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This is why, as Dominic says, they are driven by making new sales, and structure their pay accordingly.
My sense is that while people across the world are polarised in their opinions of Assange himself, there's still a lot of disquiet about the question of his (potential/likely?) deportation to the U.S. only to face a Grand Jury, as opposed to due process, the rule of law, and a properly constituted court.

As a non-American, it makes me wonder whether this isn't the time for a serious conversation about amending our extradition laws and treaties to exclude any jurisdictions that don't meet the basic standards of justice expected of a modern democracy.
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> Assange has not been charged with a crime because Swedish law requires him to be present in Sweden before they do so.

He is wanted for arrest to be questioned on suspicion. He has not been interviewed. It would be absolutely shockingly unprecedented even for Sweden if they intend to charge him based on testimony that one prosecutor didn't even believe indicated a crime had taken place, without a formal complaint (see below), without physical evidence and without having conducted an interview to get his side of the story.

You seem to try to make it out as if this is just a formality and he's "practically charged", just not technically because they need to wait until he'se there first.

If this is just a technicality, then this case stinks to high heaven based on the information that's been disclosed about this case so far.

The problem is, if it isn't just a technicality, and they seriously want to do an interview before making a reasoned decision about whether to charge him, they've had several opportunities to do so a long time ago, and refused, in order to spend a year and a half trying to get him into a Swedish jail.

In either case something is up. Possibly just the career goals of the prosecutor. But this is not how this plays out for less high profile cases in Scandinavia. Not even in Sweden.

> As I understand it both women claim he had sex non-consensually with them

As I understand it, both women described something that the police decided to interpret as non-consensual sex without a formal complaint from either of them - an interpretation one of the prosecutors who reviewed the case thought was nonsense.

> It wasn't,

His behavior has not been proven to be anywhere near the media portrayal of the complaint, nor has the testimony of the women in question been under any kind of serious scrutiny. Maybe it was just like that. Maybe it was worse. Or nothing criminal might have happened.

After all the case only still exists because it was in a pretty much unprecedented manner picked up by a second prosecutor known for her hardline views and desire to significantly tighten up Swedish rape laws well beyond anywhere else in Europe after one prosecutor dismissed it on the belief that there had not been any crime.

At the same time, one of the women tried to remove tweets that described how she'd had a great time with Assange after the alleged rape, and a blog post describing exactly how to use a similar method of going to the police to describe a situation as a legal method of taking revenge on someone.

Assange might very well be guilty, but there are enough bizarre things about this case that if he is innocent, he has every reason to fight this extradition, particularly given his background, out of a concern for the motivations of the prosecution. As such, using his decision to fight extradition as an indicator of what he thinks or doesn't think about what behavior is reasonable or whether or not he is guilty of a crime is flawed.
"And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"

An apt comparison of Microsoft and Apple as any, I think.
> One year they did extremely well and decided to simplify and give everyone a straight $10,000 bonus, from the janitor to the CEO

So the guy that watches YouTube videos for 3 hours, and the guy that takes 2 hours worth of smoke breaks a day got the same as the gal that works 50 hours a week and fixes the majority of the product issues?

Contributions are not equal so please don't treat them that way or you will only disenfranchise your BEST employees.

And remember, your best employees are the ones that have the most options elsewhere....
The problem with anecdotes is that other people can use them too: I only have ever met a single person who "just wanted to get software without paying the developers for a license". Most of the people I've met are addicted to the ability to change the icons and sounds with custom themes.
I know what you mean :) I've got a gasoline(petrol) Mini Cooper S, and even with a heavy foot and occasional turbo-assisted fun I'm averaging 36 MPG.
Using your real identity to make online payments could reduce that to real world levels

How many of your friends have had their facebook accounts stolen? For me, it's a few percent. "Oh look, another random acquaintance is stuck in Abu Dhabi and needs me to wire them some money"

Facebook security isn't nearly good enough to be handed my wallet. Actually it's not my wallet that's the problem, it's the wallet of everybody who uses "password" as a password.
What he's saying is that the Unicorn system results in "highly visible/likely to be rewarded by others" work being prioritized by employees over the work that is actually most important to the company.
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Could not agree more.

A world does not exist where either of these extreme models are true.
I didn't think of that! Which is strange considering I'm in China at the moment and it's not too far from the one child policy and their penalty system. Though I would have difficulty defending the human rights argument :) To be honest, I've been thinking about my question since asking and the only answer I can come up with is genetic engineering (designer babies).
I used to fall for this trap.

