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Great article!

It is sad how this culture of discovery and hacking is being killed by a stupid "human beings factory" mentality.

These days I was chatting with a friend and suddenly she stared blankly at the crowd and said "look, everyone dresses the same, everyone looks the same".

It's amazing how you turn on the TV and girls in the USA dress just like those in Brazil.

Aldous Huxley predicted we wouldn't be alienated by state oppression or censorship. He predicted we'd have so many artificial distractions, that folks would just alienate themselves.

Nobody wants to take electronics apart anymore, nobody fixes their own automobiles anymore, nobody even dresses differently! We don't question official stories, we believe unbelievable things because the TV told us so. Where are all the inquiring minds? Why is it that when someone is curious and questions things they are called conspiracy nuts? When did the inquiring mind die and become an outcast, a danger for society?

Humanity is becoming dull, self-censored, machinelike. I believe it was either Picasso or Einstein which once said computers were stupid, because they only provided answers. Humans are becoming just like that! Nobody asks questions anymore, everyone just wants to have answers, as if we're stupid robots made to behave according to a standard.

Where's the life! The creativity! The will to take the thing apart and discover!?

Just look at the WWW today. All the websites look the same, have you noticed?

In the early WWW there were terrible spinning things in GIF's, animated banners, horrible neon color pages that hurt the eye, blinking tags(yuck). People just published whatever on the WWW. But it was true, honest, it was legit stuff that folks just wanted to publish. Look at what we have today.

Nowadays every new web site seems to be a marketing project that read some search engine's manuals before publishing.

Look guys I made this thing called Shit-a-gram! It mashes up all sorts of shit from Facebook, and if you name it gram you go virally floated to targetted audiences with immense purchasing power!

Where's the Geocities of today, where everyone did something different and the WWW was truly free? Even if those sites where dead ugly, they were true, they were original, they were the fruit of the hacking mentality, to do something different, freely.

This article got me thinking how much of that we've lost to a stupid culture of control.

Webmasters these days ask search engines for permission to link to some place, to write certain contents which might not meet certain "quality guidelines"(read: what makes the search engines a profit).

How did we reach this point? Where's the freedom? Where's the creativity?
Those are all good points, but it does seem silly that they refuse to sell subscriptions to the uncabled youths for $250 a year.
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Well, I'm excited about the upcoming Netflix-exclusive Arrested Development season. There's a huge fanbase and it should be a good indicator for how successful an approach like this can be. On the other hand, I'm from germany and that, of course, means that I'll will have to get the show from somewhere else.
When someone does you wrong, you can't go off in secret and appeal for justice. Public shame is often all these people understand.

The fact that someone tried to get an injustice doesn't make less employable. Well, maybe to people who like to take advantage of others. Sounds like a good thing to discourage them.
I feel somewhat responsible for this confusion, as the guy being quoted here... :-(

Riak will handle billions of keys just fine. We had, I dunno, a half a billion in a six node bitcask-backed cluster and were only at half capacity. Much much bigger installs exist. The limit I was referring to is for a single mapreduce job; Riak MR just isn't well-suited to operations over millions of keys at a time. It can do it, but Riak MR isn't really designed for bulk processing: and I wouldn't be surprised to see MR become unusably slow over millions of keys. You'll get better performance out of Hadoop, generally, for bulk analytics.

The other tough point is key-listing. Listing buckets, listing keys, key filters, MR over buckets, all those features are essentially useless in production. Where the number of keys is large and unguessable it can become a logistical nightmare to keep track of them. 2I key indexes can help, though.
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For problem 3: Why exclude all greys? If you asked me what colour that logo was I'd say black/red/white/grey, not red/dark red.
When they thought they had all the power, they saw no reason to pay him. Once it was clear that the power wasn't imbalanced, they went for damage control. That reads pretty transparently to anyone who's been around the block a few times.

The loudest expression of your morals is what you do when you have all the power. If you act poorly, later rationalizations do little to convince anyone otherwise.
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Yes, of course. I meant horses have nothing to do with engines. Nobody today is going to compare the power of a car to what they know about horses.
> They admitted they made a mistake in not clearly documenting their policy, which was ambiguous. As part of correcting that mistake, they recompensed an employee who was wronged by the ambiguity. They did this not because they were obligated by a policy or contract, but by ethics.

