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glassdoor.com is probably the most popular I know of. There's also vault.com.
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Sebastian's blog strikes me as intensely arrogant, self-centered and tasteless. Like others, I'm sure, I have my doubts about the truthfulness of some passages from his blog such as the following:

"I got into a shouting match protecting some McDonald’s employees from a mob boss in Hong Kong. A riot cop came to break it up, I was almost in a fight with three mafia guys.

I had two guys try to mug me the other day in a dangerous area. Bad mistake, doubled one of them over with a kick the stomach and shouted at the other one, “YOU WANT TO DIE? BACK DOWN, STAY BACK.” He did, he let me walk away while his criminal buddy was doubled over."

Even if every word of the above were true, which I doubt, it wouldn't impress me. It just makes me think the guy is stupid. The post bragging that he'll be making 250k/month in 10 years was similarly in-your-face, yet uninspiring. Ditto for the comparison of "high born" and "low born" people. Other posts push credulity in similar ways and give me the sense he's a runaway narcissist.

Honestly, I don't have a problem reading really odd stuff if there's enough value to take from it. One example would be Steve Pavlina's blog. I have little to no interest in new age philosophy and some of his posts come across as downright nutty. But they're thought provoking, though. Many of the earlier posts on online business and a wider set of personal development topics were solid gold. I rarely feel like it's wasted time to read that blog, even when I disagree with it.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same about Sebastian's blog or so-called "get victory" newsletter. Thus far, I haven't found a single article that's genuinely helped me (a high bar, I know). There isn't nearly enough substance to offset the obnoxious tone. Until he actually is a VC with all kinds of internet properties, making 250k/month, a lot of people just won't be interested in reading about his opinions, goals or tall tales.

As I said, I don't know the guy. He could very well be a great guy to hang around with, especially with his interest in self-improvement. Maybe if I did know him offline as you do, I'd have a greater appreciation for his blog. This comment isn't meant as a personal attack. It's a rationale for why I agree with zuckerborg's comment and why HN would be a better place without a constant stream of victory spam.
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It's interesting how people can read articles yet miss entirely their substance.

Greenwald has noted a number of inconsistencies in Lamo's declarations, inconsistencies which have enormous potential consequences for the evolution of the case, notably whether Assange can be considered an accomplice of Manning. Some of his further investigations also reveal that one of the Justice Department officials which investigated Poulsen has very close ties with Lamo, Poulsen and Wired in general.

All of this raises important questions regarding the validity of Poulsen's reporting and the credibility of Lamo's current public testimony.
Hence he demands Wired to publish the parts of the logs which would clear those inconsistencies, redacting away the ones which deal with private aspects of Manning and Lamo's discussion.

There is nothing that would justify Wired to not want to address these inconsistencies by publishing the parts of the lags which contain the corresponding information, yet they refuse.

What could justify this refusal ? Nothing, and that's where the whole "debate" points more and more in the direction of something very fishy smelling going on between the DoJ, Lamos and Poulsen.

If they have nothing to hide, have them publish the logs which explain the factual inconsistencies of _extreme_ relevance to the case that Greenwald has pointed.

That could change radically how Manning and Assange might be (or not at all) indicted, so, sorry, that matters.
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Personally, I much prefer searching citeseer, as most of the papers I've found through google scholar are behind paywalls, while virtually every paper on citeseer is free.

If I can't find a paper through citesser, I usually just do a regular google search, and often find the paper elsewhere on the web. Google scholar is pretty much my last resort, and I really haven't had much luck finding freely downloadable papers through it.
Ask HN: When are Software Patents necessary?
I have followed "Software Patents" indirectly for a while now and have even searched the topic on searchyc.com. I know we all don't want them, or want stricter rules. I don't get into the politics of it all. I just want to know what to do. In this case I'm a bit confused about the edge cases those statements don't represent.

The reason I ask is because I'm currently working on a project that is very unique (at least I hope). My instinct is that I haven't "invented" anything, but it definitely isn't being done in the way that I intend to, elsewhere.

I don't want to be evil about it. I believe in competition and welcome it. But I do want a fair chance at the market for my own business. Maybe there is a business strategy that resolves this? I mostly want to prevent already existing competitors from adopting my ideas/implementations in their own applications quicker than I can build my own business.

Also, I'm not letting this concern keeping me from making progress (there are plenty of other things doing that). But, a bit of clarity might help me stay focused when overwhelming myself with concerns.
It's really too bad that Amazon dropped the ball on this. You get to loan a book once, and the recipient only gets two weeks to read it. What a ridiculous implementation of such a great concept.

