skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it sounded like he doesn't like them. if I don't like the place and people in it, I just don't go there. I don't try to change it against everybody else who is fine how things work.

on a side note, I really don't think that every piece of public space needs to be occupied by people on computers. I wouldn't like if galleries were the victim of what happened to cafes, where I need to look if there is actually an atmosphere of a cafe, not an office/chatroom with coffee tables instead of desks (sometimes it reaches a ridiculous degree). it's not like I'm offended, it just spoils the mood.

my kind of 'get off my lawn'.
Overpriced processed juice. Only reason this company is still alive is because it's owned by the Coca-Cola company.

Try to do the same and watch your company go bankrupt within 2 months.
Is this not taking a literal interpretation of his words a bit too far? Is your scenario really that because someone can stick their hands in their pockets and refuse to take the US dollars (and then a court declares that the debt has been paid), they didn't actually HAVE to accept US dollars because they can just stick their hands in their pockets? By that reasoning, I don't HAVE to not murder people, you can't make me, it's just that the courts will put me away for life. The whole conversation becomes meaningless.
Nobody argued that it is not their right. Of course it is, or Nick would have left it up at Github. It's their right, but it's not "right".
Was looking for this. Thanx
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Pretty much the run of the mill employment contract will claim ownership of an employees creations, most regardless of whether that creation has anything to do with their every day activities. Some go so far as to claim all creations related to their discipline, even if conducted outside work hours.

The problem is simply that its too hard to challenge if such an issue ever arose. Any decent business wouldn't just claim everything under the sun. It is a worrying grey area though.
You'll love this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...
I can't wait for someone to work out how to make the single GPU version of this work in a MacPro.
it reminds me meteor in some way :)
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There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions here that may very well be completely justified - but the facts are that we don't know where Nick works and in what capacity. We can't know if there is legitimate concern over IP or competitive advantage here? It's unlikely, but for the sake of a thought experiment: What if Nick's employers sell a JS component that does the same+10% as chart.js?

EDIT: Apparently he made it before starting his job. Yes, that makes it quite a bit more fishy.
https://github.com/umaar/Chart.js
Ask HN: How good is good enough to be successful?
I consider myself as a Jack of all trades, master of none.

As I go along learning and building stuff, I have to admit that none has turned out the way I wanted it to be - in terms of success (money, popularity,...).

Of course I learned new technologies but the implementation never feels as crisp as of other successful companies.

There is always so much you could do better, more beautiful and so on but as a one-man show you have limitations. You cannot be the master of design and programing.

I would like to ask HN:
What kind of tool-set do you need to be successful in the tech world?
How good is good enough?
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By my understanding it certainly isn't legally enforceable in the UK. It isn't actually illegal to have such a clause in the contract, but if it were to come to court it would be thrown out as an unreasonable clause.

The problem from the employee's point of view though is that it may have to come to court before the employer will back down and there are costs in terms of money, time, and relationships associated with that especially if the company goes for the appeal cycle afterwards. Most individuals can't afford the time or cost of such a case (though costs are likely to be recovered from the company eventually, you need to find the funds up front) if it comes to that, and the software industry can be fairly judgemental and nepotistic so it'll be hard work getting a new job (once life becomes unpleasant at the old one due to the court case) now you have a reputation for being difficult. These considerations are why individuals back down quickly, as the assume the conversation will go:

Company: We own that.
Individual: No you don't.
Company: Contract says so.
Individual: You can't enforce that.
Company: We can try. Wanna fight?
Individual: Er, no. Here, take it.

Companies know the clause is not legally enforceable, but they have it in there because they know it generally doesn't have to be as most people will not argue as far as the legal status of the clause being relevant (in fact most people don't even know that it isn't legally enforceable). This is particularly the case for younger people or those otherwise near the start of their career.

Most non-compete clauses are in a similar legal position.
Only one person in 9 million. That's quite a lot of people.
but I bet that their business heavily relies on other open-source projects. uncool.
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Overtime doesn't apply to white collar workers.

I've not heard of OSHA being involved in employer IP issues, nor in any software engineering environment.

Destroying something the company claims as their IP would subject someone to some serious criminal and civil liability.

Also, if the guy didn't like his job, he'd probably find another one. I get the sense he wants to keep this one and maintain a civil employment.
JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated
Definitely! Emcien (from mCn - we deal with a lot of combinatoric problems) is focused on analysis of large-scale data by constructing and operating on relationship graphs of tokens within that data.

We use Rails pretty heavily for presentation, though our apps have been leaning more and more on Backbone.js, and most of the core science is performed in some C code largely written by one of the founders, O.R. prof Roy Marsten.

