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I agree we need more WikiLeaks for the Federal Reserve. Where wikileaks screwed up was getting into the business of national security stuff. Leaking diplomatic and military secrets is going to get you in a world of trouble, and Assange deserves all the pain he's going to get for deciding to publish information that would jeopardize people's physical safety.

Hopefully a new wikileaks will pop up though, maybe one with some sanity.
My lord - this is why I love HN and why it's unlike any other place on the web.

Just emailed you. Given the outpouring of offers, you may have found something (congrats if you have). If not, look forward to hearing from you.
Ask HN: Why is Smashing Magazine so successful? 
I have previously tried my hand at blogging, and though the focus wasn't design, but more technology based stuff. This was back in 2006-07. My projects never took off / gained traction.

Smashing Magazine started in 2006, Tech Crunch started in July 2005, and Mashable was launched in July of 2005 as well. These sites became pretty well known by 2008 to a wider audience than just design and news enthusiasts.

There are literally millions of people churning content, so what is it that is making these <and some other> sites so successful, besides content & being early players in the market ?
I don't think anyone has ever laid out an official release date.. "it's ready when it's ready" was always the mantra.
Ever check out http://djangogigs.com/ ?
[WikiLeaks] Government Workers Ordered Not to Read Cables
That sounds like an agreement you should not sign, then.
The agreements I've signed have been part of the contracts at the 3 engineering/design firms I've worked at: mindtribe.com, ideo.com, and greenmountainengineering.com. (I've also worked a few other places, but they were schools and an environmental foundation.) Actually, now that I think of it, the most aggressive agreement I've signed was when I was working as a researcher at a university robotics lab.

In all cases, the agreements had the list of exceptions you mentioned, but they only took ownership of stuff I thought of while I was on the clock. At the last company I worked for, the agreement was very contentious-- the employees lobbied for, and eventually received, an agreement that allowed them to own not only their off-the-clock ideas, but also their on-the-clock ideas if the company didn't develop them within 6 months. (There were more details, but that's the rough idea.)

At the time, I thought this was a big deal. In retrospect, I think all that stuff is just people making stuff up about what is going to happen in an imaginary future where ideas are worth millions and lawyers are free. All the same, I still refuse to sign agreements like that-- I think it distorts the way innovation actually works. As it's said, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants; I don't want to be under the control of someone who doesn't understand that.
direct experience with this exact situation

Relevant link: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=153046

I think your case was tougher on you that these cases normally are. It seems in your case, your options were, "get fired and lose code", "get yelled at and lose code". In most cases where psychopaths are not involved, it's "can you edit the copyright statement and run this by me again"?

I think that is why you are a lot more bitter than the person involved in the linked article :)
Tell HN: DNS hacked? Redirected to forward.rewardfinds.com?
This problem popped up for me about a week ago. Requests to retail websites would be redirected to forward.rewardfinds.com, which then redirects to the requested website. I imagine rewardfinds is some affiliate program. I thought perhaps some malware, but after trying it on both a Windows and Ubuntu box, I suspected DNS. Flushed my DNS cache, switched over to 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (Google's DNS) and that solved the problem.

Didn't think much of it, but a friend pinged me with the same problem. Did a search and it appears others are having the same problem (http://support.mozilla.com/mr/questions/766714).

At first I thought it was some nefarious tech at my ISP who figured s/he'd earn some extra bucks redirecting everyone's requests, but it appears more widespread.

Has DNS been hacked?
Why do they have a claim on your general creativity? My understanding of employment is that the employer is renting my services for the tasks they want done. They say, "Hello, will you please implement these features in our system today?", and I say, "Sure." A permanent employment agreement simply means this will continue upon a regular pay schedule and compensation package for the indefinite future. It may also come with stipulations like "We'd like to hang out in our office most of the time so you can help us on-demand", or whatever, but all of those things are settled and worked out collaboratively before the candidate becomes an employee.

Why does it mean they "have claim on my creativity and work" outside of this scope? I may sign additional non-compete agreements that make it so that I can't engage in any threatening or similar business. I may sign non-disclosure agreements that make it so I can't use any proprietary or secret information that belongs to the company. However, why should I sign an agreement that allows the company to take things they've had nothing to do with without any pay? Does the employee have power to take from the employer without providing compensation? Why should the employer have that power?
Here's my problem. It's great that some censorship will be prevented, but what about stuff like child pornography. I'm worried that, if successful, this will turn into a "we don't like our government so let's go create our own country where there are no laws", without thinking about the laws that we actually do want enforced...
What is the discussion here supposed to be? TinEye has been around for like 2 years now.
I have all three, and think they're complementary. I like Joe Armstrong's book, but don't think it's very good as a reference - it jumps around too much. The O'Reilly book is better organized, but with both, OTP comes in kind of as an afterthought. I'm glad to have another that focuses primarily on it, because there are too many details about paths, deployment, etc. to just have one chapter about it 2/3 of the way through. I didn't realize how many common issues OTP completely handles until the presentations at ErlangCamp.
A coworker of mine had Lasik in India in February 2010. His surgery resulted in very serious light sensitivity problems when he returned to America. He was not able to work for several weeks longer than what the doctor indicated. Also once he did begin working again he wore sunglasses and dimmed his screen way down for at least a month after that. He also experienced intense headaches throughout this time period.