This is not a matter of a simple "ambiguity in policy", is it? This is a contract they made with their employees that failed to specify terms like "the bonus will only be payable while you are an employee of the company".

Miso doesn't get to retroactively apply terms to a contract that has been made. Hence, IMO, they recompensed the employee because they were obligated to by contract.

edit: Two good comments from the blog:

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Somrat, Tim: your mistake was not that you were unclear about your policy. Your mistake was failing to follow your policies and agreements in the first place and then trying to apply new policies after the fact. This isn't unclear, it's unethical.

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This reply tells everyone that CYA is your sole problem solving skill.

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After the public shaming (hey, that was WAY more efficient than a lawyer), they could at least have been honest. But hey that takes balls, moral standards, and uhm, probably either apologizing and quitting the company either saying "screw that guy we're not paying him because we don't like him". Of course, that's utopia.

Obviously if they had either there would again, be no story, since they'd just have been honest to start with.
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He left the company - he failed the condition. Once you leave a company, all your contacts are ended.
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Better than I expected it to be. Worth reading the whole thing, which I often don't do.
And of course to your point many of us have spent a week or two on vacation in a nice place and decided it was enough and wanted to get home.

And if you've ever had a vacation home or boat they are good to escape to (but from my experience only if you have other stress in your life) but not something you would want to do every day. In fact a boat is a good example of that. I can play with the computer every day and never get bored. A boat, something I have no desire to do every day (even when I owned one which was for many years). And if you've been a boater and have seen the amount of boats tied up that never go out you are aware of this phenomena for the non-outliers.
And of course to your point many of us have spent a week or two on vacation in a nice place and decided it was enough and wanted to get home.

And if you've ever had a vacation home or boat they are good to escape to (but from my experience only if you have other stress in your life) but not something you would want to do every day. In fact a boat is a good example of that. I can play with the computer every day and never get bored. A boat, something I have no desire to do every day. And if you've been a boater and seen the amount of boats tied up that never go out you are aware of this phenomena for the non-outliers.
I've never seen a Riak MR job over more than 3 million keys complete, on a 6-node SSD cluster. It might be possible, but you'd have to throw a lot more HW at it than the comparable Hadoop setup.
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I addressed this in another comment. I have zero tolerance for ads, no matter how "un-intrusive" they are.

Also, it is a matter of signaling: I don't want to reward sites that have a business model reliant on ads. That would give them a very strong incentive to go to the lowest common denominator and just optimize all their work to increase page views.

Ten years ago, we used to complain about the state of "mainstream media" and thought that blogs would be our salvation. But instead of rewarding quality work of bloggers, we decided that it was okay to accept ads. When you get that, you get a popularity contest, and this is why we end up with crap like Techcrunch and Engadget and other AOL-owned "properties".

Ars provides the "premium" service, but what they offer for it? Full-text RSS? It is not worth $5/month. I will just adblock + readability the hell out of their articles.

To sum up: I don't want to hurt the sites, but I do want to hurt the business model. If the websites rely on this failed business model? I'm sorry, but it is just collateral.
Seems to have been tried out before with not enough traction to get relevant.
But I believe that now that Android tools and community are getting stronger, it could make sense.
Ruby Toolbox is just great. So it's a very good model to base on. imo.
Do you have a link for those spirited discussions about getting young men into his hotel room?

After a cursory search, the only such discussion I could find was about John Draper, not Stallman. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914498

From what I understand, Stallman doesn't even stay in hotel rooms.
In short, don't. In Riak you would aim to update those views at write time, to minimize the number of reads required.
I'm sure I've seen 5 or 6 of essentially this same thing on kickstarter over the last couple weeks. It seems to be a popular idea, but until the price drops enough for them to be disposable I don't really see the point.
Let us put it this way. Knowing how to execute and executing should make you rich.

No matter what that is. Selling is also execution, Raising money is also execution and Coding is also execution.

But the word 'Business person' generally invokes the image of a middle level manager in a corporate whose only expertise seems to forwarding emails, filling up online forms and politics.

That is why most hackers think a 'Business person' is useless. While the fact is everybody has a role to play.
+1 for paying up
-1 for calling it a mistake
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We (programmers/engineers/developers whatever you want to call it) have a LOT to answer for.

