skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the language says. The employer claims ownership of inventions conceived during your employment and requires you to disclose them for a period of time after your employment. For example, if there's an invention -- say you worked on LIDAR for self-driving cars -- and you were part of a team during your employment. Your employment ends, then you 6 months later file your own patent for a part of that technology. This language makes it so that the employer has a contract claim even though the patent application wasn't until after your employment ended. Conversely, it also protects the former employer from infringement claims arising from your post-employment patent that is allegedly based on their stolen secrets.

As an appeal to authority, take the Confidentiality and IP Assignment Agreement generated by Goodwin Procter's Founders Workbench. It contains a much more exhaustive (and better) definition of assigned rights, and the obligation to disclose them survives indefinitely. It also is rather more nuanced, so it might not be readily apparent that it in fact is a much stronger assignment clause than the one criticized by the OC.
Lot's of negative sentiminents in these comments towards Facebook which is understood but the way I look at it this is a symptom and not the root cause.

We are having a really bad housing crisis in coastal cities, and obviously the Bay Area is leading the pack. NIMBY voters and short sighted government officials are stagnating developers from building more units. Just a few weeks ago the city council in Portland rejected two housing projects that would've generated thousands of units and hundreds of affordable housing units.

When the public sector cannot solve the housing problem it is no surprise that the private sector will step in and play a bigger role. It's not surprising to see tech companies leading the way because their HQs are in the Bay Area. If potential employees don't wont to work for you because the area that the office is in has an astronomical COL that is an existential threat to your company.
You could have the logs signed with Slack's PGP key so they cannot be altered without the signature causing a mismatch.
Seems a little different. Courts ruled that work emails could be viewed, just not personal accounts used on work computers.
It cannot be complete bs if the Clintons are selling uranium to Russians.
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It's decentralized. Larger instances are funded by patreon donations, while smaller ones are usually run by the folks that use the instance.

The decentralized nature helps the network scale.

And yeah, it's an open source project funded by donations. Plenty of those exist, and if it gets big enough, it'll get more contributors and donations.
If it's your company's asset, you gave permission for sharing that data when you signed the e-handbook at orientation, the same document that gives them the right to monitor your work emails, put MDM on your work-issued phone, and log your work machine's network traffic into their SIEM.

You have no right to privacy when you're inside your company's office using your company's computers to access your company's network. They own it all, you just have permission to use it within the guidelines they set and you signed off on when you were hired.
I particularly enjoy the re-discovery of numerical integration in 1994 by a medical researcher: https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...
When did that happen? If anything it seems like they have ramped up "suggested" garbage posts to the point it is 1 in 3 on my timeline
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That’s downward pressure on tuition cost and the expectation of an organization giving a loan.
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The main developer has a patreon.
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I actually didn't know this. Why did they have the big alert when turning on the Compliance Exports then?
I had a toxic manager who would screenshot DMs and post them publicly.

Just consider any work communication of any form to be public.
The point, really, is that SV guys may know some cool tech (although with SV's chase for the next shiny JS-frameworked AI-based noSQL-stored , whatever else is trendy now-thing it is arguable if that tech is any better than tech people in saner places know just as well) -- but they have no idea what to do with it to solve any real-world problems; because they don't live in the real world. So they come up with Juiceros, $600 "smart" locks, app-based gas delivery. Not even First World problems, that's like Zeroth World problems.

Unless you think the VC-fed bubble can grow indefinitely, it is SV techies who need people from the real world. Not necessarily the other way around.
It's a very different paradigm to wrap your head around, but once you grok the NT kernel's approach to I/O (packet based IRPs, inherently asynchronous, thread-agnostic), and thread scheduling, I/O completion ports are very powerful constructs.

The key difference is that I/O completion ports can be used to achieve asynchronous I/O on any underlying object, e.g. files and sockets, and they have this nifty built-in concept of concurrency, such that the kernel can ensure there is always one running thread per CPU core (which is optimal from a scheduling perspective).

You can't use file descriptors with epoll/kqueue, and you certainly can't say "ensure every core only has one active thread running".

"The key to understanding what makes asynchronous I/O in Windows special is...": https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...

