skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-competes are fine so long as:

-You are in a role with high search/discovery costs but low replication costs: A quant developing predictive signals, a salesperson or attorney building a client base, a researcher improving Google's machine learning techniques, a chemical engineer at a petroleum company improving their processes, a pharmaceutical researcher, a chef trying new dishes hoping to find a hot new idea.

-Your work can't easily be protected by a patent. If you're developing brake pads or some other consumer product, the company should protect itself with a patent instead since competitors will just buy the product in the open market and reverse engineer it. However, even for these cases, knowledge of ideas that failed is a valuable roadmap for a competitor.

-The non-compete is specific and targeted to direct competitive behavior. For example a law partner should be blocked from taking his book of business to another big law firm for a period, but working as a judge or government official should be permitted.

-If unpaid, the period should be short. For a year or more, there should be significant compensation to enforce. The primary purpose should be protecting the company, not trapping employees or lowering compensation. For retention, bonuses and deferred compensation should be used instead.

If used fairly, non-competes are good for both the employer and employee. Businesses that share ideas openly, with mutual trust among employees, tend to perform better. People in R&D all work very hard, and eventually each should generate results, but some people are just lucky and discover great ideas sooner. If all your lucky guys/gals walk out the door immediately, the company can't invest as much in R&D.

And NDA/confidentiality contracts can only do so much. In obvious cases like a salesperson downloading his client list and profit numbers, or an engineer putting the source tree or product designs on a USB stick, it's a slam dunk case. But you can't vacuum someone's head. Someone who created a system at one company will likely create a similar system elsewhere. It's hard to make the case that a different system with some similar ideas, thought processes, or architecture is a direct copy.
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What is so problematic about being able to summon the CEO of a business that operates in your country? You say it would get crazy but I don’t see how.
I guess he cares (he spent the time expressing it in writing) and I care (I took the time to respond) :)

Also I'm not considering alternatives just because Java 9 broke stuff. There are lots of other reasons why Java irritates me but I felt it was still a winner when you balance up all the factors. But if backward compatibility is no longer going to be prioritised, then this shifts the calculation so that it's at least worth it, in my mind, to evaluate alternatives. So we're going to try Kotlin on a fairly small self-contained project.
> Thus, jurors that end up on the bench are forced by law to act as if every word by law enforcement is true, even if it contradicts physical reality. No?

No. If that were the case, there would be no need for evidence, a judge, a jury, or a trial. "Just ask the cops" is not how this system works.
The one-year is for the disclosure of the idea/discovery.

So what this says is that they have IP on inventions you made while employed, even if you only disclose that invention after having left.

It does not say anything about inventions made after you left.
Terrible title - its sarcastic. Poland is (apparently) a great place to outsource.
> I was willing to tolerate Ledger's issues here ... if they fixed them

> Unfortunately, the Ledger team appear to be asshats, so there's every reason to fear using them in the future, even if they've fixed this specific issue

Your first two lines completely contradict each other.

The Nano S is #3 in your list.
He also had a pretty popular post here a while back about prepping for doomsday [1], interesting read.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110850
You could also do sentiment analysis on your dataset and link it to likes. Basically the more signals you have the more you can narrow down your classifications or correlations.

Btw, your inference is correct. Course, one could argue that it is informed by 25-35 males being one of the most common demographics on HN.
Reading your parent comment and the replies has me kind of dumbfounded at the wasted potential. Did they ever address these ideas directly? Would opening up the format in even the most limited ways (like focus) have exposed the IP?
Over what time period? Lots of people probably spend 2 weeks of wages per year on entertainment of some kind.
Grow your network
That only applies to hostilities between the Contracting Parties; most of the drone strikes haven't even been against other countries, but independent militarized groups.
Gypsy is considered a slur by some nowadays, probably shouldn't drop that casually anymore. Sorry, I hate language police too, I'm not actually offended just letting you know in case you drop it in a meeting someday.

I'd argue it's still possible to ignore it all, but you need three browser extensions and two mobile apps, a vpn, and probably a few other measures in place to pull it off. I feel like I'm sailing out to war with a well equipped battleship every time I launch my browser.

