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White Oak Technologies in Silver Spring, MD (DC area) is looking for a Linux sysadmin. I've been working here for 4 years and love my job.

http://www.woti.com/

We need an additional Systems Administrator to support our growing high-performance computing facility, consisting of Linux clusters, servers and desktops, Microsoft Windows desktops and servers, as well as other architectures. We run many flavors of Linux, develop custom scripts and chew through truly massive data sets using parallel processing and associated technologies. We use Open Source tools when appropriate (love that Python!), and integrate COTS when necessary. To be eligible for this position, you must have current hands-on skills in most of the following areas: large-scale system and network planning and architecture; installation, troubleshooting, and integration of commercial packages; shell/Perl/Awk scripting; web server administration; firewall configuration and network management; large scale enterprise class storage systems including NAS/SAN devices, SCSI and ATA Raid systems; data backup and recovery on both Linux and Windows platforms; and experience with enterprise class tape autoloaders preferred. Programming experience in any cross-platform OO language (Python, C++, JAVA, PHP, etc.) is a big plus. A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or a minimum of four years of directly related experience or training may be acceptable. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Very interesting white paper. (I didn't realize that Clustix is a YCombinator company -- they're class of 2006.)
I've honestly never understood why startups want to be acquired (besides the monetary gain for individual employees).

That's like saying one doesn't understand why people play the lottery (besides the monetary gain from winning).
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At what point is it OK to use a DDOS attack as a form of protest?

I mean, do we have to wait until they grope us at checkpoints? Checked.

Until they take websites down without trial? Checked.

Until they start accusing journalist of espionage? Checked.

Until they illegally tape the Internet? Checked.

Is there a limit or DDOS is wrong no matter what?
I think it's more to do with the requirement that mandatory arguments have to go before optional ones (it wouldn't work the other way round).
Not sure why he did this. I was able to get a Vodafone MicroSIM from their shops here in the UK.
US multinationals ... can exist without [the US government] too.

Yes, in the sense that they don't need to rely on the government. On the other hand, they are at the mercy of the government. One quick flourish of the pen, and a company can be destroyed. Obviously this is true at the startup scale, where a niche can simply be erased. But even at the larger scale, a national decision to back one approach can be devastating (as in FCC decisions). Or antitrust actions can decimate a company (ATT, IBM, narrowly avoided by Microsoft). The bottom line is that the government has the guns, literally.

The US Government on the other hand is absolutely and wholly dependent on large multinationals

I simply can't see how this is the case. Can you explain further? I mean, I don't see how the government needs Google or GM in any way.

power of any individual politician exceeds that of largest corporations?

I probably made that sound grander than I should have. In once sense, if every other politician is against you, then in general, winning one to your side won't help. However, in more realistic circumstances, winning a single person to your side (especially with America's committee system) can make all the difference. A single congressman influencing the language of a bill can mean hundreds of $millions in income, or the complete obsolescence of your business plan.
How many of those wouldn't have bought if there weren't a chat option? Who knows? Without that detail, however, this statistic is useless...
I don't say that visa, paypal and mastercard are right, I say that's how they perceive the situation and what they will probably say to public in press releases.

Showing weakness by negotiations with the Legion is inappropriate for them in given circumstances.
"responsible" is a bit strong, but that doesn't mean contribution on some level hasn't occurred.
Interesting. And, like skynet, you can't switch it off.
Safari became completely unresponsive when I tried to resize the window, all its window chrome disappeared and the whole system got so bogged down that it took me at least three minutes to force quit Safari.
I think you make the mistake of thinking that all protest activity should be about making friends or increasing your reputation and good standing.

Often it's just as much about hitting back as hard as you can. Now you can argue the merits of that, but we have crossed a major threshold here: The internet has taken down the websites of two of the largest credit providers in the world, two weeks before Christmas.

If that isn't an exertion of grassroots power in the internet age, I don't know what is. The implications are boundless. Visa, and Mastercard probably didn't think twice about canceling Wikileak's payments. I doubt their risk assessment would have been the same if they had known this would result.
A "well funded re-start up in San Francisco" is hiring. Digg.
All of them? Of course not.

But they are responsible for those they know about.
This is blog spam. Don't go there - it's simply appropriating someone else's material without attribution.

Scum.

Here's the original:

http://www.youtube.com/Vihart#p/u/1/heKK95DAKms

Posted there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974604
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If you've never interviewed someone before you should speak to someone in HR group to review the types of things you CAN'T ask. Asking questions about religion, family, health could result in a lawsuit.

