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I think this is exactly right, @bad_user. The extent to which this is true blew up last Thursday, when Arthur Brisbane, the public editor of the New York Times, went to his readers with a question:

"I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write about."

As Clay Shirky observed, the response was "swift, voluminous, negative and incredulous."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/...

Within 24 Hours, Vanity Fair turned Brisbane from an object of outrage into one of sheer mockery.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/01/Should-emVani...

But the most damning remarks came from readers themselves. The comments on Brisbane's post, and the one from Executive Editor Jill Abramson that followed, were absolutely incandescent.

So yes, the total implosion of the 4th Estate is coming into the open. And that's a very new development. That other big difference is that 10,000 calls to a Senator's office is a lot. So what happens if they ALL get 1,000,000? It's an absolutely off-the-charts response. You know there's opposition. You expect a few grenades to be tossed. Instead, a thermonuclear bomb detonates.

It's entirely possible that the response to Wikipedia's move will be the single largest driver of negative traffic in the history of Washington DC. It's the kind of searing experience that tells previously complacent politicians that, suddenly, they've got a major electoral issue. And not just on this one bill, but on literally everything they do.

I agree with folks who say this cannot end with the derailment of SOPA/PIPA. It has to continue until the flow of campaign cash from lobbyists ends, and the revolving door is welded shut.
[S]hortness is a good quality that shows the poster tried to condense his point into its true essence.

This is often true, but I think the value of brevity comes mostly from the context, a threaded comment page. In that context, users expect a discussion, not a monologue. They're not just looking to passively absorb information by reading, they're looking to sharpen their own understanding by actively articulating a response. That's harder to do when you're trying to respond to a comment that makes multiple points. Better to break a long-form comment into several more tightly focused short comments so that people can more quickly pick out the topics they want to respond to.
you are really gonna have to give more info/incentive than that :P. who do you think would want to "join" whatever this is based on those three sentences?
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As someone who is building a similar app, for a similar competition (but in Boston):

Don't combine your data structures / stores. Use the store / structure that is most appropriate for the given task. Memory is cheap vs compute time.

Hint: many can be only in memory stores that periodically sync to a backing store for updates.
This is not what Google is like. Google is a normal workplace but with smart people who care, and with all of your needs taken care of. Need a USB cable or a new laptop battery? Grab one out of the storage closet. Need a coffee? You're never more than 100ft away from an automatic coffee maker, premade iced coffee, and a $10,000 espresso machine (and burr grinder, of course). Need a new monitor? Open a ticket and it will be on your desk in hours. Need an adjustment made to your desk? Open a ticket and someone will do it for you today.

When I worked at Bank of America, I spent about 6 hours a day dealing with bullshit and 4 hours a day working. At Google, there is no bullshit. I show up and can work for 8 hours. That makes me twice as productive even though I'm actually working less.

(And, with all the great internal libraries and software... well, it was depressing for me to realize how little "infrastructure" software I would need to write.)

I get the impression from outsiders that they hear a lot about how great Google is and then assume that they can't work at Google, so they then decide that what Google does is actually bad. The flaw is thinking that you can't work at Google. You can! Apply, brush up on your algorithms a bit, and start enjoying the amazing coffee!
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Ask HN: Are there any pre-made SOPA blackout banners or landing pages?
I was looking for some sort of nice landing page to use in blacking out my sites for the 18th. Something that is attention grabbing and explains the situation to visitors who might not know what's going on.

Ultimately my sites don't get much traffic, but I thought this might be something that other's would appreciate as well.
The book's still online. It's a farce. It was never meant to be taken seriously. No one in their right mind would consider it a legitimate threat. Although that didn't stop DHS from considering it one. I wrote it based on a few kids I knew in a band who didn't give a crap about politics, and what would happen to them if Bush got re-elected and declared a state of emergency while they were all high and on tour. I wrote it in a about three weeks.

It's called American Apocalypse. http://www.joshstrike.com/amap/
In some weird way I think it's kind of a precursor to Cory Doctro's novel Little Brother, which I love; he swears he never read mine; and AA was written a pretty critical 4-5 years earlier. But there are still some striking similarities.

