skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With top talent, you never really employ it. You just sponsor it. If you fail to recognize this, people become demotivated and that talent is either meaningless, or turned against you.

The problem is that employers, and almost all of them are this way, are do damn short-sighted. They'll pinch pennies on benefits, lay people off for the slightest reason or no reason, and burn hours of time on psychotic, all-consuming performance review systems, while missing the fucking point, which is: the real existential risk is when innovation stops. None of that other shit really matters.

An employee "stealing an idea", except in spy work, is a minor insult at worst. As far as I'm concerned, it's the responsibility of the company to provide conditions that are good enough (e.g. job stability, resources) that people would rather stay than "steal" their ideas off to elsewhere. If they can't or don't, then I have no sympathy.

The problem is that professional management culture rewards the mindless, minuscule cost-cutting that is often just externalizing costs to the future. That's where we get companies that put these onerous clauses in place, failing to realize that their pulling that kind of shit is killing the energy they'd need if they wanted true innovation.

If a company wants to excel-- instead of simply being a scam through which management robs investors (of their money) and employees (of their time and careers)-- it needs to give its people support, autonomy, and trust. Yes, a few people will "steal" from the company (by which I mean abusing that autonomy) but most won't have that inclination in the slightest, and more money will be made on the latter (by orders of magnitude) than is lost on the former.
upvoted that :)
Google selling glass for one day
Don't even do that. Don't take anything with personal projects on it anywhere onto company property. Don't even dare plug it in and surf the web during your coffee break.
From the original arrest it said he was using his work email @bitinstant to communicate with BTCKing and I don't remember anything about PGP being used.

Shrem is screwed, because all those emails are highly incriminating with him actively helping BTCKing avoid being flagged in the system for laundering checks. BTCKing was originally caught because he's a drug addict supporting his habit by exchanging coins and was completely sloppy and careless with everything.
Just checked out their website. It's really unclear how they could help a mom-and-pop small business - maybe this could be your niche. If it's something you'd be interested in, why not put together a few gift packages (or better, series of gifts) that could be useful in courting a new landlord/potential investor, etc? You could differentiate yourself by clearly explaining why your gift series would be useful to someone who pays for your service.
I had to develop my own synchronization algorithms after doing a lot of research on OT for a couple of reasons. One is that Google sometimes relies on being a centralized authority (Google's server) to resolve some conflicts, especially for collaborative rich text editing (Neil Fraser, a sync genius that Google hired, has a great talk on his own type of implementation "diff-match-patch", although Google uses different algorithms now I believe). Another is that OT sometimes requires you writing your own transformation commands, and I wanted something that was generally applicable to most data types without forcing developers to write their own. (It has been a while since I did a lot of this reading, so this comment may not necessarily be accurate/true, please somebody correct me!)

Instead, I developed my own method, called "Analytical Fluctuation" - but I haven't written papers on it yet, but need to soon! One requirement is that it has to be truly peer to peer and cannot rely (even occasionally) on some centralized server or leader election setup. Another requirement is that it has to be latent proof, which for me means "preparing for the future" when people need to collaborate on documents not only from the other side of the world but also from Mars. This is where Neil Fraser says his system breaks down, because if there is too much latency, the patches stop applying idempotently. Again, more on this in upcoming posts.
The main point isn't to build hand-crafted cars. The main point is to understand the process and materials.
Most states have local judicial elections of some sort. Texas has partisan judicial elections, and your point very much stands.
Disclaimer: I wish I had your problems.

That said, I've had plenty of my own when leading high-priority projects for BigCo. What I find most helpful is to realize that at the absolute worst case, if you screw everything up or drop all the balls, you are essentially back to where you would be if you had not tried at all or chosen to check out. And so pretty much everything you do is an improvement on the status quo, you're just trying to make the best improvement you can.
One change that would lessen the burden of the patent system is mandatory licensing. It doesn't matter who invented what, everyone pays a percentage of revenue into the pot and it gets spewed out per usage. The sticky bit being that you couldn't prevent someone else from using a patented idea. Boom, no more hold ups; no more threatening to kill someones business because of greed.
Who owns Evan Brown's brain?
Thank you for all the responses. It's apparent there's MANY other options, and probably much cheaper options.