"Thread-agnostic I/O with IOCP": https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...
I doubt that is going to work they way you think it will. DNA is not the same as digital data in that its final use state is 3 dimensional, not 1d like a tape (or digital file) or 2d like a raster or some other matrix. As well, this 3d form isn't fixed. So redundant sequences can have very different expression and conformal changes despite being 'digitally' identical.

This is further complicated by some weird fricken shit, like in theses cockroaches. Top of my head and can't remember the species or exact number, but I remember some species of fern having between 100-1000 duplicate copies of its genome in each cell. Pteridium I think? Any ways. It was bonkers.
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What kinds of questions would be generated for the Hitler Reichstag fire example?
You need non-repudiation of changes to log contents.
This is to be expected from Big Brother. These days one should assume the telescreen is always watching and so should be very cautious as to not commit a thoughtcrime.

---- Edit ----

To clarify; my comment is referring to the novel 1984. While a bit tongue in cheek, it was not meant entirely as a joke.

This is a forum visited mostly by IT workers. I would assume most of us here know enough (or should know enough) to realize that any of our communications at work can be read by someone else and so you may want to treat it a bit as such.

In my personal programming working experience I have seen data captured in all of the following forms, reviewed, and then used to fire or prevent firing individuals.

Email,
Instant messaging,
Phone calls (audio recordings),
Computer monitor (video recordings)
I think the issue is with sci-bay rather than sci-hub. Searching sci-hub for the title of the article brings you to the second webpage you linked.
Without.
If a dailymail story about facebook giving data they own to obama is the best you can do, you've only proven my point.
I don't think this clause is crazy. It feels poorly drafted but this is just a single section of the contract. Who knows if other parts influence the interpretation of this section. With that said:

The first segment of this clause is prompt communication to the company of works created. This is so that they'll know whether or not you're seeking IP protections over work-related projects which is reasonable. Nothing here states that disclosure to the company triggers any assignment of IP to them.

The second segment follows the "and I agree". It indicates that if you disclose work to another individual within a year of having worked at the company, they will assume you made it on their time. They are trying to put some teeth on the clause in the case that you hid the invention during your time at the company.

The issue here is that none of the terms are defined; does putting together a presentation count as the creation of intellectual property which is then disclosed, triggering the presumption? That would be absurd. Can the presumption that creation was done during employment be rebutted with evidence that it clearly is not exfiltrated company material? Etc.

Would help to see the entire document. Also I'm not your lawyer.
Have to agree, it's bit disappointing the most common style of font used are the minimalist ones like Google's font or Facebook's. I mean for pixel blurring reasons it makes sense but if we have stronger computers, we can avoid that problem more often, no?
Provenance. I can doctor my local logs just about as quickly as I can type. True, it's a bit harder than some people estimate to keep the whole thing coherent, but that just means that you hear about the people who get caught, but not the ones who do it successfully. If I am capable of doctoring Slack's copy of the logs with sufficient effort, it is certainly orders of magnitude harder and much legally riskier (as I would be committing many felonies in the process).
Password change/login is not necessary to pull email in from G Suite.
I loved Silence on the Wire (your [2]) - really changed my perspective on how much we "give away" passively
> 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?

Oh yeah. And you won't have to wait several decades to find correlations, either. At least as far as violent crime is concerned, the answer seems to be "things will get better": https://www.quora.com/Are-atheists-more-or-less-likely-to-be... (quora link, but many references cited)
Agree completely. This is one of the worst things you can do, even if the code isn't particularly confidential. It is such an easy case to win. Worse yet, you expose your new employer to enormous liability and can taint their entire code base if left undiscovered for a long time. If I saw tons of source code of unknown provenance committed by some new guy, I'd be scared shitless.

If you're lucky, it might only cost you millions of dollars:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Decadelong...

