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It is in most of the world. You're presumably living on planet Valley?
the people you want to hire don't need to be told this
Maybe the market is small enough, and the transactions small enough, that the competent hackers are attacking other systems.
the answer is you're not underpaid and shouldn't feel bad about your salary, but you could make more if you negotiate w/ leverage or take a risk on independent contracting @ a high hourly rate.

above 100k is when negotiating skills and business skill start surpassing technical skills as more important for marginal gains in salary.
Resource Acquisition is Initialization, so just wait for current trends to go out of scope and you'll enjoy automatic, orderly and all but guaranteed destruction of kulaks and unfoobers.
The underlying issue is that broadcasters are creating an artificial scarcity to drive demand. I find that to be more unethical than exploiting a loophole.
OK, your personal anecdote compared to mine:

If I sleep for 5 hrs, I'm completely fine. I can do that for days on end.
If I sleep for 9 hrs, I'm completely fine as well.

The reality, and from what I've read by cognitive scientists (there are a few), there is no set number of hours of sleep a person needs. For the right person 5 hours is great. For others it isn't.
Which is a whole lot better than the crap "common wisdom" of EVERYONE NEED 8 HOURS OF SLEEP that is thrown out for days on end.

Also, never take personal anecdote seriously. Anecdotes will only lead to worse science, not better.
As someone who's recruited heavily at the entry level, you're mistaken. Even substantial number of computer science graduates lack the capability of basic coding (i.e. "here's the detailed specification of this function; go implement it"). There is substantially more demand than available talent.

SF, New York, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc. all have huge talent shortages. Even developer markets that were relatively soft in the past such as Poland and India are starting to become competitive as the war for talent becomes more global.
>I'm curious about what you think Stallman's purpose is here?

I'm assuming he's taking a principled stand based on what he believes to be injustices carried out by Apple, and trying to convince others to do the same. Good for him.
Can't we just assimilate them?
The space-time diagrams are a great visualization tool for various display artifacts.
I'd say your salary is not insanely unreasonable. The bigger question is: do you enjoy working for the company?
The mere practice of referring to service staff as "geniuses" is dishonest already.

hahaha! thats the truth!
You said you're using ESXi? The Windows virtual servers won't care whether they are sitting on a LUN or NFS. Why do you have to use iSCSI? Or SAN block replication for that matter?
If you think you need to use iSCSI, why don't you use it for some of your storage and NFS for parts that require storage beyond 2TB?
Copyright is an state enforced monopoly, created in 18th century for 18th century society and their goals. Nowhere does it even try to justify such monopoly by wordings of government intervention to prevent unfair competition or free-riding. In the several hundred years since them, no change to the basic fundamentals of the law has had any change, nor has any justification been added.

Most anti-copyright folks such as you describe them would welcome stated goals. Preventing unfair competition by state intervention is a fine goal. Lets do that, but then lets also apply 21st century governmental procedure rather than 18th century ones. The steps are quite easy: First you do a cost-benefit analyses such as determining cost and benefit. You ask what the cost to society is. Then you ask questions like how much protections vs how much costs. Is 3 years enough to prevent 90% of the unfair competition? Would 2 more years make that number reach 99%? Maybe a whole 10 years for special products needing special state attention?

Cost-benefit analyses. A tool made in the 19th century, was the tool that made 20th century government, and the only two laws not still using it is copyright and patent law. There is nothing to justify such bad use of state power to intervene in the market.
You didn't properly grok my comment

what is the best model to make sure you can benefit the most from that?

So, how much are you going to charge for iMurder?

To clarify, do you think you'll make more money in your life giving it away for free or selling it?
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This isn't really accurate. Bastiat, even Adam Smith, explored these concepts in fair depth well before 1937. On top of that, trade simply isn't that complicated. We've been doing it for thousands and thousands of years. I think it has been pretty clear to any ancient Egyptian or Greek farmer, medieval peasant, or Bedouin trader that if the king guaranteed to give some people gold for as much product as they could produce, no matter what, that those people would begin producing as much product as they could, regardless of whether that product was needed or useful.
I do not think that 3d printing is really the game-changer that people think that it is. You can already make things at home, even copying industrial designs. For example, lots of people seem to be concerned about the implications of printable guns, but making your own guns can already be done with a surprisingly modest collection of machining tools, and done better with those tools to boot. Much more accessible and popular, you can copy clothing patterns with modest sewing skills and equipment that you can pick up at nearly any yardsale. (In fact, if I am not mistaken, DRM has already reared its ugly head in some particular niches of fashion...). I would even go so far as to say that printing your own car will be unpopular/uncommon for the exact same reasons that sewing your own clothing is currently unpopular/uncommon (it will be labor intensive, take a lot of space, and acquiring the correct materials will be a chore).

