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Your Challenges

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* Understand and practice the role of DevOps by reading and modifying code as needed

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* Data stores—architecture and management (MongoDB, Postgres, etc.)

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We are a venture funded, Y Combinator-backed, engineering-driven startup in SoMA, San Francisco. Our goal is to serve, route, or analyze every photo and video on the web. We are a small team of mostly engineers and growing, but are already collecting and serving photos and videos for huge, paying customers including NBC News, TNT, Taylormade, Golf Digest, Lucky Magazine, Saks, and many more.

We have a fast-paced and fun team and a highly collaborative culture. We're looking for a badass Lead DevOps Engineer to address the challenges of building an internet-scale platform. You'll join a growing team solving extremely challenging engineering and operational issues. You'll be in charge of all of our development and production environments and software deployments.

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> Apparently Laos is the most bombed country in the world

Yep that is unfortunately true, and many people there are still suffering from this today. The famed Ho Chi Minh Trail went primarily through eastern Laos as well. It's such a shame, Laos is a wonderful, beautiful country full of good people who were never involved in any conflict.
Oh don't 'dude' me over his sloppy grab bag of complaints. A pretty good case could be made that Apple's bifurcation of the MacBook Pro line was unnecessary - while they clearly can't manufacture Retina displays in adequate volume and a default SSD would slay margins, it could have been done. They could have kept the same 0.91" chassis and given everyone all the HDD/optical/port goodies they wanted...

...except with significantly worse battery life trying to keep up with the insane thermal load of a panel demanding next-level GPU performance. Then everyone would be disappointed, instead of just one guy on HN.

In two years, virtually everything on the market is going to be "basically just an AIR with a higher resolution display". Get cozy with the idea.
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Well up to iOS3.x at least it always worked as far as I can remember. I actually like its interface quite a bit, it's fast and clean - shame it's so useless.
Once I got past the first lesson in Chrome, I'm now able to progress in Firefox like I wanted to in the first place.
Pardon my naivety, but why would a third party want to set bots onto Facebook ads? I guess one could hope to exhaust a competitor's marketing budget, but surely this isn't an established tactic.

Even more Machiavellian would be Google doing it to discredit Facebook's entry into the advertising business. I doubt this because they've got too much to lose - if they were discovered, it would seriously hurt their "don't be evil" reputation, which is worth billions to them. And just imagine the anti-trust suit...

Although Facebook stands to gain the most from this, my argument about reputation damage applies there too. So who is paying for the bots?
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In re: Netflix Privacy Litigation
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A response from FB: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook...

"There must have been miscommunication with Limited Run"

"Facebook says it is investigating claims made by Musician site Limited Run early Monday regarding ad clicks by bots."

"We're currently investigating their claims," a spokeswoman for the company said in an email. "For their issue with the Page name change, there seems to be some sort of miscommunication. We do not charge Pages to have their names changed. Our team is reaching out about this now."
It sounds like you don't need to go to that much hassle currently, but even that rigmarole is simple enough to combat. The user account should be real, the usage real (comments, photos, messages back and forth) and the friends also real. False positive spam Ids are OK, that will lower your revenue but won't constitute fraud with your customers. Put up a test for uses you think are spamming, the test they already do of identifying photos of your friends would be a good one.

Large numbers of real looking fake accounts should be hard to keep up.
You can turn off cache in developer tools, which has saved my sanity. Nothing else is consistent.
Transparently false: this thread's length is measurably finite.
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I couldn't access the site for a few days (error 502) in Vancouver. Probably unrelated?
I was thinking someone must have unleashed the simian army: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
Not really — an agent who doesn't get you gigs still gets a cut. Having an agent doesn't always open doors or get you more money.
"Since it's logically impossible to have one consistent ontology( Incompleteness Theorem )..."

This pings right at an interest area of mine. Can you point to any references you know on the subject? Particularly cross-domain morphisms?
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We've taken the probe launching approach for the last fifty years. Besides SpaceX, launch tech hasn't really advanced since then which really disproves your thesis.

