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This article is disturbingly disconnected from provable facts and what little we know about what makes companies successful. Controversial corporate leaders can be a drag. Making money selling to broad markets is very different from being a stand out entertainer.

> Create value first in whatever you do. Then the math takes care of itself.

This one part bothers me more than the rest. The Marketing to Engineering ratio is critically important. Unless people can integrate something into the stories they tell about themselves then the product has no traction and goes nowhere. Value has to be carefully nurtured and tended as does the transmission of that value by any particular channel.
This doesn't seem like great reporting - largely unrelated to the Orlando event that triggered the NYT article.

This worker's blog seemed pretty insightful: https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS

Taking his comment about revenue focused technology being developed in that office, it doesn't seem like it was a smart business move to lose the experience of the staff they had in place already.
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Cool stuff! Coding attack sequences, combos and reading commands like quarter-circles is a fun exercise, too. You have to balance between precision and ease of use.

Interesting strategies arise when this glitches:

http://wiki.shoryuken.com/E._Honda_(ST)#Stored_Oicho (Street fighter 2)
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> There are gangs and organized crime, human trafficking, lone sharking, violence against foreigners, theft, you name it.

Sounds like most cities in the world. There's very little violent crime in Singapore though. It's 99.9% likely that you won't get mugged if you walk alone in a dark alleyway.

I should add that theft of unattended items does happen. Don't leave your cellphones or laptops unattended.
H-1Bs are supposed to be used to fill jobs for which qualified Americans can't be found, but to get around this, Disney lays off workers and brings in a consultancy to take over. The consultancy employs the H-1B workers, not Disney.

There are so many loopholes that it seems like the only solutions are to either create a well funded agency/department to oversee this, or to increase the price far enough that H-1Bs are only viable as a last resort.
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I am a huge fan of this[1] case. I like the single power input for powering the pi and a USB hub. I like the room inside the case for adding things; hhd, gpio pins. I just wish this design was more common... and cheaper.

1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JNXERM2/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_...
wow that's the first time in years that a website crashed my entire computer (currently using a 1.3ghz dual core new macbook)
Also companies. The main idea with the NSA is corporate espionage.
Find an employment attorney. Pay that person for an hour or two to read the contract for you. They will be able to offer much better advice than HN.
Does 1Password have a web based version?
I think the problem is more to with science journalism than the scientists themselves. I've seen so many headlines that read something like "Is X affecting Y?!" but then the story is something like "scientists published an article saying that there may be a link between X and Y."
yes. talk with a lawyer.
This narrative is incorrect.

As evidence, take the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) standard, which included portions of the user-space C library in the POSIX.1 (Core Services) published in 1988. While the name "POSIX" was suggested by RMS, the notion that it might have been part of an agenda to claim credit for Linux violates causality (the very first version of Linux was released in 1991).

POSIX.2 is "Shell And Utilities", and was published in 1992.

Clearly, the notion that the operating system extended beyond the kernel was not a fringe one.
There is a lot of delay in getting projects out the door as people are pulled away to do paperwork for this part of the project or some other project.
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This is the correct answer.

I worked at a company that was acquired earlier this year and I didn't care for the new employment contract. Unfortunately, the sale was contingent on a certain percentage of the team signing the new employment contract. I had a lawyer look at the whole thing and he told me that because of the way the deal was worded I could sign and quit without affecting things.

I looked at the contracts a ton myself and basically made no sense of it. The lawyer spent a couple hours and it was a big help.
Transactions :)
I don't know, I wouldn't say the downsides of the old ways were that the food was non-local, low quality, or unhealthy. A lot of the food regulations were necessary because when you try to do things on a large scale you run into quality and health problems. The downsides are more like people ate way less meat because it was too expensive, there was much less international variety, and there were a lot more farmers, like 25x more. It's really hard to be a farmer. That said, I think the typical person nowadays can afford to eat much better than your typical peasant in the past, at a lower total percentage of income. It's just that because there's so much to spend money on in life now, today's typical peasant chooses not to eat better and ends up romanticizing the past.
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I never claimed or implied that latest design of 1Pass repository is worse or even security-equivalent to KeePass. I simply pointed out that 1Pass team has made their share of mistakes (plural), so I have as much trust in their competence as, likely, in KeePass team.

With author trust being a non-issue (humor me in this assumption), we must look at facts & evidence only.

Both 1Pass and KeePass repositories are well-specified, with latest 1Pass clearly having an advantage due to AEAD.

