTerm2's system-wide hotkey [2] to quickly show/hide a dedicated terminal window that I use for retrieving passwords.

I've been using this setup for years now and I absolutely love it. The only downside is no access from my phone, but I always have my laptop with me and I memorize passwords that I frequently use.

1. https://github.com/raamdev/bin/blob/master/fpass

2. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/48805
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Whether it's ridiculous or not is a matter of perspective. In Europe the minimum is 1-3 months, though there's often a trial period where the obligated notice is 1 week or less.

In practice though the employee/employer are free to upon termination sign an agreement reducing the dismissal period to whatever they feel is appropriate. Few employers wants to keep an employee that's decided to quit longer than strictly necessary.
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