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I mean, honestly, $400/mo is table stakes too, if you're actually using a clustered database in production for anything serious.

I think HN in general is being a bit too cynical here. This is an OSS company trying to find a sustainable way to survive. There are going to be some tricky tradeoffs. "They should just charge $20/mo for us small guys!" is not a reasonable course of action.

Regardless of whether this particular pricing plan works out or not, I think it's a good idea for programmers to support other programmers trying to make money on OSS. We are all not served very well by the general attitude of "I heard about this technology last year, it should be $0 now".
Except some hosts told me that Booking.com is a rip off, plus it doesn't handle their accounting like Airbnb does.

From the user's point of view, Booking.com is a horrible cluttered web site with 1990'ish approaches to design, usability and online marketing. I don't trust them at all.
> or an Android equivalent

I use Google Now and Now On Tap a lot!
Daily weather checks, commute check, setting reminders, when we're discussing something and need something googled. Drinking beer with friends and wanna show em a pic? Just say "OK google show me pics from my last trip to london" without reaching at the table, unlocking, scrolling and all that.

Now on tap is super useful when discussing something via txt, just hold home button and get all the info you need.
Unfortunately, KairosDB doesn't do rollups automatically. That sucks, but the performance still works fine for me. Space isn't a issue, Cassandra handles it pretty well. You can set retention policy per data point (TTL) if you need so. If you really need rollups, you can do it manually, saving a query result to a new metric name...

I wasted a lot of time looking for a bulletproof time series db. I found nothing, each one of them have their own set of issues.
Brain surgery is one exception.
Two fun alternative reads of this article:

s/framework/high-level language/ + s/core language/assembler/

s/framework/operating system/ + s/core language/hardware/
Very anecdotal and personal.
They must have changed that. At a cafeteria that uses MIFARE cards the operation is still not atomic, but the customer loses: If you remove the card at the wrong time, the card is debited but the transaction does not show up on the cashier's terminal, leading to heated arguments. The transaction does show up in the central database, so after spending 20 min writing a complaint you get your money back after a few days.

I guess this is called progress.
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Frameworks are all or nothing, that is how they are different. Or does it make sense to have a codebase that has a mix of angular, react, backbone and ember for instance? Of course not. They are nothing like libraries in this regard.
I would assume that in a year they will have forgotten. Most probably they have offered you this delay so they don't break the offer, understanding that you will not wait a whole year for the job. So don't. If on a year you don't have found anything, try reaching out to them on that promise, but don't expect too much.
Flash is great -- I love being forced to update flash every 20 minutes.
Phoenix is definitely production ready, as I am using it in many production systems now.
1) You have to eventually get into OTP. Elixir language is ok but all the stuff which makes it attractive is OTP and it's concurrency. If you are building a very small API you don't have to learn OTP ans you can get very far with that.
2) I find Phoenix documentation very good and the number of examples are increasing a lot day by day.
3) The default included bootstrap is just to show the landing page. You have to add your own css which you have to do if you use any other framework or library.
4) Phoenix is nothing like Django or Rails. Phoenix is very modular. See http://theerlangelist.com/article/phoenix_is_modular
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This makes no sense whatsoever.
And stores have always paid attention to how many items they sell.

But (continuing the metaphor) now they're tracking what each customer buys and when, where they came from and where they go, where their eyes wander and how long they look at an item...

Then sharing that data with other stores to profile customers, and find out who's sick, pregnant, graduating, on a diet, what political candidates they support...

Tracking today is nothing like tracking site visitors in the '90s.
The individual police officer on the street has little influence on how the system works. If we need meaningful change, it can't come from putting our police officers between a rock and a hard place.

Now, I say this as someone very vocal about the blue code of silence. However, there are no easy answers. Any unconcerted attempt to rid our law enforcement agencies of the blue code will result in it getting stronger and create more of this "us vs them" mentality.

We don't need more of that.

Now to answer your question, yes if someone robbed me or killed me I'd want them to be held accountable. However, I think the person giving the order is more responsible than the person pulling the trigger. Is that not so?
That sounds really odd and a little concerning. I would immediately begin looking for a different job. They probably can't afford to pay you now, and have deferred hoping their financial situation is different in a year. If that is the case, who is to say it will be any better. Cut your losses now.
Would I want to? Hell no.

Unfortunately the sands are shifting under me and since we are about two steps back from full idiocracy I can't see it changing.