Given me a LOT to think about. Thank you all. :)
This same guy was half-Russian, and talked of watching his grandmother go out shopping for food in Moscow in the Soviet era, and come back four hours later with two chickens and nothing else. Four hours of queueing for two chickens.
A report suggested that the NSA already knew about the Heartbleed bug 2 years ago and took advantage (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-us...)

This suggests that first the NSA discovered it, then Neel Mehta, and finally Codenomicon. As other commenters have rightly suggested, the government, or at least an agency there of, uses information asymmetry as a weapon of intelligence on its users (aka citizens). In the case of private corporations, they have a more contractual duty to their users to ensure that these bugs are patched so that those with malevolent intentions can't harm their users.

In my opinion, a bug that has been discovered but not shared is just as bad as a weaponized biological agent. Each rely on secrecy to exploit a group that is unaware.
If you are in California, the relevant law is http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...

"2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides
that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her
rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an
invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time
without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or
trade secret information except for those inventions that either:
(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of
the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development of the employer; or
(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the
employer.
(b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports
to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from
being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision
is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable."

Of course, if you have any specific questions you'd want to talk to a lawyer to make sure you were interpreting it correctly for your situation.
Well, in emacs you can try out evil-mode, which will get you the basic vim commands. I flip back and forth between the two: the vim commands are great when I'm focused on a single document, usually a hunk of code, and just have to make some something happen. On the other hand, if I'm flipping between editing a latex write-up, recording progress in org-mode, moving files around in dired, flipping between two different interpreters and several shells, the web browser, database query front-end, etc., then I start to get annoyed by the modes and prefer the flow I can get by not having to worry about editor state.

Right now I'm mostly using modeless interactions, but every now and then it feels good to get the vim muscles moving.
Guerrilla's Sticky Bar
I don't think, that you are free to set your own price. But of course, I am not current in these special law topics. But in Germany, as in many other countries: If it goes to court, you will loose against a big company.

It was an other situation, but a lawyer once told me, what happens when such things go to court: The corporation will bring 10 witnesses against you and will bring 10 experts certifying what the corporation needs.

And than you will be very alone and be gracious to get even a little money. You will loose your job anyway.
Maybe don't sign these types of contracts?

We are fortunate enough that even the most mediocre among us can hold out for the next employer that doesn't demand this kind of control over you, or start your own company. I don't give a shit what a company says about their culture of work/life balance or whatever. If I see blanket IP clauses unrelated to non-compete, or like arbitration clauses that remove us from civil courts should a problem arise, I'm whistling on my way out the door.

I once saw a contract that stated I couldn't work in the field for TWO YEARS after terminating. Not just large machine equipment, but ANY mobile/web applications, related to integration with embedded systems or not. Yeah no thanks.

Your mind should be available for rent for $100k/year or whatever your market rate is these days but not for sale at that price. Sorry but I'm a Human as a Service. If you want to own me, you'll have to come to a better valuation.
From the MetaFilter Thread comes Terry's description of his work:

I wnated to make a souped-up, modern 64-bit, C64 so teenagers could do what I did in high school. I had the book Mapping the C64 and I had hours of fun poking and proding around with all the internals of the operationg system for cheap thrills. I wanted to let people control the hardware directly. I wanted something simple, to get your head around. LoseThos is two orders of magnitude simpler than Linux. LoseThos is 135,000 lines of code including my compiler. It is 100% self contained and complete. When I got Linux, I was disappointed because I thought "open source" meant I would have fun messing with the code. Linux tries to support so many architectures and has a main frame operating system, that it's too complex. LoseThos is way way way simpler. Plus it has many innovative ideas. It is not ASCII source code, for example.
It does not.

For that, you need to change your routing table so that anything destined for 0.0.0.0 goes through the tunnel.

This is basically what sshuttle does.

One downside is that SSH tunnels can only forward TCP, not UDP, traffic. sshuttle adds special handling for DNS (which is UDP) but any other UDP communication will not work.
Someone doesn't understand quantum physics or proofs.
That's the infamous Evan Brown case, right? Ah, good ole DSC....
OpenBSD has started a massive strip-down and cleanup of OpenSSL
I think the rule of thumb for assuring your ownership is: 1) don't use company time or equipment, 2) don't make something that could compete with your employer's products.
Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs
Clearly the need has presented itself for a tool/infrastructure that can safely transmit a security flaw to the necessary parties without there being some arbitrary pecking order as this situation has revealed. With torrents, those who exploit something can quickly share usernames/passwords with the world with little repercussion. The same effectiveness, speed, and risk should also be associated with those who are trying to fix things.
Opening safe with RFID
Oddly, I was thinking about this exact topic this weekend. When I joined my current company, I signed a document saying whatever I build belongs to the company.

