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I absolutely agree. For that reason, I've made non-competes and claims of IP I create on my own time with my own resources one of the first things I ask about. Invariably, the bosses I've had have reassured me that the scope of either would be narrow and only what's necessary to protect the core business interests of the company. Invariably, I've been presented with a thick pile of papers full of absolutely ridiculous claims over IP, restrictions on what I can do on my time and non-competes that would make me unemployable.

However, by asking long before ever being offered a job of time it puts me in a much stronger negotiating position when the time comes. Thus far, I've refused every single contract preventing me from working in my field and/or preventing hobby projects related to my work. Unfortunately, that sometimes means leaving promising companies.
This is a great development for decoding ProRes with non-OSX OSes. What are the legal implications? Will ffmpeg need to pay to license the ProRes codec from Apple? Does Apple even offer a license for the codec?
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Everyone who has money should be able to balance a checkbook and write a simple budget.
"That's an interesting and simple approach that could be implemented relatively easily in the next generation of cars."

Yep, just as soon as we have cars that can not only drive themselves, but we trust enough to cede control. Next generation? I doubt it.
Isn't it amazing to see how much MS is driving the industry. Apple is doing a smartphone, TV focused UI, tablet, and cloud services. :-)
So long as I don't have to walk a mile to get to the steel/steel in the 110+(F) sun, I don't care what you call it. ;)
Well the 30 year treasury is yielding 3.5%. Nominal. So you are not getting 4.5% in anything risk free. But as a long term return in shares, historically that has been the case. Whether it will be looking forward is another question.
This actually reminds me of a Simpson episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F) where Homer designed a car according to his own needs. It didn't go well :P
Ask HN: Who do you think will be Yahoo's next CEO?
Most of the time, Amazon considers you to have a "soft" login. Want to view your order history? Password please. Change an order? Password. View/update addresses/credit cards? Password. This is sometimes irritating to the user, especially when clicking the "where's my stuff" link from an Amazon order email, but it serves Amazon well in that they can trace most site actions to a user account while at the same time maintaining an acceptable level of account security.

Sometimes (I believe), you will even get a password prompt for a "one click" purchase. Even if you don't, your one click purchases can only be delivered to a previously configured address, and to add a new address requires entering the credit card number again, and, of course, your password.
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I recently interviewed with the country head of a large MNC for a geography account manager's role. Five minutes in, he said he flat out loathed sales guys who would also make cold calls to sell. "It's irritating. It's illegal. And I don't know why you do it."

The other assumption he made was this: since I sell, it's unlikely that I was technical as well. And that was that. I am a little taken aback that such dinosaurs exist. Selling is hard, even more so when people in delivery just don't trust you to sell on their behalf.

I am still recovering from what was probably the shortest interview in my career. What do you make of these statements?
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> Personally, I consider it a lot more awesome when some dude I never heard of appears from nowhere with a usable LISP implementation (Clojure).

Which disregards that non Microsoft employed people create languages for .NET too. Nemerle is a great example, and that's how the Iron projects initially started before MS got involved

And Clojure runs on the CLR as well
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Hate to break it to you man, but most readers of HN probably weren't even born yet in 1986, much less using the internet in 1986.

Maybe there is a Zen Koan in here:

"What did your spam look like before your parents were born?"
Don't forget that Apple invented the new 'mobile' as we now know it - hardware, UX, app store etc. Everybody else is following.
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Wow, very well written. Thanks Miguel!
Beautifully done, I love this. I look forward to reading the code. Thanks.
IANAL, but arbitration clauses are standard in contracts[1] at least in the United States. Arbitration is generally seen as preferred because suing people is actually very expensive.

In Sony's favor, Sony excluded small claims. So for pretty much everyone this arbitration clause is meaningless. The limit for small claims is in the thousands of dollars (depending on state) [2]. The circumstances where Sony would be liable for more than a few thousand to a single consumer would have to be pretty extraordinary.

Also in Sony's favor, Sony did not choose to use the arbitration clause to set an onerous jurisdiction. Sony could have said all arbitration needed to take place in a specific city in the middle of nowhere. Sony didn't even pick the location of its headquarters; you can pick any jurisdiction. Most arbitration clauses I've seen set a jurisdiction that favors the contract writer, so I'd say this puts Sony in a decent light for not doing the same.

