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I apologize for the off-topic comment but I am hoping a few of the folks on here who are familiar with Hadoop can help me with a small career decision.

I'm fortunate enough to be up for two systems positions with companies in my area, and one of them is part of a group maintaining a Hadoop cluster. I've never maintained Hadoop infrastructure before so I'm wondering if it's worth the "career capital" investment. There don't appear to be too many openings that I know of for Hadoop Sys admins, and while I don't expect to lose any skills working on it, I wonder if this platform is realistically expected to grow, and maybe become something I could maybe build a valuable niche set of skills for...

Any help would be appreciated...

I am not trying to offend you, and am only commenting because I believe stories like these hurt less experienced people who are trying to learn how to handle salary negotiations.

I personally do not believe this actually happened. Nobody will ever follow you out of an interview to beg you to take a job, or casually double a salary offer in a stairwell.

There is no "hard ball" negotiating like this where you walk out and somehow bring a company to its knees. It's just never that dramatic.

IF you receive a concrete job offer then you accept, decline, or counter. You should know the pay range by the time a company puts an actual offer on paper.

They were pigs, not hogs. The original investors walked away with a majority of the final round of funding. I don't think Google's $6bn offer would have allowed them to do that. The people left holding this junk are now trying to pawn it off on the public...

I feel the same way and think I have something that might work. I don't know that it's legal but I think you can pay for access to Slingboxes with the different sports packages. It's what I'm considering so I can drop cable all together...

The only thing holding me back now is how attached my kiddo is to the DVR. We've tried a few things and it always proves too complicated or buggy...

I have the image of the injured bird in "Up" limping along burned in my memory. I actually thought the scene was a little mature for the kids watching the movie, so I agree with you about them convincingly conveying emotion.

I didn't do it for my mom, but helped my ex-wife launch a small business on Etsy. I would recommend looking into some hobbies she has and stuff she is familiar with.

My ex-wife orders cute buttons for clothes from japan/korea, repackages them individually, and sells them on Etsy. It works pretty well and makes her some nice extra money...

If your mom does it, make sure she pushes through to the christmas holiday... sales are practically guaranteed then, and even though its gross rev, the sales can be very motivating!

Good luck!

Wow! Tim Ferriss is on a roll today...

Have any of you ever considered building something on your own, and trying to bring someone on-board with something in hand, instead of joining a co-founder dating site?

This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its another way for the people who aren't doing anything to feel like "entrepreneurs". It also seems like what takes place at a lot of conferences these days and especially on twitter.

If you're serious about building something, build it. If it's any good, even if incomplete, people will want to join you. It doesn't matter what it is. Really. The guys building the traffic/headline grabbing companies today are just farther along in the process. You can't get there without starting somewhere.

Are you a business guy looking for help building your idea? Outsource it. Pay someone to build it for you. Don't try to "convince" someone else to join your vision and build it for you.

This stuff has to be obvious to 95% of the members on this forum.

Sorry for the rant but this nonsense is getting old...

It's difficult and usually becomes more about managing business finance than the products in my opinion. It seems like this type of business is mostly covered in Entrepreneur magazine, or Inc, but they're always feel good success stories.

I helped build a fairly successful online business that sold a single laptop accessory which we had produced, packaged by hand, and sold directly to consumers. The site generated 60k in yearly revenue on somewhere between 5-10k (Christmas peaked at 20k+) unique visitors per month. The margins were really good since we had it produced ourselves and priced high. It was great business while it lasted but I ended up walking away from it because of partner issues.

My old partner still operates it today and it's nearly 4 years later! She tells me that it still generates about half of what it did at peak, but it's slowly fading away because of bigger companies that deliver a better, and cheaper product.

It's great experience and takes time but isn't hard to do.

I know this article's focus is more on the technology but this specific camera is going to look incredibly old in a year or two.

I think the two of you might be overlooking some of the social pressure involved in taking thousands of dollars from a close friend. If I made that offer to any one of my friends, they'd turn it down every time. They might say it's impossible, or come up with some other excuse, but most of the reluctance will come from having to see me again if their idea fails.

If you changed your offer to something like, "Hey, I've got about $5k laying around, and I want to start a business, are you interested? What do you think we should do?", you'd probably see more action.

I personally think this has more to do with your friendship than the idea of your friends being mentally "poor".

Isn't that known as an "upsell" or "upselling"? It's what the guys at the sneaker store do with socks and laces, no?

Try the newspaper. What exactly do you expect on an open forum?

I'm applying for Capital Factory, a similar program, and the big recommendation everyone's making is "Tell a story".