The business/marketing site is at emcien.com, and the (fairly new) engineering blog is at engineering.emcien.com. Management sadly isn't interested in long-term remote devs yet - we're in Atlanta, GA. It's a great environment though, in the sweet-spot between risky startup and heavy corporate work.
You wouldn't be implying that Southern European cuisine is better quality food than McDonalds now would you?
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The Autism tweets have potential to be offensive because they're ignorant about ASD.

Many people with ASDs have very poor oral communication skills.

There's a bunch of stuff there about people with ASDs having to pass - having to fake who they are to be more neuro-typical so they can get work and avoid bullying - which is potentially distressing if you've ever had to do it.

Your general point that this isn't as serious as sexist banter at conferences is a good one, and I accept that.

I'm still uncomfortable that she tweeted photographs of a bunch of people, labelling some of them as sexist, without being very clear which ones she was accusing. There's a bunch of guys in that photo who may hate sexism and may be working hard to avoid it (or who maybe don't care either way but are not actively being sexist) who are now in a widely circulated photo.

EDIT: About "Being good at something" - we don't say "Women are nurturing"; "men are good at reading maps"; "people with Autism are great at math" because it's stereotyping limiting reductionist nonsense.
Looks like this is his employer: http://www.radweb.co.uk

Source: https://twitter.com/_nnnick/status/98344434948771840
Should I tell you that your startup idea sucks?
Destroy might not mean quite what I'd hoped in this context. I more meant make completely inaccesible to everyone. If the employer claims exclusive ownership, require the overtime pay before you allow them to benefit from it again.

No matter what you signed as an employee, OSHA(1) has rules about how long you are required to work without overtime. Its a clever end run I've seen used around "we own everything you do at any time" BS that employment contracts often have in them. Yes, they may own it, but they will have to pay for the time taken to create it. Usually when faced with a big bill, thy decided it wasn't so important to own it after all.

(1) Sorry, that was dumb. OSHA just enforces some of these rules. The rules are actually The Fair Labor Standards Act.
In Australia, I worked for a company that had what amounted to a "we own all your brainz" clause in their contract. I queried it, and they modified it: they owned anything I produced using their hardware, during paid time (excluding lunch breaks) or using knowledge I'd gained directly from working for them. Everything else, even stuff I did in the lunchroom using my laptop, was mine. The boss's son apparently agreed with me that the original clause was silly and may have been instrumental in getting his Dad to change it; or maybe the boss was just a reasonable guy. Actually, I think the latter is true. They were a good mob, and I was sad to leave.
I wanted to make McNuggets from this but im stuck in the shop looking for

1/2 teaspoon Accent?#060;/nobr>
Except the comment you replied to wasn't a criticism of McD's.

He's pointing out a very important fact: McDonalds is not that tasty. What I make without these recipes using incredibly simple methods (as described above) tastes better. Frankly, these are elaborate instructions on how to make disgusting food.
Working in Denmark. I took it up with my Union, and they said that I couldn't do anything about it.

The rule initially was made to own rights to images and articles from photographers and journalists, so they couldn't sell to third parties, but was extended to also include code.
He built it during University, so before he started working for the employer. They may have a legitimate business concern, but that doesn't change the fact that it's Nick's IP and he can do what he wants with it.
Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute
The Python Software Foundation has reached a settlement in its recent trademark dispute with PO Box Hosting Limited trading as Veber in Europe. The issue centered around Veber's use of the Python name for their cloud hosting services and their application for a figurative trademark incorporating the word "Python". While the Foundation retains the trademark for Python within the United States, it did not have a filing within the European Union. According to the terms of the settlement, Veber has withdrawn its trademark filing and has agreed to support the Python Software Foundation's use of the term.
I am only guessing from the contents of the post, but it sounds like they were asserting possible infringement against his own previous work, not ownership of the library he developed on his own time. It is best to be careful though, I much agree.

They'd have a tough time proving ownership of that code unless he was also using it in one of their applications, but that crap can get very complicated.
The focus of the article was actually Earth Hour, and how useless it really is. The whole damn article lurches from one disaster to another.
My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
You sure are biased against Bitcoin and the like.

> this analysis misses the time dimension of money: lending, borrowing and interest [1]. Keynes knew that, and before him Marx, and I bet someone before him too. And in this aspect, I find Bitcoin to be an irreversibly brain-damaged, if interesting, experiment

So we went straight from an analysis (what was it btw?) "missing the time dimension of money" - according to you - to Bitcoin being a brain-damaged experiment. What exactly was the logic there?