I'd like to go back and have this reversed. What is the best course of action? Write a letter saying that what I create on my own time is my property, and have the CEO or HR Manager sign it?
I'm going to assume they calculated this by simply counting the amounts of returns filed/logins done during the time the exploit was announced to being patched and wrote them off as compromised.

Maybe the Canadian government should walk down to the CSEC offices and ask them hey can you guys stop conspiring with the rest of the 5 Eyes Alliance to sabotage IETF standards
where is the proof? also the double slit experiment isn't about consciousness, but rather the information itself as found in the double slit quantum eraser experiments: http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~amarch/
I've contemplated suicide off-and-on since age 6. It's just a working part of my language. No successful attempts, or failed attempts, or whatever grammar is being built here.

It might partly be influenced by a Tourette's like underlying structure, which would here make it more publicly, or in terms of a biological profile, a symptom. Usually all we see are symptoms in the narration of science.
You don't want to disclose it before releasing a patch.
Woah, that's impressive. I've started taking ~7 burst shots with my iPhone instead of just one. The first and last 3 are usually a little noisy or blurry, but the middle one is usually gold. I might try this method too. Thanks!
Agreed. I had the pleasure of calling CRA last month to sort out a problem. I spent an afternoon trying to piece together all these letters, payments, refunds, etc, and what exactly went wrong.

Anyway, I call, and it was the closest thing to magic I've ever seen. I give reception my SIN, and ask for the woman that signed the letter I received. I'm on hold for only 10 or 20 seconds, the woman answers, and greets me with my name. I didn't say more than a couple of sentences explaining the issue, and she says she'll check her computer, taps a button and poof she knows everything. Literally a few more seconds, and everything is sorted, and a cheque is being mailed.

I was almost speechless, I was expecting a 30 minute call between departments, explaining numbers, CRA scratching their heads since this was taking place across multiple provinces, and then me having to physically mail in a variety of personal information. Instead, it was a 1 or 2 minute call with an incredibly friendly woman, and she was so organized, it's like she spent the day preparing for me to call in advance. And, to reiterate, this was the woman that signed the original letter I received, not someone from support or customer service.

Now, the CRA website is a nightmare, but talking to them on the phone was the most impressive service I've ever encountered.
> The general argument I've seen has been that Proposition 8 was "just an opinion" or "just freedom of speech"

> need to have a position where Brendan supporting Prop 8 was not bad

The second statement _absolutely_ does not follow from the first. You can consider Prop 8 immoral and wrong, and still want it protected by freedom of speech.

And calling the internet's behavior "a lynch mob" or a "witch hunt" is not interfering with anyone's freedom of speech, so you don't have to worry about that.
Interesting feedback. What's brutal about our hiring process?

I imagine you're talking about the workalong for a day? We think it's a good way for everyone to meet face to face, not just for us to get to know you but for you to get to know us. Changing jobs and hiring someone are mutually big commitments.
Maybe I was a good employee, met my deadlines, respected both company time and my own, and also enjoyed working on pet projects in my free time. It is absolutely absurd that a company feels entitled to my personal work because of "maybe."

Organizations tend toward pessimism because people respond more strongly to shame, insult, and embarrassment (of themselves and others) than to victory, pride, altruism, and shared glory. They turn toward a certain paranoia. That's why there's so much HR literature on how to conduct "low performer" witch hunts (get those time thieves!) while companies don't do the least thing to support high performers (except offer them more money when they seem likely to leave).

Ultimately, most things controlled by humans devolve into feudalistic, dysfunctional reputation economies in which the trade of social credibility becomes the only thing that matters, and the organization's original purpose is either forgotten, ignored, or half-assed. There are counterexamples and exceptions and processes that prevent this, but they're uncommon. Most companies have much fear of the humiliation of "that guy" stealing time to launch his own career, and only a slight background hum (if even that, as sometimes it's dead silence) of fear for the real existential threats: crumbling morale, widespread distrust, and the death of innovation.
a. You don't understand what an ad hominem actually is.

b. Show me exactly where Al Gore committed an outright war crime.

c. If you think that war crimes are a mere baguatelle and should not interfere with a politicians later life in civil society; that is in itself a reprehensible political stance.