We have an electorate is willfully almost gleefully uninformed, ruled over by politicians who are venal and rarely if ever held to account.

The whole system is bullshit from council to ministers.

The interesting question for me is more "has it always been this bad and we didn't know or are things actually worse now", I'm leaning towards the former as if you look at the history of government (in this country and most countries tbh) it's a litany of abuse after abuse.
There is a problem for NGOs. You have a user (beneficiaries) that is is different from you paying customers (donors). That is one of the many reasons of why it is easy to get derailed in the way.
You assume the problems you had were for being a minority, which may be true. You could however have had a similar hell schooling without having a handy social issue to blame. Many of us (nerds) had that hard time as kids with or without racial discrimination.
Thank you. The culture of entitlement around software boggles my mind sometimes.
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Why can't you just ask people for permission first?
I always dream about an RTS where one gets to be the DM (God, Gaia... whatever you call it) where computer players fight against each other. I love scripting maps to make current games (especially AoEII and C&C Generals) work like that. I'm hoping this is, in a way, something like that. I know an RPG is played in the map (city) you design, but still. I'll give it a try.
Or better still, set up a foreign company, the sole shareholder of which is a trust of which you are a non executive beneficiary. Then make yourself a contractor to said company with an explicit contractual requirement that you must affirm that you have not been compelled (legally or otherwise) to author anything (code or otherwise) that may materially effect said company.

The govt will still probably try to find a way around it but at least you've made it very difficult for them.
That's a great advertisement.

I've just moved to Germany from the US about one year ago. So far it's made me realize how under-developed the US society is. As I learn more about how Germany operates, I constantly have those, "that makes so much more sense", moments. Of course this isn't always true, but in general I feel that they are just doing things a little better here.

I agree that society has to change how we view jobs that don't require education from a university. It makes no sense that we should value an engineer from a tech company more than a farmer that provides our food.

Also, I find that people in Germany are more aware of what role they play in society and how it operates.
yes indeed, 1 up
What do you think RTB is? There are websites that will sell demographic information from user profiles, but that's relatively rare. The overwhelming majority of the billions of RTB impressions are based only on location and website audience demographics. Those are things you get from cookies and ip addresses, information that comes entirely from access logs. No, companies don't sell their logs directly, but the vast majority of targeted impressions are sold solely on what is contained in a standard server log.

You seem to be knowledgeable about online advertising and forthcoming with sources. Do you have any evidence that anything near 50% of online ad data sold is based on the highest grade profile data? Because I'm certain that is not the case. I think you're confusing the business of selling profile data on individuals, which is indeed very old, with modern ad targeting. It's hard to persistently match that up with an ip address and cookie, you see. Which is why major ad buyers prefer to buy cookies that tag large demographic buckets like "young males in the midwest with an interest in cars" instead of the names and profiles of individual people. It's common sense more cost efficient, and access log data is much more prevalent and reliable than profile data.

I don't think that any of this works in the way that you think it does. Yes, re-targeting is creepy, cookies are rampant and the average page loads way too many external files. But companies do all of these things for a reason, whether you understand the details or not. If you don't like how they do business, you can just stop going to their websites.
ISTM basic English comprehension was part of this test? That isn't a common idiom as compared to BOGOF, but one will see it sometimes.
That's one of the biggest reasons why we do and should have universal public education. And why we should invest the resources to make it a high quality education (for instance, pay teachers salaries that make teaching as attractive a profession to intelligent people with student debt as finance or consulting is -- or at the very least better than a guarantee of near-poverty).
It has more to do with parent involvement and support, and after that, community support. If the family does not value education, then the likely kids wont. Poverty in and of itself plays a role. Poorer families have other stressors that distract from school, and poorer families tend to not know the benefit of education (they may have been told education is a ticket out of poverty, but few see it happen). And it spreads out of the home. In poverty stricken areas, the majority of peers will shun those who are academically excellent as some kind of sell out. There have been successful schools in poor areas like Harlem when the majority of parents and students care about their education. On the flip side, excellent schools pull in families that value school performance and those families support and push the students. Annecdata: I grew up very poor and made it well into the middle class, it can be done, but the cards are stacked against you.
I'm baffled that anyone would find the s-expression format challenging.
Thanks for putting this on the web - my first interaction with a computer was on an old mac plus. It was "broken" from my dad's work and I "fixed" it by taking it apart. It turns out the box was just overheating. I am curious if the original Kid Pix had a typo of Meun Bar, or if that is somehow an error in creating the emulator? http://i.imgur.com/FtNCQwL.gif
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In all seriousness how is it possible that you're running a business and can't afford to pay what is basically a very small amount for some software?