My hope would be that everyone keeps a level head about 3d printing and thinks before going nuclear^W legal.

In answer to your question "What happens when it does become possible to download and print cars?": barring hyperactive lawyers overreacting, probably very little of any consequence.
The only real progress and persist notice I recall reading about -- and perhaps it even was on HN -- was when a private company's trademark lawyers sent a note saying, in response to a fairly cutting parody, "You aren't allowed to use our trademark without permission -- so we hereby grant you permission."

At least, that was the general idea. Obviously, I've forgotten the details. Included was some self-congratulation about a company-wide sense of humor.
Protobufs + Capabilities = Cap'n Proto
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> The level of discourse was raised

Uh, I would beg to differ. It's stayed about the same, but there's more a lot more hate motivating everything. Back in 1989, there was still such a thing as civil discourse. Now disingenuously veiled hate speech is the norm, with the noise being louder the more important the issue is to society.

If discourse is the lifeblood of our body politic, our body politic is an undead zombie.

Sorry. It's just depressing out there.

(It used to be that Micro$oft was just a joke. It wasn't until well after HN that it somehow became "offensive.")
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Are there companies who hire experienced engineers as interns? Because $7000/month is hell of a lot more than I will ever see in my lifetime.
That is probably the worst book "review" I have ever read: "Every page uses up almost the entire page and contains charts, tables and text in generous amounts."

W.T.F.!

Completely and utterly worthless.
> They have one test, the market has another.

This is actually one of the biggest things I appreciate from studying Marx: the reminder that 'use-value'[1] and 'exchange-value'[2] are two, separate things, and while I generally want things based on how I can use them, the market doesn't care about that at all.

Startups would be wise to heed Marx's words here, and remember this difference. Your job as a startup is to make money, which means producing something that has a high exchange-value. Don't let your own notions of use-value blind you to what the market cares about: exchange value. How many times have I said "That idea is stupid, I'd never use that" and then it became a smashing, overnight success? Too many to count.

1: Basically, "how useful is this thing to me?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_value

2: Basically, "how much could I sell this for?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_value
You are truly a patient man.
Should be "proceed and persist". It fits better both in meaning and in rhyme.
I'd say you're in the ballpark.

I live in Seattle, where cost of living is lower (although still pretty expensive).

People I know with similar experience make less than you (3-5k less) and work for major software companies. Given the difference in the cost of living, I would say your numbers are about right. It's possible that since your company is less established (late stage startup) they might not pay quite as well as someplace like Google or Microsoft.
The original paper on Mathematics was able to appeal to a long history where mathematical advances led to new discoveries in science, particularly physics. This blog post simply borrows the phrase while failing to demonstrate any sort of effectiveness for TDD. How long must we endure programming cults with no science behind them?
This is a valid point. While I won't dive into the qualms that stem from pharma companies funding and subsequently selectively choosing their trials, the case with BiDil is particularly curious [1].

When BiDil was patented, studies were carried out using _only_ African-American subjects, such that the race-specific efficacy was never actually tested. As such, the basis for the entire patent, which hinged on race specificity, has been challenged by some in the field. In my post above there's a link to a paper that came out one of the trials.

[1] - If you're interested, Ben Goldacre has a really interesting talk on the subject.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_kno...
>there is no drug-relavent biological basis for race.

Try telling that to people with sickle-cell anemia.
TDD aside, I'm personally interested in any testing approaches that apply to user interaction.
> Rockstars are a myth

No they are not. One would think it's easy to find smart people who can learn new things, but I've dealt with both young and senior developers (by senior I mean writing code 15+ years) and was amazed how most of them feel comfortable being completely ignorant of new technologies/libraries/frameworks/best practices/whatever.

I've met a rockstar the other day, and could feel him being the one I'd hire immediately. It happens once or twice a year for me.

You might not call them rockstars, but in my book, they are.
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Monetary economists have a measure called velocity, which is "the average frequency with which a unit of money is spent on new goods and services produced domestically in a specific period of time. Velocity has to do with the amount of economic activity associated with a given money supply." [1] It can be thought of as the "rate of turnover in the money supply" [2]. It is a good indicator of the "health" of a currency.

The annualised velocity of the M2 Money Stock for Q4 2012 2 was 6.152 [2]. That is, the average dollar in the form of notes and coins in circulation (M0), traveller's cheques, checking account/demand deposits, savings deposits, time deposits/CDs under $100 000, and individuals' money market deposits was spent 1.538 times on economically useful activities in the fourth quarter of last year.

