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One thing I've noticed about large organizations is that they pay more. Pay is set in a structured way with regular pay rises, so you can just sit tight and watch it rise.

Additionally, you can move around without leaving the company. Why is that important? Check the graph from the long term unemployment article[1]. Personally, I like to move every 2 years, so that's kind of important.

I'm going to write about something of personal interest now. Downvote away. It's a bit UK specific.

Something I've noticed, looking at the people I graduated with 8 years ago, is that the ones who have done well went to work for large companies. They did a grad scheme, stayed in the role after it had finished, and just sat tight, maybe moving a couple of times within the company.

They earn a multiple of those that didn't - the PHDs, sure that's expected, but also much more than the freelancers and those who have hopped between small programming houses. Certainly more than people who did something fashionable, like fashion, the arts, or teaching English abroad.

The funny thing is that those left behind don't have an opportunity to get on that gravy train now. Grad programs are for recent graduates. Experienced hires from companies the recruiter has heard of get first place.

Another effect (an this is UK specific) has been in mortgages. Since 2008, you need to save maybe 70k dollars in order to get one. That's a full years pay for a software engineer. 4 if you count tax. But rents are double or triple mortgage interest, so unless you already have one, you won't save that.

So we have this widening wealth gap between those who got onto, and stayed in, a graduate program 2008, and the rest. It will really be quite something in future.

The BBC did some analysis where they collected data about the population (wealth, cultural signifier), and clustered it. They found 7 distinct clusters, and decided to invent a new 'social class', called 'emergent service workers'. This turned out to mean 'young people who graduated since 2008'. I suspect they will be a generation of lifetime renters, doing similar jobs for a little less money than their peers 2 years older (starting salary has a compounded effect, and is suppressed by maybe 1/4 right now).

I don't really see this in the press. As usual, they don't notice things.

We live as ever in interesting times.

[1]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/LongTer...
[2] www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class
when I have some time and can dig out my pulse oximeter, I'll see if I can hack it in for comparison. Based on trying to take my pulse manually it certainly seemed in the ballpark, and got even better/stronger locked results from using my thumb ~5-10cm from the camera.

It seems quite sensitive to image saturation for losing lock though.
Sounds like a good plan to me! I'd just like to add that the first rule of Monkey Island 3a is that you don't talk about Monkey Island 3a. Shhhhhhhhh!
Hey - its the Daily Mail - next week - Beetroot causes (or possible cures - always random) cancer.

We Brits apologise for this blot upon the landscape masquerading as a newspaper.
Well, one is more likely to mention an organization they know something about than one they don't, right?
Interesting. Had to google it: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bad

'Bad' is a pretty fundamental word in our language not easily removed. 'Barbaric' is different. We also don't sling around 'gay', 'retard', and 'ching chong'.
Get Win + Visual Studio + ReSharper. You are seriously missing out. Good language choice though.
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Right now, we (OkCupid) don't hold assets in BTC. It's converted immediately to USD, in which we denominate the original prices. The BTC price fluctuates with the exchange rate.
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Depends what their aim is. If the aim is to kill maximum people then yes, they were lousy bombers. If their aim was to cause fear and disruption by demonstrating the ability to detonate two explosive devices within seconds of each other, at a very busy location that's had some security screening, but with the advantage of not killing many people - then they succeeded.
I see it as just being a brand.

Some of the old magazine publishers are exploiting their brands by having stables of people throwing up whatever topical crap pops into their brain, never mind quality or accuracy, so there is clearly some market for topical writing (seems to me the tendency for articles to occasionally get huge attention drives posting lots of articles).

If Medium can build a brand around having decent recent articles, more power to them (I see svbtle as the same thing, with different ideas about curation).
FFS, I was secretly hoping for a tiny kickstarter link at the bottom.
Perhaps stage lighting could be used to illuminate the crowd...green lighting perhaps? :)
>You are assuming that the curve of ability distribution is equal between the sexes, i.e. that X% of male pitches and X% of female pitches would be "good".

No, I'm not taking this for granted.

I even stated: "And that's assuming (and it's not guaranteed by any law of physics) that men and women Python programmers, in aggregate, are equally good and passionate with Python and doing conference worthy stuff with it."

>(Or, the inflammatory counter, what if women just aren't good at math and should be shopping instead - shifting it the other way?)

Could be entirely plausible too. Don't have any numbers though (could also be the inverse, women better at math).