But now I just calculate my expected return based on a 10% chance of a buyout for $100M or so (cockily I'm assuming I can screen the obvious losers out with common sense alone though that is of course debatable) and if it's not a net uptick from the current gig, I pass on it. And up to now, I've always passed on it, and none of them succeeded.

Other than that, the only startups I'm interested in are ones where I have one of those nifty 3 letter titles and 5% of the company in my pocket.
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Woo! Force people to have an abortion because they can't afford to reproduce. I want to call that torture, but feel extremist if I do. I can't think of any other way to vocalise it though.

I guess there is nowhere good this conversation can go.
Yeah, we had a little "thanks" program at work that had similar issues. People tended to just reciprocate praise, because it didn't cause any drama, and both people made out.
It's a false dichotomy and a broad generalization to assume that non-free software is somehow more polished or of higher quality. Quality software and free software are two very broad categories which are generally not correlated.

There is plenty of awful non-free software just like there is plenty of awful free software.
Thanks! Me too! :)
Well, wait 5 years and someone will have a working copy (Apache Foundation or someone else) :( oh well
Is there pressure on employees who don't give out Unicorns very often? It seems like a very valuable currency.
It's actually pretty common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniority
> an extra impediment for future reforms of copyright law

This is the really important part (ACTA was almost dead anyway). The continued push for ever more draconian copyright enforcement measures is slowly creating a backlash that puts copyright reform on the political agenda.

Once copyright reform is seriously on the agenda, all ACTA-like initiatives that enhance copyright enforcement are likely to be shelved indefinitely, and we finally get some breathing room for a real debate on copyright.
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You get more for fixing the thread dispatcher:

"Everyone in the company sees [your] plaudits and can pile on more unicorns if they agree that [you] did an awesome job."

The only person who will be impressed by you helping Bob upload to SharePoint is Bob. Total score: 1-3 unicorns.

Every engineer will be impressed that you fixed the thread dispatcher. Total score: 1-3 unicorns * # of engineers.
Because internet payment is a solved problem. Here's my credit card number, click click.

It works, it's easy enough, and I'm not sure I want it to be any easier.
From what I remember of the case when it transpired. Both women had no problems with having slept with Assange (as expressed through texts and tweets that were removed). It was only when they became aware of each other that they went to the police. And not to a station near the women, but to one where the women knew a friend (though I'm not sure how unreasonable this is, if she had been raped). Also, when someone expresses ulterior motives (revenge, defamation) with regards to a rape accusation (where it often becomes word against word), and also when also having expressed consent to the sex... to later change their minds. You bet I'm suspicious.

Also, I was not aware one had to be in Sweden to be charged with a crime. I find that a bit surprising, but I'll take your word for it for now and look into it later.
Am I missing something here? This sounds alot like IMS.

Hierarchical databases have been around for a long, long time. The concepts look similar to some ancient legacy system that I worked on a decade ago. Doesn't sound incredibly novel.
NPR ran a piece the other day on the opening of the bridge [1] . I was struck by the response of a Marin county woman who was a child then: "We suspected the bridge was going up just so it could ruin Marin County," she says. Marin residents were bracing for saloons and quick-food stands. And that's just what happened, Danielson says. With a laugh, she adds, "I love people, but there are too many of us!"

I work in land development, but all of my friends are conservationists/environmentalists. It was interesting to see how some protectionist attitudes can be traced through the history of a region and are not theoretical, but come by the full momentum of local culture.

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> So the guy that watches YouTube videos for 3 hours, and the guy that takes 2 hours worth of smoke breaks a day got the same as the gal that works 50 hours a week and fixes the majority of the product issues?

If those guys have jobs at your company, you have bigger problems than your bonus structure. Unless they are doing more work than they appear to be doing, which is entirely possible.
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If you think that appointed federal prosecutors don't play politics, think again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzalez
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I like the idea. Newest first seems more natural to me now that I've been conditioned but I regularly find myself (particularly first thing in the morning) scrolling backwards and then working my way up through tweets. I could see myself using this quite regularly.

