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What so many programmers just don't get is that design isn't a programming language that you can learn in a few weekends in your spare time. When you got to art school you sit in a room with over a dozen other artists so you see every potential solution to a problem. When you go to art school you study with a wide range of teachers who have every sort of professional experience (which is different than reading a book or looking at a website).

I've been doing design for interactive media for over twenty years and I can tell you that most self educated "web designers" are really just decorators who know HTML. And not that there's anything wrong with that but there's a huge difference between a decorator and someone who thinks like architect when you need one. Simply put: Despite our love of the idea of the brilliant actor or rock star who becomes famous overnight most of us really do need an education.
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I see it not as a subsidy but more of an insurance premium.

Indeed, we're all going to get old. Being "able-bodied" is fleeting; enjoy it while it lasts.
There's a new mobile app called Ness (http://www.likeness.com) that's trying to do this. I happen to agree with you, so I really hope Ness can pull this off. I'd really like a recommendation service that knows my personal preferences.
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Some people are choosing to do so because for them the experience is worth it.

It's like "working" by going to an apprenticeship. Your salary is lower, but you learn a lot.

If you're going to start your own business in the near future, then it might be worth it to work for a startup even if its a huge pay cut all things considered.
I'm surprised people think they wouldn't. They have the perfect hideout. Whatever the case they can always blame it on the "algorithm," and short of auditing their source code, nobody can really prove them otherwise.
Non-free content? A scrolling marquee and pulsating Join Now buttons? And calling your well established and much-loved competition 'buzz-heavy'.. yeah right. This isn't going anywhere.
In the first table of the "Storage Utilization" section, I believe the word "byte" is being used where the author means "bit".
Thanks for submitting a bid. If it wins I promise I'll do a good job :)
>>It's why I think companies like Google (disclaimer: I work for Google) should stay out the content business.

Isn't AdSense content business?
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Dude think of this as laundry for your resume. Once you come out of there, you'll be able to land jobs at much higher rates. Plus, the bonus thing does sound good.

Don't talk to the employer about rates during this process. But it's OK to dangle carrots, such as your special ability to solve x type of problem if you have anything like that, something that will make it more likely for the employer to tell the recruiter "I want this one hired."

Also start looking for other offers so that if you do end up wanting to say no to this one, that will be easier to do.
Most people try to higher day 1 employees that believe in the company.

The only reason to hire someone at a above the market rate is if you're funded, and have no technical compentance of your own.

So, its doubtful that you'd be a startup employee.... but you're the right type to be a founder.
There is certainly a ton of press around this coming from several reputable media outlets for months. Google for 'yelp extortion'. So you shouldn't be surprised. This is a real problem for them. At minimum, here is a documented case of legitimate reviews that simply aren't shown. They are basically saying 'The computer did that, so fuck off' and end up coming off like a bully, which by all measured terms they are.
Ahh, the wonders of trying to list everything in C:\Program Files, and getting several indistinguishable MICROS~1.
Essentially, they do it because they can. People expect advertisements on TV so they accept it even with a subscription to cable; cable offers value that otherwise wouldn't be available by offering a lot of channels that are not accessible over-the-air in any market. It's not like a website with a premium ad-free subscription where the content is the same, only without advertisements. Cable also prevents fiddling with antennae/reception, etc.

The cable company I'm sure would argue that your subscription fees pay only broadcast and signal transport costs and that the individual channels run advertisements to pay for their operation and production.
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With failure, I think it's important to remember that the universe has no continuity. In the grand scheme of things, there's no plan, no story - just a sequence of events. If you flip a coin a million times and it comes up tails every time, there's still a 50% chance the next will be heads.

The idea that you need to overcome failure is based on the fallacy that failure makes success less attainable. That's a narrative you're building on top of the disconnected events of reality. As long as you still have the resources to think and to create, what does it matter whether things are "going right?" Failure only lasts until you start your next project.
I disagree.

Never shortchange yourself - ever. If you have a low current salary, state that you need a significant boost. If the potential employer knows how low yours is, you'll see just what they consider a significant boost then.

That increase will tell you a lot. Are they thinking you're not worth much because of the low salary and give you a small boost? Then they probably won't pay you well no matter what. If they do give you a bit better than you expected of a boost, that means they recognize your talent or indeed want you for the job - a much better outcome.