Some quick examples: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/employment/article14.asp
What's worse than simply saying something that sounds cool is that he doesn't even use a meat cleaver -- it's just a big knife in his pictures.
That can be debated, but from the perspective of the decision makers at Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal - who would presumably be the ones saying "we don't negotiate with terrorists" - the terrorist is obviously Anonymous.
And thank goodness nobody speeds anymore.

Seriously, if you thought enforcing traffic laws was a futile affair, just wait until the other 4 billion people on this planet get online, and the Internet becomes the medium of transmission for literally every bit of shared information on the planet. Think about it: every TV show, every film shown in theaters, every phone call, every book, magazine, and newspaper; things I'm not even thinking of because they haven't been invented yet. (While we're on the subject, every speeding ticket too.)

That day will come, sooner than you think. You seriously believe we will have the capacity to police that? I am dubious.
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Do you or the gp have any information that is not into the article ?

I didn't read the "friends" word, only "supporters" and "backers". In what world are supporters friends, and in what world are people responsible for their "supporters" actions ?

It's indeed a dangerous implication, but the original article isn't doing it. You and op are. Why ?

If people, supporters, were to riot about the imprisonment of somebody, would you say that he is responsible ? If no, in what is this case different ?

If you have any information i don't about any direct links between wikileaks and the DDOS attack, it would be nice to share. Otherwise, i fear you are solely spreading your own preconceptions about the situation.
Best way to hurt Mastercard and Visa: pay with cash whenever you can
PPC LuaJIT sounds like it would be useful in console games (Why did the big three consoles switch to PPC just as Macs switched to Intel, anyway?).
DDoS strikes me as a violent form of protest.

Has anyone started a non-violent protest (offline or digitally) for WikiLeaks?

EDIT: Rethinking my statement on DDoS as violent. I am still interested in knowing if there are other non-DDoS protests surrounding WikiLeaks.
Author here. Correlation/Causation is certainly something I wonder about.

I can say anecdotally that the conversations were worth having. Most started neutral and ended with excitement.

Given that this is so easy to try, I recommend doing it. You'll also learn what things your customers wonder most about prior to buying.
I think it's a neat idea at the very least. I'd love to see what comes of it.
I don't understand why so many replies assume that this was intended to be long-term, sustainable business model. It's a brilliant marketing exercise, nothing more, nothing less.
Damn you autocorrect!!!
Not positive, but I think this is “only” a blog, and not part of the print distribution.
I don't have a mortgage, but I also never will.

Even if finding a new job is easy, it's still difficult. I just went through this process, it's still rough...

As I said, everyone makes choices. Everyone commits minor works of evil. If doing wrong is worth your mortgage... it's your life.
keep them coming. I will be interviewing in next few weeks for ASP.NET Frontend developer so this is very useful :)
Silly post; since when does U.S law have anything to doe with citizens from another country.
Post it. With your contact details in your profile, anyone interested can contact you. Everyone else can ignore you.

However, that will mean your post doesn't get voted up, and therefore doesn't get seen except for the 30 minutes or 90 minutes that it's on the "new" page.

For visibility, you might want to write something interesting about the job so people think the post itself is of value, and then add the opening as an addendum.

If it's not spam, if it has something of interest, and if it adds value, no one will mind.

Probably.
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."

I hope it's unrelated to their choice of data store!

Edit: back up and running. However, I'll note that the Team link on couchone.com seems to be directing to an edit page: http://www.couchone.com/page/team#/edit
s/Mango/Django/

Danny you autocorrect on my Android
You learn HTML/CSS, fire up your favourite editor and start slicing.
hire them as contractor for a few months and see how they work out.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...

this blog from joel splosky is pretty good too... You want people who are Smart, and Get things done. Look for passion.
Bullshit.

Salesforce.com (you know? That company that just bought Heroku?) was founded in 1999, went public in 2004 and is currently worth ~$20B.

VMWare were founded in 1998, and is worth ~$37B now.

http://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPOHome/Press/IPOIndustry.... shows there have been 37 tech IPOs in 2010, worth ~$5B

http://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPOHome/Press/IPOPricings.... shows IPOs/year. Obviously not all are tech, but a large number are.

Additionally, we all know that there are many companies which are very successful but are deliberately not going public.
Exactly! The rule is for that commands of two letters in length (cp, ln, mv) the file on the end is the one that gets created. For commands of three letters in length (tar, zip) the file that gets created is the first one. And then there's the exceptions that prove the rule like scp and ssh.

And people say Linux isn't user-friendly! :)
Yes yes yes. In my experience in Enterprise Dev teams it seems to be way too common that people just don't version control their DB schema, or use tools to produce schema diffs between dev and prod to product upgrade scripts, all driven by using GUI's to create their tables and then exporting the DDL using a tool (eg TOAD if you are doing Oracle work).