It seems like the sort of app I would use once per day to read all the tweets I missed through the night. A more tailored reading interface therefore would be nice (better use of screen real estate, just the username+tweet - no extra details or buttons). If you made something like this I would definitely pay for it. Maybe I'm the only one but it seems like it would be a pretty common use case particularly among heavy twitter users.
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I've always found the Zagat "30 point" scale to be confusing

I'm surprised to see that it made the cut into Goog's interface for general consumption:

I've always thought that the Metacritic / RottenTomatoes / etc scoring system was more intuitive where they show an aggregate professional review score side-by-side with user reviews:

eg http://www.metacritic.com/movie/men-in-black-iii
I worked on the AdWords MySQL system while at Google around 2003-2005. We put a lot of work into it and with the right partitioning and caching strategies MySQL held up pretty well. I'm a little surprised it took so long for Google to migrate away from it, given all the systems expertise the company has. But most of Google's engineering efforts are for enormously large data where a little data loss and slow consistency is OK. AdWords is more like a traditional ACID application than, say, a search engine.

A particular advantage of MySQL over the current crop of NoSQL systems or a home-grown system is there's a lot of people who understand how MySQL fails and how to tune it. It's predictable. I suspect that's part of why it had such a long life in AdWords.
Yes I did. The question was, "Why can't he be questioned in Britain?"

Swedish law says he has to be questioned in Sweden, not Britain.

How's that not an answer?
America itself is like a beautiful crystal straightjacket. You can make a billion dollars, but just try stabbing someone in the face.

Living with restrictions has its pros and cons. You can move to Russia, where I hear you can do anything you're physically able to do, and deal with the consequences yourself.

In this case "moving away" is actually a lot easier.

In the analogy: not everyone living in America ever chose to live there - i.e. anyone who didn't immigrate as an adult. And it's a lot of work to move. So the default is living in a situation most people didn't choose themselves, with a very high barrier to changing anything.

But in the story: the easy alternative is buying an Android instead of buying an iPhone, or developing for Android instead of developing for iPhone. They're "just" phones and literally have the same functionality and anyone can use whichever one they want. It's not even like most people get their iPhone from their employers. People chose to enter this ecosystem as consenting adults in a competitive market, and it's one small purchase of a PHONE. If you made a mistake, it's one of the easiest things to replace. It's not like a car or a house or even a laptop. It's a phone.

I simply don't see why Apple shouldn't have the right to do things exactly as they want. I choose to "live there", and so do loads of other people.
This is what I posted on their blog post on the issue. I couldn't imagine anyone paying for this service in this day and age, especially since there doesn't appear to be any barrier-to-entry as to who can be listed. I scrolled for quite a bit and did not find a single designer or agency that was remotely professional.

Sortfolio is like the 99designs of finding a company to build your site, except they screw both sides of the invoice with a ridiculous price tag to list, which I can only assume lifts the price of the final product.
"It was actually after an inquiry from the International Telecommunications Union, which is a part of the United Nations, who actually asked us to start conducting research" ...Wow, this sounds serious, indeed.
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Their goal with the hieararchy is to create "table groups", ie. [regions of] groups of tables that stick together in terms of _sharding_, achieved by looking at the primary key (PK) of the root table in their case, which if you notice is shared by all its descendants.
In the article it states that the cross contamination arguments applied to the nasa rocks because the astronauts couldn't get the lid back on the sample containers. There could be contamination of the Russian samples, but the same argument about containers being improperly sealed doesn't apply unless there is some sort of evidence that it should.
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They were being read, even at the time. Although an NLP disaster at the time, it was a boon for programming languages. Old story in new package:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120529-a-cold-war-google-t...

(Chomsky and all the compiler people got their funding from there)
> But that was years ago.

It's a sad nuisance when people opine without checking what's actually shown on a public website.

It's sad to see fact based comments being down voted on HN.
Most "normal" people don't make enough money to set aside additional cash on top of the national insurance they already pay in part to cover unemployment benefits.

This is not "free money" - it is insurance payments that people in most cases have paid premiums for.

Why should people need to set aside additional money to avoid claiming benefits they are paying towards their entire working life?
I think it is like a wiki... It will fill up over time. Since people may actually like to use this for advertising sustainable products, they can possibly certify authenticity of data through 3rd party badges or something I hope. I wish this develops into a truly valuable resource. Someday it could have semantic web like queryability too :) so that we can really ask "good questions" about our supply chains.
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If the transaction processing costs were 0, do you suppose this payment system would still continue to not exist?
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I wouldn't call that "people depending on MY software everyday".