I'm guessing you also have customers and are trying to figure out how it is that you can get them to pay you money so that you yourself can create a long-term business and create better products over time. Right?
Or you could just move your project to a different country and give the control to some anonymous corporation that can't be traced to you.
True, though really you could say this of any game. Ideas are cheap. It's the execution of the idea that draws the crowd.

- Superhot actually took the stop time mechanic from Time4Cat [1], a free flash game. With guns added, and a unique art style, players were drawn in. It also helped that the game was originally created for the 7DFPS challenge where it received initial interest.

- Minecraft gained popularity originally because it added enemies that came out at night, something the world building genre hadn't really seen before (and so the reviewers jumped on it). Voxel engines weren't new, but it was unprecedented to use them to give creative ability to the user like so ('user customization' being a common theme in many successful games, see: TF2 hats!)

- Same again with Portal, the mechanic was neat, but the story is what people always talk about.

- Monument Valley strikes me as another, great idea with the isomorphics, but also great art style and animation regardless. The progression of puzzle difficulty is what keeps the player interested though, as the learning curve is subtle enough to work in the casual games mobile market.

- Here is an example [2] of a good idea on the scale of Portal, but so far poor execution, resulting in lackluster gameplay. It is Pillow Castle's First Person Puzzler where picked up object's are re-scaled depending on your perspective.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gO5hjxRsfo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfll06X16c
Wow. I honestly feel bad for your kids.
Nitpick: many in England say they're in favour of leaving the EU, etc.

Polls show NI/Wales/Scotland quite strongly opposed to such silliness.
A single counter example proves very little.

Yes the German Government has been caught doing some nefarious stuff but if you compare the totality of what the UK government has been doing against what the German government has been doing, I'll take the German government every single time.

I say that as a UK citizen, also this is one of the areas where the EU has actually been really useful and I have a feeling we might leave in the referendum.
There is a giant difference between a site-specific tracker that helps a site owner understand her own visitors and ad networks that share cookie data. analytics != ads.
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Yes, I think they do.
> As a publicly educated kid who started working when he was 15-1/2 (the legal minimum age in CA for a work permit at the time), I'd encourage you to rethink the importance of child-like innocence.

Only adults think that any such thing as child-like innocence actually exists. Children see and hear everything.
Believe it or not, people have been optimizing the eggs location long before the Internet, using the simple art of [anonymous] sampling and statistics. There is absolutely no technical need to track everyone's every move, the ad / surveillance industry is overreaching by a huge margin. See http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/about-us/nielsen-families.html for an example of sampling in action.

Furthermore, the eggs are hidden on purpose, such that people have to walk a long way along aisles filled with high margin impulse buy crap. As a customer, this "optimization" is actively trying to exploit my atavic weaknesses and damage my health. Thank you very much, I don't sense a whole lot of sympathy for me here, just a race for the quick and dirty buck.
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> "It's a pretty regressive, insular country, ruled by fear."

I don't think it's quite like that, I think the media here has played a toxic role in our society. Many people still believe the BBC is an impartial news source, that alone speaks volumes. There's a tabloid-led mentality that is pervasive, and debates of any substance are limited by that.
I actually miss that interface -- it's just so simple, especially the finder. The biggest surprise is that you have to hold the mouse button down while selecting menu options (i.e., you can't just click the menu to open it, then click the item); feels so weird now!
Er, no. Have you been to a hotel? They don't normally give you a single towel for your entire stay. The hotel changes the towels every day. Bulk RFID scanning during laundry lets them keep track of how many towels have gone wandering and individually track how many times specific towels have been laundered, which is probably useful information for managing towel quantities in bulk. I don't think tracking down and identifying individual towel thiefs is generally the idea, though I guess you can detect towels in places they are not meant to be (such as in their suitcases on the way out of the lobby).
> You seem to be knowledgeable about online advertising and forthcoming with sources.

You'd think?

Only a small fraction of the actual bids will ever be on 'high grade data', but what you are missing is that all of the data is available all of the time.