A few years back, I built an installer in Ruby to apply 'plsql modules' to an Oracle database. This was a massive project with > 100 developers at this point and probably heading toward 1M lines of code.

My migrations table worked on modules, so there were a set of migrations per application area, but it was really just an extension of this idea (and I borrowed the idea from Rails too)!
Awesome, I bookmarked the page for future needs.
I guess that helps explain last Sunday's Doonesbury strip:

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2010/12/05
Citation. Please.
I thought it was allegedly the terrorists motives to destroy the things we love - peace, democracy, rule of law etc. It seems rather ironic that the US state department is strong arming companies to its will in a draconian way rather than actually playing by the law or you know using that funny Democracy word and enacting a new law so they can actually play by the fucking law.

All I see recently is our government pulling the terrorist card to do an action that is in essence terrorism by our governments definition. Given that our governments fucked the definition of terrorism now that it no longer means to incite terror but means to oppose us - us being the government.

Here in Canada we're still finding out the list of laws the government broke during the G8 and G20 summits. Not to mention the government was actually misinforming people to get them to think they were complying with the law (providing ID around the checkpoints, not just while passing through) when they really were being coerced into volunteering information.

I'm sorry but I'm calling this "war on terror" as a terrorist win, cause they're not only in our governments but are our governments.
There is definitely a healthy dose of performance art (maybe political theater is a better word) involved in the process - it's certainly not viewed purely as form of protest - at least not by all participants.
Maybe a Ferrari is assembled by one person, but it certainly wasn't manufactured by one person. So that doesn't really count.
For companies who provide basic functionalities (hosting, payments, etc.) it's just not feasible to check out a potential customer ex ante - they have far too many customers for up-front checks.

"Censorship costs" refer to ex-post checks on customers on which businesses have received complaints or inquiries from Governmental entities.
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do we have to wait until they...

Who is the "they" that you refer to? I don't think that it's MasterCard nor Visa that did those things.
Yeah, the UNIX ln command is full of trouble.

* The arguments order is just the opposite of common sense. It has taken me years to really remember it, and I still have to think a little every time I use it.

* The default is to create hard link, which you almost never want. And if you do want them, you are probably doing it wrong. Making hard links is just asking for trouble.

I've read that Plan9 has somewhat corrected this whole problem. At least there is no ln command at all. Instead one uses bind, mount, and unmount. Of which bind is most similar to ln -s, but with arguments in reversed order.
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Sounds a lot like the HyPra / ClustRa system.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&dq=HypRa+C...
I guess you could equate it to a certain level of DID/Schizophrenia - but that concept is still too one-dimensional to truly apply, as we are talking about very critical layers of a civilization here.

The analogy drawn with immune system/cognitive issues assumes that the internet is a homogeneous whole (all participating parties are interdependent upon each other) - which they aren't.

I'd more liken it to a neighborhood gang war: all parties rely on underlying infrastructure (the streets==DNS/connections, power etc) but can attack eachother.

Aside from blowing up the streets(DNS/physical layer) this akin to two (or more) of the neighborhood gangs in a fight. You just cant hold a conversation with CC while he's getting pummeled. Yelling at him only makes matters worse.

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Though to go back to your meta definition of the internet turning on itself - thats kind of what information does; lies are destroyed by facts. In this case - we have wikileaks releasing facts which destroy the lies upon which public perception has been built. This is a good thing, albeit painful. In much the same way a cheating partner in a previously happy relationship would be. It sucks to find out, and you have emotional strife - but in the long term it is good to dissolve the relationship which is not based on real trust.

I like the thought, as another put it her, that this raises the cost of censorship greatly. Wikileaks may be the only recourse we have against corruption in entrenched systems which are far too slow to change.

While there is information that is important to keep secret - I think we've seen that there is too much risk in giving government carte blanche as has been evidenced for many many many decades.

Our archetypes of governing should evolve much more quickly in the modern era, we should take the evolutions of thought and innovation that we are experiencing in the technology and scientific areas of humanity and apply them to other aspects of our civilization and then we might see some real progress.

It would be great to apply Moore's Law here such that we can get over all this petty bullshit, become self sustainable and begin to colonize outside this beautiful planet before we destroy it, and ourselves.
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Interesting and very unexpected. Any other examples of companies going the non-COTS/Map-Reduce/Cloud way?
Somebody could offer it sans HTML/CSS, charge $150 and still stay busy IMO. My basic mate's rates fee for that sort of job is $1000-1500 for a PSD.

