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I'm not a lawyer, but in Belgium these type of agreements are subject to extra constraints. For example a non-compete can only be triggered if they payed you enough. The reasoning is that if you did not earn enough you were not important enough for the company to have such a clause. They also need to compensate the fact they are invoking it (at least 6 months of wages iirc). Anyway, check with your legal representative how valid/legal the clause is, and if it isn't you can sign.
Lytro makes light field cameras. A single sensor can be used to capture enough information to do a lot of computational imagery work like the somewhat gimmicky example of changing focus. But you also have enough data to do things like accurately apply filters to parts of an image based on depth information. A good simulation of viewing the image through caustics or other distortion effects. And, to me the most interesting, reconstruct 3d information from a single sensor.

Downsides, a 16 megapixel sensor only got something like 4 megapixel of image resolution because of how much data has to be captured for the light field. So consumer grade sensors resulted in (by contemporary standards) very low resolution images. And all those neat effects weren't really available, except maybe to their commercial partners (later products and services).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera
This is why body cams should be mandatory, also for the police officer's benefits - videos can't "misremember". Also police officers should be held to higher standards than the general population when it comes to giving testimony.
That's quite a different issue, is it not? The spam bots come because the social network is successful, as they will come to any other network regardless of real name policy.

What I'm saying is that anonymous accounts will prevent that success in the first place, because of the behavior of non-spam users. At least for a mass market product most regular folk would want to use, like Facebook.
The answers to those questions seem pretty clear to me

Just do what the fuck you want with everything in the repo. No copyright, if you want to say that you created the code and rebase all history, it's also your right. Feel free.

And it seems kind of obvious you can't hold the author liable for any trouble (though I don't know anything about law so maybe it's more complicated than it looks). Also it says in the FAQ that you can just add a warranty clause if you need one.
Information about events, flights, parcel tracking, etc. are explicitly provided by email senders for things like automatic calendar integration by the email client. https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg
I had the opposite experience. There were a few folks that were trying to get dismissed with statements like that and ended up on the jury.

Remember the prosecution have a limited number of dismissals and statements like that are desired by the defense.
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It's silly and annoying, but I saw them crop up twice while looking for work two years ago. Both times it was non-negotiable - the justification being "we'd only use it to get back any work you took with you after leaving".

It seems like one of those "Oracle's doing this, so why don't we do it as well?"
> stop supporting a divisive two party system

among other things, the voting system itself ("first past the post") tends to encourage a duopoly.
That sounds like a bit of a hack. I like it.
Please be sparing with its use:
Permethrin is extremely toxic to bees. Severe losses may be expected if bees are present at treatment time, or within a day thereafter (7, 12). Permethrin is also toxic to wildlife (9). It should not be applied, or allowed to drift, to crops or weeds in which active foraging takes place (4).

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propox...
My division got laid off... my company is paying my full salary + bonus through my enforced non-compete duration of a year, which I think is the right thing to do if they're going to enforce such. (and knowing what I know, and what I worked on, it's in their best interests)
>> On the other hand, it's horrific to me that my fate can be decided by people who have no formal education in law

I think you're assuming quite a bit on the education, knowledge, and experience of the law on the part of the judge. There is no guarantee that the judge you get knows anything about the law pertaining to your case.

>> but their decisions have to be based in the law and either you broke a law or you haven't

And yet, judges are reversed all the time on appeal based on the idea that the judge got the law wrong.

Plus I'm fairly certain the judge has a great deal more power in the courtroom than the jury. A judge can certainly put you in jail for a period of time just because they feel like it.
That may meet your needs. You’ll lose some of the benefits of database constraints and indexing.

And while the submission uses it as an example, the use case of reordering items in a list needn’t be limited to lists manually ordered by a user.
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I don't know how you are doing this, but with NNs there's still be the chance that result contains significant parts of the text-books.
I am not a lawyer, but because you are only interested in the syntactic equality (the sematic being the same) i think a simple algorithm like something based on edit-distance may be able to exclude such cases.
Some dogs as well. Permethrin based flea prevention caused my healthy dog to become lethargic, labored breathing and over salivation. I washed it off, and he recovered in a few hours, but I've avoided giving him flea control since then. Luckily he has avoided ticks and fleas but I would bring him to the vet if he did pick any up.

https://m.petmd.com/dog/conditions/neurological/c_multi_pyre...
> gypsy pear salesmen

Did you mean pearl?
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I'd argue that it's more of a culture problem. I regularly have multiple instances of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code open (together with many windows explorer, notepad, notepad++ and whatever). Visual Studio in itself is just slow, and often crashes, even if I just have one instance open.