If justice were a feature of this world the entire war cabinet of the first Bush administration would be serving time; I'm sorry that you live in such an insulated little bubble that the murder of more than a million Iraqi civilians due to the documentable lies of the aforementioned does not register on your moral radar.
Reporting what was discovered and obtaining such information are separate actions that deserve their own consequences. It doesn't automatically make it right nor does it automatically make it wrong.
They are at least more competent than this department who lost an unencrypted drive with 583,000 SIN#'ers http://o.canada.com/news/national/federal-government-loses-h...
Firebase (YC S11) is hiring developer evangelists in SF
Most banks weren't vulnerable to Heartbleed.
The blockchain was not even mentioned in the original FBI document. Everything was based on email/SR logs. Bitcoin makes it very difficult to associate transactions with people and I haven't yet heard of a case where the blockchain was successfully used to track down someone.
TL;DR - There seems credible evidence fossil fuels will always exist for us and they'll always be affordable.

So getting past the strawperson replies about how nothing is infinite, fuel x is not oil or limiting factors....

It is interesting. For years naysayers have gone on about peak oil, yet the opposite might be true, technology might be able to rip fossil fuels out of the earth faster than we can use them for hundreds of years.

The fact fracking was only possible due to increased computing power and is now changing local industry due to energy actually getting cheaper shows to me we are in an era of incredibly complex and quick changes.
What ever happened to "Small tools that do one thing well"?

ImageOptim is extremely well-known in the industry. I'd much rather the developers of my vector drawing tool focus on making a great vector drawing tool, and let [you] obsess over making the best image compression tools. It's not just as simple as just bundling pngquant into the export process. You also have to make an effective UI that implicitly explains to users, "You know that lossless PNG image format you love? Well, here's a slider to make it do lossy compression!"

My preference would be, don't even have an Export For Web option. Or if you do have it, just make it link to ImageOptim!

(Edit: Didn't realize who I was responding to. My team loves and lives by ImageOptim and ImageAlpha — thank you for them! Even if Sketch had better PNG export, we'd still be using your tools as part of our development process to deal with all the other programs that don't get it right.)
If you worked at the big corporation where I worked, and they became aware of your side work, they would have asked you to either give it to them if it was of significant interest or leave the company. A former coworker of mine found himself in this situation and left the company.

I found myself in this situation too, but after an investigation the company was not significantly interested in my work enough to pursue it further.

Edit: I should add that plenty of groups within our company, while officially bound to the same agreement, were unofficially free to do similar work without consequence. Our group suffered from a leader who wanted to do things "by the book".
These contracts are bunk, they are too one sided. They want to claim the upside of my ideas and work but, if I write some software for a side project which I make additional income on (which they'd want to claim ownership of) and it fails and causes harm, are they going to take on the liability of getting sued for it? Didn't think so.

Edit: I understand the law doesn't think they are bunk. This is my person opinion about them and why they should be bunk.
Actually, OS X releases up until Snow Leopard the clock was set to the version of the OS. 10:10 for OS X 10.1 for example.
No love for Der Spiegel?
More than 'in part'. It's the entire reason. He has stated he will go to Sweden to answer the (really obviously trumped-up, btw) charges if they will guarantee he won't be extradited to the US. Since the reason the Swedes want him in the first place is so they can hand him over to the Americans, obviously they have declined.
I agree with you, and I think the poster is being sarcastic, hence the reasonable charge aspect.

I think the real problem is if the company was sharing in the profits of the invention, and companies took care of workers as they did back in the day, this would not be nearly the point of contention it is.

My father's company pays you for getting a patent, then pays you a percentage for their profits related to that patent, I dont know how they do the math, and it is likely favorable, but the rub is that there is tangible benefits to you for inventing things, oh wow!
Exactly! This article is a piece horesh!t.
I fell asleep through part of it, had to nudge myself awake with a pitch fork I leave next to my laptop for such uses.
No where did he talk about something interesting like pondering the lack of eyebrow hair Mr. Ellison hosts. Or the likeness between Tony Robbins and his visage. Seriously, the man is 70 years old and living large. He has some money. Instead of being in a wheelchair and taking midol, he's out in a boat and living the dream.

The part about vomit and clown suits in the article was perplexing.

I hope the author never writes another piece again. What tittle-tattle yawnfest.