Consider what your minimum increase is and then when asked, put it on the table. Don't be greedy but be firm; financial firms look for weak negotiators or people that shortchange themselves. You're not worth as much to them if you won't stand up for your needs.
So would those certs be accepted by normal browsers? Couldn't the public suffix list be used to reject such overlay broad wildcards?
I think social search has value if we define it differently. In other words, I agree with your assessment. The thing that is social, is search, and has value is something more implicit. It observes the behaviors and decisions of other people, perhaps your friends but perhaps not, and infers recommendations from those. Amazon and netflix already do this in their domains to great success. It will become more prevalent. This is not what most people think of when they say "social search," and this is not the thing that you are (rightly) deriding. But I would imagine that in a decade, this is what will eventually be described with the term "social search."
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Don't take the 30-50% pay cut, use the money to buy your office a foosball table, and go out and play laser tag on Fridays? If you need your officemates to be there, pay their fees, and you'll probably still come out ahead.
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Why downvoted?
I went to the site and it was virtually empty. A split second later I realized I had AdBlock Plus on. I disabled it and what I've seen looked like a spam site. I think the comparison with Khan Academy is extremely unjustified here.
"The problem is that comScore (and now Yelp) have an economic incentive to get people to advertise such that they are not impartial and site therefore cannot be trusted."

That's a key part of it. They do two things: keep track of a "fair score," and sell to some of the businesses being scored. It's an inherent conflict of interest. And they have not taken any steps to mitigate it.

Google faces the same problem, but the AdWords auction mechanism diffuses the COI so the temptation to extortion is mitigated.

As some have pointed out farther down, newspapers and magazines have the same problem. Serious newspapers have a wall between editorial and advertising to mitigate the COI.
Sorry, but that's simply not true. From http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/43481/print :

The Treasury data shows that public sector spending in England was 15% lower than that of Scotland last year.

England bends over backwards to do things for the Scots, but they still can't pull their weight.
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I saw a few over my years of lurking, but now I can't find them again.
Fair compensation is established by your current market value. Try to get another bidder,i.e. a second job offer, tell the first guy what the other guy is willing to pay.
Bluff if you must but don't push it, in your case you need them more than they need you.
It depends on what you do at the startup. If you are coding away just like you would at the electronic trading firm, you wouldn't learn much about running your own startup.

Are you involved in customer development, talking to investors, making connections as part of the startup? If not, there's not much upside.
Spin selling is a great book and the statistical insights are some of the few you'll see in sales literature. However, aggressive closing is usually not the fault of the salesman, but the fault of the sales manager or the CEO. Successful sales teams don't pressure their prospects to buy because their managers understand that "big ticket" sales cycles are long and require multiple steps and multiple parties.

Putting a sales executive on difficult quota will lead to high pressure and terrible closes, even winners curse from the buyer.

Take the pressure off everyone and deals will close themselves.
Yes, but that actually has to happen.

If you are working 80 hrs/week churning out code to realize someone else's "vision" who treats you like a slave not a partner, then what are you learning? Apart from not to get suckered again.
I think most of HN users who fit that description (wanting to self-educate if you lack a formal design education) are programmers.

To these i say: learning design is good and valuable, but if you want to learn design because you want your next websites or web apps to look good, IMHO you'll be better off outsourcing to a designer who spent years studying these things (you won't become a great designer overnight). For a couple hundred dollars you can find somebody (good) on odesk to design a couple pages that would look much better than a starting designer could do.
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Am I the only one who believes that yelp is prolly telling the truth and that it was just a coincidence? It sounds quite plausible to me that their algorithms work in the way, that are described in the article.
Not that perfect of a hideout. I'd love to see someone collect data for cases where they think Yelp is intentionally manipulating reviews and see how many cases aren't easily explained by good filtering criteria.

[Full-disclosure: I'm friends with a good number of Yelp engineers who I expect would leave rather than take part in these such things, but I don't know any more about their codebase than any other non-Yelper.]
Yes, but that's subjective.

You have no idea if you're going to feel like a slave or a partner until you've already taken the job.

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I'd say try it. Don't assume that you will be dissatisfied based on treatment you can't predict.
Yes, the idea is to insert ads dynamically when you download them. The issue is that the specific ads parts must be not distributed on third party places, they are only in servers related to the ad system.
Never shortchange yourself - ever.

Right. Shortchange the company instead.

OP, considering your virtually nonexistent professional experience, I'd take the job regardless of the salary and focus on learning as much as I can. Ignore the money for a couple years.