Or you could end up in jail:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Agrawal
It depends on the setup. There are different nuances but through an Admin granted API key you could potentially access all emails. There are safeguards that companies put in place to restrict this as well.
you're right - I missed that in the middle of the comment.
The problem is entirely solvable without the file (if there's really a solution, that is). If you believe you have solved the problem, you will surely pay $10 to get the file so you can prove it and get $1000.
I'm glad to see religion go, but I'm afraid if we remove religion and don't replace the moral component, we will see more societal dysfunction like school shootings. We need to replace the moral teachings in the schools. I recommend a high level law class in high school, maybe combine government, law, and economics.
As a young(ish) British citizen I am pleased to see the UK ranks so highly in these charts. While I like many aspects of the being part of a religion, what I like is completely viable without the religious aspect. I have some good friends who are very religious and in chatting with them I can see the benefits of community, helping others and being inclusive. Their strand of Christianity seems to be very liberal and open to both change, and a variety of lifestyles and choices - it just seems, to me, such a shame that to be a part of such a positive community you have to believe in God.

I don't think people need the "guiding light" of religion to live a "good" life but I do think that we could all benefit from a secular version of religious gathering, I just wish we could figure out am effective way to do so without religion.

On the not praying aspect of the article, I distinctly remember the day that I stopped saying the Lord's Prayer in morning assembly and being called over aside by the Depty Head and asked "Why aren't you praying?", I replied "I don't believe in God" whilst bracing for a telling off and being forced to pray again, she simply said "Ok, if you change your mind then you can always go back to it, that's ok to" - pretty great way to deal with a 6 year old atheist.
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If that were the case, what would be the incentive for FB to do this then?
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Hazelcast supports distributed data structures and also takes care of replicating them across all nodes in your cluster. But it's written in Java. I am not aware of any similar library in Go or Rust.
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> I don't know that you can. I think we live in a great period of time to be a con man.

yeah look at just about any elections in the past few years, not only the usual suspects like the post-soviet bloc...
> 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?

I'm not up on all the research that's been done, but we already have data on this. It's not hard to get - it's just comparing degrees of religious following with stats on things like crime, teen pregnancies etc.

I remember hearing of a study (I think from pew) showing that, despite what is often claimed, the less religious countries had less crime. (I did a quick Google search but couldn't find a link)

(And before anyone says correlation doesn't mean cause, I'm responding to a comment asking specifically about correlations)

Here's something that came up
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1101-zuckerman-vi...
There are security issues here that you may not be aware. For one example, if technically knowledgeable people want to falsify signed logs without having the signing key, they can simply keep a separate set of logs with actual innocuous conversations. Slack would sign those in your scenario without a problem. This is the canonical problem of keeping "double-books".
> We have just realized that democracy and widespread, instant communication are incompatible.

I'd say that's absolutely not true - it's a demonstration that the republic system is broken. He lost the popular vote, yet still won. That's anti-democratic, whilst being pro-republic.

True democracy would still work fine if done pragmatically - have people, when registering to vote, be given a PGP key. Have them send in a cryptographically signed email with their vote - verify that it's from the right person. Maybe package it in a very simple GUI.

Instantly, everything impractical and or wrong about the current "democracy" we have is gone, and actual democracy can start taking place.
> Also Most software engineers when they leave the company take backup of not only the entire code they've written but also the entire code for the project they've been working on. Thats why the IP Protection clause.

You have a source for this? I would strongly disagree that this happens by "most" software engineers. This is theft and it's completely unethical. I would never do this.
Facebook is planning to build (something like) a city. Reporting as much isn’t negative for Facebook, which is why they publically presented these plans.

The article does mention some criticism. But all of it seems entirely reasonable and expected when you know the history of “company towns”.
Wanted to let people know about GDPR. More for optics I am sure.
You shouldn't assume they're private just because they're encrypted. Employers can and will install SSL certs on your desktop machine so that they can decrypt and scan/archive everything at the gateway. This is standard practice in financial companies, and is easily done anywhere.

They can also install screen capture and key logging software if they want, but that's less common and without disclosure is a lot shadier (although certainly legal in the US). I wouldn't expect it most places; it's a more extreme step.

But never trust encryption at work unless you know your company's policies.
I quite remember the day when my name appeared on the comments section of a website I visited (through facebook widget I believe). I freaked out. But when I discussed about this with my friends back then almost every one seemed to have a cavalier attitude towards this(meaning they were completely fine with it). I wouldn't be surprised if my friends still have the same attitude.