This is dumb. How did we let technology get so bad? How did we let the web become completely subverted?
Good point, that's possible. I made the above assumption because it would be easier to commit suicide by putting the bike down first and then walking into traffic. But in the context of always engaging in risky/dangerous behaviour because you don't care about your life then this would make sense as a possible scenario.
I, too, like the Neue Haas Grotesk variant of Helvetica. But I can't get too excited about another teeny tweak to it.
I don’t. Nothing about jfasi’s comment reads like a joke.
Yeah, living in the Midwest I've actually encountered potholes where, if I drove my Fiat over them at any speed, would literally swallow the entire wheel and likely render the car undrivable without major repairs. Not only does an SUV/pickup have bigger tires, they're also made for driving over incredibly rough terrain. Solid axles and four-wheel drive mitigates a lot of those issues.
In the UK system juries are selected randomly, and there is essentially no selection*

Nothing like the American system, where the lawyers can go through 250 candidates to choose 12 jurors, letting them choose the race, gender, education and class composition of the jury.

*Challenges are possible, such as if the random selection procedure wasn't followed properly or if a juror knows people involved, but it's very unusual.
This looks like an alternative to the typical Active Directory/Exchange setup that many large corporations run.
If I read that correctly, the “breakage” is a bug fix, as that particular Java 7 compiler isn’t behaving according to the spec. You can argue that breaks backwards compatibility, but in the smallest, most innocuous way possible.
> Sci-hub is there to "expropriate the expropriators" in Lenin's words. That there is some wider benefit to the community is completely secondary.

While you can see my opinion on her personality above I still think you going into extremes regarding the project itself. Keep in mind that she is just end up being face of the project, but there more people working on it, and maintaining Library Genesis too, and dealing with risk of getting into prison for the service they provide to everyone.
This would be so creepy.
> With high-resolution displays becoming the norm

It will be years before TVs as well as desktop monitors are HiDPI in overwhelming numbers. 720p/1080p is pretty much the norm for those now. These fonts are meant to be usable on the vast majority (> 95%) of customer's screens, not just the minority (majority soon) of HiDPI screens.

> The only reason to not use a serif font is because at low resolutions, the serifs blur into a mess, […]

Nonsense. It's also an aesthetic call. We are not just using sans-serif fonts because our screens can't do better; sometimes they just work on their own merits (whether that's legibility or appearance).
If any google developers are out there - it would be great to be able to try this service out without having to type in a ton of information to get started - i just want to log in and see how it works - how it compares to IAM, auth0, etc.
Getting laid-off if you were a FB employee and a resident would become super-unpleasant. "Got laid off. Now I have to find a new place to live by the end of the week. And explain to them how I am able to pay the higher rent on the new place"
Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your Facebook account
I don't know, but I imagine nobody else wanted to spend money, time, or risk their reputation on an election they have almost no chance to win.
You could even use a paper actually :)
Those are all tricks. They put pressure on the candidate to sign ASAP.

If the candidate accepts the contract as it is the company wins.

If the bargains around clauses it's still OK and having many clauses to drop makes it look like the company is being flexible.

Always push back!
KerasJS3D interactive deep learning demos
> Its purely Trump hatred driving this.

I would agree that the election of someone so woefully unfit to serve has scared the shit out of a lot of people. And so many people are putting a lot of thought and energy into trying to pick apart how things could've gone so wrong. Thus, we're having discussions like these.

We tend to question things more after they go wrong. Whether or not you liked his policies, Obama was a fairly straightforward politician who at least knew how to operate the office of the Presidency and wasn't nested in an extensive web of shadiness and criminality.
When letting the TV onto your network but restrict its internet access, you can still stream content from a DLNA capable media server onto your TV.
Prototype Post-Mortem: Four-Step Octaved Sequencer
The compound eyes of some insects are very similar to how a lightfield camera is optically structured.
Meh. Nobody should be surprised by any of this in the slightest. If your employer provides / pays for any kind of communications tool, the only sane position is to assume that they can - and probably do - monitor every single byte you send.
Yep working now. thanks! Cool idea, best of luck!
Spend the year taking classes, learning new programming languages and tools. There are ways to make it work for you.
Why does it matter whether they want to share their work data with Google? It's their company's decision. Their company owns the data.

I hope you realize the insanity of the following exchange:

"Bob, you should enter your sick leave in Workday."

"But I don't want that company know about my sick days. Can I use something different instead?"
I’ve deployed Auth0 in production before (and quickly glanced through gcloud identity). This seems aimed at larger enterprises (both in terms of features and pricing). Imagine an enterprize trying to deploy ldap or active directory in the cloud age and keeping all accounts in sync with various SaaS.