Then bump up to a higher payscale, either at the same company or jumping ship to a different one.
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I reckon they'll just use their time machines to travel back to when the microfilm is still intact.
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I'd say around $80k-100k plus bonus, but tbh, without a CS (or physics/maths) degree, you're pretty lucky to even get an offer as most hedge funds won't even consider you for a programming position without one.
Seems way high for a Junior Developer. Perhaps it's just very high in the US, around here it's approx $18k/yr for a very junior programmer. This leads me to ask, what's a typical salary for a hedge fund enior developer in the US?
Whenever I see people doing Agile/Scrum, I urge them to understand its limits, its purpose, and the agile Next[1][2], where, for instance, learning about products and users is more important than working code.

[1] http://yfrog.com/h3qqxdij

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/HackerChick/lean-startup-how-devel...
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A very nice article explains in details about different cases with regards to how to reocver Word documents, especially when some content from your Word suddenly gone. Worth for a reading.
That's all nice and dandy in a vaccuum, but it discounts the real world where the police will make threats to get what they want. You're argument is like claiming that an RIAA case has no legs to stand on... It sounds nice until you're the one that has to spend a fortune on lawyers to prove that.

Also, you're telling me that /nothing/ here stinks?

How about:

- This was likly an 'off the books' operation until it hit the media. This is why the SFPD spokesperson thought that no police were present.

- This was likely a bunch of officers using their badges to help a friend in their off hours. Now the SFPD is probably feverishly writing up paperwork to make this look legit to cover for the cops in question.

- The cops in question committed what amounts to fraud by implying that the Apple employees were cops.

Don't point out that the guy didn't know his rights and act like that is the only thing wrong with this picture.
I mentioned in the OP its a traditional fund - not a quant shop. I have some professional experience in shipping financial trading applications.

I'm not trying to score a sweet deal here - just trying to understand the market value of someone in my shoes.

My lack of experience (defined in this thread as time I've been working) does not mean there isn't a situation that can't be considered lowball. I'm not trying to maximize my income - just want to have idea and data on the pay floor and ceilings.
I think you're missing his point: he separates his feeds into high- and low-volume, and is willing to triage the high-volume subset without missing out on the rest.

I've been doing something similar for a couple of years now. I built http://readwarp.com to manage my high-volume sites, and now my google reader's dropped from 1500 feeds to 100 low-volume must-see feeds that generate 10 stories a day.
That's what I was thinking, it sounds like she just replaced RSS with Twitter. She's obviously constantly checking Twitter. Instead of reading twitter all day every day I'd rather just browse my RSS feed in the morning and in the evening. I don't feel like I miss anything either.

Jacqui's job is what it is though. Not everyone has the same obligations that she does.
Alas, this elegant system was replaced with a new fangled dynamic database based system. Content was pulled from a database using a dynamic language generated front-end. With a recent series of posts from Amazon's Werner Vogels, chronicling his experience of transforming his All Things Distributed blog into a static site using S3's ability to serve web pages, I get the pleasure of asking: are we back to static sites again?
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Advice that I have received that has been helpful when negotiating compensation is:

(1) A good way to dodge being the first one to give a salary number is to say that you will consider the total compensation package offered, of which the salary is just one portion.

(2) If you do get an offer and want to negotiate, but are scared that you will put them off - make sure they know from your response that you are very interested in the position and the offer, but based on your understanding of the job responsibilities and your skills were expecting something in the range of x.
Sure, do you have a throwaway email? Put it in your profile, and I'll shoot you an email.
I haven't exited yet; I'm instead a co-founder raising money.

This has been a good thread to read about how I should protect my employees. I firmly believe in this rule: give a good deal to your VC's, co-founders and employees as it will make it even easier for your next startup to succeed.

We've got a nice big options block for our employees and I want to be able to say to every person in the company that has options that they'll get a cash-out.
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The comparison isn't necessarily between remote operation of a drone and flying a plane. As I recall from On Killing [1], air crews have lower rates of PTSD than infantry. I would expect killing someone through a drone's video feed and from a plane's cockpit would have similar psychological costs.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-So...
Not to mention all the people and bands that were/are not part of the music industry and thus do not exist in the culture.
Yelp seems to have had a lot of bad press for this kind of thing and has had at least one class action suit, alleging extortion, levelled against it:

http://yelpscam.com/negative-yelp-press.html
Not really. And even if so, doesn't change the meaning or validity of the comment.
Why the contempt? For each of these issues, a decent fraction of the population will make a reasonable argument for change, and a similarly sized fraction will make a reasonable argument against change, or at least against the type of change proposed by the other side (dissatisfaction itself is universal enough).