1Pass implementation quality is unknown due to it being closed-source, and I'm not aware of any independent audits. KeePass implementation quality can at least be observed & discussed. 1Pass cannot even be discussed due to being a "trust-us" blackbox. Well, I don't trust them.

I would wager that even you don't know whether 1Pass actually HMAC's their IVs.

On a more holistic level, this category of software is client-based password managers (as opposed to centralized password managers like LastPass). My position is that trustworthy client-based password managers cannot be closed-source.
It's a fair viewpoint. I guess my critical point is control: control over the hardware, its software, legal rights to it, and so on. If they're in control, it's theirs. How can it be myself if outsiders control or own it?

I guess a combo of philosophical and legal.
maybe just print out "ls -alR /" and say "these are all my pre-existing inventions and and ideas, and supporting software"
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Some major chinese browser doesn't validate any cert at all, even self signed is perfectly OK (360 Browser, very large install base)/
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This conversation does not need to be had on this thread.
When I decided I wanted a Ltd I spend an afternoon reading through the regulations on HMRC and Contractor UK and still wasn't really sure what I needed to do. I went with Crunch and they setup everything for me in a couple of days (including flat-rate VAT and PAYE). If I were to do it again I probably would do it myself, but to start with I don't think it's really worth the effort of this is all new to you.

When I first started contracting I used an umbrella company for a few months, I'd recommend people starting out go this route then move to a Ltd once they are sure this is what they want to do.
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I'd just like to echo this. I'm a (very) happy Dash buyer, and encourage any developers reading this on OS X to give Dash a look. It's one of those tools that you don't always need, but when you need it, you really need it. Oh, and it integrates quite nicely with Alfred and Sublime Text :) Kudos to 'kapeli for building some very useful, usable software.
Talk to a lawyer.

FWIW: While this clause may be oppressive, it is not uncommon. It has been in (almost?) every employee agreement I've signed. I always filled in the addendum to exclude ideas I had previous to the job, that I wanted to pursue on my own.
Whats the best way to go about finding one on short notice in a generic major city?
That's a fair point. If this was on Github I might take that to heart and submit a PR. Since it's hosted on Sourceforge, which I don't have an account on and don't want to given their recent behavior, I'm not going to.
What does that even look like? It seems like a stretch to believe that we can create a government that we'll always be able to trust.
According to this document it was stolen: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160564.pdf
Distributed p2p filesystems & compute nodes are currently too immature to install & are practically useless in their current state. I'd like to be able to backup my files in the cloud & not have to worry about paying a monthly fee as long as I'm contributing more to the network than I'm using.
Yeah, but you're forgetting that's because Dash is awesome. I mean, it's really quite a useful app and I feel like it belongs in the top 10 for a very good reason, rather than the vast majority of apps.
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The paradox is not the convergence of infinite long curves..

Read the paradox description. To fill the horn with paint you need a finite amount. To paint the outside of the horn you need an infinite amount.

That is the paradox. The surface area of the inside is equal to the outside, yet one side requires a finite amount of paint while the other side requires an infinite amount.

At least that's how I understand the paradox.
If you're in California I can give you a recommendation (I have no affiliation with him aside from hiring him in the past). I don't know of a general way of finding a lawyer on short notice.
True, "self-managed" is probably more accurate.
Is 2015 the year of Linux on the desktop? :)
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Microsoft is still a PRISM company, so I'm sure the NSA will still be able to access search data.
Had a friend mention he was going to do this on a job interview and the company he was talking to almost immediately cut him a settlement check to keep him from doing it and to just make him go away.

Don't ever assume something a company is doing is on the up-and-up.
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Assuming you do get a 'reasonably priced' lawyer in this situation, how confident can you be in the answer? Put another way, if @ExhibitAClause2 were to end up in court how much would the outcome depend on the quality of lawyer arsenal at his disposal versus BigCo?

I ask because there are countless scenarios when an attorney clears something and an expensive lawsuit still occurs, e.g. patent trolls.
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I mean, I agree. Spygate was a violation and they got fined. That seems pretty clear cut and I don't have a problem with it.

I'm just taking issue with the guy calling it "outright spying" which is a pretty exaggerated characterization when you're filming what a coach is doing in front of 50,000 people. If that's spying, then I spy on NFL games pretty regularly.
> I find it fiddly to bill per day when perhaps I only needed to work 5 hours to complete one job and 3 on another day.

But you're also forgetting that this 3-5 hours has basically made you lose what could have been 4 hours at another client because they've taken up your time in your schedule. This is your per-job overheads.