Auth0 can be used that way but with some work. It really shines when you want to build saas that requires user login. Auth0 is worth every penny (priced by active logins) but I’d be hard pressed to spend 4$ per user if I’m building a consumer saas (but 4$ per employee login is reasonable).
I worked at a company once that was bought and tried the same thing. I told them I needed a large compensation component to sign, and I never heard anything else about it. This was big company buying big company though, so it was probably boiler plate stuff.
These are the 64 startups unveiled at Y Combinator W18 Demo Day 2
Sounds good in principle but how would mastodon scale to billions of accounts and maintain data centers around the world?
Whatever google can or cannot do with the data depends on their ToS but that is a problem for the company that contracts them to deal with as it's their data; not the users.

Most importantly, virtually all PaaS and SaaS solutions (office365 being the most well-known) already operate like that; on-prem services are getting pretty scarce nowadays on the enterprise world.
You know it is almost impossible to get arranged married in India without a fb profile as average joes think i have something to hide when i do not have an active profile, i have not even deleted it completely yet i am apparently 'suspect' in the eyes of the urban society that overshares
Reaffirming that Excel truly is the universal format for everything. Good work!
This should probably be a response to fareesh's top-level post. My comment was just to say that Trump's margin of victory -- however you want to analyze it or state it -- doesn't have any bearing on what motivated Trump voters and isn't even relevant in the context of fareesh's comment.
I definitely don't think the current people running it are trying to be the next Zuckerberg. But you do have to have people working full time and pay for server costs, electricity, etc. A distributed system would be interesting, but is that what they are doing? At this point is it purely developers volunteering their time and money (along with donations)? I can't see donations supporting this type of thing at a larger scale.

I'm just wondering how they are getting the capital to scale.
we're trying to build a better professional network. based on your role, join a private channel with peers doing the same thing at other companies. grow your network, share knowledge, and make work a little easier.
They're mad that FB changed the timeline algorithm. Now they're showing less shared links to 3rd party sites and more personal updates, such as new photos and status updates.
No I have nothing to do with facebook despite this randomly generated username
She had a bunch of shopping bags hanging off the front. I imagine that could change how it was identified.
> I charge about 33% extra

Has that ever come up for you in real life, with the client paying you the 33% extra and you accepting such a wide-ranging NDA/noncompete?

It seems to me that you'd be taking on a risk much greater than 33% of your earnings on the project, though I suppose the risk of actual "enforcement" of the letter of the agreement is not very high.
> The only real misconception is that use of GPL software by a company will somehow result in all software owned by that company becoming GPL licensed. This is of course not true. It is true that linking proprietary software to GPL code and then distributing executables must result in either the proprietary software being licensed under the GPL or a copyright violation.

Other than the fact that you can of course negotiate another license to that GPLed software, I agree. Said more succinctly, distributing copyrighted materials without a license is a copyright violation and that has nothing to do with the GPL. My point is that the remedy for the copyright violation need not result in your original codebase being GPLed. This is even true if the original authors absolutely refuse to issue you a separate non-GPL license or refuse to negotiate. In that case they can probably get an injunction and statutory damages (of course assuming they pursue legal action).

Regardless, I don't think we disagree here. However, you seem to be ignorant of the FUD that is often spread about the GPL. Many people believe claims like if Microsoft linked GPLed code into Office that they would have no choice but to GPL all of Office. That is false. As long as we agree about this I don't see any point in discussing this further.

> Your comments about getting different license terms is proving my point. Your proposed solutions to the GPL redistribution clause all boil down to not using GPL software.

Well if you'd like a clear statement about my beliefs it's this: Don't use software if you aren't prepared to meet the terms of its license. But that doesn't really have anything to do with the GPL specifically.
When the truth is exposed we the people stop using that service. Lets face it US congress in this current form isn't going to do anything about it or pass laws to protect us (the users). So we have to hurt these corps where it hurts, their ad revenue.

I have already deleted my FB account and am encouraging others to do the same.
I guess for branding. Now they have their own font associated with their service.
This scenario is clearly not in the interest of the incumbents in the world of currency (US$, Euro). It's conceivable, however, that because of geopolitical wars some other state -- with enough clout and whose income can be ensured by means other than taxation (Russia or China perhaps) -- adopts some cryptocurrency wholesale, with a view to disrupting the financial markets. It's quite implausible that the sponsored choice would be Bitcoin though.
I like the simplicity. Also, I'm assuming it's not free, it would be nice to know what's the price before signing up. Maybe you could just add some sort of a disclaimer, e.g. Generate / Create new site (free up to 1k visitors/month, $5 after). Good luck!
No? Someone just mentioned it was an upside when going to jail that would be lost if people don't go to jail.
Didn't Google already have an SSO solution? I'm using it in GSuite at our company. Or was it restricted to only GSuite?