But more plausible to me is an alternative explanation. What if not enough women (due to either nature or nurture) don't have the obsessive nature that being a coder and doing conference worthy stuff requires? I know men working meticulously on some stuff (from hacking to wood-working) for ages. Far less women doing so. I'm not judging, if anything it could be far smarter, personal-development-wise, than programming 10 hours straight at work and then again at home, in your "cave", as a hobby. So, perhaps women favor work-life balance more. Or men coders compensate with coding for other stuff (for example a lot that I know have subpar sex lives and are not exactly "party animals").
There are plenty of accounting software companies, some sell packages some are SAAS. Those "product development" positions are probably the technical side of accounting.
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No worries, I'm specifically talking about the folks that are constantly testing for buys with tiny (and fake) orders and incrementing the ask until they find the limit, then buying all they can, holding for only milliseconds and reselling at the higher price. Queue jumping tricks like that which really add no value.
The Daily Mail is an appalling source for anything. It is especially terrible for anything health related.

Really the Daily Mail should be added to the HN list of banned URLs.

EDIT: Here's one useful criticism from Ben Goldacre. (http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-nu...)
I always wonder: Why not try to sell Open-Source-Software. For example The Gimp, sell it via the Ubuntu Software-Center, maintain the current version, maybe pack it with some great plugins and done. I am sure there are quite a few people willing to pay for that service.

Gimp is the perfect example in my oppinion, because it's such a great project without decent funding. Imagine what the could achieve with better funding.
I don't like reservations very much, but sometimes they're necessary. And anyway, if they're reservations, they will only take SOME opportunities away from the privileged, and give them to the minorities. Not all of them.
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How you dare forget this ; and break the build?
You are fired.
It's extremely clear that Twitter is turning its back on the developer community who helped the company reach success. We were the first adopters of Twitter, encouraged our friends to join, and made it mainstream. Now, when we want to build apps on their platform, Twitter tells us they're closed - that they don't want to return the favor.

So, yeah, I can see how Flattr, a service that revolves completely around a community of people who actually appreciate others for their work, is upset at the company whose notion of "thanks" is a Cease and Desist.

As developers, we should be alarmed - we shouldn't be blaming people for 'not reading the terms of service' or saying that 'Twitter has the right to do what it wants'. These answers might be technically right, but they don't capture the true feeling of what is right, which is that developers should build apps that enhance Twitter's ecosystem.

So, that's it for Twitter for me. I only expect Twitter to get worse about their developer policies in the future, and I don't want to be a part of a community that treats developers poorly.
You plant the seed for the violent revolt of rampaging gamers that will ultimately see Disney surrender the Monkey Island IP to restore global peace.

Then you make a game.
I'm pretty sure this is correct. The LISH passwords just give you console access via ssh (as an alternative to the web-based terminal in Linode Admin), which is essentially the equivalent of getting to an ssh prompt. A login/password would still be required to access the machine.

It doesn't appear that you can reboot or enter single user mode from the LISH console login prompt.
This is becoming increasingly applicable in the US, too. People will work no matter what, if the only other option is poverty.
They were storing LISH passwords in the clear... Does it really sounds like they care enough to use some sort of multi-party brokered passphrase accountability system?
which is why in my opinion the buyer should have probably left neutral feedback with an explanation of what happened. This way other buyers can read the neutral feedback and see if there is a trend with a seller. That is really what neutral feedback is for, it's a way to say hey everything did not go smoothly but I don't think the seller did it with malice, you as another future buyer should know about this, and if it seems to be a trend then you should leave negative feedback.
IF the problem lends itself to debugging then a hearty "YES!" is my answer. Eclipse/Java is my debugger of choice but there are also fine standalone debuggers like JSwat or even the command line debugger.
If they are not aware Y Combinator does not hold stock in Watsi, then by implication they are not aware it's meaningless for Y combinator to hold stock in an organization like Watsi.
This is a false assumption; the original content is the most important part.
> What is not cool about Perl?

Almost everything is not cool about Perl. Perl felt crufty and ancient even when I was learning it fifteen years ago. It's only gotten weirder, cruftier, and more ancient since then.
>That having been said, I think Linode just learnt a really unpleasant lesson and will become an even more secure provider for it. I believe that moving my sites away from them at this moment would be like selling stocks when they're about to go up.

What concerns me is that the would have been perfectly happy to sweep most of this under the rug if Ryan hadn't forced their hand.

The security lesson is one thing (hacks happen). I'm far more concerned with the lesson in transparency, as that speaks to the character of the company.
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This is indeed a really complex issue because everyone involved in this practice believes it is the correct thing to do. And what's more 50% of the people involved have had it done to them in the past.