Evenly represented on the HN home page every few months are:

1) You don't need a programmer, you need a technical co-founder (aka. you can't pay someone to do this job because you can't possibly afford it)

2) I am sick of people asking me to be their technical co-founder

The engineering side of tech have spend a good few years recycling each other's kool aid and we're starting to believe it. Hell we're saying the same bullshit over and over so much that even the non-tech side is starting to believe it.

The problems that 90% of companies solve are not difficult. There are literally millions of people crawling the planet that can solve these problems and yet our inability to work together has created an entire generation of primadonna's like the OP that swan around like the bell of the ball.
Not only that but also devices fragmentation. Google is doing much to address this, but there's still an ocean of troubles in this field.
If a guy would have enough patience and traction to get an "android compatibility framework", he would surely be a hot shot. I'll dig into that maybe :)
Or does that exists already? AFAIK not yet. Any input?
"A properly written application layer also prevents data loss"

Agreed but the application layer _generally_ doesn't have the abstractions at a point where it's trivially easy to put these safe guards in place like it is at the database layer.

Also, "stupid mistakes" does not in any way imply that the people who make them are stupid. Nor am I implying that you have to be particularly intelligent to normalize and constrain a database properly. I'm simply lamenting how undervalued a "good schema" can be.

[side note: upvoted your comment :D]
As someone who has friends at Miso, and who was considering applying there: I think its a little too late.

For anyone seeking employment, the people you work with day to day is one of the most important things, and this episode doesn't really show the best side of its founders character.
I am the person being quoted. You are correct that keylisting is not suitable for production use. We definitely don't do MR jobs over billions of keys: our huge data queries are powered by Mecha, which uses Solr.
You have to realize, HBO's customers are not the subscribers. HBO's customers are cable companies. The cable companies deal with the subscribers and just keep track of how much to pay HBO every month. HBO doesn't even know who the subscribers are! They don't have any identification or billing information. That's why they can't sell to customers directly.
I should mention that 2I performance may be a little slow, depending on what kind of indices and queries you need. It's not hard to try it out and benchmark, though.
I disagree. His post stands as a public review of his previous employer, which-- in giving him the bonus after they previously denied it-- admit that they have two very different personalities. In the public, they are good people and agree with the morals of the multitudes (doing the right thing). In private, they abuse their power and finger point when things don't go their way (he "lost their data and mangled their company).

It wasn't worth 10K to Miso. Potential employees are going to google their name and want nothing to do with them. I sure wouldn't.

Their might be some employers that deny J Wu a job based on an honest post like this, but are they really working for in the first place?
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IIRC Tylenol (ie Acetaminophen/Paracetamol) is the leading cause of deaths due to drugs.

Both accidental, because the fatal dose is relatively low compared to the therapeutic dose and because deliberate overdoses are far more likely to be fatal than say sleeping tablets.
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The time should be proportionate to the cost of the software.
> sites could specify which authorities are or are not allowed to sign their SSL and TLS certificates

This idea actually sounds fantastic. If I only ever buy my certificates from one or two CAs and if I can disallow certificates signed by other CAs, I won't have to worry about some random CA getting hacked and millions of fake certs being trusted by browsers.

Implementing this scheme, on the other hand, will be tricky. If I use a DNS record to specify my trusted CAs, sort of like how we do SPF nowadays, anyone who can hijack DNS queries will also be able to forge that record. Proper DNS security must be provided before this measure can be made effective.
Because all users will know the difference between realbank.secure/index and fakebank.com/index.secure ...
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This was my first question too. In that picture, not any grey would match with the reds to give the feel of that image.. probably.. Maybe just order by saturation, and then limit to 5 colors?
Why does this matter at all? You should be adding ignore filters from friends who you aren't interested in seeing things from because they are not relevant, annoying, dumb, etc, sponsored or not.
Next up: $x to not show when you view someones profile. So by default, anyone can see if you view their profile.

A stalkers worst nightmare - how many people would sign up for that?
This discussions (which seem to happens as frequently as sunsets) are so petty and generally worthless. Lots of great businesses are driven by sales as well as code. One is either building or selling a product. And great talent in each department is hard to find. Yes, some consumer apps definitely require less "sales."

But I'd wager there are lots more indignant engineers complaining about how much in demand they are than there are engineers who are actually building great companies.