I do not know how he is doing now because we have not been in contact since June. I would still get Lasik but caution you to receive it from a surgeon that you do not have to travel thousands of miles to see if complications do arise.
Interestingly enough, many states attempted voucher programs, not to the extent Jobs suggested though. It did spur school upstarts. I know Florida had a Pre-K voucher program, and as a result, Pre-K schools popped up all around. This was sometime in 2006-2008. I'm not sure if they discontinued the program or not, but education levels were on par with public schools, with a per-child cost of about half.
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If there's one lesson to learn here:

When you are joining a new company, review the agreement. If you see a non-compete clause for post-employment time periods, cross it out. If you don't see some verbiage that explicitly makes clear the company doesn't own anything you do on your own time and with your own equipment, add it in.

If Google is hiring "A" employees, how come they aren't bright enough to add such a clause to their employment agreement?
My brother had it an recommended it to me, but he also had better vision than I do.

I still haven't had it, though. I have something like -9 in both eyes and have worn glasses since elementary school and last I talked to an optometrist about it, they said that I'd still need glasses afterward.

Granted, they also said that I had nice thick corneas and that I was, otherwise, a good candidate for it, I just have a hard time seeing the value in it if I'll still need glasses anyhow. I don't really have any problems compensating during whatever small amounts of time I spend in the morning without my glasses.
I wrote my reply on your blog, but I'll re-post it here:

Well, I think you missed Jason's point frankly. He said people who work for him end up going on to achieve great things, and that is true. Sean Percival, for instance, worked at Mahalo two years ago, and now he's the VP of Online Marketing at MySpace. A huge jump in two years (Percival was not a well-known figure when he started at Mahalo). It seems that many people can use Jason as a springboard. He is a great connection to have, and if you own stock, you can probably make a lot of money. (Mahalo will be sold to Demand Media in 2011, so yes, the product is "great," as in, it will have a solid exit, which is the point).

Different people respond better to different leadership styles. Some people could not stand playing for Bobby Knight. Others liked his "I'm going to challenge you until you break" style. It's really a matter of personal preference.
And you were complaining about someone else's hyperbole in an earlier comment?

Socialism and Fascism (aka. Governmental control) are orthogonal - your economic model is independent of the government's control. In the Soviet Union you had both, in the US you have neither (although there's a lot more fascism these days). In most of Europe (eg. Sweden) there's socialism, but not a lot of fascism.
Had LASIK about five years ago. Mixed feelings. Still somewhat glad I did it, though I wear glasses with .5 prescription in both eyes to make sure vision is perfect and to filter polarize the light, etc.

If you're a programmer or staring at a screen, I learned recently that you blink something like 1/5 as much as normal. This in turn causes eye dryness and potential irritation.

So for a while I thought that LASIK had something to do with it, in my estimation, it contributes some to it -- but being a programmer is always going to require being careful with your eyes (giving them rest, doing activities where you naturally blink more, etc.).

If they tell you that your pupils are near the limit (if they're too big, then LASIK -- because it only shaves the top portion of your lens -- won't cover things completely when your pupils dilate -- e.g., at night).

So I've been happy for the running that I can do now. But it's not perfect and I wear glasses when I work.
I had Lasik approximately three years ago in the month of November, using wave/topography (expensive) technology. After waiting whatever the usual time period for enhancements after healing, I went back in for a second surgery around January/February, to my right eye because the Dr (or the machine) didn't get the numbers right. I was 20/15 in my left eye, and about 20/25 in my right eye after the surgery and this was a difference I could literally see, sorry for the pun, so it did cause me on a certain level, problems.

Had that corrected and haven't had to go back since, with both eyes at an astounding (to me) 20/15. I was a -6.0 in my left and -6.5 in my right before the surgery.

I do see halos at night from other vehicle lights, but I was prepared to accept this because my glasses prescription already gave me halos. I do not find them after the surgery to be a huge pain.