If you really wanted to find fault with Sony's particular arbitration clause, it would be that it is binding. Neither side can appeal the decision of the arbitration panel to a higher court. But keep in mind this cuts both ways, and it really isn't unusual. It is even endorsed in the United States.

I should also note that arbitration clauses can be voided if the panel can be proven to be biased. So this isn't necessarily a license for Sony to circumvent the law, at least against a well funded opponent. And anyone with the balls to sue Sony for any serious amount of money would be a well funded opponent.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_clause

[2] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/small-claims-suits-ho...
But... emacs is also an mp3 player :)
Google Buys 1,000 Patents From IBM, Again
Very nice, good idea. Cheers.
Does anyone know if it will have a Sound API? .NET still doesn't. Neither does it have usable Direct{3D,Sound,X} binding.
Ahh, I never made the connection between Sidekick and the super hero theme. Good luck with your business!
How about using SVG with raphael.js? I'm not very familiar with it, but I think it solves many of these problems.
The greatest generation did this - they grew up during the great depression and they understood that you had to save and not trust Wall Street.

The Greatest Generation benefitted both from social security and from the defined-benefit pension plans their unions won for them.

Edited to add: Also, many got to go to college for free on the GI Bill, and so entered the professional workforce without the debt burden that their children and grandchildren would face. Makes it easier to save.
In other words, as long as it's more profitable to play with the government's Ponzi scheme we're going to suffer brain-drain from R&D and other actual industry.
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A good many of them did. If you think housing is an investment and leveraged yourself to the hilt in 2005, you probably got what you deserved.
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Exactly. If the the powers that control the shape of policy in this country (mostly wealthy & large corporations that have politicos in their pocket) cared about creating jobs as opposed to pilfering from the poor and middle class, we wouldn't be in this situation.
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I don't think you realize that, at large companies, you don't necessarily _get_ to negotiate with your new boss. Large companies like standardization, and generally everything goes through HR, and everything is boilerplate. If a large company makes you an offer with a non-compete clause, your only remedy is typically to walk away.
That's a very good point, but my concern is that the provided examples dumb down issues to a level where this is not easily understood. I mean, who gets closer to grasping this nuance bu supposing a woman building towers of rocks on the beach?

Actually, I think the cockpit-switches-example would be a valuable example.
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Completely unrelated, but if the article didn't overwhelm you, the linked video session really is worth checking out.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/BPS-1004

It shows just how much attention to detail Microsoft has put into the UX design of Metro and Windows 8. Can't wait to see the finished product.
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She was laid off from the company who just hired her.
No, she's on the dole by choice. She was 25 years old, making $60K a year and quit for another job. Then she chose to quit that job too.
Not everyone who is functionally literate must also be able to write a screenplay or discern why Hemingway's style is superior to Tom Clancy's.
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It seems to be missing the philosophical introduction to what P = NP means [1]:

If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place... Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122
Use WASAPI:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd371455%28v=vs.85%2...
Here is what I did recently for a blog:

- Run a wordpress blog somewhere (anywhere - your local machine is also fine)

- Get the feed using a python script (use feedparser.py)

- Go through the entries and generate the html files. (20-30 lines of python)

- Add Facebook comment widget to all posts.

Advantages:

- Your writers can still use wordpress (which they are familiar with)

- Use wordpress to organize your data

- Not having to deal with wordpress themes

- Super fast site

The reason I am using this method is different though. I wanted the blog to stay as a part of our main site rather than looking like a different entity.

Now I can have my blog use the same header/footer as the main website.
Haven't they had this for a while (Post Date: August 28, 2008).
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_De...

However, it's nice that they have it built into ffmpeg now.
I haven't thought about rel="next" and rel="prev" since the middle of the last decade, but I recall that the blogging community used these attributes in semantically different way. Instead of marking parts of a single unit of content, rel="next" and rel="prev" were used to mark the next document in a chronological series.