Edit: BTW, I see this can be set up for Github Business. Does github.com not support SAML?
The problem with noncompetes isn't that you'll get dragged into court over them, it's that old employer makes a call to new employer and you get shown the door.

Now you have to sue somebody to get your rights upheld.
You're not allowed by law to disregard the jury instructions. It's a practical effect of keeping jury proceedings secret.

People do it anyway, and it's highly unlikely that they'll be found out, but the problem is it's a double-edged sword: in this case, justice might have demanded it; on the other hand, a Klansman could use the same approach to get another member off the hook for an obvious murder conviction.
Yes, you are told this by the judge, but I wasn't aware at the time that you can still use whatever you want to form your decision.

If I could do it again I would have hung the jury. Let's just say the system in place makes it veeerrryyy difficult to do so... which is of course a perverse incentive.

I'm still kicking myself (this is years later) because normally I'm a person who sticks my neck out for my own principles, and that time I succumbed. I won't make the same mistake again.
No it's not. You can remove brake pedal from your car but then you'd need to construct an expensive custom deceleration system. It's an apt analogy.
They more and more sound and behave like a cult. Silicon Valley these days feels like a very very awkward dystopia.
>and I agree that any such invention, discovery or item of intellectual property which I may disclose to anyone within one (1) year after the termination of my employment shall be presumed to have been made during my period of employment hereunder and shall become the sole property of the Company."

IANAL, but I read it differently from most other people, the accent is IMHO on the "disclose to anyone within one (1) year after the termination", even if you conceived the invention during the time you were employed, as long as you don't communicate it to anyone for 1 year after termination, you are fine.

Still - as I see it - the point of debate is more generally about the implied 24/7, there is a difference IMHO between something you invented (and developed) during working hours (and possibly utilizing the hardware/tools/resources of the company) and what one can invent (and develop) after hours, during weekends and holidays, etc., unless your pay is so high that it can be assumed to compensate for all your time.

Even then it seems more similar to slavery than anything else.
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From germany to japan.
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I have never been asked about IP assignment (and haven't really been in a situation where it would come up). But I've actually been asked about non-competes. (By a small firm which would have absolutely walked away if I had one.)
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Great idea! I am very guilty of commenting here without reading the article. Can we try this here?
Ask HN: Should Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Quit?
In light of the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, should these two important leaders quit as they prioritized growth even over the well being of their users?
This gives me DDR (East Germany) vibes: The rethoric, the symbolism and the motivation are all similar to how the DDR presented itself.
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I think the shifts have been so rapid that we'll really need to wait a generation or two before we can say that some of these countries have fully cast off religious practice, although it certainly looks like that's the way it's going.

But let's be clear: This is not shocking or unexpected. One of the primary reasons why young adults nowadays are not religious is because their parents, even if they were nominally religious, did not raise them as active members of their faith. And in many cases, _their_ parents only made a half-hearted effort, or tried to off-load the task onto parochial schools without reinforcing the faith at home. So that's basically three generations of decline, covering roughly 60 years. And when a trend has been going on that long, the results should not be a surprise to anyone.

One interesting question, which will only begin to be answered in the next several decades, is whether the rates of religious adherence within these European countries correlate with anything. For instance, do countries with low religious adherence have any sort of markedly different character or outcomes than countries with high religious adherence?

Another interesting question is how Christianity and other faiths will respond, in terms of evangelization. Is first-world Europe now a "foreign mission," in the way that third-world countries were in the previous centuries?
What awesome TTS system are you using that can reconstruct tone from text transcripts?
It's not their data, it's the company's data. They don't have access to the services with their personal accounts, only their corporate ones so any data that they pour in is professional work, which belongs to the company. Why would I possibly care that google is mining my company's AD structure or which documents I access in the corporate network? It's the company's problem.
As far as accelerators go, NVidia CUDA architecture seems to be the way. The Power9 Summit Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs really is just an architecture to communicate more quickly with the massive number of NVidia cards that they're shoving into the machine.

I'm a bit bearish on the Xeon Phi myself. The rival supercomputer: Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne National Labratory, was supposed to be Xeon Phi based. But its late! Intel and Cray dropped the ball.

At least in the near future, it means that Summit (Power9 + NVidia CUDA) is beating out Intel (Xeon + Xeon Phi) with regards to USA Supercomputers.