To this day, I occasionally use eye drops - but that's not even a complaint. I'll take using eye drops any day of the week versus the coke bottle glasses I had to use 24/7.

I program and stare at computer screens just as much as the next programmer, but it hasn't damaged my vision. If anything, it's as someone else said with the issues of staring at screens with minimal air flow through the office: dry.

Like others, this operation made me question why I didn't get it sooner. It truly is life changing, as it was for me. I don't consider what happened to me as a "complication" but as something less. I could've walked out of there blind forever, but I didn't. So, indeed, you have to understand the risks before going in.
A keyboard requires fingers or at least some sort of functional limb, however. This doesn't. It doesn't really have to be called a neural interface, if that offends you.

For anyone else hung up on this, I recommend mentally substituting the term "scalp-eye interface" or "hands-free interface" and focusing on the possibilities instead of the limitations.
I had LASIK in the summer of 2002. (Wow, hard to believe it's been more than 8 years!)

No problems to report. I do experience the so-called "halos" while driving at night, but it's not a problem and hasn't impacted my night driving.

Furthermore, a few of us got LASIK that same summer:

- My mother, who was 51 at the time
- My wife
- My best friend

All three of us have had no problems.

We all used the same doctor, Dr. Rajesh Rajpal in Washington DC. He led the LASIK clinical trials resulting in FDA approval in 1995. I believe (but can't confirm online) that he's done over 25,000 operations in his lifetime.
So, has this ever been tested in court? The wording in Illinois law is:

If an employment agreement entered into after January 1, 1984, contains a provision requiring the employee to assign any of the employee's rights in any invention to the employer, the employer must also, at the time the agreement is made, provide a written notification to the employee that the agreement does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) to the business of the employer, or (ii) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

The Act starts off clearly: "the agreement does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time", but then it gets in to a nasty gray area: "unless the invention relates to the business of the employer".

How do you define this for software? Does an implementation of "malloc" relate to ditch digging because the phones that ditch-diggers carry to be dispatched need to allocate memory?
Were they ever really required to do that? That would be amazing.
Got the wavefront (expensive but less after-effects) PRK (no flap) version because I play in a recreational softball league and didn't want to risk getting sand or dust under the lens.

It was painful for a couple days, then my eyes were watery for a couple days, then everything was good. A month later I had 20/20 vision.

Well worth it, I would recommend the PRK version specifically though. IMO, avoiding the (still rare) issues that can come along with getting the flap is worthwhile. PRK is also slightly cheaper.
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Having read the post and comments, the entire argument seems to be "Some don't want to work for a narcissistic, work-obsessed outspoken boss" and "narcissistic, work-obsessed outspoken people make it".

You know the single thing that every single successful entrepreneur, in any field, has in common? They're work-obsessed. They bust their balls. I'd rather work for someone like JC than a work-shy narcissist.
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> The limitation is that every thread on a core is
> executing the same instruction. If some of them take
> one branch and the rest take another, both branches
> have to be executed one after the other while masking
> out the threads it doesn't apply to.

In my dictionary that's far from conditional branching. And I point it out because even SIMD can have conditional branching (using the CPU's branch predictor.)

> That reduces the performance you get

That's an understatement. It complicates the implementation significantly. Parallel-oriented (?) programming is quite hard by itself without all this.

In many non-trivial situations you need to check for reaching limits on loops or plain data structure bounds check.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's amazing to do GPGPU, what pisses me off is the overblown marketing and all the noise by people repeating that like canon when they clearly never implemented a single non-trivial program in OpenMP/CUDA/OpenCL/SIMD.

> Hope that clears it up for you.

That phrasing can carry an implied personal attack, but let's not fall into personal attacks, shall we? (And I'm foreign and could be reading too much into it.)
An aside: How bad is Erlang's string handling in practice? I primarily write server software, and Erlang would be a pretty good fit for much of what I do... but I also have to munge a lot of text pretty regularly, and I've been a little scared off by the FUD surrounding Erlang & strings.
It's not "mysteriously", right? They ate Red dye #40 and they are now dyed red.

(I am a little outraged, though. First, it's annoying that bees are eating artificial food designed to save a few cents per liter of soda. But then you realize, if you're upset that bees are gorging themselves on HFCS, isn't it even more outrageous that people do it? I guess we have a conscious choice, and all, but it is amazing on how little interest the average person has in natural food.

I guess as long as the investors in the food companies get their 12% a year, it's all good...)
Sure the bees don't make good tasting honey anymore, but now they glow red at night! How is that not a win?
While it's somewhat old, _The Unix Programming Environment_ covers the mindset and a lot of the fundamental tools. _Unix Power Tools_ is another good one. This stuff is particularly novel to people who learned Unix from e.g. Ubuntu + GNOME and worked towards the command line, rather than starting there.