IMO, this latter usage is consistent with both HTML 4 and HTML5 semantics. I suppose Google's approach can be read as consistent with the specs, too, but either usage takes a different interpretation of "a document" and the relationships in a series of documents.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#sequential-link-t...
Related: A decade or so ago, I worked for a small company that was acquired by Lucent, and part of their legal paperwork involved assigning any IP we created that was relevant to Lucent’s current or future businesses. A co-worker of mine observed that according to this document, if Lucent got into the Web content business, it would own his personal Web site.
Another vote for ViEmu. They offer a discount for students if you ask them, and I've been using my copy since senior year. It does lack a few of the subtle details; most annoyingly to me is the lack of leader key mapping to automate common commands. But it's an extremely good replacement for those times when you need to use VS.
I remain a mouse user except where I absolutely have to type things. I do recognize that this differentiates me from many if not most HN users :P.
So true. In fact, this is one of the main reasons (in my opinion) that Node.js has seen such explosive growth. A package manager makes sharing code, keeping it updated, etc., so much easier.

In fact, it would probably be pretty simple just to create a little "packager" tool that packages the code into a special homebrew formula.

After all, this is what homebrew is for. Why reinvent the wheel?
'Catch up on Part 1 of this series' link is not working. I am getting 404. I know I can scroll down for previous post, just wanted to let you know.

Cheers
Haha. No, I actually meant a cloud instance and not a dedicated server. SoftLayer offers both.
Archive.org is, I think, the best place to download BBS: The Documentary, with numerous formats, including streaming: http://www.archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

I just started watching, but it seems like a lot of fun so far, and it has already put a face to tons of people who had a profound impact on my childhood.
AWS seems really stable to me. Hundreds of days of uptime are the norm, if the instances even run that long.

However, there IS a pretty huge gap that exists between managed colocation and EC2. There are dedicated servers that can be ready in an hour or so, cloud-like baremetal "instant" provisioners, and über-VPS providers like Linode and Rackspace Cloud.
You have submitted over 70 links to that blog in the past 3 months. Please share only your best hacker relevant posts.
I think the crucial idea here is that teaching computer programming is important not just to future computer programmers but also computer users. Not everyone will be a computer programmer, but almost everyone will be a computer user. The relevant knowledge and skills are therefore universal, like reading, writing, math, and other basics.
Yeah, what's up with that zero-sum-game malarkey?
This is one of Opera's most useful features. Back when Opera was the best browser, I used this all the time. I used the forward mouse gesture to jump to the next page of results. The fact that both gestures and "fast forward" are not included in Chrome drives me nuts.

I know that there are extensions in Chrome for gestures, but they don't seem to work all too well on slower computers running Linux. On a box with 1GB of memory, the extension "mouse strokes" used too much RAM pretty quickly. I wish Chrome had built-in support for mouse gestures. Some of us still use a mouse as their pointing device!
10-20x slower than C is not a bad place to be.
Honestly, they should ignore Linux, at least at first. They already have a herculean task on their plates with the project; they don't need more problems like making it run on Linux.
This is already possible with traffic lights. Emergency Vehicles are equipped to switch traffic lights in their path to green. It's called Traffic Signal Preemption. Of course, the criminal penalties for abusing the system are pretty stiff...

As a child, I used to dream of such a device as I sat impatiently at traffic lights in the car (naturally asking my parents "are we there yet" every 5 seconds). I was pretty excited to learn that it is a real thing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_signal_preemption
This was a much better article than the last one. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the first one should have just been skipped. Everything that needed saying was in this one, and completely removed all my objections from the first.
Unfortunately, at many companies you won't even meet your boss until after signing the paperwork. This leaves you to try and explain it to someone who will see your hesitance to sign and take it to mean that you are either planning on leaving the job quickly or that you will not follow authority.
This sentence doesn't read quite right to me:
"Most mathematicians also believe that are any NP problems that are not P problems."

It feels like there are a couple of words missing, but I'm reluctant to guess at them and potentially change the meaning of the sentence.
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If MS continues with their ideas for Windows 8, then Windows 7 will be the last OS I own from them. I really do not understand the rational for wanting to make desktop PCs look and act like tablets. I really don't want full screen apps on my 24" monitor. And that start screen looks like it was written for 5 year olds.
And if the "Get Lamp" interactive fiction (text adventure) documentary wasn't long enough for you, there's an archive of the original interview footage of 15 of the subjects http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Agetlamp...

I've also heard there's a good rip of the DVD on TPB but I'm not going there at work :)
> Which is entirely their fault. You don't treat basic needs(food, water, roof over your head) as investments, because no matter what the actual price is of those, you still need them. Instead, you should buy what's affordable for you, so even if the price drops, it doesn't matter.