One of the major things that's kept me away from eBooks is that I can't share them with friends. In the office, we often pass a book around from person to person when we like it, and online lending should be just as simple and straightforward. Instead, we get a restrictive and janky process. Well played Amazon.
Any advice on what could be better than reading monster.com ? (genuinely interested)
SS is phenomenon of structural deficiency, not contextual input.

some will have SS in their job, in their affective life, in their intellectual life. others will use their job, their affective life, their intellectual life to achieve beyond. and sometime they ll even use SS of the first.

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Until a problem is fixed, it is acceptable to communicate with solutions. (And if a problem remains unfixed after suitable solutions are offered, it is further acceptable to complain about it.)
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I wanted to post an addendum. While I still hold that Amazon's actions are censorship, I do agree that they're within their rights to censor certain content and I believe they have to do so at certain times in order to maintain their image and appeal.

From the description of the books given by the author, I don't think Amazon should have removed these books, but I understand why they did. Amazon needs to fight the perception that it's a purveyor of sickening material. Amazon could choose to take a stand for the First Amendment without regard to the loss of business, it could do so in hopes that it's position would attract new customers, or it can do what it's doing now. Each option has a valid argument. Ultimately Amazon has to do what it thinks is right, and as a business, that generally means doing what will have the least negative impact on profits. Fair enough. If Amazon's actions aren't acceptable to some, then those people can shop elsewhere or band together to give Amazon incentive to shift their policy.
Somehow I find the use of the word 'kid' a bit out of place here.
Doing something that inconveniences or irritates people gets you griped at.

A greasemonkey script wouldn't "advocate" anything; its use would be the (admittedly reasonable) action of someone not waiting for everyone else to get a clue and do something right.
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and if he wasn't already, he's now stinking rich
I discovered that yesterday. It's been over a year (announcement: http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/jason-fried-joins-the-gro...) and it wasn't a secret, but I was surprised that I hadn't heard about it when it happened.

It does seem to clash with what 37signals discusses all the time regarding VC funding. I know that their main point is to fight the default mindset of going first to investors to fund you discovering what to really build, but nevertheless, a huge funding round whose main objective is to have some insiders cash out doesn't fit Jason Fried's perceived philosophy. (granted, DHH might be the more vocal of the two about it)
Money are your property. Therefore taxation(taking money by coercion) is a form of property right violation.

The Constitution also have another loophole that allow the government to take property for "just compensation".

Intellectual property right also violate property right.

People do indeed make exceptions. Some are big, and some are small. They just think they are justified.

The more exceptions there are, the more people are at liberty to make new exceptions for property right.
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Is it fraud if there's no intellectual property of any kind? If there's no intellectual property can't I rearrange the letters in any way I choose?
I think the point unlocks go in this order: flag comments/articles, downvote comments, change topcolor (the orange bar at the top).

The points required to downvote (and maybe for the others) goes up over time.
If you believe that 50% of the cut is a fair cut, you should add a little more detail about what exactly you are doing to justify this. Maybe mention how complicated the process is to handle on your own, how with many shipments you may never notice that some arrive late (and you get $0 back), and how much time you free up for the customer...
As it should be; a weaker member is like a failed raid drive rebuilding until it's up to speed with the team. You expect things to go slower until he's up to speed. If speed is necessary, the senior programmer can always drive and let the other guy watch and ask questions, or explain as he goes along.
Agreed, however there is something to be said about giving incentives to the little guy. Basically what entrepreneurs who are just starting out think NDAs should do, but better.

Say you come up with a great new idea in software. And you want to make an agreement with someone to implement this idea. Without patents, they can have "their uncle's company in China" to do the idea (think CrunchPad), rename it to avoid any trademark issues, and screw you. How would you protect against this? This issue faces almost every inventor of an idea, as they will have to make business agreements with someone. Thus, although you would be encouraging free flow of information within the tree, you would be cutting off a large source of it -- individual inventors.

Patents won't be going away because it's hard to distinguish between the above example, and a patent troll.
Forget the lobby, head to the bar. You get a lot more uncensored information and opinions after a few drinks.
"Burying" probably isn't the right word. The NY Times post is from Nate Silver on his FiveThirtyEight blog, which covers politics from a statistics angle.

Comparing the two posts highlights the difference between Google-based blogging journalism and traditional shoe leather journalism.
I would say that the rule one should live by is to utilize the talents and physical attributes God gave you to the best of your ability, but use them in the most humble of ways. At the end of the day you will taste true success.
Thank you!