Now...I'm basically a freelance coder like everyone else. Lived overseas for the last seven years. Write, play music, travel to countries where it's cheap; live in a suitcase; drink and smoke a lot. American Apocalypse was the last novel I wrote. There were five others. There wasn't much point. Better to just stfu and make web, like a friend of mine says.
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Hi, I just started at Google ~4 months ago in NYC.

> Python: deprecated in production.

I have no idea where this idea came from.

> the legacy projects (what you'll be tasked on in your first 18 months) are in it.

This is not an accurate generalization. I've been developing completely greenfield Java and Python code since about 3 weeks into starting.

> If you don't care about PL quality or actually like reading thousands-of-lines-long legacy C++ modules

I'm quite curious what role had you "reading thousands-of-lines-long legacy C++ modules" - all the typical C++ infrastructure modules I've used (eg Bigtable) have tons of resources to learn them, and after that I typically find what I need reading auto-generated docs (doxygen/javadox/pydoc/etc).
I'm running FreeBSD 9 with https://hostigation.com/

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My guess would be to fund a reboot, and come up with a plan B that does not require Microsoft, just in case they pull another Sendo-type thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendo
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For me, the worst thing about working for Google is how much I know about the future. Reading these discussions is difficult because I have enough information to say a lot more than I'm allowed to. Google does not keep anything from their employees, but they do tell you to be careful about discussing it with anyone outside of Google.

I think this has a chilling effect on employees' participation in outside fora, leading to isolation between the internal community and the "real" Internet community. We have a lot of internal projects that could easily be Free Software, for example, but the person that wrote them got enough intellectual gratification from the internal community, and so never bothered. This is why you see people join Google and then disappear from the Internet. Google's internal community is like the Internet, but without all the bad stuff.
For staff we are using Google Apps. MailChimp for mailing lists. App testing uses Google Apps. App production (notification emails, etc) uses Amazon SES.
Tell that to the UK citizen that's being extradited to the USA for American copyright violations. Also, The Pirate Bay claimed that the 2006 raid on their servers resulted from pressure from the MPAA.
I love that they use Macs to make malware.
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There are a couple of factual errors in this piece that I feel obligated to point out:
1. The root DNS server pool only hosts glue pointing TLDs to other pools of servers that administrate those TLDs. No amount of pressure on ICANN or the root server operators can debilitate a single non-TLD domain name.
2. Not all registrars and/or TLD operators exist in the US. All it would take is doing business with an international registrar that doesn't agree with the rules to circumvent DNS tampering laws.
3. In. Theory
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Firstly I'm from India, our salary structure differs from you in many ways.

Nice perspective. I definitely agree that Google is probably paying best among all.

My point was, If I can be the best guy in a team of average everyday software engineers. It makes my appraisals, appreciations and growth far more easy. At the same time if I'm average despite my best efforts and then it makes things a little difficult for me.

One more question to you. Unless there is a next 'Google' aren't you worried that you are already in the highest paying company(Forgive my ignorance If Im wrong, or there are companies are that pay more than Google in the US) and moving onto something else may not get you a better hike than what you have now?
Just in case any non-programmers are reading this, the quotes around a string (like your name in the Codecademy example in question), have nothing to do with case, or being case-sensitive. Programming languages have basic building blocks called primitive data types, and for many programming languages, strings represent one type of those building blocks. Traditionally, strings are indicated by putting double- or single-quotes around the letters of the strings, but they just as easily could be indicated by two parentheses, or dollar signs. It's a convention for denoting a string, no more, just like quotes in English and certain other natural languages represent certain features of the language, often direct speech.
The Koobface gang’s freedom underscores how hard it is to apprehend international computer criminals

Oh, yes - the problem is the international criminals who run botnets, not the poor hapless American ISPs who somehow just can't do anything about identified botnet hosts.

