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Exactly!
Good record labels book venues, organize travel, handle the legal stuff like insurance etc, they are well connected and know people at the radio stations and know the bloggers, they can introduce them to other bands/producers/video editors, ... in short: they make sure that the band can concentrate on their music and that the target audience knows about them

So record labels won't go away, they should maybe rename themselves because of the automatic negative response you get when you hear the word "record label"
I may have misread this, but I'm confused about the point of the article. It seems like the article is reporting that 'the nerds of Silicon Valley are all upset' that rich people are getting rewarded for success in a meritocracy.

So, if that's the point of the article (and I missed a sarcastic twist somewhere - very possible), I have two problems with it.

First, where are these meetings I've been missing where all the nerds of Silicon Valley get together and decide what they like and what they don't like? I for one did not vote on the Meritocracy Referendum - was this my mistake, or were other nerds disenfranchised in that regional election?

Second, isn't that exactly what meritocracy entails? The key is that at any generation, in a true meritocracy absolutely anyone with a good idea (or work ethic, etc.) will be rewarded and elevate themselves. But beyond that, the general social flow will be that reward begets affluence, affluence begets smarter or more upwardly-mobile children (I'll say 'better', meaning better in a sense valued by the meritocracy), better children do better in the meritocracy, and the system repeats.

Put it another way - the youngest generation of rich entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are the children of successful hackers (or at least some of them are). Is this surprising anyone?
Do you have a citation? A PDF link would be great and appreciated.
Honestly, I'd spend little to no time on this.

Startups do not live and die based on the uniqueness of their trademark. Your time is better spent working on your product. If / when you get real traction, you'll have enough cash to get this resolved.
Hi Tom,

It's a nice gesture, but... this could have been handled way before and from the messages in this thread it seems like a very common occurrence. As somebody who wanted to use your services in the future that thread totally changed my vision of Adsense and I am exploring other companies for ads.

We need you guys at Adsense to fix the problem after it happens, of course, but also beforehand because holding money for too long can kill a business.

Thanks
It actually helped me visualize the conversations better and follow the thought process thinking about them as Sesame Street characters. I don't know why.
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I don't understand. If you're smart enough to shut down an account before it does anything fraudulent, then you have no conceivable excuse not to pay the balance out when you close the account.
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Thanks for OpenSourcing Node2dm. I think I'll take that for a spin this weekend.
They are literally saying "If you are a girl and ask us for money we will give it to you"

We never said that. This is what we said:

We're not going to lower the bar for female applicants. It frustrates us a little that we feel the need to say that, and we think it underlines the sexism (intentional and not) that so pervades the programming world.

But we want to say that now, so people don't have to waste time asking or debating the point. Women will be judged on the exact same scale as men. We think to do otherwise would be insulting and counterproductive. We care a lot about getting more women into Hacker School, but we won't do it at the expense of the quality of the batch.
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The site clearly isn't aimed at me, I don't speak or read any asian languages, but the design seems cool. It's a bit cluttered but it's cluttered entirely with content (I think) so it works. I like the endless scrolling somewhat, although it makes deep linking problematic.
Consider the possibility that one of the things that discourages women from entering the field is the lack of women in the field.
It's sad that the only way to get customer support from Google is to get to #1 on HN.

It's almost worst than no support at all (because less equitable).
Not sure where the edit-button went, but here's a reminder:

I WROTE THIS WITH A DELIBERATE NEGATIVE BENT. I often perceive industrial programmers and entrepreneurs as unduly biased against academia, so upon the request to write an "irregular" anecdote bemoaning having strayed beyond the university walls, I tried to impart the same level of bias.

So:

* Take the above comment as pessimistic by design.

* Think a little harder about how you talk about academia, and how you feel when I talk that way about industry.

And for those thinking of leaving academia for industry:

* Think about what will really make you happy. Academia and industry aren't just different sets of problems during your workday (although they definitely are that!), they're different lifestyles. Don't think you're going to do the same work or live the same way "on the other side". Instead, look at what you can do "over there", and ask what you really want to do.

* Consider if you're just burned-out. If you are, you'll still be burned-out in industry.
> Ironically, a job seeker that rejects an ad based on a keyword or two is exactly the shallow reasoning this article criticizes; it's just the other side of the same coin.

Not really. The situations are asymmetric -- an employer seeking a talented programmer needs to be rejecting potential employees on as few arbitrary criteria as possible, to maximize their chance at finding just a single qualified candidate.