On Linux, I have several terminals open, which is just so much more lightweight.

Of course, from a performance point-of-view, these are not comparable, but that is exactly my point. On windows, everything has a GUI, and everything seems to assume a much more hi-end machine.

P.S. I admit that it was a bit misleading to post this rant under this article, since the article measures raw OS performance, while my point is that lower performance is usually sufficient too, if you use tools that have a single purpose instead of trying to be an OS in itself.
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.

Great way to get sued. That's going to be logged. Isn't this what got Levandowski in trouble when leaving Google?

I definitely do not do this. In fact, once you stop paying me, I don't care about your code in anymore. It goes in the trash. It's not my problem after that.
> With the global nature of Netflix’s business, font licensing can get quite expensive

Interesting that they'd say "global" when the font shown is just basic English -- no accents, circumflexes, etc.

I'll be really interested if they make their own CJK font as well -- that's a tremendous undertaking.
Am I being blind or have you released a tool that checks licenses with no license? I mean, I enjoy a good joke but seriously.
You can use email, groupme, etc..

Facebook is like the roommate you all agreed to have, but then you find out that he's eavesdropping on every conversation and writing down notes. Wouldn't you want to kick him out?
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Which is hardly worth mentioning.

Nobody ever uses the “secure chat” feature, it’s not supported by the clients and it’s not what people mean when they say “Telegram”.

The Durovs sell their app on it’s “encryption”, while simultaneously going out of their way to make sure nobody uses that feature.
Agreed. While I can understand it's much easier to strap sensors/equipment on a already available car, it makes more sense to me from a safety point of view to test with some lightweight shell of a vehicle to cause the least damage to other entities.
the master from his voice never belonged to HP, it is owned by Nuance after multiple acquisition. The original owner was Speech Plus, who made the CallText 5010 synth he used until this year.

They indeed were looking for the masters [1].

When they found it they made a replacement for the voice synth on software running in a raspberry pi. They had just replaced the the old voice synth back in Jan. [2]

Additionally, Dennis Klatt was the inventor of DECTalk, the three original voices were his own for the male voice, his wife voice for the female voice and his daughter voice for a child voice, they were named Perfect Paul, that was the default voice, Beautiful Betty and Kit the Kid.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voi...

[2] http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html
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A stereo camera array can see past occlusions in the sense that some things are occluded to one camera but not to another.

With a larger and more distributed camera array, cameras could be pointed everywhere so that every point in the field has a certain level of coverage.
The Hague Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relative_to_the_Ope...
I don't have a lot of faith the gov't can run a pharma company. Plus, confiscating a company is going to chase away any future investment.
FB today can't sway elections any more than CBS of the past could.
That's why you say no in a professional way. But I would still say no. If professionally saying no to such an unreasonable request burns a bridge, then it isn't just a bridge you shouldn't miss, it is a bridge that is better burned.
In Europe a lot of these non competes are unenforceable. I work for a U.S startup in the U.K. (British citizen) some of the clauses in our contract are just flat out illegal. It’s also 26 pages long, which is almost unheard of in the U.K. I asked about it and it turns out it was written at a U.S law firm.
Wouldn't your salary during the employment term be that consideration?

Consideration need not be during the same period. I can pay you $X today for something that covers the next N years.
What Obama did is not nearly the same as what Trump did [1].

Also, it's important to keep in mind that this entire argument about Obama is one diversion perpetuated by Cambridge Analytica. They brought up this idea and it has been bouncing around the more surreptitious parts of the internet as a tactic to avoid criticism. I wonder why a place like CA would attempt to change the conversation?

[1] https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...
Obviously, not because of where she's from, but because she actually is anti-West.

There's an example posted below of how she is a Putin stooge. Blocking access to everyone in your own country because scientists (you know, ones she is allegedly supposed to help) because the ones who are actually involved in science supported pretty much the only foundation that funds science in Russia when Putin decided to close it...

Sure, yeah, that's who selfless altruists working for the betterment of humanity do, not Kremlin trolls. (insert sarcasm tags appropriately).
I've known enough people that have done this, as to believe it to be pretty common
> Furthermore, the whole "no data collected" has any value from the perspective of the user only when using real names.