If only there were some way for the American government to be given tools to protect defenseless Americans from evildoers abroad!
I talk to a few close friends to get some ideas, but I don't rely on their excitement to give me an indication of how worthy an idea it is. Validation comes from actually getting it done and having people pay/use it.
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One very positive thing about Google is that it is like the Jupiter of the software solar system, sweeping up many of the most self absorbed, "look at me" people in the industry. That's not meant to be derogatory or a sweeping statement (some people relish in their self absorption), but it's nice that many of these people are in one spot.
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gnosis' arguments seem worth refuting. I can see how someone outside of Google would assume that using 4000 machines to scan the Internet on some whim would be a big deal. But at Google, it's not. That's why working at Google is so cool.
It doesn't take much to write the next "fake spyware scanner 2012", just tedious.
I imagine that Transmeta had the same imagination.
I recommend anyone wishing to use something like this first try to implement it yourself first. It's remarkable how easy it is to script tmux and vim. If you have a split screen it's as simple as a vim mapping that executes !tmux send-keys -t right 'rspec %'

Not dissing the project - I would recommend then using a more battle-tested project (like maybe this one) if you find yourself needing something more generic and complicated.
That is so cliche it's hard to even say... worse so because it fixes everything, including "the internet".
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So, do you want to be a DB admin then?
SOPA Threatens American Innovation
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My point was, If I can be the best guy in a team of average everyday software engineers. It makes my appraisals, appreciations and growth far more easy. At the same time if I'm average despite my best efforts and then it makes things a little difficult for me.

I don't think this is true; you'll be working on projects that are appropriate for your level, and improvements you make to these projects are what your promotions will be based on. If you're new to programming, your first task might be to rewrite library X to use library Y. If you're a PhD, you might be asked to make Google's indexing 10% more efficient. If you do a good job at the tasks you choose, then you get promoted. You don't have to be the smartest to be well-paid. Google needs average people as much as it needs geniuses.

One more question to you. Unless there is a next 'Google' aren't you worried that you are already in the highest paying company and moving onto something else may not get you a better hike than what you have now?

I'm not worried about this. Google has a career path that will last me for as long as I want to be at Google. If someone offered massively more money, I might leave. If Google is paying me market salary, then I don't want to leave. It's the best job I've ever had.
>Of course the 30 day credit card dispute period has long passed.

You may want to check with your card issuer on this. Some cards have a 30-60 day window to file for a chargeback. Others, notably AmEx, will issue chargebacks going back six months or even a year.
There are a couple of factual errors in this piece that I feel obligated to point out:
1. The root DNS server pool only hosts glue pointing TLDs to other pools of servers that administrate those TLDs. No amount of pressure on ICANN or the root server operators can debilitate a single non-TLD domain name.
2. Not all registrars and/or TLD operators exist in the US. All it would take is doing business with an international registrar that doesn't agree with the rules to circumvent DNS tampering laws.
3. In theory, ICANN already requires registrants to maintain accurate information in WHOIS. Registrants should be receiving annual notices from registrars to remind them of this fact. We can all see how well this is working. :p

The issue with providing "identity" to register a domain is that there's no portable, international way of doing so. What does an "identity" consist of? A name?
There's plenty of good discussion on this topic in the nymwars.

However, I do agree with SOPA being a red herring, and it's unfortunate that big. Players are still planning a blackout even though the legislature is already backpedaling on the worst bits of the language.
What if next month the DOPA (Decapitating Online Piracy Act) bill comes along and it's much worse. Would big sites be willing to continue shutting down their services for each crazy bill that comes around?

I feel like the endgame of the US futzing with the Internet will just result in other, international bodies taking on the operations of core infrastructure (a la The ORSN project; Vixie saw SOPA coming!), edging out US influence on this medium that the whole world enjoys.
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What I do:

1. Open terminal, `mkdir <project name> && cd <project name>`

2. Spend way too much time thinking of what language to use.

3. Spend way too much time thinking of how I should implement it.

4. Start coding.

5. Get bored and have new idea.

6. Go to step 1.

I think I need to work on actually finishing my projects and spending less time with thinking.
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I think it was here (on HN) that I read a comment that suggested shared libs in Unix originated at Sun Microsystems, originating due to some politics in their work w/ the X Window System (iirc). I've searched for that story since, but not found it -- I'm guessing there may be somebody reading this story who may know what I'm talking about. Retell the story?
Sounds like some sort of "Domain-Driven Design" (or DDD).
Just do it, man. Start writing something and don't stop until your fingers are bleeding and you're suffering from dehydration.