A talented programmer, on the other hand, has Berty Wooster's time-management problem; there are far more people desperate to hire than he or she could possibly could ever hope to give attention to. You need to winnow out any opportunity that is even the slightest bit unappealing just to get the flood down to a manageable level.
Good article. Makes me laugh to look down at the footer of this page and imagine it says "Find" with a field input. A find box, no thanks. hah
Thanks! It means a lot to hear such kind words. We'd love to have you apply :).
Your program would do the same for an advert that said something along the lines of "We don't care whether you are a ninja or a rock star"?
By "work better," do you mean "acquired clicks" or " acquired sales?"
I'm not talking about anything new. Your predictions will be wrong occasionally.
The entire thing is ostensibly "about" the employees. I think you, like so many HNers, are trying a little to hard to spin everything Google-related into a negative.
Great article by an awesome entrepreneur!
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Hmm, however unlikely, it seems that the hacker is aware of a 0-day in wordpress. Almost all of the websites compromised were using WordPress. Weird.
A point of feedback - I write a lot of code that gets used by lots of people, and I don't do any of it in a social fashion because I'm entirely uninterested in creating a brand for myself as a developer. All of these metrics you're talking about would screen me out, whereas a simple "created and scaled FOO with BAR set of technologies, used by 100,000/1,000,000/10,000,000 people/month" on a resume would probably get a good amount of employer attention, for good reason - that's an indication of a real full stack engineer who has faced a gamut of real problems. It's not as easy to quantify, but you should probably take that kind of thing into account, because it's a lot more meaningful than the number of people signed up to receive my quips about how much IE6 sucks or how many side projects I've open sourced.
"We tend to build our own libraries simply because much of the functionality of open-source code is locked up into monolithic frameworks and not easily re-usable."

Wow, I couldn't agree more with this concept of library vs. framework. While frameworks provide all kinds of up-front time savings, I've never used one that didn't end up getting in my way and require all kinds of deeply placed hacks to work how I (or my company/client) wanted.

I sometimes feel out of the loop because I'm not using all of the popular frameworks everyone else is talking about at the moment. So it's refreshing to hear I'm not alone in the opinion that time is saved in the long run by writing one's own small, modular, easily understood and reused libraries if none are already available.

I do feel as though small, self-contained code bases are becoming easier to find with the rise in popularity of sites such as GitHub and Bitbucket. So perhaps the trend towards less monolithic software can become more mainstream.
I'm curious if you've reached out to the big players in the textbook oligopoly before this?

As to their lawsuit, good luck. I never understood why my books were so expensive (early 2000s). Of course if you're using the chapter titles of their texts as someone mentioned, I'm not an expert on copyright law, but it just feels wrong.
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That is a reasonable point, but I do not think that Google's approach is the best means to forming a credible ad network that enables both marketing and the monetization of free content. A system with better communication, a reasonable appeals process, and some effort to recognize and address problems like third-party sabotage and friends who think they're doing you a favor, would better serve consumers, advertisers, and creators. The problem is that the benefits to Google of such a system don't outweigh the costs.
His password was simple enough to be brute-forced.
I preferred the parable, personally -- I think it's just a preference thing. Viewing things as an interaction, even just a sort of Socratic dialogue, works well at least for my mind.
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Hmmm? Both Google and Amazon are known for being good to their customers and screwing over their suppliers. Its just that most of us are a customer of Amazon and a supplier for Google.
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Well i just go free internet/https access via vodafone wtf
When I applied around that time, CMU was the only one I applied to that required that I declare CS, MIT didn't, Harvard didn't, and I don't think CalTech did either.
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The market isn't clearing right now. There are "data scientists" without jobs and there are companies without data scientists. Companies who can pay in that range can hire. Data people who can ask for that salary can get jobs. Sorry if that's cryptic.
I've recently (and finally) turned to Evernote. They've got it figured out quite well.
You can refrigerate the Earth. You don't even have to refrigerate it; approximately the entire sky except for the Sun is a few degrees above absolute zero, so you just have to increase your radiative coupling to it --- effectively putting cooling fins on the Earth.

Or you could use the energy somewhere besides on Earth.
It's compensative sexism.
It's a probabilistic count. Still proper terminology.
This is a pretty awesome move by Etsy. I'll be graduating soon and have been giving strong consideration to moving to New York. All my research indicated that Etsy would be a great place to work. This reinforces my feelings!
> ever see a refund for any clicks?