> a massively deflationary currency .. that is even today failing to accommodate the mildest exponential growth

How does a currency "accommodate exponential growth", and why should it? Are you saying Bitcoin can't be used for lending etc because it's "deflationary"? Don't you think it would be possible for lenders to estimate the risk involved in using (deflationary?) Bitcoins, and then pricing their loans accordingly?

> When your currency gains value by the hour, actually borrowing and trading and doing capitalist things are losers' propositions.

I can't see a problem with a currency gaining value by the hour. If you hold a currency that keeps gaining value, then your purchasing power keeps increasing. Why is that a bad thing? Everyone would be happy to trade in such a currency.

If it were losing value by the hour, well then, yes, people would be reluctant to trade in it.

> When your economic theory is still getting an erection over the gold standard, like some 19th century robber baron, you know you just don't have the economic chops to do it.

Care to tell us what's wrong with the gold standard, and why is anyone who supports it a robber baron?

> For you all evil's root is either the government or fractional reserve banking, so I'm obviously wrong.

Care to explain why the government and fractional reserve banking are good for us all, then?
So, how do we know that the 7 Websites he is listing aren't "scams" that pay him for this article?
They launched in 1999 and sold the first stake to Coca-Cola in 2009. They somehow managed to scrape by for 120 months with no Coca-Cola ownership. Start-ups can't have an exit after 10 years?
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Leave some pizza for the brake it gets devoured so quickly ;)
NVD3, a d3.js reusable chart library, was taken down by Novus several months ago. At first they asked all the GitHub forks to close down. Eventually, after an outcry on the d3-js Google Group, Hacker News, and other forums, Novus relented and re-released the library with this statement:

http://nvd3.org/statement.html
Yet again, they're pushing out 16:9 screens in a case obviously designed to take a 16:10 display. It look ridiculous.

These are premium machines, they can clearly afford to get decent IPS displays produced in whatever aspect ratio they choose (as both Apple and Google have done), but they continue with this 16:9 bullshit.

I'm not fond of any current laptop hardware as they're all too compromised.

I second the sentiment that in a year or two it'll be possible to have a simple keyboard attached to an ARM based mini computer (raspberry pi but better), outputting to some wearable display / hooked to a monitor. This might in fact just be a phone of course.

I'd love to be able to just carry a nice mini mechanical keyboard with me, rather than use laptop keyboards.
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I think it's more of a grey area than that. Certainly I can imagine a situation where the overlap was insignificant and this was an overreach by the employer, but there is currently no evidence to suggest that.
MacBooks are known for their screen glare, because of the glass cover.
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It says that's monosodium glutamate ("MSG"), a somewhat controversial flavor-enhancer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate.

You should be able to find it in any decently stocked grocery store, I'd imagine.

If that fails check any Chinese/Asian food stores, they often have it in larger packs.
Well, two other options for you are using the coco library with stock Lua 5.1.x, or simply using LuaJIT.
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I have to say you've done a fantastic job with the Tfl API. Any chance you could put up a link to the hackathon here? Or at least give us a few more details?
Pop goes the bubble.
Say you have 2 audiences: Gamers and professionals.

For gamers, a low performance value yields a value of $10, and a high performance value yields a value of $12.

For professionals, a low performance value yields a value of $5, and a high performance value yields a value of $20.

If nVidia sold a single design to all of them, with a high performance value, then gamers would be willing to pay less than $12, and professionals would pay less than $20.

If they want to sell to the entire market, they have to price it less than $12, and lose around $8 from each professional buyer.

However, if they sell 2 designs (e.g: one a cripple of the other), they can derive around $10 of value from each gamer, and $20 from each professional.

The reason this is inefficient, is because for each gamer buying the crippled design, there is a loss of $2 of real value. This loss is a real value loss that could be avoided if there was some other way to extract the actual value for gamers and professionals without crippling the product.

In short, the inefficiency is not that the price is not near the production cost, but that the intentional crippling of the product (necessary to extract maximal value via market segmentation) is causing an actual value loss in the economy.
plus it's javascript for christ's sake? the best they can do is obfuscate it.
I've encountered this clause in a few employment contracts. It seems to be becoming standard language, but you don't have to agree to it. A contract's a starting point for negotiation, not something set in stone. If you don't want your side projects owned by the company, then ask for the clause to be removed/amended.

One place said they couldn't amend the contract, but wrote that they had no interest in code I wrote outside of work. A lawyer friend said that was close enough to be a contract amendment and I needed the job, so I signed. Another place happily amended it so they only owned what I made on company time with company resources. Problem solved in an amicable way.
I don't think that's really fair.