In the case of socialized health care, especially, a majority of the population is violently against it, and while I disagree with most of the arguments, they are neither unreasonable nor apathetic.
Yep, it's the modern day version of the good old fashioned shakedown. Maybe not as ruthless as the mafia of the 1930s, but the basic idea remains the same.
I guess my point was the CEO will be concerned by the multi-million $ lawsuit and HR will be going over the CTO's severance package.
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I'd get rid of the punitive filtering too if negative press came out.

I wonder if "Elite" indicates paid? Yelp does pay, or has paid in the past, some reviewers.
Interesting idea, though I can't help but think that you should have left a little more time for this to spread (it's labour day weekend after all)?
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Interesting, thanks, never heard that one before. I wonder what part of the religious texts lead to that one.
I really love articles about programming from the 90s. Everything was written in C/C++ and maybe some Perl. Working with file formats that may or may not have had specifications, building and using algorithms that you learned in comp sci classes. I miss those days. :(

It's so rare that web pages from the 90s still even exist on the internet. Sadly I have to do a lot of web surfing with the wayback machine as a proxy to the days of the past.
how can they win UNESCO award. Besides design, they are only promoting there diploma courses(paid) everywhere.
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Quitting my 9-to-5 to travel around SE Asia was the best move I ever made. Not only have I had countless irreplaceable experiences but my code has improved more in the last six months than in the previous five years combined.
Subtle? Unless your title is "Social Media Expert" the difference should not be subtle.
I am happy to see innovation happening in how people get 'an education'. As usual, some of the most interesting stuff is being done by people outside the established providers (cf. The Innovator's Dilemma).
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Just because it's algorithmic doesn't mean it's legal or clean. I can write an algorithm that searches your cookies for porn sites, figures out who employs you, and emails you a customized extortion threat. If their algorithm works the way it's described in the article, then it'll downrank or remove 10 legitimate, positive posts from real customers if they're made in one day, and will preserve and uprank 1 illegitimate negative post from a competitor, unless the unwilling subject of this debate agrees to pay to remove the negative review. That's the definition of extortion, and if ever there was an algorithm written for that purpose, the one described in the article is it.
They are an eco-friendly CO_2 emission reducing measure to reduce workload, in a desperate attempt to comply with KIOTO. They needed it to conform to the Energy Star certification scheme from the DoE.

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The presenter seems like he might not be living in the real world.

128-bit floating point? Why exactly? What hardware out there supports this, what problems does it solve that 64-bit floats or bignums don't? Why add more intrinsic types to the type system that will need vm and library changes when you could implement them in java?

Suggesting that fields and properties be the same thing suggests a lack of understanding as to why they are different. Traits, classes and interfaces, likewise, are not the same thing, and suggesting they are makes me wonder if the author knows what problems each feature is used to solve.

Only someone who doesn't know how hard date and time classes are to design would rattle off 'a better date and time' with no suggestion of what better looks like and how you achieve it.

Access to all variables at runtime? Sure, as long as you don't mind disabling dozens of important optimizations for a feature only debuggers have good reason to use. Bundle an assembler with the jvm? For what purpose? Java apps are already far less portable than they should be.

his comments on the class file format also suggest confusion: nesting types inside method definitions only makes sense in an environment like python where type definitions can be created dynamically at any time. Java simply doesn't work that way, so his proposed nesting would complicate class loading for no benefit. The 64k limit is ugly, but any method with 64k worth of code in it suggests deep architectural problems that will complicate everything - compilation, jitting, debugging, static analysis.

I never thought I'd be longing for sun's inept stewardship of java, but If this is what oracle has to offer...
In this part of the world (Hungary), if you say "I want to make between $X and $Y", it translates to "I'll work for $X". Assuming $X is sensible, they will offer you $X minus 20-30% (sometimes even 50%). You can try to negotiate, though BigCos won't negotiate with a junior guy. Also, negotation is a tough art, and the person at the other end is much better than you, and is holding all the cards. You want the job real bad, but he probably doesn't want you real bad.

This doesn't apply if you're special, but if you're a junior, you're not.
this was very emotional article. very sad indeed. isnt it weird that all front page articles on reddit are overtly emotional? it seems that plain groundbreaking research papers will never make it to the frontpage...
The whole karma system is childish and unnecessary. Assigning imaginary points to posts doesn't improve them any more than taking them away discourages trolling and juvenile behavior.
I agree the comparison is unjustified. What makes Khan Academy so good is the quality of Khan's explanations and teaching on the videos.