You and I wouldn't but the person who calls himself "one of the senior cadre who make the internet work" [paraphrasing there] certainly would.
What your forgetting is it's adaptive. That 10% random factor means it's constantly adding in new information. Also, you can graph trends over time so if you make a significant change you could reset the historical data to zero, but simply letting it run and it will adapt to the change.

If your really concerned about rapidly changing events just add a diminishing return. AKA multiply both the success and failure number by say .9999 after each test.
so 34/2760 = 34.9966/2760.724 on success or 33.9966/2760.724 on a failure.
> We need a structured approach to the serious acquisition of relevant skills, not tinkering

Because if anything is proven to get kids enthused about learning, it's a structured approach to learning serious skills. We can teach the kids CMMI, financial management, and marketing, so they can manage their outsourced programmers, or whatever it is we're all supposed to do.
Very true, now the question is who they need to acquire to gain that technology (Square? Maybe, maybe not). Paypal processed US$ 71 billion in 2009, an increase of 19 percent over the previous year. I don't know what they did in 2011, but it might be around $100B?

The question is not if online payments is able to work, it is a question of if Facebook is able to crack the nut and reduce the fraud by using real identities. There are real problems as you have pointed out, but (and it is still a very big BUT) IF (and that is a very big IF) they are able to pull it off it will be a game changer for them.
> It's about time he went to Sweden and faced the judicial system there.

But he already did. He stayed, he was questioned, and then he asked if he could leave Sweden, they said yes, and he left. Then another prosecutor unrelated to the original case wants him back for further questioning.

To be honest, I don't think it's an unpopular opinion and it was my opinion until I looked into things further. However, once you know all the facts, it seems very suspicious or, at least, unnecessary.
> how many contracts have promises of career advancement in them

It's extremely common in union contracts.
Looks like that's what Oracle has been working on lately: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/overview/...
A lot of research went into this post. It should help clear up a fair amount for website owners - especially those using GoSquared. As the cookies are only Category 2, compliance is relatively easy compared to other services where there may well have to be a notice for the user to opt-in to the cookies.
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It's the opposite: Facebook data can mostly help out with fraud (identifying, authenticating users) and is nearly useless for assessing credit risk.
That's the thing, working as one of the first people at the startup is a pretty intimate close team (or at least should be). There's a lot of "safer" and or more compelling ways to pull folks in.
a) Offer a moderately accelerated vesting schedule for early employees.
b) have the initial work be as a sort of moonlighting in terms of time commitment (more suitable / appropriate when either taking a bootstrapping approach and or building out the MVP.)
c) seriously, it's your first hire, you folks will likely (and perhaps unfortunately)spend more time together than you will with your respective significant others.

Point being, yes it's "just business", but if you're not setting things up to be awesome for that first hire, are they going to be sufficiently awesome do as to be worth spending so much time together? And if they're that great, how much do you wish to ensure that you guys are likely to choose to work together again?

I'm likely way over reacting, but still, it's a matter of some importance, exercising choice over who you spend time with, so why settle for less than awesome or treating them awesomely?!
From experience (and MMM), let's say writing the software takes X mandays of effort.

Making it run, and then run well inside a single organization with that organizations workload is 3x multiplier.

Turning it into something that can be sold to a large number of customers is at least another 3-10x multiplier.

One of the reasons Google is not releasing it is because they have no incentive to invest that 3-10x multiplier.
for Cocoa, may be. Seems like it is 6th cocoa producer in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean#World_production
>Credit card companies are big cartels with hefty fees to retailers, slow and unpredictable turnaround between when a payment is made, and when it gets to retailers bank, and infrastructure that's not well suited for micro payments, or peer to peer payments.

The consumer doesn't give two flying fucks about any of this. This is a very important point.
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I actually got into Software Engineering this way. I started off working as a Systems Administrator, which required me to script jobs on servers/clients and, eventually, I inherited the entire intranet for the company which forced me to learn PHP and Java. Prior to this, I mostly dabbled in HTML, CSS, etc. since I was a teenager. Since this, however, I have completed my Computer Science degree (while still working) and learn new languages, technologies and methodologies mostly from online documentation and tutorials. I went from being a low-level sysadmin to a senior software engineer to a program manager for software engineering within a span of four years by spending every free moment I had learning, adapting and experimenting with new apps.
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