They knew the advertising business, identified a target demographic and created a product with an image that appealed to them.

I remember back in 2003, they where visiting most universities which where campus kind, with a van decked out in astroturf. The obvious hypocrisy of their brand and message were plane staring you in the face. Take an old in-efficent desiel van, deck it in plastic stuff which looks like grass and you've a product.

It was almost emotive, and whilst it didn't appeal to me, they obviously really understood their target.

As such to dismiss it as overpriced juice, is akin to Balmer dismissing the iPhone as overpriced.
That's true if and only if he didn't continue to refine and contribute to the code after entering employment, and specifically, didn't use it at his place of employment.

Many places have terrible and unhealthy, but legally binding contracts regarding work done in your own time while employed. :(

Without more information we can't know, but its far from given that their position is legally ambiguous.
Well in the contract with my current employer, it pretty much states that every IP I create during my employment belongs to my employer.
So if I wanted to create a project that I own, I would have to terminate my contract first. This is especially annoying being a Student and having many ideas all the time. Oh well.
They are not required to give back. If you find that wrong, there are licenses you can use to enforce that. The licensing of code is your chance to say what you expect. Expecting them to do more is a "shitty policy." You can hope. But being angry that you failed to sell the value of contributing back to your particular project is silly.
It's the ability to move between USD that allows us to discover the true value of a bitcoin.

Quick example - in Argentina currently, the government is desperate to keep foreign currency reserves in USD, so they've banned most means of converting ARS to USD. This has created a dual exchange rate where the official value is 5:1 USD, but the "alternative" rate is 8:1 USD. The difficulty of conversion is causing the value of pesos to fall by nearly 40%. The "true" value of the peso is probably somewhere between those two numbers but the market's ability to discover its true price is being distorted.

If a currency as "big" as a member of the G20 ($450 billion GDB) can get massive distortions from closing just some of the easy conversion points, it could destroy bitcoin if the US Government made it difficult to convert into and out of USD.

Further, it seems to indicate that BTC would need to be incredibly liquid before converting to USD wouldn't matter that much.
Note that GP didn't mention the means in which the yielding was to be invoked.
it's almost like the internet has no delete button
One could also say that in this case, Nick should have discussed this with the employer. It seems as if he was aware he should have, and by not doing so, the situation is no worse off than it would have been.
More Than a Programmer
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394398
That used to happen regularly to me too, when I lived in an apartment. I managed to make a complaint about it once to the local postmaster.
Sure, but I don't really need the bar's help to type my search term. I do need its help to search my history/bookmarks.
fat+salt+sugar

The book 'The End of Overeating' says that modern food is engineered to maximise this enjoyable aspect of food, to make it hyperpalletable. (It feels like a reasonable book, the biases are clear, it's just popsci so it's a bit flaky in parts and obviously a bit sensationalist.

(http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American...)
Should I tell you that your startup idea sucks?

Yes.
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Or just look at the domain name, the calculation, the self-aggrandizement and realize a perfectly played marketing ploy to drive traffic to her site and get her some future speaking engagements.

I give her props for deft manipulation of the situation for maximum effect, it was rather brilliant... and from her perspective the worst thing is an unfunny guy got fired, not a bad days work.
Being Amazon's Free App of the Day (with numbers)
Cats are obligate carnivores, canids aren't.
Sometimes, you don't have to tell anyone their idea sucks. You can make them reach that conclusion themselves by asking the right questions - or you'll realise it's not so sucky after all.

"Hmm. How is your idea different from X?" (Instead of "but X does that already, and has a 12 month head start.")

"But what happens when Y?" (Instead of "As soon as Y happens you're screwed.")

"Do you really need W & Z?" (Instead of "You're overreaching. You don't need W and Z in your first iterations.")

Questions let you find out if you're missing the bigger picture, and hopefully let them figure out for themselves what the problems are. If they blow you off they're probably beyond telling anyway.
The windows rolled down and the key in the ignition. Also note that you can see such a car and not steal it, but if you send a GET request to a server and it responds, you've already "stolen" the data. The mere act of looking at the car and seeing the windows down is criminal now.

So maybe the analogy works better like this: You're blind and walking around. Suddenly you get to some random car. Being a curious person you touch it to feel what kind of car it is and, in doing so, discover that the windows are rolled down. Reaching inside you also feel that the key is in the ignition. Then the question is, should you go to jail for attempting to steal the car (imagine that blind people are excellent drivers). You certainly did the exact same motions that a car thief would. Which are the exact same motions that a car enthusiast and curious person would do. The analogy breaks down about here, since the guy in the story copied the car by touching it, which we can't do yet.