Your utilisation is your client's problem, not yours. Don't let your rate be tied to your time, make it tied to your skills and your value to the business and force yourself to be worth that value.

Don't let yourself lose out in the name of "being competitive". Bill half the day if you have to leave early and consider it a half day off, but never bill hourly.

Source: just went from billing hourly to daily. I feel so much better now, especially when you realise people are willing to pay if you're worth it.
The Citicorp building in New York City was a particularly scary case of wind engineering (or lack of):

http://www.damninteresting.com/a-potentially-disastrous-desi...
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As can I
New phones are still being sold with Android 2.3 here [1] in Ecuador (which is ridiculous), so for some markets you do need to verify what your target audience uses before making assumptions like that.

[1] http://www.movistar.com.ec/tienda/Marcas/Huawei/Huawei-Y210/...
Tried it, and pv-grub gets converted to "grub (legacy)", and "grub 2" is also available as a "kernel" after switching to KVM. As well as "direct disk" :)

Edit: However, a system that had the debian pv-grub-menu package installed to create its menu.lst won't boot with "grub (legacy)". Installing grub-pc and using the grub 2 option also failed, with "error: hd0 cannot get C/H/S values" Interesting, never had trouble booting grub from kvm before.
Following the "Learn more" link under Laptops & Hybrids just takes me to http://store.hp.com/us/en/cat/Laptops with no Ubuntu in sight. (FWIW I'm in the US.)
I recognize it's a cultural difference. Which, to be honest, was the reason I qualified the statement as "in the US, ..."

> In the US, you have Fox News. Whatever you might think

> about the message Fox News is sending out, they control

> the message that people hear. In general, the media

> controls the narrative. A small number of media outlets

> are the real beneficiaries of free speech. In what way

> are their opponents able to speak?

I would consider that more a question of Freedom of the Press, although it's certainly intertwined with Freedom of Speech. And there's an old quote that "Freedom of the Press only applies to people who have one [a press]." Luckily, it's been getting cheaper to get a message out to, potentially, millions of people. Occasionally, bloggers embarrass professional reporters.

> A small number of powerful elites have unrestricted

> control over what speech people actually get to hear. ...

>

> It's not too much better than that in the EU but at least

> we can prevent a television station or media baron or

> cult leader from broadcasting hate speech.

I don't think the "at least" is something to be happy with. I realize that the governments currently running France, Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. are more trustworthy than, say, the Russian government. But you have something of a guarantee that -- no matter how much you trust your current government -- eventually politicians you don't trust will take control. If a government has the authority to punish media owners or reporters, then eventually that authority will be abused.
> Primary incentives embodied in the patent system include incentives to invent in the first place; to disclose the invention once made; to invest the sums necessary to experiment, produce and market the invention; and to design around and improve upon earlier patents.

This is two goals, stated as four:

1. There should be more technology developed under a patent system than otherwise.

2. People should stop keeping their technology secret.

> Main article: History of patent law

> Patents were systematically granted in Venice as of 1450, where they issued a decree by which new and inventive devices had to be communicated to the Republic in order to obtain legal protection against potential infringers.

Goal #2 is the origin of the system, and the only goal that the system directly addresses.

So let's take a common example of a trade secret protected by American law: a company's customer list.

I don't see the argument that businesses wouldn't bother developing customers in the absence of trade secret law. Nor do I see why protecting that information is in the interest of anyone outside that particular company. It's definitely contrary to the interests of the customers.

The Uniform Trade Secrets Act explicitly states that it's intended to protect businesses who believe that their information is nonpatentable:

> "In view of the substantial number of patents that the courts invalidate, many businesses now elect to protect commercially valuable information by relying on the state trade secret protection law."

And hey, for secrets like a customer list those businesses are surely correct. But who cares? Trade secrets are by definition something the business felt was worth the effort of developing regardless of patentability concerns. Any hypothetical benefits to society are, at best, extremely precarious -- that's why we have patent law. Trade secret protections are an undisguised, pointless giveaway, and they undermine the goals of the patent system.
> whats wrong with Brackets/Sublime/DW/Notepad and a web browser

Designers usually have a "visual first" approach, developers tend to have a "code first" approach. So a tool that allows setting up stuff visually instead of writing code in a text editor will make designers more productive.

I've been using Fireworks and Dreamweaver for 15 years and haven't found a good alternative to that. Fireworks is(was) very good at dealing with web assets,it was easy to write macros and extensions in JS, Dreamweaver has good templating capabilities (a bit like static site generators) which makes maintaining complex layouts on multiple pages really really easy for web designers.