We must stop our collective procrastination. Human spaceflight is the ultimate forcing function.
Guh, those were some of the absolute shittiest portables Apple ever put out. Even after the discoloring plasticizers were worked out, almost every single one of them saw the topcase flake and crack in normal use. Performance was poor out of the box, the screens were garbage, and the bottom looked bad after only moderate use.
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My favorite mobile HN thing is http://ihackernews.com -- not an app, but still great.

For TechMeme, have you tried using Google Currents?
10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
There is now a link that says "Share" next to my search results, so I can still post things to my G+ wall. Is that a lot different than +1?
Re: images over HTTPS; most of the attacks involve an active MITM, so it's a question of how seriously you take that threat. Usually, most people ignore this scenario until it gets automated via "coffee shop network attack tools" like firesheep or sslstrip.

As a practical matter, if you embed http images in your HTTPs page I believe you will get mixed content warnings in some browsers. See e.g: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3278341/help-with-ssl-vul...

Another strike against non HTTPs images is that if you don't have the 'secure' flag set on your cookies, these may get sent with requests, compromising your users' sessions. I guess you could consider not setting this cookie flag as a separate issue. Note that this is a passive threat, exploitable via sniffing.

Thirdly, an active MITM can return any MIME type in response to your <img src> link; you now have to be 100% sure that no browsers will try to process a malicious response of any type when it gets one instead of an image. Probably OK, but are you absolutely 100% sure? What about indefinitely, as browsers implement new features?

Fourthly, think about all the creative ways a malicious user could embed instructions or change the appearance of your site by substituting arbitrary image content. Also note that SVGs can run javascript. One could change an image to be an ad or promotion, for example, to convince the user to carry out an action.

I wouldn't neccesarily follow facebook's lead on security practices.

Modern thinking is that if you care about SSL at all, you should force SSL for everything. For example if your "secure banking site" has an HTTP landing page, an active MITM will just sslstrip the customers and get them to enter their password in the wrong box.

This is why we have HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) header, and why sites that care deeply about security (gmail, paypal, lastpass, etc) use it. (See http://www.chromium.org/sts).
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Oh god, the file.read() then write to response method..

At least you should try `sendfile`.
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StockTwits founder “disappointed” that Twitter is “hijacking” his idea
Wanted to edit but server was down and now I cannot edit anymore: s/shoot/shout/ s/Ago/And s/legal/lethal
Wonder how they will spin this.
First they try the silence mode, see if it dies out if they give no attention.
Then deny it was them and they were unaware of the problem BUT they are working on something that will totally eradicate said problem and of course more but we can't give details on us.
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The most devastating critique I saw of these ads is that it seems like they could easily have been Best Buy ads for Geek Squad. You and I might be able to think of a hundred reasons why it might be more sensible to entrust your computer problems to an Apple Genius than to a member of the Geek Squad, but if the target is indeed people without any of this knowledge, how well do you think that Apple communicated that the value they provide is leagues beyond Best Buy?
No, it can discriminate on other protected statuses as long as you can prove that the test has a direct correlation to work performance. (Actually, the decisions require 'a strong basis in evidence' of 'business necessity', which you would demonstrate by showing a strong correlation.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano for the state of the art in I/O psych/job placement/etc.
I would be really interested to see some analysis on the latest ~50m accounts because I've noticed an insane amount of bot accounts recently. They all follow the same pattern: Never tweet (or tweet once), follow ~2000 people and are being followed by ~3 and have a bio + avatar. They're used by the Twitter follower selling companies and there's an absolute metric fucktonne of these accounts, some examples of such accounts:

http://twitter.com/Yahairayqlcd
http://twitter.com/Kenyetta992
http://twitter.com/Jade_482
http://twitter.com/Mozella_nxi
http://twitter.com/Alane508

It's becoming a really big problem, every day I come across accounts that have bought followers\* (a few belonging to HN users) and it's... disappointing. Inevitable, but disappointing. I started putting together a website for checking if someone had bought their followers but haven't found the desire to finish it yet, but there are so many that do it, anywhere from purchasing 4,000 to 80,000 followers which can be done for ~$300.