People are okay with sharing their information online if it provides them convenience. Facebook provides them with the convenience of staying in touch with people. This combined with "I have nothing to hide anyway" & "so what if?" thought processes and monetary benefits on corporate side seems to have led to this huge data bank that is Facebook today.

I am really glad people are talking more about this. Never too late. People need to completely understand their actions online have consequences.d
It's hard to see how this is bad -- they have/should be able to have access to your other work-related communication and work product (modulo the weird rules around things like salespersons' "rolodex"es).

It's so easy to have private channels these days it's hard to see how this should even inconvenience anyone.
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> Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?

You use things developed by IBM daily without even knowing it. Barcodes, credit cards, RAM, hard drives, modern microprocessors, airline travel, laser eye surgery, and even relational databases are all possible thanks to advances by IBM. Almost all nanotechnology research utilizes scanning tunneling microscopy which was invented IBM.

IBM Research is usually bleeding edge technology. They work on technology decades before it becomes mainstream. Currently they're doing research in things like High temperature superconductivity, Quantum Computing, and Nanotechnology.

IBM also develops solutions for the financial services industry and are working on Blockchain technologies for the banking system. They're doing advanced AI research. They have healthcare and geo-spatial initiatives as well.
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What are your thoughts on FB? I do not believe this will bring it down but I see an opening for other social media to take chunk of FB business what do you think?
Ask HN: What happened to veracrypt.fr/en?
http://www.veracrypt.fr/

Something happen with veracrypt? Just curious.
Arguably, but what if the company wants to find proof of, say, two employees colluding to exfiltrate sensitive data or something like that? Would they have to convince them to turn in the PGP signed logs?

More generally like the parent I don't see why a company couldn't have full control over their corporate tools.
To me, it is always a huge red flag when an article does not properly cite the source. Here is the best I could find:

"The figures are published in a report, Europe’s Young Adults and Religion, by Stephen Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary’s University in London. They are based on data from the European social survey 2014-16."

No link to the actual study, which would contain useful information like methodology and sample size. And the latest data is from over a year ago. But they readily reproduce graphs, which show percentages without actual numbers, and leave out important European countries like Italy, which happens to have the Vatican.

Based on this, it is a rubbish article, IMHO.
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I doubt this has anything to do with GDPR which is about personal information of customers and users. In this case the customer is the company and I don't think GDPR applies.
I don't have much of an issue with targeted advertising or content by harvesting of data through what you make publicly available, as long as it is de-identified. It has plenty of applications for good as well. I hope that platforms are working on ways of taking these algorithms to edge nodes, making large master databases containing un-aggregated data that can be used to de-anonymise people less prevalent.

I'm more immediately concerned about blatantly fake news, clickbait, bots, sock-puppets and fake accounts posing as trusted parties in order to harvest trusted information and spread misinformation.
I actually agree with you, this could be handled better by them. I'm personally a little confused by the details and timings though; where did you read about them profiting after they knew about the issue?
Google Identity is not going to be the right solution for integration with other AD/LDAP stores.

Really big companies will often have multiple AD/LDAP identity stores with enterprise grade provisioning systems (Sailpoint, Oracle Identity Manager) to keep accounts in sync.

This offering from Google is meant as a replacement for AD/Exchange(obviously) for companies that are mid-small. It also offers provisioning to other apps but only those that support SAML Just-In-Time provisioning. I did not immediately see a way to add custom apps to this (for provisioning), so might be limited to just the OOTB apps they provide (List: https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/topic/7661972)

Auth0 today offers SAML integrations and if the target system supports JIT Provisioning, it will work the same as google.

And just to clarify, Google's offering is 100% meant for internal users (employees, anyone that you'd give a Google Apps account to)
When does this miraculous event (the potentially human becoming human) occur?
A tweet from a middle manager changing jobs doesn’t seem at all newsworthy. Are people reading more into this than they should be?
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how is it legal. Even the law enforcement needs to provide a warrant in case they want to search my apartment.
Nope, not me. When I leave a company I purge all code, all documents, all access to any services etc.
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