The annualised velocity of the Bitcoin Money Stock for Q4 2012 was 1.27. That is, the average Bitcoin in existence was transacted 0.32 times in the last 90 days of 2012. This includes economically useless transfer payments, i.e. transactions not involving the exchange of real goods or services, as well as economically useless hoarded or lost coins, i.e. Bitcoins not in circulation and so less a unit of "money" than a speculative asset (in the case of hoarding). Since this is a ratio, the two balance out, though it is still biased to the downside. For the 30 days ending on 29 March 2013, it was 1.86. Here is what it has been doing since February 2009 [3].

More encouragingly, Bitcoin Velocity has quadrupled YoY. M2 Velocity declined 4% over the same time. I would thus offer, very tentatively, that there is a substantial portion of the Bitcoin economy involved in real transactions (versus financial ones, e.g. trading on an exchange).

Curiously, yet to emerge (to my knowledge [EDIT: which was wrong]) is a majour vendor of Bitcoin mining equipment that accepts Bitcoin as a mode of payment. If that were to happen, the Bitcoin economy would have an endogenous "risk-free rate" in the form of mining yields, with power companies serving as the most salient factor. If it were not for the ceiling on the number of Bitcoins which can come into existence, it could very well have been the first currency pseudo-denominated in energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

[2] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V?cid=32242

[3] http://imgur.com/f7oFZKb Annualised Bitcoin Velocity, Feb 2009 - March 2013
I have read that 30% of Standford CS freshmen change majors or dropout because they don't get programming at all. Do you see such a thing in recruiting? That you fear the hire doesn't actually understand the reasoning of algorithms and basic programming structures, and is maybe the type who bullheaded through college memorizing solutions as recipes?
I ran into the same issue. I'm not sure why it's so slow but I contacted them directly and they bumped my import to the head of the queue. I would recommend doing that. The site may be slow but at least their support is responsive.

They also had some serious UI slowdowns for the first couple of days but it is better now. I've also noticed that the feeds don't update as rapidly, but that will probably improve over time and it's mostly only noticeable when compared directly to Google Reader.
> Glencore owns farms, mines, and production facilities around the world

How is this evidence against my point? De Beers does the same with diamonds. Looks like they can manipulate prices easily enough.

My argument against yours cannot be taken as me stating that central planning is good - but merely that derivative markets can become bad. Just because I hold a critical a position on a thing, it does not necessarily mean that I'm advocating for the use of an opposing thing. If I criticise capitalism for doing such and such - it does not follow that I advocate replacing capitalism with communism/socialism to fix such and such.

I like derivatives and financial markets just as much as the next guy - but only when they are used properly - to reduce, and not to increase risk.
No. The unfooable barness of baz is a Law of Nature.
My excuse for not applying is that I'm effectively locked into my current job for the next year or so, and after that I will probably remain locked in due to the difference in medical benefits, and the possibility of paid retirement within a short 8-10 years after that.

I've always wondered what might have been though... I had received a very tentative hiring offer from someone at Intel about 9 years ago... which had been just a few weeks after I'd finally joined the nuclear Navy.
>Don't let your own notions of use-value blind you to what the market cares about: exchange value.

This has been the key lesson of my career as a programmer and entrepreneur. Reading Marx made me a better capitalist.

I tell people that ask for book recommendations to read Marx all the time and they sneer at me even though they know I'm not a Marxist.
There is then the other scenario when candidates put out a well thought out letter after few hours and only to hear no response, black hole. I, for one, do not really get systems like jobvite and no email and direct human contact for hiring developers who you "value".
No url ?
An artificial scarcity of what? The country is literally flooded with broadcast TV.
The SIM is actually a little digital fortress. SIM Toolkit Applications are quite secure and it's not just a matter of intercepting the air-interface data and breaking A5/1.
Ask HN: How to increase revenue on my site (Tekkenpedia)?
I've been running a wiki about the videogame "Tekken" for around seven years.

A few details about it:

- Been running for 7 years

- 1000's of pages of content

- Regular core of people contributing to it.

- 600,000 page views per month

- 79,000 uniques per month

- 119,000 visitors per month

At the moment I'm not running any ads but with Adsense I make an alright amount (can't say exactly how much without violating the TOS). Enough to pay for the server hosting.

What I want to know: is Adsense the best option? Should I be looking at other networks or advertising methods?

I want to balance how much money I make with how much I annoy people using the site :)

Full stats report here:

http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/combined_document.pdf
Plenty of places with good teams may have poor hiring practices.
what version/browser?
Pune, India - Fulltime.

Co-Founder of Styloot.com here.