This is a little harsh. Many families need to sell due to reasons other than treating their house as an investment.
At least Adobe knows that now. (I think!)
I guess that kind of makes the point. If you can't stop it being recorded, what does the encryption serve? If it is content that is worth anything, it will be screen capped and pirated within a few hours.

Are you just hoping to serve adds every time a casual user wants to watch a video because their simple download tools dont' work?
Another place where airships might be useful for transportation is Africa. Lots of resources that need to be moved around, (mostly) terrible road and rail infrastructure. And there the airships wouldn't have to be very high-tech to be safer than road transport.

The cost of helium presents a problem, though. Hydrogen is cheaper and provides more lift, but is combustible.
http://www.airships.net/helium-hydrogen-airships
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Residential gateway is the service which works as a device used for the home networking. The residential gateway is mainly responsible for the purpose of making connections with the use of the interne
Welcome to the debate that gnome, ubuntu and osx users have been having for the past year.
We shared the post with some friends, that's for sure. But everybody seems to have liked it. ain't that a good post?
We thought that by writing about our incorporation adventures we would be giving back to the community.
Sorry if you didn't like it, unfortunately we can't please everybody.
That's one of the cases that the non-compete makes no sense. A hairdresser that doesn't know any business secrets has no other skills. You can't prevent them from using their only skill. A hairdresser that DOES know business secrets isn't really a hairdresser... They're a (something) that does hairdressing on the side.

In that case, a non-compete is ridiculous. The hairdresser should never have signed it, and the employer should never have asked for it.
1-3% is real GDP growth rate, net of inflation. With inflation at 2-3%, then planning for 4.5% growth, not adjusted for inflation, is not unreasonable.
It's read only for Windows, so Win apps can't write out a prores file. (In reference to Apple's decoder)
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Amazon seems to be testing a new homepage design which is a little different. It actually has a drop down menu on the right side which includes "Sign Out" link. It also doesn't have the normal left side department navigation nor the welcome message as stated above. However, it still remembers you.

It seems like they are gathering statistics on this new format as I couldn't get back to it after signing out.
Indie Dev asking for help with initial traffic
Hi,

We are a small gaming studio and are ready with our first game (due to launch in a few weeks). The game has been entirely self funded and all our resources have gone into developing the game over the past one year.

We will be launching the game initially on Facebook and have been talking to publishers for publishing our game in exchange for rev share.

While we are doing that, I thought of asking the community if anyone (a social gaming studio guy or even a twitter account holder with many followers, etc) can help us drive some initial traffic into the game.

The game is really fun where you actually get to play instead of just some random clicking. Because of us not following the traditional format, publishers are hesitant to go with us. If there is someone out there who might be willing to help, please drop us a note and we will send you the demo link - we promise it will not disappoint!

Thanks once again guys!
It seems to me that this article is pretty clueless

The part about the relationship between price and sales shows a total obliviousness to basic economics

> A 99 cent book may bring authors a lot more money than $9.99 one.

> ... I don't know where they got this idea from. It is not true.

> Sure, providing something at a discount yields a higher sale, but it is not at the same rate.

The author has sort of independently reached some of the conclusions of simple economics, but honestly you'd be far better off just reading the wikipedia page of Elasticity of Demand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_elasticity).

The question is pretty much just "Is demand for ebooks elastic or inelastic?". I don't hold it against the author, but they're really reinventing wheel, and the wheel they've come up with is kind of wonky.

> Every other type of product cost more today than 10 years ago. A bottle of milk costs more today than in the past. A bicycle costs more than in the past, a meal at a restaurant cost more today than ever before. The gas prices are off the scale (but for other reasons as well.)

That's just dramatically factually untrue (in real terms). Yes, with inflation, a lot of things now cost a larger number of currency units than they once did, but in real terms bicycles (to use their example) are a lot cheaper than they were, because they can be mass produced in enormous numbers in China.

> Content is the only industry in which the price of content has dropped. ... Every other product costs more. Content costs less.

I might be wrong here, but I believe just about all manufactured goods have substantially fallen in price in real terms since the 60s.

tl;dr This person needs to read a high-school level book on economics (or just the chapters about Inflation and Elasticity of Demand) before telling people how to price their goods.
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Congats! I never heard of Etude, but looks really cool. Gonna go get it (if it's still available).
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why is an alternative even needed in the first place ?