The issue with Dreamweaver is obviously the fact that it's out of touch with modern web design (very little support for CSS frameworks and pre-processors, text editor below average, and of course Adobe succeeded in killing the best thing Macromedia had achieved,creating an awesome community around its products).As for Fireworks it's dead.

So designers like me are always watching for alternative tools that could replace these. There is a serious need for innovation in that space. I don't think the UI for such a tool should be 100% web based however.
I think it's a pretty big difference, going from labor-intensive manual inspection of data to fully automated inspection of data, opening up everyone within few of the camera to being automatically tracked.

It's not the same thing that's always been done, except now it's being done with a computer. It's the same thing that's always been done, except now it's being done for everyone, rather than for just a few select individuals of interest. It doesn't really matter that a computer is involved; it's the scope of the surveillance that is disconcerting. If huge numbers of humans were hired to track everyone manually, that would also be disconcerting.

Who cares? I'm not entirely sure. And I guess that's sort of the point. This level of surveillance has, in my opinion, surpassed what most of society is ready for. I don't think that most people have a good grasp on what's going on, or what impact it will / could have on their lives.

If arbitrary companies and government agencies can know my whereabouts at all times, should this have any impact to how I live my life? It's a question that society at large has never had to really answer before.
In my wildest dreams, I wish the tax system would allow the deduction of salaries and benefits payed to citizens but not to foreign workers. That would change the incentive for companies. Or, add a tax on foreign workers to help pay unemployment for citizens.
Like, say, the video description?

"I describe how I made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an LP groove using an electron microscope. I also show electron micrographs of other recording media."
Talk to a labor union.
Would you have any advice on making sure there's enough time for yourself, your business, your kids and your wife?

I've also got the added challenge of time with parents. And I agree - friends who don't have kids just don't fully understand.
This stuck out to me:

> With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.

What the password goes to can potentially be _very_ sensitive. One of my side projects is a keyring manager; similarly, it feeds the data through GPG. However, the keyring is one file (i.e., all the stuff is rolled together). I also disagree with the design choice of taking the names of the objects on the keyring as a command line argument: they end up in history files. (This is the same argument, really; if you consider the name of the object on the keyring to be sensitive, then you don't want it as a filename (it's not encrypted) or as an arg (it's in a history file… not encrypted).)
How do you manage to balance all 3 of those activities? My business is still not sustainable so I'm still on a full-time job myself. It's been tough really.
Things are changing quite a bit, especially in IT and Startup world. Engineers are being paid decent salaries, although not as much as the bankers, enough to live happily in Singapore.
I initially interpreted the title as a Python API to CNN the television channel and was curious how that was implemented. But, after clicking on the link I actually learned a bit about something that seems pretty fascinating. So, thanks for that!
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Are there any "uber for lawyers" services online

c.f. Lawdingo (YC 13), which is Uber for lawyers. No relation; never pulled the trigger on actually using it.

Incidentally, my last employment contract had a similar clause in it. After consulting with my bosses, who thought it was the usual boilerplate and didn't really expect a young engineer to have meaningful IP, we came up with a list which looked like:

1) Bingo Card Creator [the only IP I was really worried about]
2) Various contributions to the OSS projects listed in Appendix A [these days I'd literally just print a listing of all repos in Github]
3) Miscellaneous computer programs, inventions, and documents which exist on physical or electronic media as of $DATE and are impractical to list -- $COMPANY acknowledges this disclosure is adequately specific for its purposes
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:-)

Why the down votes?

This is a serious suggestion; I don't know the exact situation in America but in Europe all trade unions have trained advisers looking at stuff like this every day.

Going to an union is a much more effective and cheaper solution than every employee talking to an employment lawyer on their own.
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they already do collect medicare and social security from foreign workers.
You can get it back when you turn 65.
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The most annoying part of this article is that the reporter refers to the Linux Kernel as the Linux Operating System.
I've had success selecting lawyers with Avvo in the past. They have a new service called AvvoAdvisor that will connect you with a lawyer immediately (I haven't tried it, but I've tried Lawdingo which was OK). I think this can help you perhaps get a bird eye view on your matter and pre-select someone for more thorough work.
Interesting! We are in a similar situation to where you were, with a bigish app on Heroku which we are keen to move over to EC2 to join the rest of our infrastructure, definitely keen to see how empire develops
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I want the company that receives the H1B to pay an addition tax on the salary that goes to unemployment. It needs to be something above an beyond what is payed for a citizen. After all, the H1B is supposed to have skills that the local workers don't and thus should be worth the extra money.