So no, I'm not confusing anything. The advertising industry will use the data available to determine the value of an impression, if the value isn't there they will pass. But they still use the data in that decision, so whether it gets sold or not is not the key element.

> If you don't like how they do business, you can just stop going to their websites.

No, you can't. See there are these little things called widgets that pop up on websites that have absolutely nothing to do with the attempt to sell you something later and since you have absolutely no idea where you will be hit next you can only 'stop going to their websites' after you've been bitten.
> Three of those were plugins and the last was proprietary to Internet Explorer only

They all started from a similar position, JS wasn't a standard from day one, there's a reason why it's emcascript today.

> And despite being an (awful) plugin with an IDE that cost $600, Flash won in the pre-iPhone/V8 era.

That's laughable, what percentage of the web ran on Flash in 2007, 1%?
Do you happen to remember what that startup's name was? I've never heard this story.
> the main proponent for one JVM language

Hey, I'm interested in that! What proponent? What language?
If it was Raffi Krikorian would you mind having a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%... and perhaps update it?
I agree, I've invested a bit of time building a monitoring stack with influx, and one of the main reasons I chose it was development velocity vs some of the competition. And from a while back, clustering was supposed to be a top-level issue, coming just around the corner. At this point I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go with a more cumbersome but mature solution, like opentsdb.
I'd love to get an annotated translation that dives deeper into the characters' motivations. The translation I had was full of footnotes, but mostly explaining historical and cultural allusions. But I think the book would probably be three times longer, and would raise more questions than it would answer.

Thanks for taking the time to have a nice, long conversation with me about this!
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Their job postings on HN have always seemed a little sketchy to me as well.
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The government actions are immoral. When an entrepreneur has raised capital from investors, his personal reputation is on the line to be a good shepherd for their investment. Shutting down their company destroys the entrepreneur's personal investment and betrays their ability to keep their investors investment safe. This all comes back to the immorality of the government's actions in this area.
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In the "good ol' days" (TM the shop-owners in a community knew quite a lot about their customers.

Oh Mary just gave birth, Henry is currently sick, Walter likes his coffee a little stronger, James a little weaker (something with his stomach). Danielle drinks only tee, has two kids and the marriage is not really happy. And so on. A lot bordered on gossip, a lot was very valid and relevant information. People talked.

So it was totally normal in a smallish community for the store owners to have an extensive profile on every customer. All in their head for sure, but non the less. And guess what - everybody benefitted. The clerk could recommend based on what he knew. People would be directed to relevant produce.

By the way this works even today. If I buy at my normal place I get personalized recommendations for cheese from the lady behind the counter. We talk, she knows a little bit about my tastes and I get to try new things.
If you're able to teach your children your skills for spotting opportunity like you do here, then you're my roll model parent!
Hmmm.I have seen more evidence of supermarkets shifting the position of everything every few months, so that you have to hunt more to find your eggs, then see lots more other stuff you will need to buy while searching around.
Integrate analytics and tracking server-side. Duh. (And if you so need window size and other easy-to-get-via-client-side-JS information, render the script into the page instead of putting it into a .js file.)

And maybe make all this optional for those that don't want to be tracked. (I mean allow them to register and opt-out of server-side tracking too.) I think they might even start to like you and become sort of loyal.
Yes, this is true.

But: (1) the number of parties that only use site specific trackers is relatively small to the number of parties that use networks, (2) even those parties usually carry facebook/google and other embedded resources, effectively still leaking your data and (3) in the end, you can't be sure that they don't combine that data on the backside with data procured elsewhere.
Or an application… Exactly that.
At least in the short term.

When London fails to become the "Fintech capital of the world" like it wants to be, because any fintech moving there has to main its own security and every potential customer knows it.

When UK companies are continually hacked and ripped off because the bad guys KNOW there's backdoors in every one of them, all they have to do is find them.

When the UK economy has taken enough of a beating. Then they might change their minds. Maybe.
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How do you know they save them? What if they just verify and discard?
Ironically, the design of this site actually inflicts physical pain on my eyes.
Ugh, I really hope this is released publicly!
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Martyrs more often than not seek out situations to sacrifice them self under rather than people who make the "right" call when pressed.

No right minded person in the world would rather go to jail than comply with this, the few that would really have an existential dilemma about this issue would most likely opt out to preemptively avoiding it than be the ones who sit at their desk with a gun in their hand and a bulletproof vest.