I was just writing about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039527
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I do not blame the airlines for the previous terrorist attacks. Actions were taken to resolve the issue after the event so it is not like nothing has been done. Strengthening the cockpit doors and locking them is acceptable.
How so? He's a minor in nearly every state in the US, where he lives. I tried to find the legal age in Boston but "Boston Legal" keeps coming up...
That's totally worth reading
> Do you work in patent law?

Yes. As for the effect on the community... well, are you just talking about the way that patents make software developers feel? Because obviously developers would know more about that than I do. But it's also not a particularly relevant question--patents are what they are, and the way they make you feel doesn't really matter.
I expect that other browser will follow Opera and just stop supporting :focus {outline:none} if designers keep mindlessly copy Eric's reset.
Consider adding a revenue stream immediately. Let users pay to see what others have said about friends. Charge 1 facebook credit. Also let users pay to block that access: 10 credits. Also pay to let others ignore the block: 100 credits. Etc...

You'll need to redirect to a facebook page to use credits because they aren't available off facebook.com yet. They don't have many good examples of offsite apps using credits, so they could streamline the approval process I bet. Email me with questions.
I just tried this out and it is awesome.
Twitter's been profitable since their Google and Bing search deals lit up around last November.
Doesn't this situation describe about 3/4 of the working age US population ?

I find it ironic that a nation where freedom is supposedly so highly valued accepts relegating most of its people to corporate slavery.
Opera has similar feature if you press / and type fragment of link label.
The modern corporate structure has evolved to exploit this dynamic, so it ought to come as no shock that most everyone here has experienced it. In fact, my guess is that more than half of HNers who think positively about their current position will eventually look back upon it with feelings of having been manipulated in this way.

Even shops that style themselves as non-traditional will adopt this corporate body plan as they grow, because the new directors and officers have had "best practices" ingrained in them.

One term specifically stands out throughout my career: if you are told by the company that you are "empowered," then you're not.
I'm inclined to bury most of what the Post publishes.
I'm in the process of cleaning up my resume to send out today.

* My responsibilities as a programmer have constantly been increasing. Every year I become the maintainer of more projects as others quit.

* We fired a sys admin and now I'm outright doing his job in addition to my own. Management was slow to get a job posting up and has not brought people in to interview. I feel like my breadth of abilities are being abused to save money. At this point I can't be a good programmer and a good sys admin.

* I asked to telecommute one day a week and the response was actually laughter. After speaking to someone high up the policy was changed and now I need to "Justify why it would be good for the department." Which is literally impossible. There is a key set of words I need to discover that would actually activate the policy, like it's a game or something. Now I'm questing for a new employer.

* I'm working with consultants from a Big Name Firm currently modernizing our X. These consultants send conflicting information and documents which aren't even internally consistent and then bill us while I work with them to clean up their bullshit. These people are earning 5x my pay and can't do their job. Then I was asked to work while I was on vacation this week to check up on the consultants progress. And sure enough they fucked up.

* Salaries are frozen even though we are profitable.

* A majority of my coworkers have no will to learn. I can dictate pseudo code to them to help with an issue and they will actually start typing the pseudo code into the editor and then be confused when it doesn't work. And a week later they will have a very similar issue with no ability to make the mental connection to the work done a week earlier.

Whew, nice to actually type all that out.
And? Where's the logical flaw? There is none. Honestly, this is the type of stuff I could show to a high school critical thinking class and most of the class would understand it. Maybe my bar for HN is too high.

Unfortunately typing slower doesn't have the same impact as talking slower.
Those aren't necessarily untransferable skills. You can always bill yourself as being able to get up-to-speed on a new codebase quickly and pitch yourself to corporations that need someone to battle their existing, horrible codebase. They need people that can be productive within their codebase.

An additional plus is if you're good at pushing incremental change to the existing codebase to get it under control. (e.g. my company has a large pre-existing Perl codebase, some of which mirrors functionality of various modules/packages on CPAN -- some better, some worse -- and there is a lot of internal push to move towards things like Moose, Try::Tiny, etc where possible for newer classes, etc)
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> Canon's really come a long way with their software

The CHDK wasn't created by Canon. It's a community effort released under the GPL.
Nowadays all that work [and more] can be accomplished by a single person.
We're talking about information being stolen via evesdropping or looking over shoulders, not by physically stealing the media the information is in. Linking to the google news results for "stolen laptop" is therefor irrelevant.
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Interesti.ng. The first .ng domain name has been registered.
In pictures 01 & 02 you can see a copy of the book 2001 - A Space Odyssey on his desk.