Styloot.com, is a visual search engine for fashion. At 700,000 skus and 4000+ brands, we carry slightly more women apparel than Amazon and twice as many shoes as Zappos.

We are looking to hire Python, Javascript and Front End developers.

You will be working directly with the product and will be making decisions that directly influence the site.

You must love coding - everything else we can work around.
You must have a github repo that you are proud of. Email us if interested - jobs at styloot.com.
I agree with most of what you said, but you accuse me of not thinking of the RoR developer community, which is false. My issue lies with extremely critical community leaders suddenly disappearing into the shadows. If you beat others up, expect the same, is all. I don't relish the idea of picking apart the community's hard work, but I do expect some fairness in the dialog.
Ubuntu Community Code of Conduct:
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct

Fedora Community Code of Conduct:
http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Debian Mailing List Code of Conduct:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

Mandrivia Code of Conduct:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Code_of_Conduct
what "just being bad"?

Stallman's rant or the lack of patching a hole for 3 years by Apple?
The deflationary nature of bitcoin is by design, yes, but the thing with cryptocurrencies is - if it's somehow unsucessful, people can either ditch the currency and make a new one, or if most of the miners agree by consensu, even change the bitcoin protocol with its deflationary nature itself.

For example, if the economy will be in such a terrible state thanks to the deflation, somebody can do a fork of bitcoin that will not have halved mining reward (and thus not having finite number of bitcoins in existence), and if the miners will jump to this new version (and probably clients, too, not sure about that), this new currency will be used as easily as the old bitcoin.

If I am wrong technically, please correct me.

The nice thing about bitcoin is - nobody enforces anything.
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Drug relevant basis here is defined by whether or not the color of one's skin alters the efficacy of a particular drug.

Sickle-cell anemia is perpetuated by a trait that appears with strong correlation to the traits that create dark skin pigmentation. IE) Black people are more likely to carry the sickle-cell anemia trait. However, the color of a person's skin does not contribute to the sickle-cell anemia pathology in any way, it is merely correlated to the presence of sickle-cell trait. A light skinned person with sickle-cell anemia responds to treatment in the same manner as a dark skinned person, the dark skinned person is merely more likely to develop the pathology due to genetic correlation.

The same logic applies to this case-study, if it were not compounded by various other idiosyncrasies. The color of a person's skin (what we use to empirically determine race) does not change the effectiveness of most drug agents, and therefore is not biologically relavent in a pharmacological context.
You convince your loved ones to switch to something else. If they won't, then you must realize that, deep in your heart, you love freedom more than you love your loved ones, and must switch to non-video calls or other methods of communication.
The best use for this is if you wanted to have content, other than your usual content, that is exclusive to fans that specifically subscribe to you on YouTube.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Game of Thrones isn't broadcast over the air.
I agree, it is normal to mutate a variable within the loop. I find code more comfortable to maintain when the side effects are reduced. Add the pipeline variable to the .reduce:

var pipeline = $.Deferred().resolve();
$('[id^=row]').toArray().reduce(function(l,r){
return l.pipe(function(){
return $(r).animate({opacity:opacity}, 100);
});
}, pipeline);

But, more than avoiding mutations, thinking of the loop as a .reduce made it easier for me to write the code. The reduce has a semantic goal of computing one value out of the array, besides explicitly handling intermediate results, e.g. in this case, you can think about the .reduce as computation of a single deferred that will fire when everything completes, whereas you can get to the same effect with the .each loop by using the pipeline variable.

var alldone = $('[id^=row]').toArray().reduce(function(l,r){
return l.pipe(function(){
return $(r).animate({opacity:opacity}, 100);
});
}, $.Deferred().resolve());

The conceptual boundary between .each and .reduce is blurred due to the two-phase nature of this code, i.e. the outer function runs as soon as the execution hits the statement and traverses all the elements, and the inner function runs as the deferred chain fires and consumes the deferreds. .reduce allowed me to think both the inner and outer functions to run as a reduction; even though the outer is really a loop.

Interesting thing about code reviews: 10% of the code generates 90% of the discussion.
I'm aware of the existence of a business school which was until recently was majorly staffed by Marxists. That was basically their response as well. "We know capitalism better than anyone, all we do is study it."

I've found that it's a bit better to recommend "Value, Price, and Profit"[1] rather than Capital I because it gives you the gist of the most important part (the first three chapters) while being much smaller and a little less dry.

1: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-...
And of course there are the cotton subsidies that cost West African cotton farmers millions of dollars every year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/15/cotton-sub...
"Only those with the link can access it" seems to show a basic misunderstanding about how the web works...