You do business with the people that will bring you a profit. In theory, it doesn't matter what personal views the person across the table has if they adequately provide the services you need. Learn to identify the wants/needs of those people that operate around you and plan accordingly.

Business is about profit, not feeling good about the people you buy/sell services from/to.

Defend yourself if you see a need. Don't avoid people just because you don't get a warm feeling when you exchange services with them.

That's actually not that bad. Google voice does a number on translations when the message is in another language: "My telephone number on the most gorgeous of and ideas. Fits in."

Apple sells 51,000 total items through the Apple store since they started taking pre-orders for the iPad.

Yeah, maybe, but it's completely gone from my submissions list. No biggie. I think it's a great article and HN seems to agree.

allenbrunson: That's definitely it. I didn't know it behaved that way. I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't something more sinister... muhahaha muhahaha!! Oh well. Good info. Thanks!

Great bit from the article:

"If they decide to sue, they get to look through your email records (it's called "discovery"). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. You lose."

Weird. I submitted this article but my submission has now disappeared and it's now on front page under bhousel? Probably just a coincidence?

Similar protection schemes existed with old dongle protected programs as well. Some were made nearly uncrackable because of how many checks were littered throughout the app. Most crackers wouldn't bother with patching every single location within the application and gave up on it.

I'm going to go back and read the article but does anyone here do any hacking on Honda ECUs? There's a pretty big community of engine tuners and programmers that focus on reversing Honda ECUs. It's a fun way to try and improve gas mileage and performance.

www.pgmfi.org for anyone that's interested.

I don't have unused gift cards but I do have gift cards with remnants on them. I'll buy a larger item and have 1-3$ left on the card which typically isn't enough to buy anything. I'll forget how much is on it and then never end up using it again...

Sysinternals stuff: Regmon, Filemon, TCPView

Why didn't anyone make something like a best bang for 100$ on sparkfun.com guide? I'll show up to anything that's free but I'm not real sure what the best deal is.

The Arduino starter kit?

I believe tenacity can be "learned". I don't know if I'd call it learning though and don't think it's like learning to ride a bike.

Your environment can chisel an "edge" into your personality. Something like a chip on your shoulder. Doesn't this happen a lot in small teams? You against the world? Soldiers in small military units, startups, and again, sports see similar "effects".

Adversity or emotional abuse might produce a similar result. A parent telling a child that something isn't good enough or to not let them down on a task.

Isn't this loosely related to all those posts about not telling kids they're smart?

Don't tenacious failures exist in professional sports?

In boxing, there are fighters who never achieve "greatness", or see much success, but are regarded as having heart. What could be more tenacious than knowing you're outmatched and still getting up to press the fight? The 09' Celtics might also be an example.

So, yes, I'd say there are people/organizations who are failures and labeled tenacious.

Surprising how reluctant the NFL has been to giving their fanbase a live online option. MLB is, by far, the best online streaming option.

I watch about 1-4hrs per day depending on what's showing. Mostly sports but I like NatGeo, History, Travel, Discovery etc. I don't watch any sitcoms but there are a few well written shows like Mad Men, Wire etc. I also enjoy stuff like Top Gear and Ultimate Factories. But it's mostly sports for me.

We mostly had problems with the remote, but also various pieces of hardware, like the roku. The playback would show up a little dark but I don't think it was directly related to the setup. It was also choppy over the wireless at times. We did a 2 month experiment and decided it wasn't ready. The programming available is horrible though. How many times can you watch Helvetica?

I hope you're right about the reason I'm being downvoted and that it's not because of the typical anti-TV mentality that will sometimes accompany these threads. Sorry for doing a bad job of wording that. (and probably this as well)

Come on guys! As if hyping yourself up with startup news isn't a waste of time. Most of the threads on here are junk food news now. It's no different than watching something on cable.

(Give a reason if you are going to downvote me. I've tried this and know first hand that it sucks.)

OK. In my experience, this is a poor solution and generally a dumb thing to do.

It's hard to use, often breaks, and has pretty horrible program selection. Even with the Netflix membership.

The feeling of not paying "the man" for cable is cool but this simply isn't a good solution. There isn't an alternative to cable and you will regret going through the trouble. The only people with no regrets, are the people who don't watch much TV, or are in denial.

Seriously, what happens when it keeps breaking? It sucks to have your wife call you at work when it's broken. The remote isn't responding, won't full-screen, stuttering etc.

Some of you need to be honest and stop giving everyone the no regrets since leaving cable stuff.

This setup sucks. It's just not as bad as regular TV.