To come out point blank and say this is barbaric is to tell 50% of these people that they have been unnecessarily mutilated by their mothers and grandmothers. And some of them will have done it to their daughters. It is human nature that they would deny what you are saying rather than accepting the part they have played and the harm that has been done them.

I and most westerners think this is barbaric but if you were trying to stop people from doing this you might consider telling them that it's been scientifically proven that it's unnecessary and could have a risk of complications. And I imagine this is why Amnesty chooses their language the way they do.
Well I was in the "US Citizen" line for about an hour before my turn came. At which point I had to stand there for about 20-30 minutes with my wife and child while the agent types on his computer. Finally, he takes us into the "abuse room" because apparently I have a "common name". I had to sit in this room for about 2 hours, listening to people take all kinds of horrible abuse. At the end they called me up and said "common name".... that was it. I have not been back to my country of birth since that trip.
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Of course. If he was he'd be here on HN crying about how the evil corporation doesn't care about its employees.

Pure hypocrisy.
This blog post was written in Bizzaro World. It draws a strange set of conclusions.

Facebook is unattractive to a lot of people for being intrusive, for containing a lot of junk content, and for exposing how much one's friends waste time on terrible casual games.

But Facebook Home is the harbinger of a new and vastly more ambitious kind of mobile software systems, and Android is the platform for these more powerful systems. Just because the subject matter is vapid, and the first version imperfect (WHY will it not install on my Nexus 4??), doesn't mean it's not very important to the future of mobile software.

Android is flexible for a reason, and has benefitted from flexibility. This blogger apparently thinks Amazon Kindle Fire is some betrayal of Android. It is, however, highly compatible with Android applications at Kindle Fire's API level and lower. Kindle Fire also prevented Apple running away with the tablet business before Google was ready.
Let's just hope Disney goes along with this!
Since the heart rate could be much higher

Err - why do you say that? If your heart rate is much higher then either you aren't human or your are probably dying.

Did you read my original comment?

Human heart rates range roughly between 30 to 200 beats per minute. That maxes out at a bit over 3 beats per second.
He has built an engine that is powered by gamers' frustration over things they can never have.
Not really, just more than one person as is implied in the grammar.

Edit: Theses "making an assumption" arguments are silly. It is good practice to assume the worst case, to assume the best in this situation is bad.
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Excuse my frankness, and this is a nice article and all, but why is this on Hacker News? I understand it being a very big story in the general news, but I come here for stories about a particular topic.
London is city of finance. There are only few good technology companies that happened there. A few years majority of good people went to investment banking and starting a company was perceived as reckless. Probably a lot of programming places was kind of outsourcing places, not creating long term product.

Would you relate your situation to the Silicon Valley, where majority of new tech companies have been created? How would you compare situation of your friends to situation of people who joined Google 15 years ago, or Facebook 8 years ago?

I would bet that in UK ratio of revenue of big companies to small companies is much higher than in Silicon Valley.
Quoting Linode:

"There were occurrences of Lish passwords in clear text in our database. We have corrected this issue and have invalidated all affected Lish passwords effective immediately."

Presumably, they know how many customers are affected, because they invalidated their passwords. They didn't tell us.
I think the difference is that outside the US the interested parties have decided to make airports a good, efficient experience. In the US, anything controlled by the government is low budget by choice and design, and anything above the minimum is left to the supposedly superior "private sector." But apparently there's no money in "good airport experience" for the private sector and we're all left to suck air.
> censorship

You're interpretation is disingenuous. Yes, the larger story is about the decay of intellect in society. However, it's a forced conversion, so that's where the censorship comes into play.

> 451 degrees Celsius

Your source is an extreme outlier.
I prefer my internet without legal interference.
It's also not out of the question that I'm just a brain in a jar and all of you are an illusion. So maybe let's first talk about likely things, and then about the infinite amount of things that cannot be disproven... ?
I grok'd your confusion about "mall" but just so you're aware, almost no one used the subway after the event. Everyone walked in a dispersed fashion. I did as well and kept to the back alleys and off the main race course. It was actually pretty ideal I think, people did well.
The odds of 1 in 23 are 0.315. Plausible, but worth investigating.

That doesn't sound like something to reject the null hypothesis over.
> The funny thing is that those left behind don't have an opportunity to get on that gravy train now.

For what is worth, I noticed that also (not in the UK, but somewhere else in Europe). My ex-wife, a psychology major, managed to get hired into a big oil company doing procurement work (yes, they were that desperate at hiring people) around 2005-2006. Of course, in the meantime she has gathered a ton of experience and she'd have no problems whatsoever of picking another similar job at another big company.