A lot of the tricks listed in the article should be in the man page for sh. I've found a lot reading man pages, but I also use OpenBSD rather than Linux, and its man pages are often noticeably better. (The "we only have a man page to remind you that info is better" pages for GNU utils on Debian are among the worst man pages.) Either way, "apropos" and man pages' SEE ALSO section should help.

I've also found several cool utilities looking at summaries of what was available in the OpenBSD & FreeBSD ports trees, especially in the sysutils and devel categories.

Finally, people who are already using ratpoison/dwm/wmii. as their windowmanager, mpd for playing music, etc. tend to have a common aesthetic, and can usually recommend several other tools. Check out http://onethingwell.org and http://suckless.org for starters.
From a non-scientist's point one issue I can see that humans have problems with relating to these devices is a lack of feedback. I've tried a few of these and it takes a few seconds to know if its working or not. That's a pretty unnatural feeling for a human, since we normally know if an attempt of ours had an action quickly or not. Like you said, there is a huge amount of noise that makes it very difficult, and much of the lag we have with feedback is due to us trying to smooth out this noise and find a pattern.

Hopefully one or two smart discoveries can give us a nice little leap ahead forward until we have a better brain model to work with- bringing the technology to at least a semi-usable level since as it stands it is pretty much a novelty at best.
Because deleveraging of the banking system produces a deflationary shock. The Fed is trying to offset this, but for political reasons can only partially (people would cry "currency debasement!" - and already do).

Scott Sumner has written some things on this: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/

The fact that interest rates are very low is also a hint that maybe inflation expectations are not very high.

A good source for the relevant interest rates: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bond... (yield column). You can also compare to Japan there.
How safe is Lasik compared to contacts? I tried soft contacts half a year ago for 3 weeks, and my eyes got very irritated and red. They are still redder and more easily irritated today (for example I used to have no problems with cutting onions or cycling in wind or swimming, but now I do, for example if I swim without goggles I will have red eyes for two days). Could this lead to extra complications with Lasik? (probably)

Did anyone else have this problem and solve it with a different type of contacts?
> - The applicant must still be able to receive unemployment benefits for at least ninety days at the start of the self employment.

does this just mean, you can't sign up for this if you are unemployed, and 90 days away from no longer being eligible for unemployment?
Oh come on, Direct quote from the article: "But Mr. Selig said there was something extraordinary, too, about those corn-syrup-happy bees that came flying back this summer.

'When the sun is a bit down, they glow red in the evenings,' he said. 'They were slightly fluorescent. And it was beautiful.'"
This is a great question. I'll share a couple thoughts and experiences.

1. A great post was written by Paul Buchheit that called things like fear of public speaking, which may be an inflamed variation of fear of conversation, 'ego-fear'. While this may not be technically correct, it could be a useful psychological framework. See post here: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/serendipity-finds-y....

2. When I was young I was very nervous around girls, and hated public speaking. Along the way I became pretty good with girls and captain on my debate team. The key ingredients were a willingness to keep trying to improve and being willing to shrug off failure. The first times I approached women I was an absolute fool but I eventually improved by gaining a sense of what's socially viable. With regards to public speaking, I was very nervous when I started out. But, once I had looked like a quite a few times, I got pretty good and ended up being the leader of several organizations in high school and college.

3. A friend of mine who is quite brilliant but very introverted suggested the book "The Game," which basically describes how to hack romance. I wouldn't suggest applying this book to your love life, but some of its insights might be worth checking out. When you understand that your interactions with other people of the same sex are often as complex as those of the opposite, it becomes a fundamentally different (and often more tractable) problem. My friend read this book, saw some therapists, and was willing to look like a fool the first couple times as he talked to girls and publicly spoke. He's now dating a beautiful girl and gave something like 300 public speeches our senior year while the president of one of my college's biggest organizations.

So, my experience has been that repetitive practice and willingness to learn are key ingredients to improving and conquering what may be related fears. Funny how this seems to be the formula for success with almost anything.
Is this dongle a future-proof way to keep up with firmware upgrades?

Scenario: new upgrade comes, x3 dongle guys distribute a patch automatically after a few days/weeks
Yeah, but it all worked out in the end.

I even got a weird kind of option grant from that company, which paid out to the tune of 90K or so when the company was sold.
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what about stuff like child pornography

What about people that make their own kids (I hear humans can do that) and then abuse them? Clearly we should have video cameras in every room to ensure that this doesn't happen.

What if someone, right now, is doing something I don't approve of!? Something must me done!