Yes, all the time. Here's what it looks like in the billing summary:

http://i.imgur.com/JVSVO.png

The alt text for the question mark graphic: "Your account has been credited for invalid clicks that escaped automatic detection."
10 years exactly, or a bit more than that?

The reason I asked is that CS enrollment changed dramatically after the .com bubble burst. When I applied to CS a little more than 10 years ago the bubble was in full swing, and only the top 1/4 of applicants to the program had a hope of getting in. Transferring in was a no-go.

2 years later enrollment had dropped so low that the quotas were gone and transferring in was easy. Application numbers, as far as I know, still haven't recovered to bubble levels.
I think this is rather unfair as the main difference here is that Google has demonstrated an active commitment to technologically groundbreaking projects, namely the robot car. While it has not been brought to market either, it is clearly an advanced prototype.
Really? To me it sounds very similar to Cliffs Notes, which summarizes, chapter by chapter, books covered by copyright.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Lord-o...

Summarizing may legally be different than re-writing however, so it'll be interesting to see where the case goes.
In reading the article I was wondering if Teela Brown would be get a call or have her resume thrown out, I suspect the latter.
No one likes the big textbook companies, but what Boundless is doing is clearly breaching copyright law. It seems they are hoping public pressure will save them, but I don't think most people are naive enough to agree the way they are doing things is ok. The open resources they are copying from, that's the way to replace textbooks.
Socratic dialogue is a good way to move an essay along under the guise of a narrative. I wasn’t bothered by it, even though I usually prefer something more direct.
At the risk of coming off as one of the maligned "personal opinion" people, I have to object a little to (2). That may be the general issue, I could agree, but it's not my issue.

Because my issue is the sheer length and complexity of the GPL; I have read it and I do not pretend to understand it, and I don't personally as a developer want to release under a license whose implications I don't really understand. The problems just start with Section 1 and accumulate from there.

For me, the nastiest part is not really the copyleft or DRM so much as the no-linking aspect of GPL. I still don't know what precisely constitutes "linking". I don't know whether Python is in violation of the GPL because the standard library has a readline module, and I don't know if my own code is in violation of the GPL because it's written in Python. GPLv3 actually made this point a little clearer; in GPLv3 you would say "Python as a whole plus its readline library is probably GPL, but as long as you don't write 'import readline' you could probably release under something else instead." Now that there is a BSD version of readline called editline, I wonder if even that analysis holds. But the GPL makes even this analysis complicated, because if Python forgot to mention that the whole package was GPL, then actually their license to readline can potentially be revoked at any time by the readline copyright holders.

And there are some nasty parts too, like the ongoing incompatibility between the Eclipse Public License and the GPL. You now have people explaining how to get readline and wrap Clojure in a readline interface (which is allowed) because Clojure presumably isn't allowed to connect directly to readline in its own REPL.

LGPL, at least, I don't have to worry about this crap when building an application which uses yours as a tool. You can license under LGPL if you really think that GPL's legal phrasing is absolutely magnificent and you love it. I don't want to release under such an ugly license myself, and GPL forces me to violate my aesthetic principles.

So, never mind, some guy whining about GPL over here. (whistles aimlessly.)
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That would be cool if you actually had a Turing machine. Most people have a deterministic linear bounded automata.
Why? That's exactly what they did.
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I am a highschool student, in my junior year.

My first two years of highschool I went to a charter school, skipped a grade of math (pre calc in sophomore year) and got most A's (3.95 gpa).

This year I am taking PSEO, post secondary education, meaning I am taking all college courses at the local college. I took a calc I corse last semester, as well as some reading courses, got an A- in calc, A's in my other courses and B in college writing, etc.

This semester I am taking calc II, and stuggling. Math is something I'm good at, and I understand a fair amount of the course, but the workload is tough, I'll probably get B's in most of my courses this semester.

So, graduating from highschool with around a 3.5 gpa, with an A in calc I and a B in calc II, plus other less important liberal art classes. I also got a 2200 on my SAT, but I going to retake it.

I make livable wage from doing a fair amount of freelance frontend development. In a frontend development role, I am skilled enough to step into a non freelance job, I have looked at internships and they are below my skill level.

So my question is, what to do after highschool? I want to go out west, (I'm from WI) because silicon valley is where the jobs and culture I like is. Does it make sense to apply to Stanford for undergrad? Would my lower gpa and non perfect SAT score hurt my eligibility much? Does it make sense to go to such an expensive school when I don't even know what I would study? Computer Science doesn't interest me much as a major, and the more I read about the higher education bubble the more I start to think maybe I should just go to San Francisco State or something and work at getting established at a company out there.