For comparison, looking at kids aged 22 to 24 who have just graduated it seems like they're, well, fucked. Nobody will hire them in a big company for lack of work experience and they can't get any experience because nobody wants to hire them.
Without commenting on the internal stuff, I think Flattr's slow-growth strategy has been much more effective. As you point out, the base rates for failure is very high.

I've been watching since about 2008. I remember thinking that Contenture and Tipjoy would be serious competitors.
This seems to be a roundabout way of saying "I don't like designing configuration-independent apps, and my iPhone apps don't port well."

Nokia may have a better design heritage than other OEMs, and may still have better ID capabilities in-house, but that just tells me Nokia could do very well with some Android products in their product line.
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Agreed this is becoming a huge problem in today's society. People interact with one another in a completely different manner than they do in the offline world. It is like when you remove the human interaction, the humanness of the other party is somehow diminished and that is a scary reality. Because when we as humans loose our association of another person being human, the worst of our nature rears it's ugly head.
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It's called tongue-in-cheek self-referential humor.

Naturally, you'd expect a community such as Hacker News to be below such subtlety. :D

PS: I am a fat nerd wearing a black t-shirt, love bitcoin, and have used OKCupid to get dozens of successful dates over the last 8 years.
I loved this series thanks for writing it.
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Don't assume that the most transparent company out there isn't choosy about what it's being transparent about. There are plenty of things we never know that don't hurt us. I choose not to concern myself with such things.
Do businesses that accept bitoins for payments typically immediately cash it out on exchanges or do they actually carry the "FX" risk?

People in the Bitcoin community believe that these options are mutually exclusive, but they're not. If you're doing a dual currency transaction in a period of high volatility, somebody is paying for that exchange risk. It's either the customer, the payment processor, or the merchant, or possibly two of them, but it certainly isn't no-one.

There were multiple periods today in which Bitcoin fell more than 10% in 15 minutes. If I were insane enough to sell Bingo Card Creator for Bitcoin, and then gave an elementary schoolteacher a quote for 0.42785714285714285714285714285714 BTC ($29.95 at 70 to the dollar), it's entirely possible that in the five minutes of thinking it took to process everything on the screen, the 0.42785714285714285714285714285714 BTC that I received would be worth only $27.81 at market prices. Hmm, that's funny, I just paid 7.1% in transaction fees before paying the transaction fees. (We're obviously operating in a perverse hypothetical world where elementary schoolteachers would both understand that option, have BTC available to spend, and be happy spending them, and where I would consider actually implementing this.)

It's possible that the payment processor I was working with would absorb this risk for me, because they hope to keep my business. That would be an extraordinary dangerous decision for them, because they're now running their merchant payments operation as a sideline to currency speculation. (Which I suppose makes them a perfect fit for the Bitcoin community.)
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> I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity.

Know what we did in the UK to solve this problem? Identified it as a weakness and switched to a system that removes this weakness. Linode aren't too good at that bit.
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Negging someone on eBay for a buck in shipping is a pretty crappy thing to do, but then taking the other guy to court over the feedback is even worse.

There are no winners in this situation.
> What is not cool about Perl?

Perl is my first interpreted language. It has a very special place in my heart, even if it was awkward at first to get used to it coming from a C background. Perl will always be a cool kid.
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We're a web development company in a 'company town' where everyone seems to work for a single Fortune 50 company. You think it'd be easy to hire developers away when you offer good pay and benefits, 4.5 day work weeks, flexible hours, casual dress code, and we buy you whatever hardware you want.

We don't get a single qualified applicant. We use Ruby and Javascript, it's a ~ 25 person company so you can make a difference, you can work on iOS or Android stuff. If you only know a different programming language, we'll still hire you and let you learn if you can prove you're competent.

We're not silicon valley or a 'cool' city, but we're near a few state universities. I guess people would rather sit in a cube, in a suit, while they work on legacy internal apps in VB and .Net for a cold, dark corporation and wait 20 minutes each morning in line at the security gate just to get on the damn property.
The feedback in question [1] appears to be a one star rating on a $175.00 item where $1.44 postage was required. I would guess that the seller's complaint is on the one star rating, not the message content (and on this I tend to agree with them -- the buyer is being a huge ass). That said, the one star is clearly an opinion, and thus not subject to slander laws.

1: http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&...

Edit: I would also note that while generally I think popehat does good work, the part around "Mr. Amodio responded with an open, contemptuous, and contemptible threat to abuse the legal system" is...not so good; the following quote does not come from Mr. Amodio and does not contain anything obvious that would indicate either an open or contemptuous threat to abuse the legal system.