Stop publicly complaining and go do something successful.
I think the key for a new, disruptive education model will be hiring endorsements from large companies. This seems like a good start.
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That looks fun. Would be really useful if each list had a field to "cue" a youtube url that was not in the crate already. That way you can browse youtube in a separate tab to find a video, then cue it up and start the crossfade.
Very awesome.

Google's logo has 255 colors (including shades). With most other companies I might consider that to be a coincidence.
Isn't $79k somewhat offensive for a software engineer? At a time when new college grads are making well over $150k their first year?
Yep, you're right. It's difficult to differentiate greys that are important vs those that we don't care about. Our current solution works not too badly and gives us results that are more visually appealing, but I agree we could do better.

I'd like to try ranking greys lower somehow.. maybe some kind of weighting by saturation could help.
What's the old adage? Oh yeah, the numbers speak for themselves.
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"Haskell is the king of purely-functional, lazy, statically-typed languages."

Add enough qualifiers and every language is the king of something.
Seriously? Entry level devs make $150k?
Holy crap. 10 weeks. $80K. This is the holy grail, and these guys are doing it: taking someone who has no programming experience and getting them jobs, completely sidestepping accreditation.

Nice work Shereef.
Yeah, I don't get the anti-schema sentiment either. Coincidentally, I just wrote up my thoughts on it yesterday:

http://draconianoverlord.com/2012/05/08/whats-wrong-with-a-s...
Well… Zuckerberg isn't liquid, is he?

I'm sure you can find a buyer for Facebook stock right now, but it seems like the obvious way for all those VCs, angels and early employees to cash out.

Being able to issue more shares to be used as stock options, or making your financials less messy to deal with, is merely icing on the cake
Is that the sound of Dave Winer deleting the comments?
I actually work as a programmer for home automation gear. You'd be surprised the extent to which (non-geeky) people want to control their homes. You'd also be surprised at the crazy number of automation startups.

This one looks pretty interesting, but so few actually go anywhere at all.
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Yes, ask any Facebook/Google new grad. Standard offer is $100k base salary + $15k bonus + $30k stock a year + $XXk signing bonus.
Warning, the video shows him putting them in at the beginning. Not just showing how cool it hooks on. Shows a decent amount of blood and incision.
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That SO post is pretty thorough!

Yep, it's a canvas element with rounded corners moving around on top of a fairly stock-standard slideshow. It uses a css transform to scale and this stackblur library (http://www.quasimondo.com/StackBlurForCanvas/StackBlurDemo.h...) to make it look like it lifts as it moves from place to place.
hasn't objective-c and java pretty much replaced all the demand for javascript?
Myspace never went public, it was acquired by News Corp for around $600m.
Part of me hopes this spread to other cities... but I'm wary of for-profit "colleges". As soon as it becomes apparent that there is a market for this type of trade school, the market will be flooded with competing schools that quickly train people to code. Then, each school becomes less unique, and they have fewer employers to connect their grads with. Additionally, the schools themselves expand to accept more students (and make more money), but then the average student aptitude is lowered, and employers learn this, and the whole system implodes. Soon, grads can't get jobs right after their training and instead get stuck with student loans they can't repay.

And then recruiters just return to traditional schools for their first-round of screening.
They are also legally bound to pay the referral bonus, unless they can provide evidence that they informed Joshua before he referred his buddy that there were any exceptions to the rule.
Pretty awesome. I love essential mixes too, so I suspect that I will be using this while I work.
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I agree that the new online courses being offered by udacity and coursera etc have potential to be disruptive, but I don't see anything disruptive in this case to be honest ... the "intensive, job oriented training" model has been done before. But this one seems to have a founder who obviously has the industry connections to setup the students with jobs at the end.
lol. Well good theory otherwise!

Edit: Actually I just realized your theory never really made any sense. What site throttles bandwidth just to you when you get downvoted? Nutty theory actually.
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...in 10 weeks. Not years.
They're not exactly trying to get it taken down either. I'm sure that their legal team could make that happen, if it was in the company's best interest.
Thats after 4 years of education at a top school. This was free, and only lasted 10 weeks. In 4 years they will probably get at least 150k
You have announced to the world, entirely of your own accord, that you will flout the law and steal money from your employees. This is your doing, not mine. Is it also your habit to blame others for your own shortcomings?
You are correct, but the average is closer to $80k with all the smaller companies.
Median entry level salary for SOMA area is around $68k. Not sure if comparing to the Facebook/Google entry level is the best comparison to draw.