Any HN'ers who can shed some light on what they think makes sense to do would be great.
Is it just me, or are we quite privileged when we no longer count a job paying less than six-figures as "high-paying"?
When I was open to new job opportunities, I immediately turned it down if the job description included words like rock starts, ninjas, etc. I am not against the mindset. It is just not a good fit to my personality.

I want to work on products that I consider meaningful and work with good and serious engineers. It is nice to hang out with colleagues, have drinks, saying jokes, etc. I am a big fan of classic rock. But calling engineers as rock stars, ninjas, etc, or engineers labeling themselves as such personalities, really convey a somewhat negative impression to me.
This is far from obvious to me. For brokering a deal between publisher and advertiser, Google has nothing that presents a technological, or even much business, advantage. Maybe some prior experience in fraud detection. The existence of this thread shows it can't be that good.

Yes, an advertiser might want or have a business relation with Google for search advertisements. But for others? What does Google have there that makes them special?

Their brand might be worth something, but thinking this is unovercomable seems strange to me.
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While I strongly believe Etsy can spend their money any way they want...

I'm curious that if by always treating female hackers as a special group, that it will create a further divide in the community, analogous to hate crimes:

> In their book Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics, James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter criticize hate crime legislation for exacerbating conflicts between groups. They assert that by defining crimes as being committed by one group against another, rather than as being committed by individuals against their society, the labeling of crimes as “hate crimes” causes groups to feel persecuted by one another, and that this impression of persecution can incite a backlash and thus lead to an actual increase in crime.
Change your homepage text from:

"Tired of spending thousands on college only to be forced to use educational products that you don't like? It’s time for a change. Boundless is built directly for students like you, tailored to each of your courses so that you can ditch the expensive textbook, master the essentials and boost your grade."

to

"Boundless replaces your textbooks. It's free."
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Can't wait for ArchLinux on this thing...
What sort of hosting do you use for your main Pg (and Redis) instances?
I thought they said they've learned their lesson after the SOPA backlash. Clearly they haven't.
This is exactly what I asked for.
You could run the exact same fraud systems and policies, but also offer customer support. It's not the fraud systems that are preventing competitors, it's achieving the critical mass of advertisers to offer competitive ad fill and revenue rates. It doesn't matter if you're the friendliest company in the world if you can't provide enough ads to pay as much, or anywhere near, what Google will pay the same site.
and provide APIs for sites that don't have APIs :)
Conspiracy Theory: Isn't this a great way to boost earnings before the end of a quarter? "Hey, we have a $50 million shortfall, let's close down some AdSense accounts and take their money".

It's one thing to suspend an account and say "as of tomorrow, we dont want to do business with you and won't pay you for clicks going forward" - they don't have to provide a reason, they are a private company and can do whatever they want.

However, when you're seizing money, whether its hundreds of dollars or tens of thousands, there needs to be proof and an appeal process. Algorithmically closing down accounts and seizing cash just doesn't work. Plus, it seems like it'd be all to easy to get a competitors account shut down by running a bot and generating fake clicks on their site...
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My biggest concern is that she's starting to push us further and further down in terms of google results. She has been getting so much press that we're barely on the first page anymore.
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Beer is lame. There should be more of an emphasis on weed and psychedelics. Hey, it worked for Carl Sagan!
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I don't think this is really an analogy. This chain occurs with both in both physical manufacturing and software. In both, developers/design engineers design the product, leads make sure that everything stays within budget and time, and product managers get requirements through sales or marketing staff. There really isn't a difference with either process at all, and for software that's sold on physical copies, it's is the exact same process. The major difference between releasing software on the internet and making a physical product is the end of the entire process, where the product is built and sent to the customer. With a physical product, it has to be built, stored until sold, then shipped out.

Also, unless your developers are so misanthropic that putting them in front of a client might just cause wars to break out, most of this chain can be circumvented by involving all parts of the chain in requirements gathering. The key part of the beer game is that none of the parties can talk to any party that's more than one link away from them.

Finally, and this is myself being a nitpicky bastard, but the operations manager will almost never have direct contact with a client. They will be the ones that work with the developers, the leads, product managers, and suppliers to make sure that the product can actually be made with the given budget, and that every step of the production chain is working correctly. They will also work with marketing and sales to make sure that the projected demand will be met, and that the product actually gets out to the clients. A better position would be sales people, because they are generally the only point of contact users have with the manufacturer.
Neat. Any chance you're looking for a job?
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