I've been reporting the people doing this to Twitter but nothing has been done about it, ultimately it looks good for Twitter metrics so I doubt they care that there are people with 80k fake followers, that's an extra 80k users for their investors to salivate over.

As a side note, it's fun to pick out a random account (like those listed above) and see who they're following, there are some people you'd not expect to be purchasing followers that are. An alternate theory is that Twitter is responsible (after all, how can they not detect these obvious bots?) but I can't see why... well I can, but I don't think they would.

*I'm probably alone in this but people that buy followers really irk me because I like numbers to be accurate. The site I started making had a directory of people that bought followers, I'm wondering if I should finish it up, I figure it would be interesting for people to see that a large number of "media personalities" are just buying up their followers.
From the logs it seems to me it doesn't do a DELETE and sends a "GET (from cache)" type of request
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This is some great insight into the world that:

- doesn't have the luxury of having code that's not backwards compatible,

- code that can't be thrown out every 3 years

- code that has been around for more than 5 years and isn't going away
Quid pro quo is a red herring. Conflicts of interest rarely work that way. They are more subtle than that, so we can keep our self-image of being neutral when in fact our actions have been corrupted. There is much experimental work being done on this. Here is a (long, but relevant) quote from a recent post by Dan Ariely on the topic:

The real issue here is that people don’t understand how profound the
problem of conflicts of interest really is, and how easy it is to buy
people. Doctors on Pfizer’s payroll may think they’re not being
influenced by the drug maker — “I can still be objective!” they’ll say
— but in reality, it’s very hard for us not to be swayed by
money. Even minor amounts of it. Or gifts. Studies have found that
doctors who receive free lunches or samples from pharmaceutical reps
end up prescribing more of the company’s drugs afterwards. It’s just
a fact of human life: we are compelled to reciprocate favors, and an
ingrained inability to disregard what’s in our financial interest. As
author Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to
understand something when his salary depends upon his not
understanding it.” http://danariely.com/2012/07/09/disclosure-not-good-enough/

As I understand it, the experimental evidence is clear that measures like self-regulation, intuitive judgement, and disclosure are nowhere near sufficient to prevent the corrupting effects of conflicts of interest. What we need are new, simple rules grounded in the empirical findings. We're a long way from that, and it seems that such rules are likely to seem pretty extreme by today's standards, but as long as the science continues to pile up this way it seems like we will eventually have a shot at cleaning things up.
It's sad for Yahoo that he's leaving, as his experience really would be complementary to Mayer's (media, advertising, familiar with Yahoo!, ...). I'm sure he felt bad on being passed over for CEO, but he would have been great as head of the media part of the business, which IMO is worth at least half of the CEO's compensation.
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Quite interesting top comment on Reddit thread
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xel55/startup_cl...

"I can confirm this. I used Facebook to advertise my page and went from ~2000 fans to over 6000 within several months. Awesome, right?
Wrong.
I thought it was weird that the new fans would never, EVER interact with the pages. So I started stalking their profiles. Guess what?
Bots/hijacked accounts/fake accounts. How do I know? Many of them have NO friends. Then I noticed something really scary...repeats. Actual pictures showing up more than once for new likes.
Very, very few of the accounts were from the USA.
I started casually messaging the accounts that looked suspicious. Not a single one with no friends responded. Out the ones that looked legitimate (although with a list of likes that is in the thousands), only a handful replied, and 100% of those people confirmed they found my page through affiliated sites, and not through Facebook itself.
I ended the ad program recently and the bots stopped.
tl;dr: Do not, under any circumstance, advertise with Facebook. They will feed you fake likes. If you want fake likes, use a site like fiverr to generate them, it's way cheaper and yields identical results."
Then count me as an addict. I have HN as a tab.
A lot of this is (at least aspirationally) table stakes for modern software development, but for those of us who have seen the sausage get made, a) a lot of the Well-Known Best Practices (TM) are not actually observed at a lot of companies, even with arbitrarily high levels of sophistication and resources available and b) they really do save metric tonnes of effort at scale. One of the reasons why seemingly trivial, clearly beneficial changes don't get adopted at some companies is that, at certain scales, it's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. (Any process improvement which takes an engineer one day worth of productivity to adjust to costs Intuit several million dollars. Something which a startup could decide on in a week -- "We should switch to git and then have per-team branches with integration at..." -- is probably an $X00 million project there and if it failed would be catastrophic. You might blow the shipping schedule on Quickbooks, and if that misses tax season, "oh dear.")