That might be true for you, but I've more than once had to ditch an old nick because over time I'd let slip enough specifics that identifying me would be (theoretically) possible. It's all a matter of degrees, but 'no data collected' is definitely valuable.
For the vast majority of workers the company has the right at any time to introduce a new contract and require you to sign it as a condition of continued employment.
Some if not most remain stuck in the game with no iphone app project. Depends how addicted you get. If you know you can't manage addiction you better avoid it(i.e don't play games that never end)
1st gen owner here.

They absolutely tried hard, but I feel like they missed out on doing the one thing that might have really let the product take off: Releasing APIs (or at least protocol specs) for interacting with the camera over USB and wifi, and releasing a spec for their file format.

That might have given them a chance to really take off in the DIY and hobbyist market. After unboxing mine, I pretty much immediately wanted to use it to do the sorts of things that Google seems to want to do it. But without an easy way to dig into it, I lost interest pretty quickly.

Taking off my hacker hat and putting on my consumer hat, it just wasn't going to take off. My cell phone is even more portable, takes higher resolution images, and makes sharing them much easier. Getting to refocus after the fact wasn't that great a trick, because my cell phone camera already does such a good job at autofocusing.

Taking that one off and putting on my hobby photographer hat, same thing. Decades of taking pictures has left me with enough of a sense for where I want to put the focal point and what I want to do with the bokeh that I'd just as soon do it when I'm taking the picture. There was some initial fun of playing with a new toy, but ultimately I realized that doing it after the fact took what has historically been one of my favorite parts of photography and turned it into just another editing chore. That, and, even when I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with the focus at the time I'm taking the photo, my mirrorless's burst mode can accomplish essentially the same thing.

But if I could have strapped that sucker onto a robot and played with using it for 3D scene reconstruction or something. . . that would have been fun.
I agree. Doing this would be stupid as hell, since it just opens you up to a lawsuit over stealing company secrets. Having knowledge in your head is one thing. Having actual code is another entirely.
I am very familiar with the software development market wherein both of my job changes thus far have been multi-year searches. Please do not assume that because it is easy to walk out the door into another job in a select few markets an with a select few skill sets that it is this easy for everyone writing software for a living.
I can see why they've done it -- stop you from inventing something at work, knowing you can't sell it immediately, so leaving and selling it after you've left.
This should be "why non-compete agreements should be legally curtailed," not "why I, personally, do not sign them."
I've asked companies for copies of all paperwork that I'll be expected to sign before starting. I just frame it casually before I accept the offer, like "hey, I'm very excited about this opportunity! I should have a final decision in a few days, but I just want to run everything by a lawyer friend of mine. Would you mind sending me any documents that I'll be expected to sign before I start working?".

I've never had any resistance to this. If a company doesn't want to show you legal contracts until you show up to the office, there's something shady going on.
Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.
yeah really, you should have to sign that as part of the job offer and you can decide about the job then and there instead of potentially uprooting your life / moving states or even countries / and then getting there and having some not-insignificant monkeywrench thrown in.
> he was a cool guy and I don't think he'd enforce the clause

The problem with that kind of trust is that sometimes the person who makes the decision isn't the cool guy. It can be the company's lawyers who decide to make your life hard after termination for whatever reason (reduces your negotiating leverage at least), or someone else entirely if the company is acquired (for example).
> make it very easy for one or group of employees, to just take a company's current clients, offer them a low price, and start a new firm thereby causing losses for the original service company. Business which got burnt by their employees starting competitive business thereby started adding these clauses into their agreements.

Sure, but this isn't a fair way to solve that problem. You don't need a non-compete to do this. A simple client list clause protects this legally for the employer, without removing employees right to work.

> Sometimes competitors itself would poach key employee which is working for a Client X thereby gaining an edge and thats why the clause for 'Client'.

This is a feature, not a bug. If the company had paid their employees decent wages, they wouldn't be so easily swayed by offers from competitors. Companies don't get to under-pay employees and demand they never get raises from any other company. Companies don't get to own people working in "field X" just because they have a product or service in that field.
Why should they care? I'll be honest, it doesn't bother me much. Why should I care?
He actually is a Nazi. That is not hyperbole. His name is Arthur Jones.

He just won his party's primary, which means he has been elected to be on the ballot as a member of his party. Not anyone can run as, e.g., a member of the Republican Party. You need to be nominated first, and you do that by winning a primary. The position is in US Congress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/politics/arthur-jones-...
I agree that many companies behave unethically during negotiations with their employees.