That said, $15-20 is comfortably in that "If it doesn't work out, who cares" bracket. The problem will be that for many people, time is far more crucial than the cost. If I need a turnaround of 3-4 days, and the queue is 7+ days, it won't matter if it's $15 or 15 cents.
It doesn't actually contain the said batteries stated in the video.
Resizing was the first thing I tried because that's what borks my app sometimes.
OR use any other credit card (AMEX, Diners Club etc.) to bring profit down of visa and mc ..
You're asking the wrong question :) It's not about what specific questions you should ask.

The question you should ask yourself is "what am I looking for and how to I detect this?" Only you can answer the first part, the second part follows from the first.

When you write down a question to ask you must also explain to yourself and the other interviewers why you are asking this question.

For example, recently I've just been interviewing SysAdmins to manage a diverse data centre. Three key traits that I believe are extremely important for the position I've been trying to fill are:

1. Automation: the ratio of servers to people to so high that you have to want to automate as much as possible, otherwise you will drown in a sea of menial tasks.

2. Rigor: dirty hacks and unfixed bugs have a tendency to creep on you; I'm looking for people who will go beyond hacking in a work-around and instead take the time to fix things properly - not just reboot the machine in the hope that the problem goes away.

3. Debugging skills: sysadmin problems often involve subtle interactions between multiple layers of the software and hardware stack; you need a broad understanding and the skills to home in quickly on the problem area to be efficient.

So, this is what I consider important. What questions do I ask?

1. I ask questions like "how would you install Linux on 50 machines?" Burning 50 CDs is not the correct answer :-) The key is not whether they can explain PXE/KickStart but rather whether they show an inclination to automate the process.

2. I ask questions where there are quick and easy work-around answers, and I look for candidates who take the long term view and say "I'd do blah blah. I know that it would take longer in the short term, but it's better in the long term because ...".

3. I do a debugging role play. I explain that I'm interested in how they go about debugging a problem and then we do a role play where I describe the first "help me!" email, they say what they'd do (e.g. I'd check log file X) and I tell them what they find in log file X and ask them what they'd do next, etc. It doesn't matter whether we get to the "final answer" or not, what I'm interested in is how they think.

There are, of course, more questions. But each one is asked for a reason. Decide what is important for you, and then ask questions that reveal whether the candidate has these characteristics.
Imagine there's an arrow pointing left between the arguments. You know - "the symlink is pointing to this file".

ln -s file <== symlink

Always remember that. Pointing left. The symlink is pointing at the file.
No, the original one works fine.
You can't fathom a definition of "publishers" that includes "people who publish"?

What the hell is your definition of 'publishers' then?
This is where I seriously wonder about the "cloud". Bouncing a print job over my (relatively) slow internet uplink, then back down my internet connection, then to my printer? As an option this is nifty, as the only way of printing it sucks. Printing locally is already pretty easy. All this just so we can slap the "CLOUD! CLOOOOOOOUUD!" imprimatur on it?
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I say in my head "link symboliicaly from HERE to THERE"

It took me a long time till I realized that saying it thus made me always recall it properly.
wow this shits been going for years. could excuse it for a while but the fact they are still failing so bad with a such core product that they are pushing so hard really is very surprising.
Has anyone A/B tested the presence of the Olark widget on their site?

We're getting ready to roll out Olark on our site, but I'm kind of wondering if it will just increase the support workload without actually improving conversion rate much. When I was first checking out Olark, I'd pretty much decided to buy it, but because the widget was there (on olark.com), I spent some time chatting with one of the founders and asking questions. We'll probably start off with something like 20% of visitors getting the Olark widget.
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Oh, I agree about having a chat option on your website, I just don't agree that that statistic is very significant, and it certainly doesn't mean that Olark increased your sales by 25%, I just wonder if people will take it that way...
This doesn't really have to do with speech. Visa/Mastercard perceives that dropping Wikileaks is a cost-free way to detach themselves from the situation. This makes it costly again.
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What does people in a strike hope to prove when they stop the traffic?

We live in a economy of attention, and right now, the attack against Visa and Mastercard has been in every newspaper, in every tv channel, and is overflowing the internet. This kind of press is priceless in this kind of economy.
They is obviously the Government, but with the help of unethical companies: AT&T for taping the Internet, Amazon/Paypal/Visa/Mastercard for suppressing free press, etc.
Yep. I was raised in a religious school and the most fascinating topic we ever touched was when a law is morally and contextually 'ok' to break.
First method usually works, until you're on a site that auto-refreshes to inflate ad views. I don't trust many large content sites not to do that!
I conclude from this, by process of logical inference, that "louder" must be a type of "tighter".

"Forward" is also "tighter", apparently.