But seriously, just do it! I used to get stuck like that. When that happens now, I just start coding no matter what. I'll tell myself: "OK you MUST write code for at least 30 minutes or you can't leave." something like that.
Really all NIH and NSF grants should come with open access requirements. I would suggest that all raw data be made available no later than 1 year after initial collection and all publications be open-access upon publishing with curated data also available upon publishing.

The "1 year after initial collection" allows slower writers to get publications in the pipeline before unleashing their data to the hounds of "competing" scientists.

Scientific publishing is broken. Industry and government have limited access to modern, relevant academic research. Utilizing the best science for science, management, construction and business decisions shouldn't be a daunting task that I usually chose to overcome by contacting current individuals in academics with access to publications.
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Same. I love using the most-voted question list to see what types of issues I'm likely to face using the technology.
I get the impression from outsiders that they hear a lot about how great Google is and then assume that they can't work at Google, so they then decide that what Google does is actually bad. The flaw is thinking that you can't work at Google. You can! Apply, brush up on your algorithms a bit, and start enjoying the amazing coffee!

Trust me, I would. I would actually do a lot better. I am definitely far more productive people around me. And I can build stuff and do my regular work both at the same time. Every manager I have every worked with says, they have seen no one like me before. I have built endless stuff without getting anything in return.

Like you I'm also frustrated dealing with all the large corporate non sense.

But I don't have Ivy league college degree, and yes I am not too much of an algo guy.

Well, I think people like despite being having all it takes can never work there. You see I can research, think and build quickly. I can push long hours, I can do weekends. I can virtually work and solve any problems by reading manuals. I have worked at back breaking deadlines, delivered stuff when others said it was impossible.But I don't remember math theorems. And am not too much into text books. Unless those books are like OnLisp(Paul Graham), Higher Order Perl(Mark Jason Dominus)... Kind of books.

People like me can't get hired at Google!
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The article suggests (ok, it does more than suggest) that one receives promotions at Google based on how hard one works or how many hours one puts in. Is that really the case? Shouldn't it be based on how effectively you work, i.e. your contribution to the company?
"There is no room for ego in success." That seems like a good way to sum up the get-it-done hacker attitude. Ego can come later.
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Ask HN: Bored with Drupal, and web development in general.
I feel like I'm in a rut. Every project is the same unrewarding iteration of speccing out a few site customizations and writing glue code to get contributed modules behaving the way I want them.

It's getting to the point that I'd rather do home improvement projects or dick around in my garage than do anything with my computer in my spare time.

Anyone else run into this kind of career funk and if so what did you do to shake it off?
StackOverflow is not a site dedicated to hosting discussions on "interesting" topics. It is a site dedicated to getting the highest quality answers to technical questions. And it does that marvelously. As a byproduct it also fosters the sort of community that ends up providing interesting discussion from time to time, but if the site became about that it would not last and it could easily cause a derailing of the site's main purpose.

Just because something is "good" doesn't mean that it belongs on SO.com.
For every evil bills that is on the public consciousness, another bill slip by. It's basically a game of whacking a mole.
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It looks like this would be on the way to reinventing the Indian phenomenon of Dabawalla (basically a city wide infrastructure to deliver home cooked lunches to offices):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
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It isn't exactly the most popular option for a lot of reasons, but one possibility is going on an income based repayment plan for as much of the debt as you can. The debt sticks around for 25 years but it allows you not to worry about not having enough money. Also, what are your interest rates? If they are in the 3-4% range, you may be able to do better taking your extra money and saving with it rather than paying off the loan.
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