I disagree that excuses unethical behavior on the part of the employees.
I have actually done extensive controlled tests on myself for a couple decades now. That is not to say I have all the facts. There are still many unknowns that I would like to eventually figure out, I just simply don't have the tools at my disposal and functional lab tests are time consuming.
Well, you'd certainly want a bunch of predefined matrices readily available. A grid of 25 numbers is only ideal if you already know the kind of values you need.
I'm not sure they said every thought specifically, but it included outside of work, and it wasn't limited to games. It was media and web, I think, since they did whatever clients asked them to do, make websites, mobile apps, booths at events, videos, etc.

Considering everything I work on personally was somehow web or media related, it felt very draconian to me at the time. But I still worked there and don't regret my time there overall.
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Nope, I meant pear - like the fruit. Maybe I got a little carried away and painted a silly picture.

My point is that you can ignore a salesmen and he can't possibly be THAT good that he can swindle everyone. But modern ads, IMO, are designed for high levels of success. Much more difficult to deal with that on a personal level.
This language is very common in IP assignment agreements (often bundled together with restrictive covenants where enforceable). I don't love noncompetes, but assuming you plan to work in the tech industry with proprietary software or hard tech, you will have to get comfortable agreeing to provisions such as this. The purpose of the clause is risk allocation. If the employer has a dispute with you after termination, involving your alleged infringement of their copyrights or patents in violation of this contract, then this lowers the burden for them to show that you have breached your contract as they do not need to show factually that each element of copyright or invention was created or conceived exactly prior to termination. This obviously is unfavorable to employees, and if you can negotiate it then by all means do. But as a lawyer who has dealt with hundreds of similar agreements, I feel like a lot of the commenters may be overreacting.

Again, I don't like competitive restrictions -- I don't even like proprietary software business models! -- but if you are in that game, then this kind of risk allocating language is reasonable in that context. Refusing to sign a contract because of this clause means you are perhaps a closeted free software advocate (and good for you!) or do not really desire a long-term career in this (arguably exploitative) industry.
I'll be honest: There's plenty of information out there that will help you make that comparison. But I don't think it's super-useful unless your goal is to participate in these pointless "but Obama/Hillary did it" debates.

It's happening now and it happened during the Trump campaign (and others -- one massive difference is that Cambridge Analytica used this data for elections around the world). And you should be questioning whether that sort of exploitation of personal data is something that's a good or bad force in the world, whether it scares you or whether you're okay with it.
The Vimeo link above goes to an astoundingly effective video essay on focus pulling, focus racks, etc. I'm not in any way doing video related work, but it was fascinating and I just wanted to recommend it.
let's be honest, everyone would like to become a billionaire.
Please don't make assumptions.

Whatever the current market conditions are is irrelevant. They were different 10 years ago, they'll be different in another 10 years.

I was responding to the parent's claim that social engineering around signing non-compete clauses is unethical.

I consider trying to pressure an employee to sign such a clause unethical.

Maybe you feel differently.
Although I agree with you - no client/employer is worth that kind of baggage - I was sort of surprised, after four months of unemployment when my last company shut down abruptly (no warning, no severance), just how many things seem negotiable when you're starting to worry about unemployment running out.
One of the NDAs someone wanted me to sign had a phrase like "I will not share or use anything that I learned working on this project". Not limited to the client's project or anything.
Whenever I work on something, I learn something. Be it a minor thing. How would I ever met that contract on my side? I can't forget what I just learned.

My policy is that I charge about 33% extra if they don't trust me not disclosing sensitive information. In fact, if the project requires such, my obligation is to use more work and resources to make sure that this will never leak, including encrypting project files separately, make sure I don't write down notes in my usual 'survival notebook', etc.
But the NDA has to be sane.
That doesn't prove your point of "70 years of rapaciously buying EU resources"
> creating a bespoke font was driven by escalating costs

> With the global nature of Netflix’s business, font licensing can get quite expensive

How does it work? I thought commercial fonts were a one-time purchase, is it different for businesses like Netflix?
Light field cameras always fascinated me because they are the example of the literal opposite of evolutionary biological inspiration (this is not an insult by the way). The first biological 'eyes' were probably light sensitive spots on skin with no lenses or shape, which then became cavities for directional sensing and then lenses and retinas developed to enable image recognition.
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