Also this impressed me:

"The computer room was in the basement of a building for security and other reasons. There was no natural light and I had a slim budget for decorations. I also had staff with artistic talents so I bought the materials and they made their own decorations."

With the guitars and the art projects it sounds like he fostered a very progressive work environment.
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Not just absurd text-entry limits, but UI designs affecting data-use habits.

"Nobody, for example, leafs through a chart anymore, strolling back in time to see what has happened to the patient over many years. In the computer, all visits look the same from the outside, so it is impossible to tell which were thorough visits with extensive evaluation and which were only brief visits for medication refills. In practice, most doctors end up opening only the last two or three visits; everything before that is effectively consigned to the electronic dust heap."

That's a fucking terrible design.
I'm not allowed to post job openings for my department. That's HR's job! And they don't post on third party sites. I asked about placing some notices up on various sites and was turned down for no communicated reason.
If I was to judge by my habits, this stats can be really broken. The only option I use AddThis for is sharing by email. In stats it'd be that I share by email 90% of the time, while I use 'share on facebook' buttons all day long, and AddThis I got installed only to save clicks when sharing with people who are not on fb.
Dvorak doesn't deserve the page hit even if he's right. His trolling methodology fills the world with uninformed hyperbole, which should not be rewarded even if it's occasionally right.
I'll await the blog post; I can't be the only one who's interested the know the motivations. And for the record, I agree that it's the practical results that matter (for those who would criticize an OS choice). We're doing "embarrassing" things with what amounts to an EAV/graph database built on top of MySQL (with all the vertices in-memory), but we're incredibly happy with our results.
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Is Amazon really to blame for the less than ideal lending system? Or is it the book publishers that are responsible for the rules of the lending system?
The legal age is not what I had in mind. If someone is 17 chronologically but in every other way behaves like a very smart adult would then it feels as though calling them 'kid' is talking down to them. Nothing major, it just seems to not be one of the three words that I would use to describe Mark with :)
And I thought this was about github...
As a biochemist, I can assure you that if pharma-patents went away, drug-development would disappear overnight. One can argue over the specifics, but some form of IP protection is necessary in that arena.
I'm not sure all your users are familiar with Facebook credits; I'm not sure you want to set up barriers before you know what you have.
Ask HN Designers: Tips on negative space & visual spacing in general
As a hack designer w/ no formal design training, one of the things I've often struggled with was spacing of things. I can navigate my way w/ determining WHAT to display and where, but I have never been happy w/ how I space things and organize them.

Are there any tips/hacks or methodology to go about that? Any good books?
>are you just talking about the way that patents make software developers feel?

No, I (and I think I speak for the majority of people against overly-broad software patents) am against the effects of those patents.

>the way they make you feel doesn't really matter.

This is absolutely untrue. People being upset about this stuff is how it gets changed.
I agree. This would be more of a burden than is necessary. Helmets and seat belts are some of the very few laws that exist to protect an adult from themselves. The social aspect of this being that we decrease the cost of healthcare from people flying through the windshield of a car. Nonetheless, all children in America should not be punished by forcing them to wear seat belts for negligible benefit. By doing this, other safety factors would probably be removed, and it would cause distractions for the driver to check if all kids are buckled at all times. "Suzy, put your seatbelt on! Suzy? Suzy, put it on now!" I can see this scenario, and it would likely cause more accidents than it would prevent.
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Link to the actual thesis:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~osc22/docs/mphil_acs_osc22.pdf
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Understandable. This is one of the few occasions where it's not quite as derisive because this person actually is a kid. For once. Usually you see anyone in their 20s being called a kid, and that's when it's negative IMO.
I had to pinch and remind myself that very few Internet startups see money like that thrown around, but at the same time, it goes to show how rewarding success can be in this industry.

This is exciting!
That page would look nicer if the text were vertically centered. I know a really easy way to do that using tables.
"Justify why it would be good for the department." Which is literally impossible. There is a key set of words I need to discover that would actually activate the policy, like it's a game or something. Now I'm questing for a new employer.

You just answered your own question:

key set of words = "Now I'm questing for a new employer."

better key set of words = "I quit."
But is it worth the time and trouble of figuring out whether this time it is worth reading? I have a whole list of websites and people mounted on the wall over my monitor who have been so outrageously incompetent in the past that I avoid reading them. If they have shown such a low quality of accuracy on things I do know about, there is no way I can trust them on things I don't already know, so there is no point to reading them. (Note I only do this for actual facts that were flagrantly wrong, I read a lot of opinions that I disagree with.)
Well, it looks like they cashed out.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/30/groupon-insiders-345-millio...