It's always interesting how the larger Fortune 500 software companies adopt practices associated with teeny-tiny little software firms, and vice versa.
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Au contraire. I give you Intel vs. Hamidi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corp._v._Hamidi
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Lots of people use Google as the gateway to their favorite sites.
A lot from Techcrunch today --->
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/mashape-public-launch
Yes, since efficiency is the other (oft neglected) half of the sustainable energy equation. A better average measure is the cost per unit of work performed, rather than the cost of the energy input. For example, higher energy prices might make me buy a more efficient refrigerator, meaning the end result, keeping my food cold, still costs about the same.
I agree completely. The truth is that there are simply techniques that have been finely crafted over decades that you are simply unlikely to discover from your own hacking. There are algorithms that are subtle and the product of pure academic research. For example, a self-taught hacker probably wouldn't even know that there are methods to build a self-balancing binary tree. This is because, in the course of your own hacking projects, you may never encounter datasets that are large enough and ill-conditioned enough for it to matter whether you used a self-balancing node insert algorithm or the standard algorithm that any clever highschool student could roll up. How many self-taught guys can code quickly and even bug-free, yet don't know that there are better algorithms for sorting than bubble-sort? These are the type of things that someone with a formal education would be aware of, even if they couldn't code the algorithms themselves or very well.

I used to think that just being a good hacker was all it took to be a good developer but the fact is that you don't know what you don't know. There are things that you are forced to learn in academic courses that you may not have chosen on your own but which end up being valuable in unpredictable ways.
Yes, we're all too dumb to understand your brilliance. Couldn't possibly be the fault of your analogy.
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Not sure, GTalk the Windows app at least is not compatible and the browser plugin seems not to be either, because Google uses a pre-standard version of Jingle that is not supported by Gajim. They claimed to update the client.. some years ago, nothing happened.
Emphasis on the "aspirationally" -- it really appears not to be how most companies do things, despite overwhelming evidence that doing these things work.
Ask HN: Personalization using Social Media
Hi all! I am working on a project where I need to look at the possibilities of using social media to personalize my website. Are there any existing websites (e-commerce or otherwise) that are using customer's social media information to personalize the user experience? Is there any research on a similar topic?

Thanks a lot!
Article raises a very fair point and I can apprecieate the frustration of how a company like Apple could step backwards on a design issue like this. Can almost imagine a fly landing on it and disconecting your power cord; Which would make for a funny video on youtube if anything.

The new connector does seem to look like a iPhone/iPad/iPod )iP[hao][do][n ][e ]) dock connector from the picture, at least from a physical appearance casing wise. Do wonder if a similiar type of connector will be used on the new iP toys that Apple are making and if this connector is more suited to a smaller device.

Still, be interested how this progresses and expect lots of wonderful non-duct tape approaches. Also do wonder if this is a faulty batch of connectors that have weak magnets due to shipping/handerling in production as we all know a magnet that is hit does tend to lose its strength and in that if this is the case. Time will tell.
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While I can sympathise to a certain extent, the ignorance of the StockTwits founder makes it hard to completely sympathise for honestly thinking that a company wouldn't take a money making idea using its platform and bake it in to the service. It's the same problem people complain of in the Apple app store, numerous times developers have cried foul over Apple stealing their idea for themselves.

I definitely agree it's not ideal and will stifle innovation, but when you're as big as Twitter or Apple you can afford to lose a few developers using your platform without any recourse.
Somehow I lost the ability to remove sites completely from my searches. Now that would be useful.
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1. We don't gather photos, we give the sets of prepared textures to users, so they can customize this textures and apply it to the building.
2. We will pre-moderate building models. First time we will do it by ourselves, then active users will have a chance to become a moderator.
3. We don't actually like "tags" and don't want to add it to our map but if graffiti is really cool like Banksy's works, we will add it. :)